Feel Better This Allergy Season With Holistic Tips

A wet, snowy winter brings Spring flowers and blooming trees, and with that comes pollen-filled air triggering seasonal allergies.

Histamine production and inflammation play a pivotal role in your body's allergy response. Discover natural, holistic remedies designed to combat both, ensuring relief from seasonal allergy symptoms.

TRY A SALINE OR NETI POT

A neti pot may be a little intimidating at first, but once you’re comfortable using one, it’s a tried and true method for irrigating your sinuses and nasal cavities. The neti pot will be able to rinse, dilute and clear pollen and therefore decreases allergy symptoms.

BREATHE IN ESSENTIAL OILS

Peppermint oil, lavender oil, and lemon oil: The combination of these three essential oils helps maintain normal histamine levels and a normal inflammatory response allergens often effect.

Simply mix the three oils and diffuse at work, home, or in your car. You can even place a few drops under your nose or on your temples to minimize the allergy response.

EAT PLENTY OF PROBIOTICS

Almost 75% of your immune system is in your gut. If your digestive health isn’t optimal, you’ll have a high histamine load tied to your digestive health. Eating more probiotics via food or supplements helps balance your digestive health and will lower your histamine response, making you less vulnerable to allergies and allergy symptoms.

USE ALLIUM CEPA

It’s a homeopathic remedy (derived from onions) effective for acute, symptomatic relief of hay fever or allergies. While onions can typically causes a runny nose and watery eyes, when taken in micro doses, allium acts as an antihistamine.

TAKE LIVER NUTRIENTS FOR DETOX SUPPORT

Did you know the liver plays a critical role in mitigating the impact an allergen has on the body? Our liver is a powerful filter, purifying about two quarts of blood per minute and detoxifying substances like viruses, bacteria, and environmental toxins before circulating clean blood throughout the body.

If the liver is unable to adequately process the substances entering the bloodstream, it can trigger an overstimulation of the immune system. This causes a release of excessive inflammatory chemicals and histamines, which manifest as allergic symptoms.

I love DIM-X for supporting healthy liver detoxification.

APPLE CIDER VINEGAR FOR LONG-TERM

This age old remedy is also good for allergies when used on a consistent basis. Mix 1 tablespoon ACV with 1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice and ½ tablespoon raw bees honey and drink 3 times/day. Buy unpasteurized, unfiltered, unrefined ACV, and check for brownish color, tiny cobweb “mother” floating in it as confirmation of the important living enzymes in ACV.

It may take several weeks to see positive results, but be patient as this mixture begins to balance your GI tract and boost your body’s natural defenses for fighting off allergies.

EXPERIMENT WITH LOCAL, RAW HONEY

Locally-produced honey contains local pollens, sensitizing you to these pollens so you have fewer allergy symptoms. The thought is similar to the concept of homeopathy, where a little exposure stimulates the immune system to produce a protective response.

TRY BEE POLLEN

Not to be confused with natural honey, bee pollen comes from pollen that collects on the body of a bee. Histamines are chemicals your immune system makes to fight seasonal allergies, and bee pollen supports normal histamine levels. No bees are harmed in the process of collecting bee pollen from the hives.

EAT COLORFUL, FRESH FOOD

Eating nutrient-dense foods gives your immune system the ability to repair itself, bringing it back into balance so it can fight off common allergies in your environment. Here's a look at several science-backed approaches to support healthy, normal inflammation naturally.

HEALTHY GOODS ENVIRO-ADAPT

Enviro-Adapt is a product stacked with immune supporting ingredients that help modulate allergic response in several ways. This is my favorite product for occasional and seasonal allergy.

First, keeping inflammation as bay is a must for supporting your body during allergy season. Quercetin, bromelain, vitamin C, grape seed extract, EGCG in green tea extract, and turmeric are powerful antioxidants that support normal inflammatory levels.

Second, quercetin, bromelain, grape seed extract, EGCG, and vitamin C are very effective for natural histamine support by stabilizing mast cells.

Third, Enviro-Adapt contains nutrients to optimize detoxification. This is an important aspect for better allergy support and management because detoxification helps reduce the body's overall toxic burden, support immune function, and promote a balanced inflammatory response.

When allergies cause your immune system to go out of whack, this supplement is designed to balance the immune system response.