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by mistercow 5055 days ago
Or your allergies just went away as you got older, and you attribute that to the placebo effect.
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There are complex interactions between the nervous and immune systems.

I don't think that anything has been demonstrated regarding allergies, but I wouldn't rule out a therapeutic effect in this case. The absence of evidence is not an evidence of absence.

I must say I honestly don't know if they were allergies in the medical way. For quite some time I couldn't drink large (>1L/week) of milk while milk products were fine. I always called that an allergy and only learned much later that it's not;)
I think the therapy took around 1 month, would have been a pretty sick coincidence:)

I went from not being able to eat anything with wheat or soy lecithin to having no problem with it:)