Here’s an interesting article about how rats not exposed to a super hygenic lifestyle have better immune systems.
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I totally believe in studies like this – I think that everything is out of control when it’s ‘hygiene this, hygiene that’. I remember Mom telling me about how there was a cup near the sink to get a drink of water. Everyone used it. Everyone didn’t get their own cup, that was silly! Nowadays, it’s a sin to drink out of another man’s cup (unless he can’t finish his beer).