The Grass is Greener

Allergic Reactions to Propaganda

Nitrogen dust fertilizes depleted soils, carbon dioxide feeds plants, ragweed thrives and hay fever explodes is the climate change explanation for rising rates of allergies. “Pollen levels are expected to double by 2040”, and will be far more “potent” with increased peptides. The only good news is rising seas should cut down on available grass land. Rise up Poseidon and save us from allergy season. An Endless Spring.

Oak Pollen is blamed for sending 20,000 people to the ER every year in the U.S. Fungus is growing like slime mold, so “cell inflammation that can worsen allergies” obviously will overwhelm our medical “health care” system. Thunderstorms sent more than 10,000 Australians to the emergency room with asthma, blamed on fragmenting and soaking pollen grains, not the ozone, a component of smog, although that has also been associated with attacks.

Antibiotic use by the medical monopoly has been strongly linked with developing allergies, probably due to leaky guts caused by wiping out the intestinal biome of bacteria, molds, archaea and virii (if you believe they exist) constellation. Parents of asthmatic and allergic children have more certainty than experts in her large poll of parents of children with severe eczema and food allergies, conducted in 2018. She found 57% blamed increased pollution, 48% man made chemicals, with climate change and living and eating habits tying for third at 38%. Vaccines weren’t on the multifactorial list.

MacPhail mythologizes her early childhood in Indiana as “nearly idyllic” playing in the dirt of corn fields, breathing country air, eating grass from the yard, epitomizing the Hygiene theory. Yet, when she interviewed her family about allergic conditions, they were “just as irritated as any urban family.”

This is the same idyllic Indiana that made “biologist and poet Sandra Steingraber shoulder the legacy of Rachel Carson” in her 1997 book, Living Downstream. Steingraber had cancers, like so many of her family and farmer friends, and her reporting revealed a state soaked in pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers from growing commercial corn and soybeans as an industry, not a calling.

University of Nebraska professor, Dr. Jill Poole, in the Division of Allergy and Immunology, found that 30 percent of Midwestern farmers had allergic diseases from agricultural dust, pesticides and moldy grain from flooding- Farmer’s Lung, so nature disrupted is clearly not beneficial.

The poisons and nitrate fertilizers for “lush grassy yards” and chemical gardening are “causing the steady rise of allergies”, not just their extra pollen, (few lawns ever put out seed).

Besides, countries with larger family size, more rural residents, living in poverty also suffer from rising rates of allergies. Half of urban Ugandans have them, and rural areas are catching up. Over the counter antihistamines, steroids and antibiotics are used by most of these sufferers. Dr. Bruce Kirenga, Ugandan allergy expert, blames air pollution, not urban lifestyles.

MacPhail credits the “increased levels of anxiety and pressure we’re all experiencing” this decade, damaging the direct connection between psychological and physiological stress with the immune system “via the histamines released from mast cells throughout our body.” Stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline fuel mast cells.

Sufferers she interviewed, ‘feel that the relationship between their allergy and their mental and physical well being is nearly synonymous. If they are healthy and happy their allergies are less severe. Stress and fatigue are both products and causes of allergy attacks,”since patients are far more likely to be diagnosed with depression and anxiety.”

Our workplaces, homes, cities, towns and communities are “sites of outside stressors. Long hours, less affordable childcare, smaller social circles, a bad economy , lengthy commutes, more overtime.” Any and all increase stress levels, “making us all a lot more irritated.”

Bed dust, where less frequent changing of linens may be beneficial to our nasal and airway microbiome or harmful from allergic reaction to mites. Where household cleaning products are used more frequently, occupants are more likely to develop wheeze and asthma.

She barely gives a nod to vitamin D deficiency. half a page. Americans spending 90% of their time indoors spells doom for D, a natural remedy that decreases inflammation, regulates the immune system and reduces pain and depression.

Atopic dermatitis, a miserably itchy rash that worsens in winter, affects up to 30% of Americans. Relentless scratching can cause secondary bacterial infections. Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital gave Mongolian children with the condition either odorless, tasteless D drops or a placebo. Those given D showed significant improvement within a month. An affordable treatment like D is fine for Mongolians, but those suffering in the U.S. are prescribed powerful steroidal skin creams and antibiotics for infections.

Psoriasis is an allergic reaction with potentially severe complications of infections. “Topical vitamin D creams are new therapies for psoriasis, but these require a doctor’s prescription. A vitamin D-rich diet or oral supplements provides benefit to psoriasis patients. Higher blood levels had the least amount of affected skin, those with the lowest levels had the largest areas.” for 500 patients studied. Rachel. Lim, an MD candidate at Brown University’s medical school, presented their team findings at Nutrition 2023, ASN’s annual meeting. Naturally, researchers cautioned patients to consult a physician before supplementing. Large Study shows link between vitamin D and psoriasis severity, American Society for Nutrition, 7/25/23.

“The bottom line is that the protective effects of vitamin D supplementation are strongest in those who have the lowest vitamin D levels, and when supplementation is given daily or weekly rather than in more widely spaced doses.Vitamin D fortification of foods provides a steady, low-level intake of vitamin D that has virtually eliminated profound vitamin D deficiency in several countries. The study provides the most robust evidence yet that vitamin D has benefits beyond bone and muscle health.”

And never a hint that immunizations cause allergies for some, autoimmune disorders for others. In a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association, Odent et al. presented results from a cross-sectional study showing that immunized children were more likely to develop asthma. “Our results in an observational cohort study demonstrated a positive association between vaccination and allergic disease”

Preventing illness doesn’t profit the medical industrial complex, but few people want to be sick to contribute to the economy. Fortifying common foods with D can be done for pennies a day per person. Abandoning mandatory vaccination for children as a failed and dangerous medical profit center like many before. Organic farming and gardening for better health for all Americans. These are prelude to Saving Trillions on Medical Treatments for preventable suffering.