Allergies, Causes and Cures
What are allergies?
Allergies occur when your immune system responds inappropriately to a stimulus such as pollen or pet dander. Your body defends itself by releasing histamines, causing familiar symptoms such as a runny nose, headache, skin rash, hives, asthma, or throat swelling.
How do we test for allergies?
Standard medical treatment involves injecting a tiny bit of the allergen into your skin to see if it causes a reaction. A blood test is easier and more accurate, but more expensive.
Applied Kinesiology is less invasive and very effective. We expose you to a tiny amount of the allergen and test whether it causes a strong muscle to weaken, showing sensitivity to the substance.
How can we control or fix allergies?
The traditional medical model uses anti-histamines (e.g. Claritin, Zyrtec). However there are natural substances that work as well or better, without the side effects.
Why are you allergic to a particular substance?
In the long run, this is more important than finding the exact allergen. If pollen causes allergies, then why doesn’t everyone exposed to pollen have an allergic reaction?
There are multiple reasons with several underlying commonalities.
- Undiagnosed food allergies. Eating foods you are sensitive to, raises the level of systemic inflammation in your body and keeps it artificially high. When an allergen comes along, it pushes the level over the edge, but the real culprit is the food.
- Weak adrenal glands. The medical profession treats allergies with drugs that contain adrenaline. But if your adrenal glands are working properly, your body makes all the adrenaline it needs and you do not need the drugs.
- Low stomach acid - a secondary factor. 80% of protein digestion occurs in the stomach. If your stomach does not produce enough hydrochloric acid to break down the protein, it sets off a reaction that raises inflammation. Supplements offer temporary relief. However when your body produces enough hydrochloric acid on its own, you avoid triggering this reaction.
Dysfunction always comes before disease. Applied Kinesiology is a safe, effective method of identifying all these dysfunctions, so that we can treat the root causes of your allergies.
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