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Adults With Life-Threatening Peanut Allergy Can Desensitize With Daily Doses, ‘Life-Changing’ Study Shows (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
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The first clinical trial to test whether adults with peanut allergies can be desensitized has shown great success—with two-thirds of participants able to consume the equivalent of five peanuts at the end of the study without reacting.

Known as oral immunotherapy, the approach has been successful in infants and children worldwide, but this first-of-its-kind study—the Grown Up Peanut Immunotherapy trial—shows adults can benefit too.

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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

you can also train yourself to not be lactose intolerant. However you will poop your guts out for weeks before seeing improvement.
Also it doesn't work for some people

(obligatory I'm not a scientist, I just watched a YouTube video)

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

I wish

At least having to get rid or my litre per day milk habit saw me lose weight

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 3 days ago

Personal experience causes me to doubt.