Okay, Eddie, I'm going to say a bunch of words and I want you to tell me what they all have in common.

Ooh, I feel like a neuropsych test is coming on. Okay, ready.

All right, all right, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good, I'm sorry.

I'm in the zone. I'm in the zone. What do these words have come? Okay, ready? I got, I got it.

Yeah. Okay.

Type 1 diabetes, Crohn's Disease, Lupus, Suriasis, Inflamm

Bowel Disease, Hashimoto's Disease.

I thought you're going to be asking like fun stuff, but listening to all of those words. I am a doctor and I'm going to go out on a limb and say that we're talking

auto-immune diseases. Ding, ding, ding, I need like a bell. you know put in a bell. Bing, me.

I don't know if you've noticed this, but in the past few decades,

it seems like there's been this massive increase in autoimmune diseases.

A hundred percent, you see it more and more.

And something else that has also been on the rise recently

is something that affects all of us in New England a lot especially at this time of the

year, something that affects me a lot and that is allergies.

Oh so you're not crying. Ah!

I've never seen you in a cry so I don't know where that came from.

No people do think I'm crying sometimes though like people be like are you crying like

no I just have really bad allergies yeah yeah okay so allergies, we do have a rise in allergies, and a rise in the autoimmune disease.

Well, it turns out that those two things might actually be related and the reason might surprise you.

On today's episode, what reason might surprise you.

On today's episode, what is causing this mysterious rise in autoimmune diseases? How does it relate to allergies?

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