It’s time to play in the dirt again with mounting evidence that being exposed to microbes, especially in childhood, makes for a healthier immune system. And Canadian microbiologists are published authors under the catchy title, Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children from an Oversanitized World. But it’s increasingly clear that being exposed to microbes, especially in childhood, makes for a healthier immune system. When the immune system isn’t properly trained it can overreact to normally harmless things. So there’s new hope for kids who already have food allergies, and hope for reducing the number who develop them.

Source: thestar May 03, 2019 21:45 UTC