When my daughter was just starting to eat regular food and getting off baby food our doc told us to give her some peanut butter now and then to prevent the allergy from developing later. I’m no doctor but it seemed like a good idea.

She’s 3 now and has zero allergies. In fact none of the 5 of us has any. We eat pretty healthy and all and live in the mountains, but we are no “health nuts”. This is a very interesting topic.

Firstly, thank you for a varied and interesting show. It’s helped me explore some new ideas and options on my homestead.
Secondly, I wished to comment about the recent show changes. I really appreciate the brief “commercials” versus the extended versions. I live in a rural area where internet is not available except through a smartphone. I also have a prepay plan which doesn’t include unlimited data. Since I listen to your show almost daily, those few extra minutes shaved off do help a bit.
The third part of my comment may sound a bit bossy but it’s not intended that way. It’s a comment from my hubby of 30+ years.
He gets upset listening to your show when you use “salty language”. Frankly, his language would make a sailor blush but, fit some reason, it upsets him to hear it on your podcast. (I honestly think it’s residual tichiness from his stroke and working in customer service all day but, as the loving wife that i am, i can now truthfully say i have passed on his comment. So there.)
Now, on the subject of allergies. I will share with you the information I was given by a trained nutritionist and medical educator. First though, I’d like to share a bit of background. Since 2001 I’ve been battling fibromyalgia and arthritis. I was told in 2007 that I may need to make plans to go on disability soon and I want even 50! That lot a fire under my butt to get healthy and research nutrition. Fortunately I worked in a medical school that hired a Scottish professor in nutritional therapy and disease prevention. He was one of the first nutritional professors in the United States. His advice got me from 320# to 185# and got me out of the city and into running a homestead farm. I also went from 15 different scripts to three and none of them are for pain. (When I started, I was on 11 pain medicines. The three meds I’m on now are due to non-alterable disease issues but it’s improved greatly.)
This is what he said:
1. If what you’re eating doesn’t rot or mold, it has no nutritional value. If it can’t even grow mold, it can’t help you thrive.
2. Eat seasonally. That means produce needs to be preserved through the winter months in Iowa. The main thing is to store and eat food when it’s at its peak.
3. The way crops are grown and harvested now is creating allergy and nutritional issues. For instance, wheat isn’t left to ripen and age in the field before threshing. This changes the nature of the grain when it’s ground and it’s one of the problems that have created the overwhelming gluten intolerance epidemic.
4. We are eating differently now than at any other time in human history. We eat foods out of season, we have lots of fats easily available, too many sugars in everything and grain is a high portion of our diets. ALL of these factors contribute to the obesity and allergen epidemic in western culture. Anyhow, thanks my take by Lana!
I’ve dragged this out long enough. Thank you for taking the time to read my comments. Thanks for helping me learn new skills to improve our homestead. Have a great day.

Great show. Learning a lot. Learned a lot I didn’t know about bee keeping on this episode. One point of clarification — since I happen to know about bats. The bats in Virginia are not fruit eaters or nectar feeders. They eat insects. In the tropics and the desert southwest bats do provide those functions (pollination and spreading seeds), but not in the Eastern US — as far as we know. A bat house is a kickass suggestion, so it may seem odd that I’m even bringing up this clarification, but I would want somebody to correct me. Much respect Mr. Jordan.