Who here feels they dont get sick as often or suffer from allergies like they used to?
As far as the allergy front, if you feel your no longer having allergic type reactions like you used to post Fin, SSRIs, etc,
Consider testing ige antibodies and even getting a skin prick test from an allergist for common airborne allergies. What im saying is for some even though they no longer perceive allergic reactions, they could still be there, the body might just not be generating the appropriate “clearing” response.
I have elevated ige antibodies and my back lit up so much with skin prick tests, the nurse grabbed another nurse to show her.
A controversial theory may explain the real reason humans have allergies
We know that allergens often cause physical damage. They rip open cells, irritate membranes, slice proteins into tatters. Maybe, Medzhitov thought, allergens do so much damage that we need a defense against them. “If you think of all the major symptoms of allergic reactions–runny noses, tears, sneezing, coughing, itching, vomiting and diarrhoea–all of these things have one thing in common,” said Medzhitov. “They all have to do with expulsion.” Suddenly the misery of allergies took on a new look. Allergies weren’t the body going haywire; they were the body’s strategy for getting rid of the allergens.
But understanding the purpose of allergies could lead to dramatic changes in how they’re treated. “One implication of our view is that any attempt to completely block allergic defenses would be a bad idea,” he said. Instead, allergists should be learning why a minority of people turn a protective response into a hypersensitive one. “It’s the same as with pain,” said Medzhitov. “No pain at all is deadly; normal pain is good; too much pain is bad.”
For now, however, Medzhitov would just be happy to get people to stop seeing allergies as a disease, despite the misery they cause. “You’re sneezing to protect yourself. The fact that you don’t like the sneezing, that’s tough luck,” he said, with a slight shrug. “Evolution doesn’t care how you feel.”