A review by juliana_aldous
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases by Moises Velasquez-Manoff

4.0

Ever wonder why your kid's class has at least one or two kids with a severe food allergy and you remember none in your school room growing up? Ever buy that prescription for Claretin and wonder why your allergies seem worse than ever before? If you or a family member suffer from allergies, asthma, or an autoimmune disorder such as Chron's, then I highly recommend this book to learn about the latest research. The author wraps up the latest studies with his own personal story battling allergies and a quest for a cure involving parasites. Yes, parasites. Seriously. When I began reading I wondered if I had perhaps picked up a book by a whacko, but Velasquez-Manoff backs everything up. It is perhaps that we have so throughly cleaned our environment of microbes and other critters that we have evolved to live with that could be our undoing.

Now go eat some dirt.