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What is Hay Fever?

Hay fever or allergic rhinitis is a dysfunction in the immune system caused by a pathological hypersensitivity to normal, naturally occuring proteins in the environment. Today, some researchers see hay fever as an expression of an "exhausted" immune system due to, for instance, increased pollution.

Hay fever is the most common of all allergic conditions and presently affects more than 15 percent of the population. The Scandinavian Asthma and Allergy Society predicts that more than 90 percent of the Western world may suffer from allergies 15 years from now. Hay fever symptoms are caused by, among other things, increased excretion of histamine by macrophages.

Clinical experience shows that the below-mentioned, naturally-occurring nutritional supplements are often capable of normalizing the immune response in most people, thus eliminating the cause of the disease. In others, symptoms can be reduced significantly and without side effects.

Which natural ingredients can have an effect on allergy?

Grape seed extract, quercetin, citrus bioflavonoids, vitamins B5, B6, B12, C, E and fish oils (EPA/DHA)

What effects do these ingredients have?

  • Can reduce hay fever symptoms in less than an hour (high dose grape seed extract)..
  • Reduce itchiness.
  • Preventative and long-term effect.
  • Reduce teary eyes.
  • Improve quality of life.

For the reader with a deeper interest:

How do these ingredients work?

  • Treat and prevent vitamin and mineral deficiencies.
  • Inhibit the synthesis of ascorbic acid oxidase enzymes.
  • Inhibit the synthesis of histidine decarboxylase enzymes.
  • Inhibit the liberation of histamine from mast cells (anti-histamine).
  • Antioxidant effect.
  • Inhibit the synthesis of pro-inflammatory prostaglandins, such as leukotrienes.
  • Inhibit the oxidation of xanthene enzymes.
  • Normalize the natural balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines. Details of these reactions are still unknown.

The information above is based on more than 12,500 articles published in scientific journals and which are available at MEDLINE, the world's largest medical database. Below you will find a few of them listed:

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