Cedar Pollen of DOOM

Do you see that? That cloud that looks like smoke emanating from the tree (hint: it's a cedar) is cedar pollen. Evil, evil, cedar pollen. The cedars in central Texas tend to hurl this insiduous substance at us from December through February. Three months.


Three months of sinus headaches, puffy head, foggy brain, itchy red eyes, waking up with eyes glued shut, and sinus infections, sinus infections, more sinus infections and sneezing. Oh the sneezing.

But as it is the nature of myself, I get to wondering, just what sort of an impact does cedar allergy, or any allergy, have on school performance, mood, and over all mental and physical health? (Further more the precurser, what the fuck is off in the body that causes this shit.)


It has to do with IgE so they say. That's THE explenation. Clearly there's a lot of research indicating it isn't that simple, and I am not satisfied with simplistic answers so we'll do more with that later. For now this brings us to brain inflammation.


" if chronic depression is proven to be a neuroinflammatory condition, then anti-inflammatory treatments should also have some antidepressant effects. Several small trials with depressed patients have already been published that support this possibility, though Markou cautioned that much more specific research and larger clinical trials are required."


Cool. Can you guess what their proposed anti-inflammatories will be? Probably not DHA. (That stuff in fish oil.)


Which is a shame because DHA actually has shown some promise:


Docosahexaenoic acid supplementation increases prefrontal cortex activation during sustained attention in healthy boys: a placebo-controlled, dose-ranging, functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Selective deficits in erythrocyte docosahexaenoic acid composition in adult patients with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder

Docosahexaenoic Acid Suppresses Neuroinflammatory Responses and Induces Heme Oxygenase-1 Expression in BV-2 Microglia: Implications of Antidepressant Effects for Omega-3 Fatty Acids

In case you didn't get all that IF that research were done correctly it would imply that:


DHA improves focus
DHA improves Bipolar and depressive symptoms
DHA reduces brain inflammation.


But I can't tell you if that research was good or not because MY BRAIN IS INFLAMMED AND I CAN'T THINK.


All I want to do is destroy these evil cedar trees. Yeah. That's what those little motherfuckers look like. Fuck you cedar!