The-14Aug 13, 2025
Playing in mud and dirt can boost your child’s immune system – here’s how
#Health #ChildHealth #ImmuneSystem #MudPlay #Immunity #OutdoorPlay #HealthyKids #AllergyPrevention #NaturePlay #Microbes #ChildDevelopment #HygieneHypothesis
https://the-14.com/playing-in-mud-and-dirt-can-boost-your-childs-immune-system-heres-how/
Playing in mud and dirt can boost your child’s immune system – here’s how | The-14

Playing in mud exposes kids to beneficial microbes, boosting immunity, reducing allergy risks, and supporting healthy immune and brain development.

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Show threadLorraineApr 11, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYEoI2Eql_s&list=PLCRMkZVOZPRaP5JTSwu6KQYnHi0NfubrB
Wanted to see what Maryn McKenna was up to in her Covid precautions, saw an author interview & got sad thinking it was an in-person interview, but turns out it was virtual. Pre-pandemic she did phone interviews for podcasts so not sure reasoning behind it, but great none-the-less

This interview is on a book about allergies & goes into what’s false about #hygieneHypothesis & other things about allergens

Problem is, yes allergens on increase but imho these days mostly Covid..

Health Storytelling Author Q&A with Maryn McKenna Theresa MacPhail, PhD

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Matt WillemsenApr 5, 2024
Is playing in the dirt good for kids' immune systems?
https://www.livescience.com/health/allergies/is-playing-in-the-dirt-good-for-kids-immune-systems #health #children #dirt #play #immunology #pathogens #OldFriends #HygieneHypothesis
Is playing in the dirt good for kids' immune systems?

Experts explain why it's healthy to let your children occasionally play in the dirt — and it may not be for the reasons you assume.

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LorraineOct 5, 2023

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/is-the-hygiene-hypothesis-true

Is the #HygieneHypothesis True? #bacteria #virus

Chatting w/my butcher this week was💡& think I understand what’s happening.. 🚫😷ARE by appearances developing resilience to #sars2 in that they are now getting sick for only 1-2 days when #mutation #variant comes along… every month/two, so they believe they’re becoming immune

In reality #viralPersistence will eventually be the straw that breaks🐫back☠️♿️🦽BUT trying to predict the actual moment is trying to predict stock📈📉crash…

Is the Hygiene Hypothesis True? | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

The hygiene hypothesis says exposure to germs helps kids develop healthy immune systems. But many viruses didn’t circulate as widely during the pandemic. Are there downsides to missed infections?

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Show threadRuth MottramJan 1, 2023

Hands-up whose heard of the #HygieneHypothesis ?

This #PNAS piece suggests that the concept needs to be radically revised in the public consciousness as it's misleadingly named:

"Various research teams have proposed alternate names: microbiome depletion hypothesis, the microbial diversity hypothesis, and, of course, the old friends hypothesis."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1700688114

Show threadElizabeth Wrigley-FieldDec 26, 2022

@shawrd773

(I always wanted to write something about how #demography could help to disentangle these two different versions of, very broadly, the #HygieneHypothesis, but I’m sure that moment in #microbiome science has passed, if it was ever actually here)