10% Human with Alanna Collen
Mind, Body, and Soil
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The Importance of Self and Other
The old style hypothesis around the immune system was that it could distinguish self and other. So, pollen is tolerated by a healthy immune system, but not tolerated in allergy. And of course, what we eat is non-self - everything we put in our guts is non- Self. What's more useful is what's good for us, and what's not good for us. There are all sorts of chemical signals that let the body know what matters and what doesn't. When you get your microbes from your mum, that gives you a set of training instructions that your immune system couldn't work on. If they're not breastfeeding, it's, I believe, advice to mix a tiny,
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