December 23, 2025 • 33 mins
Michael Berry talks with Dr. Chris Colaco about childhood allergies, Houston pollen explosions, and how modern treatments actually retrain your immune system.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I talked about this a couple of weeks ago, and
I don't know how. I guess I didn't go deep
enough into it, but I knew it was only a
matter of time, and so did you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We all knew.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
When the Democrats and the mainstream media started to promote
drag queens. You knew what was coming next. Drag queens
everywhere because it sort of induces others. It becomes, in
an odd way, a bandwagon effect. Now you may say
to yourself, I don't understand that, because it doesn't make
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me want to be a drag queen.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But it was never intended to appeal to you. It
was intended to appeal to a certain amount of a
certain type of person. So when tattoos became more commonplace,
it was a rebel thing to do. It's a crazy
thing to do.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
It was it was a it was a rebellion and
it showed that you were different. And so people would
get tattoos as a way of making a statement, piss
off mom and dad. And when you saw them, you
knew that's a person doesn't care what you think, and
it's it's as much a uniform as any other uniform.
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But that's what it was until everybody started getting tattoos.
It got to the point where people in their seventies
are getting tattoos. Little ladies are getting tattoos because their
granddaughter comes home from college. As grandma, let's go get
a tattoo, you and me, we'll get it on our ankle.
It'll be a butterfly. All right, maybe I'll do Your
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grandmother do anything for the grand kids, you know that.
And so now you walk into a tattoo parlor and
there's grandma over there, sweet as she can be. He's
been voting Republicans since Eisenhower, and she's getting a tattoo.
So they had to go right, they ruined it for us.
It's like hipsters. It's very much like hipsters. It's like
hipsters who you know, they want the hot new thing,
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the craft beer or this brand of clothing, or vacationing
in this particular place. And then when the normies do it,
when the rest of us do it, it ruins it.
Or if you have teenagers, your teenagers will use words
that are teen vocabulary jargon, and so what you do
(02:36):
is you learn about it and you throw it in
real casually as if you think you're super cool, and
they hear it, and it, I mean, destroys that term
for them. And in my house they're.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Like, Dad, no, no, But what will.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Happen is Michael or Crockett one or the other, whichever
one reacts the most harshly to it, which is usually
Michael t my olde crocodile.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Go.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I gotta tell you that props. You did use it, right,
I mean you did, you did actually use it right.
I mean, I gotta give you credit. You did so.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Anyway, So when the when normalizing the drag queens became
the deal, it started making more popular drag queens reading
to kids in school. They didn't they didn't just want
to be left alone and not beaten up. See that
was the originals. It always starts there, leave them alone,
they're victims of crime. Okay, leave them alone, don't pick
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on them. Okay, they're coming to read to your kid
in school.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Whoa, whoa. That escalated quickly.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Drag Queen's Story Hour in the public library turned into
drag Queen's Story Hour in the school. And you were
a bigot if you balked at it. Okay, I'm a
biggot if that's what that means, because that's no place
for that. Then they put pornography in the school library.
Then they said that we wanted to ban books, and
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so the FBI started investigating parents that went to school
board meetings to protest, bullying them, intimidating them gestapo tactics
exactly what it is, no different. We call them groomers
because that's what they are. They're grooming young children so
that they can be objects of their sexual enjoyment. It's
sick and it's real. That's what pedophiles do, and that's
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why it's so important for all these people to do
what they do in the school. They don't want to
be left alone. Used to they'd say, just leave us
alone and leave our lives.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
We're just like you. We just want to be left alone.
They don't want to be left alone anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Now they want to come and smirit in your face
and they want to dare you to have a problem
with it so that they can destroy you. That's their goal.
You have to fight back in the same way they're fighting. Well,
we now have liberal white women, which is the source
of most problems in this country in academia trying to
tell us that pedophilia is a sexual orientation.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Most of us show the comfort when we think about pedophiles.
But just like pedophiles, we are not responsible for our feelings.
We do not choose them, but we are responsible for
our actions, and we must make a decision. It is
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in our responsibility to reflect and to overcome our negative
feelings about pedophiles and to treat them with the same
respect we treat other people with. Who should accept that
pedophiles are people who have not chosen their sexuality and who,
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unlike most of us, will never be able to live
it out freely if they want to lead an upright life.
Who should accept that pedophilia is a sexual preference.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Statistics indicate that there will be one or two of
you who are struggling with some form of pedophilic interest.
These people can't talk about their feelings because they know
that they will be hated for it. I truly do
believe that every person is longing for love at some
point in their life. And what if this love that
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you really wish for will forever be impossible. That must
be a really lonely situation to be in. Yes, from
an emotional point of view, I can kind of understand
that you would want to eliminate these people from society. However,
it doesn't make sense, and that's because we're talking about biology.
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We're talking about a sexual orientation, something that we simply
cannot change. And on top of that, every day new
people are born with the same difficulty. So it's not
practical to eliminate these people from society. They haven't done
anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
This should not be a surprise. How many high profile
people flew to Epstein out Nobody made them. They didn't
arrive and find out later. I had no idea what
was gonna happen. These people wanted to do this. They're
being protected. There is a powerful cabal protecting them, and
I think, by the way blackmailing them. Joe Biden had
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been smelling the hair of young girls for a long time.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
His daughter wrote in her diary, which has now been
verified she did write it.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It is her diary that he would shower with her
when she was a teenager and it was creepy and
she wished he would stop. Do you know any other
grown men who get button naked in the shower with
their teenage daughter, honestly, and a guy that already has it,
has a whole history.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But he's not the only people.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Jos Sweat comes to the fairer Sesso.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Guss perplexed iruck with his eight sheets. She's got orders
from the stools from where to your mexice.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's Tracy Birds.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Hey, y'all, if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon
crawl and listen to the TSAR talk.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
My buddy Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
My entire childhood was marked with horrible, horrible allergies growing
up in Orange and many of you, I can only
speak to Southeast Texas, but many of you who grew
up in this region experienced the same thing. I had
tubes not once, but twice in my ear, which is
basically a culvert, to get some drainage out of there,
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and I had a terrible procedure they no longer do,
called windows done. It was a brief period of time
around seventy nine or eighty where they would go in
and literally punch holes in your cheekbones and try to
create a culvert there. The idea being, you know, you're
kind of releasing the dam and letting the snot out
of there. It was extremely painful recovery and it didn't work.
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And to this day, when I have anytime scans are
done on my face, the doctors will go, ugh, you
had windows, Huh yes I did, uh yeah, and they
don't want to tell me, but then I tell them
I know.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It was a terrible procedure.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
So my entire childhood is marked by these terrible, terrible allergies.
You know, stopped up, your eyes running. You know it's
pollen season right now. Those of you who know no,
and a lot of us do.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I meet my wife when I'm eighteen, she's twenty one.
She's just come from India.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And she has no allergies, and she can't understand why
I'm constantly talking about allergies and blowing my nose and
everything else that goes with this disgusting condition.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And she has no allergies, and I'm jealous. Well, lo
and behold.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Over the years, she does develop some allergies, and unlike me,
she does something about it. So five years ago she
we discovered this doctor and then Chris Colosso, and he
came highly recommended, and he's a superstar allergy doctor. Asthma doctor.
So she goes to see him, and you know.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
She does all the tests.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Everybody's had those tests done, but she probably had them
like me when you were a kid, and they're much
better today. And she comes home and tells me, you know,
she's allergic to dust mites, which are in a lot
of beds. So we we travel with our own sheets now,
and she's going to start taking these shots. And so
she takes those shots, and it took about six months
for her to be completely allergy free. And it was
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one of those you know, before and after testimonials that
you don't really believe. You figure the person had to
be compensated, but I'm here to tell you it was true.
So she started in on me. This was five years ago,
so within four years, within a year, she just goes
for I think a monthly and she's the happiest person
in the world, and you need to go.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And I you know, I'm a guy.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You know, guys, y'all understand we'd rather bitch about it
than do anything about it. So eventually it got so
bad and y'all had to hear me go through this
that in late October early November, I caught an upper respiratory,
which I do about every three years or so, I thought,
and it was unbearable. So I about a month ago,
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I guess, go to her doctor and I am already
on a path to improvement, and he identified a number
of things for me that I had no idea. And
I'm just impressed because I like people. You know, my
urologist Mo with Kara, he geeks out on eurological stuff.
My cardiologist Stan Duckman, he geeks out on doctor stuff.
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I like people who are passionate about what they do,
the way Russell Lebarra is about the functioning of his
kitchen or the hiring of people. So the more I
talk to this guy, I was really fascinated by his
passion for this issue that affects a lot of people.
And his clinic is called Advanced Allergy and Asthma Center.
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It's at the corner of Stell A link still a.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Wesland are basically the same street, and Hulcomb and bel
Air are basically the same street that has changed names.
So Wesleyan and Hulcomb or Stella, Linco and bel Air,
wherever you want to think about it, that's.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Where they are.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Anyway, so we get to talking about these allergies and
what causes them and all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And I thought, I'm fifty four, relatively well read.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I ask a lot of questions, and I learned things
from him in just a few meetings that I had
no idea about. And I said, well, let's share that
on the air moon. So I'm gonna need you to
pay attention. Okay, there'd be a quiz at the end.
Doctor Chris Colosso. Is his name Colaco. Don't try to
make sense of it. It's a Portuguese name, is our guest.
Let's start with this doctor Chris Colosso. Article in the
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Chronicle a few days ago that said, it is pollen
season and it's a bad season.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
What does that mean for people?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Why does that cause us so many problems when it's
pollen season?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Explain it to me like I'm six years.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Old, all right, Michael, thank you for having me on
the show. And so you'll stop at the beginning. And so,
an allergy is an abnormal response to something that's not
really harmful to you. And so the body, depending on
your genetics or your environment, decides that it's going to
mount this immune response to something and then it every
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time you get exposed to that, the body decides, hey,
this thing is affecting me and I'm going to fight it.
And so that's what they get allergy. And so pollen,
you know, is ubiquitous and all you know, Houston has
the right amount of humidity and higher levels of pollen
that you know, most people tend to have some level
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of rhaniris or running nose and ocular symptoms that means
drainage from your eyes and those kinds of things when
pollen is very high. And so that's that's your introduction
to having allergy. Now most of us, you know, have
a certain level of resilience and that you have those
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symptoms and sometimes it's for a day or two and
then you slowly get better. But what happens with allergy
is that it's considered an a topic March. And so
if you start off with one or two things, and
you know, we'll just make up a random amount, you
make one hundred histamine molecules, and histamine is the chemical
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that your body secretes. It causes you to have the
itching and the sneezing and the eye itching and the
drainage and post nasal drip and all that kind of stuff.
And you know, the first year, you may make one
hundred histamine molecules, and you know, you can take a
nata histamine and you do better. And then you know,
with the natural course of disease, what happens the following
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year is you make even more and you become allergic
to more things. And so once you get on that
pathway of this abnormal immune response to something that's harmless,
the body just you know, goes down that pathway and
starts reacting to different pollens, to dust, to animal vandor
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to foods. And that's how allergy is. And so most
people within the next week or two, if you and
those who know, no, you're going to get miserable because
once you start seeing you know, I've just noticed though
the leaves are already falling. Once that starts, the old
pollen is going to start. And so most everyone in
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Houston knows when you start seeing a little bit of
that yellow stuff on your car, you're going to get
kind of miserable. And so that's what's coming. And so
as you know, over the years, what you see and
most people may you know, have some idea with this,
is that the symptoms initially started, you know, and they're
not so bad, and then the following year it gets worse,
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and it gets worse, and then finally you get to
where you're using multiple different medicines in this and you're
still miserable. And so what Ryan Eidis does is you
have all these secretions in your nose and they have
to go somewhere. And so, like you know what Michael
was saying with in his case, in the old days,
they thought, hey, we'll just cut out this path and
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that will help everything grain and then we'll be better.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Doctor Chris Colosso old right there, old rut there. Our
guest is doctor Chris Colosso. He's an allergy and asthma specialist.
He's now my doctor. He's been my wife's doctor in
a very good one.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
We'll continue our conversation with him right in the middle
of apology coming on.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
You've got the Michael Berry's show. Chris Glosso is our guest.
He is my new allergy doctor.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
He's been my wife's doctor for five years and proofs
in the pudding. She has had phenomenal results. So all
of the problems she had with allergies are gone. And
we are very grateful for it. His shop that he
is the head of his Advanced Allergy and Asthma Center,
which is over at Wesleyann and Holcombe, you know where
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that is, just south of West University, doctor Chris Colosso
let me take you back for a moment. You said
that when this pollen comes out, even if we take
an anahistamine, which which dulls down our natural reaction. But
you talked about the symptoms of or what happens the result,
and that's thes not that's the eyes watering, that's why
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is the body doing that.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
So the so through evolution allergy initia and I know
there's caveats to this. And you know, the immune system,
the part that's responsible for allergy, they used to think
used to be directed towards parasites, and so that part
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of the immune system used to be very active against
parasites and you know those kinds of pathogens. In most
of the developed world, we don't have that much parasites
to deal with. And so a simple way to think
about it is this, through evolution, this part of the
immune system that was functioning so well to take care
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of parasites now sort of has nothing to react to
and so it starts going down this pathway to find
something to do, if you will. And that's a simplistic
way of looking at it. But now it starts reacting
to allergens and so it once it gets on that path,
it it sort of thinks that it's protecting you against
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this stuff when this stuff is not.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Really how is I don't understand the purpose of the
MU because how is it forming all this snot? How
is that ever going to help me?
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Well, you know, if when you have a lot of
that snot and it's draining out in that kind of thing,
it's it's you know, you're probably not when you're very congested,
you can't breathe, you probably won't get much fallen in there.
And so it's not even a good response, but it's
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just the way the body is reacting to it.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, no, but that makes actual sense because that would
reduce the amount of pollen that you would continue to get.
It never crossed my mind. So what we're doing nois
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
So sometimes when people say, oh, I had to find
a surgery, and now they trim my tournaments and open
me up and now I can get all this stuff,
And then I feel like it's you know, still make
me miserable. And that's where where it's all open now.
And you know, so it doesn't change the surgery is
not going to change your immune system.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
So what is the answery.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
You've got to get your ad system to stop reacting
in this manner, correct.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
And so one of the things that you know allergies do,
or you know that your wife did, right, And we're
jumping the gun here, so we're saying, oh, I'm not
saying that everyone needs shots or something like that, but
if you look at that, what allergy shots and they've
been around for a hundred years, and what allergy shots
is is to try and teach the immune system, if
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you will, to not react to what you're allergic to.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And so.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
What we do is you make these, you know, these
extracts which are basically has you know exactly what you're
allergic to, and you give it.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Back to the patient.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Now, you couldn't possibly give them the full strame shot
or you'd kill them because they'd have a whole body
allergic reaction to the shot. And so what you do
is you deluded down one hundred thousand fold, and you
give it back to the patient and in slow incremental doses,
and so in that way, you're slowly introducing the allergen
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to the body. And what that does over a period
of time is it it starts generating these cells in
the body called T suppress our cells, and these T
suppress our cells suppress the immune response to whatever is
in the allergy, to whatever's in the shot. And so
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that is why in patients who have done immunotherapy and
those kinds of things, they don't react as strongly. So
when your body sees the pollen the next pollen season
and you've been on shots, it doesn't react as strongly.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
To the shot to the pollen.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
And so, you know, medications treat symptoms, they don't.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Do anything for the problem.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
So the problem sort of festers along in the background.
And that's why, you know, when we talked about me
and you you know, I was like, hey, you know
during pollen season and I do this too, if I
go run around rice. I mean this is you know,
I try not to do the loop during the oak season,
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but if I do run around it, I sometimes have
you know, mild symptoms. I immediately do a sinus rints
and clean out all that Paullen. So it's not sitting
in my away in my nasal passage making me horrible,
and that way you just physically do better. But what
allergy shops is to try and tell the body, hey,
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stop reacting to this, you know, And so it's trying
to put a hold on your body going down this
wrong pathway of reacting to something that's harmless.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Mary Telly Boden has become nationally famous for the fact
that that she criticized the COVID protocols and all those
But before she was famous, and just as that was
beginning to happen, I had her on the show to
talk about a sinus rents because I had seen her.
She had a handle like doctor snotsucker or something something
funny like that, and she posts videos of doing these
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sinus rentses and she was a big fan of My
wife does it. I don't do it as often I
know I should. I'm just irregular. My wife does it.
But on that point, I know, Mary Taly Boden is
a huge fan of that, and it sounds like you
are as well.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
I am, and so you know there, so all of
the sinus rinses come from this. So in yoga one
hundred years ago. So in India they know there's a
thing called nathi and actually the natty pop comes from nati,
which is a term in yoga of where you rinse
out the nasal passages. And they knew a long time
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ago that for whatever reason, if there was inflammation in
the nose, the chest would do bad. And so in
patients who have asthma, and this is you know, a
long time ago in India, they rinsed the nose out
and no one knows if he knew why. Over the
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last fifteen to twenty years, we started to find out
that it's considered this single airway hypothesis, and so if
there's inflammation in one part of the airway, that inflammation
will irritate the whole airway. And so the nose is connected,
you know, to the lungs, and so a lot of
people will experience this when they have sometimes bad sinus
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infections and upper estrare infections. Then they'll have wheezing in
those kinds of things. And that's where you know, physically
cleaning out all that mucus helps and the other thing
that you know, these rinses do is physically clean out
the pond or the dust might or whatever, so the
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antigen is not just sitting in there, you know, keeping
the immune reaction going.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Hold with me for doctor Chris Colosso. He's at Advanced
Allergy and Asthma Center, which is Wesleyan and Holcombe.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
He's he's We've had great. He needs out here, he
needs uh uh. He is our He's done great for
my wife.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I've started with him and I really like his ability
to explain these things, and we will continue having him
do that.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
In the middle of pollen season coming up.
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Speaker 2 (25:22):
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go see him for a consultation so that you can
connect with him. I'm a big fan because he's made
my wife very healthy and very happy, and that makes
me very happy. So, doctor colosso let's go back to.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
You.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
First, put my wife on Zyrtec, and we hear a
lot about zyrtech. Now it's over the counter, and Zytech
basically suppresses the body's desire to overreact to this pollen
we see out there all the time. Now, can you
talk through the history of that drug and how that
has affected your practice.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
Zyrtec is an antihistamine, and so initially, you know, when
Zyrtec first came out, it was prescription and so you know,
you couldn't get zyrtech unless you went to the doctor.
You went to the allergist. And so you know, there's
a couple of things that the or moving the medicine
over the counter has done to the practice of allergy
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for us. And it's just interesting to see. And so
when you have a lot of histamine around and you
feel miserable and you have drainage and congestion and you're
itching and all that kind of stuff, and you would
have to go to the doctor, and a lot of times,
the alogists would say, hey, let's see what you're allergic to,
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and they do testing and you know, find one or
two things that was positive and then sometimes you know,
either start you on treatment for that or do avoidance
measures of those kind of things. But as these drugs
have gone, you know, over the counter, initially we were thought, oh,
there's going to be no need for allergies, but in fact,
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what we've seen is that we now tend to pick
up patients who are a lot more serious. So if
there was no zerotech when you know, you first start
having allergy, then let's say you're just allergic to dust mites.
I'll just use that as an example. Then you know,
we would see the patient and sometimes if they'd get
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on shots for dust mate.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Then they'd do a lot better.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
But now with Zyrtech being over the counter, so let's
say you have a mild dust mite allergy and then
you start having springtime scenes and then you take zerotech.
Zertech blocks histamine, but it's not aligned, it's not doing
anything or not doing much because the allergy process of
you know, developing allergy to stuff is still going on.
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And so what happens is then as long as that
zotech can keep blocking the amount of history being released,
you'll be okay, and then you start doing a nose
spray for allergy, and that's over the kind of and
in the background, you're you're you know, developing, not in
all cases, but in a lot of cases, you're developing
more allergy. And so then what happens is the person,
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you know, it's almost rare, almost never that I see
a patient who's not tried zyrtech before or tried nose
sprays now or those kind of things. And so while
the zyrtech is helping you, you know, do okay or
control your symptoms, if the allergy is going on in
the background, then you're developing, you know, more allergy. And
(28:57):
so it's not atypical for me to see a patient
who has now multiple things that they allergic to. So,
you know, as in Michael's case, since you know we're
talking about this, it's it can be multiple trees and
grasses in those kinds of things. And so in so
(29:18):
what we tend to do, we say, you know, as all,
just see patients who are a lot further along in
the allergic process as opposed to you know, when xerotech
and those kind of drugs were prescription based because you
would just end up seeing the patient earlier.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
But what does that mean you know that further along
are your allergies getting worse through time?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Is that it's not just here's the.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Are that's exactly right and how.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
And so Okay, So that's a very good question. So
and it's a little bit technical, but in the body,
you have these these chemicals floating around called into lukens
and into lukens. Sometimes we'll player key role is if
if you have if you're exposed to analogy and or
(30:06):
you know, let's say we'll just we'll just make up something.
Let's say you're allergic to oak pollen. And when you're
allergic to oak pollen or you have bad allergies, you
have these chemicals flowing around and then there's many different
numbers of chemicals, but you'll pick the ones important analogy,
and so you have high levels of aisle four, Aisle five,
(30:26):
and aisle thirteen. Now, when you get exposed to a
pollen in the presence of high if there's a lot
of aisle four, Aisle five, Aisle thirteen, you're more likely
to make an allergic antibody to it and so they're not.
You know, there's studies that have done that show this.
(30:47):
Let's say you take a person who's allergic to oak,
and during oak season, you expose them to pecon pollen.
And in another chamber, you take someone who's not allergic
to oak, and you expose them to pecan pollen. And
then three months later you go back and you go
and check the blood and see who has an allergic
(31:09):
antibody to pecan. And interestingly, the person who was allergic
to oak is now allergic to oak and pecon, whereas
the one who wasn't allergic to oak isn't necessarily allergic
to con. And so allergy tends to beget allergy. And
(31:30):
so that's why that cycle just seems to you know,
once it starts, you tend to start going down that pathway.
And so that is why that is what I meant
is that when we know now see patients who've been
using over the kind of medicines they're already then tend
to be allergic to multiple different things, whereas before those
(31:52):
ween those medications with prescription, you would see those patients
a lot earlier in the disease process.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, it's interesting because living where we live, and having
lived here my entire life, with only some brief periods
of living away, it's something that we grow accustomed to.
My mother had terrible, terrible allergies, My brother had pretty
bad allergies, and mine are not as bad as my
mother's were, but pretty bad. So it's almost something we
grow accustomed to. And so watching my wife's recovery or
(32:22):
healing or improvement, whatever you want to call it, I
almost didn't believe that there was anything that could be
done that could possibly make my life so much better.
But when I saw it with her, I said, my goodness,
that is especially with this, you know, three months of
just horrible and it was affecting my ability to do
the show. I said, okay, I'm willing to spend the
(32:45):
actual time to go and get something done about this.
Hold with us for just a moment. Chris Colosso is
our guest. That is spelled co l l ac. If
you want to go see him. It is Advanced out
Energy and Asthma Center. It's on Grammercy Street, which is
over kind of near Rice University, you could say a
(33:08):
little south of West University if you know where that is,
and otherwise you can email me and I will connect
you with their website. If you want to go make
an appointment to see him. More of doctor Chris Colosso
in the middle of pollen season, as we are, blow
your nose and we'll have more come up.
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Varry Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I talked about this a couple of weeks ago, and
I don't know how. I guess I didn't go deep
enough into it, but I knew it was only a
matter of time, and so did you.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We all knew.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
When the Democrats and the mainstream media started to promote
drag queens. You knew what was coming next. Drag queens
everywhere because it sort of induces others. It becomes, in
an odd way, a bandwagon effect. Now you may say
to yourself, I don't understand that, because it doesn't make
(00:54):
me want to be a drag queen.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
But it was never intended to appeal to you. It
was intended to appeal to a certain amount of a
certain type of person. So when tattoos became more commonplace,
it was a rebel thing to do. It's a crazy
thing to do.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
It was it was a it was a rebellion and
it showed that you were different. And so people would
get tattoos as a way of making a statement, piss
off mom and dad. And when you saw them, you
knew that's a person doesn't care what you think, and
it's it's as much a uniform as any other uniform.
(01:30):
But that's what it was until everybody started getting tattoos.
It got to the point where people in their seventies
are getting tattoos. Little ladies are getting tattoos because their
granddaughter comes home from college. As grandma, let's go get
a tattoo, you and me, we'll get it on our ankle.
It'll be a butterfly. All right, maybe I'll do Your
(01:50):
grandmother do anything for the grand kids, you know that.
And so now you walk into a tattoo parlor and
there's grandma over there, sweet as she can be. He's
been voting Republicans since Eisenhower, and she's getting a tattoo.
So they had to go right, they ruined it for us.
It's like hipsters. It's very much like hipsters. It's like
hipsters who you know, they want the hot new thing,
(02:15):
the craft beer or this brand of clothing, or vacationing
in this particular place. And then when the normies do it,
when the rest of us do it, it ruins it.
Or if you have teenagers, your teenagers will use words
that are teen vocabulary jargon, and so what you do
(02:36):
is you learn about it and you throw it in
real casually as if you think you're super cool, and
they hear it, and it, I mean, destroys that term
for them. And in my house they're.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Like, Dad, no, no, But what will.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Happen is Michael or Crockett one or the other, whichever
one reacts the most harshly to it, which is usually
Michael t my olde crocodile.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Go.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I gotta tell you that props. You did use it, right,
I mean you did, you did actually use it right.
I mean, I gotta give you credit. You did so.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Anyway, So when the when normalizing the drag queens became
the deal, it started making more popular drag queens reading
to kids in school. They didn't they didn't just want
to be left alone and not beaten up. See that
was the originals. It always starts there, leave them alone,
they're victims of crime. Okay, leave them alone, don't pick
(03:31):
on them. Okay, they're coming to read to your kid
in school.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Whoa, whoa. That escalated quickly.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Drag Queen's Story Hour in the public library turned into
drag Queen's Story Hour in the school. And you were
a bigot if you balked at it. Okay, I'm a
biggot if that's what that means, because that's no place
for that. Then they put pornography in the school library.
Then they said that we wanted to ban books, and
(03:58):
so the FBI started investigating parents that went to school
board meetings to protest, bullying them, intimidating them gestapo tactics
exactly what it is, no different. We call them groomers
because that's what they are. They're grooming young children so
that they can be objects of their sexual enjoyment. It's
sick and it's real. That's what pedophiles do, and that's
(04:23):
why it's so important for all these people to do
what they do in the school. They don't want to
be left alone. Used to they'd say, just leave us
alone and leave our lives.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
We're just like you. We just want to be left alone.
They don't want to be left alone anymore.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Now they want to come and smirit in your face
and they want to dare you to have a problem
with it so that they can destroy you. That's their goal.
You have to fight back in the same way they're fighting. Well,
we now have liberal white women, which is the source
of most problems in this country in academia trying to
tell us that pedophilia is a sexual orientation.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Listen to this.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Most of us show the comfort when we think about pedophiles.
But just like pedophiles, we are not responsible for our feelings.
We do not choose them, but we are responsible for
our actions, and we must make a decision. It is
(05:19):
in our responsibility to reflect and to overcome our negative
feelings about pedophiles and to treat them with the same
respect we treat other people with. Who should accept that
pedophiles are people who have not chosen their sexuality and who,
(05:39):
unlike most of us, will never be able to live
it out freely if they want to lead an upright life.
Who should accept that pedophilia is a sexual preference.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Statistics indicate that there will be one or two of
you who are struggling with some form of pedophilic interest.
These people can't talk about their feelings because they know
that they will be hated for it. I truly do
believe that every person is longing for love at some
point in their life. And what if this love that
(06:12):
you really wish for will forever be impossible. That must
be a really lonely situation to be in. Yes, from
an emotional point of view, I can kind of understand
that you would want to eliminate these people from society. However,
it doesn't make sense, and that's because we're talking about biology.
(06:35):
We're talking about a sexual orientation, something that we simply
cannot change. And on top of that, every day new
people are born with the same difficulty. So it's not
practical to eliminate these people from society. They haven't done
anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
This should not be a surprise. How many high profile
people flew to Epstein out Nobody made them. They didn't
arrive and find out later. I had no idea what
was gonna happen. These people wanted to do this. They're
being protected. There is a powerful cabal protecting them, and
I think, by the way blackmailing them. Joe Biden had
(07:17):
been smelling the hair of young girls for a long time.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
His daughter wrote in her diary, which has now been
verified she did write it.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It is her diary that he would shower with her
when she was a teenager and it was creepy and
she wished he would stop. Do you know any other
grown men who get button naked in the shower with
their teenage daughter, honestly, and a guy that already has it,
has a whole history.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
But he's not the only people.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Jos Sweat comes to the fairer Sesso.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Guss perplexed iruck with his eight sheets. She's got orders
from the stools from where to your mexice.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
It's Tracy Birds.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Hey, y'all, if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon
crawl and listen to the TSAR talk.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
My buddy Michael Berry.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
My entire childhood was marked with horrible, horrible allergies growing
up in Orange and many of you, I can only
speak to Southeast Texas, but many of you who grew
up in this region experienced the same thing. I had
tubes not once, but twice in my ear, which is
basically a culvert, to get some drainage out of there,
(08:51):
and I had a terrible procedure they no longer do,
called windows done. It was a brief period of time
around seventy nine or eighty where they would go in
and literally punch holes in your cheekbones and try to
create a culvert there. The idea being, you know, you're
kind of releasing the dam and letting the snot out
of there. It was extremely painful recovery and it didn't work.
(09:12):
And to this day, when I have anytime scans are
done on my face, the doctors will go, ugh, you
had windows, Huh yes I did, uh yeah, and they
don't want to tell me, but then I tell them
I know.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It was a terrible procedure.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
So my entire childhood is marked by these terrible, terrible allergies.
You know, stopped up, your eyes running. You know it's
pollen season right now. Those of you who know no,
and a lot of us do.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I meet my wife when I'm eighteen, she's twenty one.
She's just come from India.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
And she has no allergies, and she can't understand why
I'm constantly talking about allergies and blowing my nose and
everything else that goes with this disgusting condition.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
And she has no allergies, and I'm jealous. Well, lo
and behold.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Over the years, she does develop some allergies, and unlike me,
she does something about it. So five years ago she
we discovered this doctor and then Chris Colosso, and he
came highly recommended, and he's a superstar allergy doctor. Asthma doctor.
So she goes to see him, and you know.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
She does all the tests.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Everybody's had those tests done, but she probably had them
like me when you were a kid, and they're much
better today. And she comes home and tells me, you know,
she's allergic to dust mites, which are in a lot
of beds. So we we travel with our own sheets now,
and she's going to start taking these shots. And so
she takes those shots, and it took about six months
for her to be completely allergy free. And it was
(10:35):
one of those you know, before and after testimonials that
you don't really believe. You figure the person had to
be compensated, but I'm here to tell you it was true.
So she started in on me. This was five years ago,
so within four years, within a year, she just goes
for I think a monthly and she's the happiest person
in the world, and you need to go.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And I you know, I'm a guy.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You know, guys, y'all understand we'd rather bitch about it
than do anything about it. So eventually it got so
bad and y'all had to hear me go through this
that in late October early November, I caught an upper respiratory,
which I do about every three years or so, I thought,
and it was unbearable. So I about a month ago,
(11:14):
I guess, go to her doctor and I am already
on a path to improvement, and he identified a number
of things for me that I had no idea. And
I'm just impressed because I like people. You know, my
urologist Mo with Kara, he geeks out on eurological stuff.
My cardiologist Stan Duckman, he geeks out on doctor stuff.
(11:37):
I like people who are passionate about what they do,
the way Russell Lebarra is about the functioning of his
kitchen or the hiring of people. So the more I
talk to this guy, I was really fascinated by his
passion for this issue that affects a lot of people.
And his clinic is called Advanced Allergy and Asthma Center.
(11:58):
It's at the corner of Stell A link still a.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Wesland are basically the same street, and Hulcomb and bel
Air are basically the same street that has changed names.
So Wesleyan and Hulcomb or Stella, Linco and bel Air,
wherever you want to think about it, that's.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Where they are.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Anyway, so we get to talking about these allergies and
what causes them and all this stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
And I thought, I'm fifty four, relatively well read.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
I ask a lot of questions, and I learned things
from him in just a few meetings that I had
no idea about. And I said, well, let's share that
on the air moon. So I'm gonna need you to
pay attention. Okay, there'd be a quiz at the end.
Doctor Chris Colosso. Is his name Colaco. Don't try to
make sense of it. It's a Portuguese name, is our guest.
Let's start with this doctor Chris Colosso. Article in the
(12:40):
Chronicle a few days ago that said, it is pollen
season and it's a bad season.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
What does that mean for people?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Why does that cause us so many problems when it's
pollen season?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Explain it to me like I'm six years.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
Old, all right, Michael, thank you for having me on
the show. And so you'll stop at the beginning. And so,
an allergy is an abnormal response to something that's not
really harmful to you. And so the body, depending on
your genetics or your environment, decides that it's going to
mount this immune response to something and then it every
(13:17):
time you get exposed to that, the body decides, hey,
this thing is affecting me and I'm going to fight it.
And so that's what they get allergy. And so pollen,
you know, is ubiquitous and all you know, Houston has
the right amount of humidity and higher levels of pollen
that you know, most people tend to have some level
(13:41):
of rhaniris or running nose and ocular symptoms that means
drainage from your eyes and those kinds of things when
pollen is very high. And so that's that's your introduction
to having allergy. Now most of us, you know, have
a certain level of resilience and that you have those
(14:02):
symptoms and sometimes it's for a day or two and
then you slowly get better. But what happens with allergy
is that it's considered an a topic March. And so
if you start off with one or two things, and
you know, we'll just make up a random amount, you
make one hundred histamine molecules, and histamine is the chemical
(14:22):
that your body secretes. It causes you to have the
itching and the sneezing and the eye itching and the
drainage and post nasal drip and all that kind of stuff.
And you know, the first year, you may make one
hundred histamine molecules, and you know, you can take a
nata histamine and you do better. And then you know,
with the natural course of disease, what happens the following
(14:43):
year is you make even more and you become allergic
to more things. And so once you get on that
pathway of this abnormal immune response to something that's harmless,
the body just you know, goes down that pathway and
starts reacting to different pollens, to dust, to animal vandor
(15:05):
to foods. And that's how allergy is. And so most
people within the next week or two, if you and
those who know, no, you're going to get miserable because
once you start seeing you know, I've just noticed though
the leaves are already falling. Once that starts, the old
pollen is going to start. And so most everyone in
(15:26):
Houston knows when you start seeing a little bit of
that yellow stuff on your car, you're going to get
kind of miserable. And so that's what's coming. And so
as you know, over the years, what you see and
most people may you know, have some idea with this,
is that the symptoms initially started, you know, and they're
not so bad, and then the following year it gets worse,
(15:48):
and it gets worse, and then finally you get to
where you're using multiple different medicines in this and you're
still miserable. And so what Ryan Eidis does is you
have all these secretions in your nose and they have
to go somewhere. And so, like you know what Michael
was saying with in his case, in the old days,
they thought, hey, we'll just cut out this path and
(16:10):
that will help everything grain and then we'll be better.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Doctor Chris Colosso old right there, old rut there. Our
guest is doctor Chris Colosso. He's an allergy and asthma specialist.
He's now my doctor. He's been my wife's doctor in
a very good one.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
We'll continue our conversation with him right in the middle
of apology coming on.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
You've got the Michael Berry's show. Chris Glosso is our guest.
He is my new allergy doctor.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
He's been my wife's doctor for five years and proofs
in the pudding. She has had phenomenal results. So all
of the problems she had with allergies are gone. And
we are very grateful for it. His shop that he
is the head of his Advanced Allergy and Asthma Center,
which is over at Wesleyann and Holcombe, you know where
(16:54):
that is, just south of West University, doctor Chris Colosso
let me take you back for a moment. You said
that when this pollen comes out, even if we take
an anahistamine, which which dulls down our natural reaction. But
you talked about the symptoms of or what happens the result,
and that's thes not that's the eyes watering, that's why
(17:17):
is the body doing that.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
So the so through evolution allergy initia and I know
there's caveats to this. And you know, the immune system,
the part that's responsible for allergy, they used to think
used to be directed towards parasites, and so that part
(17:41):
of the immune system used to be very active against
parasites and you know those kinds of pathogens. In most
of the developed world, we don't have that much parasites
to deal with. And so a simple way to think
about it is this, through evolution, this part of the
immune system that was functioning so well to take care
(18:04):
of parasites now sort of has nothing to react to
and so it starts going down this pathway to find
something to do, if you will. And that's a simplistic
way of looking at it. But now it starts reacting
to allergens and so it once it gets on that path,
it it sort of thinks that it's protecting you against
(18:28):
this stuff when this stuff is not.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Really how is I don't understand the purpose of the
MU because how is it forming all this snot? How
is that ever going to help me?
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Well, you know, if when you have a lot of
that snot and it's draining out in that kind of thing,
it's it's you know, you're probably not when you're very congested,
you can't breathe, you probably won't get much fallen in there.
And so it's not even a good response, but it's
(19:01):
just the way the body is reacting to it.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Well, no, but that makes actual sense because that would
reduce the amount of pollen that you would continue to get.
It never crossed my mind. So what we're doing nois
go ahead.
Speaker 7 (19:15):
So sometimes when people say, oh, I had to find
a surgery, and now they trim my tournaments and open
me up and now I can get all this stuff,
And then I feel like it's you know, still make
me miserable. And that's where where it's all open now.
And you know, so it doesn't change the surgery is
not going to change your immune system.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
So what is the answery.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
You've got to get your ad system to stop reacting
in this manner, correct.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
And so one of the things that you know allergies do,
or you know that your wife did, right, And we're
jumping the gun here, so we're saying, oh, I'm not
saying that everyone needs shots or something like that, but
if you look at that, what allergy shots and they've
been around for a hundred years, and what allergy shots
is is to try and teach the immune system, if
(20:05):
you will, to not react to what you're allergic to.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
And so.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
What we do is you make these, you know, these
extracts which are basically has you know exactly what you're
allergic to, and you give it.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Back to the patient.
Speaker 7 (20:24):
Now, you couldn't possibly give them the full strame shot
or you'd kill them because they'd have a whole body
allergic reaction to the shot. And so what you do
is you deluded down one hundred thousand fold, and you
give it back to the patient and in slow incremental doses,
and so in that way, you're slowly introducing the allergen
(20:46):
to the body. And what that does over a period
of time is it it starts generating these cells in
the body called T suppress our cells, and these T
suppress our cells suppress the immune response to whatever is
in the allergy, to whatever's in the shot. And so
(21:06):
that is why in patients who have done immunotherapy and
those kinds of things, they don't react as strongly. So
when your body sees the pollen the next pollen season
and you've been on shots, it doesn't react as strongly.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
To the shot to the pollen.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
And so, you know, medications treat symptoms, they don't.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Do anything for the problem.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
So the problem sort of festers along in the background.
And that's why, you know, when we talked about me
and you you know, I was like, hey, you know
during pollen season and I do this too, if I
go run around rice. I mean this is you know,
I try not to do the loop during the oak season,
(21:56):
but if I do run around it, I sometimes have
you know, mild symptoms. I immediately do a sinus rints
and clean out all that Paullen. So it's not sitting
in my away in my nasal passage making me horrible,
and that way you just physically do better. But what
allergy shops is to try and tell the body, hey,
(22:17):
stop reacting to this, you know, And so it's trying
to put a hold on your body going down this
wrong pathway of reacting to something that's harmless.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Mary Telly Boden has become nationally famous for the fact
that that she criticized the COVID protocols and all those
But before she was famous, and just as that was
beginning to happen, I had her on the show to
talk about a sinus rents because I had seen her.
She had a handle like doctor snotsucker or something something
funny like that, and she posts videos of doing these
(22:51):
sinus rentses and she was a big fan of My
wife does it. I don't do it as often I
know I should. I'm just irregular. My wife does it.
But on that point, I know, Mary Taly Boden is
a huge fan of that, and it sounds like you
are as well.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
I am, and so you know there, so all of
the sinus rinses come from this. So in yoga one
hundred years ago. So in India they know there's a
thing called nathi and actually the natty pop comes from nati,
which is a term in yoga of where you rinse
out the nasal passages. And they knew a long time
(23:29):
ago that for whatever reason, if there was inflammation in
the nose, the chest would do bad. And so in
patients who have asthma, and this is you know, a
long time ago in India, they rinsed the nose out
and no one knows if he knew why. Over the
(23:50):
last fifteen to twenty years, we started to find out
that it's considered this single airway hypothesis, and so if
there's inflammation in one part of the airway, that inflammation
will irritate the whole airway. And so the nose is connected,
you know, to the lungs, and so a lot of
people will experience this when they have sometimes bad sinus
(24:13):
infections and upper estrare infections. Then they'll have wheezing in
those kinds of things. And that's where you know, physically
cleaning out all that mucus helps and the other thing
that you know, these rinses do is physically clean out
the pond or the dust might or whatever, so the
(24:34):
antigen is not just sitting in there, you know, keeping
the immune reaction going.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Hold with me for doctor Chris Colosso. He's at Advanced
Allergy and Asthma Center, which is Wesleyan and Holcombe.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
He's he's We've had great. He needs out here, he
needs uh uh. He is our He's done great for
my wife.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
I've started with him and I really like his ability
to explain these things, and we will continue having him
do that.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
In the middle of pollen season coming up.
Speaker 8 (25:08):
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King of Dean suggested for general audiences.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Doctor Chris Colosso is our guest Advanced Allergy and Asthma Center.
If you can't remember his name or the location, you
can email me. He is not a show sponsor yet.
He doesn't know he's going to be. But he's not
a show sponsor yet. But I will still forward you
or Emily will forward you to their phone number so
that you can call and get an appointment if you
want to go have the test. Doner, you want to
(25:44):
go see him for a consultation so that you can
connect with him. I'm a big fan because he's made
my wife very healthy and very happy, and that makes
me very happy. So, doctor colosso let's go back to.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
You.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
First, put my wife on Zyrtec, and we hear a
lot about zyrtech. Now it's over the counter, and Zytech
basically suppresses the body's desire to overreact to this pollen
we see out there all the time. Now, can you
talk through the history of that drug and how that
has affected your practice.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
Zyrtec is an antihistamine, and so initially, you know, when
Zyrtec first came out, it was prescription and so you know,
you couldn't get zyrtech unless you went to the doctor.
You went to the allergist. And so you know, there's
a couple of things that the or moving the medicine
over the counter has done to the practice of allergy
(26:38):
for us. And it's just interesting to see. And so
when you have a lot of histamine around and you
feel miserable and you have drainage and congestion and you're
itching and all that kind of stuff, and you would
have to go to the doctor, and a lot of times,
the alogists would say, hey, let's see what you're allergic to,
(26:59):
and they do testing and you know, find one or
two things that was positive and then sometimes you know,
either start you on treatment for that or do avoidance
measures of those kind of things. But as these drugs
have gone, you know, over the counter, initially we were thought, oh,
there's going to be no need for allergies, but in fact,
(27:22):
what we've seen is that we now tend to pick
up patients who are a lot more serious. So if
there was no zerotech when you know, you first start
having allergy, then let's say you're just allergic to dust mites.
I'll just use that as an example. Then you know,
we would see the patient and sometimes if they'd get
(27:44):
on shots for dust mate.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Then they'd do a lot better.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
But now with Zyrtech being over the counter, so let's
say you have a mild dust mite allergy and then
you start having springtime scenes and then you take zerotech.
Zertech blocks histamine, but it's not aligned, it's not doing
anything or not doing much because the allergy process of
you know, developing allergy to stuff is still going on.
(28:09):
And so what happens is then as long as that
zotech can keep blocking the amount of history being released,
you'll be okay, and then you start doing a nose
spray for allergy, and that's over the kind of and
in the background, you're you're you know, developing, not in
all cases, but in a lot of cases, you're developing
more allergy. And so then what happens is the person,
(28:34):
you know, it's almost rare, almost never that I see
a patient who's not tried zyrtech before or tried nose
sprays now or those kind of things. And so while
the zyrtech is helping you, you know, do okay or
control your symptoms, if the allergy is going on in
the background, then you're developing, you know, more allergy. And
(28:57):
so it's not atypical for me to see a patient
who has now multiple things that they allergic to. So,
you know, as in Michael's case, since you know we're
talking about this, it's it can be multiple trees and
grasses in those kinds of things. And so in so
(29:18):
what we tend to do, we say, you know, as all,
just see patients who are a lot further along in
the allergic process as opposed to you know, when xerotech
and those kind of drugs were prescription based because you
would just end up seeing the patient earlier.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
But what does that mean you know that further along
are your allergies getting worse through time?
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Is that it's not just here's the.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Are that's exactly right and how.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
And so Okay, So that's a very good question. So
and it's a little bit technical, but in the body,
you have these these chemicals floating around called into lukens
and into lukens. Sometimes we'll player key role is if
if you have if you're exposed to analogy and or
(30:06):
you know, let's say we'll just we'll just make up something.
Let's say you're allergic to oak pollen. And when you're
allergic to oak pollen or you have bad allergies, you
have these chemicals flowing around and then there's many different
numbers of chemicals, but you'll pick the ones important analogy,
and so you have high levels of aisle four, Aisle five,
(30:26):
and aisle thirteen. Now, when you get exposed to a
pollen in the presence of high if there's a lot
of aisle four, Aisle five, Aisle thirteen, you're more likely
to make an allergic antibody to it and so they're not.
You know, there's studies that have done that show this.
(30:47):
Let's say you take a person who's allergic to oak,
and during oak season, you expose them to pecon pollen.
And in another chamber, you take someone who's not allergic
to oak, and you expose them to pecan pollen. And
then three months later you go back and you go
and check the blood and see who has an allergic
(31:09):
antibody to pecan. And interestingly, the person who was allergic
to oak is now allergic to oak and pecon, whereas
the one who wasn't allergic to oak isn't necessarily allergic
to con. And so allergy tends to beget allergy. And
(31:30):
so that's why that cycle just seems to you know,
once it starts, you tend to start going down that pathway.
And so that is why that is what I meant
is that when we know now see patients who've been
using over the kind of medicines they're already then tend
to be allergic to multiple different things, whereas before those
(31:52):
ween those medications with prescription, you would see those patients
a lot earlier in the disease process.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, it's interesting because living where we live, and having
lived here my entire life, with only some brief periods
of living away, it's something that we grow accustomed to.
My mother had terrible, terrible allergies, My brother had pretty
bad allergies, and mine are not as bad as my
mother's were, but pretty bad. So it's almost something we
grow accustomed to. And so watching my wife's recovery or
(32:22):
healing or improvement, whatever you want to call it, I
almost didn't believe that there was anything that could be
done that could possibly make my life so much better.
But when I saw it with her, I said, my goodness,
that is especially with this, you know, three months of
just horrible and it was affecting my ability to do
the show. I said, okay, I'm willing to spend the
(32:45):
actual time to go and get something done about this.
Hold with us for just a moment. Chris Colosso is
our guest. That is spelled co l l ac. If
you want to go see him. It is Advanced out
Energy and Asthma Center. It's on Grammercy Street, which is
over kind of near Rice University, you could say a
(33:08):
little south of West University if you know where that is,
and otherwise you can email me and I will connect
you with their website. If you want to go make
an appointment to see him. More of doctor Chris Colosso
in the middle of pollen season, as we are, blow
your nose and we'll have more come up.
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