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Where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing

healthy weight.

Do you ever hear people that are allergic to water?

Is that possible?

It is possible.

Now it is not a true allergy.

It is a sensitivity.

It can create a severe, intense, pricking-like itching sensation when you come in contact

with water.

The name for this condition is aquagenic puritis or or ticaria, which means hives.

This is a problem with the sympathetic nervous system.

There are a couple things you can do about it.

Believe it or not, even though water causes the itching, if you can turn up the heat and

expose yourself to hot water, what that will do, it increases what is called the mass

cell and the mass cells contain histamines, the things that cause the itchingness.

So hot water actually depletes the histamines for a period of time for about a day.

This is why when certain people have, for example, poison ivy, they can expose themselves

to very, very hot water, which creates a severe intensity, but they are depleting their histamines

and all sudden the itching goes away for a period of time.

But the remedy for this is called beta-alanine.

It is an amino acid and you should take between 700 milligrams to 2 grams of this amino

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