What Causes A Stuffy Nose?
Stop clearing your nose with chemical sprays. Understand what causes a stuffy nose and how to find relief the natural way.
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Take The Neti Pot Challenge!
If you suffer from allergies, use a neti pot BEFORE the season is in full bloom.
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Allergy Remedies For Pollen Season
While the snow may be behind us, spring pollen is now at our doors and can often look like a fine dusting of snow. Sometimes it's white but often pollen is yellow and can leave a powdery layer [...read more]
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Believe it or Not, Mold Can Cause Sinusitis
It's time to talk about airborne allergies again. Instead of focusing on the usual culprits of trees, flowers and grasses, this blog will focus on mold, a form of fungi. While mold grows year round, spring is just [...read more]
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Iodine in Salt
Recently we had a customer share with us that she had started to use our French Atlantic sea salt on her food. She told us she preferred the taste of it over regular table salt, but wanted to [...read more]
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Stinging Nettles Sting, But Can They Be Beneficial?
Every once in a while I want to write about a remedy that has uses beyond the sinuses. There is no better reason to deviate from that than to discuss the benefits of stinging nettles (Urtica dioica). My [...read more]
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Can Nasal Sprays Make You Prone To Sinus Infections?
While traveling in South America, I landed in Lima, Peru where I picked up the worst sinus infection I've had in a decade. Initially, it started out as nasal inflammation possibly because of the high pollution and mold [...read more]
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Probiotics for the Nose!?
Probiotics are a common topic of discussion as of late, mostly related to intestinal health. Now there is research suggesting the use of probiotics can alleviate sinus infections. According to Susan Lynch, Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF, [...read more]
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Breathing Right or Left? The Nasal Cycle
Unless you're congested, you probably don't spend much time thinking about the volume of air you breathe into each nostril. Surprisingly, each nostril delivers a different amount of air to your lungs through a mysterious phenomenon called the [...read more]
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Truth About Plastic Neti Pots
With so many neti pots on the market these days, I can't help but write about the plastic ones. In 1996 when we began producing our Baraka neti pot, there were only a handful of companies making them, [...read more]