Summary: 10(Z)-hexadecenoic acid, a fatty acid found in the soil based bacterium Mycobacterium vaccae, interacts with immune cells to inhibit pathways that drive inflammation and increases resilience to stress. Researchers say the findings could bring us one step closer to developing a microbe-based "stress vaccine".
Potatoman-J said: This makes me feel better about my recent injury.
Saw that post, hope you are ok!
I remember in the early 90s reading articles in some of the scientific magazines postulating that the massive rise in allergies and athsma was down to kids growing up in "excessively clean" homes where every surface is disinfected like an operating theatre by parents who are completely paranoid about germs, largely thanks to the marketing of various cleaning products.
I partly grew up on a farm so loads of exposure to all kinds of stuff, never had allergies or breathing issues, and even after moving to a more urban lifestyle still frequent wallowings in outdoor mud, so there may indeed be something in it.
Potatoman-J said: This makes me feel better about my recent injury.
Saw that post, hope you are ok!
I remember in the early 90s reading articles in some of the scientific magazines postulating that the massive rise in allergies and athsma was down to kids growing up in "excessively clean" homes where every surface is disinfected like an operating theatre by parents who are completely paranoid about germs, largely thanks to the marketing of various cleaning products.
I partly grew up on a farm so loads of exposure to all kinds of stuff, never had allergies or breathing issues, and even after moving to a more urban lifestyle still frequent wallowings in outdoor mud, so there may indeed be something in it.
Yeah, I'm good. Huh, I grew up similarly. Not on a farm, but very much outside. My mom was also hardly a germophobe, but I ALWAYS had allergies and breathing issues. But then, my mom and dad both chain smoked our whole life growing up.
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