eating dirt

[moonwise]

tiggymalvern, you and I talked about this kind of thing a long time ago, and now there's a study out that suggests that people need parasites for a healthy immune system. Isn't IgE the anti-parasitic immunoglobulin that's implicated in allergies and asthma?

Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good for You

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[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Yup, and I'm still a believer :-) I think it's fabulous you can treat autoimmune disease by feeding people worms XD IgE is indeed the culprit.

It's interesting that in a study in the UK, kids raised on farms had the lowest allergy rates of any children.