Now, if you're like millions of people out there, including myself, that time of year
comes around where you suffer from seasonal allergies. You wake up in the morning, you
have puffy eyes, you have itchy skin, you have a stuffy nose, and maybe a headache,
and throughout the day you have fatigue and it's not fun. We want to avoid it at all costs.
Now, the thing is, is we can do some natural things in order to alleviate this. Some of
the things I'm doing personally, and with my patients, I'm going to show you so stick
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Let's go ahead and talk about some of the symptoms associated with allergies, because
back in the day I didn't have allergies and when I started having them, I was like, what
is this? Am I sick? What's going on? Why am I getting these sinus headaches? What is happening
here? Well, let's talk about the symptoms. So first of all, running stuffy nose. This
is something that pretty much flares up right away. You have a little bit more difficulty
breathing. And then you have that nasal drip going on a little bit annoying, but if you're
someone who's getting those seasonal allergies, you're going to be sneezing a lot more, have
those different symptoms that we don't like dealing with. As I mentioned, the nasal drip,
but also the puffy itchy and watery eyes. I've actually been dealing with this quite
a bit as of lately. If I'm outside for a long period of time, essentially this stuff just
hits me, especially the next morning. So, if I'm outside at night and I'm working in
the yard and exposed all the different allergens floating around in the air, then the next
morning I feel it pretty good.
Next on our list is going to be headaches. This is something a lot of people deal with.
They start to get a lot of sinus headaches. This is one of the big things I didn't know
why I kept having headaches. And it would just last for like two weeks at a time. And
so, then I finally realized, ah, this is allergy related.
Throat irritations a big one. Maybe you're getting some itchiness in the throat. Sometimes
it's flared up by eating certain vegetables and fruits. And then the other thing is some
people can get some ear pain too. They can get some ear pain and a lot more ear drainage
if they're suffering from allergies, there's a few other symptoms out there as well, but
these are the main ones we have to look at.
Now, the question becomes is why does this happen? Well, essentially this happens because
we're having a hyper immune response. Your body is overreacting to your environment.
So, when your body gets that pollen as you're breathing it in and it gets on your skin and
then you're getting the dust and all the other things that are coming along with spring and
summer, essentially your body rejects it and it tries to protect itself. One of the ways
that your immune system does this is by going and releasing a chemical called histamine.
When you get this histamine response, essentially what happens is you get all these different
symptoms. So, what we're trying to do is we're trying to naturally stop that histamine response
and everything that correlates with it.
And so, here's what we do in order to make this happen. First of all, vitamin C, now
vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant. So, it has a lot of benefits in boosting your immune
system and helping just improve immune function, but the other thing that it does really well
is it acts as an antihistamine. So, when you're going and getting these allergens that are
coming at you and you take vitamin C, it helps shut down that histamine so that you aren't
having all these different symptoms right here.
Next on our list is going to be bioflavonoids. Now bioflavonoids are basically plant-based
nutrients. You're going to get this from eating lots of leafy greens. And when we look at
the ones that are specifically very helpful for helping with allergies, it's going to
be Quercetin and Rutin. What they've been scientifically shown to do is help modulate
the immune system. And when they modulate the immune system, that means they're helping
to balance it out. Remember, this is a hyper immunity problem. Your immune system is working
overtime and actually reacting to your whole environment. So, it helps modulate it. It
just helps kind of create balance. And then it helps decrease inflammation. We get a lot
of inflammation with this histamine response. This is why our throat feels like it's a little
bit constricted. This is why our breathing isn't as good. So, we get that inflammation
response. The bioflavonoids help with that.
Stinging nettle is next here, and this is specifically stinging nettle extract. Now,
when I think about stinging nettles, I think about when I was a kid and I have flashbacks
as to walking through some of the tall weeds and having stinging nettles hit my leg, and
then you'd have this massive inflammatory stinging problem on your skin for the next
24 hours. So stinging nettles, though they're nasty in nature, they’re actually highly
beneficial when you use them nutritionally and you use the extract from them. They work
very well as a histamine modulator creating balance with the histamine. You don't want
histamine just raging on a control on your body. And it helps with hyper immunity and
it helps just kind of calm the immune system so that you're not overreacting. So stinging
nettles are very powerful and highly, highly researched proven when it comes to fighting
seasonal allergies
N-Acetyl Cysteine is next. Now I talk about N-AC a lot. I really like it simply because
it's a very inexpensive nutrient, but the other thing that's great about N-AC is that
it has so many benefits. It's the precursor of the most powerful antioxidant in the body
- glutathione. Now what N-AC is going to help do when you have allergies is decrease that
mucus buildup. You get that mucus buildup in the throat, you get it in your lungs. If
you're having ref respiratory distress, this N-AC really helps with that and it also helps
decrease inflammation as it is the precursor like I said to the most powerful antioxidant
glutathione in the body. So, N-AC is great for helping with allergies and also research
proven. That's good. And everything I'm talking about here is research proven.
Bromelain is next. Now bromelain is going to be a nutritional compound that comes from
the stem of the pineapple plant. This bromelain has a lot of benefits when it comes to allergies.
It’s going to help stop the edema. If you think about the puffy face, the puffy eyes,
we want to stop that edema, that swelling. And it also is going to help with micro inflammation.
In Germany, they use bromelain to actually fight and counteract micro inflammation in
the body. So, bromelain is powerful as well.
Now what I'll do is I'll put a link to these different nutritional compounds in the description
below, because here's what we do clinically. And even for myself, what we do is we take
all these different nutrients right here, and we combine them together because you may
be looking at this and going, well, I have some vitamin C in the cupboard. That's great.
And or you may you say, I might have some N-AC, but what we find works the best is when
you combine all of them together because they have this synergistic effect, whereas like
bromelain helps you absorb the bioflavonoids better and they just kind of bounce off of
each other, and they help each other work more effectively. And so, taking them all
together is going to be ideal. And like I said, I'll put a link in the description to
what we utilize here, but it works very well. A lot of times people think that when you
are dealing with allergies, it's all about getting those over the counter medications
that in many cases make you more fatigued. They have negative side effects. But the truth
is, is we can do this naturally.
Let's go ahead and talk about the next things we can do and that's using essential oils.
A lot of times we think about, you know, over the counter meds, as I mentioned, when we
think about fighting off the seasonal allergies, but there's so many natural things we can
do. We don't want to forget about the essential oils. Like I said, it's not just about even
taking these nutrients. It's about doing all of this and that's how you get results. A
lot of people will go and they'll do one of these and they'll go, well, didn't work. I'm
not doing that again. Well, it's because you didn't do it right. You have to do all of
them. Peppermint essential oils, eucalyptus, and frankincense are all really good and proven
to help with allergies. There's a couple of ways you can utilize them. You can put them
on your sinuses. You can put it under your eye, above your eyes, around your nose. You
can also go and you can diffuse these essential oils in your room at night, in your house
during the day, at your workspace, and they all help reducing those seasonal allergies
that you don't want to deal with anymore.
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