New book on hygiene hypothesis

[TylerDurden]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4418694/Why-today-s-uber-clean-environment-BAD-kids.html

[goodsamaritan]

'What happens is, we reduce the exposure to external environmental bacteria, so we become the main source of bacteria, our skin, our mouth, we shed bacteria, and the house becomes highly humanized, most of the bacteria in a house in a city will be human,' she said.

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Here is what I have observed so far.

Bacteria is, can, mostly good... if it's good outdoor provincial stuff.

Fungus and Mold is bad.

Fungus and Mold is the big bad problem these days.

[TylerDurden]

I have never found the fungus and mould found in high-meat to be remotely dangerous. Similiarly, most people I know are paranoid about cleaning regularly every room in a house, but, during my very unhealthy pre-RPD days,  I  lived in moldy, primitive  rooms in the past out in the country and actually felt a bit  healthier during those times.

[goodsamaritan]

Black mold stuff and other worse strains... they kill people.

http://blackmold.awardspace.com/stachybotrys.html

[TylerDurden]

A la Aajonus, I am sure the above is 99.9% harmless as long as one is exposed to other moulds and bacteria reasonably often, and as long as one isn't extremely unhealthy to begin with.

[Iguana]

There are good and bad mold.

Good molds smell and taste are good!
Bad molds smell and taste are bad!