The Allergy and Asthma Cure: A Complete 8-Step Nutritional Program [Paperback]

Fred Pescatore M.D. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 12, 2008

Free yourself of allergies and asthma once and for all with Dr. Pescatore's breakthrough program

" Dr. Fred Pescatore's The Allergy and Asthma Cure reveals a unique and revolutionary understanding of the underlying conditions of allergy and asthma-from food triggers to the environment to nutritional deficiencies. His integrative program of both alternative and traditional treatments can dramatically improve health and vitality, safely and soundly. This book will have a prominent place in my library and I highly recommend it! "
-Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., author of the bestselling The Fat Flush Plan

"Conventional medicine has largely shrugged its shoulders in confusion about the causes of allergies and asthma in millions of people. In this book Dr. Fred Pescatore deals with the roots of these modern epidemics, drawing on his clinical experience, and he provides clear recommendations for turning back the tide and restoring health."
- Jack Challem, author of the bestselling Syndrome X and The Inflammation Syndrome

"The Allergy and Asthma Cure is the book we have all been waiting for. Dr. Pescatore manages, in a concise manner, to summarize all the facts and presents a comprehensive healing guide that incorporates both conventional and alternative approaches. A must-read for those dealing with these issues."
-Artur Spokojny, M.D., F.A.C.C., Medical Director of Integrative Medicine of Manhattan, Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

"I believe that The Allergy and Asthma Cure holds the key to understanding how nutritional medicine can really work for you. Allergies (from skin conditions to seasonal types) and asthma can be cured, not just held at bay. This book shows the way. Dr. Pescatore is truly a healer."
-Roberta Flack, singer/songwriter

"I have seen firsthand how The Allergy and Asthma Cure has changed people's lives for the better. I have started using his treatment protocols for my own patients with a remarkable success rate, and best of all with no side effects. Many of my patients are getting off their allergy and asthma medications completely. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with allergies or asthma."
-Dana G. Cohen, M.D., board-certified, Internal Medicine

"This book is for anyone willing to give up his or her life as an asthmatic. I had tried every drug and treatment available and the asthma only got worse. Under Dr. Pescatore's care, I began to see results within six weeks. It's been over two years now living without an attack. His approach has changed the way I live."
-Paul Goldman, patient

Editorial Reviews

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"Dr. Fred Pescatore's The Allergy and Asthma Cure reveals a unique and revolutionary understanding of the underlying conditions of allergy and asthma — from food triggers to the environment to nutritional deficiencies. His integrative program of both alternative and traditional treatments can dramatically improve health and vitality, safely and soundly. This book will have a prominent place in my library and I highly recommend it!" —Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S., author of the bestselling The Fat Flush Plan

"Conventional medicine has largely shrugged its shoulders in confusion about the causes of allergies and asthma in millions of people. In this book Dr. Fred Pescatore deals with the roots of these modern epidemics, drawing on his clinical experience, and he provides clear recommendations for turning back the tide and restoring health." —Jack Challem, author of the bestselling Syndrome X and The Inflammation Syndrome

"The Allergy and Asthma Cure is the book we have all been waiting for. Dr. Pescatore manages in a concise manner to summarize all the facts and presents a comprehensive healing guide that incorporates both conventional and alternative approaches. A must read for those dealing with these issues." —Artur Spokojny, M.D., F.A.C.C., Medical Director of Integrative Medicine of Manhattan, Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

"I believe that The Allergy and Asthma Cure holds the key to understanding how nutritional medicine can really work for you. Allergies (from skin conditions to seasonal types) and asthma can be cured, not just held at bay. This book shows the way. Dr. Pescatore is truly a healer. —Roberta Flack, singer/songwriter

"I have seen firsthand how The Allergy and Asthma Cure has changed people?s lives for the better. I have started using his treatment protocols for my own patients with a remarkable success rate, and best of all with no side effects. Many of my patients are getting off their allergy and asthma medications completely. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with allergies or asthma." —Dana G. Cohen, MD, board-certified, Internal Medicine

"This book is for anyone willing to give up his or her life as an asthmatic. I had tried every drug and treatment available and the asthma only got worse. Under Dr. Pescatore's care, I began to see results within six weeks. It's been over two years now living without an attack. His approach has changed the way I live." —Paul Goldman, patient --This text refers to the Unbound edition.

From the Inside Flap

If you’re one of the millions of allergy and asthma sufferers, most likely you’ve tried everything to relieve your symptoms only to find small and temporary measures of relief. That’s no way to live! Fight back and take control of your symptoms once and for all with Dr. Fred Pescatore’s breakthrough program, The Allergy and Asthma Cure.

With great warmth and insight, Dr. Pescatore, whose nutritional program helped heal his own asthma, helps readers understand and diagnose allergies and asthma. By combining a unique nutritional approach with his complementary medical program integrating both traditional treatments and alternative medicine, Dr. Pescatore will liberate you from the inhalers, antihistamines, steroids, and other medications that have controlled your life until now.

Dr. Pescatore shows how allergies, asthma, eczema, hives, sinus difficulties, and other allergic conditions are related to our unbalanced eating habits, which create chemical imbalances in our bodies. With Dr. Pescatore’s personalized low-carb nutritional program, you can create balance in your system and feel better–starting now.

Dr. Pescatore’s eight-step program has been clinically tested to be safe, effective, and easy to follow. The program begins with proper nutrition, including personalized meal plans. It then adds nutritional supplements specifically targeted toward your individual symptoms and condition. Then you’ll be instructed on how and why to clean up your surrounding environment to avoid allergic reactions.

Offering treatments suitable for both adults and children, The Allergy and Asthma Cure includes:

• Clues to help you tell if you have food sensitivities
• Lists of surprising allergy and asthma triggers–including estrogen, heartburn, mold, obesity, and even thunderstorms–and how to eliminate them from your life
• The facts about leaky gut syndrome–what it is, what it has to do with allergies and asthma, how to determine if you have it, and what to do about it
• The truth about the side effects of long-term steroid use
• The lowdown on allergy shots
• A self-test to determine if you suffer from candida
• Personalized meal plans and delicious low-carb recipes

This friendly, hands-on guide will help you take control and say goodbye to sneezing, breathlessness, nasal congestion, itchy eyes, wheezing, body itching, rashes, and the many other symptoms that–until now–never seemed to go away. Start on this program and start to feel better now! --This text refers to the Unbound edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 12, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470275413
• ISBN-13: 978-0470275412
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #10 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Respiratory
  • #33 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Disorders & Diseases > Allergies

More About the Author

Fred Pescatore, M.D., is the head of the Centers for Integrative and Complementary Medicine in New York. He is the author of The Hamptons Diet, Feed Your Kids Well, and The Hamptons Diet Cookbook. Dr. Pescatore has been featured in the New York Times and has appeared on the Today show, The View, and many other television programs.

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46 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It really works, September 16, 2003

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Bonnie J. Smithson "engrbjs" (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Allergy and Asthma Cure: A Complete Eight-Step Nutritional Program (Hardcover)

I had been getting more and more allergic every year. Last year I developed asthma, and kept up with an intense schedule by using inhalers, a lot! Even though I gave up dairy and wheat, they continued to get worse, finally to the point where I had hives and welts from touching my books (a little microscopic mold, I suppose). That was the last straw and I bought this book and followed it for 3.5 months now. I went from using inhalers 3 times a day to 0. I can hug my cats again, where I would cough when they walked into the room with me before. I had some patches of eczema on the elbows that is gone, and I finally have some get up and go again.

If you feel despair of having your body literally self destruct with allergic reactions, follow this program with ALL of the pertinent supplements (3 handfuls a day for me), and get your health back!

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed reviews, may work for some, May 19, 2008

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Siobhan Kai O' Shea "Siobhan" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Allergy and Asthma Cure: A Complete 8-Step Nutritional Program (Paperback)

The book is based on changing your eating habits to improve asthma. It has alot of good information on allergies, food intolerance, and asthma, as well as allergy tests. It also talks about asthma medications and their side effects, and has a chapter on nutritional supplements. The author used to work for Atkins and is his philosophies are less extreme than Atkins but he does incorperate alot of meat into his program. His basic program is to identify food sensitivities, and avoid foods that you are sensitive to, as well as things that contribute to candidiasis and leaky gut. If you aren't ready to make big changes in your diet you may be wasting your money. The diet cuts out sugar and fruit for a limited time, and he advises you to leave the sugar out. One of the issues in this book is it is really based around identifying your food intolerances. He recommends tests which will run you $400 and up. These are not often covered by insurance. I did take the test and found out my intolerances. He also states you can do an elimination diet if you can't afford the tests but it sounds very confusing and hard to implement. While he recommends most meats, much research shows that antiinflammatory diets work best with asthma, as well as vegan diets, which would contridict this method. I'm not a vegetarian but I have tried to keep my meat consumption down based on my own research and I have tried to stay on an antiinflammatory diet that is more plant based. Also, his recommendation for fish oil, while great, is contridicted in alot of lietrature as it can make symptoms worse for some asthmatics. So do your own research on fish oil and see if it gives you any problems if you do implement this part of his program.

I think his book is good in the sense that it focuses on positive diet changes and would be beneficial to someone who is eating alot of junk food and it may well help their asthma. It also is a decent reference book for allergy tests, medications, and supplements. If someone is on a healthy diet and takes good care of their health and is savy to nutrition it may not be a big help. Also not recommended for vegetarians, except that the tests may uncover food allergies if you are willing to pay for them. To some it may be worth a try, it does have some good information.

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Intriging, May 8, 2006

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Jan Wolter (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Allergy and Asthma Cure: A Complete Eight-Step Nutritional Program (Hardcover)

I read this book with very great interest. It's the most promising and sensible approach I've seen to addressing the allergy and digestive problems I've been having for many years, which my own doctors have by trying ineffectively to treat by drugging the symptoms into submission. I intend to try the program.

However, I expect to have some trouble talking my doctors into supporting this. Pescatore appears to have developed his "cure" based on a lot of clinical trial and error and some guesswork based on a rough theory that the problems are all rooted in leaky gut and candida yeast overgrowth. That kind of clinical approach is very valuable, but it takes more than that to really convince the medical community. Pescatore appears to have choosen to market his method directly to consumers via popular books and TV talk shows, rather than market it to the medical community via formal clinical studies or experimental research. Much of his suggested treatment is going to be questioned by the mainstream medical community. For instance, does it really make sense to eliminate all sugar from your diet when your body makes its own sugar from the foods you eat, so there will always still be lots of sugar in the bloodstream? Still, I have seen some medical research from other sources that hints that there really is something to his approach. For now, his approach may be the best available, though many of it's details are unproven.

I also find it slightly off-putting that when I go to the store to get the macadamia nut oil that he heartly recommends, I find the oil is sold by him. (Though it really is good and healthy and was probably hard to get before he started marketing it.) When I go to the web site of the blood test company he recommends, there's his ringing endorsement. Pescatore Inc is there wherever I go.

He's certainly not nearly as bad as other "show doctors" who build financial empires on dubious weightloss theories. His book clearly distinguishes between established medical fact and his own approaches. He's clearly aware of mainstream medical research and has been integrating it into his approach as far as possible. There's no crystal waving here. It's not quite science, but it's close, and it's may be the best we are going to get for a while. And his suggested treatment is, at the very least, less likely to do harm than all the medications my doctors have been suggesting.