seasonal allergies

8 Ways To Naturally Defeat Spring Allergies

  What is the number one health reason that patients dread spring? Seasonal allergies, hands down.   For many folks, the first thing that comes to their mind during spring isn’t pedicures and bare feet, picking fresh strawberries and blueberries, gardening and sunshine… …it’s allergies: puffy eyes, sneezing attacks, runny noses and difficulty breathing. Well that stinks. But I’ve got your back! Because I don’t want you to drug up on antihistamines and watch your lovely spring season go by in a blur of grogginess. (And, did you know that long-term antihistamine use isn’t that great for you anyway? It’s …

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7 Essential Tips To Make Spring Allergies Disappear!

Spring is my favorite season.   And today is the first day of spring, so I’ve got a list of lots of great things you can do to optimize your health during this time of renewal and awakening! For many folks the first thing that comes to their mind during spring isn’t beaches and bare feet and picking fresh strawberries and bumble bees and gardening and sunshine… …it’s allergies. Well that stinks. But I’ve got your back! Because I don’t want you to drug up on antihistamines and watch your lovely spring season go by in a blur of grogginess. …

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Why Allergies Might Help You Live Longer

A new study suggests that folks with allergic rhinitis are more likely to outlive the rest of us.   Allergic rhinitis patients have a decreased risk of heart attack, a decreased risk of stroke and over all a significantly decreased risk of all-cause mortality!   “They were basically half as likely to die during the study period,” says Dr. Crans Yoon, after looking at a database of over 200,000+ allergic rhinitis patients and following those patients for a 7 year period.   Presented at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology 2014 conference, Dr. Yoon found that people who …

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Why Would A Physician Work With Chakras?

There are lots of ways to invite well being and healing into your body. When I work with patients in private consultations I offer many different solutions that work with that patient’s specific situation… everything from helping a patient choose the conventional medical approach that will heal them the fastest, to organic supplements to body work to biofeedback to journaling to yoga to earthing to guidance through career changes and relationship upheavals to fresh ideas that introduce fun and meaning in their current daily routine. But the one thing I always touch on, in one way or another, is chakra …

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Thoughts On Health… Relief From Seasonal Allergies, Naturally

  It turns spring this week, baby!!! And for many folks the first thing that comes to their mind during spring isn’t beaches and bare feet and picking fresh strawberries and bumble bees and gardening and sunshine… it’s allergies. Well poop. That stinks. But I’ve got your back. Because I don’t want you to drug up on antihistamines and watch your lovely spring season go by in a blur of grogginess. Here is what you are going to do to help establish your own equilibrium without the Rx…   1. Wash your hands like it’s going out of style. Every …

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Thoughts On Health… seasonal allergies and the link to stress.

Part 4 of my “Seriousness is a Disease” series, today I discuss how prolonged stress physically changes your mucosal membranes and leads to a hyper-allergic response. If you missed Part 1 (brain health) or Part 2 (heart health) or Part 3 (joint health) give them a listen and catch up to speed on why I fervently believe that seriousness is a disease. Seriousness causes physical change in our bodies that are as damaging as most other diseases out there. I believe that when we led our lives from an overly serious vantage point, it causes us to live in a …

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