In today’s
world, everyone knows that microbes can go back millions of years ago. They are
known to be, “Our old friends.” The researcher under the name of Graham Rook
investigated why many humans are known to have really different immune systems
and why each person is known to get sicker than others.
This
article attacks the fact that many people are grown by treating small diseases
with countless medications. Yet they grow up thinking that it will be the
answer for the rest of their lives. Little do they know that, microbes are
smart as well and are able to change and evolve into more suitable organisms for
their habitat. This means if you grew up treating small and even big
sicknesses, the medication used maybe ten years ago won’t help after those ten
years. Those microbes are more adapted and need to be treated differently.
Knowing that this article would seem bias to most. I am all forward with the
fact that medication should be our last form of treating sicknesses especially
if it’s not to big of a problem. Tests were shown that by changing diets and
exposing to the environment; meaning you are more outside then inside. Would
help kill many microbes that are present as of today. Many of these forms are helpful
all around. The helpful microbes are not killed in the process and one his
helping them and their health by changing their diets and becoming more
healthier.
Pictures: http://www.edu.pe.ca/southernkings/Pictures/micro3.jpg
http://microbes.nres.illinois.edu/images/Microbe%20World.jpg
Article: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/05/27/are-americans-too-obsessed-with-cleanliness/some-microbes-may-be-our-old-friends?action=click&module=Search®ion=searchResults%230&version=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fquery.nytimes.com%2Fsearch%2Fsitesearch%2F%3Faction%3Dclick%26region%3DMasthead%26pgtype%3DHomepage%26module%3DSearchSubmit%26contentCollection%3DHomepage%26t%3Dqry269%23%2Fmicrobes
I think that medication is certainly over-used and affecting our immune systems in bad ways. Unfortunately I'm guilty of wanting antibiotics, (and I think a lot of us are), when I get incredibly sick and i just want it to end. Many of these medical issues can be solved with natural medication, like stated in the article, changing your diet or going outside more. It's also interesting that a lot of germaphobes tend to get sick more often because they purposefully try to avoid microbes and so their immune system doesn't develop.
ReplyDeleteAna, you make good points...do you have a source for your shared knowledge?
DeleteJose, what do YOU think about this? Is there any information you've learned during this course, or before, that supports your opinion?
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