134: What If Your Allergies Are Actually Your Body's SOS Signal?

If you've been experiencing foggy mornings, itchy eyes, brain fog, and mood swings, your allergies might actually signal deeper health issues related to gut dysfunction, toxic overload, and nervous system dysregulation. These symptoms aren't just inconvenient—they're stealing your energy, focus, and personal power.

• Personal story of debilitating allergy symptoms that progressively worsened over years
• The revelation that allergies are often not a pollen problem but a gut problem
• Understanding how gut dysfunction, toxic overload, and mineral imbalances create chronic inflammation
• How the immune system and nervous system communication breaks down, triggering inflammatory responses
• Introduction to the Vita-Min Tox Test Kit combining Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis and Organic Acids Test
• Explanation of how these tests uncover the root causes of allergy-like symptoms
• Healing is 100% possible when addressing the underlying imbalances

Book a free root cause consult to discuss your top three symptoms and find the right at-home health test for your needs. Also, check out our Soul Sleep training replay on YouTube to learn how optimizing sleep can reclaim your energy and success.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome and Allergy Introduction
• 1:29 My Personal Allergy Wake-Up Call
• 4:43 The Truth: Not Pollen, But Gut Problems
• 7:15 The Science Behind Allergies
• 8:38 Vitamin Tox Test Solution
• 10:51 Healing Is 100% Possible

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Hey there, friend, welcome back to Breaking Boundaries for Entrepreneurs, the podcast for purpose-driven and conscious creators who are showing up to live, to lead and to love from a higher level. I'm your host and personal integrative health practitioner, jeffrey Mort, and today we are talking about allergies, but not in the way that you might expect, because if you've been waking up foggy, dragging through your day with itchy eyes, brain fog or mood swings that seem to come out of nowhere, I want to suggest something. It might not just be allergies, it might not be all in your head either. In fact, it might be the key to unlocking your next level of vitality, of sleep and of creative power. Stay tuned, hello. I'm Jeffrey Mort. If you're like most entrepreneurs, you're busy taking care of business, yet who's taking care of you? If you're ready to take your energy and performance to the next level in your life and your business, then this podcast is for you, because today you're going to start breaking boundaries of your mind, body and business with integrative health, and when you do that, your possibilities are limitless. I'm grateful you're here. Yes, always grateful for you joining me here today on the Breaking Boundaries for Entrepreneurs podcast. I appreciate you.

Speaker 1: 1:28

And so today we're talking about allergies, I want to take you back a little bit and share some of my personal story in a wake-up call my allergy wake-up call, as you could call it. So, quite a few years ago, during the gorgeous spring season like the one we're going through here in central New England, I know in the South things have been in bloom for weeks, maybe even a month now, in the Southern US and, of course, in the Southern Hemisphere they're going into wintertime. But here in the Northern Hemisphere we're going into springtime and back when the buds were blooming and the grass was growing, I should have been feeling alive. I should have been feeling energized, but I wasn't. I was completely exhausted. I mean, when I say debilitating allergies, I was debilitated, I was exhausted, my sleep was shot, my mood, let's just say I wasn't so much fun to be around. My energy dipped so low that I found myself just not. Honestly I'm going to be completely candid here I thought to myself if this is what life is going to be like, you know, is it? Is it even worth living? I mean, honestly, that thought had crossed my mind because, you know, the allergies weren't just in the springtime for me back then. I'm talking about like 2013, 12, 13.

Speaker 1: 2:49

Um, but it probably went on for a decade and it progressively got worse. I mean, at first, you know, I I had always had allergies to dogs and cats, and then seasonal allergies, but that seasonal allergy started to creep. But that seasonal allergy started to creep, so, instead of just being from like April to May or June, then it started being like March to July, and then February through August, and then, before I knew it, I was like that all year round and I blamed it on, you know. Oh, it must be the pollen that's in the air right now. Oh, it must be the dust in the wintertime, that, because the house is all closed up, oh, it must be the dry air.

Speaker 1: 3:31

My energy dipped so low that I just, I was so miserable and I couldn't. I couldn't breathe through my nose whatsoever, which, you know, made eating a challenge. I challenge you to put a clothespin on your nose and try eating dinner tonight. You're going to be miserable and you're going to be gasping for air, and I felt like I was suffocating. And then, of course, at night, the same thing I would I would sleep with my mouth open, which is not healthy whatsoever, but I couldn't breathe through my nose and this was affecting my sleep. It was affecting my cognitive behavior. I had nasal pressure, like you wouldn't believe, which went into my eyeballs, which blurred my vision. My eyes were watering so I couldn't see. My ears were plugged, I couldn't hear very well. I was constantly saying like what, what, what? And yeah, I was miserable. I was out of breath all the time. I had asthma and I would blame that on you know allergies as well and you know, to top it all off, I just kept telling myself that it's just allergies and to suck it up, you know. If any of this sounds familiar, I want to share the truth. That changed everything for me. You know, it wasn't a pollen problem, it was a gut problem. You know, had I only known then what I know now. However, I was at that point in my journey, my wellness journey, and that's where I was then, that's where I am now. So it wasn't a pollen problem, I said. It was a gut problem, a detoxification problem and a nervous system problem, and it was stealing my joy. Honestly, it was stealing my momentum, it was stealing my personal power, it was stealing who I was, and I never want to be there again, and I know I don't have to be there, and neither do you, so let's break this down.

Speaker 1: 5:23

So most people think of allergies as a surface level nuisance some sneezing, a stuffy nose, maybe a little fatigue. But beneath the surface there's often chronic, low-grade inflammation which is driven by a few things here and we'll go through them Driven by gut dysfunction, also known as leaky gut. Well, actually, you know you can call those two separate things. Gut dysfunction, right. Imbalance of bacteria in the gut. You know we have healthy bacteria that serves a purpose and then if that becomes overgrown, or if we get unbeneficial bacteria in the gut that becomes overgrown, that can be one problem. And then intestinal permeability, which is known as leaky gut, can actually compound that problem, and one usually leads to the other. Toxic overload can be another problem. So think mold, think heavy metals, think pesticides and so much more environmental toxins as well.

Speaker 1: 6:20

Next is mineral imbalances and neurotransmitter depletion. These actually play a role in your ability to function properly and to not have allergies. So mineral imbalances certainly deficiencies, neurotransmitter depletion, and then, of course, nervous system dysregulation from the prolonged stress, whether it's prolonged stress from the gut issues that's going on or that external stressor as I always talk about kids, career cashflow, those external stressors. But then there's the internal stressors of the heavy metals, the gut dysbiosis, the pesticides and environmental toxicities and deficiencies. Those all cause elevated cortisol, which is stress on the body, which then depletes or dysregulates the nervous system. So here's the science in simple terms.

Speaker 1: 7:15

Your immune system and nervous system are constantly communicating with each other, and when your gut barrier breaks down, the particles in the gut leak into the bloodstream, triggering an inflammatory response. That's the process that happens, basically in a condensed version. Then that inflammation fires up histamines Most of you have heard of histamines before and then that disrupts things like sleep, things like energy and cognitive clarity especially. And then, before you know it, you're foggy, you're reactive, you're not a joy to be around, you're anxious, you're waking up more tired than when you went to bed, and the worst part is that a lot of people normalize this and you just think to yourself oh, I'm just getting older, or it must be this new state that I moved to, or I must just need more coffee. But this isn't aging, it's imbalance, and imbalance can be corrected. So if this resonates, here's the good news you don't have to play the guessing game.

Speaker 1: 8:22

We use what I call or what's called in our practice over at Levin and G Wellness, the vitamin tox test lab kit. This is a lab panel. It's a powerful combination of two at-home functional health tests. So the first one is called the minerals and metals test. This is nothing new, it's been around for decades the hair tissue mineral analysis. It's used to uncover mineral deficiencies and toxic heavy metals major factors in immune function and response. And it's done with a simple hair sample. You know, just a small like a table, not even a tablespoon. A teaspoon of hair goes in an envelope, already comes with a stamp on it that gets mailed to the laboratory. They burn it, they analyze the carbon. It gives a full report on mineral imbalances, ratios and heavy metal toxicity Absolutely amazing.

Speaker 1: 9:15

And then the second lab in that vitamin tox test kit is known as the Candida Metabolic and Vitamins Panel, which is an industry standard, known as the Organic Acids Test. And this helps to reveal gut issues such as candida, neurotransmitter imbalances, yeast and fungal and bacterial overgrowth and so much more which can indicate signs of leaky gut. And this is done with a simple urine sample, done right at home, again comes with a prepaid overnight envelope. You actually freeze the sample, put it in the envelope with the cold pack that it comes with goes to the laboratory. They analyze it, they give the the health coach, such as myself the data and then we can interpret those two lab tests with the client and together they show us exactly what your body needs to reduce the inflammation Okay, to heal and seal the gut, to restore your energy and focus and to help you sleep like a kid after a day at the beach.

Speaker 1: 10:15

And the truth is, if you're feeling run down, if you're feeling irritable or like you're losing your edge, I want you to know your body's not broken, you're not lazy and you're certainly not crazy. You've just never been given the full picture or the right tools. Healing is 100% possible 100% of the time. Energy is possible, Clear, radiant focus is possible and living a life without allergies is completely possible. And it starts with listening to the whispers of your body before they become screams.

Speaker 1: 10:51

So since you're curious about what your symptoms are trying to tell you, I invite you to just have a conversation with me. I'm offering a free root cause consult where we'll review your top three symptoms, map out which at-home health test is right for you. We have over 35 of these different health tests to choose from. I have over 35 of these different health tests to choose from. They're completely affordable. They're completely confidential. These are CLIA certified C-L-I-A, clia certified functional lab tests that have been in use for decades by naturopathic doctors, functional medicine practitioners and certified integrative health practitioners like myself. So I invite you to book your free consult today.

Speaker 1: 11:31

I'll make it really easy. I will put the link in the show notes for you and, if you missed it, our soul sleep training replay is now live on YouTube so you can watch it. The link is in my social bios, it's on our website, it's also in the show notes as well, and in it I explain how optimizing sleep isn't just about rest. It's about reclaiming your energy, your success in your spiritual alignment, and then you'll also hear more about a brand new soul system sleep program and how it might just be what your body's waiting for. So, as we step into this vibrant season of growth, I'll leave you with this what if the symptoms that you're tolerating are actually the clues to your transformation? Listen in, tune inward, trust your body's wisdom and intuition, and, since you're ready, I'd love to walk that healing journey with you. Until next time, allow your mind to tune into what your body's telling you. Keep breaking those boundaries. Bye-bye everybody.