Allergy season is here full throttle. Store aisles are stocked full of allergy med’s right now (Claritan, Zertec, Allegra, Nasonex, etc, etc). Let’s look into it a little and maybe change our thinking on dosing the symptoms and hit the real issues – A crappy diet and poor sleep habits.
“Allergies are an inflammatory response from your body to outside irritants. They cause your body to react to them usually with an inflamed state that results in your body trying to expel whatever it was that you are allergic to. So how do we impact our allergies without drugs? Surprise, Food is the key.
Many of you take allergy medicine on a daily basis and I would argue with you all day about the necessity of taking it all the time. All you have to do is clean up your diet and you will be able to more easily predict when your allergies are going to flare up. Don’t take my word for it. You can continue taking your meds or you can give this crazy diet thing a chance and get yourself off the meds. Maybe not all the time but most of the time you can be free of the med head that all these allergy medicines give you.” Article excerpt from f*ck Allergies by Dutch Lowy – Black Box Strength & Conditioning
Take two minutes to review these articles below, use what you learn to motivate a diet change and cut out gluten, sugar and dairy…see what happens.
Mark’s Daily Apple post on Seasonal Allergies
Heal Your Guts article from Radiance Nutrition
Allergies: “That’s Bull*&@t” article by Paleo Soul
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