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12. Where did you get the we are naturally resistance idea from?!
Thu Nov 1, 2012, 08:09 AM
Nov 2012

You seem to have a poor grasp of basic immunology. Babies immune systems are tabula rosa when born. Thats why BREAST FEEDING IS IMPORTANT. Babies get what few antibodies have from their mothers.
We are naturally resistant to nothing. Its why the young are the most vulnerable to things like influenza and other diseases.
Pediatricians often recommend children go out and play in the dirt so they can build up their immune system. Many immunologists also believe that things like asthma and allergies AND some autoimmune diseases develop in children because their immune system hasn't been exposed enough to learn to function properly. The boy in the bubble comes when some children are born without basic stuff like a class of Immunoglobulins (my sister was born without IgA).
Our immune systems haven't changed much in the past thousands of years. Our environment though has. And the way we treat our children (see believing that getting dirty is bad for kids).
As for resistance to diseases. It would take hundreds if not thousands of years to do that. Also large mortality rates from the disease would be required to eliminate the non resistant population
And as for opinions and facts. I would never EVER think my opinion on say Physics was any where near a fact. I bow to professionals, which too many idiots on the internet don't do.

PS, many autoimmune diseases, have a genetic basis. One of my new drugs for SLE has a genetic test to see who the drug will work best for.

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