Category Archives: Immune System

How To Survive The Cold and Flu Season

As the temperature drops and we say goodbye to summer, we start to prepare for a long cold season, not just temperature wise, but in terms of illness. While getting the occasional cold and flu is not abnormal, it does put a damper on our day to day. In this article I’ll discuss a few…
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Vitamin D – Are You Getting Enough?

We often hear that we need to take vitamin D daily, especially during the winter, but do you know why? Do you realise that you should be taken vitamin D daily, period? Did you know that vitamin D is actually more of a hormone than a vitamin? One reason being that vitamins aren’t made by…
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Seasonal Allergies: How To Overcome Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis

Cough, cough, sniff, snort, blow…those are the common sounds that we hear as seasonal allergies take hold of so many individuals every year. Allergic rhinitis (commonly known as hay fever) is categorized as a IgE-mediated immune response (the same response when you have a food allergy) which causes a release of histamine which in turn…
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