NEW - Is It Actually Allergies? Moshe Ben-Shoshan on What Canadians Get Wrong

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · May 1, 2026 · 8m

Seasonal allergies affect up to 20% of the population. Moshe Ben-Shoshan says a lot of people who think they have them do not, and the difference between an allergy and an intolerance changes everything about how you treat it.

True allergies are immune system reactions to proteins, typically pollens that shift through the seasons: birch and elder in spring, grass through summer, ragweed into fall. Moshe Ben-Shoshan notes that mugwort, imported from Europe and similar to ragweed, has recently added to the load. For actual allergy sufferers, second-generation antihistamines are the accessible…