Peanut Breakthrough

BBC reported a great breakthrough on peanuts allergy treatment. According to BBC World News, “Researchers in Cambridge believe they've made a breakthrough in developing a potential treatment for peanut allergy. They carried out a trial where 100 children ate gradually increased doses of peanut protein each day. After six months, 84% were able to eat up to five nuts a day without feeling ill.” 

Giving them peanuts were actually good, they said! What a breakthrough! Well, our ancestors before were able to handle allergies already. I remember the elder people in my town when I was young, allowing us to eat the food (including peanuts) that we were allergic of (gradually) so we will get used to it. Science sometimes really doesn’t need to look further to study. All they need is just to look back and learn from those who had found it already. Sometimes the mind really can be a hindrance to the solutions. Imagine, after all these years, science finally found out this breakthrough when this was already practiced way before?

Nature is giving us the solutions and the ways of life of our ancestors are telling us something about wellness. Not everything old is bad, we should open our mind to the past if only to look at the right solutions that they already made. We can always learn from the wisdom of those who had been there.

by aats