Posts Tagged ‘allergen immunotherapy’

AHS 2012

Posted 13 Aug 2012 — by Todd
Category Uncategorized

What a great conference!  I had heard such high praise for the inaugural meeting of the Ancestral Health Symposium last August, but I was too late to register in 2011.  This year I submitted an abstract that was accepted as a poster presentation.   For those who missed it, I’ve attached a copy of my presentation below.

What an edifying and uplifting experience! We just wrapped up three days of excellent talks, panels, poster presentations and plenty of informal networking and socializing. This conference is really the hub of the Paleo movement. The emphasis was on the most recent developments in the scientific, cultural, political, and practical approaches to overcoming the contemporary health epidemics that derive from a mismatch between contemporary lifestyles and the biology of our evolutionary heritage.  The talks and panels were diverse, covering nutrition, cholesterol, cancer, immune health, farming, exercise, and many other topics.

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Allergies and hormesis

Posted 25 Feb 2011 — by Todd
Category Health, Hormesis

Do you have allergies? Are you sensitive to certain foods or chemicals?  If so, you are part of an epidemic explosion in the incidence of allergies and sensitivities in the U.S. and Western societies. The allergy epidemic is frequently blamed on the profusion of pollutants and toxic man-made chemicals in modern industrial society.  And the conventional medical approach to dealing with allergies is to avoid exposure to allergens, and to block allergic reactions by using antihistamines.

But there is an alternative explanation and a more effective treatment, consistent with the theory of hormesis.  The explanation is called the hygiene hypothesis and the treatment is called allergen immunotherapy.  I’ll discuss these both shortly, but first let’s look at what is really behind the outbreak of allergies in the modern world. Read More