#166 Immune systems: Is yours weak or strong and how can you boost your immune system to fight disease?
The world, the universe and us
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Are We Too Clean?
The hygiene hypothesis was proposed in the 80s. The idea that allergies were becoming more common because children were getting exposed to fewer infections during childhood. We now know that actually what's really important for young immune systems is an exposure to a wide variety of microbes, good ones and sometimes bad ones at low levels.
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