Katie Ferraro (0s):

Well, Hey guys, if you are a regular listener of this podcast, then you know, I've been doing a ton of food, allergy awareness content May is food allergy awareness months. So I normally just do one interview episode a week on the podcast. But for May, I made all of the episodes interview episodes, bringing you a different beading experts to talk about all of the various different topics related to food allergies. Cause you might think, oh, it's just about like nine food's, but it's not right. We were talking about testing. We are talking about the false positive rates from testing, were talking about Benadryl and why it's maybe not the best bet talking about things related to eczema. And how does that increase food allergy risk can, if my baby has an egg allergy, can I maybe use an egg ladder to re-introduce it, my goal here this month is just to bring food allergies to your awareness and knowing that there's this critical period of your baby's development, where introduction of these allergenic foods early and often, we know that it can help prevent food allergy.

Katie Ferraro (59s):

And we know there's no benefit to withholding these foods. So my hope is that you guys feel inspired to try all of the big eight allergenic foods plus Sesame. It just got added to the list, right? And to do the real food versions of these. I know you guys hear from lots of media, social media commercials about all of these different kind of crazy supplement and mix in and stick packs in these expensive subscription models where you can basically give little powders to your baby to introduce them to allergenic foods. And as a dietician, I have to admit I'm a little bit biased because I had take a food first approach. And I'm a firm believer that your baby can and should be eating food based versions of the allergenic foods. And I don't want you to feel pressured to buy expensive subscription supplement packs and parents will say, yeah, yeah, but how do we actually do the foods?

Katie Ferraro (1m 46s):

And so I wanted to take a minute to tell you guys about a brand new program That I just launched with my friend and colleague, Dr. Ron Sunog. This is a program called EAT THE eight, and it's all about How to Use Food to Prevent Food Allergy. So it's getting your baby to eat the big eight allergenic foods. We're showing you how to do that safely. Plus Sesame, giving you a ton of information about the current research and guidance, because I know it's confusing. And I also know, I hear from a lot of you guys, I just had a mom email me today. Oh, my doctor told me to start solids at four months of age. And then also to wait until the baby's one to introduce egg white. It was like, are you freaking kidding me? Like the egg white guidance. That's more than 20 years old. And so I know a lot of you love your pediatrician, but they might not always be up to speed on the latest guidance about food allergies.

Katie Ferraro (2m 31s):

But Dr. Sunog is, he's also a food first pediatrician, which is why we teamed up to introduce this new course called EAT THE eight. Dr. Sunog actually wrote a book called eat the eight. And he asked me if I wanted to redo the book. And I was like, no, I don't want to do the book because books don't show parents how to make food. I want to do a course to actually show parents with recipes and food preparation, how to safely select and prepare an offer their babies, the big eight allergenic foods plus Sesame. So the EAT THE eight course is open right now for limited time enrollment. We're just doing a really short window where the cart is open on this because we are going to close it down, switch gears, and really give all of our attention to the fabulous parents who've already joined the program. If you want to get involved in safely, introducing your baby to food, to prevent food allergy.

Katie Ferraro (3m 16s):

If you're a food first person, if you think the supplement programs are pretty gimmicky and you would like your baby to learn how to eat actual food. Dr. Sunog and I have the program for you again, it's called EAT THE eight, and it's all about How to Use Food to Prevent Food Allergy. If you want to check it out, the doors are open for enrollment right now for just a short while longer, All you have to do is go to foodallergyclass.com get signed up and we are super excited, excited to be starting with a brand new cohort of parents. This is the first time we've ever done this program. We've been working on it for over a year. Tons of great recipes in there. Tons of great video instruction, tons of great research updates from Dr. Sunog. He again is a pediatrician, but he's like a different kind of pediatrician because he actually special food.

Katie Ferraro (3m 57s):

And I'm so excited about this program. We kind of poured our like guts in for the last year. He's probably so tired of working with me at this point, but he's the one that comes on the podcast. A lot to answer your guys' questions about food allergies. He's a fabulous educator. I think you'll love him. I know the parents who are already in the program are like raving about him, loving the recipes, getting their babies to try these new foods. We've got a great support system. Four weeks of live Q and a with Dr. Sunog and myself. We're right there to help answer any questions that you might have if you get stuck. Cause we got to be we real, you sign up for an expensive supplement program. They're going to ship you a bunch of powders that you don't need. And then they're Not going to be there to answer your questions. When you do get stuck about introducing your baby to these allergenic foods.

Katie Ferraro (4m 38s):

So come and check it out again. It's called EAT THE eight we're online at foodallergyclass.com and hope to see you guys inside of this brand new program that Dr. Sunog and I are teaching all about How to Use Food to Prevent Food Allergy, hope to see you there. Bye now!