Hey, guys, Dr. Axe here, founder of DrAxe.com and Doctor of Functional Medicine.
In this video, I'm going to share with you the top herbs and supplements and diet to
naturally treat asthma.
If you've ever struggled with asthma, you know that it can be really a debilitating
condition.
It can really affect your life in many different ways.
People can really sort of live in fear of having that asthma attack.
But I will tell you this, that there are some things you can do that can really help eliminate
asthma by about 99%, if you follow the steps that I lay out for you in this video.
The first thing you want to do if you have asthma is take a good look at your diet and
eliminate foods that cause food sensitivities and foods that really cause your body to produce
more phlegm.
So food sensitivities, the most common ones include things like wheat products or grains.
Any type of grain, for the most part, especially gluten-containing grains, those can cause
food sensitivities.
Dairy products, especially because of A1 casein, found in a lot of conventional dairy, that
can cause food sensitivities.
Also things like soy and corn and peanuts, those can cause food sensitivities.
You may even go and get a testing done to get an IgG and an IgE antibody test done,
to see what foods you're reacting to.
It's something that most doctors can do, especially a doctor of functional medicine.
You can go see them, and they can lay out this test for you.
Or in fact, you can even look up IgG test online on Google, and you can actually find
a test and take it at home and get your results back in a couple of days.
So number one, know your food sensitivities.
Number two, eliminate foods that cause phlegm buildup, especially sugar, excess sugar consumption,
along with dairy, and then even things like bananas.
Those things are phlegm producing.
Eliminate those from your diet.
Now, the diet that you want to follow to help eliminate any type of phlegm and help reduce
asthma symptoms is going to be a diet that's going to be high in vegetables, fruits, easily
digestible protein, and omega-3 fatty acids.
So vegetables and fruits, the reason they're beneficial, they're not going to cause you
to produce phlegm.
Also, they're high in enzymes and phytonutrients, which help eliminate phlegm and really open
up your airways, and they reduce inflammation.
Especially, citrus fruits are great.
Pineapple is great.
But again, loading up on the vegetables and fruits should be the core of your diet.
The next thing would be think warm foods like bone broth soup.
Those warming foods help open up your capillaries.
They are very easy to digest.
So a big bone broth soup is an ideal meal for somebody.
Bone broth soup is great because bone broth contains amino acids of proline and glycine,
and glycine really helps support the liver, also supports the lungs, helps open up those
airways.
So again, if you've ever heard chicken soup is good for the soul or chicken soup is good
when you're sick, the reason being is when you're sick, think about it, you've got congested
sinuses, bronchitis, and congested chest, and bone broth helps open up those airways.
So a bone broth soup on a regular basis should also be at the core of your diet.
And last, but not least, omega-3 fatty-acid-rich foods, chia seeds, flax seeds, grass-fed beef,
wild-caught fish, getting more omega-3 reduces inflammation and can definitely help asthma.
Now, the top supplements you want to consider, if you really want to support your body in
healing asthma, are going to be quercetin is one of the best.
Quercetin is found in citrus fruits, so adding in oranges and grapefruit and lemon and those
sort of fruits into your diet, a great place to start with asthma typically.
Also, the supplement bromelain, bromelain actually does come from the core of a pineapple,
so consuming some pineapple, you're going to get some bromelain.
Or you can take a bromelain supplement.
There's also a supplement combination that's powerful, effective at treating asthma, and
that's a combo of N-acetyl-L-cysteine and vitamin C. N-acetyl-L-cysteine, or NAC, is
the precursor to glutathione, and glutathione is an antioxidant that really helps support
respiration and detoxification of your lungs.
So N-acetyl-L-cysteine, typically about 500 milligrams, with vitamin C, that combination
of NAC with vitamin C is a powerful combination at actually helping heal asthma.
And then last thing I want to mention here with asthma is also taking essential oils
that can support the airways.
If you are having asthma issues, sometimes taking a mixture of peppermint oil and eucalyptus
oil can be beneficial.
But you always want to test it on your body first because for most people, it helps open
up their lungs, but I know sometimes people with asthma, they tend to react to different
things.
And that's a similar thing with the citrus fruit.
I mentioned that quercetin is amazing, typically, for people with asthma, but again, if you're
sensitive to something, you obviously do not want to use that if you have asthma.
But again, if you can follow those tips, I guarantee you're going to see great results
in relieving your asthma.
If you want to learn more about natural asthma treatments, cures, and remedies, make sure
to check out the Dr. Axe website.
Just search asthma.
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Hey, guys, this has been Dr. Axe.
Thanks for watching.