How long does it take to become allergic to a given food?

[Superfluo]

Hi!

Recently I relying a lot more on legumes as a source of complex carbs, proteins and calories. And I like them so much that I could eat them at every meal. But I'm afraid eating them too often (and too much) and developing an allergy to them, a sensitivity, a bodily reaction.

So, how can I know how much to go for legumes and, as an extension, to other foods? How do I know if I'm eating too much of a given food (given that this food is "healthy") and I'm going towards negative effects?

Thanks!

[Average Investor]

I probably ate those for a few hundred days in a row at least. I had an issue with SIBO that maybe could have came from a lack of diversity. However, I am unsure of the start time of each of those things. Also, to be fair I had a lot of different fruits and veggies in rotation with juicing and smoothies. To this day I eat a lot of the same things with some rotation and I don't really have any issues. I don't think you are going to develop and allergy by eating something consistently. Just make sure you change up your meals a bit with different ingredients to keep your microbiome healthy. 

5 hours ago, Superfluo said:

How do I know if I'm eating too much of a given food (given that this food is "healthy") and I'm going towards negative effects?

It's going to be very personal to yourself. You will need to do a lot of experimentation to see what works well. It's good to try things like an elimination diet anyway to screen out foods that could be giving you issues. So consider experimenting with how you feel with eating them and without. 

Also, if your diet is well balanced in other areas, then I would not worry too much about it. You can use something like  https://cronometer.com/ to get a feel for portions. 

[Superfluo]

@Average Investor @Michael569 Thank you very much for your support and help.

Right now my diet is pretty balanced and since legumes are my main choice for proteins I'd be in trouble if I had to stop eating them because I ate too much of them.

 

@Michael569 Michael, I'll share with you one insight about allergies. In the last year I tried bioenergetics exercises, i.e. exercises to release deep seated muscular tension, which is linked to the psyche and the subconscious. And sometimes, when I do some type of exercise which deals with the diaphragm and the throat, my nose start tingling like I have to sneeze and it's exactly the type of sneeze due to allergy to hay. I discovered that I can command this reaction, I can create it with these exercises: activating certain muscles in the throat and the diaphragm I can create an allergic reaction. This led me to the insight that the antigen entering my nose creates a cascade reaction with the muscles and mucoses, which store a tension released by the interaction with that antigen, pretty much like they had a psychological imprint and the antigen reactivates that imprint. And this tension has a psychological nature pretty much of the time. I don't think the same applies to allergies like coeliac disease though.