My daughter goes to a peanut-free school.
Not because peanuts are dangerous. Because for decades, doctors told parents to avoid them.
Here’s what makes me furious: peanuts aren’t even nuts. They’re legumes. And the advice that created this panic just got proven catastrophically wrong.
A groundbreaking study published in Pediatrics analyzed health records from 125,000 children across nearly 50 pediatric practices. The findings are stark.
Peanut allergies in children ages 0-3 dropped by more than 40% after doctors reversed course and recommended early introduction instead of avoidance.
**Researchers estimate this shift prevented approximately 60,000 children from developing peanut allergies.**
Sixty thousand kids who would have spent their lives carrying EpiPens and reading ingredient labels.
Because someone finally had the courage to question conventional wisdom.
The Establishment Got It Backward
The original LEAP study found that 17% of children who avoided peanuts developed allergies by age 5. Among children who consumed peanuts early? Only 3%.
That’s an 81-86% reduction.
For years, medical authorities told parents the exact opposite of what actually works. And I think I know why.
Medical students receive an average of only 19 hours of nutrition education across four years of medical school. Some programs offer less than half that.
They don’t study how the whole body interacts. They’re trained to be compartmentalized.
A pill for diabetes causes indigestion. So you take a pill for indigestion that causes diarrhea. So you take a pill for diarrhea that causes headaches. Kick the can down the road. Whack-a-mole medicine.
Meanwhile, holistic approaches like Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, and naturopathy are gaining popularity because they address the body as a single living organism.
Where what you do to the liver affects the spleen. Where everything connects.
Training Beats Avoidance
Here’s what the research actually shows: the immune system needs training, not isolation.
When you introduce potential allergens early, you’re teaching the body these substances are safe. You’re signaling: no threat here.
It’s the same principle behind exposure therapy for PTSD. Veterans slowly experience triggering events and come out safe on the other side. The body learns it’s not under attack.
God gave us the tools we need to help our bodies function the way He designed them.
You see babies eating dirt and sand. I think it’s good for them. The immune system can sort out what’s beneficial and what’s harmful.
But we’ve built an entire medical paradigm around fear and avoidance instead of training and trust.
Food allergies increased by 50% since the 1990s. Peanut allergies tripled between 1997 and 2008.
Precisely during the years when avoidance guidelines were most aggressively promoted.
The Great Awakening
Despite clear evidence, many doctors still aren’t following the new guidelines.
Some have a God complex and don’t want to admit they were wrong. Some are compromised by financial incentives. There’s money in selling allergy medications.
But I’m hopeful.
There’s a great awakening happening. People are starting to realize the powers that be don’t always have their best interests at heart.
They’re doing their own research. Getting second opinions. Third opinions. Making decisions based on faith, wisdom, and people they trust.
Paul says to pray unceasingly. I think that applies here.
Don’t take the first opinion from a doctor. Figure out what makes sense for you and your family. Trust in the Lord and do your due diligence.
The Bible says over and over: fear not. Do not be afraid.
This research proves that courage produces better outcomes than caution. That working with the body’s design beats fighting against it.
It wasn’t that long ago that we were a healthy country. I want that back.
And I want my daughter to be able to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at school.
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