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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, this is Dr. Rucho.

Let's talk about some recent science that can help us have healthier kids, fine-tune our exercise,

and be able to have the most dietary freedom and select the diet that

is best for us and kind of steer around any dietary dogma. All righty. So to kick things off,

let's discuss how we can reduce food allergy and children and the deleterious effects of screen time.

This first study, observational study, and over 60,000 children,

so this is a very adequate sample size,

wanted to assess what impact did exposure to cats and dogs, if any,

have on food allergy.

And what they found probably not surprising is that having a dog or a cat

led to a 13% reduction in allergy to soy, nut, milk, egg, and wheat.

Interestingly, hamsters actually increased allergy, so sorry hamsters. And this is something

that we discussed on the podcast before, but we know that the immune system is pliable, and it requires

healthy stressors in order to form and to function appropriately. Early life is when the microbiota and the immune system in tandem form,

and exposure to vectors of bacteria and other particles help train the immune system.

The immune system, like bones, require stress to be strong.

The immune system requires exposure to different

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