Coughing and Sneezing Is It Allergies or Is It Your Digestive Tract?

Could your allergies actually be connected to your digestive tract?

In this eye opening Wellness Wednesday conversation, naturopathic doctor and master herbalist Teri explores the surprising connection between gut health, inflammation, immune balance, and recurring allergy like symptoms. If you struggle with congestion, sneezing, coughing, post nasal drip, food sensitivities, or symptoms that never seem to fully go away, this episode may offer a completely new perspective.

With more than 40 years of experience helping people support wellness naturally, Teri explains how digestive health influences the body's response to foods, stress, and environmental triggers. Learn why the body becomes more reactive over time, common signs your gut may be struggling, and practical ways to support overall wellness from the inside out.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How digestive health may influence allergy like symptoms
• Why the body becomes more reactive over time
• Common signs of digestive imbalance
• The connection between inflammation and recurring symptoms
• Simple foundational ways to support the body naturally

Whether you are interested in gut health, natural wellness, inflammation, immune support, seasonal allergies, or holistic health, this conversation is packed with practical education and empowering insights you can apply right away. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

All right, everybody. Oh, I am so excited for this call. We have a fresh new face joining us for the very first time. And Dr. Terry and I have been, we've been like, we go this way and then this way, and then this way, and then this way, and then we go all these different directions, but like someday I'm gonna get you on Wellness Wednesday. And we finally connected a night. And Dr. Terry is is the kind of human that you feel like when you've talked to her for just a little bit of time that you just become her best friend. I mean, if you're standing in front of Dr. Terry, you're the only person in the room, and she she just is all about just living heart to heart. And we can geek out together for hours. I I tell you, we get we get to talking and hours like gone. I mean, I think she knows everything about my life. I know most about hers. I mean, it's just so special. She's just one of those unique individuals that I believe God put on this earth to bless, to touch, to heal, to encourage, to inspire humanity. And if you are blessed enough to be around this amazing human, you are going to be a better human. But I'm gonna give you just a little bit of a brief on her because one thing I love to do when we're when I am having a conversation, and we're just gonna be having a conversation, but I'll tell you what, when she gets talking, you're gonna be like, Becky, just be quiet. I want to listen to Dr. Terry, and trust me, you do. So I'm just gonna let her loose, and I'll probably say a few things. But Dr. Terry has been, and Terry Tomlinson has been studying natural health for more than 40 years. She is a board-certified naturopathic doctor, natural health, sorry, a master herbalist, a certified natural health professional, a certified weight loss coach, and get this, she is a qi kung tai chi master trainer. She was presented a higher achievement award for naturopathic doctors by the American Naturopathic Medical Association in September of 2024. Now, the word doctor comes from the Latin word docair, doctrine, I think that's how you say it, right? No, if you can if you can correct me, which means to teach. And Terry is focused on teaching and sharing a holistic approach to maintaining wellness with an emphasis on anti-aging and disease prevention. Well, that's what we're all about here. She believes that physical health is primarily a reflection of God's universal law of cause and effect. How we care for our bodies and our mind is both a physical and spiritual issue that impacts our health and the health of our offspring. Amen to that. So, Dr. Terry, you have just the most extraordinary pick picture of we're gonna be we're gonna be talking about if you saw the interview or that, or sorry, the advertisement, the coughing and sneezing and your body acting like you're full of allergies. And Dr. Terry found out that this might not be the case. If you think you're one that just has been sneezing and coughing and snorting and puffing and huffing all the time and thinking that you have allergies, you might not have allergies. You just might have some other underlying issues. And so she's gonna unpack her own story and share that. But as we know, as I'm sitting here in yellow, it all starts with yellow. And I think Dr. Terry just has the best beginnings of how it all started with yellow with her. So will you just bring us into that space of this yellow magical pill that came into your world that's made of fiberbs? Most people know a lot about it, some don't. But let's give us a few, a little education first on how it all started with yellow with you, and then let's merge straight into what we know now as P84. But it is a it is a a gut health system that activates your health and what this is actually doing. And and we now we have not a whole lot of time, but we want to take all the time that you have to for you to speak. So dive in with us. Welcome, Dr. Terry Tomlinson. I am blessed and honored that you are on with me for the first time.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

I'm so excited. Okay. Exciting. So, well, thank you so much for the intro. Yeah, I have been studying, I honestly study every single day. I have so much information that comes to my inbox, and then I research, you know, to try to figure out what's real, what isn't real. You guys know the drill. I mean, there's just so much out there these days and more and more every day. And some is good and some is not good. And so what happened was in 2015, I guess, because it's 10 and a half years ago, lady that I know called me up and uh wanted to know if I had time. And I'm sharing this because this is super important. Apparently, forever, she would tell her upline that she would love to get me involved in this, but she was afraid to call me. So she asked if I had time. I knew she had lupus. I absolutely have time. I will absolutely help anyone. And so I said, Yeah, in fact, I'm sitting in front of my computer, you know what's going on. And she said, I have a video I want you to watch. Well, at that point, I was the number one distributor in the world of another antioxidant product. So I gave her a lecture on the fact that a whole raw living food person, I have over 650 herbs, tinctures, box flour, essential oils, et cetera, et cetera. I didn't need a new product. And but since I told her I had time, I would look at her video. And of course it was the ABC Primetime video. And anybody on this call that hasn't watched it, which I'm pretty sure everyone has, but if you haven't, you have to go watch it. And when you go to YouTube, I would pull up the 12-minute one because I love that Dr. McCord, uh, who developed the product, answers questions at the end. So I think it's just a great video. Anyway, so that's what I watched. And I told her, you know, I really let her know I'm I'm not gonna be interested, but I will look at it. I didn't know what to do with that. I couldn't marinate on it. The idea that with all my knowledge at that point, all of the remedies that I knew, loved, etc., and you're telling me one little yellow tablet is gonna do all this stuff. What? I mean, honestly. So I called her back and I said, you know, you really did get my attention. I didn't expect that. And I said, but I'm gonna have to really get into this and research it because I don't understand it at all. I really didn't. And so three days when I tell you I watched that video over a hundred times, no exaggeration, trying to understand. Like if you call me prior, you need mega vitamin, coq10, vitamin E, vitamin C. You you guys all know, you know, the protocols out there that we knew at that point. And all of a sudden, we're gonna take this one tablet. And so day three, I called her back and I said, seriously, I can't wrap my thoughts around it. I've already told my husband I have to go out to the company, I have to find out what this is about. And I did. And they were able to help me understand that everything I knew yesterday is valid, it's God's pharmacy. But taking the natural compounds and affecting the body at the cellular level is a whole new ball game, neutrogenomics, epigenetics. And it just like opened up a whole new, you know, can of worms. Plus, while I was out there, there were things because when you're at the top of a company, you know stuff. And one of the things I knew is publicly traded is critical. So it's a publicly traded company, debt-free, money in the bank. What? And I also knew the CEO and the VP at that time. And I thought, I came back, I told my husband, I said, Well, God, they brought in this the Super Bowl, you know, coaches for this company. And, you know, like there's no way as a naturopath, I can't tell people about this product. Like I just can't not. So that meant I had to go back to my other company of 15 years and tell them that, you know, sorry, but I am gonna do this. So that that was the beginning of my story. And then I did, you know, I'd already done all the deep research on it. I couldn't believe that I didn't know about this. This product actually hit the market at the same time of the other antioxidant product. And I I just couldn't believe no one had ever told me about it. And of course, when a product hits the market, it doesn't just like the world knows about it. That's why when they're talking about critical mass and how we have such a huge opportunity to spread the word, because we haven't hit critical mass, which means we know about Amway and we know about all of the different things that are out there, but I didn't know for 15 years about a product that was out there that was better than what I had. What this does, my product delivered 2,500 units of antioxidant, which was huge. And and now you're telling me a million per second every second of the day? That trumped it. I mean, I can't not tell people. So that's that's my story. That's what happened. And I joined it. My husband's ringing his hands. We just built a new home. What are you doing, Terry? Life is gonna end. I said, listen, God promises us food and shelter. I cannot worry about it. I cannot not tell people about this product. Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

I know. So there, so I mean, come on, now, now we've got this. There's a doctor that understands a lot on board. Now there's been a lot of things that have unfolded and eat and products that have come down the line. And and I asked Dr. Terry when when we were talking, I said, okay, we've got, you know, we've got an activated collagen, we've got, you know, protonum NRF1, NRF2, we've got our tri synergizer combination. There's a lot of combinations at Life Vanage that you can combine that are patented now, that are brought together, that are very, very powerful. But tell us how recently, in the last, it's just been a few months, how this new product that just has been brought on called P84 was brought in. And we're just gonna kind of go into this one. Now we've had other wellness Wednesdays about this product, but when you told me what you did, I was just like, poof, you know, I was like, what is what what the what? I mean, I know a lot of people that think they're having allergies because of their sneezing and coughing, and I understand gut health, but that combination I had not heard. So bring us into this next story, and then we'll wrap it up with a pretty bow at the end.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

Yeah. So obviously, I love all the products. I love, love, love the collagen. I love, I love the combination of Vitality Stack because I want them to have prior to that probiotic and the omega. I want that in a person's body. And so that's always been my battle cry. And then P84 came on the scene, and the minute, the minute I heard about it, I did a deep dive before any of the other websites were gone on it and got very serious because over the years I started out with no immune system because I grew up during the penicillin era. My mom was a penicillin queen. In fact, the doctor would come like every eight to ten weeks to give me another shot of penicillin because we didn't know back in the day that it's destroying the immune system, meaning 70 to 80 percent of your immune system is that friendly bacteria, and penicillin, though we need it at times for sure, is going to wipe out that colony. And in my case, having shot after shot after shot, I just grew up sick. I did, and and and destroyed, but didn't know. And so, of course, I had allergy tests and shots and all of that, and I felt better, but I didn't get well. And then I moved on to asthma, adding now inhalers, more doctors, felt better, didn't get well. Ultimately, I was in now the hospital with a heart problem. Felt better with now a cardiologist, internist, all I had a team, but I didn't get well. And so over the years, it was all about Terry's allergies. In fact, every time I sneeze, which was 100% related to my digestive tract, but I didn't know until later through the years. I literally, everybody says, Oh, you got allergies. Well, I promise you, if I had allergies, I'm allergic to everything: the air, the sun, the animals, a cat going in, a dog going out. I even at one point thought I was allergic to my husband, because if he got anywhere close, he had knees. And so I worked on my digestive tract forever. And when this product came out, oh my gosh. In fact, I have a training out there where I go off on this product because I knew that this was going to be the answer for me. And at the end of that video that I made, literally I talk about what you can expect for month one and two, three and four, five and six. Because when I grew up in natural health, it was 90 days to optimal health. Oh, yeah, we're way past the 90 days. It's six months, six months minimum. So I started taking P84 the minute, actually right before it, you know, it was available for everybody. And I've taken it every day. When I hit month eight, suddenly, because I get anxious if I'm gonna talk, I don't eat ahead of time. Anybody that's ever at any of my events that they know that I don't eat ahead of time because I know I could get on stage and then start sneezing my guts out. And uh, and I don't want that to happen because then everybody's like, oh, she has allergies. No, I do not. So I started taking P84. Eight months in, everything came to a screeching halt. I am like beyond over the moon, excited about that. But I knew it would happen. Why? Because you have not only the 40 fruits and vegetables and all of that nutrition, but you also have all of the digestive enzymes, meaning you can break down everything that goes in your body if you're drinking that product each day. And you have every prebiotic, every probiotic, every postbiotic. It activates 14 peptides in the gut, and your gut relates to every system in your body. I mean, your neurotransmitters are developed there. So people that have a lot of anxiety, a lot of emotional type problems, and they're taking medications and feeling better just like I did, but don't get well. They just have to continue taking them. Your neurotransmitters are developed in that 30-foot tube from your mouth to the exit point, is critical, beyond words, critical. And when I got in natural health, the rule of thumb is cleanse first, build second. I went right to every herb that related to allergies, and I took that. That's what I did until I started to learn about the cleansing. Well, I did cleanse this through the years, nothing took me over the top. All of a sudden, I'm over the top. Only took one of my 77 years old. Geez. But so exciting. Anyway, back to you, Becky.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

So when you're on these products, you I here's a some something that I think needs to be really emphasized is that even this process of taking it, you were consistent. You were taking it seven days a week. There wasn't any special way you take it, because this is something you can take in any liquid, right? You could except don't heat it up, that's all. Just don't make drink it hot. But you could put it in a smoothie, you can put it in with other foods, you can make it in water. I like it just plain in water. It actually tastes pleasant to me. But you were very consistent. When, at what point did you start feeling the the tide turn? Like so, I mean, because you we have probiotics, we have prebiotics, even with light bandage, but this particular product took it a step further. How long was that time? So people are saying, I've had been on it for you know 35 days and I don't feel a thing. Talk to us about that.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

Well, it just can't happen. You have to understand what I tell people is, did you get your problem 35 days ago? Because the body doesn't heal like that. The body heals from the top down, from the inside out. And so it has a lot of corrections to do. And and just your gut alone, your your your 30-foot tube, it's not just your microbiome, it's also the gut barrier, it's also the control center. Okay, so you have a lot going on to fix that. Like I said, I've worked on it for 40 close on 45 years. I didn't start immediately with the cleansing and and trying to build, but I took probiotics. When I got to life vantage probiotic, the probiotic alone, and and I realized it has a delay. It doesn't break down in the digestive acids because if it does, only 4% of that probiotic, I don't care how many friendly bacteria in there, 4% gets through the digestive acids. So the life vintage product doesn't break down in the digestive tract, it breaks down in the gut. So now you get 85%. That's a game changer, and it was a game changer for me. There are so many parts and pieces through this past 10 years with Life Vantage that I scream my lungs out about. I've had amazing results. My family's had amazing results. We just, you know, piece by piece, but by the time I got to this, this was the one thing. Because again, you have to have the enzymes in your system. See, plant food is life food. It just is. And you know, way back in the day, Hippocrates said all disease begins in the gut, and that's a fact. And so you have to fix that. Like the friends that I have and people that I've helped through the years that were taking Nexium and all kinds of things for digestion, it does band-aid you, it does, and you feel better, but you're not well. My goal is always how about we live till we die, not be sick till we die. How about that? Let's try that.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

And you know, my my husband's and my motto is that we want to die young as late as possible. For sure. Absolutely. And that means a healthy, long life as late as possible. And I can really see why and how gut health would be a huge factor of that. So after this like month, so it's been at what turnaround? Four, five, six months. I mean, where how long were you at about? I think you said it once, and maybe eight months actually.

SPEAKER_00 19:36

For me, at eight months, all of a sudden, one day the party was over. It's so incredibly exciting and shocking to me. But eight at the eight-month point, I'm like, I get up every day, I'm not sneezing. I used to get up every day and sneeze. My husband and I had a deal where he would snore, it would wake me up, I would sneeze. We finally had to just find separate rooms if we wanted any rest.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

Oh, that's amazing. So yeah, you know, a a a call to action is if you've been out there and you're not yet being on this P84 product, and so it it's not like you you knew there was a connection though, did you? Did you know there was a connection to the sneezing, the snuffling, the coughing, and your gut?

SPEAKER_00 20:23

Yeah, I knew it through the in through the years. I learned it through the years. And yes, so every time somebody would say, Oh, your allergies acting up, I was offended. No, I don't have allergies. I just ate food and now I'm trying to digest it.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

Well, fascinating. I think that alone is kind of a revelation for a lot of people because honestly, we go straight to allergies and then we go right to the cabinet, we grab the allergy, well, not we, because I don't have allergies or that, but I know of people that just live on allergy medicine, and I'm like, what if we got into your gut and began to heal your gut? What kind of changes could we possibly? Maybe there are, there are maybe legitimate allergies that are out there. I'm not dismissing allergies. I'm just saying, what if? Is this what was absolutely mind-blowing and absolutely fascinating to me. But I think this has been a fascinating revelation of the power of natural foods. Break down again, just as we close this, exactly what this P84, what what we're talking about, how these foods are life. I mean, honestly, these foods in this packet, I think I have myself been on it, but I'm sporadic. I feel very inspired to be like, no, don't be sporadic. Get in there and be very con my my collagen, you don't you take it out of my dead dry hands. I'm not, you know, I'm I'm but th the the P eighty four, I have it. I've used it and I use it, but I haven't been consistent. Now I'm feeling like I need to be I need to get that in my body and take it.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Yeah. Every

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Even tell me that they take only the the purple and then they take the green on another day. No, you put the two together. It builds your your body, all of the things that need to be built while it's cleansing, but not crazy cleansing. Like the cleanses I've done through the year and the years and the fasting that I've done through the years is a different ball game compared to taking P84. Because think about it, over 40, all of the nutrients that you need. I mean, when you go through the list, I mean, at some point you guys can even get a copy of this training, because I really do break it down in this training and and literally understand what this product is. It truly is amazing because if you understand cleanse first, build second. And and we all tend to go to see the world makes me crazy as it is. Me too. Oh I went off the edge when they started doing the commercials. TED has C O P D. I'm like, what's C O P D? I used to go in and research the names of all these things. The body hasn't changed since the beginning of time, but the names of disease have. Okay, so COPD, for all means and purposes, is grandpa's emphysema. Nobody wants that. We want our own disease. We want a rare cancer, and yet cancer is not even a disease in my book. It's a weak immune system not spotting a bad cell when your body makes a new one. Okay. And then you get a cluster and the immune system pitifully comes along and whistles for the rest of your weak immune system, which is why I scream about probiotics, prebiotics, and postbiotics so that that immune system is strong, because you can stop the free radical damage with yellow. That's awesome. And then you can raise the energy with NRF1 so that everything's functioning, your mitochondria, and you can cleanse your vascular system and such with an AD, you know, clean out the debris. But if you don't have a strong immune system, you can't complete the healing. That is what scream about that immune system. And so when the immune system comes along, sees a little cluster of these cells that weren't perfect when they divided, it will encircle it like a wagon train. That's the tumor. It's your body's attempt to isolate bad cells from the rest of the bloodstream.

SPEAKER_02 24:33

Oh, come on. The immune system stronger or weaker. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

What a new. If you guys aren't convinced that you, if you're not on the P84 yet, that you are just going to be like, where's it at? Send now.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

There you go. Didn't matter what time of day, but get it in your body.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

Yeah. I love it. I'm actually going to get out this and go have my P84. I I promise. I I really am. I swear. I am. I do I absolutely love it. So, you guys, thank you so much for joining us tonight. Dr. Terry, did I tell was I not was I right, you guys? Yeah, put a one in there. Did is she just so amazing? And she just she's refraining from all the things that she could say because this woman is a wealth of knowledge. And if you want to hear from her again and want her to be on another Wellness Wednesday, drop a five in, like for a high five. If you want to hear from her again, because I oh man, I if you see the chat, it is blowing up. Yeah, we want to see we want to hear from you again. So would you promise when you come on with me again sometime because you're just my favorite? And where where would we find your educational video on the P84?

SPEAKER_02 25:53

Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

You know what? And if let me um let me say if somebody invited you to this podcast and loved you enough to invite you to this, I hope you get back to them and thank them from the bottom of your heart for inviting you here tonight. And um, and they will hook you up with the P84, with the the little yellow, the little yellow pill, our our flagship pro tanum and rf two, and educate you even more tonight. So with that, I'm going to go ahead and stop the recording and then we can hear from Dr. Terry of where we can get that. So love y'all. God bless you, and thank you, Dr. Terry, for being my special guest tonight.