While looking around for a local Seattle NAET instructor, I saw an ad for “The Allergy Kit”.  The creator borrows the hype around NAET, riding on its coattails and describing The Allergy Kit as an a more affordable and efficient alternative.  This product’s name should be pretty self explanatory, and the claims it makes are quite bold: “It writes over the body’s errors in programming (allergic response) and allows the food to have no reaction.”  You can probably imagine that with the existence of life or death allergies (such as peanuts), this statement is potentially problematic.  And with the recent developments of internet regulation regarding false claims, these are some seriously intrepid statements from a US based company – which is actually a very good sign for us consumers.

This kit promises to address common food allergies, along with a number of other allergies.  My main reason for taking an interested in this kit is my IBS (and the resulting stomach noise), which is believed to be caused by multiple food allergies.  But hell, I wouldn’t mind not having seasonal allergies as well.

While listening briefly to the spotlighted video (I wish they provided a written transcript instead, as I hate spending a minute listening to what could be read in a few seconds), the creator is introduced as a ceritified MD, with 3 medical degrees.  After enduring the video’s agonizingly slow dialogue for a few minutes, I dropped it in favor of the text based articles.  After glancing at the “how it works” section, my excitement piqued as I recognized some familiar concepts being presented.

EFT (emotional freedom technqiue), is a practice that I have a fair amount of experience with (having finished the founder’s entire online course), though my results with it have been fairly lackluster.  BodyTalk, is another concept I have some experience with, thanks to my very wise Reiki teacher.  With these two, well-known modalities as part of the foundation for this kit, things seem to be looking pretty good.

It might also be worth noting that both of the aforementioned healing modalities can be self-taught with online resources for FREE.  So what you are really paying for are the vials, which: “hold the energetic charge of the allergen to be treated”.  Now this may seem irritatingly ambiguous, but experience has taught me that such language is simply the norm for these “new age” healing products and practices.  Skimming through the individual pages for each vial, the descriptions incorporate more scientific terms, rather than relying on vague, energy explanations.

One thing that sank my heart briefly was the page on wheat/gluten allergies.  The site explains that celiacs are recommended to continue omitting wheat from their diet for a month after the treatments, due to the severity of the allergy.  While this is unfortunate news for many of us, but the fact that the company is willing to disclose potentially deterring information creates rapport with me, and sheds the product in a much more realistic light.

With my excitement and adrenaline brimming, I finally succumbed to the $1 + shipping trial offer.  And while they overtly explain the $189 delayed surcharge, I couldn’t help but feel the reminiscence to an infomercial product, and all the sales pitches associated with them.

Where have I see this before?

Its funny how such a conceptually good thing for a consumer can act as a red light after abuse.

While I currently subscribe to the belief that food intolerance is treatable by addressing emotional issues in sequence with energy/meridian-based techniques, in the past, I believed that they were inherent, permanent conditions, due to the Blood Type Diet.  Those of us who are familiar with the Blood Type Diet know that the information here is highly contradictory to Dr. D’Amano’s beliefs, but then again, so is 90% of “new age” and energy therapy concepts (and strangely enough, many practitioners of such techniques are proponents of the diet).

I am very excited with this product; so excited, that it prompted me to finally create a blog on this domain that I’ve been holding on to forever.  That being said, I’d like to think that  my countless disappointments with other products for treating IBS have left me callous for failure, but they have not; it always hurts to get burned.  It’s simply hard to digest that a simple, $200 kit can replace the education and expertise of an NAET practitioner.

Additional thought: I really wish the creators of this product would invest more time and funds into polishing their site.  I can’t help but notice a number of grammatical errors, CSS inconsistencies, and straight up, poor web design choices (that navigational bar font is atrocious).  You may be thinking right now: “Hey!  Your site is just a stock WP theme and your posts have tons of grammatical errors!”  But please consider that this a humble blog, and I do not need the professionalism required to push a product.  I think a lot of people interested in the product come to The Allergy Kit’s site only to be deterred by the amateurish and aesthetically unpleasing design of the site, and a relatively small company investment of $x,xxx could prevent those back-button’ers.

Expect an update when the kit arrives, along with plenty of pictures!