Asthma RADS treatment

Went on Whole Health M.D. and Patrick Holford's site last night and looked up recommendations for asthma.

Even though that's not what I have, it's certainly similar enough that the same natural remedies should help. Basically anti-inflammatory stuff and anti-oxidants. So today I picked up some Borage Oil (anti-inflammatory), quercetin (found in apples...anti-oxidant), N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine (an amino acid), some fresh ginger and some ginger tea. That's in addition to what I'm already taking...cod liver oil, MSM, vitamin C, good multi-vitamin. Also went anti-inflammatory shopping in the produce section...couple different kinds of apples, onions, garlic, carrots, red peppers, red grapes, spinach, romaine.

Since I'm tired of not being able to give Mike a straight answer to "do you feel better today, honey?" I ordered a Peak Flow Meter from Amazon so I can monitor my airflow (and hopefully watch myself get better). I also got a book on nutrition for asthma. Probably all the same stuff I just read of Whole Health and Patrick's site, but more convenient than always having to go online. And I ordered a book on the Buteyko breathing method called "Asthma-Free Naturally" from Amazon (looks like it's coming from overseas, delivery is a few weeks darn it). Doing Pilates is the only thing that makes me feel better and I think some of it is the slow controlled breathing, so it made sense to try the Buteyko method is, as it sounds very helpful to asthmatics.

What else? Oh! How could I forget? I ordered another food intolerance test from Optimum Health Resource Laboratories. I did it last year and it was very informative. Got me off dairy (for which I tested highly allergic). We'll see what I'm allergic to now. I'd love to test negative for dairy now that I've abstained for almost a year and be able to get a little yogurt into my diet once in a while. According to Patrick Holford asthma and most allergic reactions is a threshold thing. Your body can handle so many irritants, and then there's just too many and it has a reaction. That just makes sense to me. I think had I not run down my immune system with 3 months of killer workouts I wouldn't have had such a severe reaction to the forest fire smoke. It's not so much that you're allergic to the one thing that set you off, it's that your immune system got overloaded and that was the one thing that put you over the top. So the more you can lessen your overall burden the better. My condition now has nothing to do with food intolerances, but if I'm burdening my system with food that stressing it out, then it's just using up healing energy that could be going toward healing my lungs. Takes 4-6 weeks to get results, which sucks, but the results should be interesting.