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Today's snack size doctor's kitchen podcast is all about the rise of allergies in both adults and children globally

taken from episode number 101 ending food allergy with the incredible

Professor Carrie Nodot. Now have you noticed the rapid rise in childhood food allergies, peanuts, dairy, wheat, egg?

All of these appear so commonly removed from children's diets and

schools, and it's not just children that are suffering.

But why?

That is the question.

On the full podcast, we talk all about the reasons behind allergy and what the hygiene hypothesis is on this specific

snack size Doctor's Kitchen Podcast. Dr. Karinodot is of medicine and pediatrics and for more than 30 years

she's devoted herself to understanding how environmental and genetic factors affect the risk of developing allergies in asthma and the molecular mechanisms underlying these diseases.

Before we get started, here is a quick word from the people who make this podcast possible.

I just want to go back to why in your opinion and what we know about the rise of

food allergies across the globe and how this is really a global pandemic

rather than just something isolated to the UK and the US.

You mentioned diversity of diet, but there's definitely the hygiene hypothesis.

What do we know that's right and what's inconclusive about the hygiene

hypothesis in particular? Yes, so there are a lot of hypotheses and what's great about science is that we have to test those

hypotheses and that typically with a disease as complex as food allergy and

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