Quantum Secrets - Using The Secret

For the past twenty years in Australia I've suffered from the effects of an allergic reaction to milk products. This can be anything from nausea, headaches, drowsiness to even reactions similar to being drunk, depending on the type of product I ate. Cheese on pizza usually caused that kind of reaction. I won't tell you what happened the following morning.

I even bought anti-lactose tablets and swallowed copious amounts of them without any effect.

I'd resigned myself to the fact that I would never be able to eat dairy products and spent most of my time in supermarkets reading the ingredients, making sure there wasn't a speck of dairy product in anything I bought. (Did you know they use milk powder as a binding agent to attach flavour to chips (crisps)??? Can't even eat those!)

I'd been thinking about this recently and wishing that there was some solution as, why was it that I couldn't even have a little when even lactose intolerant people could eat a lot with anti-lactose tablets. It just didn't seem fair.

That same week I was discussing food with one of my Italian students. Without any prompting from me, he told me that he really loved Italian food in Italy but that a lot of the food in Australia made him sick. He said that he could eat any cheese in Italy but then described how he felt if he ate any cheese, butter or cream, or drank any milk in Australia. Similar symptoms to me.

I'm pretty sure my mouth fell open right there. If brains could explode I think mine would have. Shock, elation, incredulousness, regret, anger, frustration, hope and excitement all happened at once. I had suddenly realised that if eating dairy products made in Australia made him sick, maybe imported dairy products would be fine for me!

Thanks to me thinking about my dairy problem at this time, the universe allowed me to meet a student who could give me a different perspective.

After the lesson I almost ran to the local supermarket. I gathered up what little cash I had and bought a piece of imported cheese. Not any cheese though. I bought the cheese I thought would have the worst effect on me. Mouldy blue cheese from Denmark! Probably the grossest cheese I've ever seen, especially with 20 years of feeling sick from even looking at cheese, let alone eating it. If I didn't get sick from this then I would be able to eat any cheese from around the world, except Australia.

Well, later that night

Follow up:

I ate it. After eating anything with even the slightest amount of dairy product in it I would normally feel sick within minutes. I waited 20 minutes, 60 minutes, 2 hours. Nothing. And no problems the next morning either. Elation didn't cover it!

The next morning I grabbed my credit card and ran down to Woolworths. I bought Brie, Camembert and various other types of cheese that I'd never even looked at before. All were from Europe or Scandinavia. That night I ate quite a lot of them. I had 20 years of cheese eating to catch up on!!!

And I was fine. No bad effects at all.

So now I am a very happy cheese eater but at the same time I am livid at the Australian Dairy Food industry. I don't know what they put in their products. It could be hormones, proteins, antibiotics, or it could just be heavy elements in the water they mix with the products, but it has kept me away from dairy products for 20 years. I will continue to check the ingredients of Australian food to make sure I avoid Australian dairy products but I will be very confident in eating anything from Europe!

Thanks to The Secret for bringing me someone who revealed another secret I didn't know about.