Please note that the "hygiene hypothesis" (our immune systems in the modern day are understimulated because our environments are too clean and uniform and that's why we have chronic health problems) is controversial, not settled science, and doesn't mean not to wash your hands
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Cells at Work funnily enough kind of gestures at this, with Eosinophil being the quiet bullied girl all the other immune cells make fun of until one day the human eats some bad sushi and she gets her moment to shine
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Yep. All of the good science on this topic involves worms and how we adapted to having them inside us constantly, but now we have allergies instead.
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And we lack the immune system calming chemicals that those parasites pump into our bloodstream.
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