Hey everyone, Ben Cooper Radio, episode number 300, no, 438, I think, who knows.

So I hope you are well, weather in the UK is absolutely incredible I spent nearly

probably about 15 16 17 hours in the garden this weekend doing like digging

pulling cutting down trees dump runs lifting Jesus do I feel it today my hands

my back oh my days

Gardening whoever thought it was that hardcore, hey? So talking of the outside, I want to talk about hay fever quickly today.

And I think it was last year I did a little podcast talking about two medications that I take.

So I take Monteucast and Fex-offendidin to help with hay fever symptoms and they do help. They are really good drugs.

But I noticed something this year. It got to about mid-June and my hay fever went absolutely mental and it got worse and of course

everyone's hay fever at some point the year will get worse because the types of

pollen that we're reacting to. But something happened. My diet, for whatever reason, became a bit more

stripped back and I wasn't having any dairy and my hay fever improved and it got better and I was like oh this is good and then there was a day where I woke up and I had a normal dairy-based protein bar for breakfast with a coffee.

And then later on that day for lunch,

I think I was out in the garden,

I had a Magnum ice cream.

And my hay fever that day was just absolutely mental can think properly like my nose was blocked up

it just felt like absolutely next level and it just made you want to move out of the UK

and just go and find a place without any pollen. It was that bad and I kind of made the

connection with the dairy and I've always kind of battled with dairy like you know is it okay for me because the reactions have always been

like really small and it's almost like the change with the seasons they've changed

with how I've aged so I took out Dairy and within like three days my hay fever was getting better and I'm now

about 10 days without dairy and my hay fever is nearly non-existent is kind of oh that is my coffee boiling one second a

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