I judge you on your allergies

If you complain to me about allergies, all I hear is that you can't handle being outside. You are an indoor cat. You've been inside for so long that your body can't handle the elements anymore. The fix is not over-the-counter drugs; the fix is to go outside and build up your tolerance again. I haven't met one robust, healthy person who crumples at being faced with cottonwood. If you have to leave work because of allergies, you're saying that you can't work because your body is having a reaction to being outside. Signed, An outdoor cat

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May 25, 2018 at 9:28am

I hope a coyote comes and eats you and uses your fur to line their den.

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Okay

May 25, 2018 at 10:50am

So what medical school did you graduate from? I mean, you are obviously an expert, right? As a person who routinely spends a significant amount of time outside, I can tell you that you’re full of it. I suddenly developed bad hay fever after never having had it before. I don’t “crumple” but it can definitely make my life miserable during that season. Instead of congratulating yourself on how perfect you are, maybe work on your ability to feel compassion for people who aren’t as lucky as you are.

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May 25, 2018 at 11:13am

This might actually be the craziest thing I've read on here.

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Yeah...

May 25, 2018 at 11:23am

... " I haven't met one robust, healthy person who crumples at being faced with cottonwood."

This is probably true, but I don't think it has much to do with acclimatization to the indoors, mostly that some of us aren't lucky enough to be healthy, robust. I was listening to friends talk about their kids running around, riding bikes multiple km at 7 or 8 years old, and I thought "gee, I can't even remember running around a field until I got to primary school."

I had very poor health until I was 18 and decided to do something about it---both of my parents are fairly sedentary. Anyway, my allergies went away not because I got outside (I exercised in a gym) but because I started eating properly.

Lately they returned, and I was fucking sad about that. I looked at my Diet Spreadsheet (we all have one of those, right, to track protein, minerals, vitamins, fats, etc.) and realized I had, after switching to an iron-free multivitamin, not had any substantial iron for a month and a bit. I started eating more liver, got a multi with Iron and my allergies went away.

Oh, and I had chronic sinus congestion my whole life, and it was very responsive to environment. If I stood at the corner of Georgia and Robson, for example, my nose would basically shut. I read some about sulfite allergies and how molybdenum is necessary to produce the bodily substances that convert sulfite to sulfate so it can be excreted. After starting on molybdenum supplementation, my nasal breathing is the clearest it has ever been.

So, I like half of what you say: get out there and try new things. But recognize that absent some genetic defect (in which case building up "tolerance" isn't going to help) the problem is likely nutritional. We have this obsessive focus on telling people that their health/wellbeing is a matter of behavior, rather than nutrition.

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Anonymous

May 25, 2018 at 8:05pm

you're the one who sounds like they need to get outside....

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Wrong

May 27, 2018 at 10:35pm

You are just wrong. Look up information about allergies and allergy threshold. People with allergies have stronger immune systems than yours. Our immune systems are so jacked that they attack things that they shouldnt even attack. You sound like an ignorant fool.

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