How EAT Funds Allergy Research

Athlete Marc Wolpers enjoys participating in races solo and with his children. Marc Wolpers also enjoys participating in events that raise awareness and funds for charities, such as EAT.

End Allergies Together (EAT) was founded in 2015 to address the growing food allergy epidemic. The organization raises funds that advance scientific and medical research into this pressing issue. EAT bestows funds in two ways: grants and directed donations. The organization’s Medical Advisory Board relies on an objective grant process to decide how to allocate funds to various research studies. Additionally, EAT advises major donors interested in funding specific scientists or concerns. EAT works with the donors to discuss their priorities, then helps them evaluate costs and determine the right place for the donation. The organization requires a minimum directed donation of $100,000.

To date, EAT has funded numerous studies, including Stanford Medicine’s research into improving safety for the food allergy-asthma syndrome and the University of Chicago’s work in characterizing prebiotic dietary fibers to prevent or treat allergies. To learn more about this organization, visit www.endallergiestogether.com.

Benefits of Running for 30 Minutes

Based in Connecticut, Marc Wolpers enjoys staying active by participating in races. Marc Wolpers regularly bikes, swims, and runs.

Running is an accessible, relatively inexpensive activity that almost anyone can do. There are numerous benefits to running, with research showing that 30 minutes of running can have a significant impact on both short- and long-term health. Studies find that running between 15 and 30 minutes turns up the metabolism and helps runners burn fat, both during the run and afterwards. These shorter runs draw on fat as a primary energy source, and studies show that the body continues to use energy from fat for restoration work in a state known as excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, which can last from 15 minutes to 48 hours.

Running also releases endorphins, which are responsible for the fabled runner’s high. Even 10 minutes of running is enough to achieve this benefit, and regular running leads to improved energy levels and decreased anxiety and stress. Regular runs can also help improve sleep quality. Runs that last 30 minutes also minimize the risk of injury, as they are less likely to overstretch or overuse muscles. Finally, a 30-minute run will burn between 200 and 500 calories, helping with weight loss or maintenance goals.

The Importance of Hydration

Based in Connecticut, Marc Wolpers is an active athlete who enjoys running, biking, and swimming. Marc Wolpers is also passionate about health issues and ensuring he and his family maintain healthy diets.

The body needs water for virtually every function, which means it is important to regularly drink water in order to stay hydrated. Water helps with digestion, flushes out toxins, and keeps skin healthy.

When humans don’t drink enough water, they become dehydrated. Early signs of dehydration include feeling thirsty, having a dry mouth and headache, feeling fatigued, and having darker colored urine. Even a small amount of missing fluid is enough to upset the balance of minerals in the body.

When the body is dehydrated, the blood becomes more concentrated, which means the heart has to work harder to pump the blood. Higher blood concentration also results in more water retention. Over time, dehydration results in fluid loss around the brain tissue, which can affect overall cell function.

The US National Academics of Science, Engineering, and Medicine recommend a daily fluid intake of 3.7 liters for men and 2.7 liters for women. However, each person’s body has different requirements. A lack of thirst or clear or light yellow urine indicates proper hydration.

Probing Genetic Diversity of Tumor Cells

A resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, Marc Wolpers is a business and finance graduate dedicated to learning about cancer due to family history. Marc Wolpers stays informed and promotes cancer research and awareness by participating in the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation events.

The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation was founded in 1946 to advance discoveries and understand cancer while also developing innovative prevention, diagnosis, and treatment approaches. On April 5, 2021, Damon Runyon published a news article on their website announcing that former Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovator Nicholas E. Navin, Ph.D., has distinguished between healthy cells and malignant cells in several solid tumors with 98 percent accuracy.

Along with his colleagues at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Nicholas E. Navin, Ph.D. used a new computational approach called copy number karyotyping of aneuploid tumors (CopyKAT) to make this distinction. The innovative method now allows the indistinct mass of heterogeneous cells that is the tumor to gain a single-cell resolution. CopyKAT enables medical doctors to distinguish between cancer and normal cells and analyze the genetic diversity within cancer cell populations. The increased precision in tumor sample analysis translates to patients benefiting from earlier detection and better prognostics.

End Allergies Together Research Funding

A business and finance graduate based in Greenwich, Connecticut, Marc Wolpers dedicates his life to his family and fitness. Marc Wolpers and his children participated in the benefits road race, Run To EAT, for the End Allergies Together (EAT) organization.

Established in 2015, EAT is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting medical and scientific research to accelerate treatments and cures of food allergies. EAT funds only the most promising research while keeping a diversified portfolio to increase the probabilities of breakthroughs. The EAT funding happens in two ways. EAT advises significant donors interested in making a directed donation, and the medical advisory board follows an objective grant process to allocate funding for research studies.

EAT focuses on rewarding promising research toward clinical testing and accelerating both shorter-term and longer-term goals for the second type of funding. The funded studies are categorized in some relevant aspects to food allergies, such as biomarkers, microbiome, oral immunotherapy, and eosinophilic esophagitis. Biomarkers, for instance, are substances able to detect or confirm a condition or disease and EAT grants funds to research focused on developing better biomarkers so that other types of diagnoses are not as necessary, such as food challenges often expensive and dreaded by the individual.

E.A.T. Announces Recipients of First Grand Anaphylaxis Challenge

The holder of an MBA from UCONN, Marc Wolpers is a resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, with a passion for running. In October 2019, Marc Wolpers, together with his children, participated in a 5k run in support of End Allergies Together (E.A.T.), an organization that funds promising research on therapies for people with allergies.

In February 2020, E.A.T. announced the winners of its initial $1 million Grand Anaphylaxis Challenge. The first was a joint research project between Vedanta Biosciences Inc. and Massachusetts General Hospital that evaluated the efficacy of VE416, a novel therapy for restoring immune balance in the intestines. The second was a project by researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital looking at the protective efforts of a recently discovered pathway to stopping anaphylaxis.

Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction to a trigger. The trigger may be a food that a person has consumed, medication he or she has ingested, or environmental exposure to a material such as latex. The most common anaphylactic reaction symptoms include breathing difficulties, throat tightening, dizziness, vomiting, swollen mouth, and hives.

Medical professionals consider anaphylaxis one of the most urgent medical emergencies. Where medical assistance is not sought and received on time, the reaction can be life threatening. E.A.T. recognizes the importance of timely care and protective efforts in the case of anaphylaxis. That is why it is channeling resources toward promising research studies in the area.

EAT Engages Young People Through its Teen Programs

An athlete and philanthropist, Marc Wolpers has competed in sprint and Olympic triathlons, marathons, and the New York City Ironman, supporting the work of various charitable organizations. Personally experienced with food allergies, Marc Wolpers participated, along with his children, in the first benefit race for End Allergies Together (EAT).

Since its establishment in 2015, EAT has sought to advance research and treatment for food allergies with a particular focus on the immune system and genetic factors contributing to the issue. In addition to funding professional research, the organization seeks to involve middle school and high school students interested in the field through its teen programs.

Interested teens can choose to become an ambassador for EAT or start a club at their school. Through either program, they gain leadership experience while raising awareness and funds for food allergy research.

Teens who join these programs have a passion for the work that often comes either from personal or vicarious experience with food allergies. They may conduct research in the field through their school programs, share information on social media, or leverage a loved hobby such as basketball to create a fundraiser.