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Early Life Biome Depletion and a Lifetime of Health Issues
Yesterday, I found a great complimentary article[i] to my Tuesday post regarding lack of exposure to commensal organisms and the development of asthma in children. This is another “it’s biome depletion not the darn ‘hygiene hypothesis’” kind of story! Background information: babies are exposed…
The “Hygiene Hypothesis” – A Phrase Whose Time Has Passed
Dr. William Parker of Duke University Medical School, an eminent researcher into the effects of helminths on the immune system among other specialties, wrote a commentary in 2014 in the British Medical Journal entitled, The “hygiene hypothesis” for allergic disease is a misnomer.[i] His…
Blastocystis: Harmless or Harmful? The Short Answer is…It Depends!
Here’s a topic I haven’t written about much: single-cell eukaryotes. A eukaryote is a living organism whose cells contain a nucleus (in which genetic material is contained) within a membrane. Thus, in the world of living things, only bacteria and archaea (which is sort…