Eggs, Avocados, Allergies, & Women’s Health

Introduction

Welcome back to another episode. We have a special one today. Uh, the topic, it originally was starting off with just all, everything eggs, but it’s gonna probably evolve into a number of things dealing with avocados and.

Sourdough and yeast infections and all, all kinds of things because I also have a special guest with me, my lovely wife. Do you want to introduce yourself?

Great. Hi, I am Tricia Twelves, uh, board certified ob, GYN. Um, and here to talk about eggs and.

So she’ll deal with eggs and the ovaries. Well, I deal with eggs and egg allergy and also some myths surrounding egg allergy, but also talking about some of the nutritional value of eggs.

Store-Bought Eggs vs. Farm-Raised Eggs

So with eggs, there’s store-bought eggs and there’s also kind of the farm, uh, where the, the eggs come from. The chickens raised on a farm, open pasture. That kind of thing. And there’s certain myths that surround that. One specifically is people think that if they’re consuming an egg from that’s farm raised and then kind of an open range, that they’re not gonna get allergies to it.

Well, that’s completely false. You can get, absolutely get allergies to those eggs and also store-bought eggs. So there’s no difference in terms of allergies with eggs.

Now we can get into some of the differences though in, uh, store-bought versus farm raised. Uh, one of the things is if you look at the eggs, uh, store-bought eggs are very uniform in size.

They’re very consistent. Whereas when you look at eggs that are from chickens that were open pasture or farm raised, the, you’ll see differences in the size. So you get all kinds of variations in size. Uh, between those eggs.

Cooking the Eggs

But as we go a little bit deeper into the eggs, what we want to do is cook the eggs. ‘cause we’re gonna make some avocado toast today.

But we’ll cook the eggs and we will show some of the nutritional differences between these two. But just to be clear, no difference in terms of allergies. They can threaten the life of anyone that has egg allergy. Um, but let’s get to cooking some of the eggs.

OB-GYN Egg Analogy

Wait a minute. Oh yeah. Okay. Did you know if we’re, if we’re talking about eggs, I deal a lot with eggs. And did you know that it will say, this is the egg and this is fallopian tube. They actually aren’t like the, they’re not one. The fallopian tube actually just lays across the egg or the ovary, which is the egg today, and then the ovary releases the egg.

Somewhere into the abdomen and then the fallopian tube catches it, and then it goes down into the fallopian tube.

So if you are missing a fallopian tube on one side, don’t worry because the fallopian tube from this side can actually grab the egg from that ovary and you can still become pregnant from mass side.

Is it like those plants? Like the, what’s that? The venous fly track? Yes. Venous fly track where it like catches it? Yes. Oh, that’s pretty cool. Pull into venous fly track. Sure. I had no idea that fallopian tubes had that kind of special power. All kinds of bars. Okay. So are we ready to cook? Yeah. Do you wanna cook?

Yeah. All right. Let’s get to cooking.

Cracking and Comparing Egg Quality

So we’re gonna crack two eggs at the same time. We’ve got the farm raised chicken, and then we have the store-bought eggs here. Okay, you ready?

So let’s crack that in. Same time.

Oh no, that’s okay.

So you notice here with the store-bought egg, look at the color of the yolk as opposed to the color of the yolk in the farm raised, uh, you know, pasture raised eggs.

But it’s interesting. Yes, this yolk broke, but it also gives some points of the integrity of the yolk. This one won’t hold as much, whereas this one does.

You can tell the yolks hold and it’s deeper in color. The color here is because it’s higher in keratinoid, so these eggs are higher in Omega-3 fatty acids. They’re higher in keratinoid, also vitamin A and vitamin E, and you can tell that just by the, the coloration of each of those.

So you gotta put a little salt and pepper in here. Tea and eggs. I have to have pepper on everything ’cause I love it. And the salt. There you go. Okay.

Let’s add some more. Let’s cook some more eggs.

Aw, what’s a bet?

But see, look how still this yolk stays completely intact while this one’s trying to spread. Um, again, just that quality really comes out. See how those consistently, that consistently flattens out and that one consistently holds its shape.

Pregnancy Anatomy Parallel

Uh, if we’re looking at the inside of the eggs, um, human A are similar to this. We’ve got, you know, just kind of like the amniotic fluid sack here and the yolk sack, um, after the woman became pregnant, then the yolk sack is actually going to, um, help.

You can actually see it on ultrasound for quite a while, um, on the, during the pregnancy.

Moving to the Avocados

So now we have the eggs cooked. We’re gonna move into the avocados.

Wow. That kind of looks like a uterus.

It does look like a uterus.

So that’s the little baby.

Put that, can you pop that thing out?

Should we pop out the baby normally?

Okay. So what I do to get the pit out is to go like this, but I would never, ever like do that for the baby. No.

Is this a diseased uterus?

Um, yeah, I think that kind of looks like a uterine fibroid.

So this uterus has fibroids. In here.

Uterine Fibroids and Treatment Options

So lots of treatment options for that.

Like what?

Like hormones, uterine artery embolization, myomectomy, hysterectomy.

What are all those things for people that may not know what those words mean?

So fibroids typically if they’re going to cause problems, they would cause, um, bleeding.

Um, sometimes pain if they get big enough, but usually they were cuts irregular, oh no, not my work. Clothes, irregular or heavy bleeding.

Um, and so hormones sometimes will help just kind of stabilize that endometrium so that they won’t bleed whenever they want.

Um, if they are causing problems and, and the patient wants to save uterus or wants pregnancy in the future or something like that, then we can talk about doing uterine artery embolization, which is a procedure where the interventional radiologist would feed a little catheter up into the groin and then inject these little, um, things in, into the blood vessels to kind of cut off the blood supply for that.

And so that would help as well.

Um, if the fibroids are big, sometimes I can just go in surgically and scoop ’em out, kind of like, you know. Mm-hmm. Scoop ’em out. Scoop it out. Yeah.

Avocado Allergy & Cross-Reactivity

So from my perspective on these little avocados, you can have avocado allergy.

You know, interestingly, avocados have a lot of cross reactivity, so if you think you have an avocado allergy, you actually want a full assessment because you can also have.

Allergies to things like bananas, kiwis, and even latex.

So sometimes what’s on the surface of just an avocado allergy may be a lot more than that. Uh, it could also be due to pollen allergies. So you really want a nice assessment of avocados because they could present, uh, a host of problems to somebody and it may be actually stemming from something else.

It’s kind of secondarily.

Sourdough Bread: Nutrition vs Allergy

So this is fresh sourdough made with just a few ingredients. And I’m gonna talk just a little bit about sourdough bread, uh, because it, again, from a nutritional standpoint, has advantages.

But again, from an allergy standpoint, there is no difference, uh, in terms of its risk to somebody that has allergies.

So a sourdough bread, when people are getting a quality sourdough, meaning three or four ingredients or less, and you’re making it on your own, what happens is when you get that sourdough starter and you’re adding the flour in, and, and the yeast is actually consuming.

Kind of the glutens that are part of that bread.

And so it can be almost a low inflammatory type bread. So some people that have like a gluten sensitivity are able to tolerate a, a sourdough bread and if, and in some cases you could even.

Uh, there’ve been studies where they’ve looked at type one diabetics in their blood sugar in a really nice sourdough.

We’re not really getting any kind of glucose spikes, uh, in those, uh, in those patients.

So you do have an advantage with sourdough when it’s quality. And when I say quality, it’s that three or four ingredients are less.

But this sourdough we know is good because we got it. We actually bought it from a baker lady who makes it in a church.

And so she made it fresh that morning, uh, from, from her own place. And, uh, but even though it has some nutritional advantages to it and can be low inflammatory low on the glycemic index from an allergy standpoint, it can still very much create as severe allergic reaction in people that are allergic to weakness.

So. Don’t get to, uh, feel too overly safe with sourdough bread.

I hear all of the time myths of people are like, well, I have an allergic reaction when I eat bread in the United States, but when I go to Europe, I can tolerate the bread.

Probably not a true allergy. More likely. Some of that sensitivity that I was talking about, okay, with the, uh, smashed avocados.

Sesame Warning + Seasoning

I love everything bagel seasoning. Um, we won’t plug anybody’s business here, but you can get it different kinds, different places.

Um, it does contain sesame, so you have to be cautious with that.

Contains a lot of things and it’s delicious.

But yeah, from the allergist standpoint, yeah, to what he says.

Allergy Treatment Options

The key with all of these foods, by the way, if you actually have true allergy to it.

Whether it’s eggs, whether it’s the avocados, or one of the cross reactive things of avocados, if it’s banana or kiwi or gluten or any of those things.

The nice thing is, even though all of these pose risk to you, we can treat it so I can desensitize you to all of these things if you happen to be allergic to it, where we can get you to be able to eat that without any kind of restriction, um, no avoidance, and you can just live your life and enjoy.

If you’re allergic to this, you could actually enjoy this beautiful meal. Whether you’re allergic to sesame, avocados, eggs, wheat, doesn’t matter. I can actually fix any of that to where you can enjoy this meal.

I don’t know if it’s beautiful, but it’s gonna be delicious.

True.

Final Assembly & Wrap-Up

So just to wrap up today, uh, we’re gonna do a final assembly of our avocado toast, and it’s been awesome to talk about.

You know, food allergies also get some extra insight from our O-B-G-Y-N about fibroids and uterine disease and eggs and fallopian tubes.

Um, so we hope we can offer some little extra things, not only with cooking, uh, but what we want to do is just understand on the immune edit what edits are we gonna make.

We’ll understand that with these foods, there may be some nutritional differences.

But from an allergy perspective, they all really are the kind of the same and they pose the same risk.

Um, thanks for joining me today.

Thanks for joining me today.

Will you come back again for a different episode?

Well, I live here.

Thanks.

Until next time.

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