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I’m proposing eating that which your allergies are attacking. Your skin.

I guess you’d need to design some kind of exfoliator to get enough skin. I told you it sounds ridiculous.

It may sound ridiculous but it is an interesting idea. Normally an adaptive immune reaction has two phases, one where T-cells are aggressively deployed and another where it slows down (resolution phase). Many chronic diseases involve some kind of "immune vicious circle" with no resolution phase. T-cells are "educated" mainly in the thymus, if it was possible to alter the education mechanism, we could better manage auto-immune diseases. At least your suggestion is yummy food for thought, thanks!

And for good reason

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