primitive describes fighting disease with germs

[franksolich]

http://election.democraticunderground.com/11472961

Oh my.

Maraya1969 (11,482 posts)   Sat Aug 6, 2016, 12:59 AM

The Amish may be farming the cure for asthma in barnyard animals!
 
(If someone from the N Y Times see this I am not linking to your site because I cannot copy from your site. So I'll give the links to someone else's site!)*

I had asthma as a kid. I also had a horse for a few years and felt so at home in the barn and I can't remember being sick then. I also dreamed of my family moving to a farm. Maybe my body knew something. 

"Amish children who’ve grown up exposed to barnyard germs have much lower rates of asthma than kids raised in more sterilized environments, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The science supports something our grandparents have long suspected: that playing in the dirt toughens kids up. The new research backs up this hygiene hypothesis, suggesting that Amish children inhale microbes from their constant contact with animals during their formative years, which activates their immune systems and protects them against asthma.

The researchers compared the Amish of Indiana to the Hutterites of North Dakota. Both farming groups share genetic backgrounds and simple lifestyles, but there’s a big difference in how they farm.

The Amish raise their barns — which their kids often play in — close to their homes. They use horses for farmwork and transportation, and they shun electricity. But the Hutterites use electricity and live on industrialized farms, with the cows housed in huge barns farther away from the houses that children don’t play in. And guess what? Only 2% to 4% of the Amish suffer from asthma, yet the Hutterites see asthma in 15% to 20% of their members."

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/amish-farming-cure-asthma-barnyard-animals-article-1.2738543

*no idea what that's all about.

Anyway.

I dunno why this would be any surprise; it's been long theorized that exposure to certain (not all, but certain) bad things makes one acquire an immunity.

<<<long ago proved immune to malicious effects of insect bites, including those from black widow and brown recluse spiders, due probably to that has always been meals for insects, in turn probably due to a body chemistry that attracts them.

<<<wishes some primitives would work on acquiring, in the same manner, immunity against rattlesnake venom.

[Big Dog]

I dunno why this would be any surprise; it's been long theorized that exposure to certain (not all, but certain) bad things makes one acquire an immunity.

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[Carl]

This is a revelation to them?
God,they are stupid.

[BlueStateSaint]

The best reason ever for going to the  Democrat Underground

I think I'd sooner drink those three tablespoons of water from the Olympic sailing venue in Rio . . .

[BattleHymn]

Those Anabaptists that have the asthma free kids could tap into a vast source of income, if they play their cards right.  Although most groups will shun the 'English', they are more than happy to have an additional source of income, courtesy of your money. 


Charge people to muck out their barns.   

[SVPete]

Does this mean Mo-Mo is providing anti-asthma medicine for her entire neighborhood?

[CollectivismMustDie]

I dunno why this would be any surprise; it's been long theorized that exposure to certain (not all, but certain) bad things makes one acquire an immunity.


<<<wishes some primitives would work on acquiring, in the same manner, immunity against rattlesnake venom.

I tend to be in agreement with that theory, as that seems the way things have transpired within my own life.

Which primitive played with a rattlesnake and got bit?


CMD

[franksolich]

I tend to be in agreement with that theory, as that seems the way things have transpired within my own life.

Which primitive played with a rattlesnake and got bit?

None of which I'm aware; I was just being sarcastic, wishing some of them would try to acquire an immunity by being repeatedly bitten by one.

[CollectivismMustDie]

None of which I'm aware; I was just being sarcastic, wishing some of them would try to acquire an immunity by being repeatedly bitten by one.

What about the poor snake? I don't think they're capable of immunity from (D)Ummies. We should fund a program - "needles for (D)Ummies", save a rattlesnake".



CMD

[FaC]

Does a rabid raccoon count?


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[RayRaytheSBS]

Those Anabaptists that have the asthma free kids could tap into a vast source of income, if they play their cards right.  Although most groups will shun the 'English', they are more than happy to have an additional source of income, courtesy of your money. 


Charge people to muck out their barns.   

That would involve hard manual labor BH. Besides, most city people who have never mucked a barn or stall  would puke at the smell. That would be one more mess for the Amish to clean.