It let COVID through three times despite me rigorously keeping up to date with the vaccines as much as possible, and at the same time it has destroyed my thyroid gland and it has declared cherries and peaches as terrorist infiltrators.
I feel like if my immune system is so bored it needs to attack harmless things, I should never have to deal with any actually harmful thing.
It’s like a cop that beats up an unarmed teenager, but hides when someone is shooting up a school.
I definitely think there are grounds to the cleanliness hypothesis. Basically the immune system expects a certain amount of activity. If it’s underperforming, the body systems assume it’s a problem with the immune system, not a lack of bugs, because we are too clean. It then racks up activity levels, causing problematic autoimmune or allergy reactions.
My immune system pisses me off constantly.
It let COVID through three times despite me rigorously keeping up to date with the vaccines as much as possible, and at the same time it has destroyed my thyroid gland and it has declared cherries and peaches as terrorist infiltrators.
I feel like if my immune system is so bored it needs to attack harmless things, I should never have to deal with any actually harmful thing.
It’s like a cop that beats up an unarmed teenager, but hides when someone is shooting up a school.
I definitely think there are grounds to the cleanliness hypothesis. Basically the immune system expects a certain amount of activity. If it’s underperforming, the body systems assume it’s a problem with the immune system, not a lack of bugs, because we are too clean. It then racks up activity levels, causing problematic autoimmune or allergy reactions.