Allergy Relief in Lake Stevens

The Surprising Connection Between Allergies and Your Spine

Allergies may not seem like something chiropractic care can help, but the connection between your spine, nervous system, and immune response is more significant than most people realize. At Johnstone Chiropractic, we understand that your body’s nervous system controls responses by your immune system and other vital body systems. When your nervous system isn’t functioning optimally due to spinal misalignments, it can contribute to overactive allergic responses that make seasonal changes and environmental exposures miserable.

Allergic responses like sneezing, itchy eyes, runny nose, compressed airways, and even digestive reactions to foods like nuts or shellfish may stem from problems within your nervous system rather than just environmental triggers. By addressing the underlying nervous system dysfunction, we can often help your body respond more appropriately to common allergens and reduce the severity of allergic reactions.

Understanding Your Body’s Stress Capacity

Your body is remarkably capable of dealing with all types of stress, including environmental allergens, emotional stress, physical strain, and chemical exposures. However, like a bucket that can only hold so much water, there’s a limit to the amount of stress your body can handle effectively. When that capacity is reached, your body begins to react with various symptoms, including allergic responses.

This concept of stress overload helps explain why some people develop allergies later in life, why allergy symptoms can worsen during stressful periods, or why certain people seem more sensitive to environmental triggers than others. When your body’s stress bucket is already full, even small exposures to allergens can trigger significant reactions.

How Your Nervous System Controls Immune Responses

Your nervous system acts as the master controller for your immune system, determining how your body recognizes and responds to potential threats in your environment. When spinal misalignments interfere with optimal nervous system communication, they can affect how your immune system processes information about environmental substances, potentially leading to inappropriate or exaggerated responses.

The communication pathways between your brain and immune system travel through your spinal cord and nerve pathways. When these pathways are compromised by spinal dysfunction, it can contribute to immune system confusion, where harmless substances like pollen or pet dander are treated as dangerous invaders requiring aggressive immune responses.

Our Approach to Natural Allergy Support

Chiropractic care doesn’t treat allergies directly, but it addresses the source of nervous system disturbances that may be contributing to your body’s overactive allergic responses. By restoring proper spinal alignment and improving nervous system function, we help create conditions where your immune system can respond more appropriately to environmental challenges.

Our natural approach focuses on reducing the overall stress load on your nervous system, allowing your body’s adaptive mechanisms to function more effectively. This improved function can help increase your tolerance for environmental triggers and reduce the severity of allergic reactions when exposures do occur.

Building Long-Term Immune Resilience

Our goal at Johnstone Chiropractic extends beyond just reducing current allergy symptoms—we aim to help build your body’s long-term resilience to environmental challenges. By supporting optimal nervous system function and reducing your overall stress load, we help create conditions where your immune system can function more effectively and appropriately over time.

Many patients find that as their overall health improves through chiropractic care, their seasonal allergies become less severe and their reactions to environmental triggers become more manageable. This improvement often develops gradually as the nervous system’s ability to regulate immune responses is restored and strengthened.

Supporting Your Body’s Natural Wisdom

Your body has incredible built-in wisdom for distinguishing between harmful threats and harmless environmental substances. However, when your nervous system is compromised by spinal dysfunction and overwhelmed by various stressors, this natural discrimination can become impaired. By restoring optimal spinal health and nervous system function, we help your body’s natural wisdom operate more effectively.

This natural approach recognizes that your body wants to be healthy and function properly. When we remove the interference that prevents optimal function, your body often demonstrates remarkable ability to adapt to environmental challenges without the exaggerated responses we call allergies.

Allergy Relief Lake Stevens, Marysville WA | (425) 334-1874