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Originally Posted by Stephen  I grow spuds and carrots, turnips and onions, and thers nothing better than pulling a fresh bit of organic vege, you have grown, out of the ground, give it a quick brush down and ..whoosh: away it goes, down the hatch.
I think super hygiene in many areas off our lives isnt doing our immune systems any favours, either. |
I do this too; I've been accused of suffering from pica, even though I'm aiming for the carrot, not the dirt on it.
My sister's an RN, and she insists that we all let her daughter play in the dirt, eat it or no.
Ever read about
Jordan Rubin? This was of interest to me because I had untreatable ulcerative colitis from age 8 to age 21 (when Mayo Clinic so kindly chopped my gut out and fashioned an ileoanal anastomosis for me). My mom jumped on the HSO wagon when I was a (very sick) teenager and thought I better start taking probiotics, but it didn't do anything spectacular for me.
On another dirty note...
...I think the b12 soil studies were done in India. Anyone want to go link hunting for that?... I'm kinda busy, at the moment. If nobody's done it by tomorrow, I'll do it.