S2EP17-Dr. Ynge Ljung-Secrets to Allergy-Free Living!

Herb: 00:00:20

Today I have the pleasure of introducing Dr. Inga Young.

She is an acupuncturist, physician, a naturopath with 30 years of experience, a certified body code practitioner, and author of Finding youg Lost Child. She also created the Allergy Kit, a simple do it yourself family allergy solution.

Her diverse background includes chemical engineering, artisan work and raising a family internationally. Dr. Jung's lifelong passion for health and nutrition fuels her commitment to holistic healing and utilizing cutting edge modalities.

Her passion is to help families with neurodiversity naturally without drugs and with a healthy nutrition and allergy elimination as a healthy solution. Welcome Dr. Inga. It is a pleasure to have you here. Thank you very much for joining us today.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:01:05

Thank you. Thank you very much for inviting me.

Kristina: 00:01:09

Well, start out for us a little bit about, a little bit more in your past. What the, why did this become a passion for you?

Why was this something or what was that turning point that really made it like, you know what, I really have to do something about this?

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:01:23

Well, it was in the beginning when I 30 years ago when I graduated, I just treated people in general. And then one or another didn't have the result that we both wanted. They came back with the same problem.

And I looked into what could be the missing link and spent a lot of money and a lot of time to, to travel to different learning things and found that allergies can have a big impact on our health. So I started to treat people for allergies. And then one day I got the kid with autism. I didn't even know what autism was. This is because this is now.

Yeah, 20 over 20, 25, 28 years ago or something. And this child was very wild, very untamable, so to speak. He would run around and scream and make a lot of noise.

And I wasn't even used to that because I didn't have really kids in my office. And to make the, make him quiet, the mother pulled up, I don't know, two, two and a half feet long red gummy snake, I said.

So she gave this to the kid to eat. And of course he was quiet for the 10 or 15 minutes it took for him to swallow that. And then he was worse. So he was so bad.

So the mother had to go home and I started to treat him. And at that time I used another technique. I didn't have my own allergy kit at that time.

So after like four or five treatments, he started to speak better, he started to make sentences, he pronounced things better. And by the way, he was In a school in Marino School for Autistic children, for speech therapy. And he also had all these temper tantrums.

Seven minimum. Seven temper tantrums a day. And the clothes he didn't want and picky eating and all that stuff. So of course he had to change.

I didn't even really know how much food affected them, but by treating the allergies that they didn't think they had, that's how he calmed down and he started to eat better. And for example, that he didn't want to have certain clothes was an allergy to fabric. So.

And I think that is not uncommon because these kids, they are so sensitive and they just are allergic to so, so many things. And after that, I had more kids, more on the spectrum. And I just. I saw what. What the parents go through. I saw how often marriages break and the.

Mostly the mother, even though sometimes it's the father, but one of them stays with the kid and they don't have a life. They can't sleep because. Yeah. You know all about what. The reactions with. With what they can have. Yeah. And it's not easy. It's very, very hard.

And that made me really passionate about helping. Helping them because just by changing food, just by being aware of certain foods that really, really affect them.

Because many people, they don't put it together. They don't put together that they give them a gummy snake and then they run off the walls. And the same with food.

And of course, if they're allergic to. Because they are allergic to almost everything, whatever they give them, they react.

So it's very hard for them if they don't have any knowledge about nutrition, that food is what is affecting them, and it's the food that makes them react like they do. So that was how it started, and that's how I became passionate about these families.

Herb: 00:06:09

Yeah, we talk about being inside and outside of the box, and so many of the things you just said like, ticked my outside of the box stuff. So, like, we've talked to a lot of nutritionists, and nutrition in the United States is really, really poor.

And a lot of that is due to the food pyramid. And.

Oh, yes, come to find out that the food pyramid wasn't produced by doctors, it was produced by advertising companies to try and sell more grains and cereals and stu. And so.

So what people have been taught for, like the last 20 or 30 years as the way to eat healthy, the more healthy they try and eat by going by the food pyramid, the more sick they get.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:06:47

Yeah. No, it really started with when the smoke tobacco industry, they went down. Right. Because that was not popular anymore.

And they had all these lobbyists and they had all these scientists and they had all the money.

So they went and they bought up a lot of the food companies and then they had their scientists figure out what makes the food tasty, what makes it habit forming. And I mean, I don't think it was meant to kill them. But the other thing is also that the sick child is worth much more than a healthy child.

Herb: 00:07:31

Exactly.

Kristina: 00:07:32

Impacted so much more. Yeah.

Herb: 00:07:34

And you know, when, when I was a kid, there were movies about autistic children because there weren't very many of them.

And so they would like make movies about, hey, this is what this autistic child was like and what the parents go through now because it was like one in a thousand kids were autistic. Now it's like one in 20 or even worse than that in some places.

And so it's like you don't have to watch movies, you just have to like check out your neighborhood and you'll find some autistic children. So, you know, there's so much of that has to do with nutrition. So much of that has to do with other factors as well.

Kristina: 00:08:05

And inflammation like she was talking about.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:08:07

Yeah. And I mean, even allergies is a symptom.

Herb: 00:08:11

Yes.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:08:11

It comes from what we eat. And I think, of course also vaccinations has a lot to do because vaccinations do not build up your immune system, as they used to say.

It takes it down. And I think because there are more and more generations now who have been vaccinated.

I mean, we can see on people, they are getting sicker and sicker. And of course food doesn't have any nutrition if you buy the processed food at all. And it's just a downhill slope.

So I think that has to do also that every child now is getting weaker and weaker. Every generation is not like. Or they also say now that the child will not reach the age of their parents.

Kristina: 00:09:02

Yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:09:03

This is the first generation that they will not become as old as their parents.

Herb: 00:09:07

You went into another huge one there with, with vaccines because, you know, I've recently been, been watching some people who are very well informed on this. And there aren't any studies that show that vaccines don't cause autism.

And because there are no studies, the experts in vaccinology say there is no studies that show that it is causing it. So therefore it doesn't cause it because the studies haven't been done.

So there's no causation or correlation because the studies have never been done. So their default position is because there's no studies that doesn't cause it. And they were ordered 30 years ago to actually do the studies.

And they don't do the studies because the one study that they did showed that there was a correlation between DTAP and autism. So they cut out all studies so that they could say that vaccines don't cause it.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:10:00

I hope that would change now.

Kristina: 00:10:02

Yes, hopefully.

Herb: 00:10:03

I hope that changes too. And the funny thing that you talked about is the red gummy snake, because you got the.

So many people with autism are finding out that the red dyes cause spikes in bad behaviors. And then you tack on top of that, that's mostly sugar. So you're giving them sugar and agent that and it's toxic. So it's like.

Yeah, that's like you, you, you want them to calm down and then you shoot them off into space.

Kristina: 00:10:32

Yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:10:33

So that diet number three is now, I think since last week or something now that is prohibited. They can't use it anymore.

Kristina: 00:10:42

Yeah, that's just.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:10:43

But it has been prohibited in Europe for 25 years or 30 years.

Herb: 00:10:49

Yeah. There's like 180 some foods and substances that are banned across the world but are still allowed in the United States.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:10:56

Because here nothing is bad until it is proven that it is bad. In other countries you have to prove it's not bad until they get it.

Herb: 00:11:08

Yeah. And hopefully, hopefully that's changing. We really hope that some. That that's changing with what's happening right now. So.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:11:15

Yeah. And the rest is to try to teach people that fast and processed food is not food.

Kristina: 00:11:25

Correct.

Herb: 00:11:26

And another big one right there is in your allergy testing. So so many people have what's called leaky gut syndrome from eating ultra processed flowers. So the white flowers.

And it goes in and it opens up the holes in the stomach. And then instead of the food digesting and the digested particles being. There are undigested particles that are getting into the bloodstream.

And if that happens and you do an allergy test, it'll show that you're allergic to that food because it's in your blood system. And you might not actually be allergic to. Might just be because of.

You have a leaky gut syndrome and it's showing an allergy because she went through that.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:12:07

Yeah. That produce antibodies and that reacts. But I mean, I have had.

I had one patient or client because I didn't see her personally through my allergy kit who could only eat red meat she was allergic, had reactions to absolutely everything else. And probably because of course, it's a protein in wheat that turns into zondulin, that makes the holes in the intestines or in the chest lining.

And then we have the other thing, and that is the vagus nerve. Not trans vagus, the vagus nerve that goes from the brain to the gut. So if there is an inflamed gut, the brain is also inflamed.

So these poor kids, because they crave all this inflamed food, like inflamed producing foods like sugar and wheat, just to take a couple. So it's no wonder.

Kristina: 00:13:07

Yeah, yeah. And one thing I would just want to say here because, you know, we, we all have done a lot of research. You are a doctor, Herb and I are not.

But we've just learned so much over all of these shows and everything that all we're doing is saying, parents, please pay attention. Right. There's a lot of information out there that people believe that might not be true.

And for you to do your own research, talk to your doctor, but then also follow your own gut instinct as a mom, if you know there's something off, check into it. Right.

So, you know, this is a huge discussion and it's something that we want parents to be empowered about, to really think about and make really great choices for you and your family.

Herb: 00:13:48

And we've also done a lot of research on our own because I have brain damage, and so I had to learn how to feed my brain and to work with that. Christina had a problem with her ears where she lost her balance, vertigo.

And she went through a lot of allergy testing and it was really interesting because everything she alert she was allergic to was everything that we were eating on a regular basis. And so we. Yeah, so that's, that's how we found more out about the leaky gut.

Because when we found out about that and we cut some of that leaky gut stuff out and fixed that, then we went back and retested her allergies and she wasn't allergic to the stuff that they said she was. She was just allergic to the stuff that she was eating regularly because it was getting into her bloodstream and creating the antibodies.

So, yeah, it's really. So we've, we have learned so much over the process of just trying to become healthy ourselves.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:14:44

Yes. And I also hooking up to what you said. So this is not, this is not medical advice, what I'm talking about. It's.

You have to go to your health practitioners and not Say goodbye to them and make, as you say, make your own research yourself and find out what. And every child and every person is different. And so it's so wide. Exactly.

Kristina: 00:15:18

Yeah.

And some of the families that we work with, one family in particular, the mom, has done a lot of research, and it's amazing what she's even telling me that the newer stuff is that she's finding out about different nutritional supplements that are really good for her autistic child and that help him sleep better and things like that. So the information is out there, if you're willing to go after it.

Herb: 00:15:37

Exactly. And she's watched a lot of our episodes on this and she's like, wow, that you get so much help here.

It's like this episode is like, you said this, and I tried that with my kid, and wow, it worked great. In this episode, you said this, and I tried that with my kid, and wow, that worked.

So, you know, we are bringing people in who really know what they're talking about. And so listen, because Dr.

Inga has a lot of great information here, so pay attention to what we're saying, because if you're having issues, there's a lot of help here that was going to be able to be shown if you just pay attention.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:16:11

Yeah. And I mean, health in general in this country is, I mean, 80% now, they say are pre diabetic or diabetic.

And my belief is that that is the beginning of the downhill road to, you know, first of all, diabetes, of course, heart attacks and strokes, and people are feeling sick, but I don't know. They. They're so used to that. They have been eating this food and don't understand because they're so used to it that they are sick.

And if you take the people who are pre diabetic or diabetic, three out of four people don't even know that they have it. So all of a sudden they have a stroke. Who wants to have a stroke at 60?

Herb: 00:17:10

Yeah. And so so much of that can be actually right now tracked back to sugar as well.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:17:16

Oh, absolutely. That's what I mean. Everything comes. A lot of things come from sugar.

Herb: 00:17:20

Right. Because, you know, sugar wasn't introduced as a staple until like 50, 60 years ago. So we're not used to that. So the.

The refined sugar is one of the most addictive substances on the planet.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:17:32

Not. Don't. Not only that it is refined. It. It's also GMO food.

Kristina: 00:17:38

Yeah, yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:17:40

came here to this country in: 1990

Kristina: 00:18:02

Yeah, exactly.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:18:03

Diabetes. And, and, and I mean they. I had a friend, she was, I would say she was obese to start with.

And she then with that fat free, oh no, I can eat this and I can eat this and I won't get fat.

Kristina: 00:19:55

Yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:19:56

And, and I gobbled down all my, my fats and butter and whatever it is.

Kristina: 00:20:02

Right, exactly. All the healthy fats. And that's, that's what they, you know, finally they're probably getting around that.

Oh wait, some fats are okay as long as they're the right.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:20:12

She was always jealous of me. She. Or envious, kind of. I can't believe you are so skinny. Because they call you skinny if you're thin.

Kristina: 00:20:20

Right, Exactly.

Do us a favor and jump into a tip or two that might help parents through some of this or to even get started because a lot of parents are like, oh my gosh, having to change my whole diet or having to change so many things at one time is like so overwhelming. Can you give them a tip or two just to help them maybe even get just started?

Herb: 00:20:40

Especially with like picky eaters. Because, because k like sweet stuff. And it's like, oh, if I can't get my kid to eat, I give him something sweet he will eat.

How do we start getting our kids off of the sweets and into healthier foods?

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:20:53

It is very hard. I mean, I have my allergy kit, of course, that I recommend. I have one for specifically for autism also.

And the second treatment is for sugar and vitamin B. And often they have to treat it several times, but once it so called sticks, then they don't have that craving anymore.

Because I think also with the sugar addiction, they also have candida. And the candida per se is the bacteria who we need. We need. But not when it's overgrown. Then it's not good. And they're sitting down there.

We need more sugar. And they are horrible, horrible sugar gravies.

Kristina: 00:21:35

Yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:21:35

And what I recommend is for the sugar craving, put one drop of stevia on the tongue because it's so sweet. And that kind of cuts it, at least for the time. And it's nothing dangerous.

Kristina: 00:21:52

Okay.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:21:54

So that's something you can.

Herb: 00:21:56

So I find stevia to be very, very bitter. So there is a sweetness to it. But for me it's really bitter. I've actually kind of switched to monk fruit sweetener, which has xylitol.

How do you feel about monk fruit sweetener and xylitol?

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:22:11

Well, I think monk fruit probably people can take more xylitol. It's a little people. Some people have reaction to that.

Herb: 00:22:21

It's really bad for dogs. So if you are using it, make sure you don't let your dogs have it.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:22:26

So I don't know if it's that good for people either.

Kristina: 00:22:29

Right.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:22:30

Well, we are probably different digestive systems, but still.

Herb: 00:22:34

Well, the reason I said I added xylitol is because most monk fruit sweetener is actually cut with xylitol. So it's really difficult to find monk fruit sweetener. It is true.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:22:43

I was thinking more about xylitol by itself, but I use a stevia. Of course it is processed but I don't like the real stevia either because of the aftertaste.

But I use something called Kal K A L and it really doesn't have any after taste. And I think it's better to use the processed stevia than to use sugar. Yeah, it is. For example. And you said you had a brain injury. I had.

It's now five years ago I had sinus operation. They were in all over that lasted for six hours. So if that is not the brain injury, I don't know.

And since then I have a problem with my blood sugar because of the vagus nerve. So everybody who has a brain injury also has a gut problem. It is just automatic.

Herb: 00:23:42

Yeah. Because your brain, your brain creates a lot of the chemicals and a lot of the signals that actually regulate your body.

So a lot of people with brain injuries do have a lot of issues with. With their. With their stomachs.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:23:54

Yes. And not only that they feel good. I mean here the depression comes in and the mood swings that the serotonin.

I think they say that almost 100% of serotonin and 50% of the dopamine is produced in the gut. And then that carries. Is supposed to be carried up to. With certain bacteria. And when the bacteria is not there, it cannot come up to the brain.

So it's not produced in the brain. So when you go, when, when you go to the shrink because you're depressed, you're going, they're looking at the wrong place.

Kristina: 00:24:29

Oh, wow.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:24:31

But I heard now that there were. I don't know if it's a school or something, but I heard there were a couple of people, psychiatrists who go through nutrition program.

Kristina: 00:24:42

Good.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:24:42

Because that's where they have to start not giving them these pills, happy pills that by the way, it's not absorbed totally by the body. They pee it out and then it goes out in the water, streams. And now the fish, they don't know if they're girls or boys.

Have we heard that somewhere too? Perhaps. I just wonder how much of that thanks to people too.

Herb: 00:25:11

Yeah. And if antidepressants worked, we wouldn't have the most people on antidepressants in the history of the United States right now.

So it's, it's not necessarily working. It's just masking the problems. So if you want to get off of antidepressants, you really need to do a more natural approach. So nutrition. Nutrition.

And again, I'm going to say most doctors right now, especially the allelopathic medicines, the schools they're coming from, they teach us, look, you have this problem, you take this pill, you take, have this problem, you take this pill.

So I really like that you have a naturopath in your name because, you know, they might be a little more expensive, they might take a little more time, but they go into you and they look at what, what works for you and they help you get your nutrition set back up. They help you get your, your hormones set back up through natural processes. And so, yeah, I stopped going to.

If I break my arm, I'll go to a nalopath.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:26:03

Yeah.

Herb: 00:26:04

If, if I'm looking to be healthy, I go to a naturopath.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:26:08

, over: 2500

And it means that people have to start to cook. There are hundreds of different. I think there are so many programs on, on TV that they can go and learn how to cook.

Maybe that's not the best program. I mean, when it comes to nutrition, but I think, I'm sure you can find pretty good programs.

Kristina: 00:26:40

Yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:26:41

And do something simple from the beginning. I recommend to get an air fryer because you can make a dinner or a lunch, like in half an hour. Within half an hour. Yeah.

It takes more time to go and pick something up.

Kristina: 00:26:55

Yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:26:57

And then make something nutritious.

Kristina: 00:26:59

Cool. Yeah. And that's something that, you know, we, as when we're talking with families is that, you know, families are like on the go all the time.

They have their kids in so many different activities and they're in so many different activities and things like that that they think they don't have time to cook. Right.

But we keep coming back to what's more important, Happy, healthy children or being on the go all the time and being on the go all the time, is that really helping you be happy and healthy? Is it helping your child be successful when they're stressed out about all the different activities and like that?

So we really focus on asking parents to take a step back and think, you know, is it. Are you doing it just for busy sake or is it something your child really, really enjoys doing? Make sure you're making those good decisions.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:27:46

I think you are absolutely right. And. And I think kids today, they are so stressed out.

Kristina: 00:27:53

Yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:27:54

And parents, of course, they have to go back and forth and pick them up and stuff. And I think you're right. They should take that time.

They could take a Sunday or whatever day and go shopping, make a list what they want to do and incorporate their children, have them help to cook. Kids like that? Most kids do. Yeah.

Herb: 00:28:14

Yeah. So we also talk a lot about family values and the people that we work with. Family values are some of the things that we start off with.

And so many people's like, well, I'm doing this for my children. You know, we want. Our family is the most important thing. Well, if your family is the most important thing, but you're.

You're eating lots of sugar, you're eating out all the time. You're not spending time around the dining room table, you're not spending time in the kitchen preparing your food together.

It's like that is some of the most healthy activities that you can do as a family for the present, for the future, and for just the health of the family dynamics all around. And so it's like, but we don't have time for the family because we have so much time we're trying to do with the family.

So that's one of those weird conundrums that's out there. It's like, if family really is all that important, and it's like, oh, I'm doing all of this for my family, then it really. It starts in the kitchen.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:29:10

Absolutely. Absolutely. And another thing is breakfasts.

Kristina: 00:29:15

Yes.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:29:16

How many parents give them orange juice, first of all, and they believe it's good for them. But first of all, it's mainly water with additives and vitamin C.

When you open the bottle, that disappears anyway, and the sugar goes out in the bloodstream immediately. Then often they get something with bread or maybe sweet, maybe whatever.

So once when they arrive to school, then their sugar rush is just up and going down and they get what you call it, it falls down. What is that called? You know what I mean? Yes. And that means that like the first hour in school or the first two hours, they don't learn anything.

They can't concentrate, they can't focus.

Kristina: 00:30:12

Yeah.

Herb: 00:30:12

And then they go to lunch and the food in the cafeterias is so full of sugar and preservatives that, that they spike again and they don't have enough time to play and work some of that out. And then you force them to sit back down and be quiet again. And.

And then if they, and then if they have trouble sitting down there, get sent to the doctors and put on medications to calm them down. But again, you're shooting them off with sugar and then trying to bring other substances in to calm them down.

Whereas if, if you just got their blood sugar consistent with the proper diet, then so many issues and behavioral issues go away as well.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:30:47

Yeah. No, And I think sometimes the teachers should be put on calming medication so they could, because I mean, kids have to move.

You can't expect them to sit still. And specifically I saw that with my grandkids when they were growing up that no breaks.

The five minute break they had was from go to one classroom to another. When I grew up, of course, that's a long time ago, we had one classroom for one class. You stayed in the classroom and you had your books there.

And if there were other teachers, teachers came to your class.

Kristina: 00:31:27

I love that model.

Herb: 00:31:28

Part of what we do at Vibrant Family Education as well is we help parents take their children out of school and we help them learn how to homeschool, give them confidence, you know, pad pat it, make it easier for them so that they can have that edge, so that they can teach their children how to learn instead of the facts and the stuff and to sit down in rows and, and to lose their individuality. And every time they wiggle, get in trouble, like, no, take them home, let them wiggle, let them run.

And then teach them how to learn when they're in a good space for it. And so that's. That's kind of what we do.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:32:05

Yeah. Instead of. Instead of shutting them up with a phone.

Herb: 00:32:09

Right, Exactly.

Kristina: 00:32:11

That too. Yeah, exactly.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:32:13

No, I know. I have one of my next youngest grandson. He is now studying in Holland.

He went to university here in South Florida and now he is in Holland and he started there, he's finishing up. So that was three years ago. He said, I finally learned something in school.

Kristina: 00:32:32

Yay. I'm so glad. Too bad you had to go to another country.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:32:36

Exactly. I mean, that is pretty scary.

Kristina: 00:32:39

Yeah.

Herb: 00:32:40

So tell us a little bit about your book, finding your lost Child. What is that about?

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:32:44

Okay, so it is really more. What should I say? Ideas about. Of course I talk about food and how to shop. You know, you don't go in and shop in the center of the store.

Yes, all these things. And what do I have more I can look at. I forgot look at the ingredients.

Is about the disorders and allergies and where to start and diet and nutrition, of course, and lifestyle. And that's another thing. When people go through the allergy kit when the parent. I always recommend that the parents go through.

We all have allergies and how, how much healthier the whole family gets. And parents often they have autoimmune diseases and they go away as long as they keep doing it.

And then there's also about clearing the body from toxins. So it's. I have. My nephew's fiance is a singer. She won the European thing twice last time last year. So she's out and traveling a lot.

She read the book. I brought the book when I was visiting. I think she was the only one who read it and she said that book saved my life. Wow. So.

Because she had a lot of things that she didn't. I mean who puts certain emotions together with food, right?

Herb: 00:34:29

You don't especially because sometimes when you. What you eat takes three days for the effects to actually hit.

So it's like you could eat something yesterday that's going to affect you tomorrow or the next day because it's not an immediate reaction. It takes a little while to get through the.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:34:45

Not the allergies. That's the sensitivities. They take time. So that's why I, what I recommend is that you do a food diary. Write down everything.

Write down in the morning how you feel, how you slept and then what you. I mean nowadays there are even apps that you can just speak in what you do and then because that's the only way that you.

Where you can get a picture of what did I eat? Especially with sensitivities that it takes two or three days before you get the reaction.

But if you see that reaction and just go back three days and do that a few times you say, oh, I had that. You know that that is a problem. So there are, there are a lot of things to do. Takes effort.

Kristina: 00:35:36

Yeah, it does take effort and it takes a little bit of a puzzle problem solving brain. Because my mom was the same way. Whenever we would go to a certain restaurant, if she only ate the food, she was fine.

And then other times if she only like drank wine, she was fine. But Then every once in a while, we would have something there at the restaurant, and she would go home and she would get sick.

And it took us for a really, really long time to figure out that there was a certain spice on the salad that when mixed with the wine, caused her to get sick. But it took, like, several, several months to try to figure out what in the world was going on because she was fine most of the time.

It was just once in a while that she would get sick later. And it was like a major migraine headache.

Herb: 00:36:19

Right.

Kristina: 00:36:19

Kind of thing that would come on later. So it's not like she was throwing up. Like, food poisoning was like, oh, major headache. So, yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:36:27

No. I look at myself, because when I treat, I do everything with my patients that I do for, you know, for myself, what I do with my patients.

And I had fibromyalgia pretty bad. And nothing had helped. A chiropractic, acupuncture, massage, herbs, whatever. No allopathic medicine for me.

And nothing helped until I started to eliminate allergies. And I did not think I had allergies. Then when I look back, I had ear infections as a child. That is a symptom of a milk allergy.

That creates allergies. That creates. And then you get. Well, today, then it was penicillin, but today they get antibiotics.

Kristina: 00:37:17

Right.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:37:18

And then when I got a little older, I got headaches and migraines, and I would often have migraine on a Monday. So I thought it was because I had wine on Sunday. I thought it was the wine, but I later figured out it was. We had barbecue.

It was the meat and the potato together.

Kristina: 00:37:36

Okay. Yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:37:38

But it took me many years to figure that out. Yeah, exactly. But there are all these little things that we don't think about. For example, we take children with.

They wake up with asthma or respiratory problems. That is mostly an allergy to dust mites.

Kristina: 00:38:03

Okay. Yep.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:38:05

And the same thing there. They get antibiotics.

Kristina: 00:38:08

Yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:38:09

Most of the time.

Kristina: 00:38:10

Or steroids for the asthma.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:38:13

Yeah. And yes. And with the ear infections, the tubes and all that stuff, I had one little girl who did not thrive and that she had ear infections.

And then she got antibiotic two or three weeks later, she got the step throat and then antibiotics and then. And that went on a whole year. So she was three years old, but she was, I mean, very, very tiny. I treated her for milk, and it was like Santo Remedio.

It just totally went away. And she didn't suffer from that anymore. Oh, my gosh.

Herb: 00:38:49

Yeah. It's amazing how much effort people will go through and how much pain and money that they'll spend just so that they don't have to change their diet.

Whereas if you start working on your diet and change your diet, then so many of the other issues that are affecting your life can clear up. So behavioral issues, health issues, sleep issues. So diet.

You know, one of the things that I really like is if you don't eat your medicine or if you don't eat your food like it's medicine, so eat your food like it's the medicine for your life, then eventually you'll be eating your medicine like it's food.

So if you don't treat your, your food like it's the life giving essence of yourself, then you'll end up taking medicines for the rest of your life to try and compensate for not eating healthy.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:39:39

Yes. And when we look at that, one child out of two, that means 50% of our children today, they have at least one chronic illness.

Kristina: 00:39:51

Yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:39:52

Oh, my gosh. And that could be if they don't change what they eat. I don't, I don't know where, where the country is going.

Kristina: 00:40:01

Yeah, exactly. Oh, my gosh.

Herb: 00:40:03

You know, I'm gonna kind of put myself here. But we've got a lot of people right now that are looking at that and are changing that.

And it's like they understand that there is health epidemics, that we're the most unhealthy country in the world, even though we have like the best doctors in the world. So why is that? And so now we have people who are saying it's like, you know, our kids are sick. We.

So right now they're like going through the Department of Health and getting rid of that is like. Because if, if the Department of Health was working, then we wouldn't have the most unhealthy country, so.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:40:34

Exactly.

Herb: 00:40:35

So we got, we got some hope on the horizon, even just for the education to wake people up and to get them looking for themselves.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:40:44

Yeah, that's, that's my goal, is to wake people up. And I mean, if we talk about reactions. Look at wheat. Wheat is another one.

Herb: 00:40:55

Yeah, Yeah. I miss my. I miss my bread. I miss my bread a lot.

But I know a lot of people who are allergic to wheat or gluten and then they go to Europe and they don't have any problems. So in the United States, a lot of times it's the stuff that's on the wheat, like the glutamate and the, or the.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:41:13

Well, it's not only that, it's also the Chemicals they put in that they can't have, that I put in the dough so the dough can stretch more. I guess for pizza and stuff that they don't. Can't have in Europe. It's the same with me. When I go to Europe, I can. I can't eat all breads.

And it's not that I'm not gluten intolerant. I'm wheat. I have an allergy to eat, even though I've treated myself many times. And it started with that I had.

I could not sleep on my sides because my hips hurt so much. And when I asked the chiropractor, he said, oh, it's. You're getting old. And I said, how come it hurts sometimes and not other times?

Kristina: 00:41:54

Right.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:41:55

And then, then we were very busy a week and we went three times to the same restaurant down the street, an Italian, Salvadoreno Salvatorian restaurant where they serve bread that I cut, is newly baked. They cut it in thin slices and flatten it out. And then with this chimichurri on top. And the third time we came in, I had been okay.

The third time I had that bread, I was fine. When I came in and sat down, I could hardly get out from the table. And that's when I realized that I was allergic to wheat. There it was.

Kristina: 00:42:33

Yeah.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:42:34

And not the gluten. You know, they can talk about gluten as much as they want, but that's not the whole story.

Kristina: 00:42:40

Yeah, exactly. Oh, my gosh, Dr. Inge, this has been such a great conversation and you've been giving us so many tips and good ideas for our families.

Thank you so very, very much.

Would you make sure that our families know how to get a hold of you if you have said something, if you have sparked their imagination and their curiosity? We want them to be able to get a hold of you and ask you questions and find out more about what you do.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:43:01

Okay. They can go to theallergykit.com and there is a place where they can make an appointment, the 15 minute free consultation.

And if they want more, they can do that too, after they do the first 15 minutes. And I also have another website, which is Dr. Inga.coM-R-Y-N-G-E.com with a couple of other things that I also do. So. And yep.

Kristina: 00:43:30

And those will all, of course, down be down in the show notes. So you can just, you know, look at her name on the screen or jump down the show notes and click on the link there. So, thank you so very, very much.

Is there anything that we haven't mentioned that you really wanted to talk about today?

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:43:46

Well, I just want to tell people, please, please eat organic, cook and eliminate your allergies because it will help so much for the whole family.

Herb: 00:43:58

Miracles.

Kristina: 00:43:59

Yep, exactly. Thank you so much for being here today.

Herb: 00:44:02

Thank you for being here. It has been a pleasure talking with you today. Thank you for putting yourself out there.

Because, you know, a lot of times when people do this, it's like the. The industries and other people's like, no, you're wrong. That can't be right. But you actually are persevering.

You're out here and you're sharing your wisdom with people and you're trying to make a difference, and so that makes you a hero. So thank you for coming on our show today. Thank you for putting yourself out there and for trying to help the world and make it a better place.

We need more people like you. So thank you for coming on our show today.

Dr. Ynge Ljung: 00:44:33

Thank you.

Kristina: 00:44:35

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Herb: 00:45:04

Bye for now.