I'll be riding my bike this summer!
I went to my asthma doctor today. I have a mild asthma that wasn’t diagnosed until I was an adult, though my parents and I sometimes thought I might have it as a child. It mostly manifests itself as a dry cough in cold weather or after physical exertion.
I finally got it “under control” with the use of a rescue inhaler as needed (rare, maybe once a month or so in the winter) and a puff of Advair on mornings when recovering from a cold or flu or an hour or two before doing exercise or heading out into the cold in winter.
That seemed ok, but I was not thrilled with the idea of taking medicine, especially asthma medicine which has a host of side effects. I’d been interested in natural foods for a while, and believed that the right diet could improve health, but when I started getting involved with Weston A. Price’s research and raw milk and such, it sounded like really applying these principles could help me with my asthma (in addition to other health issues, but that is a topic for another day!).
See what changes I made and why I think that made me symptom free 6 months later, after the jump.*