I think what we not talking about is that evolutionarily and historically babies were weaned to solid food by the mothers chewing the food to a smooth consistency and passing it to baby that allows the establishment and building up the gut flora. In our modern society passing food from the mother’s mouth into the baby perceived as disgusting and unhygienic. The available Baby foods on the ship shelves are tasteless and process food that lacking nutrients and important enzymes, I wonder if this could be a link to so many children are ‘fussy’ eaters.
One reason why small xhildren dislike many vegetables, is their taste that is also different for people but kids especially have “fresh tastebuds” so they perceive the chemicals in vegetables much more strongly, kids love bland foods like potatoes and pasta. Vegetables contain many biochemical compounds and they are usually bitter, so if we take kids sensitive tastebuds and pair it with an unpleasant taste, they might not eat it because they don’t like the taste and body is very smart to dislike things that arw harmful especially in larger quantities than the body can handle. Forcing them to eat it is forcing them to override their bodys natural signals of keeping certain stuff out and i think by now we should trust that signal. It’s more of the bodys signal than the mind of the kid. Kids also need much more animal fats and protwin then we have thought the past 20 years of low fat (trying to create satiety with fillers when it actually comes from natural nutrients).
@ThePojengsidur new studied suggest we should be eating mainly fruits and meat like our ancestors bitter foods are usually harmful and they belive some veg is bitter becuase it dosent what to be eaten wear as frutw is sweet and wants to be eaten to get us to propagate there seeds. Many plants are poisonus so we mainly would of eaten meat we have stomach acid stronger than a lion and a slightly longer bowle than a lion and there oblagot carnivorous we don't have a bowle like a cow or 3 stomachs we are meat eaters with the occasional fruit hence why people love suger and the extra bowle laith is for fruits but many things we call veg are acctully fruit so of these plants are runner beans, tomato, cucumber, avocado, squash/pumpkin, peppers, egg plant as they all contain seeds doctors need to study evelounal diets and botany with there medical studies a lot of diseases come from diet and he dident talk about histamine intolerance or mast cell activation disorder and how thay differ or can be treated we need another vidio asking about this.
I was born in the late 60s. My mother was very young and knew nothing about allergies that might affect me. She ate shellfish and pretty much everything she wanted. I'm perfectly fine.
The thing which struck me most is the advice for mothers. I really struggled to make decisions on what to feed my children and how. The government advice and health visitor guidance was most detrimental as it prevented me from using my intuition.
And children have their own organism to signal to them what they want or not, i think it is detrimental that we force or we are forced to do something our bodies say no to but then we learn to override it and don’t listen to our bodies own intelligence and ways of telling communicating. The most harmful trend i’ve heard of is the low fat and protein trend - growing organism needs most importantly animal fats and proteins to develop even the brain tissue and bones and joints but we are told to eat mostly low nutritional veggies and high carb- low nutritional value (and i mean what is nutrion for the body not for some table of contents, bioavailability is ususally around 20% for vegetables with comparison to animal products 98% is absorbed and used).
@@ThePojengsidur I don't really agree that vegetarian / veganism is bad for a human. It depends what and how much you eat. Western culture makes it more challenging. I do agree that intuitive eating is important to our health and wellbeing.
In post-WWII UK, food rationing continued until 1954, and children, (and their parents), had years of limited exposure to a range of foods whilst growing up. Our diets were historically bland. Travel, and exposure to foreign airborne allergens were similarly limited. By the late 60s and through the 80s to today, the range of foods available increased greatly as did travel. Is there evidence that this early "boomer" population had any notable epidemic of food allergies, compared to those of their children and grandchildren? Born in 1952, I did not have food allergies or asthma/eczema during my first 30 years, but I developed seasonal sensitivity to tree pollens (initially vernal conjunctivitis in Maytime in my 40s), which in the last 5 years has increased to year-long allergic rhinitis from various allergens, starting in January with pollens like Hazel, with heavy nosebleeds in late spring. Only since my 50s have I been receiving vaccines for Influenza, Covid, Shingles and Pneumonia, as recommended by the NHS. The "Why" in this video is not addressed! What primes us to become sensitive to environmental and food allergens. What protects us from them, apart from avoidance? One significant fact is that most of us do not have parasites, particularly worms in the gut. Helminthic therapy has shown the benefits of small, temporary infestations for people with atopic eczema and asthma. Worms were natural parts of our microbiome until medicine eradicated them from our environments, and their presence is known to modulate our immune response to desensitise us from environmental allergens, which in themselves are harmless. Except those who have dogs and cats, who may contract small temporary infestations from their pets, which are treated regularly by veterinary pharmaceutical products so they do not have serious worm problems themselves. Dogs are mentioned as being protective for their families allergies in the video. Nowadays, most socially compliant dog owners immediately remove their dog faeces from the environment and dispose of them, leading to an increase in allergic conditions in their dogs! Dog owners know that their dogs will anoint themselves, or devour faeces of other species. Fox poo is a favourite for rolling in, cat poo for eating, and if your dog park is inhabited by rough sleepers, human faeces are a favourite "Eau de Colon" for your canine! Why? Simply put, dogs are practicing instinctive Helminthic therapy by exposing themselves to worm eggs and larvae in the deposited faeces of slightly different species. Parasites are highly specialised, but infect a range of species to a lesser extent than their natural hosts. This confers immune modulation, without heavy parasite infestation, and the infestation is short lived outside the natural host. Why Eggs, Dairy, and nuts and peanuts? Peanut and other vegetable seed oils have been used as an adjuvant in vaccines since the 1960s, with the realization that mineral oil used previously may have been carcinogenic, with a 1961 US patent by Merck & Co., No. 3,149,036. God knows which vaccines contained what ingredients because of pharmaceutical company trade secrets in their preparations. Inactive ingredients are not necessarily disclosed. Viruses for vaccine production were grown in fertilized chicken eggs, or in calves, and many bacterial growth media contain animal proteins, such as BSA (Bovine serum albumin), milk proteins and so on. How much of a pathogen preparation for vaccine production contains the viral host's proteins, or the bacterial growth medium proteins? What better way to develop an allergy to a commonly available food, than injecting it in a vaccine, designed to stimulate the immune response, in newborns and growing children?
I ate peanut butter like crazy with my first two children while pregnant and while nursing. In fact, when my baby was 6 months old, I was still nursing her but she wanted a bite of my peanut butter and jelly sandwich so I gave it to her and she broke out in hives. My other daughter never broke out in hives but has had stomach issues for a long time and was just tested for food allergies and was a class 3 for peanuts. I still give my daughters peanut butter to see if they will out grow it but so far it hasn’t worked. I mean unless I’m supposed to give them food other than breast milk before 6 months of age I don’t know what else I could have done. I do have a friend who told me they put peanut oil in vaccines and that’s what caused their allergies. Honestly in a world post covid I don’t know who to believe.
Not allergy-related but I ate a peanut butter banana every day while pregnant. Could not get enough PB+banana. My son does not have allergies, does have mild eczema of some sort from my husband (who btw NEVER had it while we lived in a humid, temperate climate - he only developed it as a 35-y.o. when we moved somewhere extremely cold and dry!). I have cat and some kind of pollen allergies. My grandma and dad have hay fever but no animal allergies as they grew up farmers. It's so genetic. Maybe not the exact "peanuts to peanuts" way, but definitely seems like the predisposition to allergies is genetic, and then environment sorts of what kind and how bad. Anyway to your friend - that's bunk. They do not use peanut oil in vaccines (why would they - it's not that cheap, it's not that long-lived on a shelf, and also ITS A HUGELY COMMON ALLERGEN.) but a bit more info is here: science.feedback.org/review/peanut-oil-isnt-ingredient-vaccines-doesnt-cause-peanut-allergies/
I think you should check how the bathing before bedtime which is always recommended as the daily bedtime routine influence allergies. I mean it just can't be good to wash away the natural oils on the skin daily like that.
I'd love to know more about shellfish allergies developing in adults. What is the mechanism for that? What can be done to prevent or reverse these kinds of allergies? Similar question for eczema in adults.
Some shellfish are filter feeders - bivalves such as oysters, cockles, clams, and thus ingest our sewage, including faecal bacteria, whelks eat rotting flesh, as do crabs, shrimps and other crustaceans. It is no wonder that they sometimes cause food poisoning, but our guts are our number one immune defence organ, and stuff that inflames our gut just mildly gives us a massive immune response. One exposure to some inflammatory foodstuffs is enough to give a major response the second time around especially if there are a few weeks between exposures as the immunity develops. If you are unfortunate enough not to realize a food is making you feel unwell, each exposure should reinforce the discomfort making you learn an avoidance response. Unfortunately anaphylactic shock can be fatal, but that stops you from contaminating yourself any more. People put up with indigestion more than any other discomfort and for centuries have taken preparations to prevent indigestion and diarrhoea, and still do - Imodium (Loperamide) is an over-the-counter opioid, like codeine or morphine and all have an effect on reducing gut discomfort, as powerful analgesics, but also by slowing gut, reducing muscle activity and spasms, in turn increasing transit times, so that excess fluid may be absorbed, instead of being rejected by your gut as toxic, but are prescribed by doctors as anti-diarrheic medicines, meaning the inflammatory substances remain in the gut longer, and poison you for longer, increasing the immune response to whatever your gut contains at the time that may be leaking across the gut membranes due to the inflammation caused by the toxins or the organisms producing them. Then ocean fish eat shellfish and crustaceans too, and they are sold in the same shops and markets, so cross-contamination is bound to occur. If you have ever kept goldfish, they continually recycle the gravel at the bottom of the tank, including their own faeces. Just like wild carp do, which are caught for food.
Interesting. I have eczema and an anaphylactic reaction to most nuts inc peanut, and then hayfever type reactions to what feels like most of the outdoors, animals, dust etc. I know I had very severe eczema as a baby - my mum has some horror stories - and that I had early (at 2 weeks old) chickenpox followed by a bad staph infection. Also that my parents have confirmed I used to get hives if my dad rubbed eczema creams into my skin after eating nuts. So yeah - quite a few risk factors there. Esp as this was the 80s so after I reacted to a nut at 4 months, they were just avoided wholesale. I have three children. My eldest and middle child have no allergies, and their skin is generally fine (they get patches of eczema here and there very occasionally, but it's treatable and goes away). My youngest does have patches of dry skin - the doctors have said it's mild eczema. She also gets hives and I can't pinpoint the triggers (there's more than one I'm sure!). She's reacting to milk at the mo - I've printed the 'milk ladder' (slow introduction of increasing amounts of milk) and we're following that. As for nuts - no way on earth any nuts are coming into my house, ever. Too dangerous and stressful for me - she's 8 months and if I have a life threatening reaction and am carted off to hospital, where does that leave her? She's breastfed with no formula alongside weaning so obviously still v reliant on breast milk. Anyway. I'm hoping she's low risk for a nut allergy because there are no nuts anywhere at home so there's minimal risk of exposure through skin. My partner gives the kids nut stuff to eat when they're out with him, or at grandparents etc. Official guidance for parents changes over time - I've followed WHO guidance re 6 months exclusive breastfeeding for all three, only to find out that was probably wrong, esp given my risk factors. We all do the best we can i suppose with the info we have at the time. Hopefully my youngest can also avoid my fate! Allergies and eczema suck.
Anecdotal evidence for me. But it was pesticides on a lot of vegetables/fruiy and grain that gave me skin issues. I had to basically only eat meat and non American wheat or rice etc only. Now it’s fixed unless I eat a bread sometimes that manifests as an itch rather than full blown. Also add magnesium and zinc. Pelligrino or zero filter water with electrolytes. Get rid of all fluoride too.
During pregnancy and breastfeeding I ate peanut butter and mozzarella cheese in high quantities till the moment when my breastfeeding baby started to get worse with his eczema. The dermatologist referred him to a dietician who recommended a blood allergy test and told me to stop breastfeeding or avoid milk, peanuts because he is allergic to it. I started to give him food at the age of 6 months as recommended first soups with egg went well, second proper allergic reaction on a face, neck ( his face became red, lips swollen, we couldn't stop him from scratching). Now he is under allergology care and we have a lot of hope for the milk trail when they try to make him tolerant to it. I wish that this Zoe podcast was recorded and available 6 years ago. Maybe something would be totally different with us. When it comes to my son's eczema. When he was born I didn't give him a shower for the first week ( in my family common is not to give for the first 2-3 weeks) but when I have a phone with the community midwife she told me that I have to give him a bath and do it at least 3 times a week. I wish I didn't listen then.
Have you been able to improve your biome? I've taken lots of different probiotics/prebiotics over the years but none have had any positive effects on my food allergies (I'm assuming it's allergies as it seems to be an immune response to various foods affecting my asthma, I'm currently waiting for testing. Also my immune system seems to attack my thyroid too). I've never had a microbiome test though so not sure what state it's in.
@@swatkins1013 I haven't had it checked again yet. I've been doing the Zoe program since October so hoping it has made a difference. However, I still have the allergy to dairy and alcohol.
Thanks for another great video. Great to hear the skin microbiome briefly discussed. My schoolboy understanding is that the skin is the biggest human organ? I would love to see more videos about the skin microbiome. Understanding about the gut micrbiome seems to have come on leaps and bounds, and seem very logical, which makes me wonder if the parallels with our skin, could be similarly important and currently more misunderstood.
I totally eliminated my extreme annual hay fever symptoms by taking tiny amounts of local bee pollen daily for a couple of years. I was careful to introduce bee pollen to my system very slowly over weeks, and the maximum I took was 1/8 th teaspoon per day. I read that infants and young children should not eat honey or bee pollen as they may have extreme allergic reaction to it. Use only upon advice from your professional medical doctor.
I was brought up in the late 40s and 50s as far as I know no foods were off limits and I have no food allergies.But our food was very different then. I do have hayfever, and in hindsight I think I had that as a child - what my mother called a summer cold - and it was down to the huge lime tree in the garden, lime pollen being still one of my main triggers. My hayfever got much worse following lockdown and a covid infection. I'm now sensative to many more things, and pretty well all year round.Birch pollen is one of my triggers, but I've never had any problem with apples or other fruit, maybe because I've eaten lots of them all my life.
My child’s allergies started after the 3 month immunisations. The doctor said that it was a side effect most children would eventually grow out of. However, if it was resolved before they turned 3 there was a 90 percent chance of it would not come back.
I DON'T agree with the statement about peanuts on planes. I have had allergies all my life, severe with peanuts and if someone opens up peanuts on a plane, I react very badly to that, with my eyes swelling up, and triggering a severe asthma attack.
Exposure to small doses and with a slow build-up over time (mentioned), though with severe allergies it's a terrifying prospect and I doubt any healthcare providers would be very helpful anytime soon.
@@wayneoftheweb my son has very severe milk allergy ( worse than peanut one) He was offered a place in the trail where he will receive small doses of milk to build his tolerance to 120ml. He probably will start it next year. They told us they don't have enough funding so they are taking 5? ( Not sure was it 4, 5 or 8) Children every half a year. I just hope he will build his tolerance.
It's revealing how strong the taboo on hygiene is. Every enlightened physician and researcher will aknowledge the truth of the Hygiene Hypothesis, but no authoritative public organisation dares suggest people to eat with dirty hands or avoid sanitizers or eat risky raw foods... This contradiction will not be removed easily.
I have never understood why babies in the UK are bathed so often. In Germany, the advice is once or twice a week …or when their nappies have exploded and they have poop up to their ears 😂
I am 71 years old living in Canada and developed allergies in my early 20s mostly two grass ragweed you name it so I was given shots for many years. What Indidn’t realize is that in the shot there’s a tiny bit of formaldehyde to keep it from spoiling. Well guess what? I developed a severe allergic reaction to a lot of chemicals in my late 30s. To the point where I could barely live in regular society. I have worked continually in trying to overcome these allergies and when I say allergies they makes me stop breathing, and I have gotten much better. My son was born in my mid 20s not breast-fed bathed regularly and has to date at 46 years of age no allergies. When I was in my mid-20s, I developed acne and was given a long mild course of antibiotics of which I blame all my problems on from what I have read about antibiotic over use. I refused to give my son antibiotics when he was young simply kept him home when he fell ill with chicken soup and fluids. Actually he never took an antibiotic until I would say three years ago when he developed strep throat. He was given a course of penicillin which hehad no reaction .. I, on the other hand am highly allergic to penicillin, I say this because I believe contributing to my son’s good health outside of a good diet when he was young and I think he still has one is the lack of antibiotic use. I also never gave him any over-the-counter NSAIDs if he had a headache, etc. I used to tell him to just breathe. I myself take none of those things anymore. I’m not saying I have the answer. Most of this is anecdotal, but that’s my thinking seems to of worked for me.🇨🇦
It's interesting, back in the days, says 10 years ago, people introduced solids around 4 months, but now the recommendations are saying 6 months , even if the baby shows signs of interest at 4 months. This is Australia
I didn't get eczema until I was over 40. It's anxiety/stressed induced eczema and occurs on my hands. I will develop blisters on somewhere on my hand. I have a breakout right now on the back of my right hand near my thumb.
I went into anaphylactic shock aged 4 months on my first solid meal (fish and egg). Early exposure didn’t prevent those allergies. As I grew up, the list only got longer - all things discovered through exposure, mostly early on, and with no attempt at avoiding the allergens. I had eczema - still do, though it has improved over time. How does this tally with the exposure theory?
Sorry to hear that, must be hard. The prof did say that, for instance, while the children in Israel had a much lower incidence, it wasn't zero. Perhaps there's another story there? edit; Also he said that he observed a difference in mice being either introduced to food by eating vs those having foods rubbed on their skin - only the latter developed allergy. By extension, babies with eczema were thought to be exposed via their skin when their parents ate those foods.
I had an allergic reaction to peanut at about 4 months of age, now anaphylactic with most nuts and I think similarly to you, there was no warning, just a reaction from the start. I also had bad eczema as a baby, and I know my dad used to enjoy eating nuts so they were in the house. This exposure through skin theory makes sense of all that. Esp because my parents once mentioned that I'd get hives if dad rubbed the eczema creams on my skin after he'd eaten nuts 😭😕 Anyway. After the reaction at 4 months, my parents avoided nuts so I wasn't given any after that until I had a small amount of peanut at age 10 and landed up in hospital. So unfortunately almost the opposite of this chap's advice for me - exposure through skin and then avoidance. That was the 80s / 90s - no one knew. Allergies suck - but you already know that. It's obviously a developing area of science though - he didn't know why dogs or cow sheds make a difference, he didn't know what impact the microbiome has. Microbiome (skin and gut) is also implicated in eczema so clearly there is more to discover with all this.
@@sroberts605 I think you are right and it must have been the skin - I had severe eczema and there was a change in the formula of the special baby Persil that apparently worsened it too. I don’t know about peanuts but my parents certainly enjoyed other things I was allergic to. This said, I inherited a lot of my allergies (just not the food ones….).
@@littlelights6798 very familiar-sounding story!! Small comfort, perhaps, but I am not sure the avoidance after first reaction was really a lost opportunity - we must be a similar age. My mum really did try to desensitise me to fish through increasing and regular exposure (not so much the peanuts, they weren’t a standard foodstuff in our culture so it didn’t matter) - but it didn’t work either.
I’m 60+ and developed hay fever aged 9 with grass pollen & cat hair my main triggers. No one in my family had ever had any allergies as far as we knew & I was the only child in my class that had any kind of allergy, unlike today. I’m still affected but nowhere near like when I was young. Then aged 53 I had eczema for the first time, thankfully mild & well controlled with just occasional flare ups now. I put it down to a very stressful time in my life & also just becoming post menopausal. Also my dad developed asthma in his late 50’s. Again no one in the family had asthma or eczema previously. I’m surprised (or maybe not!) nothing was mentioned here about the huge amount of v@ccines kids get these days. Along with the often dire food environment & too many chemicals used in cleaning & bathing products I’m sure all that stuff that gets pumped into them virtually from day one doesn’t help the explosion of allergies & intolerances. Maybe that’s a controversial opinion?
I have a severe reaction to Quorn I have heard of other people have the same reaction as me which is violent vomiting after ingesting which carry’s on with exceptional force for several hours . The stomach pain is acute.
I used to eat quorn, (veggie friend used to eat it and make meals with it) then I started getting the same violent vomiting reaction after eating it. Now can’t have mushrooms either as this also triggers the same violent reaction. I used to be able to eat mushrooms before. This all started after eating Quorn, wish I had never tried it.
@@lesleybee33 Quorn is from Soy Protein. Soy oil may be an unadvertised part of some vaccines, as an adjuvant. Oils are an irritant if injected, making sure that a strong immune response develops.
Children more likely to be intolerant/allegic to foods if they dont get that food regularly as young children. I dont have food allergies but I do have asthma and hayfever. My mum fed me a wide variety of foods. I think we need to factor in toxins in air bonding with pollens etc than assume that their is a link to food and asthma .
If the intestines are truly healthy, many allergies can be eliminated. In a healthy body, proteins are broken down into amino acids in the intestines that then pass through the intestinal barrier - protein does not. The body then takes the amino acids and turns them into whatever protein the body needs. Healing the gut will create a much better intestinal filter, and many allergies will vanish. More allergies are more common today because more people are unhealthy.
@@luciajurkovic8047 Are you talking about a baby or are you talking about yourself after having a baby 14 months ago? There are similar solutions but you'd go about healing the gut somewhat differently in some areas.
@@luciajurkovic8047 First, I am not a doctor - I speak from many years of research that I have done on nutrition 1. Look at the ingredients of all food you feed your baby. Any food overly processed or with added chemicals and other unpronounceable additives should be lowered or eliminated. You can easily create your own baby food - using organic and whole food plant based would be preferable. ( Most chemicals added to food are toxic.) 2. If you have treated city water, it would be good to install a water filtration system. Chemicals added to treated water are there to kill harmful bacteria - this is good. But the problem is that when we ingest this treated water, we are also killing beneficial bacteria in our gut - we need these bacteria - they basically make upmost of our immune system. Chlorine is one of these chemicals. (You can pick up chlorine water test kits at most hardware stores). Forget about the government approved allowable chlorine amount - chlorine kills bacteria and that is why it is used (nobody would want to eat just a little arsenic because it wouldn't kill them) 3. I would also look at the baby's toys and clothes. Some toys and clothes might contain toxics and we all know that babies love putting things into their mouths. I would also consider the soap and fabric softener that is used in the house. The baby could be ingesting the soap and fabric softener residue when licking the clothes. These are only suggestions but are a very easy and safe place to start. If you have any concerns with anything that I have written, please speak with your family doctor. 4. The one obvious thing that I would mention regarding your intestinal problems would be, if you drink, stop drinking (any amount). Alcohol is a great disinfectant because it kills bacteria, and this is why it is used in all hospitals. When alcohol is consumed, it starts killing off beneficial bacteria in the gut - not a good thing - the bacteria in our gut makes up most of our immune system. I hope that any of this helps. Take care.
My 12 yr old just became allergic to strawberries:( As a toddler she had to have surgery and antibiotics and I wonder how the antibiotics at such a young age affected her biome long term.
Our kid have susvh severe eczema, believe me you try every thing to fix it. Also excluding foods. It was so far we almost got on imunosupresant medicines...
I lived on eggs&peanut butter during pregnancy and gave my baba peanut butter at 5.5months old and again at 7ish months old& eggs from 6months(&in small doses with flour from then on) and at 9months she's still very allergic to both!🙈 Among other intolerances. Not sure I believe that giving it to them early prevents allergy later in life, just makes a sad baby 😢
I'm disappointed he didn't mention the leaky gut theory of allergy causation. (ie food proteins slip from a porous gut into the bloodstream where they are picked up by the immune system and an allergic response is then programmed).
Yes I’d have liked him to talk about that too as this is the given reason for not starting babies in solids before 6 months, because apparently the gut is still porous before then.
My children are in their late twenties and was always told in Australia to include all types of foods and nuts. Interesting the different advice in other countries
Good conversation. Though I find the topic of bathing to be very Eurocentric. Maybe some parts of Europe didn't bath so much in the past, but that isn't necessarily true in other parts of the world.
During my pregnancy, I had a normal diet and ate most things. When my daughter was a baby, she had an egg allergy which she eventually outgrew. She often ate nuts. However, at the age of 14, she had a severe allergic reaction to all nuts. It was so severe that she was advised that her children would not be able to eat nuts due to her allergy. One morning, she woke up in anaphylactic shock because something blew in through the open window.
At the age of 14, had your daughter received an inoculation or vaccination in the previous year? e.g. Tetanus, Rubella, Tuberculosis, or for travel illnesses, perhaps?
A child joined my son's school who had egg allergies. They tried to ban it from the school and the uproar was... Epic. In the end, the chils had to learn to deal with it.
Fasinating, its very interesting. It seams very clear, we can not live in an altra safe buble. This is also cleare the natural world, our environment is under extact...
hi I would like to have more information on hayfever as I suffer all year to different degrees and love going into the countryside. the months of April and May I just dont go out other than work. I feel this likely effects alot of people. I have had strong anti histamines in the past which did not help, so dont take anything now. so expert advice would be good.
Now, we know genetically modified food can actually Cause allergies. We did not have genetically modified food when I was a kid 60s and 70s. I was fine only later in life. Did I develop some food allergies from the sad American diet? Let's talk about that doctors please
@ stevencook3894 What you are referring to is selective breeding which can be done naturally without things like gene splicing which are often done in the lab and involves similar species of plants. GMOs often involve things like mixing genes with two very unrelated species such as mixing the genes of an animal with those of a plant to get more desirable characteristics in the final product which is a more recent event.
Diet was totally different in 60’s and 70’s. So one can’t correlate effectively between genetically modified foods. Check out ultra processed people book worth a read. I am not so certain GM a big deal but I do think that ultra processed food almost certainly is just check out all the data……. Evidence is growing its primary factor for obesity epidemic and diabetes /heart disease/cancers. Anyway enjoy your food and if you like an ultra processed food then eat it as a treat once a month. For rest of time focus primarily on fresh foods that you cook that day yourself from scratch or batch cook fresh food and then you have a convenient way of getting a meal if you a busy working person who has little time at end of day to prep foods. Ideally organic foods …..high plant based diet full of nutrition with added proteins if you like from organic eggs, cheese, plain yoghurts, organic chicken, sardines, etc
Why does the interviewer constantly repeat exactly what the guest says? He thinks he is summarizing or clarifying but the guest is speaking very clearly on his own so the interviewer is just parroting his answers back to him. It's a little annoying and definitely unnecessary.
Please do some research on r.H.Negative mothers that have to take the rogam shot during pregnancy. I'm curious to know since this is a protein issue. If the baby can develop allergies from that because my child is in that category.❤❤❤ Thank you for your research
This is anecdotal but I have a lot of allergies - many inherited from my mother, who did not have the shot. I had it and my child has no known allergies.
Thanks this was a fascinating episode! I will definitely be following all these bits of advice in the future if I'm lucky enough to have children. I would love an episode digging in deeper into non-food allergies e.g. pet allergies, hayfever and oral allergy syndrome! I suffer with such terrible hayfever and am dosed up on fexofenadine from february to august. I also have the oral allergy syndrome (almonds, all the stoned fruits, apples, pears) and cat allergies. I would love to know if there's anything I can do to try and reduce the risk of future children suffering in the same way.
What he says cannot be true. I, as well as many people I know, developed an allergy later in life, never having any type of allergy before. So has this doctor not done this homework, or does he just repeat the usual myths like man doctors do.
I was told not to eat peanuts and other foods while pregnant and totally ignored it. I have kids 11 and 14 with no allergies. When they were babies I also let them put handfuls of dirt and sand in their mouths to see what would happen. They tasted it and spat it out and never tried each thing again. I could literally see their bodies logging each thing they tasted.
Are peanuts the main culprits of nut allergies 🤔. Peanuts grow below the soil on a plant with leaves and flowers above ground and peanut pods and roots below. China is the world’s largest producer of peanuts, responsible for 37% of the global total. India produces 13% of the world’s peanuts. Other notable countries involved in peanut production are Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Burma, Guinea, Argentina and Tanzania.
Right?! This is the first Zoe podcast I've ever seen, and before I have a chance to even watch the podcast and decide if this is a channel I want to subscribe to, he's already on there begging for subscriptions 🙄
When you really think about, if you believe in the hunter and gatherer theory. In the the beginning. I am referring to biblical times. There must of been a lot of diversity in the gut and else where. I am referring to on or in the body. Too bad so sad.
You Brits only shower twice a week? Rofl!! I'm not one to speak, but that sounds positively low en masse. Reminds me of roughing it out with my grandparents at their cottage out in the middle of nowhere 40 yrs ago, where spot cleaning was the norm, during our get aways. It does show concern for the environment though. I've personally been doing navy showers for close to two decades, as I've never understood how or why people have the water go nonstop. I've also used low consumption heads for decades, too.
Brits bathe or shower the same as other developed countries (I assume!) - I think he was saying we didn't used to wash as often, I'm thinking maybe when people still had outdoor loos, no bathrooms inside, tin bath by the coal fire kind of scenario. Long time ago now!
Ok I call bullshit. My firstborn normal pregnancy, natural birth, breast fed, I had pets cat, garden tidy home but not clean freak. . I enjoyed normal food while pregnant inc peanut butter (crunchy) . Well guess what she got allergies excema asthma as child and I discovered the peanut allergy because I picked her up after making myself peanut butter toast and she had finger shaped welt marks on her body from peanut traces. Naturally next two babies I avoid peanut ever and this children fine. So smart ass doctors you don't bloody know why these kids get the allergies. I literally believe it was my enjoying peanut butter while preggo that caused first born allergy but that may be wrong, I am certain EATING peanuts during after pregnancy does not prevent allergies. Peanuts not a common food when I was young. First time I ate it I was probably 20. So now if mothers avoid peanut stuff that is bad and causing allergy? Lmfao co I ate the shit when pregnant and my girl needs an epi pen with her and wheezed her way thru childhood. The most robust child I have is third one who mostly bottle-fed. I bought into the bullshit "breast is best".
Is anyone considering the pesticide used to spray our wheat, and peanuts etc.. it’s not the nuts are babies are allergic to it’s the chemicals and pesticide the companies are using on our foods
@@kleezy1186 yes I was chatting to this lady (some kind of bio chemist) at my daughter's pottery classes. She was speaking of gluten intolerance and how her son was fine eating wheat in the home country (middle east) but not after moving to Australia. She solved it by getting wheat from her country at the international grocer. The type of wheat, it's processing and sprays combined to make it inedible for her son in Australia.
Just eat more meat and little to no plants. We evolved on meat and are adapted to meat from millions of years of evolution Or wed have stomachs and abdomens of ruminants.
@rolandchandler2669, I beg to differ. I think you may be aleeeergic to novelty. Sheltered life? You might try gradual desensitization listening to varied people in public spaces.
Wow that’s quite some intolerance you have there. I wonder if it’s acquired or lack of manners is inherited and runs in the family. There’s really no need to be rude.
I think what we not talking about is that evolutionarily and historically babies were weaned to solid food by the mothers chewing the food to a smooth consistency and passing it to baby that allows the establishment and building up the gut flora. In our modern society passing food from the mother’s mouth into the baby perceived as disgusting and unhygienic. The available Baby foods on the ship shelves are tasteless and process food that lacking nutrients and important enzymes, I wonder if this could be a link to so many children are ‘fussy’ eaters.
One reason why small xhildren dislike many vegetables, is their taste that is also different for people but kids especially have “fresh tastebuds” so they perceive the chemicals in vegetables much more strongly, kids love bland foods like potatoes and pasta. Vegetables contain many biochemical compounds and they are usually bitter, so if we take kids sensitive tastebuds and pair it with an unpleasant taste, they might not eat it because they don’t like the taste and body is very smart to dislike things that arw harmful especially in larger quantities than the body can handle. Forcing them to eat it is forcing them to override their bodys natural signals of keeping certain stuff out and i think by now we should trust that signal. It’s more of the bodys signal than the mind of the kid. Kids also need much more animal fats and protwin then we have thought the past 20 years of low fat (trying to create satiety with fillers when it actually comes from natural nutrients).
@ThePojengsidur new studied suggest we should be eating mainly fruits and meat like our ancestors bitter foods are usually harmful and they belive some veg is bitter becuase it dosent what to be eaten wear as frutw is sweet and wants to be eaten to get us to propagate there seeds. Many plants are poisonus so we mainly would of eaten meat we have stomach acid stronger than a lion and a slightly longer bowle than a lion and there oblagot carnivorous we don't have a bowle like a cow or 3 stomachs we are meat eaters with the occasional fruit hence why people love suger and the extra bowle laith is for fruits but many things we call veg are acctully fruit so of these plants are runner beans, tomato, cucumber, avocado, squash/pumpkin, peppers, egg plant as they all contain seeds doctors need to study evelounal diets and botany with there medical studies a lot of diseases come from diet and he dident talk about histamine intolerance or mast cell activation disorder and how thay differ or can be treated we need another vidio asking about this.
I was born in the late 60s. My mother was very young and knew nothing about allergies that might affect me. She ate shellfish and pretty much everything she wanted. I'm perfectly fine.
Thank you for discussing this topic. My daughter has several food allergies. Discovered during her 1st year
The thing which struck me most is the advice for mothers. I really struggled to make decisions on what to feed my children and how. The government advice and health visitor guidance was most detrimental as it prevented me from using my intuition.
And children have their own organism to signal to them what they want or not, i think it is detrimental that we force or we are forced to do something our bodies say no to but then we learn to override it and don’t listen to our bodies own intelligence and ways of telling communicating. The most harmful trend i’ve heard of is the low fat and protein trend - growing organism needs most importantly animal fats and proteins to develop even the brain tissue and bones and joints but we are told to eat mostly low nutritional veggies and high carb- low nutritional value (and i mean what is nutrion for the body not for some table of contents, bioavailability is ususally around 20% for vegetables with comparison to animal products 98% is absorbed and used).
@@ThePojengsidur I don't really agree that vegetarian / veganism is bad for a human. It depends what and how much you eat. Western culture makes it more challenging. I do agree that intuitive eating is important to our health and wellbeing.
In post-WWII UK, food rationing continued until 1954, and children, (and their parents), had years of limited exposure to a range of foods whilst growing up. Our diets were historically bland. Travel, and exposure to foreign airborne allergens were similarly limited. By the late 60s and through the 80s to today, the range of foods available increased greatly as did travel. Is there evidence that this early "boomer" population had any notable epidemic of food allergies, compared to those of their children and grandchildren? Born in 1952, I did not have food allergies or asthma/eczema during my first 30 years, but I developed seasonal sensitivity to tree pollens (initially vernal conjunctivitis in Maytime in my 40s), which in the last 5 years has increased to year-long allergic rhinitis from various allergens, starting in January with pollens like Hazel, with heavy nosebleeds in late spring. Only since my 50s have I been receiving vaccines for Influenza, Covid, Shingles and Pneumonia, as recommended by the NHS.
The "Why" in this video is not addressed! What primes us to become sensitive to environmental and food allergens. What protects us from them, apart from avoidance?
One significant fact is that most of us do not have parasites, particularly worms in the gut. Helminthic therapy has shown the benefits of small, temporary infestations for people with atopic eczema and asthma. Worms were natural parts of our microbiome until medicine eradicated them from our environments, and their presence is known to modulate our immune response to desensitise us from environmental allergens, which in themselves are harmless.
Except those who have dogs and cats, who may contract small temporary infestations from their pets, which are treated regularly by veterinary pharmaceutical products so they do not have serious worm problems themselves.
Dogs are mentioned as being protective for their families allergies in the video.
Nowadays, most socially compliant dog owners immediately remove their dog faeces from the environment and dispose of them, leading to an increase in allergic conditions in their dogs!
Dog owners know that their dogs will anoint themselves, or devour faeces of other species. Fox poo is a favourite for rolling in, cat poo for eating, and if your dog park is inhabited by rough sleepers, human faeces are a favourite "Eau de Colon" for your canine!
Why? Simply put, dogs are practicing instinctive Helminthic therapy by exposing themselves to worm eggs and larvae in the deposited faeces of slightly different species. Parasites are highly specialised, but infect a range of species to a lesser extent than their natural hosts. This confers immune modulation, without heavy parasite infestation, and the infestation is short lived outside the natural host.
Why Eggs, Dairy, and nuts and peanuts?
Peanut and other vegetable seed oils have been used as an adjuvant in vaccines since the 1960s, with the realization that mineral oil used previously may have been carcinogenic, with a 1961 US patent by Merck & Co., No. 3,149,036.
God knows which vaccines contained what ingredients because of pharmaceutical company trade secrets in their preparations. Inactive ingredients are not necessarily disclosed.
Viruses for vaccine production were grown in fertilized chicken eggs, or in calves, and many bacterial growth media contain animal proteins, such as BSA (Bovine serum albumin), milk proteins and so on. How much of a pathogen preparation for vaccine production contains the viral host's proteins, or the bacterial growth medium proteins?
What better way to develop an allergy to a commonly available food, than injecting it in a vaccine, designed to stimulate the immune response, in newborns and growing children?
I ate peanut butter like crazy with my first two children while pregnant and while nursing. In fact, when my baby was 6 months old, I was still nursing her but she wanted a bite of my peanut butter and jelly sandwich so I gave it to her and she broke out in hives. My other daughter never broke out in hives but has had stomach issues for a long time and was just tested for food allergies and was a class 3 for peanuts. I still give my daughters peanut butter to see if they will out grow it but so far it hasn’t worked. I mean unless I’m supposed to give them food other than breast milk before 6 months of age I don’t know what else I could have done. I do have a friend who told me they put peanut oil in vaccines and that’s what caused their allergies. Honestly in a world post covid I don’t know who to believe.
Not allergy-related but I ate a peanut butter banana every day while pregnant. Could not get enough PB+banana. My son does not have allergies, does have mild eczema of some sort from my husband (who btw NEVER had it while we lived in a humid, temperate climate - he only developed it as a 35-y.o. when we moved somewhere extremely cold and dry!). I have cat and some kind of pollen allergies. My grandma and dad have hay fever but no animal allergies as they grew up farmers. It's so genetic. Maybe not the exact "peanuts to peanuts" way, but definitely seems like the predisposition to allergies is genetic, and then environment sorts of what kind and how bad.
Anyway to your friend - that's bunk. They do not use peanut oil in vaccines (why would they - it's not that cheap, it's not that long-lived on a shelf, and also ITS A HUGELY COMMON ALLERGEN.) but a bit more info is here: science.feedback.org/review/peanut-oil-isnt-ingredient-vaccines-doesnt-cause-peanut-allergies/
I am always in awe about how well Jonathan summarises at the end!
I think you should check how the bathing before bedtime which is always recommended as the daily bedtime routine influence allergies. I mean it just can't be good to wash away the natural oils on the skin daily like that.
In Israel the favorite childs’ snack is bamba. A peanut product . I understand peanut allergies are very rare in Israel
I'd love to know more about shellfish allergies developing in adults. What is the mechanism for that? What can be done to prevent or reverse these kinds of allergies? Similar question for eczema in adults.
Some shellfish are filter feeders - bivalves such as oysters, cockles, clams, and thus ingest our sewage, including faecal bacteria, whelks eat rotting flesh, as do crabs, shrimps and other crustaceans. It is no wonder that they sometimes cause food poisoning, but our guts are our number one immune defence organ, and stuff that inflames our gut just mildly gives us a massive immune response. One exposure to some inflammatory foodstuffs is enough to give a major response the second time around especially if there are a few weeks between exposures as the immunity develops. If you are unfortunate enough not to realize a food is making you feel unwell, each exposure should reinforce the discomfort making you learn an avoidance response. Unfortunately anaphylactic shock can be fatal, but that stops you from contaminating yourself any more.
People put up with indigestion more than any other discomfort and for centuries have taken preparations to prevent indigestion and diarrhoea, and still do - Imodium (Loperamide) is an over-the-counter opioid, like codeine or morphine and all have an effect on reducing gut discomfort, as powerful analgesics, but also by slowing gut, reducing muscle activity and spasms, in turn increasing transit times, so that excess fluid may be absorbed, instead of being rejected by your gut as toxic, but are prescribed by doctors as anti-diarrheic medicines, meaning the inflammatory substances remain in the gut longer, and poison you for longer, increasing the immune response to whatever your gut contains at the time that may be leaking across the gut membranes due to the inflammation caused by the toxins or the organisms producing them.
Then ocean fish eat shellfish and crustaceans too, and they are sold in the same shops and markets, so cross-contamination is bound to occur. If you have ever kept goldfish, they continually recycle the gravel at the bottom of the tank, including their own faeces. Just like wild carp do, which are caught for food.
Interesting.
I have eczema and an anaphylactic reaction to most nuts inc peanut, and then hayfever type reactions to what feels like most of the outdoors, animals, dust etc.
I know I had very severe eczema as a baby - my mum has some horror stories - and that I had early (at 2 weeks old) chickenpox followed by a bad staph infection. Also that my parents have confirmed I used to get hives if my dad rubbed eczema creams into my skin after eating nuts. So yeah - quite a few risk factors there.
Esp as this was the 80s so after I reacted to a nut at 4 months, they were just avoided wholesale.
I have three children. My eldest and middle child have no allergies, and their skin is generally fine (they get patches of eczema here and there very occasionally, but it's treatable and goes away).
My youngest does have patches of dry skin - the doctors have said it's mild eczema. She also gets hives and I can't pinpoint the triggers (there's more than one I'm sure!). She's reacting to milk at the mo - I've printed the 'milk ladder' (slow introduction of increasing amounts of milk) and we're following that.
As for nuts - no way on earth any nuts are coming into my house, ever. Too dangerous and stressful for me - she's 8 months and if I have a life threatening reaction and am carted off to hospital, where does that leave her? She's breastfed with no formula alongside weaning so obviously still v reliant on breast milk. Anyway. I'm hoping she's low risk for a nut allergy because there are no nuts anywhere at home so there's minimal risk of exposure through skin. My partner gives the kids nut stuff to eat when they're out with him, or at grandparents etc.
Official guidance for parents changes over time - I've followed WHO guidance re 6 months exclusive breastfeeding for all three, only to find out that was probably wrong, esp given my risk factors. We all do the best we can i suppose with the info we have at the time.
Hopefully my youngest can also avoid my fate! Allergies and eczema suck.
Anecdotal evidence for me. But it was pesticides on a lot of vegetables/fruiy and grain that gave me skin issues. I had to basically only eat meat and non American wheat or rice etc only. Now it’s fixed unless I eat a bread sometimes that manifests as an itch rather than full blown.
Also add magnesium and zinc. Pelligrino or zero filter water with electrolytes. Get rid of all fluoride too.
Thank You for having Professor Lack, such a wealth of knowledge & information💕💕💕💕💕
During pregnancy and breastfeeding I ate peanut butter and mozzarella cheese in high quantities till the moment when my breastfeeding baby started to get worse with his eczema. The dermatologist referred him to a dietician who recommended a blood allergy test and told me to stop breastfeeding or avoid milk, peanuts because he is allergic to it. I started to give him food at the age of 6 months as recommended first soups with egg went well, second proper allergic reaction on a face, neck ( his face became red, lips swollen, we couldn't stop him from scratching). Now he is under allergology care and we have a lot of hope for the milk trail when they try to make him tolerant to it. I wish that this Zoe podcast was recorded and available 6 years ago. Maybe something would be totally different with us. When it comes to my son's eczema. When he was born I didn't give him a shower for the first week ( in my family common is not to give for the first 2-3 weeks) but when I have a phone with the community midwife she told me that I have to give him a bath and do it at least 3 times a week. I wish I didn't listen then.
I developed a dairy allergy in my 40s. Since embarking on my Zoe journey I now realize it's my very poor gut micro biom that is the cause.
Have you been able to improve your biome? I've taken lots of different probiotics/prebiotics over the years but none have had any positive effects on my food allergies (I'm assuming it's allergies as it seems to be an immune response to various foods affecting my asthma, I'm currently waiting for testing. Also my immune system seems to attack my thyroid too). I've never had a microbiome test though so not sure what state it's in.
@@swatkins1013 I haven't had it checked again yet. I've been doing the Zoe program since October so hoping it has made a difference. However, I still have the allergy to dairy and alcohol.
@@swatkins1013 also look at the autoimmune protocol diet.
Thanks for another great video. Great to hear the skin microbiome briefly discussed.
My schoolboy understanding is that the skin is the biggest human organ? I would love to see more videos about the skin microbiome. Understanding about the gut micrbiome seems to have come on leaps and bounds, and seem very logical, which makes me wonder if the parallels with our skin, could be similarly important and currently more misunderstood.
I totally eliminated my extreme annual hay fever symptoms by taking tiny amounts of local bee pollen daily for a couple of years. I was careful to introduce bee pollen to my system very slowly over weeks, and the maximum I took was 1/8 th teaspoon per day. I read that infants and young children should not eat honey or bee pollen as they may have extreme allergic reaction to it. Use only upon advice from your professional medical doctor.
I have two big dogs that my baby was born into the home with and not only does she have food allergies, she’s also allergic to the dogs too!
I was brought up in the late 40s and 50s as far as I know no foods were off limits and I have no food allergies.But our food was very different then. I do have hayfever, and in hindsight I think I had that as a child - what my mother called a summer cold - and it was down to the huge lime tree in the garden, lime pollen being still one of my main triggers. My hayfever got much worse following lockdown and a covid infection. I'm now sensative to many more things, and pretty well all year round.Birch pollen is one of my triggers, but I've never had any problem with apples or other fruit, maybe because I've eaten lots of them all my life.
Would the treatments for Covid etc not perhaps damaged your microbiome?
@@margeretheath597 Not the treatments, but quite possibly the disease itself.
My child’s allergies started after the 3 month immunisations. The doctor said that it was a side effect most children would eventually grow out of. However, if it was resolved before they turned 3 there was a 90 percent chance of it would not come back.
I DON'T agree with the statement about peanuts on planes. I have had allergies all my life, severe with peanuts and if someone opens up peanuts on a plane, I react very badly to that, with my eyes swelling up, and triggering a severe asthma attack.
Would love to know what we can do as adults to reverse intolerances and allergies.
Yep. That was not mentioned in the video.
Exposure to small doses and with a slow build-up over time (mentioned), though with severe allergies it's a terrifying prospect and I doubt any healthcare providers would be very helpful anytime soon.
@@wayneoftheweb my son has very severe milk allergy ( worse than peanut one) He was offered a place in the trail where he will receive small doses of milk to build his tolerance to 120ml. He probably will start it next year. They told us they don't have enough funding so they are taking 5? ( Not sure was it 4, 5 or 8) Children every half a year. I just hope he will build his tolerance.
It's revealing how strong the taboo on hygiene is.
Every enlightened physician and researcher will aknowledge the truth of the Hygiene Hypothesis, but no authoritative public organisation dares suggest people to eat with dirty hands or avoid sanitizers or eat risky raw foods...
This contradiction will not be removed easily.
I have never understood why babies in the UK are bathed so often. In Germany, the advice is once or twice a week …or when their nappies have exploded and they have poop up to their ears 😂
😂😂 the ol’ explosive poo episode
As someone who has no allergies I am counting my blessings
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Very, very lucky 🍀
Adult onset allergies exist, you can get severe ones overnight to food you always ate
I am 71 years old living in Canada and developed allergies in my early 20s mostly two grass ragweed you name it so I was given shots for many years. What Indidn’t realize is that in the shot there’s a tiny bit of formaldehyde to keep it from spoiling. Well guess what? I developed a severe allergic reaction to a lot of chemicals in my late 30s. To the point where I could barely live in regular society. I have worked continually in trying to overcome these allergies and when I say allergies they makes me stop breathing, and I have gotten much better. My son was born in my mid 20s not breast-fed bathed regularly and has to date at 46 years of age no allergies. When I was in my mid-20s, I developed acne and was given a long mild course of antibiotics of which I blame all my problems on from what I have read about antibiotic over use. I refused to give my son antibiotics when he was young simply kept him home when he fell ill with chicken soup and fluids. Actually he never took an antibiotic until I would say three years ago when he developed strep throat. He was given a course of penicillin which hehad no reaction .. I, on the other hand am highly allergic to penicillin, I say this because I believe contributing to my son’s good health outside of a good diet when he was young and I think he still has one is the lack of antibiotic use. I also never gave him any over-the-counter NSAIDs if he had a headache, etc. I used to tell him to just breathe. I myself take none of those things anymore. I’m not saying I have the answer. Most of this is anecdotal, but that’s my thinking seems to of worked for me.🇨🇦
It's interesting, back in the days, says 10 years ago, people introduced solids around 4 months, but now the recommendations are saying 6 months , even if the baby shows signs of interest at 4 months. This is Australia
Studies are now leaning back toward the 4mo for allergens
Please make a video what to eat when pregnant ♥️ and thank you for all the information 🌺🌻🪻
This is a fascinating topic. Thank you for all your research and sharing the information.
Love the podcast , could you please do a podcast on autoimmune diseases as well
I love this straight answers ❤❤❤
I didn't get eczema until I was over 40. It's anxiety/stressed induced eczema and occurs on my hands. I will develop blisters on somewhere on my hand. I have a breakout right now on the back of my right hand near my thumb.
Brilliant information. Will pass it on. I am a Zoe member.
I went into anaphylactic shock aged 4 months on my first solid meal (fish and egg). Early exposure didn’t prevent those allergies. As I grew up, the list only got longer - all things discovered through exposure, mostly early on, and with no attempt at avoiding the allergens. I had eczema - still do, though it has improved over time. How does this tally with the exposure theory?
Sorry to hear that, must be hard. The prof did say that, for instance, while the children in Israel had a much lower incidence, it wasn't zero. Perhaps there's another story there?
edit; Also he said that he observed a difference in mice being either introduced to food by eating vs those having foods rubbed on their skin - only the latter developed allergy. By extension, babies with eczema were thought to be exposed via their skin when their parents ate those foods.
I would refer to one of the newish discoveries by the Microbiome experts: We are what we eat, but Mostly we are what our parents ate...🤷♂️🤔
I had an allergic reaction to peanut at about 4 months of age, now anaphylactic with most nuts and I think similarly to you, there was no warning, just a reaction from the start. I also had bad eczema as a baby, and I know my dad used to enjoy eating nuts so they were in the house. This exposure through skin theory makes sense of all that. Esp because my parents once mentioned that I'd get hives if dad rubbed the eczema creams on my skin after he'd eaten nuts 😭😕
Anyway. After the reaction at 4 months, my parents avoided nuts so I wasn't given any after that until I had a small amount of peanut at age 10 and landed up in hospital.
So unfortunately almost the opposite of this chap's advice for me - exposure through skin and then avoidance. That was the 80s / 90s - no one knew.
Allergies suck - but you already know that.
It's obviously a developing area of science though - he didn't know why dogs or cow sheds make a difference, he didn't know what impact the microbiome has. Microbiome (skin and gut) is also implicated in eczema so clearly there is more to discover with all this.
@@sroberts605 I think you are right and it must have been the skin - I had severe eczema and there was a change in the formula of the special baby Persil that apparently worsened it too. I don’t know about peanuts but my parents certainly enjoyed other things I was allergic to. This said, I inherited a lot of my allergies (just not the food ones….).
@@littlelights6798 very familiar-sounding story!! Small comfort, perhaps, but I am not sure the avoidance after first reaction was really a lost opportunity - we must be a similar age. My mum really did try to desensitise me to fish through increasing and regular exposure (not so much the peanuts, they weren’t a standard foodstuff in our culture so it didn’t matter) - but it didn’t work either.
Allergies are as old as the world but people didn’t really pay any attention to them thousands years ago
I’m 60+ and developed hay fever aged 9 with grass pollen & cat hair my main triggers. No one in my family had ever had any allergies as far as we knew & I was the only child in my class that had any kind of allergy, unlike today. I’m still affected but nowhere near like when I was young. Then aged 53 I had eczema for the first time, thankfully mild & well controlled with just occasional flare ups now. I put it down to a very stressful time in my life & also just becoming post menopausal. Also my dad developed asthma in his late 50’s. Again no one in the family had asthma or eczema previously. I’m surprised (or maybe not!) nothing was mentioned here about the huge amount of v@ccines kids get these days. Along with the often dire food environment & too many chemicals used in cleaning & bathing products I’m sure all that stuff that gets pumped into them virtually from day one doesn’t help the explosion of allergies & intolerances. Maybe that’s a controversial opinion?
I have a severe reaction to Quorn I have heard of other people have the same reaction as me which is violent vomiting after ingesting which carry’s on with exceptional force for several hours . The stomach pain is acute.
I used to eat quorn, (veggie friend used to eat it and make meals with it) then I started getting the same violent vomiting reaction after eating it. Now can’t have mushrooms either as this also triggers the same violent reaction. I used to be able to eat mushrooms before. This all started after eating Quorn, wish I had never tried it.
@@lesleybee33 Quorn is from Soy Protein. Soy oil may be an unadvertised part of some vaccines, as an adjuvant. Oils are an irritant if injected, making sure that a strong immune response develops.
Can you please get this doctor back and ask him about mast cell activation disorder and histamine intolerance and its relation to allagys.
Children more likely to be intolerant/allegic to foods if they dont get that food regularly as young children. I dont have food allergies but I do have asthma and hayfever. My mum fed me a wide variety of foods. I think we need to factor in toxins in air bonding with pollens etc than assume that their is a link to food and asthma .
If the intestines are truly healthy, many allergies can be eliminated. In a healthy body, proteins are broken down into amino acids in the intestines that then pass through the intestinal barrier - protein does not. The body then takes the amino acids and turns them into whatever protein the body needs. Healing the gut will create a much better intestinal filter, and many allergies will vanish. More allergies are more common today because more people are unhealthy.
How do i heal my 14months old baby gut😢
@@luciajurkovic8047 Are you talking about a baby or are you talking about yourself after having a baby 14 months ago? There are similar solutions but you'd go about healing the gut somewhat differently in some areas.
@@docbegone1716 my baby, but i am still breastfeeding so wouldn't be harmful for myself either 😁🙏
@@luciajurkovic8047 First, I am not a doctor - I speak from many years of research that I have done on nutrition
1. Look at the ingredients of all food you feed your baby. Any food overly processed or with added chemicals and other unpronounceable additives should be lowered or eliminated. You can easily create your own baby food - using organic and whole food plant based would be preferable. ( Most chemicals added to food are toxic.)
2. If you have treated city water, it would be good to install a water filtration system. Chemicals added to treated water are there to kill harmful bacteria - this is good. But the problem is that when we ingest this treated water, we are also killing beneficial bacteria in our gut - we need these bacteria - they basically make upmost of our immune system. Chlorine is one of these chemicals. (You can pick up chlorine water test kits at most hardware stores). Forget about the government approved allowable chlorine amount - chlorine kills bacteria and that is why it is used (nobody would want to eat just a little arsenic because it wouldn't kill them)
3. I would also look at the baby's toys and clothes. Some toys and clothes might contain toxics and we all know that babies love putting things into their mouths. I would also consider the soap and fabric softener that is used in the house. The baby could be ingesting the soap and fabric softener residue when licking the clothes.
These are only suggestions but are a very easy and safe place to start. If you have any concerns with anything that I have written, please speak with your family doctor.
4. The one obvious thing that I would mention regarding your intestinal problems would be, if you drink, stop drinking (any amount). Alcohol is a great disinfectant because it kills bacteria, and this is why it is used in all hospitals. When alcohol is consumed, it starts killing off beneficial bacteria in the gut - not a good thing - the bacteria in our gut makes up most of our immune system.
I hope that any of this helps. Take care.
@@docbegone1716Thank you so much for the advice 😊 im so happy now and i feel relieved because I am already doing it all 😊
I grew up on a farm. When I was four I ate some fertilizer from a burst bag. Now 60, I have never had a Nitrogen, Phosphate or Potash allergy😉
My 12 yr old just became allergic to strawberries:(
As a toddler she had to have surgery and antibiotics and I wonder how the antibiotics at such a young age affected her biome long term.
Our kid have susvh severe eczema, believe me you try every thing to fix it. Also excluding foods. It was so far we almost got on imunosupresant medicines...
I lived on eggs&peanut butter during pregnancy and gave my baba peanut butter at 5.5months old and again at 7ish months old& eggs from 6months(&in small doses with flour from then on) and at 9months she's still very allergic to both!🙈 Among other intolerances. Not sure I believe that giving it to them early prevents allergy later in life, just makes a sad baby 😢
In Israel, childrens allergies jumped 300% in the last years.
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I'm disappointed he didn't mention the leaky gut theory of allergy causation. (ie food proteins slip from a porous gut into the bloodstream where they are picked up by the immune system and an allergic response is then programmed).
Yes I’d have liked him to talk about that too as this is the given reason for not starting babies in solids before 6 months, because apparently the gut is still porous before then.
Doesn't eating peanuts (chewing vs swallowing whole) and talking do the equivalent of aerosolizing them?
My children are in their late twenties and was always told in Australia to include all types of foods and nuts. Interesting the different advice in other countries
Brilliant man such a fab discussion
What about honey allergen prof.?
Awesome subject glad this is talked about!
What a wonderful thing those families did. It would be terrifying wouldn’t it?! Taking in this study for the greater good. 🙏🏽
Great video thank you.
Good conversation. Though I find the topic of bathing to be very Eurocentric. Maybe some parts of Europe didn't bath so much in the past, but that isn't necessarily true in other parts of the world.
During my pregnancy, I had a normal diet and ate most things. When my daughter was a baby, she had an egg allergy which she eventually outgrew. She often ate nuts. However, at the age of 14, she had a severe allergic reaction to all nuts. It was so severe that she was advised that her children would not be able to eat nuts due to her allergy. One morning, she woke up in anaphylactic shock because something blew in through the open window.
At the age of 14, had your daughter received an inoculation or vaccination in the previous year? e.g. Tetanus, Rubella, Tuberculosis, or for travel illnesses, perhaps?
A child joined my son's school who had egg allergies. They tried to ban it from the school and the uproar was... Epic. In the end, the chils had to learn to deal with it.
Unfortunately he hasn't talked about pseudo-allergies, which are different from both allergies and intolerances.
Fasinating, its very interesting. It seams very clear, we can not live in an altra safe buble. This is also cleare the natural world, our environment is under extact...
There are new studies saying to introducing allergens early 4-6mo lower risk of allergies.
Thank you #SaveSoil #Consciousplanet
hi I would like to have more information on hayfever as I suffer all year to different degrees and love going into the countryside. the months of April and May I just dont go out other than work. I feel this likely effects alot of people. I have had strong anti histamines in the past which did not help, so dont take anything now. so expert advice would be good.
So interesting.
I'm old enough to remember no such thing as allergies. True. Man made.
Now, we know genetically modified food can actually Cause allergies. We did not have genetically modified food when I was a kid 60s and 70s. I was fine only later in life. Did I develop some food allergies from the sad American diet? Let's talk about that doctors please
It’s absolutely related to what we eat
Unless you can find a direct correlation, this is a hypothesis.
We have always had human altered genetic food, from corn to livestock.
@ stevencook3894 What you are referring to is selective breeding which can be done naturally without things like gene splicing which are often done in the lab and involves similar species of plants. GMOs often involve things like mixing genes with two very unrelated species such as mixing the genes of an animal with those of a plant to get more desirable characteristics in the final product which is a more recent event.
Diet was totally different in 60’s and 70’s. So one can’t correlate effectively between genetically modified foods.
Check out ultra processed people book worth a read. I am not so certain GM a big deal but I do think that ultra processed food almost certainly is just check out all the data……. Evidence is growing its primary factor for obesity epidemic and diabetes /heart disease/cancers.
Anyway enjoy your food and if you like an ultra processed food then eat it as a treat once a month. For rest of time focus primarily on fresh foods that you cook that day yourself from scratch or batch cook fresh food and then you have a convenient way of getting a meal if you a busy working person who has little time at end of day to prep foods. Ideally organic foods …..high plant based diet full of nutrition with added proteins if you like from organic eggs, cheese, plain yoghurts, organic chicken, sardines, etc
Yes, we did. Most is a breeding is the same thing over a lot longer time. 😂
If you want to help people tell them to stop eating plant based foods and oils. It's not rocket science.
Why does the interviewer constantly repeat exactly what the guest says? He thinks he is summarizing or clarifying but the guest is speaking very clearly on his own so the interviewer is just parroting his answers back to him. It's a little annoying and definitely unnecessary.
Please do some research on r.H.Negative mothers that have to take the rogam shot during pregnancy. I'm curious to know since this is a protein issue. If the baby can develop allergies from that because my child is in that category.❤❤❤ Thank you for your research
This is anecdotal but I have a lot of allergies - many inherited from my mother, who did not have the shot. I had it and my child has no known allergies.
Really Wish they had diluted the Covid Vaccine !!!
Thanks this was a fascinating episode! I will definitely be following all these bits of advice in the future if I'm lucky enough to have children.
I would love an episode digging in deeper into non-food allergies e.g. pet allergies, hayfever and oral allergy syndrome! I suffer with such terrible hayfever and am dosed up on fexofenadine from february to august. I also have the oral allergy syndrome (almonds, all the stoned fruits, apples, pears) and cat allergies. I would love to know if there's anything I can do to try and reduce the risk of future children suffering in the same way.
I developed an egg allergy around age 20….. this happen to anyone else?
What he says cannot be true. I, as well as many people I know, developed an allergy later in life, never having any type of allergy before. So has this doctor not done this homework, or does he just repeat the usual myths like man doctors do.
I was told not to eat peanuts and other foods while pregnant and totally ignored it. I have kids 11 and 14 with no allergies. When they were babies I also let them put handfuls of dirt and sand in their mouths to see what would happen. They tasted it and spat it out and never tried each thing again. I could literally see their bodies logging each thing they tasted.
Are peanuts the main culprits of nut allergies 🤔. Peanuts grow below the soil on a plant with leaves and flowers above ground and peanut pods and roots below. China is the world’s largest producer of peanuts, responsible for 37% of the global total. India produces 13% of the world’s peanuts. Other notable countries involved in peanut production are Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, Burma, Guinea, Argentina and Tanzania.
Less requests to subscribe please
Right?! This is the first Zoe podcast I've ever seen, and before I have a chance to even watch the podcast and decide if this is a channel I want to subscribe to, he's already on there begging for subscriptions 🙄
When you really think about, if you believe in the hunter and gatherer theory. In the the beginning. I am referring to biblical times. There must of been a lot of diversity in the gut and else where. I am referring to on or in the body. Too bad so sad.
Processed food and no exercise, duh.
You Brits only shower twice a week? Rofl!! I'm not one to speak, but that sounds positively low en masse.
Reminds me of roughing it out with my grandparents at their cottage out in the middle of nowhere 40 yrs ago, where spot cleaning was the norm, during our get aways.
It does show concern for the environment though. I've personally been doing navy showers for close to two decades, as I've never understood how or why people have the water go nonstop.
I've also used low consumption heads for decades, too.
Brits bathe or shower the same as other developed countries (I assume!) - I think he was saying we didn't used to wash as often, I'm thinking maybe when people still had outdoor loos, no bathrooms inside, tin bath by the coal fire kind of scenario. Long time ago now!
These interviews are so interesting but Jonathan's intonation at the end of the sentences is soooooo annoying 😫😫😫😫
Ok I call bullshit. My firstborn normal pregnancy, natural birth, breast fed, I had pets cat, garden tidy home but not clean freak. . I enjoyed normal food while pregnant inc peanut butter (crunchy) .
Well guess what she got allergies excema asthma as child and I discovered the peanut allergy because I picked her up after making myself peanut butter toast and she had finger shaped welt marks on her body from peanut traces.
Naturally next two babies I avoid peanut ever and this children fine.
So smart ass doctors you don't bloody know why these kids get the allergies. I literally believe it was my enjoying peanut butter while preggo that caused first born allergy but that may be wrong,
I am certain EATING peanuts during after pregnancy does not prevent allergies.
Peanuts not a common food when I was young. First time I ate it I was probably 20.
So now if mothers avoid peanut stuff that is bad and causing allergy? Lmfao co I ate the shit when pregnant and my girl needs an epi pen with her and wheezed her way thru childhood.
The most robust child I have is third one who mostly bottle-fed. I bought into the bullshit "breast is best".
Is anyone considering the pesticide used to spray our wheat, and peanuts etc.. it’s not the nuts are babies are allergic to it’s the chemicals and pesticide the companies are using on our foods
@@kleezy1186 yes I was chatting to this lady (some kind of bio chemist) at my daughter's pottery classes.
She was speaking of gluten intolerance and how her son was fine eating wheat in the home country (middle east) but not after moving to Australia. She solved it by getting wheat from her country at the international grocer. The type of wheat, it's processing and sprays combined to make it inedible for her son in Australia.
Interesting information, but far too long.
Just eat more meat and little to no plants.
We evolved on meat and are adapted to meat from millions of years of evolution
Or wed have stomachs and abdomens of ruminants.
Why do you draw out your words? What is an Alerrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggy? How annoying
So you have an allergy to the way he says allergies
@@vanessac1965 I don't have any allergies at all I was bought up in Africa, not in the Great Ikea Village
Strictly speaking, an intolerance rather than an allergy.
@rolandchandler2669, I beg to differ. I think you may be aleeeergic to novelty. Sheltered life? You might try gradual desensitization listening to varied people in public spaces.
Wow that’s quite some intolerance you have there. I wonder if it’s acquired or lack of manners is inherited and runs in the family.
There’s really no need to be rude.