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The Townfolk Secret to Parasite-Free Living
The friars were riddled with parasites. And the townspeople didn't have nearly as many, which is really interesting because again, if the friars were sort of so relatively sanitary, why do they have so many more parasites? In fact, there were choices meant likely to be infected with these parasites than the townspeOPLE. It turns out it may have to do with their gardening because when they would garden, they would remove because their sort of excrement was so nicely stored,. They were able to sort of access it very easily as well. The thought is that they're basically kind of recycling these parasites through their bodies and through their garden over potentially a long amount of time
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