The Rising Incidence of Food Allergies: TV Documentary airing tomorrow

Here is a show I though others on here might be interested in watching tomorrow. It's 7pm Eastern Time. Canadian Network though - but if you come back to the website later after airing they always have all the past episodes playing and available through download.

The Nature of Things, The Allergy Fix:
Here is a link to the preview:
www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/the-allergy-fix

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In the link above it says a startling statistic:

"North American kids: more than three times as many children have food allergies now than twenty years ago. And one out of every three children is now allergic to foods, animals, or plants. Something puzzling, and frightening, is going on with our immune systems.

Looks like it will deal with the hygiene hypothesis etc...

Interestingly I was asked to go to a birthday party for a good friend that I have not seen in a few years. He's my age. On the invitation all of a sudden it says "snacks will be provided that are wheat free, dairy free, nut free and no oranges please"... Somehow he has developed allergies to these over the last 3-4 years.

Crazy... He's not a kid.. he's an adult that randomly developed these.

Good find. I'll give it a look when I get the opportunity.

Just about every other kid I know has allergies to something now, which is very odd to me. The up to date research indicates that it is not genetic, but more microbial. The hygiene hypothesis does seem to explain why this is happening, but it remains largely unacknowledged by the mainstream medical establishment. It definitely has something to do with the absence of critical bacteria that are responsible for the assimilation of environmental agents (toxins, ingredients, etc). We're almost certainly missing something today that existed in the past.

This is kind of why it's so freaking easy to pick up infections in hospital settings. They are continuously sanitized to hell and then repopulated with the bacteria of ill people. Would love to see more trees and plants as a measure to reduce this problem.

Sadly, allergies are actually turning out to be pretty good predictors of future autoimmunity and disease risk. We definitely need to take note of this and make changes in our environment. When I was in elementary school, we ate everything freely and without issue, but things are vastly different today going by the data alone.

To add to this, I wasn't able to catch much of this on npr but it is about the rise of gluten free diets, gluten intolerance, etc:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/02/26/gluten-free-celiac-diet-wheat

Since the episodes are available in Canada only, anybody willing to record and share it?

I checked that link and it never played. I tried 3 different browsers.

Plus, the footnote says "Episode available within Canada only. Video help?"