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My Final Lecture: What I Learned About Living a Good Life

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Importance of Anti-Fragility

A 2008 study by the same researchers, however, found that the rate had skyrocketed by 350%, to 14 per 1,000. Why? Because parents and teachers had protected children from exposure to peanuts. So the lesson is clear, immune systems become anti-fragile when exposed to environmental stressors. And so do our minds and bodies for the stressors of daily life.

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