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Allergies & Food Intolerances

Our nutritionally focused allergy and food intolerance treatment strategies are designed to reduce inflammation, restore balance to the immune system and support long term immune health.

How we can help you beat the misery of allergies and food intolerances

RESTORING THE BALANCE TO THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

In allergic conditions, such as hay fever, eczema, sinusitis & food allergies, one part of the immune system becomes hyperactive and leads to excessive immune activity. It is from this excessive immune activity that the problems experienced by allergy sufferers arise.

Food Allergy vs Food Intolerance – what is the difference?

Can you tell the difference between an allergy and an intolerance?

It can be confusing to distinguish them, but the differences are very important.

Our naturopath Olivia Barron, from Living Holistic Health in Geelong, has created this short video to help explain key concepts differentiating food allergies and food intolerances.

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TREATMENT OPTIONS

Standard medical allergy treatments include steroids, antihistamines and decongestants.  These can all provide symptomatic relief, but unfortunately do little to address the underlying issue of immune imbalance.

Our treatment strategies are designed to reduce inflammation, restore balance to the immune system and support long term immune health.  This approach is vital to manage allergies successfully in the long term, reducing the need for medication & improving overall quality of life.

Allergies, Your Gut and Your Immune System – what are the links, and what can be done to fix them?

When you have an allergy to something, it is a sign that your immune system is over-active.

There are many things that contribute to this process beginning.

By addressing the root causes of allergies, it may be possible to reduce the over activity of your immune system, and also reduce your allergic symptoms.

Geelong Naturopath Morgan Helmling from Living Holistic Heath explains how this can be done

Allergies are becoming more and more common in our community.

Plenty can be done to relief the symptoms of allergies using specific nutrition.

Geelong Nutritionist Adrian Stone from Living Holistic Health, explains how this can be achieved.

Many people suffer from food intolerances.

Dairy, soy, gluten and sugar are common.

Geelong Nutritionist Adrian Stone from Living Holistic Health talks about this in more detail.

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