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1. Natural Help to Survive Seasonal Allergies
2. Auditory Neuropathy
3. What is Keto? What is Healthy Keto?
4. The 7 Causes of a Headache

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Natural Help to Survive Seasonal Allergies

Allergies are versatile. They can show up just about anywhere in your body and create an incredible variety of symptoms. They can affect your nose, eyes, throat, lungs, stomach, skin and nervous system. They can give you a stomachache, a rash and even bring on fatigue and headache.

Allergy symptoms occur when your body’s immune system overreacts to a substance in your environment. But it is not the substance that causes the allergic reactions; it is the body’s reaction to that substance that prompts the reactions. The immune system overreacts and releases a chemical that the body uses to fight microbial invaders. But in allergies, the invaders are not viruses or bacteria. They are harmless substances: pollens, dust, mold spores and other substances including food.

When the immune system uses its weapons to fight off infection, the results are usually good. But if the immune system gets confused and mistakes pollen for bacteria, it can unleash those same weapons unnecessarily, wreaking havoc in the body.

People with allergies have immune systems that can react to just about anything that comes along. A tiny particle of the right substance puts your panicky immune system on the defensive. Your body strikes back by releasing a rush of a chemical that causes the familiar swelling and running in your nose, eyes and sinuses.

These overly sensitive immune cells (called mast cells) release a substance called histamine. Histamine causes small blood vessels to widen allowing fluid to pass from the bloodstream into the surrounding tissues, causing nasal conditions, runny eyes and nose and sometimes hives.

Histamine can make the smooth muscles in the walls of the lungs, blood vessels, stomach, intestines and bladder contract. This contraction can bring on a wide range of symptoms. Histamine in the lungs causes wheezing. Histamine also indirectly stimulates the production of thick, sticky mucus.

Hay fever is triggered by pollens. There are allergies to cat hairs, bee stings or certain foods or drugs.

They are all the result of the same thing; the immune system overreacts to the substance in your environment

What to do for allergies

In spring nearly 8% of Americans experience seasonal allergies.

Most conventional treatments are aimed at cooling off this inflammation. Standard treatment for allergies involves taking certain medications. While these drugs can be effective, they all have side effects, such as drowsiness, raised blood pressure, interference with sleep, and some may even suppress your immune system predisposing you to infections.

Natural help for allergies

Fortunately, there is natural help for allergies including eating certain foods, vitamins, herbs and immune-balancing foods. You can also reduce the number of allergens in your environment.

Reduce the allergen triggers in your environment
The Mayo Clinic offers the following suggestions for reducing exposure to allergy triggers:

a. Stay indoors on dry, windy days. The best time to go outside is after a good rain, which helps clear pollen from the air.

b. Delegate lawn mowing, weed pulling and other gardening chores that stir up allergens.

c. Remove clothes you’ve worn outside, and shower to rinse pollen from your skin and hair.

d. Don’t hang laundry outside — pollen can stick to sheets and towels.

e. Wear a pollen mask if you do outside chores, or work outside.

f. Check your local TV or radio station, your local newspaper, or the Internet for pollen forecasts and current pollen levels.

g. Close doors and windows at night or any other time when pollen counts are high.

h. Avoid outdoor activity in the early morning when pollen counts are highest.

i. Keep indoor air clean using a portable high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter in your bedroom.

j. Clean floors often with a vacuum cleaner that has a HEPA filter.

k. Keep indoor air dry with a dehumidifier.

l. Use the air conditioning in your house and car.

2) Eat more colorful fruits and vegetables

Keep your immune system healthy by eating lots of colorful fruits and vegetables. Blueberries, strawberries, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and bell peppers are good choices. These foods are rich in flavonoids, which act like antihistamines. They also contain carotenes, which have anti-inflammatory activity. Eating garlic and onions can help retard the inflammatory reactions of allergies.

3) Take a supplement to support your immune system

Thankfully, there is much scientific evidence which points to beta-glucan providing natural relief for allergy symptoms.

Beta-glucan is a form of soluble fiber derived from the cell walls of baker’s yeast that can support and modulate the immune system.

Studies published on PubMed.gov have shown that beta-glucan supplementation for 4 weeks significantly improved allergy symptoms.

Beta-glucan may reduce runny nose, sneezing, congestion and itchy, watery eyes caused by pollen allergies. It also offered improved overall physical health and emotional wellbeing as compared to a placebo.

The health benefits of beta-glucans are well documented and show they support the immune system, the body’s first line of defense against illness, disease and allergies.

Immune Defense by Qgenics provides 1,953 mg of natural beta-glucan per serving. That’s up to 2 times more beta-glucan than most other brands giving better results and better value for your money.

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Auditory Neuropathy

This type of neuropathy is also referred to as Auditory Dys-synchorony(AD) or Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder (ANSD). It is sometimes referred to as neural or nerve deafness.

It is a problem with the auditory nerve. With this type of hearing loss, the inner ear receives sounds normally, but the information is not transmitted via the auditory nerve to the brain. The sound may be disorganized or the nerve may not process the sound.

Symptoms

The result is hearing loss to some degree from the mild to profound, it is not predictable. It can create difficulty understanding spoken words, especially in noise. Sounds tend to fade in and out. Hearing can fluctuate from day to day or even from hour to hours.

Causes or risk factors

Auditory neuropathy can be caused by trauma or disease. The most common causes are lack of oxygen (anoxia) at birth, certain drugs especially those used to treat obstetric complications, ototoxic drugs (drugs that have a toxic effect on the ear or its nerve supply).

Ototoxic drugs include antibiotics such as gentamicin, loop diuretics such as furosemide and platinum-based chemotherapy agents such as cisplatin. A number of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) have also been shown to be ototoxic.

Auditory neuropathy can also result from infectious diseases, immune disorders, neurological disorders such as Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome (which is believed to be genetic).

Medical management involves either the use of hearing aids or cochlear implants to improve hearing.

Ruling out nerve damage - the fact that those impulses are not reaching the brain may mean that the auditory nerve was in some way damaged. In this case, it may be addressed using nutrients to allow the body to build healthy nerves.

Here is an article on neuropathy - which is nerve damage - Neuropathy

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What is Keto? What is Healthy Keto?

I'm sure you've heard about the "Keto Diet" and seen foods on the shelves called "Keto"

The funny thing is that a lot of people have a lot of different definistion for what Keto is.

I first heard about Keto when it was called "Fat for Fuel" a book written by Dr Joel Fuhrman, MD. What does that mean?

I found this Healthy Keto Basics which simply tells you what it is and how to make it work for your health. I love the idea "Eat for Your Health, not Your Taste Buds"

Here is a link to the Healthy Keto Basics for Beginners

Or you an take a Quiz to decide on Your body type so you know how to eat for your health.

The 7 Causes of a Headache

I used to suffer from migraine headaches. I remember the tension and upset when I felt any headache coming on or any pre-symptoms that it was coming.

I managed to get rid of them.

One of the first things you need to work out is what triggers the migraine (or any headache) and what to do.

I found a very useful lecture (less then 6 minutes) that goes over this and can help you or a friend figure it out.

The 7 Causes of a Headace

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