111 | 6 Tips to Fight Your Allergies!

Welcome back to another episode of the Real Health Podcast. It is March, which means spring is around the corner. And I don't know if you can tell in your area, but here in Knoxville, things are shaping up to be an awesome, awesome season. We are- well, just before we jumped on the episode, Grant and I, the guy behind the scenes, "mister producer," had a little bet, and he looked at this amazing mustache of mine. And we talked about a bet where in March Madness, if Florida goes further than Tennessee, then Grant has to grow a mustache for a week, which would be just a couple hairs.

It's gonna be hilarious. It's gonna look so bad. But if Tennessee goes further than Florida, then I have to shave my mustache, which should be just a ter- just a terrible act against humanity, you know? For all men out there, I'm putting everything on the line. What if they tie?

What if they both get out in the round of, you know, final four probably? Let's be real. Nothing happens. Nothing happens. Neutral.

Okay. You could you could grow- you'd grow half a mustache on one side. I'll shave it out the other half. Alright. So that's the bet.

It's now official because we communicated it with thousands of people that'll be listening. Alright. Let's dive into March Your Allergies Away. March Your Allergies Away. It is March season.

Allergies, asthma's around the corner, and we're gonna have a conversation about marching your allergies away. Two things. First off, every single podcast is now transcripted in a incredible, user friendly guide at realhealthco.com. "real- health- co- .com." Go to the resources tab, and you can actually download today's episode through a transcript user friendly guide.

So that is up there. If you're listening, it's on the website right now. The second is we're gonna be in this month of March where we're gonna talk through allergies and asthma. If you have allergies, asthma, immune issues, gut problems, inflammation, then food allergy testing is so important to reduce the load of histamine in the body. Now's the time to look at food reactions and using that as a puzzle piece to calm down your system.

So for this month, we are doing a $50 off discount for our lab testing, our IGG Food Explorer, which tests over a 50 different foods and finds out which ones you're reactive to. So touch base with the office, reach out to us personally through Instagram, any social media platform, or just directly call us, email us, and we will- we'll talk about next steps with that. Okay. Today is, we're gonna do six tips to reduce allergies. Six tips to reduce your allergies and asthma symptoms.

Okay? So these are six things that you should be doing right now as soon as you listen to this. Okay? The first is we're gonna support our what we call immune tolerance. Now we're gonna get into this in more detail in a couple episodes, but but immune tolerance means your immune system is tolerant of its environment.

When we lose immune tolerance, we develop autoimmunity. That's the kinda end result. So autoimmunity is law is is developed due to years of immune tolerance that's lost. So we need to develop immune tolerance. How do we do that?

The first is local raw honey. Local raw honey actually has, right, pollen in a very microdose form that actually helps your body build up immune tolerance. So right now, in this season, you can actually be microdosing yourself with pollen and helping build immune tolerance. Okay? And do that before pollen is escalated.

It'll help decrease the symptoms of pollen induced allergies. So consume local raw honey every single day. Number two, bee pollen. Bee pollen, again, is actually a natural antihistamine. Bee pollen in and of itself is a natural antihistamine.

Again, small dose right now. Start building it up to where you're consuming it on a day to day basis. About a tablespoon a day is great for both the raw honey and bee pollen. Local is most important, especially when it comes to the honey. Bee pollen is not as important.

Again, we don't have any paid advertisements, so I'm just gonna give you a brand. Beekeepers is a great brand for bee pollen. Number three, increased probiotics. Increase probiotics either from food or supplementation, but your gut plays a massive role in helping build immune tolerance. So now is the season.

Now is the time to be more intentional with probiotic consumption. Those are the big three for building immune tolerance. Number two, we need to reduce our histamine load. Think of it this way. Think of like a cup of water, glass of water, and when it gets to a certain point, it spills over.

Right? And so your body only has so much histamine tolerance. And when histamine builds up to a certain level, it'll start spilling over. When it spills over is when we have allergies in terms of the symptoms. So we need to reduce how much is in our cup of water.

How do we reduce- how do we reduce histamine? One, you can find out which foods you're reactive to. We have this concept in the office we talked about. You have external and internal. External stimulus is the environment you live in.

You can't change that. You could reduce the allergenic load externally, but you can't change where you live. Inside though, you can change the amount of histamine inside your body and one of the best ways to do that is find out which foods you're reactive to. Immediately that'll reduce how much water is in your glass so that you're actually more tolerant of your external allergens. Number two, there's a group of, natural compounds that is very effective as natural antihistamines.

Stinging nettles is at the top of the list. This is a natural antihistamine and an anti- it's actually an herb for, reducing inflammation. Number two, there's a, there's something called quercetin. Quercetin, that's Q u e r c e t i n. Quercetin is a natural antihistamine, but it also stabilizes what's called your mast cells and these are cells that fill up with histamine and can be released when they are triggered.

So quercetin is found in onions, it's found in apples and leafy greens, but you can also obviously supplement with it. Number three, Vitamin C. Vitamin c's a really great antioxidant that has been shown to lower histamine. And number four is bromelain. It's a enzyme from pineapple.

Bromelain is a very effective enzyme at reducing, allergenic load in the body and also helps reduce inflammation, particularly, when taken on an empty stomach. We call this a proteolytic enzyme, when taking bromelain on an empty stomach, it reduces the swelling of your nasal cavity and oral cavity. Those are the big four that will help reduce your histamine load. In the office, we have a product called BioFizmune. BioFizmune.

And it has quercetin and bromelain and Vitamin C and Vitamin D. It has the natural antihistamines and antioxidants. And we combine both BioPhizmune and we combine a proteolytic enzyme called inflammatone together to create this one two punch for allergies during this season. Alright. Number two was reduce histamine load.

Number one was support immune tolerance. Number three, we also want to reduce our exposure to pollen. Now I know this sounds simple. And like I said, you can't really change your extra environment too much, but there's a couple strategies you can absolutely apply on a day to day basis that decreases the pollen in your body. How?

Okay. Number one, we want to use a HEPA air filter. If you're not using an air filter in your home, use one. Not only are there chemicals from your furniture and mattresses and, you know, plastics in your home, but there are also quite a bit of pollen. Running a HEPA air filter is simple.

Gosh, you can get one for, you know, under a hundred dollars, 50 bucks, and would help significantly reduce the allergenic load in your body. And number two, number two, maybe if you walked away from today's message, all you did was this, it would be a game changer. Nasal rinse every day. Nasal rinse every day. So we typically call this a neti pot.

One of my favorite things to use is something called a sinugator, which is a battery operated one. It flushes water, saline water through your nasal cavity, flushes out all that pollen. It's best to do in the morning and evening. If you were to have an option, which one do you do? Do it in the evening.

Okay? Really helps set you up for success that night. If you have a hard time with, using a neti pot or a sinu gator, there's a nasal spray from a company called Results RNA. We have it in the office. It's a colloidal silver based nasal spray, but it also has natural antihistamines and antioxidants in this nasal spray.

So it acts or mimics a natural neti pot. You can use that couple sprays each nostril. The ACS two hundred spray is fantastic during this season. Alright. Let's move on.

That was number three, reduce your exposure to pollen. Number four, antihistamine, anti inflammatory diet. So what do we need to focus on? Number one, remove dairy. If you deal with congestion in your sinus cavity, anytime I feel congested, immediately I cut out dairy.

Dairy increases mucus production. So eliminating dairy is a game changer on an anti inflammatory diet. Side note, if you don't know what an anti inflammatory diet looks like, go to realhealthco.com resources tab and look at the AIP or the autoimmune paleo diet that Dr. Reed created just for you. And you can download that and look at what foods to eliminate and which foods are safe to consume.

Number two under anti inflammatory diet is consume anti inflammatories. Well, which ones are those? Turmeric, ginger. Those are the big two. They are natural anti inflammatory spices that can ease your allergy symptoms.

Number three, you've heard it time and time again, omega three fatty acids. Sardines, salmon, grass fed beef, nuts and seeds help significantly reduce your inflammation. Number four, anti inflammatory diet. Number five, chiropractic care. In this season, stick to your consistent care with getting adjusted.

Chiropractic care is one of the best ways to support a stressed immune system by targeting the nervous system. The nervous system can calm down the immune system, can actually increase natural killer cells, can do so much and can help the drainage system of the eyes, ears, nose, and throat. Chiropractic care has been shown to improve lymphatic drainage and overall give your immune system a great boost in this season. Get adjusted and if you aren't getting adjusted, start getting adjusted. Last one, number six, last tip of the day, detox.

If you ever have like hives, if you ever have skin rashes, we should always look at the liver as a primary factor involved in allergies and hives. When we look at the liver to support detoxification, go to our episode, literally last episode last week, and we talked about strategies to improve liver function. Give you a quick rundown, it was like milk thistle. You can do activated charcoal. Right?

You can do glutathione. But supporting the liver is a very good thing to do for overall histamine load, and especially if you've ever had hives before. Look at the liver as a primary driver behind those reoccurring hives. So, six strategies to help reduce allergenic symptoms. What are the six?

Number one, we wanna support immune tolerance. Number two, we wanna reduce our histamine load. Number three, reduce exposure to pollen. Number four, an anti inflammatory diet. Number five, get adjusted.

And lastly, number six, detoxification support. When we look at applying these six strategies, it can seem overwhelming. If you were to say, "hey, doc. Which one should I do?" You should nasal rinse every day, decrease anti inflammatory foods, and get adjusted.

That's pretty simple. And if you were to do those three things, it would make a dramatic change in how your body handles the March spring season of pollen. Alright, guys. As always, thanks for listening to another episode of The Real Health podcast.

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