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Allergies & Your Body, Putting Together the Puzzle

 

Have you ever wondered just how much nutrition, activity level, fitness level, sleep, and even weight loss might affect your allergy symptoms?

 

In addition to a daily glass of the Delicious Greens 8000, getting good nutrition, and taking key nutrients, vitamins, and herbs to improve and balance immune system response while lowering histamine response, there is much we can do in our daily lives to ensure our body is working at its peak. Let's look at the three main areas of improving our health apart from food and supplements.

 

Exercise

 

Getting proper amounts of exercise is crucial to a good immune system. Getting too much exercise and the immune system crashes, but too little and it overreacts. The immune system relies on challenges to build itself up, too little stimulation and it is like an untrained army, ready to attack any invader or mistaken invader. This can lead to an oversensitive immune system and thus, hypersensitivities to foods and allergens. Find a balance daily. Increase activity levels slowly and build a stronger immune system and enjoy less allergy symptoms.

 

Sleep

 

 

All too often we think we can skimp on sleep. While the newest research reveals that the optimum 8-hour night is no longer standard for everyone, getting too little sleep for our body's personal needs can adversely affect our immune systems as well. Getting adequate amounts of sleep and not oversleeping can help keep the immune system functioning optimally and improve response to allergens.

 

Weight Loss

 

Researchers estimate that losing as little as 5 extra pounds of body weight improves immune system function by 50 to 100%. Why? Every 5 pounds of extra weight is 5 miles of blood vessels and nerves. Not to mention that it is 5 more pounds for the body to take care of. Losing a few pounds lessens the amount of stress on the body and improves circulation as well as decreasing oxidative stress from cell metabolism.

 

At first, however, allergy symptoms will worsen, much like taking medication always makes things feel worse at first. After a period of adjustment, the immune system and allergy response improves and allergy symptoms may lessen in most people.

 

Putting It All Together

 

We all lead very busy lives. Trying to remember all the things we have to do can sometimes mean we don't remember all the things we need to do. However, keeping healthy should be a priority since nobody has time to spare to be sick nor do they want to suffer with allergy symptoms. And who of us actually wants to take allergy medication with all its side effects?

 

Key steps for finding that balance includes starting out small, managing your time, making things you need visible, and learning to put your mental and physical health at the top of your priority list. Nokomis Nutrition can help by providing excellent products at low prices. Now being healthy won't break your bank!