department at some point. This is a statistic that Thieringer, an integrative and nutrition health coach, wanted to challenge. She decided to apply what she knew about functional health to allergies, and became an entrepreneur with a mission to cure allergies and change the lives of as many children as she could.
Thieringer founded Allergy Release Technique, and currently runs centers in Massachusetts and New York. She has cured deadly food allergies of over 500 children. In contrast to standard allergy treatments, she designed a process that targets the overreactive immune system.
She has treated adults as well, but the impact on children with anaphylactic reactions was deep “and their worlds were very small,” Thieringer said. “It leads to a lot of anxiety and I really wanted to change the trajectory of their lives.” She soon moved her business to an outside office, and two years ago spent $200,000 to open a larger center with multiple practitioners.
From the beginning Thieringer knew she wanted to design a system that would work well for practitioners as well as for patients. One of the biggest challenges at the time was “thinking about how to scale, and scale in a way that keeps the integrity of the process intact,” Thieringer said. At first the goal was to train individual practitioners who would work in their own settings.
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