Allergies are nothing to sneeze at!

Allergies are nothing to sneeze at!

Millions of Americans suffer from seasonal allergies each year.

Allergies are versatile. They can show up just about anywhere in your body and provide a variety of symptoms. They can affect your nose, eyes, throat, lungs, stomach, skin and nervous system. They can give you a bellyache, a rash and even bring on fatigue and headache.

Did you know that some of these symptoms are cause by the food that you eat and not your cat or the pollen count? Food allergy has become an epidemic in our modern world. Whereas a food allergy was considered an anomaly just a few decades ago, today one in 13 children in the United States suffers from a life-threatening anaphylactic food allergy. And this figure does not include those with celiac disease, non-celiac gluten sensitivity, lactose intolerance, or any other type of food intolerance.

As the major site of dietary absorption and the home to 80 percent of your body’s immune cells, it makes sense that the gut is a key player in the pathology of food allergies. Your gut is lined with millions of epithelial cells that are responsible for maintaining a barrier between your gut contents (the intestinal lumen) and your bloodstream.

In a healthy gut, small nutrients are absorbed, but large dietary proteins are unable to cross this barrier and enter the bloodstream. However, when the intestinal barrier becomes compromised (i.e., “leaky gut” syndrome), these large dietary proteins are able to enter the blood, stimulate an immune response, and produce symptoms characteristic of various allergic diseases.

Allergic diseases have risen dramatically during the last decades. They represent a major health problem that experts now think affects one third of the whole population. And if they are not managed properly, people begin to deal with it by avoiding the modern world.

In our experience, when major allergies, both food and/or environmental, are present and not handled, they are often interfering with the body’s normal function, repair and self-correcting mechanisms.

All of the sneezing, sniffling, and itchy eyes don’t have to be something that you put up with every year! Here at Mind and Body solutions, we have a healthy alternative on how to treat your allergies that don’t include medications or shots! Call us today for your initial consultation and see how we can help you feel like a healthier you!

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