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You will have plenty of exposure to microbes simply by existing outside of a sealed sterile chamber, and microbes != pathogens. There's no need to encourage exp

You will have plenty of exposure to microbes simply by existing outside of a sealed sterile chamber, and microbes != pathogens. There's no need to encourage exposure to and infection by pathogens, and this idea often results in increased risk or severity of disease. See: "chickenpox party" intentional exposure of children to varicella, putting them at risk of shingles as adults, with the risk increasing the younger they are at the time of infection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis?useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis?useskin=vec...

colechristensen 6mo ago
>There's no need to encourage exposure to and infection by pathogens, and this idea often results in increased risk or severity of disease. Here's research into intentional infection with a parasite to treat autoimmune diseases https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5401880/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5401880/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Friends_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Friends_hypothesis