We might be completely wrong about allergies - Jonathan Haidt #health #allergy #peanut #experiment

[mattlm]

That's weird, as I thought it was common knowledge that pregnant women should eat a variety of foods to avoid allergy to them.

[cgdguvf]

"Exposure therapy" is the key to everything - medically and behaviorally - not trying to encapsulate and isolate everyone from potential harm

[thanksfernuthin]

It was obvious this peanut allergy thing had nothing to do with genetics. EVERYBODY ate peanut butter when I was a kid (57). We almost washed our hands with it everyday.

[WahrheitMachtFrei.]

Doctors gave the diametrically opposite of the correct advice?? I'm so shocked, so shocked am I...

[mikegalvin]

Like most Boomers I literally knew No One with a peanut allergy as a kid. In fact, though hay fever was common in my Midwestern hometown, food allergies were almost entirely unknown. I had one cousin (out of about a million - big old fashioned families) who was allergic to shellfish and even she would merely break out in a mild rash if she ate it, again No One in our world had anything remotely life threatening.

[BlazenRocker]

Perfect example why it's ok to question the medical professionals. They might be more knowledgeable, but they can make mistakes and the medical professionals need to be more comfortable being challenged. Especially after COVID.

[Warex]

That’s why in second & third world countries there are hardly any allergies or gluten/dairy “intolerances”
People there eat whatever is available, food is fuel for the body & if you don’t fuel up you’ll be running on empty sooner than later

[things_and_such]

It's funny I come from a traditional Italian background, and my mother would eat everything she could get her hands on when pregnant with me and my sisters. Every nut, every fruit and veg etc, seafood, meats, all things and none of us have any allergies.

When my wife was pregnant with our son we did the exact same, and he has no allergies

[Apostate_ofmind]

exposure therapy is the cure, this is the prevention, but both work the same way

[jasnterry]

I'm not a doctor, I've performed no research studies on the subject, but I already knew this was the reason behind peanut allergies.

[taragorman]

I lived on peanut butter for both pregnancies. One allergic, one not.🤷🏻‍♀️

[cokezero]

Unfortunately not the case for my family. My wife ate lots of peanut butter while pregnant with my son who is not allergic. He was not allergic during his first 6/8 months but after a round of vaccines he was suddenly allergic.

[whenimmanicimgodly]

Allergies are caused by 2 things: overconsumtion or under consumtion. If you have mever eaten peanuts then have one, your body might see them as allergens. If you eat peanuts constsntly all the time eventuslly one day your body might just suddenly reject them as part of your diet.

[jbeck]

Its not just exposure. Its environmental toxins being inserted into the skin to "fight off diseases" and causing the body to overreact to stimulae constantly. We have an insane rate of cancers and auto-immune disorders as well. In the quest to save lives and play as a god, we play with things we will never fully understand.

[MrJoel]

OMG natural techniques yielding natural outcomes!!!

[katherinekelly]

Based on my mother's behavior while pregnant with me I should live forever or die at any moment

[davebrown]

My grandmother came up with a similar theory decades ago. My sister was born without legs, and my mother was hypersensitive about keeping her super clean, with the possible result (no control available) that if she ever did get a bug she really suffered from it. my grandmother's advice, she needs to get dirty to build up some tolerance. when I was born my mother was less obsessed with 'clean' and I was almost never sick. Then a long time later I read an article in the New Scientist about "Let them eat dirt' which had almost the same advice. Humans evolved in trees and caves not in clean rooms. A well 'educated' immune system is less likely to panic when it meets something new.

[ronaldswangler]

I was born in 74 and don't recall anyone with a peanut allergy or all the other allergies and disorders the last 2 generations have. And why is autism been rising the last 20 plus years? There has to be a common denominator to the cause.

[norawheeler]

In the medical community It's an ongoing pattern that they believe they know something. And they give instructions to everybody to do something. And then they find out later, they were wrong. The problem here is the absolute certainty that they have when they're giving the advice.

[gusbarrera]

Have they done something to peanuts to make many people allergic to them?