SYSK Selects: Gesundheit! How Allergies Work

Stuff You Should Know

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4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this week's SYSK Select episode, about 30-40 percent of humans suffer from some sort of allergy. The big joke, though, is that every sufferer is the victim of mistaken identity. Allergies are the result of a hypersensitive immune system mistaking a har

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.0	Hey everybody, this is Chuck and welcome to this week's
0:33.8	S.Y.S.K. Select episode all about allergies.
0:38.3	And the reason I picked this one is because although I think I'm on record in this episode
0:42.8	even as saying allergies don't tend to affect me, they've bit me this year and I've had
0:47.8	a rough time with the pollen.
0:49.1	So kind of got me thinking about allergies again and I thought maybe you all could learn
0:54.0	a little something to enjoy.
0:57.4	Welcome to you, stuff you should know, from howstuffworks.com.
1:07.4	Hey and welcome to The Podcast.
1:08.9	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles Sturvey Chuck Bryant.
1:12.0	Looking particularly smart today is glasses.
1:15.3	Check someone with the beard by the way.
1:17.3	That's right.
1:18.3	I'm kind of bibles of mine after making video content, having an entire season of a television
1:22.4	show that people still say, wait I thought it was the other one.
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