Tuesday Apr 09, 2024

115. Breathing Easy - Navigating Environmental Allergies with Allermi | Dr. Shuba Iyengar

It all starts in the nose. Today’s guest, allergist Dr. Shuba Iyengar, explains that by the time we exhibit common allergy symptoms such as headache, itchy eyes and post-nasal drip, we’ve already been silently suffering. On today’s episode of The Code, Dr. Iyengar will explain the myriad reasons why over-the-counter allergy medications fail to work, and how her company Allermi, which concocts bespoke nasal sprays for allergy sufferers, is working to address the root causes of this increasingly common issue.

As in fitness, getting to the root cause is key. Join today’s discussion to hear Dr. Iyengar explain who is most likely to suffer from allergies, where they’re likely to live and what we can do about it.

Quotes

• “To get that whole constellation of stuff better, you have to get that cute little nose better and you have to get that inflammation to go down. So, most treatments that are really effective will work on the nose.” (5:29 | Dr. Shuba Iyengar)

• “With climate change, we’re having warmer years. We have pollen seasons that have increased over the past—every year, the pollen season gets longer and longer and longer—so you have a longer season of pollination. And then on top of that, the pollen counts are wacky: they go up really high and then all of a sudden it comes down really low. You were just talking about the weather in Denver being 65 and then all of a sudden it’s snowing two days later. That wacky temperature is not something that nature likes.”(10:41 | Dr. Shuba Iyengar)

• “Because accumulation of all our inflammation is just higher, once that happens, once inflammation is at this baseline—you probably see this all the time—it’s not much to make it worse. It doesn’t take much to make inflammation worse. It takes a lot to create it, but once you get to that point where it’s already inflamed it doesn’t take much more to make it worse.” (12:12 | Dr. Shuba Iyengar)

Links

Connect with Dr. Shuba Iyengar:

Website: www.allermi.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getallermi/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuba-iyengar-79a8694/

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