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Originally Posted by geekmaster
Interesting, and thanks for the informative post! I read awhile back (too lazy to find a link now, before my morning coffee) that immune systems need exercise to be effective, and they become aggressive bullies, attacking their own neighbors when they get out of shape (i.e. autoimmune attacks).
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It has been suggested that the massive increase in allergies in children is due to the fact that children in western countries tend to be brought up in overly sterile environments, and so their immune systems don't develop a healthy resistance to all sorts of bugs that children were exposed to when I was a child in the 1960s.