The RAFT — Radial Artery Food Test

 

By Nogier, Raphaël; Serejski (Tr.). Distributor: BA. $60. 316 pages. Paperback. 2016.

English translation of "L'alimentation personnalisée. Allergies et intolérances alimentaires."

 

This book deals with food in a new light and stresses the importance of personal sensitivity to food: each individual is unique, and what is good for one is not necessarily good for the other. Thus, a large number of people (15 to 20% of the population) suffer from hypersensitivity to one or more foods, which can result in signs such as fatigue, migraine, sleep disorders, depression, joint pain, which are not always thought to be related to food.

In fact, alongside classic food allergies, the manifestations of which occur shortly after ingestion of the food, there are delayed allergies which appear several hours or several days after food intake. Removing the foods responsible for these ignored allergies then gives surprising therapeutic results with the disappearance of symptoms that have sometimes existed for several years.

The author describes here the mechanism of these allergies and proposes a test of simple use which only requires the taking of the radial pulse to evaluate the sensitivity of each one in front of a food (RAFT — Radial Artery Food Test). He also presents the results of his numerous clinical observations carried out over several years, with specific examples, in particular on gluten intolerance and allergies to dairy products.

 

Table of contents

 

  • Preface by Professor Pierre Magnin
  • Foreword
  • Part I. Modern diet and food allergies
    • Chapter 1 – What is food to some is poison to others
    • Chapter 2 – What should people eat?
    • Chapter 3 – As our diet changes, our diseases change
    • Chapter 4 – Diseases related to diet
    • Chapter 5 – Food allergies
    • Chapter 6 – Gut, microbiota, digestion and intestinal barrier
    • Chapter 7 – Brief reminder on the immune system
  • Part II. Vascular signal and detection of food allergies
    • Chapter 8 –Vascular Signal or VAS
      • The discovery of the Vascular Signal or VAS
      • VAS and homeostasis
      • Objectification of VAS
      • VAS and photoperception
      • Cutaneous spectro-photoperception
      • Why photoperception?
    • Chapter 9 – How to find the vascular signal
      • Taking the pulse
      • Looking for VAS: White Light Test
      • Looking for VAS exhaustion
      • Study of the cutaneous spectro-photoperception: The photogram
    • Chapter 10 – Food tests using the vascular signal
      • Description of the test-rings
      • Using test-rings
      • The RAFTs
  • Part III. Food allergies in practice
    • Chapter 11 – Some key concepts about food allergies
    • Chapter 12 – Gluten intolerance and wheat allergies
      1. Gluten intolerance
      2. Wheat allergies
    • Chapter 13 – A very common case: Allergy to dairy products
    • Chapter 14 – Collateral consequences of food allergies
    • Chapter 15 – When and how to suspect delayed food allergy?
    • Chapter 16 – Paraclinical tests for the diagnosis of food allergies
      1. Immediate allergies
      2. Delayed allergies
      3. Chapter 17 – Observations
      4. Diarrhea, abdominal pain
      5. Ulcerative colitis
      6. Bullous Pemphigoid
      7. Asthma
      8. Fibromyalgia
      9. Arteritis
      10. Polyarthritis and dairies
      11. School delay, asthma and eczema
      12. Eczema
      13. Migraines
      14. Headaches
      15. Depression, constipation, mouth ulcers
      16. Severe depression
      17. Joint Pain
      18. Reiter syndrome (Fiessinger-Leroy-Reiter syndrome)
      19. Rhinitis
      20. Ulcers
      21. Abdominal pain
      22. Sun allergy. Dairy allergy
      23. Hives
      24. Pressure urticaria
      25. Itching day and night: 8-year-old girl.
      26. From acne to food allergy
  • Annexes
    1. About Paul Nogier, by Pr. P.Magnin
    2. Vaccinations and allergies, by Pr. P. Magnin
    3. Answers to Your Questions
    4. The RAFT
    5. Celiac Disease – Gluten-free diet
    6. Dairy-free diet
    7. Food in autoimmune diseases
    8. Some tips so that your child does not develop a food allergy
  • Bibliography
  • Index

 

Table of figures

  • Reactions of the radial pulse. Position © Raphaël Nogier
  • The radial pulse. © Raphaël Nogier
  • Recordings of Dr. Michel Marignan, 1993
  • Photoreception experiment on rabbit
  • Light source and VAS
  • White light test
  • Thumb Method. © Raphaël Nogier
  • The test-ring
  • Assessing the VAS with test-rings on the chest

 

Table of tables

  • Evolution of food consumption in France from 1950 to 1996 Government sources
  • Alkaline and Acidic Food Chart
  • Conditions associated with food allergy
  • Colors and Filters
  • Breastfeeding women either exclusively or partially, in %
  • Signs of food allergies in children and adults
  • Distribution of certain diseases in women and men
  • Food containing gluten. To be eliminated in celiac disease
  • Classification of Flowering Plants
  • Femoral neck fractures (osteoporosis)  and consumption of dairy products in various countries in 1993
  • Breast cancer and dairy consumption in 1987
  • Chemical composition of milk according to species
  • Milk Composition in Women and Cows
  • Milk Composition during Breastfeeding.
  • Mechanisms envisaged in allergy to cow's milk
  • Degrees of reactivity of Patch tests
  • Calcium content of foods
  • Mineral content of certain commercial waters (mg/l)