 What may come as a surprise to some of you is that allergy medications can cause long term irreversible brain damage, including memory loss. Many people in the United States have allergies, therefore pop allergy pills like they are candies. These allergy medications work by blocking histamine receptors in our bodies. H1, H2, H3 and H4 being the most commonly referred to receptors. The majority of these medications block either the H1 or H2 receptors and are incredibly effective at doing so. But pass through the blood-brain barrier very easily resulting in sedation as well as many other negative health effects including brain damage, including memory loss. First we have the H1 receptor. And when we're talking about an allergy medication in general, this is most of the time what we are referring to. When you have an allergic reaction, a histamine response, with the H1 receptor where the histamines bind to this receptor, anything can happen in your smooth muscles, your vascular system, your heart or your central nervous system. In your heart you could have something like heart palpitations in your central nervous system. You can have insomnia, anxiety, and someone like me might have a reaction like this just from eating cheese. Heart palpitations can't sleep. First generation histamine blockers are diphenhydramine, also known as Benadryl, chlorfeniramine, and clemistine. These pass through the blood-brain barrier much easier than second generation antihistamines such as fexofenidine known as Allegra, lorazidine known as Claritin, and satirazine known as Zyrtec. Each one of these drugs works differently, and the selling point of the second generation antihistamines is that they don't pass through the blood-brain barrier as easily, but there are studies showing they still do have an effect despite the claims that they don't. The H2 receptors are mostly known as proton pump inhibitors, people that have gastritis or stomach issues, high stomach acidity, and these work by inhibiting adenylial cyclase, which is an enzyme with key regulatory roles that gets blocked in your stomach, very important in many metabolic functions in the body. You have Semetidine, which is Tagomet, Renetidine, which is Zantac, and you have Femotidine, which is Pepsid. To my recollection, Femotidine is multiple times more effective than Renetidine. Again, these are known as proton pump inhibitors, usually used to inhibit your stomach acid. So any sort of allergic reaction, maybe mast cell activation you're having in your stomach from dysbiosis, gut microbiome issues, these might actually be a temporary fix to the problem, at least to alleviate things while you're addressing the root cause. Then we have the H3 receptor, which is not really talked about because medications available to the general public aren't used for this. H3 receptors bind to your central nervous system, therefore they usually have a stimulant or a new trophic effect. Drugs are used to treat Alzheimer's patients as well as rare diseases. Again, not drugs we really know about in the general population. H4 receptor binds to the bone marrow, white blood cells, organs. This receptor was discovered in the early 2000s, and there are currently drugs in development. I'm assuming the reason the drugs are in development is because they're killing animals with the drugs they're using now, therefore don't deem them safe to humans. But hey, who cares if you forget what you did two days ago? Many of these targeted histamine drugs don't just block one receptor. They affect multiple receptors. Any medication with anticholinergic activity has shown negative effects on cognitive performance in adults. These antihistamines inhibit the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is required for proper nervous system function. Without a doubt, these drugs accelerate dementia, Alzheimer's, and brain atrophy. This isn't specific to antihistamines. There are other drugs, such as antidepressants, that have the same effects. What's scary is the lack of research and understanding on histamines, and how much we are damaging ourselves using these drugs to alter our bodies to adapt to an unnaturally high inflammatory environment. Instead of addressing the issues, we are masking the situation. If the allergies in the person's environment or diet are removed, and they fix any nutrient deficiencies, they wouldn't have to take these drugs that rot their brain away. Selvane, also known as Turfinidine, was on the market for 13 years, and banned because it would cause life-threatening heart problems when combined with certain drugs. Hisminol, known as Estemizol, was on the market for 11 years before it was banned. It slowed potassium channels in the heart, leading to abnormal heart rhythm and sudden cardiac death. If it was simple and easy to explain how damaging these drugs were to our overall cognitive function, nobody would be touching them with a 10-foot pole. Unfortunately, people just see them as a quick and easy solution to their problems. Is there something to be said about using H2 receptors, proton pump inhibitors, using H1 receptors temporarily? Yes, but if you cannot fix the root cause, the root issue, these drugs are unfortunately not a long-term solution. I had some really bad allergic reactions to some dairy last year, and I took Benageal for about a month or two straight in a high dose, and you can actually get adverse responses to Benageal. Benageal doesn't make me drowsy. Benageal gives me hyperactivity. So when you start having problems with allergy medications, I remember I took Zyrtec once and the withdrawal symptoms were this insane itching, and my chest just itched so much. And I had to last like two or three days with this intense itching to get off the Zyrtec. So the people that made these drugs don't seem to understand them. There's a lot that goes into this. I don't really have a solution. The type of information that we're asking for here doesn't tend to come out. It's something that takes many, many hours of research. You've got to look at studies for each of these individual drugs, what they do, how they function, and try to figure out if it's safe to use them in any capacity. 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