On this episode of Food Allergy Talk, I welcome Tristan Tierce of Allergy Voyage.

Tristan is Co-Founder and CEO of Allergy Voyage, graduated from Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University in 2024 with a double major in Business Entrepreneurship and Art Studies. He had his first anaphylactic reaction at ten months old, diagnosed with EOE at 4 years old. He has outgrown a vast number of allergies, but is still anaphylactic to Dairy, Pistachios, Cashews, and allergic to red meat, egg, and a couple other things. Tristan is Currently based in Dallas, TX with family.

Allergy Voyage is a platform and service, primarily at Arizona State University, that helps people with food allergies find safe dining options by filtering menus, providing ingredient lists, and connecting them with dietitians, reducing the anxiety and risk of eating out. Founded by Tristan during his time at ASU, it aims to bridge the gap between consumers and restaurants, offering transparency and tools for safe, confident dining experiences, especially for those with severe restrictions.

Tristan's Bio: Allergy Voyage Co-Founder and CEO, Tristan Tierce, had his first anaphylactic reaction at ten months old, and was diagnosed with eosinophilic esophagitis at age four. Traveling to different hospitals, speaking at FARE events, and contributing to local support groups, Tristan has always actively engaged with the allergic community and advocated for others with dietary restrictions. Tristan began to encounter travel-based struggles with dining out after moving out of state for university, inspiring the creation of Allergy Voyage!

AV's Bio: Allergy Voyage is a digital Concierge service that hosts menus for individuals with dietary restrictions to view, helping them feel safer and confident when dining, simultaneously increasing food service provider revenue. Users can filter menus based on their dietary needs, discovering allergens and present ingredients, save information to their accounts, and grow further connected to food service providers.

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On this episode of Food Allergy Talk, I welcome Amy Graves, author of The Hidden Consumer: Uncovering the power of health-conscious buyers. Amy is allergic to mold, grass, birch, pet dander... as well as foods, including both corn and soy.

When discovering her allergies she was living in MN but due to not being able to buy food in grocery stores had to move to CA.

Her journey of discovering her allergies was complicated. At the time corn was not tested for and she had to figure it out on her own for over 2 years.

Today we are going to learn about Amy’s story, and how her journey with food allergies let to her book, The Hidden Consumer: Uncovering the Power of Health-Conscious Buyers.

Amy's Bio:

Amy Graves is a passionate advocate for health-conscious consumers and the founder of Hidden Consumers Consulting. After discovering her own severe sensitivities and allergies, Amy embarked on a journey to understand the hidden challenges faced by those with similar health concerns. With a background in marketing and a commitment to education, she has become a leading voice for consumers seeking safe and clean products. Through her work, Amy helps brands better understand and meet the needs of this influential demographic, empowering them to create safer, more inclusive products that resonate with today’s health-savvy shoppers. Her book, The Hidden Consumer: Uncovering the Power of Health-Conscious Buyers, is available wherever books are sold!

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On this episode of Food Allergy Talk, I welcome Patrick Manning, Founder of Alio, the allergy friendly protein bar company. He stays away from certain foods and his brother is allergic to peanuts and tree nuts. This is the reason he built Alio. He is solving the need for a high protein allergy friendly snack bar that anyone can eat. He was actually on the road to medical school, and stopped right before applying to start Alio and impact millions!

Today we are going to chat with Patrick about growing up with a sibling that is allergic to peanuts and tree nuts, as well as taking an idea and turning it into a business that helps fill a void in the food allergy community.

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About Patrick:

Patrick Manning is the founder of Alio, an allergy friendly protein bar company that’s redefining what it means to snack clean. A passionate entrepreneur, Patrick launched Alio with the mission to provide safe, nutritious, and delicious options for individuals with food allergies and dietary restrictions. Patrick has built Alio into a brand that stands for inclusivity, transparency, and uncompromised quality. Patrick is driven by purpose and dedicated to creating products that help people feel confident in every bite without sacrificing taste or safety.

About Alio:

Alio is a clean label protein bar brand dedicated to creating snacks that are free from the top 9 food allergens, seed oil free, high in protein, low in sugar, and full of flavor. Designed for active lifestyles and sensitive diets, Alio bars make it easy to snack with freedom and without compromise!

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Alio website: https://livealio.com/

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On this episode of Food Allergy Talk, I welcome Dr. Ahmar Iqbal is a physician and senior leader at Genentech, a pharmaceutical company.

At Genentech, Dr. Iqbal is the Therapeutic Area Lead for Respiratory and Influenza, where he has been leading medical initiatives for nearly a decade. Recently, he worked closely with the National Institutes of Health and the Consortium for Food Allergy Research (CoFAR) on the Phase 3 clinical trial called OUtMATCH that supported the FDA approval for Xolair in food allergies in 2024.

With a career spanning GSK, Pfizer, and Eli Lilly, he has played a key role in advancing patient-centered care focusing on immunology/allergy/respiratory care and in clinical research and medical affairs. Dr. Iqbal earned his medical degree from Karachi University in Pakistan and an MBA in Healthcare Management from Boston University. Before joining the pharmaceutical industry, he practiced as an internist and worked on healthcare quality initiatives. Dr. Iqbal is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and enjoys watching sports especially at the stadium/arena, volunteering, and reading (paper books still).

In this episode we discuss how Dr. Iqbal entered the medical field, and how that path led to working with food allergy related studies. We delve into what is Xolair and how can it be used in food allergy management?

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On this episode of Food Allergy Talk, I welcome Meg Nohe of Allergy Amulet. Meg has a child with peanut and tree nut allergies and she manages her own intolerances to dairy, gluten and citrus.

She has been a team member at Allergy Amulet for almost 8 years, and is a Certified AllerCoach – she used to own a food allergy and intolerance coaching business where she trained commercial kitchens, restaurants, schools, and individuals on food allergy best practices.

More about Meg:

Meg is the Chief Operating Officer at Amulet. She has nearly two decades of experience positioning and launching consumer products, therapeutics, and medical devices—including multiple first-of-its-kind devices. She also spent several years in clinical sales at Pfizer and Stryker.

Meg is the former President of Food Allergy Partners, a food allergy and intolerance consulting practice. She has a daughter with peanut and tree nut allergies, and she herself has intolerances to gluten, dairy, and citrus.

Allergy Amulet Links:

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On this episode of Food Allergy Talk, I welcome Dr. Elizabeth Hawkins.

ABOUT DR. HAWKINS:

Elizabeth has spent the past 20+ years helping individuals, families, and communities develop and practice greater psychological flexibility and resilience. Educated at the University of Washington and UC Berkeley, she has a broad base of training in cognitive-behavioral therapies, attachment theory, family systems, indigenous health, and multicultural feminist therapies. She is a licensed psychologist in Washington and Oregon and under the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT), she is able to practice telepsychology in at least 41 additional states.

Elizabeth enjoys working with food allergy families to strengthen skills and strategies for living full, meaningful lives while balancing health and safety concerns. In addition to her training and expertise as a licensed psychologist, she has 15 years of lived experience as a food allergy parent and advocate. Her daughter has had allergies to more than twenty different foods, including seven of the nine top allergens, plus environmental allergies, eczema, and asthma. She has experience with SCIT, SLIT, and OIT and is the co-author of the book Treating Food Allergies with Modern Medicine.

Elizabeth is the founder of Food Allergy Hive (www.fahive.com), an online membership community providing non-clinical resources on the emotional impacts of food allergies and food allergy treatments. Hive members have access to full-length workshops; a library of short video clips of actionable skills and downloadable tips and scripts; weekly drop-in support sessions; monthly events; and a community space to connect with others living with food allergies off of social media.

FOOD ALLERGY HIVE LINKS:

Food Allergy Hive: https://www.fahive.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foodallergypsychologist

YouTube: www.youtube.com/@FoodAllergyPsychologist

Book: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=treating+food+allergies+with+modern+medicine&crid=14IRB1GPJJ6SK&sprefix=treating+food%2Caps%2C294&ref=nb_sb_ss_pltr-xclick_1_13

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On this episode of Food Allergy Talk, I welcome Jennifer Togal. Jennifer is mom to Adina, the spark behind The ADINA Act, which will require all OTC and RX medications to be labeled with any applicable food allergens and/or gluten ingredients and related information.

Jennifer carries an EpiPen herself and Adina has Celiac disease, a dairy allergy, and they both have EoE. They live in the Minneapolis, Minnesota suburbs.

Need to freshen up on your knowledge of legislation? Check out this educational video referenced in this podcast episode:

Schoolhouse Rock "How a Bill Becomes a Law".

Take action and help support The ADINA Act. Links referenced in this podcast:

• House Bill HR 4263
• Senate Bill S. 2079

• Linktree

https://linktr.ee/theadinaact

The Linktree has links to a 1-pager fact sheet (first link on page), press releases as well as news stories about the ADINA Act

• FARE link to auto-send letters to Rep’s and Senators

https://foodallergy.quorum.us/campaign/48768/

• Instagram

@the_Adina_act_effort

• FB Group

https://www.facebook.com/groups/3347959928865461/

• Locate your US Representative

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative#:~:text=If%20you%20know%20who%20your,the%20U.S.%20House%20switchboard%20operator.

• Locate your US Senator

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

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On this episode of Food Allergy Talk, I welcome Sarah of Food Allergies OTG. She is also co-founder of a food allergy family camp called, Camp Bumblebee. She has 2 children with food allergies, and manages a combination of food allergens including: milk, egg, peanut, walnut, chestnut, hazelnut, and sunflower seeds.

• @foodallergiesOTG on IG
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• @camp_bumblebee
• CampBumblebee.org

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