Some traditional anthropologists are of the opinion that Paleo life must
have been unpleasant and short because of all the nasty infectious
organisms that would have co-existed with man in the wild. I think it is
more likely that modern life is unpleasant and short because we kill our
immune systems by living in a sterile world. It seems logical to me that
the immune system is like any other system in the body... use it or lose
it. A lot of our modern problems, allergies, autoimmune disease,
susceptibility to infection, antibiotic resistant super-bacteria, etc.
could be symptoms of this.
Boy, do I agree with THAT, William!! "Use it or lose it", yes indeed!! "They" try to convince us to use their nasty vaccines using the theory that if we're exposed to a bit of something, it will "cure" us. Well, OK, I happen to apply that theory to the bugs, bacteria, etc., that Lysol, et al, tries to tell us will make us sick or kill us. Pfffft. There have been MANY a time where I've handled the raw chicken, etc., for my dogs and been in a hurry and just quickly swiped the juice off my hands on a towel. No handwashing in hot water and chemicals while singing Happy Birthday, lol. And anti-bacterial products do not darken the doors of my house. Hubby and I do not catch every bug that comes down the pike like the rest of our "clean" friends do, so anecdotally this approach works for us. And shouldn't all you people who eat raw meat be dead by now??? Hehehe.
Love,
Bren, on a soap box when it comes to this subject ;)
PS Last night, my hubby and a friend of ours was asking me how spinach and onions are getting the ecoli. I read something about that a while back, but forgot exactly what the deal was. If it's appropriate subject matter for this list, could someone re-inform me??? Seems to me that the farmers were using some kind of animal matter (in chemical form??) for pest-control, or something like that. ?????
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