Anecdotes: my neighbors used to let their baby crawl around the gravel parking lot, neighborhood cats and dogs hanging out, and I was like “Those are good parents.”
Meanwhile a neat freak surgeon and nurse couple raised kids that are allergic to nearly everything in the world (ex used to babysit the allergic kids).
Something good about growing up with cats and dogs in the house and playing in the mud. (If you’re in an area without parasites in the ground)
I’m the type of person who touches everything, bites their nails, eats food from the floor and rarely washes their hands. I have zero food allergies and I’m almost never sick.
Maybe I’m just lucky or maybe these are related. Who knows.
EDIT: Don’t remember ever taking antibiotics either
there is also a causation question. I’m similar to you, I don’t get sick much so I don’t have much reason to be obsessive about cleanliness (of course I am hygienic and practice normal food safety). but my wife gets sick often and that causes her to be extra super careful about foods she eats, cleaning, hand sanitizing, etc.
Anecdotes: my neighbors used to let their baby crawl around the gravel parking lot, neighborhood cats and dogs hanging out, and I was like “Those are good parents.”
Meanwhile a neat freak surgeon and nurse couple raised kids that are allergic to nearly everything in the world (ex used to babysit the allergic kids).
Something good about growing up with cats and dogs in the house and playing in the mud. (If you’re in an area without parasites in the ground)
I’m the type of person who touches everything, bites their nails, eats food from the floor and rarely washes their hands. I have zero food allergies and I’m almost never sick.
Maybe I’m just lucky or maybe these are related. Who knows.
EDIT: Don’t remember ever taking antibiotics either
there is also a causation question. I’m similar to you, I don’t get sick much so I don’t have much reason to be obsessive about cleanliness (of course I am hygienic and practice normal food safety). but my wife gets sick often and that causes her to be extra super careful about foods she eats, cleaning, hand sanitizing, etc.