Allergies & Immune Dyregulation
Allergy & Immune Reactivity Treatment
Functional Medicine in Boulder, CO
When your immune system is overreacting, the question is “why”.
Seasonal allergies, environmental sensitivities, and immune reactivity are increasingly common, and increasingly disruptive. For many patients, antihistamines and nasal sprays provide partial relief at best, and doing nothing to address why the immune system has become hyperreactive in the first place. From a functional medicine standpoint, allergy burden is closely connected to gut health, microbiome diversity, inflammatory load, and in some cases, environmental toxin exposure. Addressing those upstream factors often reduces the severity and frequency of allergic responses.
Balancing the Immune System Pain at Helios
At Helios, we evaluate allergies and immune reactivity in the context of your full health picture. Beyond conventional allergy assessment, we look at gut permeability (a leaky gut allows food and environmental antigens to trigger systemic immune activation), microbiome composition, nutritional factors affecting immune regulation (vitamin D, quercetin, omega-3s), and inflammatory markers. We also offer IV nutrient therapies. High-dose vitamin C and Myers' cocktail infusions are frequently used for allergy symptom management and immune modulation with excellent patient response.
Treatment Plans & Outcomes
Acupuncture and Chinese medicine have a well-documented role in allergy treatment and immune regulation, and Margaret Hampton, our DACM, integrates these approaches for patients who benefit from a whole-system perspective on immune health. Our goal is not to suppress your immune response indefinitely, it's to restore appropriate regulation so that your body stops treating the environment as a threat.
Allergies don't have to run your life. Let's look at what's driving your immune reactivity.
You leave feeling as if you have been heard, valued, and knowing he is going to walk and work with you until your situation has been improved! Try him!
– Marny H., Current Patient
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