Seasonal Allergies

Achoo!

These suggestions are not intended to replace appropriate professional advice.  Please check labels and consult your pharmacist if you take medication.

A holistic approach to health requires a look at all areas of life.  Make a few changes at a time.  Each is a variable in your body’s favour.  Managing allergies begins with diet and nutritional gaps.

Diet - Designed to Generate Minimal Mucous and Overcome Inflammation

• 7-10 glasses filtered or spring water.  Chlorine destroys healthy gut flora.
  
  
• Make your diet 75-80% alkaline forming.  Allergies are often associated with overacidity.  Use our food chart to correct pH. 
  
  
• Organic foods are the safest way to nourish yourself – and a good investment!
  
  
• Make fresh fruits, vegetables, raw seeds, nuts, beans, legumes and gluten free whole grains the staples of your diet. 

• Combine foods for optimum digestion - fruits on an empty stomach 30 minutes before other food – complex carbs (base) and animal products (acid) at separate meals.
  
  
• Animal products are mucous forming, minimize consumption during allergy season.
  
  
• Eat complete protein no later than lunch for better digestion of amino acids.
  
  
• Fermented kimchi, sauerkraut, kefir, and nondairy yoghurt improve digestion and pH.
  
  
• 1-3 tbsp ground flax, chia, or hemp for fiber and essential fatty acids.
  
  
• 1-2 tsp apple cider vinegar and manuka honey in water at meals corrects pH, improves digestion, reduces inflammation and strengthens immunity.

Basic Supplements - To Cover Common Deficiencies

• Bio-Strath – a unique fermented wholefood supplying complete B vitamins, amino acids, and DNA.  Corrects pH, decreases stress, anti-inflammatory.
  
  
• Vitamin C – anti-inflammatory, regulates histamine.
  
  
• Vitamin D 8,000 IU for one month then reduce to upper limit of 4,000 IU – steroid hormone precursor associated with inflammation and allergies.
  
  
• Chlorophyll – food source of magnesium, blood cleanser, anti-inflammatory.
  
  
• Shark liver oil – provides omega-3 and other unique fatty acids that reduce sinus congestion and inflammation and support immune function.
  
  
• Probiotics – daily during allergy season to promote pH and immune function.

Special Care for Allergies - For Short Term or Intermittent Use

• It’s important to keep all pathways for elimination unobstructed. Dry body brush to maintain open skin pores and encourage lymphatic drainage. Take enough magnesium to ensure easy cleansing of the bowel. Keep lungs clear through a low mucous diet, fresh air and exercise, and slow deep breathing exercises at intervals through the day.

• Quercetin is a powerful antioxidant. It protects cells in the sinuses and throughout the body from inflammation.

• Bromelain is a proteolytic enzyme that breaks down excess mucous in the sinus cavities. It is most effective when taken on an empty stomach i.e. upon rising or it can be taken if you are up through the night, and taken again at bedtime.
  
  
• Before allergy season begins consider a 30 day Flor-Essence cleanse. Customers and staff have permanently said goodbye to allergies by correcting their pH, following the diet/supplement suggestions, and eliminating toxic load through deep cellular cleansing with Flor-Essence.
  
  
• Try a Neti Pot. This ancient practice from Ayurvedic Medicine cleans the nasal cavities and clears old mucous buildup in the ear canals. In Ayurveda, it is said to improve memory, vision, and prevent hair from greying! Several staff use a Neti Pot. One says he’s rather give up his morning coffee than stop using his.
                                             
• Fenugreek tea is a go to for many allergy sufferers.  It clears nasal congestion quickly. Add a little manuka honey and it’s an even more potent allergy fighter.

Following the diet and basic supplement program will reduce allergy symptoms.  Try out any of the other suggestions and see what works for you.  No matter what’s in the air it’s important to get outside and enjoy the sunshine. Breathe deeply.  Exhale thoroughly!

You are meant to happy and healthy, allergy season and all!

*Revised September 2024