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222: A Tick Just Stole Your Steak. Here's How to Get Revenge
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- Itchy and Bitchy Podcast
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- Jun 29, 2026
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(00:00:00) 222: A Tick Just Stole Your Steak. Here's How to Get Revenge (00:00:11) Welcome to the Itchy and Bitchy Podcast (00:00:42) Doc Itchy Medical Pet Supplements (00:01:13) Introducing Alpha-Gal Syndrome (00:04:51) The Tick's Deadly Spit (00:06:32) Symptoms and Diagnosis of Alpha-Gal (00:07:47) Dietary Avoidance and Prevention (00:12:56) Tick-Borne Diseases: The Scary Truth (00:15:09) Accurate Diagnosis and Treatment Challenges (00:21:39) Tick Prevention and Safety Tips (00:23:33) Isoxazolines: A New Era in Tick Prevention Ticked Off,The Tiny Bug That Could End Your BBQ ForeverTopic: Alpha-Gal Syndrome (AGS) | Tick-Borne Food Allergy | Red Meat AllergyHost: What Is Alpha-Gal Syndrome?Alpha-gal syndrome is an IgE-mediated food allergy triggered by lone star tick bites. Symptoms including hives, abdominal pain, and potentially life-threatening anaphylaxis, typically occur three to eight hours after eating meat, making the connection easy to miss. The Diagnosis ProblemAs of 2022, 42% of U.S. healthcare practitioners had never heard of alpha-gal syndrome, meaning patients often suffer for years without answers. What You Can Do Management focuses on avoiding mammalian meat and products containing alpha-gal, preventing future tick bites, and referral to an allergist for severe reactions. The good news: the syndrome tends to wane over time with strict avoidance. Itchy & Bitchy is the podcast for anyone who has ever felt dismissed, misdiagnosed, or gaslit by a broken medical system. From gut health and hormone health to autoimmune disease and chronic pain, we investigate what science actually says. We examine functional medicine, holistic health, and alternative medicine with the same skeptical If it’s pseudoscience, we’ll call it. If it’s medical gaslighting, patien…