🧵A mini thread on the big news today in microbiome therapeutics...
To date, no live biotherapeutic products have been approved to go on the market as drugs.
But the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee held a meeting today... a LONG meeting.
Million dollar question every allergist gets asked "Why are we seeing so many more people with food allergy, asthma, etc?"
Dr. Thomas Platts-Mills provides a fabulous dissection in this thought provoking perspective
#MedTwitter
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I'm excited to be setting up a new lab at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. We're hiring technicians and postdocs. If you're passionate about early life immunology and allergic disease, or immune mechanisms of food allergy, contact me!
Artificial sweeteners are Not healthy. They increase risk of heart disease and stroke by around 10 % finds latest French cohort observational study of 100,000 people followed for 9 yrs. This adds to growing evidence from US cohorts and microbiome studies https://t.co/I1C5vBIH8Q
@FAtreatmenttalk If it’s a supplement and makes no claims on the bottle, it can be on the market in six months. Real prevention studies like LEAP take decades
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The Dutch protesters are pouring manure on government offices, flooding streets, and becoming all together ungovernable. This uprising is in response to the WEF controlled government shutting down farms to "save the planet." You have to see this: https://t.co/YTyax7uagm
“You cannot have a disease go from zero to 100 in one generation and call that genetic".
~ Meenal Lele, allergy mom, CEO of @LilMixins & author of 'The Baby and The Biome'.
healthHackers® ep 62:
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Dear allergists! We got a new question today! If a baby eats an allergen that mom is allergic to, is it safe for MOM to breastfeed the same day? Might that cause a reaction for the mother? @VenterCarina@DrDougMackMD@ATLergist
@GemmaEvans @theallergyfairy We hope you saw the concurring advice on the other thread re gentle washing and a “chaser”. And @AllergyKidsDoc is right that your personal care team will best be able to help with the particulars! Happy feeding!!