CHAPTER 1
Taking the First Step
Two months into her job at a biotech startup, Meenal Lele read an article in a medical journal that changed the course of her life. For the first time, researchers had found that exposing children to small amounts of common allergens early in their lives could prevent them from developing allergies. For Meenal, reading this was a mixed blessing.
On the one hand, this news made her “kind of furious,” because her 11-month-old child had already developed severe allergies to eggs, peanuts, and tree nuts—in other words, it was too late to help him avoid allergies. But on the other hand, she finally had steps she could ...
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