In my recent article, Swine Flu and You: The Meaning of Epidemic Diseases, I wrote about the need to understand germs and infectious diseases within a broader context, and understand that they have their role to play within the ecosystem of the body, rather than just to consider them as evils that need to be eliminated at all costs.
Here’s a recent article, courtesy of Yahoo! News, that supports this thesis.
Exposing kids to nasty germs might actually toughen them up to diseases as grown-ups, mounting research suggests.
A new study suggests that higher levels of exposure to common everyday bacteria and microbes may play a helpful role in the development of the body’s inflammatory systems, which plays a crucial role in the immune system’s fight against infection.
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