Alpha-gal allergy
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Oct 27, 2026
Cindy LeiferHOST
Okay.
Cindy LeiferHOST
So the paper I picked is called Human Monoclonal Antibodies Targeting Alpha-Gal Restricted IgE Engagement of Alpha-Gal Syndrome Allergens.
Cindy LeiferHOST
The paper is by a number of different authors.
Cindy LeiferHOST
I believe there's one first author, Hei-Sun Cho.
Cindy LeiferHOST
It's me, me, I'm allergic to everything.
Cindy LeiferHOST
But one of particular import recently is alpha-gal.
Cindy LeiferHOST
So what is alpha-gal? Alpha-gal syndrome or AGS that a lot of people have heard about is an allergy to red meat.
Cindy LeiferHOST
It is purportedly transmitted by the Lone Star tick.
Tommy FowlerHOST
Now, wait a minute.
Tommy FowlerHOST
Before you think that you have tuned into the wrong podcast because I'm talking about sugar instead of animals, I am talking today about the alpha-gal syndrome.
Tommy FowlerHOST
and how the Lone Star Tick plays a role in causing humans to become allergic to the foods we like a lot, such as beef, lamb, pork, and even, folks, this one surprised me, sometimes dairy and even other products.
Tommy FowlerHOST
You know, folks, our podcast, The Amateur Naturalist, is now listened to worldwide in all of our 50 United States states.
Tommy FowlerHOST
Today, I'm going to discuss the alpha gal syndrome that humans.
Tommy FowlerHOST
can receive from a single bite or even multiple tick bites from mainly one type of tick, the lone star tick.
Tommy FowlerHOST
But towards the end of the podcast today, we'll talk about a couple of other types of ticks that can also give you alpha-gal syndrome.
Tommy FowlerHOST
But hold on just a minute.
Nick SchroerHOST
The Missouri tick borne illness eradicating tick borne illnesses.
Nick SchroerHOST
We also had a bill on Alpha Gal.
Nick SchroerHOST
We saw what the Trump administration teaming up with RFK has done.
Nick SchroerHOST
to make missourians and americans healthier when it comes to these tick-borne illnesses those little tiny insects kind of like democrats that leech on they contribute nothing to society except for sucking the life out of you and with all of the parasites and the illnesses that come it's not just lyme disease not just alpha gal but we're down here learning more about this learning how to treat it how to identify it We've got friends that our Illinois Freedom Caucus brothers and sisters know about because one of the crews that helped Missouri pass this legislation to eradicate these tick-borne illnesses, they are here, too, from the good state of Illinois.
Nick SchroerHOST
And a lot of them love the Illinois Freedom Caucus.
Tim JonesHOST
Well, if you're watching on the video, you'll see that my in-studio co-host, Sam the Eagle here, he loves eradicating ticks and tick-borne illnesses.
Chloe AielloHOST
Well, it's clear that this is, as you said, really coming to the mainstream as these cases have grown.
Chloe AielloHOST
Because I remember when alpha-gal syndrome, what this is called, you know, entered the newsroom when I read about it the first time.
Chloe AielloHOST
You were the only person that I knew who had heard of it.
Chloe AielloHOST
But it's interesting because you mentioned, you know, the migratory, you know, patterns of deer have shifted.
Matt SabatelloHOST
Okay, so it's a different animal.
Matt SabatelloHOST
Let's talk more about alpha-gal, because we hear it all over the news, we're seeing it all across social media, and so much so that these companies are now coming up with not, I guess, meat that's not real, right? Genetically modified meat or fake meat to help people that have alpha-gal syndrome.
Matt SabatelloHOST
A lot of people are very opposed to it.
Matt SabatelloHOST
A lot of people support it who have alpha-gal.
Matt SabatelloHOST
The root is this alpha-gal allergy, which we know very little about.
Matt SabatelloHOST
And instead of putting effort and money into that, we're putting money and effort into modifying the food source to make it where these people that are inflicted with this allergy can consume it.
Matt SabatelloHOST
So what you're working towards is really getting more to the root and dealing with the alpha-gal syndrome and learning more to help people overcome it.
Matt SabatelloHOST
Is that a fair statement?
Travis AveryGUEST
And what
Reid BryantHOST
is that? So I'm curious about this because this is one AlphaGal's become, it sort of feels like it's sort of creeping its way north.
Reid BryantHOST
So it's something that we're talking about more than we ever did.
Reid BryantHOST
But certainly I have friends in... friend of Martha's Vineyard, who's a, who's an avid outdoors person.
Rose MagnisiGUEST
Well,
John MooreHOST
one thing that Alex's Pizza does, they have separate cooking utensils just to cook, prepare the food for Alpha Gal, um, um, Meals.
John MooreHOST
That helps.
John MooreHOST
I'm sure it helps a little bit, doesn't it?
Rose MagnisiGUEST
Well, you know, if somebody wanted to make a killing here in this part of the country, they'd open a restaurant for Alpha Gal where people can just walk in and order anything on the menu and feel comfortable to order anything and feel safe that, you know, what they're ordering is not contaminated or anything like that.
Rose MagnisiGUEST
I mean, I just went to, was it Malone's down the street a couple of nights ago, and the only thing I could eat was, they had a, was it tuna, fried tuna, and chicken wings or salad.
Rose MagnisiGUEST
You know, and all these delicious things.
CamilleHOST
So I came across this really fascinating piece that the New York Times ran about how Martha's Vineyard has seen a rise in veganism.
CamilleHOST
And it's all due to cases of alpha-gal syndrome, which is transmitted by the Lone Star Tick virus.
CamilleHOST
primarily.
CamilleHOST
And what's interesting is that Martha's Vineyard also has really high cases of Lyme disease, babiosis, which is another tick-borne disease.
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CamilleHOST
I'll keep my eye out as I'm having hors d'oeuvres.
CamilleHOST
I'll keep my eye out for ticks.
CamilleHOST
But anyways, I want to talk about What this is doing, right? So we've talked about like the historical range was, what the range is now of these ticks, but like why does this matter, right? Like what is imperative to human health? But for these ticks in particular, it really matters where they are because they can cause alpha-gal syndrome when they bite a human.
CamilleHOST
So alpha-gal is a molecule.
Leah HamnerGUEST
difficult, is really important.
Leah HamnerGUEST
But I also will make a plug that there is a bill on the federal floor called the Alpha-Gal Allergen Inclusion Act.
Leah HamnerGUEST
And we really would love to see that cross the finish line.
Leah HamnerGUEST
It is to require labeling of foods that contain mammal products.
BirdHOST
The bite of the lone star tick spreads alpha-gal syndrome, a condition whose only effect is the creation of a severe but non-fatal red meat allergy.
BirdHOST
Public health departments warn against lone star ticks on AGS, and scientists are working to develop an inoculation to AGS.
BirdHOST
Herein, we argue that if eating meat is morally impermissible, then efforts to prevent the spread of tick-borne AGS are also morally impermissible.
BirdHOST
After explaining the symptoms of AGS and how they are transmitted via ticks, we argue that tick-borne AGS is a moral bio-enhancer if and when it motivates people to stop eating meat.
BirdHOST
We then defend what we call the convergence argument.
BirdHOST
If x-ing prevents the world from becoming a significantly worse place, it doesn't violate anyone's rights and promotes virtuous action or character.
BirdHOST
Then x-ing is a strongly pro-tanto obligatory.
BirdHOST
Promoting tick-borne AGS satisfies these conditions.
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