Hello and welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Now I know I'm known for explaining how not to do certain things. Just look at my books,

how not to die. The one I'm working on right now, how not to die it. But what I actually

have to share with you is quite positive and boils down to this. What's the best way

to live a healthy life here are some answers. There are certain times of the year when most

people would give just about anything not to be sneezing all the time. Well as it turns

out, a healthy plant-based diet may reduce the risk of a variety of allergic type reactions.

Today we're going to talk about that diet and the many ways you can make your life a little

easier. Our immune response against a foreign molecule present in animal products may play

a role in some allergic autoimmune inflammatory disorders. This reaction is thought to underlie

tick-bite triggered meat allergies. Here's the story. In the beginning, Aristotle defined two

forms of life on planet Earth, plants and animals. Two thousand years later the light microscope

was invented and we discovered tiny ones elder organisms like amoebas. Then the electron

microscope was invented and we were better able to characterize bacteria. Finally, in 1969

biologists recognized fungi as a separate category and we've had at least five kingdoms of life ever since.

In my video, higher quality meaning higher risk. I talk about the potential downsides of consuming

proteins from within our own kingdom because the impact our fellow animal proteins can have on

boosting our liver's production of a cancer promoting hormone called IGF1. In eating outside our

kingdom, I talked about other potential advantages of preferably dipping into the plant in mushroom

kingdoms for dinner, not only from a food safety perspective, we're more likely to get infected by animal

pathogens than Dutch Elm disease, but because the potential for cross-reactivity between animal

and human proteins. There may be less potential to trigger an autoimmune reaction like the degenerative

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