Your Functional Rx

Dilworth Fall Allergy Podcast

Josh Rimany - Your Functional Pharmacist

It’s September here in Charlotte, NC, and we rank top ten in the nation for allergies.  Something every city wants to rank for, right? With lots of pollen now in the air, allergies are starting to spike, & more people are coming in to Dilworth Drug & Wellness Center for antihistamines all the time. Let’s talk about the why behind the allergies, how to get in front of it, our DD&WC favorite natural products to help prevent the symptoms of allergies, and how you can get back to living your most vibrant life.

THE WHY BEHIND THE ALLERGIES

the WHY needs attention before allergy season hits. if you can get the body good signals before the allergens come, then that’s the best way to do it.

WHY do we have allergies?

Why is fall allergy season? Most people get their allergies cyclically - in the fall and in the spring.  Spring for obvious reasons, everything is blooming. But, why the fall, too? Think about it - in the fall, it’s time to reseed, aerate, and do all that stuff to your yards.  Pollen.com is a great useful resource to check on severity levels when you know your specific allergies.

Commonly, people don’t understand that our immune systems are not supposed to be so hyperactive. A lot of the time it’s because there’s some sort of balance issue with the gut or other things going on in the body triggering a histamine released in the body causing the symptoms you have - inflammation, runny nose, itchy eyes, sneezing,

Hand in hand with talk of allergies and their symptoms, we talk about food allergies, too. Leaky guts are sometimes the underlying culprit mimicking seasonal allergy responses. (Read more on that here: https://www.dilworthfunctionalwellness.com/post/is-the-healthy-food-you-eat-actually-making-you-sick)   Not only can it mimic seasonal allergy reactions, but the gut is our first line of defense, so if it’s out of whack, allergens can more readily affect our systems.

So this is your reminder: start early, take advantage of some products that will help you get out in front of the allergies and you’ll be happier this allergy season!

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What is functional medicine?

As a pharmacist that is certified in the practice of functional pharmacy, our goal is to always try to find the root cause behind the problem. Functional medicine aligns with our beliefs and it helps us better serve our clients to live better and stay well.

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CBD Oil Dosage | How much CBD oil should I take?

We recommend starting a low dosage and increasing it slowly. By going low and slow, you are able to find the exact dosage that works for you without the extreme shock to your body.

We've used this method for many of our clients and the results speak for themselves. If you'd like to set up a time to speak with Josh and understand proper CBD dosage, you can schedule it here: https://dilworthdrug.as.me/CBDinitialconsult

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Is it safe? 

Does it work? 

How much should I give?  

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but the way to our heart is through our four-legged friends. Josh has been giving his dog Bandit CBD oil for years to help him with his anxiety and knee surgeries that he has done through.  As our furbabies get older, CBD oil may be a supplement to add to their nutrition to help them to continue living a vibrantly healthy and happy life. 

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Will you fail a drug test if you are taking CBD Oil?

There is a small chance that you can fail a drug test if you are taking CBD oil. This is why it is very important to use high quality CBD that has certificates stating it adheres to the regulated guidelines.

If you'd like to be more cautious, we'd suggest using a CBD isolate because it is a more pure form of CBD and allows the product to separate out more THC (the psychoactive ingredient found in hemp and marijuana). A full spectrum CBD oil using all of the oils from the hemp plant which will have larger traces of THC  until it is diluted down. The problem though, is that if you are diluting down the product to lower the amount of THC, you are also diluting the CBD as well.

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Episode 8 | Your Functional rx Podcast | Drug Induced Nutrient Deficiencies.

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Josh speaks at a lot of pharmaceutical conferences and conventions and one topic he likes to discuss is drug induced nutrient deficiencies. What this is, is when you are given a prescription to treat a symptom, but that prescription causes a nutrient deficiency in something else in your body. This can cause the patient to have negative reactions or simply feel like the prescription is not working.

With more of a functional medicine approach, Josh can treat his patients for their problems without the adverse effect of nutrient deficiencies from prescriptions.

Your Functional rx Podcast Episode 7 | What are liposomes and what do they do?

This week Josh Rimany talks about liposomes and how they are now being utilized in the supplement industry to help speed up and improve the deliverability of certain hard to absorb supplements.

One of the supplements that Josh has seen the biggest impact from switching over to a liposomal deliverability is CBD oil. The fat soluble liposomes help the CBD oil absorb more efficiently and, in turn, deliver better results.

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Most people understand what food allergies are.

They are bad....like really bad. Like, need to go to the hospital and get an epi-pen bad.

But, food sensitivities can be just as bad because you don't know that it is even happening within your body. IGG food sensitivities can be genetic or caused by some sort of life factor, but it is basically undetectable without some sort of test. Before, you were unable to test for some of these sensitivities and reactions because it wasn't available or it was just too expensive to do this type of testing. Now, with modern technology and science, we can test for food sensitivities relatively quickly and easily, and then prescribe a solution to begin helping you eliminate your problem.

Food sensitivity is when your body reacts negatively from consuming a specific food or type of food, but it isn't as extreme as an acute food allergy. The difficult part about food sensitivities is that you may think that you are eating a clean, healthy diet, however your body is reacting negatively from consuming what is perceived as a healthy food like chicken or cucumbers.

Josh goes into detail as to what food sensitivity is, what some symptoms may be, and a few ways to test yourself to see what you are sensitive to.

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On this episode of Your Functional rx podcast we discuss a topic that has been growing in popularity over the past few years. Recently, there has been a trend for people to want to switch their prescriptions or medications to a more natural or holistic solution. This new trend aligns perfectly with what our goal is at Dilworth Functional Wellness in that we are looking for solutions beyond the pill.

Josh gives us an education of how prescriptions work differently than natural approaches, and what the benefit is to each option. 

If you have been interested in learning about holistic or natural remedies to your issues, this podcast should shed some light on that for you. 

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In Episode #4 of Your Functional Rx Podcast Josh talks to us about supplements. Not just any supplements though, ”good supplements.”

We will talk about how Josh spends months researching and studying the quality and science behind supplements, educating us on what he calls “professional grade, pharmaceutical grade supplements”.  He explains how he creates a relationship with the manufacturers to meet the standards his pharmacy needs.  Thus, giving them the resources to make sure all your supplements work together in the “sandbox”, that they are efficacious to the condition you’re wanting to fix, treat or get better.

Josh goes on to break down the label, defining the active pure ingredients,  impurities, and more.  How the cheapest supplement may actually not be the cheapest in the end.  He touches base on the clinical side, the professissional side and even the marketing side of supplements. 

We also learn how this  pharmacy digs deep to show their passion of core wellness and lifestyle medicine, developing the clean14 program to help patients live better and stay well.  

Sit back and listen why Dilworth Drug & Wellness has the layers to guide someone on the medical side of wellness and how every patient deserves something in functional health to live vibrantly healthy.

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