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The Allergy and Asthma Cure: A Complete Eight-Step Nutritional Program Hardcover – January 31, 2003

by Fred Pescatore M.D. (Author)
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
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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
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  1. Print length
    272 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Wiley
  4. Publication date
    January 31, 2003
  5. Dimensions
    6.36 x 1.02 x 9.65 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    047121468X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0471214687
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4.1 out of 5 stars
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Customers find the book informative, helpful, and a terrific resource. They say it's the most promising and sensible approach they've seen to addressing allergies. Readers also mention it's a good read.

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DreamrKate
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific resource for helping my husband with COPD!
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2015
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My husband WAS suffering with COPD but after a diet change and progressive exercise he is breathing better and walking three miles a day so far. He still uses his oxygen at night but his color has come back and he's got energy - something I have not seen in a year! Although this may not CURE the COPD changing diet is a magnificent start to actually start living your life again!
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Granny Crackers
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2017
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Interesting and helpful
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James DaRoot
5.0 out of 5 stars Following the strict diet mentioned in the book worked as described for me
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2014
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It was back in 2008 and my allergies and asthma were at it's worse. My emergency inhaler wasn't helping much and my other asthma medicines didn't seem to bring me relief. When I went to my doctor he said I had COPD and started me on some new medicine but that didn't help either. I was desperate because I felt like I wasn't going to live much longer not being able to breath right. I started a google search and eventually came across this book and three others about allergies and asthma. I started the diet plan it mentioned (restricting everything that had sugar in it) and it really worked. After a couple of weeks I was breathing so well I was able to put my asthma medications away ; it was wonderful. I got into a good eating habit during this period but then came a long vacation period and I fell away from the diet plan. My breathing issues started again but not has bad as it was back in 2008.

Now; I plan on purchasing this book again but for my Kindle so I won't loose it again.

It was difficult avoiding all the foods mentioned in the book but when you are desperate you are willing to try anything and it helped and I believe it will help me again if I run into the serious issues again.
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Jan Wolter
4.0 out of 5 stars Intriging
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2006
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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.
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Bonnie J. Smithson
5.0 out of 5 stars It really works
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2003
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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!
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Annmarie Kostyk
5.0 out of 5 stars It Works!
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2008
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This book has saved my life! Since moving to Austin, Texas (allergy capital of the world)from Chicago not only have my allergies and asthma gotten extremely bad, but I've also been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, chronic sinus infections, panic disorder, agoraphobia and chronic fatigue. I have gone off of my antihistamines, Flonase, antidepressants, birth control pills and lowered my Flovent dosage by 75%! Tapering off that while I start Intal again. I can't tell you how this has saved my life! You do the program to the tee - you'll feel better in days. Within one week I felt like a million bucks! It's not easy, but to feel this good is really worth it! To top it off, I lost 8 pounds in two weeks (now 126)! Please get this book for people that are suffering. A lot of people are getting this for Christmas this year!
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Yannis
2.0 out of 5 stars Not the value i was hoping to get.
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2014
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Was one of those books. It spent 75% of the time describing what the symptoms are and how the mainstream medicine is dealing with it pharmaceutically. For someone who is looking for nutritional info and a focus on cure, as the title suggests this right of the bat is a dealbreaker.
The paragraphs i liked were the ones explaining the different nutritional tests giving also an opinion on which one he thinks its best. The tests are the "RAST", "Cytotoxic test", "Histamine Release Test", ALCAT Test". Alcat test is endorsed.
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Grace
5.0 out of 5 stars no sugar and no yeat diet
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 3, 2014
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I bought this book for the no sugar and no yeast diet. It tell you everything in great detail but in a easy way to understand. After two weeks of no sugar I was so tired with a headache I wrote to Dr Prescatore saying how tired I was and how long would I go through this phase. The Dr worte back informing me that it would soon get better and now 4 weeks into the diet my energy level has come back and the head ache has gone.
Excellent book
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mssmith1
1.0 out of 5 stars The most impractical help ever?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 16, 2009
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So, where to start? As a 35 year old who has had hayfever for years and just recently developed asthma, I was (and am) keen to explore alternatives to Western medicine's answer of treating the symptoms with inhalers. Enter this book. Unfortunately, if you wish to live any sort of normal life, this book is not the answer.

It starts by recommending a huge battery of food sensitivity tests you need to take (the author prefers to start with a base list of 100 foods). It then gets to the heart of the advice, which is the author's assertion that most asthma is caused by an excess of candida, which is a fungus found naturally inside the body.

The "cure" (which is split into two parts, depending on whether you are overweight or not) is then an incredibly (and I mean incredibly!) restrictive diet aimed at elminating a huge variety of foods. This to me just screamed impractical and also unhealthy if you look at the bigger picture (for example wine and beer are out, but a bit of scotch and vodka are ok).

The diet seems to conflict with much well established health advice, and also that in wider health books such as the anti-cancer nutrition plan and the China study (both general health books which impressed me much more than this one).

Unfortunately, I can't comment on the acid test "did it work"; it may well do, but at what cost to your overall health and the practicality of living on that sort of elimination diet?

Good points? Well the books starts with a look at the rise of allergies and asthma and also the physiology of both conditions, which if you've never read anything about them, will prove helpful.

I suppose if your allergies and asthma are so bad that you will do anything, no matter how extreme, to get rid of them, then you may find the book helpful. For those of us who have learned to cope but are searching for a better way, this book doesn't have the answer.
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