Early spring has a way of making confident people look foolish.

Mark opens one of these seasonal discussions with a line that feels almost like a warning disguised as small talk: “Beautiful early spring day, as if we’re gonna let that fool us, because March is usually the snowiest month in Colorado.”

That tone matters. He is not just talking about the weather. He is talking about misreading signals. Spring is not stable. It is not gentle. It is a metabolic shift, and like most shifts, it exposes whatever was quietly held together through the winter.

If there is a unifying theme across these teachings, it is this: the body does not struggle in spring because of spring. It struggles because its internal chemistry has not kept up with the change.

pH Is Not a Lifestyle Choice

3 Fundamentals of Seasonal Allergies — March 6, 2024

In this webinar, Mark goes straight at one of the most persistent misconceptions in modern nutrition:

“Let’s start with perhaps the most misguided, misunderstood, and abused concept that underlies allergies in the broadest sense. And that is pH, the acid base or acid alkaline balance.”

Then he tightens the screws.

“Alkalizing the body is a real craze in the supplement natural health world… and you can really get your body in a lot of trouble just by following this advice… to try to manipulate and force your body into a higher pH is a dangerous undertaking, and one that will inevitably lead to allergic reactions.”

This is where many practitioners, even experienced ones, get pulled off course. The conversation gets reduced to food lists and urine strips, while the physiology is quietly ignored.

While Mark is not rejecting alkaline foods, he rejects the idea that the body should be pushed in one direction.

The body is not a trend. It is a sequence.

He walks through it in a way that is worth revisiting slowly:

“The food leaving the stomach has just been bathed in hydrochloric acid… so it is a highly acidic pH… the next fluid that the body provides is bile, which is extremely alkaline… and it’s going to engage in extremely acidic chyme… ending up with a relatively neutral pH.”

There is a quiet elegance in that description. Acid, then alkaline, then balance. Not forced. Not guessed. Orchestrated.

Spring challenges that orchestration. If stomach acid is weak, bile cannot do its job correctly. If bile is insufficient, fats are not properly handled. If fats are not handled, the fat-soluble components never fully enter the system as intended.

And then we start asking why the immune system is “overreacting.”

Digestion Is the Gatekeeper, Not a Supporting Character

3 Vitamins That Don’t Exist (But They’ll Kill You If You Don’t Eat Them) — March 19, 2025

There is a point in this webinar where Mark quietly dismantles one of the most persistent assumptions in modern nutrition.

The assumption is simple: If you take the nutrient, you get the benefit.

Mark’s position is just as simple, but far less comfortable: That is not how the body works.

He begins to build this by forcing the listener to reconsider what a “vitamin” even is, not as a chemical, but as something inseparable from digestion, structure, and context.

You hear it most clearly when he starts walking through tissue integrity:

“Vegetarians who don’t eat animals will not get collagen and therefore they could not exist because their bodies would disintegrate… because there’s no intracellular cement.”

That line has a way of disrupting the entire supplement conversation. It brings things back to the reality that the body is built from structure, not shortcuts.

And once you accept that, digestion immediately becomes central.

Because if the body cannot break down and properly process food, then the “nutrient” never becomes functional in the first place.

Mark’s broader teaching in this webinar circles back to this repeatedly, even when he is discussing different tissues or systems. The principle works consistently.

Nutrients are not standalone inputs. They are part of complexes that require:

• proper breakdown
• proper chemical environment
• proper sequence

Remove any one of those, and you do not have a deficiency in the conventional sense. You have a failure of utilization. This is where spring physiology becomes clinically relevant.

As digestive demand increases, whatever inefficiency was tolerated in the winter begins to show up.

Fats require bile. Proteins require acid. Minerals depend on both. And none of that happens in isolation.

If that sequence is even slightly off, the downstream effects begin quietly. While you do not immediately see a crisis, you will see patterns.

And this is where Mark’s teaching tends to challenge even experienced practitioners. Because it pulls attention away from food and supplements and places it firmly on what was actually processed. In other words, what was actually made usable by the body.

That distinction becomes the difference between chasing nutrients and restoring physiology. And once you start looking at cases through that lens, it becomes very difficult to go back.

The Allergy Conversation Starts in the Wrong Place

3 Fundamentals of Seasonal Allergies — March 6, 2024

By the time most people think about allergies, they are already downstream.

Pollen. Histamine. Symptoms.

Mark reverses that sequence. He brings in Dr. Royal Lee’s observation directly:

“In fact, I’m becoming convinced that all allergy is merely a form of alkalosis… the patient only complains of allergies because he is hyper-alkaline.”

That statement lands differently when you pair it with modern data that Mark references:

“Airway surface liquid pH in normal airways ranges between 5.6 and 6.7, well below neutral.”

Then he shows what happens when that chemistry shifts:

“But then notice that once there was a disease, those same locations, look how the pH goes up. 7.2, 7.5, 7.8, 7.2 to 8.3. That’s with rhinitis or bronchitis, bacteria infected, 7.2 to 7.4.”

So the issue is not what is coming in through the airway. It is what kind of internal environment is greeting it. That is an entirely different conversation. Not surprisingly, it is also the one most modern approaches manage to sidestep with impressive consistency.

Histamine Is Loud. The Problem Is Quiet.

Mark does not build the conversation around histamine. By the time histamine shows up, the real work has already been missed.

“The way you know you have an allergy is because you develop a histamine. It really is what produces all the symptoms.”

But then he delivers the line that separates surface level thinking from systems thinking:

“All the antihistamines in the world won’t have much effect until you do.”

Until you do what?

Correct the chemistry.

When the Environment Turns Up, the Body Has to Answer

Heatstroke, Sunstroke, Shingles, The Sun — July 17, 2024

This is where things start to stack in a way that should not be surprising, and yet somehow still is, because once that underlying pattern is in place, it doesn’t take much to bring it forward. It’s not always a new exposure or a dramatic event. More often, it’s just an increase in demand. The kind of demand that most people would consider normal, even healthy.

Which is where Mark’s discussion of sun and heat becomes far more relevant than it first appears. As he puts it, “…we’re gonna look at how this is often a trigger for viral infections to come alive after they’ve been dormant…”

Let’s emphasize that word: trigger. It suggests something was already there, waiting for the right conditions.

And then we get to sunlight, which is usually treated as either something to avoid entirely or something to chase without much thought in between. Mark does not take either position. He sees this exposure as another challenge the body has to meet.

More light, more activity, more exposure means more metabolic demand whether we choose to acknowledge that or not.

• Fluid balance has to adjust.
• Mineral relationships have to hold.
• The nervous system has to keep up.

And if those systems are already compensating, even slightly, this added demand does not politely wait its turn. What looked stable starts to feel less so. What seemed manageable begins to require more effort. Not because the sun suddenly became a problem, but because it asked the system to do something it was only barely managing to do in the first place.

Which, if we are paying attention, brings us right back to the same idea that keeps showing up across these discussions.

Spring does not create imbalance. It simply removes the illusion that everything was fine to begin with.

A Practical Reflection for Practitioners

At a certain point, this principle stops being an interesting theory and starts looking uncomfortably familiar.

You see it in practice whether you are looking for it or not. The patient who did “fine” all winter suddenly is not so fine. The case that felt stable starts needing more attention. The sensitivity that stayed in the background decides it has had enough patience.

Nothing dramatic was introduced. No major change; just a little more demand. And that is usually when the questions start.

1. What changed?
2. What triggered this?
3. What are we missing?

Fair questions. Just not always the right ones.

Because if you have spent any time with Mark’s material, you already know how this tends to go. The pattern was there. It was just behaving itself. Right up until it was asked to do a little more than it comfortably could.

That is where his webinar archive becomes less of a library and more of a diagnostic tool.

He mentions it almost in passing,

“We now have well over a hundred hours of archived Webinar Wednesdays that you can enjoy anytime day or night.”

Which sounds convenient. And it is. But what it actually offers is something most practitioners do not get enough of: repetition of patterns across different systems, different seasons, different presentations, until they stop looking like separate problems and start looking like variations of the same underlying physiology.

Spend enough time in there and certain themes stop being subtle. pH shows up again. Digestion again. Bile again. Histamine again. Not as isolated topics, but as the same conversation being had from different angles.

And once you see that, it becomes very difficult to go back to treating each case as if it arrived independently, fully formed, with no history behind it.

If you are already in the archive, this is the kind of work that pays off quickly, not with new tricks, but because it sharpens what you are already seeing.

If you are not, this is usually the point where it becomes clear that there is more here than a single webinar can cover. And more importantly, that the patterns you are seeing in practice have likely already been mapped out somewhere in that body of work.

You just have to go looking for them.

Where This Work Continues

If these patterns resonate, the next step is straightforward.

Spend time with the source material.

Mark’s Webinar Wednesdays are not isolated lectures. They are a body of work. The more you engage with them, the more you begin to recognize patterns that are easy to miss in day-to-day practice.

And once you see them, it becomes very difficult to unsee them. Which raises a different question entirely: What else have you not seen yet?

This article reflects the teachings and perspectives presented by Mark Anderson in Webinar Wednesday sessions, as well as historical concepts associated with Dr. Royal Lee. It is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment recommendations. Readers are encouraged to consult original webinar materials for full context and clinical application.

Images from iStock/Pheelings Media (main), inkoly (pH), Andrii Iemelyanenko (man holding his stomach).