When our society got rich, we started living much more sterile lives, and a whole bunch of diseases cropped up which are autoimmune disorders. These range from allergies to Chrohn’s Disease, which destroys the bowel. Many of these syndromes did not exist in the pre-sterile world. (Not all autoimmune disorders are this way, of course.)
So some parents have become aware that you need to let your kids play in the muck, and with animals, and get exposed to diseases and parasites so your immune system grows up as you grow up. Otherwise, with nothing to do, it can attack you.
But parents are protective. They are not going to deliberately expose their children to parasites. But there are treatments that have been developed for sufferers of these diseases that give them safe alternatives that their immune system can fight. For example, the spores of parisites that infect other animals, but not humans.
So we need to develop a regime of “vaccines” against autoimmune disorders. A regimen of safe infectious agents that will put the immune system through the paces it expects to go through in the natural world, but which won’t cause damage. And we need to expose children, and possibly even adults, to them through their lives.
references?
Do you have any references to the research that shows how many
autoimmune diseases are the result of a sterile world?
It's the Hygiene Hypothesis
It's called the Hygiene Hypothesis, and while it is still a subject of debate, there is a growing body of evidence suggesting it, at least with some diseases. Well, what is known is that certain diseases (including Crohn's) increased greatly in incidence in modern society. People suggest all sorts of causes, including vaccination, hygiene and more. A google search will find various references.
Bovine manure
Autoimmunity caused by living in a sterile world? Bullshit. I grew up on a farm (if you lack imagination, think manure, bare feet, scruffy animals, stray cats, playing in the mud, drinking raw milk). I WAS NEVER SICK. I never missed a day of school. I am not joking. I am now in my thirties and I have an autoimmune condition.
autoimmune disorders and "sterile"
I'm 100% with person who submitted "Bovine Manure." I also grew up on a farm with my hands in the dirt being exposed to every germ in the book. I developed an auto immune disease at 14. So the theory is crap. The best information I have found is that the root trigger for this is eating gluten and genetic predisposition. I have a parent, grandparent and brother with other autoimmmune diseases but different from mine. So don't eat wheat, barley, rye and maybe oatmeal and after about 1-2 weeks you will see improvement. I already have. So there!
Not all of them
It is not my intention (or anybody's) to suggest that all immune disorders are caused by hygiene. There is just some evidence to suggest that some of them may be.
Is it true that most
Is it true that most autoimmune disorders are more common in women? Such a skew would be compatible with the Hygiene Hypothesis, assuming that girls are discouraged more strongly than boys from getting dirty.
You don't actually need
You don't actually need references to make such statements, these are facts that we can see daily, plus there are plenty scientifically researches that say the same thing. I am actually worried about that and many parents don't see the danger. The immune system is created in first years of life, that's why it's better to let our children play in the ground or experience "non-sterile" environments so their anti corps learn to protect them. This is the mechanism. From what I see, many children and also many grown ups are facing immune system problems because their lack of defense. This is the case of my cousin, now he is taking immublast to strengthen his system.
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