alt Hacker NewsYeah, getting the immune system to tone down the responses is probably the best one can do for oneself health.
Our body didn't get the memo that for the last 200 years water and food are clean now and bacteria is fought with antibiotics.
Getting the immune system to not freak out at everything it detects via just touching grass is the best news I've read today.
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dd8601fn • yesterday at 2:51 PM
The next fad… microdosing immunosuppressants? We could get in early.
Nevermind. Just saw people are already doing it.
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It's more of "getting the immune system to respond appropriately" and it's difficult to achieve that balance. The immune system isn't a one-size fits all monolithic entity. For example, inflammation in appropriate levels is beneficial for you because it allows your body to heal; long term sustained inflammation is not.
Too often there is this black-white level of thinking (not pointed at you) in health that causes people to act against their self-interest.
edit: the fact that this type of paper is coming from an ecologically-focused study, rather than a medical journal-based study gives me pause, too.