The End of Food Allergy

The First Program to Prevent and Reverse a 21st Century Epidemic

Kari Nadeau and Sloan Barnett

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Chapter Overview

Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Allergist Gideon Lack proposed a groundbreaking theory on food allergies.
Chapter 3: Food allergies are a worldwide problem, affecting both children and adults at rapidly rising rates.
Chapter 4: No single theory fully explains why people suffer from food allergies, and interlinked factors are at play.
Chapter 5: The prevalence of peanut allergies cannot be explained by genetics or other medical conditions.
Chapter 6: The dual-allergen exposure theory proposes that skin may be one of the primary routes for developing human food allergies.
Chapter 7: Gideon Lack theorized that eating foods with allergens could help babies avoid food allergies—and indeed vice versa.
Chapter 8: The LEAP study validated Lack’s hypothesis that early exposure reduces children’s risk significantly of developing peanut allergies.
Chapter 9: Introducing babies to allergenic foods appears to be generally beneficial, but there are several important caveats to consider.
Chapter 10: Oral immunotherapy can reverse pre-existing food allergies.
Chapter 11: OIT is growing less demanding, hazardous, and time-consuming.

Description

The End of Food Allergy (2020) shows how recent developments in science and medicine are beginning to solve a problem that has plagued humanity for thousands of years. Combining data-driven research with inspirational storytelling, it provides a window into one of the biggest scientific and medical revolutions of our time.

About the Authors

Dr. Kari Nadeau is the director of the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University, where she’s the Naddisy Foundation professor of Pediatric Food Allergy, Immunology and Asthma. She’s also a member of Stanford’s Maternal and Child Health Research Institute and the Stanford Institute of Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection. She holds both an MD and a PhD from Harvard Medical School.

Sloan Barnett is a lawyer and journalist who is the author of the New York Times best seller Green Goes with Everything. She’s the mother of three children whose allergies were reversed by Dr. Kari Nadeu’s immunotherapy program.

The End of Food Allergy

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Chapter Overview

Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation

Chapter 2: Allergist Gideon Lack proposed a groundbreaking theory on food allergies.

Chapter 3: Food allergies are a worldwide problem, affecting both children and adults at rapidly rising rates.

Chapter 4: No single theory fully explains why people suffer from food allergies, and interlinked factors are at play.

Chapter 5: The prevalence of peanut allergies cannot be explained by genetics or other medical conditions.

Chapter 6: The dual-allergen exposure theory proposes that skin may be one of the primary routes for developing human food allergies.

Chapter 7: Gideon Lack theorized that eating foods with allergens could help babies avoid food allergies—and indeed vice versa.

Chapter 8: The LEAP study validated Lack’s hypothesis that early exposure reduces children’s risk significantly of developing peanut allergies.

Chapter 9: Introducing babies to allergenic foods appears to be generally beneficial, but there are several important caveats to consider.

Chapter 10: Oral immunotherapy can reverse pre-existing food allergies.

Chapter 11: OIT is growing less demanding, hazardous, and time-consuming.

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