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Hygiene => reduced risks of infection => increased lifespan. Should we also get excited when people die from smoking after a century, eating frogs for breakfas
by anotheraccount9 4y ago
Hygiene => reduced risks of infection => increased lifespan.
Should we also get excited when people die from smoking after a century, eating frogs for breakfast, or growing insanely long nails?
- naillo 4y agoIt could as you hint to that he simply lived a very sedentary life and avoided infections that way (sitting there near his house like the image depicts never getting a cut for decades).
- somenameforme 4y agoIt's not so simple there. To take it to extremes somebody who had literally perfect hygiene (to the point that he was exposed to 0 unintended bacteria/viruses/etc) would undoubtedly become gravely ill, and very possibly die, once being introduced into society at large. Our bodies are extremely adaptive. A common example of this would be travel. If you move to an area with looser standards of food handling/preparation, then you're probably going to get sick - and possibly quite sick. Repeatedly. Then eventually your body will get used to it, and you'll find yourself able to comfortably eat just about anything. So there's going to be some sort of a bell curve. Too much hygiene is bad for you. Too little hygiene is bad for you. There's some sweet spot that optimizes strengthening your body without over stressing it.