Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Plant material or plant extract of undetermined constitution... – Containing or obtained from a root – bulb – tuber – corm – or...
Reexamination Certificate
2001-07-12
2003-10-14
Tate, Christopher R. (Department: 1651)
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Plant material or plant extract of undetermined constitution...
Containing or obtained from a root, bulb, tuber, corm, or...
C424S725000, C424S439000, C424S442000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06632461
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
(1) Field of Invention
This invention relates to an effective dietary intervention plan. In one aspect all food is withheld for a period of at least 5 days, except for tropical root crops. In another aspect the invention relates to the treatment of various symptoms, conditions or diseases such as diarrhea, constipation, congestion, eczema, asthma, fatigue, muscle weakness, tension, and spasms, irritable bowel syndrome, swelling, anxiety, multiple chemical sensitivities, moderate to extensive and moderate to severe symptoms due to food allergies, sensitivities, and intolerances, bloating, pain, headaches, leaky gut, hyperactivity, sleeping difficulties, severe underweight, eating disorders, obsessive, compulsive disorders, panic attacks, sensory sensitivities, Alzheimer's disease, acid reflux, irritability, delayed motor skills, delayed social skills, autism, PDD, infantile spasms, seizures by withholding from the patient for a period of at least 5 days all food except for concentrated forms of concentrated tropical root crops. Preferably the patient is also removed from external environmental sources of allergens. After the initial withholding period new foods may be introduced according to a particular selection and schedule.
In another aspect of the invention the subject undergoes an effective dietary intervention plan in which at least five (5) tropical root crops are selected, each eaten on a successive day, along with selected other meat, vegetables, and oils that the subject has never eaten before, eating a different selection of meat, vegetables, and oils each from different food families each day, with no food or food family being repeated for at least 5 days. In another aspect the invention relates to the treatment of various symptoms, conditions or diseases such as Diarrhea, constipation, congestion, eczema, asthma, fatigue, muscle weakness, tension, and spasms, irritable bowel syndrome, swelling, anxiety, multiple chemical sensitivities, moderate to extensive and moderate to severe symptoms due to food allergies, sensitivities, and intolerances, bloating, pain, headaches, leaky gut, hyperactivity, sleeping difficulties, severe underweight, eating disorders, obsessive, compulsive disorders, panic attacks, sensory sensitivities, Alzheimer's disease, acid reflux, irritability, delayed motor skills, delayed social skills, autism, PDD, infantile spasms, seizures by withholding from the patient for a period of at least 5 days all food except for concentrated forms of concentrated tropical root crops. Preferably the patient is also removed from external environmental sources of allergens. After the initial withholding period new foods may be introduced according to a particular selection and schedule.
In another aspect of the invention the subject undergoes an effective dietary intervention plan in which at least seven (7) tropical root crops are selected, each eaten on a successive day, along with selected other meat, vegetables, and oils that the subject has never eaten before, eating a different selection of meat, vegetables, and oils each from different food families each day, with no food or food family being repeated for at least 7 days. In another aspect the invention relates to the treatment of various symptoms, conditions or diseases such as Diarrhea, constipation, congestion, eczema, asthma, fatigue, muscle weakness, tension, and spasms, irritable bowel syndrome, swelling, anxiety, multiple chemical sensitivities, moderate to extensive and moderate to severe symptoms due to food allergies, sensitivities, and intolerances, bloating, pain, headaches, leaky gut, hyperactivity, sleeping difficulties, severe underweight, eating disorders, obsessive, compulsive disorders, panic attacks, sensory sensitivities, Alzheimer's disease, acid reflux, irritability, delayed motor skills, delayed social skills, autism, PDD, infantile spasms, seizures by withholding from the patient for a period of at least 5 days all food except for concentrated forms of concentrated tropical root crops. Preferably the patient is also removed from external environmental sources of allergens. After the initial withholding period new foods may be introduced according to a particular selection and schedule.
(2) Description of the Background
The emphasis of the above referenced patents was to provide as many new food choices for food allergic and food sensitive persons as possible, so they could at least find something to eat, could eat the foods they needed in concentrated form so that they would be able to eat enough calories, and would have sufficient variety to fit into their cultural preferences, and finally sufficient variety not to be boring.
Although this was an appropriate goal, it was found that simply providing a selection of new foods to choose from was not the highly effective solution hoped for. For the food allergic/sensitive individual several very important problems emerged:
1) Identification of problem foods. Although the presence of food reactions, a family history of food allergies; and the presence of chronic, persistent symptoms are characteristic of an individual who is likely to have food sensitivities, problems still exist limiting our success in identifying the specific allergens responsible (Williams, 2000).
One of the reasons that problem foods are difficult to identify is due to the fact that not all of the biochemical mechanisms are well understood and identified. Although about 30% of the population of countries around the world report food allergy problems (Matthews et al, 1998), only 1-2% of the complaints are identified as due a true food allergy, an abnormal or exaggerated immune-system response to specific proteins found in foods. The remainder are generally characterized as sensitivities, which are caused by other immune system mechanisms that are not well understood, intolerances, which are attributed to the lack of an appropriate enzyme, anxiety related to fear of past reactions that were not accurately characterized, and by somatic reactions triggered by past abusive situations. The ability to accurately apportion an individual's food reactions among the latter four, and further to correctly associate a specific food with it's fully characterized reaction pattern has until now essentially not been possible.
Although there are numerous tests available, including but not limited to, IgG specific RAST (radioallergosorbent test), IgG4 Specific RAST, IgE specific RAST, skin tests (scratch test or prick test), ELISA/EIA (Enzyme Immunoassays) panels to test for the presence of IgG and sometimes IgE antibodies, Scratch test, EPT (End-point-Titration), Cytotoxic Test, and ALCAT, no test is able to accurately and completely identify the foods that are the problem, even for those tests whose scope is narrow, e.g., RAST.
This investigator maintains that identification of problem foods is far more complex than anticipated by other investigators. All of the above tests focus on only one component of foods, namely the protein fraction. As should be readily available to any who care to think more broadly, there are far more substances than protein in food. In any given cell there are literally hundreds of thousands of substances present. They range from small simple molecules to complex, convoluted structural chemicals. The cells being the chemical soup that they are, literally any one or any combination of these substances could cause adverse physical symptoms in any given individual. Even in the conventional protein model, it is well known that the active regions of a protein are limited to a relatively few sites on that protein that have specific stereochemical configurations that accept and react with appropriately configured portions of other proteins or any number of smaller substances that match the stereochemical requirements.
In light of this, this investigator fails to understand why the study of the allergenic substances and the immune system of humans is limited to only proteins. There are myriad numbers of non-
Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher LLP
Tate Christopher R.
Winston Randall
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