Gilly Smith
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1,281 appearances
10 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 30 Jul
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And, you know, LBC tends to be quite sort of balanced normally, but overwhelmingly, it was exactly, you know, what's it got to do with the rest of us?
It's gone crazy.
So you're absolutely right.
And I think that, you know, what I'd really love to talk about is the work that you did in the book.
is about giving some background to it, obviously.
We're not just talking about food allergies.
So you talk about the sort of the three main epidemics.
I mean, you do actually say that there's a 12th century physician who noted that an asthmatic sultan should avoid nuts, milk and legumes, but allergies are suddenly on the rise.
And you talk about three main epidemics, hay fever in the 1950s in particular, even though it did start much earlier, asthma by the 1960s and food allergies massively on the rise by the 1990s.
I mean, there's so much we could talk about in this book, but just some of the reasons why we now live in an environment that we can actually all change.
And the solutions are your fourth food moment.
You found air pollution, you found industrial farming and cleanliness, super cleanliness.
What can we all do about air pollution?
And rinse aid, I had no idea.
So the thing you've got to look for is alcohol ethoxylate in your rinse aid.
It's a very complicated environment that we live in.
But actually, can we say, look, it's all about non-emaxing.
Let's just go back to what granny would have given us.
Avoid giving children antibiotics, babies antibiotics.
They understood the microbiome much, much better than we ever did.
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