Heroin, cocaine, marijuana, nicotine, caffeine come from plants.

Estrogen, progester, and testosterone comes from plants.

And then lectins, oxalates, phytates are all antigenic molecules that come from plants

that cause a tremendous amount of allergies in our body.

An allergy, again, could colitis, Crohn's,

IBS simply be allergic reactions in our gut? Yes. And we know that poison ivy that gets on

your skin causes redness, pain, swelling, heat. And so all this stuff is like poison ivy disease.

But there's no such thing as poison ivy disease.

It's exposure to a foreign antigen that causes damage and disease.

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