Dr. Paul Turke

And I mean, first of all, that evolution aside, that just never made sense from an immunological point of view. It just, I don't know how they came up with that idea because once the immune system is able to cause destruction, which starts in utero and is present in a big way, even shortly after birth, you have to have proper tolerance mechanisms.

It's not like you can wait until you're three years old to learn not to attack your own liver. So, why they thought waiting until you're three years old to introduce peanuts is really beyond me. But the evolutionary angle there, if they had been more attuned to how we lived during the Pleistocene and before that, we were immobile pretty much as a species. We didn't. We grew up in...

It's not like you can wait until you're three years old to learn not to attack your own liver. So, why they thought waiting until you're three years old to introduce peanuts is really beyond me. But the evolutionary angle there, if they had been more attuned to how we lived during the Pleistocene and before that, we were immobile pretty much as a species. We didn't. We grew up in...

It's not like you can wait until you're three years old to learn not to attack your own liver. So, why they thought waiting until you're three years old to introduce peanuts is really beyond me. But the evolutionary angle there, if they had been more attuned to how we lived during the Pleistocene and before that, we were immobile pretty much as a species. We didn't. We grew up in...

and died in the same ecosystem, basically, generation after generation. So what that meant was that while you were inside mom and she was eating, you were getting exposed to food antigens. When she was breastfeeding you, you were getting exposed to food antigens. When you first started eating foods yourself, you were getting exposed to food antigens.

and died in the same ecosystem, basically, generation after generation. So what that meant was that while you were inside mom and she was eating, you were getting exposed to food antigens. When she was breastfeeding you, you were getting exposed to food antigens. When you first started eating foods yourself, you were getting exposed to food antigens.

and died in the same ecosystem, basically, generation after generation. So what that meant was that while you were inside mom and she was eating, you were getting exposed to food antigens. When she was breastfeeding you, you were getting exposed to food antigens. When you first started eating foods yourself, you were getting exposed to food antigens.

And those food antigens were the very same ones that you were going to get exposed to for the rest of your life. And so they eventually learned Not through thinking about it theoretically in any way, but just by going, oh, my goodness, food allergies are soaring. And, oh, look, they're not allergic to peanuts in Israel because they feed children early on.

And those food antigens were the very same ones that you were going to get exposed to for the rest of your life. And so they eventually learned Not through thinking about it theoretically in any way, but just by going, oh, my goodness, food allergies are soaring. And, oh, look, they're not allergic to peanuts in Israel because they feed children early on.

And those food antigens were the very same ones that you were going to get exposed to for the rest of your life. And so they eventually learned Not through thinking about it theoretically in any way, but just by going, oh, my goodness, food allergies are soaring. And, oh, look, they're not allergic to peanuts in Israel because they feed children early on.

They call them bambas, which are peanut butter containing nuts. And so people started looking, well, maybe we made a mistake here. Maybe we should introduce things early. And so they eventually did some studies and found out that that was true.

They call them bambas, which are peanut butter containing nuts. And so people started looking, well, maybe we made a mistake here. Maybe we should introduce things early. And so they eventually did some studies and found out that that was true.

They call them bambas, which are peanut butter containing nuts. And so people started looking, well, maybe we made a mistake here. Maybe we should introduce things early. And so they eventually did some studies and found out that that was true.

But if you thought about the way people always ate, you would be introduced to all the foods you would ever eat, all the allergens, all the antigens that you would ever encounter early on. And your immune system would learn to tolerate them. And so it never made sense to say, let's not introduce things until you're older. So I think evolution-mindedness could have helped us to avoid that problem.

But if you thought about the way people always ate, you would be introduced to all the foods you would ever eat, all the allergens, all the antigens that you would ever encounter early on. And your immune system would learn to tolerate them. And so it never made sense to say, let's not introduce things until you're older. So I think evolution-mindedness could have helped us to avoid that problem.

But if you thought about the way people always ate, you would be introduced to all the foods you would ever eat, all the allergens, all the antigens that you would ever encounter early on. And your immune system would learn to tolerate them. And so it never made sense to say, let's not introduce things until you're older. So I think evolution-mindedness could have helped us to avoid that problem.

But I mean, I think there are others. I think... evolution, mind in this can help us to understand what's a healthy diet. It can contribute to that. I mean, I know from listening to you, you're interested in that. It turns out there's a Really cool study that was done with fruit flies by Michael Rose and his group. Grant Rutledge was a grad student or a fellow who worked with him.

But I mean, I think there are others. I think... evolution, mind in this can help us to understand what's a healthy diet. It can contribute to that. I mean, I know from listening to you, you're interested in that. It turns out there's a Really cool study that was done with fruit flies by Michael Rose and his group. Grant Rutledge was a grad student or a fellow who worked with him.

But I mean, I think there are others. I think... evolution, mind in this can help us to understand what's a healthy diet. It can contribute to that. I mean, I know from listening to you, you're interested in that. It turns out there's a Really cool study that was done with fruit flies by Michael Rose and his group. Grant Rutledge was a grad student or a fellow who worked with him.

And what they did was they changed up the diet that the fruit flies had evolved to eat. They had been eating for thousands of generations. They had been eating apple rot. And then they brought them from that area, which I think was on the East Coast, to Michael Rose's lab in UC Irvine. And they didn't have rotten apples, I guess, so they fed them bananas doused in high fructose corn syrup.