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Asthma is a serious respiratory condition that interferes with a person’s ability to breathe. Typically asthmatics have some combination of bronchial muscle spasms, excess mucus production, and mucus lining swelling as a result of allergies, environmental irritants, infection, cold air, hormonal imbalances, exertion, and stress. The result is an asthma attack that can literally cause someone to suffocate if he or she doesn’t get emergency medical intervention.

The incidence of asthma is on the rise. By some accounts, it has increased by more than 33 percent in just one decade, potentially the result of pollution, food additives, and excess inflammatory-causing meat, sugar, and fat consumption.

Some of the symptoms of asthma include wheezing, difficulty breathing, coughing, chest tightness, increased heart rate, sleep loss due to coughing and difficulty breathing, increased mucus flow, inflammation of the mucus linings of the lungs, and airway constriction in the bronchial muscles.