#3 Chris Voutsas | Why Is Your Body Reacting To Everything

Yeah, for sure.

So for those of you that don't know me, I'm Chris, I'm the co-host on here.

And basically, my health journey started from a very young age.

You could even say that it started from the second I came out the womb, maybe even before that.

But regardless, my childhood was kind of a mess with my immune system.

I had 40 plus life-threatening food allergies.

I couldn't even eat chicken or turkey until I was older in my childhood, otherwise I would have an anaphylactic reaction.

I, uh, I had an instance of anaphylaxis when I was five just from eating pizza.

Could never have, like, pizza, ice cream, anything with dairy on it.

And this is not to be confused with a food intolerance where you have something like gluten and you have a bad reaction to it.

This is a legitimate IgE food allergy where you literally can die if you have the wrong food, the wrong set of ingredients.

And I had 40 plus of these, so I was very limited to just, like, I think, like, five to 10 foods even as a baby.

And in addition to that, I had severe asthma to the point where if I would go to a hotel and lay down on, like, a pillow with feathers in it, I would literally have an asthma attack and have to be rushed to the emergency room.

And in addition to that, I had such bad eczema as a kid that I would literally be, like, wrapped in head to toe in, like, all of these wraps and everything that had this thing called Vani cream in it, and I would have to hydrate my skin that way, like, every night like a mummy pretty much.

Um, on top of that, I had such bad allergies, like, environmentally speaking, that it...

I wasn't allowed to pet dogs as a kid, otherwise my whole body would break out into hives.

And in addition to that, if I went out, like, literally outside without an antihistamine, my whole body would erupt into hives.

So I had it pretty rough from the very beginning.

And in addition to that, I remember as a kid even, I would get instances of insomnia.

I would wake up in the middle of the nights, and it would be, like, 65 Fahrenheits in the house and I would still be, like, literally sweating.

Like, there would be pools of sweat around me, my skin would be itching no matter what I touched on the sheets.

There would be, like, racing thoughts through my head.

So yeah, like, that's where I started off with my health, and this was kind of my foundational point.

And when I was a kid, I always asked, like, "Why do I have this?" And, "Why do all of the kids not have this?" So that's always what I would think about.

And now in the present, so maybe we can get into how I got into a lot of this stuff at some point, but now in the present day, I've done a lot of research on this very topic.