Battling Your Allergies Safer

Could there be a drug-free approach to help allergy sufferers live a better life? Chiropractic care is here to save you from your allergies and prevent serious reactions. 

Hello everyone, Dr. Bob here! Now that the weather is about to turn and bring in cooler weather and beautiful foliage, that also means the return of terrible seasonal allergies for a lot of people. Following in the footsteps of our last few blogs, we are going to continue talking about how preventing subluxations and keeping the connection from your brain to your body healthy can benefit your health in more ways than you would think. To the surprise of many, regular visits to your chiropractor can reduce or eliminate your seasonal and year-round allergies in a safer and drug-free way! 

Allergies are the most common cause of chronic illness and at least 40% of people suffer from at least one allergic condition. With the environment changing and heading towards unhealthy and unknown times, researchers are warning that the number of allergy sufferers is going to rise. This will lead to bad quality of life, lower productivity, and a huge boom in medical costs. But where does your chiropractor fit into this? 

We have talked in previous blogs about how everything in your body is connected. Your brain is connected to your nervous system, the immune system, and all of your systems that keep you functioning. Anytime those connections are compromised it leads to your body not functioning at a full 100% and that means you are not as healthy as you could or should be. When you are operating at a lower rate, your body becomes more susceptible to these allergy attacks. Allergies cause a huge inflammatory response in your system. Having any part of your body inflamed can disturb the flow of messages between your brain and your body, causing it to function at a lower rate. Stress also plays a huge role in your allergies. Allergy reactions and stress provoke similar inflammatory responses. Stress also kills your cortisol hormone which if depleted allows your allergic reactions to become more severe. 

But adding chiropractic care into your allergy-fighting routine can help you in so many ways! 

• A chiropractor can help strengthen your immune system. They will help restore or maintain your body's alignment (which is their main goal!) and help open the pathways between the brain and the spine to support the healthy passage of communications through your body, keeping your systems stronger and healthier.  
• Their treatments can help you regulate your stress hormones. The adrenal gland, where cortisol lives and is created, is fed by spinal nerves. An aligned spine can help regulate the amount of cortisol that is created, keeping your allergies at bay. 
• It can help support the respiratory system. To keep your respiratory system healthy, it needs an uninterrupted flow of information from your brain. Chiropractic care keeps those pathways open and can keep your respiratory system stronger from when an attack appears.  
• A chiropractor can recommend a good diet and exercise regime to keep your body functioning at 100%, prevent inflammation, and help ease your allergies by recommending what to eat and what not to eat.
• Vertebral subluxation is a cause for allergies and is related to how bad they can be. As we talked about last week, having a chiropractor take care of the subluxations helps in so many ways, and this is one of them. 
• Once your body is fully aligned and any nerve interference is removed thanks to your chiropractor, your system will be back up and running to its highest potential. This will help your body fight against the invasion of the foreign substances you're allergic to, like pollen, mold, or dust and cut them off before it causes you to react. 

The brain is an amazing thing, and it does a wonderful job of keeping our bodies healthy and running properly. Having regular chiropractic care gives it a rest once in a while and allows it to power up. It's simple, a spinal adjustment is the first step to a healthy immune system, and it can be done drug-free. It is very important to have regular adjustments to keep up your optimal health and keep your spine aligned. This will help keep your allergies and their reaction at bay. Come on in and visit us here at the office, and we will be happy to discuss this with you and help you get prepared for your next allergy season!