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Leeches are still used in some medical situations, usually various types of tissue grafting.
Or in any situation where there's necrotic tissue! They're incredibly selective about only eating dead tissue.
If you do this, be prepared with benadryl and be ready to handle the situation if your kid does have an allergy. Speaking from experience, here. Wife is an ER doc and it was still a scary situation. (He's fine, but still has the allergy 7 years later)
It is actually quite likely that you can help your infant outgrow their allergy with oral immunotherapy (simply eating the food, but in strictly controlled amounts). Recent research is showing that oral immunotherapy is dramatically more effective and safer for infants than older kids or adults. Every month that goes by reduces the chance of success, so start immediately (with the help of an allergist, not on your own) as soon as you discover a food allergy.
Also, treating allergies promptly (as well as eczema) may reduce your child's chance of progressing to hay fever and asthma later, as well.
Does this effectively confirm the hygiene hypothesis ? The hygiene hypothesis suggests that a newborn baby's immune system must be educated so it will function properly during infancy and the rest of life. I'm weighing the need for my (possible future) children to spend time in a 3rd world country with germs & allergens for a little bit, to avoid heavily sanitized environments throughout their early lives. That's aga…
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Also a lot of things at Trader Joes are just white labeled versions of other products. As in, literally the same product, just inside packaging that says "Trader Joe's "
Those are the companies that don't want to admit selling their stuff for cheaper, so they get it store-branded.
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>palm oil is less than ideal Why do you say this? Just curious. Palm oil is one of the better plant oils, no?
Massive amounts of inflammatory PUFAs. No, palm oil is terrible and everywhere in ultra processed food because it's extremely cheap. There are few healthy vegetable oils and they tend to be very expensive: olive, macadamia, coconut, etc. EDIT: I stand corrected, it has moderate amounts of PUFA, but terrible Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio (45/1), which is thought to have metabolic consequences.
This is not new news, but nonetheless important to replicate and keep studying. I think the first often-cited study about this was in 2008 [1]. There are several more, including one in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2015 [2]. Basically, the original study looked at Jewish kids in Israel versus the UK and saw that peanut allergies were about 10x lower in Israel, even though Jews of European background (Ashkena…
Maybe all the allergic infants died and didn't make it into the study.
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>palm oil is less than ideal Why do you say this? Just curious. Palm oil is one of the better plant oils, no?
The main problem with palm oil isn’t health afaik, it’s the orangutan habitat destruction since most palm oil still comes from wild forests instead of farming. https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/8-things-know-about-palm-oil
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You mean from exposure to other kids?
My guess is through breast milk - which I was wondering about with the study as well; does it make a difference for breastfed babies whether their moms eat a lot of peanuts?
Solution? Peanut microdosing, increasing dose progressively, in few months the allergy was gone.
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Also a lot of things at Trader Joes are just white labeled versions of other products. As in, literally the same product, just inside packaging that says "Trader Joe's "
Those are the companies that don't want to admit selling their stuff for cheaper, so they get it store-branded.
that's the factory, but brands don't come from the factory, they come from the market, and have different reputations, strategies, customers and distribution channels. If you have a giant computer controlled cheese puffery, it's not that big a deal to change the formulation of the cheese, change the logo bags, etc. all on the fly, and it's much cheaper for you to do it than a smaller less sophisticated operation making you more customizable and still the low-cost producer.
did you know that even if you aren't a very big pizzeria or bakery you can order custom-milled flour from King Arthur for your restaurant? Their factory can handle it, and it engenders brand loyalty from fussy chefs.