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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. I suspect that the main reason I am so very healthy

Sun Oct 8, 2023, 09:58 AM

Oct 2023

is that I got sick A LOT when I was a little kid. Third of six children. Spent the first seven years of my life in a low-income housing development with lots and lots of children, and we all played together. Very few childhood immunizations back then so I got all the then-usual childhood diseases. I was 5 when the polio vaccine came out. I got influenza several times growing up, including the Asian flu. I don't bother with the flu vaccine and the last time I think I got flu was about 50 years ago.

Our immune system is designed to be challenged by diseases, and when we recover we generally have immunity to that disease.

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Is the Hygiene Hypothesis True? [View all] BootinUp Oct 2023 OP

I suspect that the main reason I am so very healthy PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2023 #1

Based on anectdotal evidence, and it makes sense, BootinUp Oct 2023 #2

While you are right that my personal experience is hardly PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2023 #6

As a former preschool teacher oregonjen Oct 2023 #3

Not shown in the excerpt above are BootinUp Oct 2023 #4

You got sick for the first two years, and after that maybe once a year. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2024 #8

Nose picking is thought to be bad for you muriel_volestrangler Mar 2024 #9

This is interesting. progressoid Oct 2023 #5

I always thought the hygiene theory was about exposure to non-infectious agents NickB79 Dec 2023 #7

This stuff is way outside my knowledge base -misanthroptimist May 2024 #10