Since she was a young child, Ellen Cutler suffered from constipation, bloating, irritability, cravings, and fatigue from food allergies. She later studied chiropractic with an emphasis on nutrition. Through studying a number of alternative therapies, she developed BioSET--a protocol to treat food allergies and conditions that may be caused by food allergies, such as asthma, headaches, ADHD, and many other disorders.

Cutler's theories, conclusions, and treatments may elicit raised eyebrows from M.D. allergy specialists, although they are commonly used by naturopaths. She diagnoses allergies by means of muscle testing: the patient holds a glass vial of the allergen in one hand while the health professional presses down on the other arm, with weakness indicating allergy. Part of her process uses acupressure to stimulate points on the spine to activate energy blocks and reprogram the brain to stop identifying the substance as an allergen. Her treatment includes enzyme therapy.

Much of The Food Allergy Cure is a discussion of allergies, their symptoms (which can be just about any ailment, complaint, or condition), causes, and food triggers, with plentiful case studies of Cutler's success with patients. There is very little actual self-help information here. Usually Cutler discusses a condition and its roots in food allergies, and then describes how successful she is in treating patients with this condition using her BioSET system. The only at-home treatments described in the book are muscle testing, acupressure technique, an introduction to detoxifying activities, and a number of dietary suggestions and recipes. Other than that, she advises you to consult a BioSET practitioner (you're directed to the author's Web site for a referral list) and/or order the products she promotes. --Joan Price


From Publishers Weekly
Having personally treated allergy sufferers and counseled on appearances on QVC, Extra! and Lifetime, Dr. Ellen Cutler argues that although one-third of all Americans suffer from food allergies now a chronic, even epidemic, condition there is a cure. Cutler's answer: the BioSET system of identifying and eliminating food allergies by combining affordable, easy and efficient practices, including chiropractic, nutrition and detoxification, all of which she explains clearly and thoroughly in The Food Allergy Cure: A New Solution to Food Cravings, Obesity, Depression, Headaches, Arthritis, and Fatigue. Agent, Bonnie Solow. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.


From Library Journal
BioSET (Bioenergetic Sensitivity and Enzyme Therapy) is a combined approach to diagnosing and treating food allergies. Cutler, a chiropractor currently pursuing an M.D. and author of two books on alternative medicine (e.g., Winning the War Against Asthma and Allergies), developed this technique from principles based on acupuncture/ acupressure, chiropractics, homeopathy, kinesiology, and enzyme therapy. She introduces the reader to the mechanisms of food allergies and to her BioSET technique, which emphasizes the removal of blockages in electromagnetic pathways brought about by the allergic reaction. Although her reported treatment results are impressive, she presents very little substantial data or scientific background. Statements of fact are not backed up with references, and the brief bibliography includes no research articles. Cutler refers only in passing to NAET (Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Technique), upon which BioSET is heavily based. NAET, a more documented technique, was developed by Devi Nambudripad and explained in her book Say Goodbye to Illness (Delta, 1999). Not recommended. Andy Wickens, King Cty. Syst. Lib., Seattle Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Review
"After thirty years of allergy practice, I have finally found a solution to food allergies. Dr. Ellen Cutler's BioSET? protocol is safe and effective. It has become a mainstay of my allergy practice."
-- Roy Kerry, M.D., director of the Ear, Nose, Throat, and Allergy Associates, P.C., in Greenville, PA

"The Food Allergy Cure should be read by every mother with children, by every person with chronic disease. Dr. Ellen Cutler is one of the leading experts in alternative allergy therapy and has pioneered a solution for allergies that is much more effective than anything else I know."
-- Roy Martina, M.D., host of Fox TV's Supervitality and the author of twenty-four books on health, vitality, and well-being

"Nearly every chronic health problem, including asthma, eczema, arthritis, and headaches, is associated with unrecognized food allergies. Thanks to Dr. Cutler's revolutionary techniques, many patients have virtually eliminated their need for medications."
-- Sherri Tenpenny, M.D., founder and president of OsteoMed II, an Integrative Medicine clinic, and host of nationally syndicated radio program "Health Matters, Exploring the Controversies in Health Care"

"Dr. Ellen Cutler's innovative use of natural health care cures colds, flus, coughs, food allergies, headaches, upset tummies, and more. Dr. Cutler has helped me and my family tremendously. I value her work highly."
-- John Gray, Ph.D., bestselling author and patient

"Dr. Ellen Cutler is offering the world a unique system of allergy elimination that gives health where there has been illness and discomfort. Most beneficial, Dr. Cutler has shared her knowledge by training me to treat myself and my family so we are able to maintain well-being on our own. She has tremendous wisdom and intuitive diagnostic capacity. I am a grateful believer!"
-- Deborah Santana, longtime patient of Dr. Cutler


From the Hardcover edition.


Review
"After thirty years of allergy practice, I have finally found a solution to food allergies. Dr. Ellen Cutler's BioSET? protocol is safe and effective. It has become a mainstay of my allergy practice."
-- Roy Kerry, M.D., director of the Ear, Nose, Throat, and Allergy Associates, P.C., in Greenville, PA

"The Food Allergy Cure should be read by every mother with children, by every person with chronic disease. Dr. Ellen Cutler is one of the leading experts in alternative allergy therapy and has pioneered a solution for allergies that is much more effective than anything else I know."
-- Roy Martina, M.D., host of Fox TV's Supervitality and the author of twenty-four books on health, vitality, and well-being

"Nearly every chronic health problem, including asthma, eczema, arthritis, and headaches, is associated with unrecognized food allergies. Thanks to Dr. Cutler's revolutionary techniques, many patients have virtually eliminated their need for medications."
-- Sherri Tenpenny, M.D., founder and president of OsteoMed II, an Integrative Medicine clinic, and host of nationally syndicated radio program "Health Matters, Exploring the Controversies in Health Care"

"Dr. Ellen Cutler's innovative use of natural health care cures colds, flus, coughs, food allergies, headaches, upset tummies, and more. Dr. Cutler has helped me and my family tremendously. I value her work highly."
-- John Gray, Ph.D., bestselling author and patient

"Dr. Ellen Cutler is offering the world a unique system of allergy elimination that gives health where there has been illness and discomfort. Most beneficial, Dr. Cutler has shared her knowledge by training me to treat myself and my family so we are able to maintain well-being on our own. She has tremendous wisdom and intuitive diagnostic capacity. I am a grateful believer!"
-- Deborah Santana, longtime patient of Dr. Cutler


From the Hardcover edition.


Book Description
FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED PAPERBACK EDITION.
ELIMINATE YOUR FOOD SENSITIVITIES—ONCE AND FOR ALL.

If you are one of the nearly 90 million people (about one-third of the American population) who are forced to avoid certain foods, then you may have experienced one or several of the myriad of symptoms associated with food allergies, including sinusitis, chronic heartburn, asthma, chronic fatigue, and gastrointestinal distress. Relief from these conditions can now be found in Dr. Ellen Cutler’s revolutionary program, known as BioSET™. The Food Allergy Cure outlines this technique and will help you to combat your food allergies at their root. Combining muscle testing, detoxification techniques, and enzyme and diet therapies, The Food Allergy Cure will help sufferers to:

• Identify and alleviate specific food sensitivities immediately, with quick and easy methods
• Discover how to detoxify your body
• Find the most effective means of eliminating food sensitivities, safely and quickly
• Use a self-diagnostic questionnaire to determine which enzymes will contribute to your optimum health

Using a combination of Eastern and Western medicines, The Food Allergy Cure offers a program that is easy to implement, does not depend on drugs or expensive procedures, and is an invaluable resource for longtime food-allergy sufferers.

FROM OUR EDITORS

Almost too good to be believed, the allergy desensitization technique described in this book will enable allergy sufferers to eat the foods that once caused everything from migraines to eczema to depression. Dr. Cutler explains her integrative method -- known as BioSET -- in clear layman's terms and uses plenty of patient's stories to back up her claims. But readers will be most excited by the prospect that they can actually learn to do the BioSET technique by themselves.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Food allergies are one of the most common chronic medical conditions. Dr. Ellen Cutler, a chiropractor and naturopath, has spent ten years studying enzyme therapy and nutrition and their relationship to allergies, asthma, immune disorders, and chronic diseases. Using methods derived from many disciplines -- including chiropractic, Eastern medicine, immunology, environmental medicine, genetics, and Western physiology and physics -- Dr. Cutler has found a way to combat allergies at their root: the immune response. Her system of techniques, called BioSET, combines muscle testing, detoxification, enzyme and diet therapy, and chiropractic manipulation to desensitize people permanently to every kind of allergy, not only those caused by foods.

To understand how Dr. Cutler's techniques work, it's helpful to think of the body as an electromagnetic organism in which energy flows along invisible pathways called meridians, or channels. Essentially, an allergic response is caused when these pathways are blocked by the immune response to an allergen. Dr. Cutler's techniques actually unblock these pathways, thus stopping the body's violent immune response. The Food Allergy Cure teaches you how to test yourself to determine the allergies you have and gives you simple techniques you can perform on yourself or your children to begin to lead an allergy-free life. In addition, there are helpful lists of foods and enzymes to correct digestive disorders such as lactose intolerance, chronic heartburn, irritable bowel syndrome, and constipation. Dr. Cutler also recommends foods that support the immune system's functioning and work to alleviate such disorders as hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, fibromyalgia, colitis, herpes, and candida. This blending of Eastern and Western medicine is so easy to implement and will be hailed as a new paradigm of twenty-first-century medicine.

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

Having personally treated allergy sufferers and counseled on appearances on QVC, Extra! and Lifetime, Dr. Ellen Cutler argues that although one-third of all Americans suffer from food allergies now a chronic, even epidemic, condition there is a cure. Cutler's answer: the BioSET system of identifying and eliminating food allergies by combining affordable, easy and efficient practices, including chiropractic, nutrition and detoxification, all of which she explains clearly and thoroughly in The Food Allergy Cure: A New Solution to Food Cravings, Obesity, Depression, Headaches, Arthritis, and Fatigue. Agent, Bonnie Solow. ( Mar.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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