Geneticist's truth: Being a little more exposed to germs at tender age can really be healthful... Here is why

I have news for you that is bound to change your mentality , or  possibly have you question a lot of the things you probably may have been doing  for a while. Yes , it is about germs: those creepy unseen things that we think maim our lives.

 Some geneticists who made headlines these past few months are calling our minds back to salient points we all have missed out


A research that was conducted by these scientists shows that over 600 species of microbes are found  on greasy rails in New York City.... Ugh! that is a lot of them!
It was recorded that they found strains of bacteria that cause food poisoning amidst a plethora of other harmless bacteria; and they say those creepy-crawlies might actually be good for people. Oh Please, don't seem too shocked. Read down for you to know the reasons for their supposed goodness

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According to a hygiene hypothesis, exposure to germs at young age has a lot of fortification to give ones immune system so that in the course of future occurrences , they can better be handled.
Have you ever wondered why children who grow up in rural areas are less like to have asthma attack?



Well, the filth of the barn, the dungs of the herds, the putrefying grasses, the play with unattended cats and dogs may have elicited microbes which the child;s immunity would need to have contact with in case of future re-occurrence.

Sometimes, you see people acting completely like they are Queen Elizabeth the second, always afraid of germs. Some guys wouldn't even shake hands with fellow guys for fear of  germs. There own hands contain germs and they feel it is the next person beside them that has a large collection of assorted germs that he or she deems harmful to him or herself. For your information, everything in this world is covered with bacteria. Yes! that's right. The idea that anything can be perfectly clean is in fact a myth; and on the contrary, we all need bacteria to live just as some insects are also very important in our lives.

"We tend to think of our homes and personal environments as these pristine places, and public ones as dirty and infested with bacteria," Chris Mason, a Weill Cornell Medical College geneticist and the author of the subway-pathogen study, recently said at a public event in New York. "But you should really think of yourself as a rabbit who gets to hop between two forests."

That's why Mason isn't afraid to let his own young daughter ride the subway or play in the dirt.

"I would advise any new parent to roll their child on the floor of the New York subway," said Mason. Its funny, but I suppose we all need to join that band wagon here in Africa. Perhaps, now you will understand the reason some kids eats muds and anything around. They may not know it, but they, according to this study, are fortifying their own immunity with these bacteria.

Like the surfaces people touch and the ground they walk on, the human body is already teeming with thousands of different species of bacteria, from the Lactobacillus acidophilus lining digestive tracts to the Propionibacterium acnes populating the skin on faces and arms. On average, about three pounds of our body weight is accounted for by bacteria alone.

So the idea that a little more exposure couldn't hurt makes sense. Perhaps everyone should be a little less germaphobic.

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