Show 1006: Surviving Allergy Season

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Once fall begins, lots of Americans start to suffer. Up to a third of us struggle with sneezing, sniffling, congestion, itchy eyes and post-nasal drip as a result of hay fever (really ragweed pollen reaction) or other allergies. Avoiding Allergy Triggers: The best chance for managing allergies is to identify and avoid the triggers. But […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.5	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:04.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.3	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.2	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:30.9	When your allergies are acting up, it's hard to breathe.
0:34.7	Now that pollen is in the air, what can you do to ease your symptoms?
0:39.5	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:50.6	Sneezing, wheezing, congestion, and red itchy eyes are surefire signs of hay fever during this allergy season.
0:57.8	But it's not just your nose, eyes, and lungs that suffer.
1:01.7	Brain fog is a common complaint of allergy suffers and some medicines can make it worse.
1:07.0	What can you do to prevent or treat troublesome allergies?
1:17.7	We check in with the experts and offer you up-to-date information on medications and non-drug options.
1:22.1	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Tips for Surviving the Sneezen Season.
1:26.4	First, this news.
1:32.9	In the people's pharmacy health headlines,
1:37.4	A Mediterranean diet, heavy on extra virgin olive oil,
1:42.1	has just been shown to significantly lower the risk of malignant breast cancer.
1:45.3	The research, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, is an extension of a Spanish study called PretiMed. Three years ago, the first phase of the trial
1:51.6	demonstrated that a Mediterranean diet supplemented with either nuts or four tablespoons of olive
1:57.9	oil daily could reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
2:01.7	In the spring of 2015, a second phase of the study revealed that compared to a lower fat
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