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Hey, folks. Welcome to Dr. Rousseau Radio.

This is Michael Rucho, and I am here with Moises, who is the author of a fantastic book entitled

An Epidemic of Absence, A New of absence, a new way of understanding allergies and autoimmune diseases.

And I read this book a while back, thought it was fantastic.

I cannot recommend this book enough if you're someone that's trying to better understand how environment

affects your immune system, allergy, and autoimmunity.

So with that, Moises, welcome to the show.

Hi, thanks for having me.

Great to be here.

Can you tell folks a little bit about yourself, your background, and what motivated

you to write this book?

Yeah, so I'm a science journalist now, my most recent career.

And when I was, the motivation was basically my own experience, my own life, my own diseases that I've had to deal with for most of my life for as long as I can remember.

I've had asthma allergies for my whole life, been allergic to peanuts and sesame for as long as I can remember,

had asthma that I mostly sort of grew out of in adulthood.

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