Eddy's Good News: Scientists make treatment for peanut allergies, and the animal friendly Elizabeth line!

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6 Jun 2022, 09:26

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Monday 6th June 2022  

Great news from Australia for anyone with a peanut allergy as scientists have come up with a treatment that put three quarters of patients into remission!

As someone who has almost died from anaphylactic shock, I can truly empathise with those severely allergic to anything. My kryptonite is penicillin but if yours is peanuts then listen up because this is game changing.

Aussie peanut professors have found a treatment that combines oral immunotherapy - I’ve told you about this already, when they give you tiny weeny amounts daily to build your immunity - with a probiotic, which engages your all-important gut microbiome, the key to your immune system, and it’s the combination of these which has absolutely rocked the latest randomised controlled tests. A dazzling 74% of those treated this way went into remission while only 4% did in the placebo group. Phenomenal news, peanut butter cups all round!

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Good news from here in the UK where a new train line does not normally bode well for animals, plants and biodiversity but we have successfully bucked that trend!

Say hello to the newly launched Elizabeth Line, to the thirteen railway tunnels dug to complete it and to the mountain of earth displaced, seven million metric tonnes of the stuff, which has marvellously been moved to one place and not dumped but sculpted into a wildlife sanctuary!

Wallasea Island in Essex is now home to the brand new Jubilee Marsh, part of an RSPB reserve and home to marsh harriers patrolling the sky, to gorgeous wigeon, teal, plover, yellow wagtail, lapwings, blackbirds, oystercatchers, and skylarks in a reserve that nature journos are calling a “nature lover’s paradise.”

Let’s not forget that wetlands are rich in mosses that sequester way more CO2 than any tree could ever dream of! It took 1500 canal trips to get the dirt to its destination and after the shaping and the seawall, it’s already a stronghold for the endangered avocet and a carbon sink equivalent to a forest more than a hundred times its size.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org