Welcome everyone to today's episode of The Lindsay Elmore Show. Today we're going to be talking all about allergies.

In the United States, around 40% of children have at least one allergy. And more than 50 million Americans suffer from them each year.

Allergies are the sixth most leading cause of chronic illness in the United States,

costing more than $18 billion per year.

To make it worse, food allergies have accelerated since the early 2000s. From 2007 to 2016, the incidence of allergies rose almost 400%. And that's not good because allergies don't just present as they classically once did.

Typically when we think of allergies, we think of sneezing, watery eyes, perhaps some itchy

skin.

But allergies these days present as all manner of skin problems, digestive disorders, body weight instability, as well as playing a role in

autism and autism spectrum disorders. Today, my guest is Inga Young. We are going to talk

all about allergies, the many ways that they present themselves, how they

disrupt our overall ability to thrive, how they set our entire body on fire, and ultimately

what we can do to change our lifestyle so that the allergies heal

from within and the symptoms subside. Let's get to the show. Welcome to the Lindsay Elmore show,

a podcast for people who deserve to be healthy with honest, open, and enlightening conversations with doctors, thought leaders,

creatives, and spiritual gurus, you'll walk away with simple and tangible tips and tricks

that allow you to live your healthiest life so you can pursue your dreams, overcome obstacles,

and leave your mark. Born and raised in Sweden, my guest today, Inga Jung, graduated school

as a chemical engineer. But at the time, nobody was hiring female engineers, and so she moved to Bangladesh and then to

Venezuela. In 1990, she came to the United States, where she attended the traditional school for

Chinese medicine in Miami, graduating as an acupuncture physician. She opened her own clinic and her patients had amazing results,

but one of them didn't respond quite as she expected. The patient would feel much better after

treatment, but the ailment would come back time after time after time. Akes, pains, and digestive problems plagued the patient's

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