Editorial

Tao & Dao magazine is not.

This is not a magazine about diets: for weight loss, vegetarian, vegan or keto. It is not about intermittent fasting diets. It is not a magazine about raw gastronomy, nor about detox juices. What we write will not be about the Mediterranean diet, nor about how to abolish all household appliances and microwaves and go back to cooking in a more artisanal way. This magazine is not specific for diabetics, nor for molecular cuisine chefs. It is not even a recipe magazine. Nor of rescued ancestral herbs. This magazine is not a treatise on the elimination of meat, nor of industrialised foods. We will not focus on superfoods, nor on the economic route of the most produced grains in the world. It is also important to say that this magazine is not about infirmities, diseases and rare syndromes. And we emphasise that it is not about lobbying to promote what super-harvests transform into fashionable foods. It is not about the high rate of child malnutrition on the planet. It is not a magazine that will change your life forever through an esoteric approach. It is not about holistics, it does not prioritise millennial diets such as kosher, ayurvedic or Ramadan. This magazine is not about the contemporary food of tribes in Africa nor about fish production in Asia. It is also not part of this editorial to talk about flavours or the inability to feel them and how neuroscience treats this.

This is a “review”.

A review action on a multisystemic metabolic syndrome. A food pseudo-allergy whose estimates say can affect between 1% [1] and 6% [2] of the world population. People of any ethnicity, age, economic condition, educational level or belief. Indistinctly. "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are" [3] will be the title of the editorial for issue number two. Now, to inaugurate these pages, it is necessary to say what those affected hear for many years of their lives: their symptom “is not”.

The multiple symptoms that people with food hypersensitivity present are seen as things in “their heads”, they do not appear in clinical exams, but they are visible on their skin and in many cases, incapacitate them for practical life. As cited in medical literature: this syndrome is the “clinical chameleon” [4]. But, just like this little animal that hides or integrates itself using the resources of its physiology and metabolism, people with this syndrome can access an ecology of resources to stop being invisible. The diagnosis of histamine imbalance is the first of them.

This magazine is about diagnosis and the multidisciplinary task force necessary to remove this condition from global underdiagnosis, uniting emancipated patients and updated health professionals.

At your service, with affection.

Cristina Aguiar

Founder of DAO Equilibrium

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Authorial text.

Review of scientific references and design of a multidisciplinary platform supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI), using Google tools such as NotebookLM and Gemini.

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References for the editorial:

[1] The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2007.

[2] Biomolecules, 2022.

[3] The Physiology of Taste, 1825.

[4] Intestinal Research, 2019.

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Tao & Dao Magazine | Issue 1 | 2026

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