For years, parents were told to avoid peanuts in infancy to prevent allergies. But the groundbreaking LEAP study flipped that advice on its head, showing that early peanut introduction can dramatically reduce peanut allergy risk by over 80%. In this episode of Transmissible: A Public Health Podcast, we dive into how this discovery became a major public health win, changing national guidelines, reducing healthcare costs, and reshaping how we think about food allergy prevention.

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Citations:Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut Allergy | New England Journal of MedicineLearning Early About Peanut Allergy (LEAP) - FoodAllergy.orgFollow-up to Adolescence after Early Peanut Introduction for Allergy Prevention | NEJM Evidence