If you suffer with hay fever you have probably been told that you are ‘allergic’ to some form of pollen, that it is not curable and that you can ‘manage’ the condition by not going outside when the pollen count is high and by taking ‘remedies’ that may, or may not, ease your symptoms.
Therefore, because of your condition, many of you have to stay inside when the beautiful spring sunshine and warmth arrive and this is a tragedy, because we obtain real health benefits from sunshine that are unobtainable from any other source.
The good news is that you do not have to be in this situation, because it is just another example of the mainstream medical establishment’s lack of understanding of human health.
The ‘hay fever’ symptoms you experience are part of the body’s natural elimination system. Therefore using pharmaceutical products to stop these elimination processes will only result in more health problems, not fewer.
Also these ‘remedies’ are not, in fact, designed to ‘cure’ you, because anything that would actually ‘cure’ you would prevent you from being another pharmaceutical industry customer next year for their ‘remedy’ for your perennial problem. After all, spring does happen every year!
This is not cynicism, these are the facts about corporations that are set up to make a profit and the pharmaceutical industry is no exception; it is primarily a group of corporations set up to profit from their customers; you.
You may therefore, and quite rightly, ask what is hay fever, why do you get it and what can cure it?
Hay fever symptoms, like all other ‘allergies’, occur because of an over-sensitisation of the immune system. The body releases histamine as part of its immune response, which results in uncomfortable inflammation. The remedies for hay fever will often include ‘antihistamine’, a substance that will counter the histamine your body produced.
It is recognised that the immune system is very complex and evidence suggests that it is poorly understood by the mainstream medical establishment, as demonstrated by the rise in autoimmune diseases in the past 30 years. If the immune system was properly understood, we would have the appropriate advice about how to look after it and there would be less autoimmune disease, not more.
According to Dr Russell Blaylock MD, a respected former neurosurgeon, talking about vaccinations for babies, “repeated immune stimulation could result in severe disruption of brain development and even neurodegeneration.”
Dr Blaylock also said, “Low magnesium intake, which is common in the United States, is associated with higher degrees of inflammation in the body and lower glutathione levels. It also enhances excitotoxicity, since magnesium is a natural modulator of the NMDA glutamate receptor. Low intakes of magnesium greatly enhance glutamate receptor sensitivity, worsening excitotoxicity. Low magnesium also lowers brain glutathione levels, which increases brain sensitivity to mercury toxicity. Increasing magnesium levels, reduces inflammation, raises glutathione levels and reduces excitotoxic sensitivity.”
It is vital for our health to know what causes excess immune stimulation, the effects of such stimulation and how to reduce it because the consequences, for example disruption of brain development and neurodegeneration, are severe.
So what are the causes and effects of over-sensitisation of the immune system?
The following clues will help:
– According to Asthma UK, an allergic reaction occurs “when the body’s immune system reacts abnormally to a harmless substance, such as food.”
– Interestingly, histamine is a ‘biogenic compound often found in processed foods’. So maybe not all foods are ‘harmless substances’.
– There is a wealth of documented scientific evidence for ‘allergic reactions’ after vaccinations, sometimes referred to as ‘side effects’.
– When the immune system is over-sensitised, it releases high levels of free radicals.
– Human beings do not internally manufacture their own supply of ascorbic acid, an essential antioxidising nutrient.
– Magnesium deficiency increases inflammation
– Genetically modified foods have been found to generate an immune system allergic-type inflammatory response.
These are serious problems for the immune system.
Adding up the the clues, it is possible to see that the human immune system:
1. Does not react well to processed foods.
2. Does not react well to vaccinations.
3. Does not react well to genetically modified foods
4. Requires a high level of antioxidising nutrients, especially ascorbic acid because it does not manufacture its own supply, and other essential nutrients such as magnesium.
The mainstream medical establishment does not acknowledge the cumulative harm caused by a ‘Western’ lifestyle with a diet that includes a high proportion of processed foods, some genetically modified, but does not include many raw fresh fruits and vegetables, especially those high in antioxidants. Sadly the harm caused by vaccinations is not just a ‘Western’ problem, but a global problem, the existence of which is effectively denied by the pharmaceutical industry.
The reason for this lack of acknowledgement is because medical training focuses almost exclusively on the use of pharmaceutical products to suppress symptoms and vaccinations to ‘prevent’ disease.
This situation is succinctly stated by Dr Richard Moore MD PhD, “A lot of the problem is about money, power and control. A medical-industrial complex has succeeded in inculcating a pro-drug ideology in medical education and thus practice. And the government has gone along. There is an unholy alliance between the medical schools, the drug companies and the politicians; a golden triangle that keeps this dysfunctional system going and prevents people from having the health they deserve.”
What IS known is that the ‘Western’ lifestyle and diet, together with the ‘dysfunctional medical system’, undoubtedly have serious consequences for health.
Therefore the solution to the problem of your ‘hay fever’ is not to counteract histamine but to understand the underlying cause of the over-sensitisation of your immune system and then treat that problem.
It may require you to review the factors outlined in this blog and maybe make some changes to your lifestyle.
But won’t it be worth it? Maybe next year you too will be able to enjoy the outside life in the spring sunshine, without hay fever or medication!
You can learn more about what makes you ill and how to stay well in our book, Why Germs Don’t Make You Ill & Drugs Can’t Cure You.