🤔 Did you know that one in three French people suffers from at least one allergy? That allergic reactions can be completely silent - yet change your behaviour without you even knowing? That your child who systematically refuses a food might actually be right to avoid it? And that a simple jog after a bowl of pasta can, in some people, trigger a potentially fatal reaction?
🎙️ Pr. Joana Vitte reveals the fascinating - and still largely misunderstood - mechanisms of allergies in this new episode of Healthier Humanity.
Professor of Immunology at the University of Reims and President of the French Society of Allergology, Pr. Vitte is one of the leading figures in allergology in France and Europe. A specialist in clinical immunology and translational research, she has dedicated her career to understanding the mast cell - a central immune cell, as ancient as life itself, whose full range of roles in our body we are only just beginning to grasp. Her work at the interface between allergy and anti-infectious immunity places her research at the heart of today’s major public health questions.
👩🏻⚕️ In this insightful conversation, discover:
- Why one in two children becomes allergic if one parent is - and up to 80% if both are
- Subclinical anaphylaxis: how an allergy can change your behaviour without you being aware of it
- The hygiene paradox: why having multiple cats, letting children play in the mud and avoiding bleach actually protects against allergies
- Allergen immunotherapy: the only treatment capable of curing an allergy - and why you should never settle for an antihistamine without consulting a specialist
- The mast cell: a cell hundreds of millions of years old, present in all your tissues, whose understanding is revolutionising allergology
- Gluten, lactose, mould: how to tell real allergies apart from intolerances - and why the wheat we eat today is no longer the same as before
- Pesticides, pollution and biodiversity: why allergies are “diseases of polluted countries” - and we are all affected
This episode proves that allergies are not something to manage with a pill every spring. They reflect our intimate relationship with our environment, our diet and our microbiome.
🤧Whether you’re 5, 30 or 60, whether you sneeze every season or think you’ve never been allergic, what you’re about to hear will give you the keys to understand, take action - and perhaps change the way you look at your own immune health.
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