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AH CHOO! Fun & fresh ways to tackle allergies · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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As God intended.
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Let's go.
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Well, hello, hello.
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This is Dr.
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Angie Farella.
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And we are here with Looking for Healing Radio.
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And I am so excited today because we are going to really do a deep dive into natural allergic remedies.
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And these things are some are things that are in our environment, things that are easily attainable.
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We want this to be general knowledge because we know that April showers bring Mayflowers.
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And what do Mayflowers bring?
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Allergies.
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And so we are going to do a deep dive into understanding allergies, but with natural foundations.
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So what let's start with just real easy things like what exactly is an allergy?
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What are they doing?
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Well, it's actually an immune response.
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It's an overreaction to something.
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And it usually is mediated by histamine.
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So histamine gets released, and when histamine gets released, it causes lots of different reactions within the body.
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And when those reactions start to develop symptoms, those symptoms are things like sneezing, congestion, itchy eyes, fatigue, brain fog, and also rashes, skin reactions, right?
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And so we we are going to be talking a little bit about both seasonal, which is environmental allergies and also food allergies today.
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And I just want to kind of bring up and let you know that there are lots of natural foundational strategies to combat both of these types of allergies.
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And I really think it's really important that when you are going through uh your day-to-day life, that there's a couple of things you really need to pay attention to.
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The first thing is not just what you're eating, but what also may be in food.
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But the other thing that you want to pay attention to is the fact that when you are in a situation where you are not aware of your environment.
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For instance, if you are traveling, right?
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You may be traveling from one state to another or one country to another.
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Well, the allergens are not going to be the same.
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Seasons may not be the same.
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And so it's really important for you to really do a deep dive on yourself and ask yourself okay, when do I react?
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How do I react?
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Is it worse than the a certain season?
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You know, there are summer allergies or winter allergies, fall allergies, and spring allergies.
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Some of these overlap, depending on where you live in the country.
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Some of these are very distinct.
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Um, some can be also combined with some seasonal allergies.
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So, for instance, in the summertime, there may be things that don't bother you as much, but in a different season, if you combine them with certain foods, that also may be something that triggers a histamine reaction.
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So I just want to bring that up so that you understand that there are a lot of components to understanding allergies, and I always equate it to a step, like stepping up.
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So you're walking up the stairs.
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So, you know, if you had a baseline, if you know what your baseline is, right?
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And then you add one thing to it, you're stepping up.
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So that's a higher incidence of potential.
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So what I mean by that, let's just say that you have an allergy to the season, okay?
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You you just can't do ragweed, okay?
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That's fall.
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Here in where I live in Texas, I think there's ragweed all year round, it's really bad in um August and September here.
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And so if you know that you're an allergic type person, and then here is ragweed season, and you step on that, well, and then you know that usually you can deal with quote unquote, but yet understand that you sometimes have a reaction to let's just say raw vegetables.
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Okay.
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Well, celery is one of those foods that actually cross-reacts, and so you know, if you ate some celery during ragwood season, that may trigger your allergies to be 10 times worse.
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If it is spring or fall, and you know that you're pretty sensitive to mold and damp and mildew, um, you know, you may have to really avoid or get some special equipment in your home to pull out the moisture in your home.
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And and I bring this up because I live in Texas, right?
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And so, particularly in the coastal region of Texas.
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I always tell my patients, look, nothing dies here as far as plants and weeds, it's very rare, and so you need to be real careful about how you explore your environment, so to speak, and to avoid the number one thing to do with allergies is try to avoid them.
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So if you know that you're allergic to dogs, don't work in animal shelter or grooming place or a boarding, you know, dog boarding um business, you know, let's just use common sense.
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I mean, that's an extreme example, but that is something that I always like to bring up to people is that sometimes we don't we're not aware of our issues and we kind of put ourselves right smack in the middle.
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Don't frequent places, especially restaurants or whatever that may have an open policy to animals being in their restaurant or outside on the on the patios, because some people are super sensitive, and if the wind's blowing, that dander is gonna fly around, and that could also really interfere with some people who have histaminic reactions to animals.
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So don't forget, as the wind is blowing around, that is also picking up pollen and dust and all kinds of things.
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So you're breathing all that in.
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So your first um defense is your nose and your mouth.
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So I I always want to remind people of this.
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So outside of the symptoms, what are some of the natural foundational strategies that we can implore for ourselves that may help desensitize pollen?
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Um, well, my number one go-to for environmental allergens is to buy local honey.
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Number one go to for environmental allergens is to buy local honey.
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So if you live in Houston, Texas, buy honey that is produced in areas in or around Houston, Texas.
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So if you live in Houston, Texas, buy honey that is produced in areas in or around Houston, Texas.
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If you live in Houston, Texas, do not buy honey from the store that is from Cincinnati, Ohio.
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If you live in Houston, Texas, do not buy honey from the store that is from Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Just doesn't make any sense.
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Just doesn't make any sense.
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They don't have the same environment.
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They don't have the same environmental allergens.
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They don't have the same, you know, uh not just environmental allergies, but they may not even have the same plant species in those local environments.
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So just again, local honey is amazing because it desensitizes you to some of the pollens or the from the plants that are in your local area, right?
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So I can tell you just from personal experience.
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We buy not only local honey, but we also buy local bee pollen.
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And bee pollen's another one that is amazing.
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Now be careful.
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If you're not used to doing bee pollen, you may have an allergic reaction to the bee pollen, obviously, especially initially.
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So do it very, very small amounts to start with, especially if you're using the kind that is not in capsules.
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Um, so that you can understand like where your tolerance is.
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So every um day, my husband actually has horrible environmental allergies.
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So every day he eats a little local honey, and he also takes bee pollen.
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And I can tell you just from his experience, the bee pollen takes about an hour for him to kick in.
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And then it lasts about a good four hours or so, maybe five.
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And that's when he knows he has to redose himself.
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It's really bad if he's cutting the grass, obviously, pulling weeds, you know, doing yard work, that kind of stuff.
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That's when it's really going to hit him.
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So he has learned to do his bee pollen ahead of time.
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Um, so that he doesn't have as much of a reaction.
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So it may not knock it off completely, but it's going to desensitize um significantly.
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Now, the other thing is make sure you're hydrated.
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Um, hydration thins the mucus, it supports detoxification pathways to get some of that histamine level down.
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Um, vitamin C is huge for reducing histamine levels.
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So if you um feel something coming on, grab some vitamin C and take some of that.
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It comes in liquid forms, it comes in pill forms, it comes in something you could um like emergency is actually a powder you could put in water and you could drink it.
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Um, so all these things are really great remedies to uh allergic reactions or what I like to say sensitivities.
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Um has been really big on the radar screen over the last six years or so.
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And what are some quercetin rich foods?
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Well, onions, capers, and even apples.
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You know, the apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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Here you go.
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What does an apple have?
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Well, Apple has course attended it, but it also has vitamin C.
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And so it's a natural antihistamine.
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So that may be where that little uh that little saying comes from an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
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I hope so.
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I hope that's where it's coming from.
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Also, I alluded to this earlier is HEPA filters, you know, um, watch during certain times of the year.
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Don't open your windows.
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You may have to watch that as well.
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Um, you may also have to do some other kinds of things like wash out your nose.
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You know, if you're outside for a good portion of the day and you really need to get some work done, as I like to say, um, then be real cautious about um, you know, be real cautious about going out and about, and when you come back in, you may need to wash your nose out, blow your nose, things of that nature.
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There's information there on how to join this celebration.
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I will be speaking at this celebration as well.
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I'm so excited to be a part of it.
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And we are back.
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Thank you so much for joining me today.
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We're talking about allergies and how we can actually naturally tackle these issues.
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And in our first segment, I talked a little bit about what allergies are, that they're an immune overreaction, and it's a histamine release cascade.
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I didn't go into the technicalities of it, but basically I talked a little bit about symptomology and some of the natural foundational strategies that you can implement to hopefully um understand that your body isn't broken, it's reacting.
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And so I really try to take the perspective of supporting it instead of suppressing it.
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So in this segment, I really want to give you the tools that are necessary for using natural remedies.
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I alluded to some of that in the previous segment.
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I told you a little bit about local honey and why that's important to get local honey, not honey from outside.
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And I do know that a lot of people like different types of honey, and I think that's amazing.
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I think honey is a great resource.
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The issue though, really, is if you're doing it for allergens, uh, then you need to use the local honey because those are those bees are actually pollinating the local plants and those little micro dosing of those allergens and that honey is what's going to help you move forward and actually get used to those allergens and so that you don't react as much.
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So let's break it down a little bit.
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We're going to talk a little bit about seasonal allergies, continue this vein, if you would.
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And I also talked a little bit about if you know that you are reacting, like let's just say you went into an environment and you did not realize that they were going to be mowing the lawn, like you were going to a concert and they're mowing the lawn, and um, you know, it's kicking up all that grass at a nearby establishment.
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Little bit about if you know that you are reacting, like let's just say you went into an environment and you did not realize that they were going to be mowing the lawn, like you were going to a concert and they're mowing the lawn, and um, you know, it's kicking up all that grass at a nearby establishment.
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Well, you may not be able to fix it in that moment.
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Well, you may not be able to fix it in that moment.
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Of course, try to cover your face or your nose and mouth as much as possible in order to not breathe.
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Of course, try to cover your face or your nose and mouth as much as possible in order to not breathe in those allergens, although it's going to be pretty difficult to do that.
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But as soon as you get home, really impress on yourself to wash the allergens out of your nose using saline rinses, using a neti pot, doing some mouthwash.
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You know, I tell people this all the time.
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You need to wash the allergens out of your mouth and nose, because when you're breathing or talking, you're going to be breathing in some of that pollen, some of that dander or you know, particulates that are in the air.
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And um, that may really set you off.
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So don't forget to do mouthwash as well as nasal rinses, because that's super super important.
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I always tell people to really try to um get something in their cabinet that is readily available for you to utilize as soon as you feel the symptoms of the sneezing or the itchiness or the you know, exhaustion or a congestion, because that the congestion alone makes you exhausted.
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Breathing through your mouth when your nose is congested is pretty rough.
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Um, but then of course you can't think, right?
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Because you're so congested, you're barely getting oxygen in, so it's a little rough.
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But here are some things that you can keep in your cabinet that may help you almost immediately.
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One is called butter burr extract.
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And what this is, this is a non-drowsy natural substance that is comparable to the properties of antihistamines.
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So it does the job of the decreasing the itching, decreasing some of the irritation or swelling, especially of the eyes.
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Um, and it can really help you in a situation where you have acutely gotten into something or breathed in something that was really really noxious to your system.
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Another thing that can help reduce inflammation is stinging nettle, and stinging nettle has a ton of properties, but one of the most important ones is that it reduces inflammation.
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Another thing that you can use to help open up the airway is things like eucalyptus.
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Um, remember mentholdis back in the day.
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Um, I don't know if your mother was like my mother, but you know, if you got the the least bit of a sniffler congestion, out came the methaliptus, and she would rub it on the upper lip to open up your airways, peppermint can do that, other mints can do that too.
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Um, you can also use that in an essential oil form, and you diffuse it.
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Don't ingest it, just diffuse it.
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A lot of times um, my husband for to clear out his nose, super easy to do, is super hot sauce.
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You know, those capsins that are in those hot peppers really do help with the your nose will run, you'll be able to breathe.
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It actually opens up the airways, horseradish does that.
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Horseradish will open up those airways really quick.
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Um, so these are things that you can actually find pretty quickly within your own home.
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Um, butterburr extract, I would have to say, I probably don't have that just at my hands reach, but that is something that you can go to a health food store and probably purchase relatively quickly, relatively easily.
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Um, and so those are some cool things that you can actually try.
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There are some natural remedies at some of these stores, like there's one in particular that is one of my favorites, it's called breathe right.
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And it really helps with congestion.
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It's a combination of natural herbs and um ingredients that will help with the inflammation part, it helps with the histamine part.
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So you might want to take a peek at that.
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Um, and the other thing that we really need to understand it with sensitivities, again, we talked about this before, but you have to understand what your seasonal allergies are, what season it is, what those things um will do to you, and what things also cross uh react.
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And so we're gonna talk about cross-reaction in a deep dive in the third segment, but I just wanted to kind of bring that up to you.
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But the biggest thing is, you know, this is this is basic, but eliminate the foods or the sensitivities in your diet, just don't eat them.
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It makes sense, right?
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So if you know that you have um an issue with certain foods, can we please just not eat those certain foods?
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The way we find out about food allergies or sensitivities in my office, because parents will come in often and say, Well, I'm wondering, you know, we had this, this, and this, a little rash broke out.
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We're just kind of wondering is this an allergic reaction to fill in the blank?
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Okay.
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And my number one step is to do a food diary and to write down next to those next to that diary what the reaction may have been.
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So for instance, you know, you ate this for breakfast, this for lunch, this for dinner, and notice that sometime around three o'clock, congestion started.
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And so put the time in 3 p.m.
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congestion.
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Maybe the next morning you got the baby out of bed or the child out of bed, and you notice, huh?
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You have a little pink rash on your chest and back.
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Note that the next morning, chest and back, you know, rash.
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Um, this is hugely important, at least to me as a functional integrative physician.
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I really like to know what the diet is, and then I can look back and see the potential sensitivity um reaction and also what foods, either individually or in combination, may have caused the reaction.
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And so it's really important and really basic.
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This is something that is not well documented or well done in many practices.
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This is something that is not well documented or well done in many practices.
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You know, a lot of my parents will go to the allergist, and the allergist does panels.
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You know, a lot of my parents will go to the allergist and the allergist does panels.
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Well, I always tell my parents like, look, if you're gonna go to the allergist to get allergy testing, isn't it wise to know that they're testing things that your child is actually exposed to versus just kind of what I call the shotgun approach, which is
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Well, I always tell my parents like, look, if you're going to go to the allergist to get allergy testing, isn't it wise to know that they're testing things that your child is actually exposed to versus just kind of what I call the shotgun approach, which is just let's just try, let's just test everything.
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That doesn't make any sense to me.
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Um because for instance, you know, they they will test things like cod COD, it's a fish, cod.
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And to me, especially where we live down here in the in Texas, we don't eat a lot of cod.
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There's not a lot of cod here.
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And I can tell you that most families probably don't eat a lot of cod either.
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So why do a test for something?
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Because it may be a cross-reactant.
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And if it's a cross-reactant, now you have to figure out what is that cross-reactant um showing, like where is this coming from, right?
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So I don't find that to be helpful, just running to the allergist and getting a panel done.
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I would do it lastly.
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So basically, it's not that I don't send people to the allergist to do allergy testing, but what I do first is first I do a food diary to see what foods might be triggering the sensitivities or the reactions, and then I tell the parents make sure that they test for this, this, and this.
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This is a very targeted approach.
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It really eliminates discomfort for the child as well, and for you, you know, even adults can do this.
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This is not something that's isolated to children, but this is something that can because I don't know if anyone's ever had allergy testing where you react to stuff.
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It itches and burns and is really annoying for a really long time, hours and hours, and it's uncomfortable at best, but at worst, it can really really cause some issues for you know a good 24 hours or so.
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So I would tell people, you know what, do the food diary first, especially if you think it's a food allergy, do the food diary first, eliminate certain things that may be causing the problem.
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Because if you eliminate those those dietary items and your symptoms go away, ding ding ding.
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Guess what?
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Winter winter chicken dinner, you just figured out what makes you react.
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So then you could take those foods and put them on the side and also determine hey, did I take these in combination, or did I take these individually?
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Because you may find as you're looking through your diary that if you just eat one of those foods on that particular day, you do fine, you don't have a reaction.
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But if you combine two or three or even more of those foods together, you may have a really uncomfortable experience.
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And so this is kind of teaching people to where their line in the sand is.
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Where can you figure out how you feel um based on watching your diet?
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What else can you do?
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Well, you can heal your gut.
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We talk about this all the time.
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It's one of my favorite topics.
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I do this all the time.
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Almost every patient in my practice is on a probiotic.
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Um, I am very particular about my probiotics.
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Some people think I'm crazy about this, but I don't like liquid probiotics because I do know that probiotics die in liquid, number one.
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You know, people say, Oh, well, I eat a lot of yogurt, and I'm like, well, you have to eat your body weight and yogurt per day in order to get the probiotic lift that you're looking for.
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Um, I also look for probiotics that are humanized.
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The other day I got a sample, and I'm really concerned that one of the ingredients is not a human humanized probiotic, meaning it's not something the human gut can use.
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Um, so that's another thing that kind of bothers me a little bit.
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And I think GI there are some really prominent GI doctors in this country that will tell me that are very big on gut biome and all that that probably agree with that statement right there.
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What else can heal your gut?
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Bone broth.
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Bone broth, of course, has high protein, protein is your has amino acids, amino acids are your building block to your immune system.
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So again, I love anything that can help you naturally take care of yourself and react less.
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So let's all start.
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We all know that our gut is this the starting point of our immune system, and so let's take good care of our gut, and then the rest will fall into place, right?
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Glutamine, L glutamine.
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L glutamine feeds certain gut bacteria that is very beneficial in regulating the biome.
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And so it's something that you can take a look at.
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Um, there are very rare issues where glutamine may not be a good idea, but um, that is for the overall general purpose of what we're talking about today.
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I think glutamine might be a good option for some people.
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Um, and also following an anti going back to diet, right?
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Here we go.
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Anti-inflammatory diets.
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So anti-inflammatory diets, uh, that's a big key phrase nowadays.
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People talk about it all the time.
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It's great for joint pain or joint stiffness, it's also great for brain fog.
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Um, it's great for bloating of the gut or digestive issues with the gut because if you're swollen everywhere, this is just the easiest way to tell you.
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If your whole body is swollen, then it's not gonna absorb properly.
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So your nutrient absorption rate will drop precipitously, which then in turn makes your gut a hostile place.
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And when that happens, you really do need to work on healing your gut because that will lead to other cascading effects that will affect your health adversely.
34:28
Another one of my favorite favorite things to use for an anti-inflammatory diet is omegas, omega-3s in particular.
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Um, you really don't understand, and I think there's not a lot of talk about omegas in the world right now, but omega-3 is one of the most potent anti-inflammatories that you can actually use that you can swallow.
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And I am a huge fan of very high dose fish oil because it really reduces brain fog.
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Fish oil because it really reduces brain fog.
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It is absolutely phenomenal in high doses.
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It is absolutely phenomenal in high doses, and I'm talking in the four to 16 grams per day dosing pattern.
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There are studies out there right now that just proved that supplementing omegas improve IQ scores in children.
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There are tremendous benefits for the gut because if you think about it, it goes in, and I always call I always say good fat in leads to bad fat out.
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So it helps with exchange systems for the bad fat to leave your system.
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And then there's two others that you know can be used together also for inflammation.
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One is turmeric, which is again another one of those um roots, you know, I buy it actually naturally, like in the root, and then I shave it down and I make tea out of turmeric and ginger.
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Ginger is the other one.
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Everyone knows and loves ginger.
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So here's here's where at the end of the day, we're talking about reducing inflammation.
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So here's here's the talking point here.
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Thank you so much for joining us today.
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I am talking about allergies because it is the season to be sneezing.
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And here is something that is really cool and um cool to me because I'm a medical physician, unfortunately.
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It may not be cool to my patient population.
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However, this is always fascinating me.
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And it's the cross-reaction of allergies.
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And this this goes back to what I said in the very beginning at the stepping stone.
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So if you know that you have certain allergies, especially environmental allergies, it's really important to understand what foods may cross-react with that seasonal allergy.
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And so there's a there's a kiddo in our um realm.
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I have teenagers and uh young adults, and this young lady spent a lot of time with us, and um, she actually did not like watermelon.
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Now, who doesn't like watermelon?
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But she said that she was allergic to watermelon, and I just was like, wow, that's really fascinating.
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And she, you know, she wouldn't eat it in the summer.
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She was like, nope, I'm not eating watermelon.
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Sorry.
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Now I mentioned to you that we live in Texas where nothing dies, and we have a very, very early ragweed season.
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Well, guess what?
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Ragweed crosses with melons.
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Um, and which I find fascinating.
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Here it is again.
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We also have people that have issues with bananas, and so bananas also cross with ragweed.
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So there may be some people that are having reactions to certain foods that are pretty popular, you know.
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Think about seasonal foods and fruits.
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Um, in our area, you know, ragweed starts to really go crazy somewhere in August and really lasts through probably mid-October.
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So I always tell people it's from the back to school season to Halloween.
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That's kind of our ragweed season there.
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And um, you know, I I really do bring it up because we do have every once in a while a parent will say, you know what?
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My kid had a reaction to bananas, or you know, there's certain foods when I introduce foods in infants, which by the way, is a segment on an earlier podcast.
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I introduce things one at a time in a very specific manner.
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And um, zucchini is one of those things, green zucchini.
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So zucchini, interestingly enough, is a fall vegetable.
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Ragween season is in the fall, and there may be people that don't like zucchini, not realizing that it's probably because the ragweed is going crazy.
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So interesting.
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You know, this is another thing that I like to talk about is how environmental allergens and can actually cross-react or cross-contaminate the human being and cause allergic symptoms.
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So this is often called oral allergy syndrome.
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Syndrome.
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OAS for short.
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OAS for short.
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You'll hear people, especially the allergists talk about oral allergy syndrome or pollen food allergy syndrome, which is PFAS.
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You'll hear people, especially the allergists talk about oral allergy syndrome or pollen food allergy syndrome, which is PFAS.
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That's really popular.
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That's really popular.
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Those are two terms that are used often in the um immune community, immunology and allergy community.
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Those are two terms that are used often in the um immune community, immunology and allergy community.
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And so what happens is is that the immune system actually gets confused.
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And so what happens is that the immune system actually gets confused.
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Um, they confuse the proteins that are.
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They confuse the proteins that are happening to be in foods with the pollen proteins.
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And this is something that can cause serious reaction in individuals.
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And again, it's the step thing.
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You know, it's one thing if you're allergic to ragweed, but then you take another step up.
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It's the season for melons, and you eat melon, and all of a sudden there's a problem.
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And then you go out to dinner, and there's a side of a vegetable medley, which almost always has zucchini in it.
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Boom, you're miserable the rest of the day.
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And so it's really, really important to understand what these foods are and how they cross-react with other foods.
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Um, birch.
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Now, I live now in an area where we don't have birch trees, but in the um north northwest, northeast, birch is everywhere.
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Um, so you really, and here's here's the irony.
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The foods that cross-react with some of these environmental trees or weeds or whatever, are usually in those same areas.
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So, for instance, birch trees grow where it's a little cooler.
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Well, guess what?
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So do apples.
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Apples also grow in cooler climates.
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It's really hard to have an apple tree in Texas, but in Washington State, where it's cooler, guess what?
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There's lots of apples.
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There's lots of apple orchards in New Jersey, for instance.
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So the birch, and there's birch trees in New Jersey.
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Yeah, I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm very familiar with this.
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I didn't know back then that apples and birch actually will cross-contaminate.
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So that's pretty interesting.
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Almonds also cross-contaminate with birch, and so does celery.
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Now, celery, as much as I love celery, because I can tell you that celery is another food that actually improves brain fog.
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So it's kind of like the double-edged sword.
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Celery cross-reacts with certain tree pollen, which would can cause issue if the tree is pollinating during that time.
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The other thing that cross-reacts with birch is carrots.
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So there have been times in my practice where people tell me that they have reactions to apples, you know, they're allergic to apples, and where they don't like celery because it makes like their mouth itch.
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And again, this is the oral allergy syndrome.
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There are raw vegetables, again, that cause some people to be very uncomfortable.
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So they just avoid them completely.
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And this is um really common too, even on my husband's side of the family.
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Same thing.
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There are some people that have very bad allergies to certain raw vegetables, so they avoid them at all cost.
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Grass pollen.
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Grass pollen, I mean, again, we live in Texas, it's warm most of the year.
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We are mowing our lawns all year long, sometimes more in certain seasons than others because of the rainy season, or when it's super hot here, we don't have to mow as much because it's just hot and things don't grow as well.
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But interestingly, it cross-reacts with tomatoes, oranges, and wheat.
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Now, I tell people this all the time.
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People that have gluten sensitivity really need to hire out their landscaping um professionals because if you have a wheat sensitivity and you go out and mow the grass, well, the grass is always pollinating.
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So the grass is going to get on your skin, you're gonna breathe it in, you're gonna itch, you're gonna cough, you're gonna wheeze, you're gonna feel miserable.
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Isn't it worth a few bucks not to have that reaction?
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So, you know, grasses and wheats don't get along.
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So just be real careful, especially if you know that you have a sensitivity to the wheat, that when you're you know, be aware of your environment.
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I do this all the time because you know, in businesses, many businesses have landscape people that come out and it's very set.
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They come out on certain days, usually when the business is not open or in before hours or after hours, so it doesn't interfere with the business per se.
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I mean, there's some that do it right smack in the middle of the day, and that's fine too.
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But um, be real alert.
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I know having a medical business, I am kind of a stickler about that, and I have our landscape people not come at all during office hours because I don't want to cause an allergic reaction in my parking lot, basically.
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Um, latex allergy.
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Now, this is something that's interesting too, because latex is um in a lot of surgical gloves.
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We use a lot of latex on band-aids, so you know that kid that hates band-aids, it may be because it makes their skin burn or itch or swell.
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Um, so latex allergy can also be acquired.
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So a lot of times you don't know that you have a latex allergy until you know, months and months after you have a reaction.
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So I've had two kids in my circle of influence that have had latex allergy issues.
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One was a young lady who had braces at the time.
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Um, she was going in to uh get her, you know, wires changed out all the time.
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And of course, you know, the dentistry hygienists and everyone that works in a dentist's office, they're going to put gloves on before they go in a person's mouth, which makes sense, by the way.
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Please do that.
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Um, however, sometimes they're not privy to the fact that because these kids with braces go in all the time, and they're always in their mouth.
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Like I think it's every four to six weeks, is what my daughter had to get her braces, her brace um wire changed out every six weeks or something, four to six weeks.
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So she actually developed a lake allergy and she got pretty sick from it.
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Her symptoms were not typical allergy symptoms.
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She'd get a blazing headache.
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She um really just did not feel well.
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She um really just did not feel well.
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She was nauseous.
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She was nauseous.
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Um, she would it it would force her to go lay down and go to sleep for a couple hours.
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Um, she would it it would force her to go lay down and go to sleep for a couple hours.
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Um, and then next day she was fine.
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Um, and then next day she was fine.
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You know, we she also had vomiting um from one of these visits.
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You know, we she also had vomiting um from one of these visits.
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And it didn't occur to me initially because I wasn't with her at the dentist's office when she went the first two times.
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And it didn't occur to me initially because I wasn't with her at the dentist's office when she went the first two times, she was with my husband, but I made it a point to go there the next time, the third time when this happened two times in a row, and I was like, Oh, I think she's developing an allergy to lace latex, make sure you tell them.
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She was with my husband, but I made it a point to go there the next time.
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And of course, I I just was a little paranoid.
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So I said, I'm gonna go in with her so that we can mark her chart and tell them, please do not use any kind of latex gloves on her.
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And sure enough, she never had a problem again.
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So if you have a kid that's getting their braces changed out, their brace wires changed out a lot.
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You may want to consider changing the latex gloves, just let them know hey, can you just change your gloves out and to the um non-latex gloves when you work on my kid's mouth and see if the allergies go away?
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Some of the kids get really, really swollen lips, their tongue can swell, their gums get all swollen and irritated.
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Um, and you know, a lot of times no one really can back up and figure out what it's what's happening.
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We had a kiddo that um I was alluding to also, this is many years ago.
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She came in, her lips were all swollen, she did have braces, okay.
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Lips were swollen, and obviously she was, but that was it, it was isolated to her lips, and um, she was miserable.
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So she came in and we were talking, and I said, Um, did you eat anything different?
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Did you do anything different?
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And I'm going through my whole litany of what my questioning goes for allergies.
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And I said, Did you know what were you doing that was outside of what you normally do?
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Just think about it in the last couple of days since the reaction started.
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Are you ready for this?
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She was actually blowing up balloons for a party.
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So she developed a latex reaction, probably because you know, she was she had braces, she was getting wires, so the latex gloves in her mouth were recurring over and over again.
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But then on top of that, she was blowing up balloons for a long period of time.
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The latex was touching her lips and therefore causing a swelling reaction.
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So that was that I I have to say that was a pretty proud moment on my side that I figured it out.
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What other things do people react to um or have to be careful with if they have a latex sensitivity?
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These three fruits in our area are extremely popular, and this is called the latex fruit syndrome.
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And one is avocado, the next one is banana, and the third one is kiwi.
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We in Texas eat a ton of avocado.
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Kiwi is readily available.
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I know in I see kiwi all the time down here, and of course, banana is just a very popular fruit overall.
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So if you know that you are having a latex allergy or sensitivity, um, please, please, please avoid those three foods, at least for a while until your sensitivity goes down and don't eat them in combination, but take just very small bits and see if you have a cross reaction to to that as well.
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So be real careful.
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Um what are some of the symptoms?
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I I alluded to like the itchy mouth, the itchy throat.
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Sometimes you get tingling lips, sometimes you get swelling of the lips.
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Um, sometimes it's it's severe, and sometimes it's not.
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So it's important to note that there was mild swelling, even though it's not severe, and and to file it into your cabinet in the back of your head.
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So, how do you how do you fix this problem?
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Okay.
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And one of the things that um I alluded to was raw vegetables versus not raw vegetables.
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So, one of the natural things you could do is cook foods.
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So cook the raw vegetables, and it the heat will actually denature the proteins and make you less reactive.
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So that's one way to kind of break that down.
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Also, peel the fruits.
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So sometimes the proteins are often in the skin.
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So I know that with kiwi, for instance, it looks really cool if you slice it into small slices, and a lot of places keep the skin on the kiwi fruit to keep it together intact.
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Take it off, and maybe that will help.
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This is also true for mango, because I know I had a reaction to mango, and a lot of the proteins were in the skin of the mango.
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So, me being who I am, I did a little experiment.
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I had someone peel the mango, wash it off, hand me the mango.
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Unfortunately, I did not um farewell the second time either.
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But it's also because of where the mango came from versus so that makes a difference too.
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Where are these fruits grown?
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So that's really important as well.
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Um, but note that this the fruits, um, the proteins are generally in the skin of the fruit.
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So sometimes if you peel it, you can actually still eat those foods.
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Also, support your immune system.
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You know, just watch your gut, take your probiotics, take your fish oil every day, and your gut's gonna be very happy.
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And when it's happy, it's not gonna react.
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And also, you know, rotate those foods.
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You don't, again, remember I told you like maybe you should only eat one of those foods per day, and you may find that a combination of foods is much, much um worse than if you would just take one food at a time.
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That's where the food uh diary comes in.
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It's very important to understand that and to avoid overload of these foods that you may cross um react to, and also note what time of year it is, because if it's not ragweed season, you're probably not gonna have problems with watermelon.
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You know, we don't have ragweed in January, so this kid probably can eat watermelon in January.
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She just doesn't want to eat it during season because it really annoys her.
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And so keep that in mind.
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I just want to let you know that this has been a really fun episode for me.
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I hope you guys really enjoyed this.
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Um, your body is making a case for it for the mistaken identity when you're looking at cross reaction.
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Cross reaction.
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And so I just wanted to shine a light on this, give some insight, and hopefully you found a lot of this stuff helpful.
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And so I just wanted to shine a light on this, give some insight, and hopefully, you found a lot of this stuff helpful.
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Um, you know, I am so excited to be with you every week here on America Out Loud, and I really enjoy getting some feedback.
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Um, you know, I am so excited to be with you every week here on America Out Loud, and I really enjoy getting some feedback.
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So you have a blessed week, and I will talk to you next week.
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Thanks so much from Dr.
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Angie Farella at Looking for Healing Radio.