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A) hygiene hypothesis, people ate way more dirt and straight up almost everyone had worms B) the people with really bad food allergies like Coeliac just died y
by kortex 3y ago
A) hygiene hypothesis, people ate way more dirt and straight up almost everyone had worms
B) the people with really bad food allergies like Coeliac just died young.
We have severe amnesia when it comes to just how rough the state of health was until basically the 50s (eradicating Polio is a big turning point). Fortunately, we can learn about history so we don't repeat it :massive eyeroll:
- yosito 3y ago> really bad food allergies like Coeliac Coeliac is just a word that means "relating to the abdomen", Coeliac Disease is a disease of the abdomen characterized by an immune response to gluten that causes the villi in the intestines to consume themselves, among other characteristic symptoms. Coeliac (or Celiac) Disease is not a food allergy.
- scheme271 3y agoThere's a lot of evidence indicating that the hygiene hypothesis is not accurate or at the very least not the whole story. The old friends hypothesis suggests that exposure to certain pathogens is just as important or more so. Also microbiomes may play a part in things as well. Everything is a bit up in the air, tbh.
- dukeofdoom 3y agoAmericans take more and more pills. Yet life expectancy is going down. So please prove these drugs are doing anything to improve the health of the American Population. Reproductive rates are worse than ever.