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Overly Sanitized Environments Lead to Poor Health?
bignickel writes "A recently-released study examined the health implications of living in an overly hygienic environment. According to the 'hygiene hypothesis,' living in such an environment early in life can lead to problems with allergies and autoimmune diseases. The study compared lab rodents with rats and mice living in the wild. Time to stop Lysol-bombing the house?"
If you have allergy problems, why the fuck would you want to grow up on a farm? You'd move to a more hygenic environment as soon as you could get there.
in soviet russia, what the fucked is you