The Rise of Allergies: How Immune Reactions Shape Our Lives | Theresa MacPhail

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Lindsey Elmore

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Dr. Theresa MacPhail is a medical anthropologist, former journalist, and associate professor of science and technology studies who researches and writes about global health, biomedicine, and disease. She holds PhDs from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco. Topics covered in this episode: Allergies On The RiseIGG & IGMMicrobiomeFecal TransplantsEarly Introduction to Allergenic FoodsAllergies and CancerClimate Change Effects of Air Pollution Plant Growth and Pollen ProductionImpact of Nitrogen Humidity and Temperature Affecting Mold AllergiesAllergies and Asthma Rates After Hurricane KatrinaPharmaceutical Industry's Role Challenges with Antihistamine Drugs Dining Out with Severe AllergiesImportance of Empathy To learn more about Theresa MacPhail and her work, head over to https://www.theresamacphail.com/
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0:00.0	Welcome back, everybody, to today's edition of The Lindsay Elmore Show.
0:03.1	Very excited to be interviewing Dr. Teresa McPhail today.
0:08.3	The Wall Street Journal describes her book, Allergic, Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World,
0:14.8	as an important and deeply researched exploration of allergies from their first medical description. Believe it or not,
0:23.2	allergies didn't exist until 1819 to the cutting edge science that is illuminating the changes
0:31.1	in our environment and our lifestyle that are making so many of us sick.
0:38.5	Billions of people worldwide are affected by some form of allergy.
0:43.6	And even more concerning, over the last decade, the number of people diagnosed with an
0:49.0	allergy has been steadily increasing, placing an ever-growing medical burden on individuals, families, communities,
0:57.7	and health care system. Teresa was an allergy sufferer herself, whose father died of a bee sting,
1:05.7	and she set out to understand why. She studied the dangerous experiments of early immunologist as well as the mind-bending
1:14.5	recent development of biologic and immunotherapies that are giving hope to the most severely
1:21.4	impacted patients. She scaled a roof with an air quality controller who diligently counts pollen by hand for hours every day, met a mother who struggled to use her wick benefits for her daughter with severe food allergies, spoke to physicians at some of the finest allergy clinics in the world, and discussed the intersecting problems of climate change,
1:47.3	pollution, and pollen with biologists who study seasonal respiratory allergies.
1:53.7	This is the story of allergies, what they are, why we have them, and what that might mean
1:59.6	about the fate of humanity in a rapidly changing world.
2:05.0	This is The Lindsay Almore Show. Welcome to The Lindsay Almore Show, a podcast for people who
2:11.7	deserve to be healthy with honest, open, and enlightening conversations with doctors, thought leaders, creatives, and spiritual
2:19.9	gurus, you'll walk away with simple and tangible tips and tricks that allow you to live your
2:27.7	healthiest life so you can pursue your dreams, overcome obstacles, and leave your mark.
2:35.0	Dr. Teresa McPhail is a medical anthropologist, former journalist, and associate professor of
2:42.1	science and technology studies who researches and writes about global health, biomedicine, and
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