There's a world that's missing from this post and it's the answer. But you can't talk about it here. It should be painfully obvious.
passing_by_and•6mo ago
Vaccines?
jleyank•6mo ago
Larger challenges to the immune system, and perhaps those who could not handle this load died off or left over the generations? Selection pressure should be familiar to those in CS.
airhangerf15•6mo ago
No the previous poster had the world I was thinking of. It's interesting the mental hoops people will go through to think it's anything else. Modern medicine is really an ideology, and a religion.
bix6•6mo ago
The answer isn’t microbes and exposure?
toomuchtodo•6mo ago
> “Certain kinds of farming practices, particularly the very traditional ones, have this extraordinary protective effect in the sense that, in these communities, asthma and allergies are virtually unknown,” said Donata Vercelli, a professor of cellular and molecular medicine at the University of Arizona. “The studies that have been done in these farming populations are critical because they tell us that protection is an attainable goal.”
bookofjoe•6mo ago