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CatsOwlsCatsOwl··on The Origins of Peanut Allergy
There's multiple studies that directly contradict the author's theory but none that support it. His theory is that early peanut butter exposure increases risk of developing a peanut allergy due to some batches containing a peanut fungus.

Here are studies showing the opposite - that early exposure to peanut butter decreases the likelihood of developing a peanut allergy:

LEAP trial: Early peanut consumption (via peanut butter/Bamba) reduced allergy by 81% at age 5.

LEAP On: Protection persisted even after a year of avoidance.

LEAP Trio: Protection lasted into adolescence (only 4.4% developed allergy).

CHOP 2025 study: Population level allergy diagnoses dropped after guidelines encouraging early peanut introduction, which was primarily in the form of peanut butter.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/providi...

[2] https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/introducing-peanut-inf...

[3] https://www.chop.edu/news/childrens-hospital-philadelphia-re...

CatsOwlsCatsOwl··on Show HN: Graphify C# – Compiler-accurate Find Usages for coding agents
(Microsoft) GitHub Copilot already builds a semantic index of your solution in a cloud cache, which is used to give higher code intelligence than what you can get from Claude Code alone or LLM interfaces which don't have native support for the Roslyn API like GitHub Copilot does.

GitHub Copilot's semantic index can work for any SaaS repo provider (GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.) or any local repos but this requires you to opt into the feature. Repos hosted in GitHub and Azure DevOps do NOT require opting into it since Microsoft already has your code.