Re:Exposure to the bacteria in soil can be good for mental h...
by jaclaz on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @01:57PM
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Purely anecdotal (and of course showing my age) but when we were kids we were not supposed to wear trousers (long to the ankle) until we became maybe 12 or 13 (exception made when we were all dressed up for some ceremony or similar), we had some choice between shorts and knee length shorts.
There was a reason, I have no real memory of myself (nor of any of my friends) having ever both (at the same time I mean) knees/lower legs NOT scraped, bruised or cut, no matter if it was due to falling from a tree or from the bycicle or from experiments with any other possible 2 to 4 wheeled or sliding vehicle of sort, or simple bruises because of thorns while we went through the woods to get some berries.
Of course we promptly washed the bruises (and in some cases even disinfected them) but if the article is even marginally right, given the quantity of dirt that must have entered my organism I should not ever be concerned with depression.
There was a reason, I have no real memory of myself (nor of any of my friends) having ever both (at the same time I mean) knees/lower legs NOT scraped, bruised or cut, no matter if it was due to falling from a tree or from the bycicle or from experiments with any other possible 2 to 4 wheeled or sliding vehicle of sort, or simple bruises because of thorns while we went through the woods to get some berries.
Of course we promptly washed the bruises (and in some cases even disinfected them) but if the article is even marginally right, given the quantity of dirt that must have entered my organism I should not ever be concerned with depression.