[editor-surveyor]

"Skip forward a few years, and techniques such as these have painted a far more sophisticated picture of human microbes as ubiquitous, abundant and indispensable, harvesting energy and nutrients from food, synthesizing essential amino acids, moisturizing the skin and playing an essential part in immune-system development. 'The microbiota,' as Gordon puts it, 'are bringing a series of utensils to the dining-room table that the human host doesn't have.' The picture bandied around nowadays is of humans and their microbial partners as a coevolved 'superorganism' in which each provides services for the other."

Except when antibacterial soaps are used routinely!

Antibacterials should be "Prescription Only."

[J Edgar]

Since I was a teenager, I have always thought that good hygiene is prudent, since my mother was a nurse.

However, I also thought that your immune system needs to be tried, to remain active and effective. Sorta of like exercising your muscles.
So i have come to trust my immune system, I take vitamins B, C and D specifically for the immune system benefits. I have never taken vaccines , except when I was 6 y/o and they forced polio and tetanus vaccines by government school.
I rarely get a cold, or influenza or any other kind of infectious disease.

I find this research very interesting.

[J Edgar]

Since I was a teenager, I have always thought that good hygiene is prudent, since my mother was a nurse.

However, I also thought that your immune system needs to be tried, to remain active and effective. Sorta of like exercising your muscles.
So i have come to trust my immune system, I take vitamins B, C and D specifically for the immune system benefits. I have never taken vaccines , except when I was 6 y/o and they forced polio and tetanus vaccines by government school.
I rarely get a cold, or influenza or any other kind of infectious disease.

I find this research very interesting.

[Reeses]

Antibacterials should be "Prescription Only."

Alcohol is a very strong antibacterial. You're suggesting Prohibition again.