I Know, Right!?

I’ve said this forever, playing around in dirt and shit when growing up has made me a pretty healthy adult. Meanwhile everyone around me is getting sick. Next time you feel a cold coming on put down the wheatgrass and go lick a homeless guy’s hand.

He said that public health measures like cleaning up contaminated water and food have saved the lives of countless children, but they “also eliminated exposure to many organisms that are probably good for us.” “Children raised in an ultraclean environment,” he added, “are not being exposed to organisms that help them develop appropriate immune regulatory circuits.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27brod.html

via Kottke