What is a food allergy? Why is the incidence of food allergies rising? What are preventive measures to avoid developing food allergies? The Vox podcast series Unexplainable tackles these subjects in their latest episode entitled Why is everyone getting food allergies?
The podcast features interviews with two of the foremost experts in the field. Dr Scott Sicherer is the Director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute and Chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr Ruchi Gupta is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Director of the Institute for Public Health and Medicine – Center for Food Allergy & Asthma.
The podcast addresses the theories behind the development of food allergies including the Hygiene Hypothesis and the timing of food exposure in children and post-infection immune system recalibration in adults.
The 26-minute episode is an excellent primer for those coping with food allergies as well as their families and friends who often don’t grasp the severity of the diagnosis as it relates to everyday life.
You can listen to the episode in its entirety here:
