Re:A big, successful trial of probiotics
by btilly on Thursday August 17, 2017 @03:19PM
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The US generally has clean water. The third world, and India in particular, frequently do not.
That said, the other immune boosts are interesting here. And what would be doubly interesting is to figure out probiotics that prevent allergies.
We've known for years that a child who is exposed to real illnesses in a dirty environment may die from that, but won't generally go on to develop asthma. In the developed world we have a lot of health problems coming from the immune system looking so hard for threats that it starts attacking your own body.
There is very, very good reason to believe that the right probiotics would solve this problem. However discovering what those probiotics are is not so simple...
That said, the other immune boosts are interesting here. And what would be doubly interesting is to figure out probiotics that prevent allergies.
We've known for years that a child who is exposed to real illnesses in a dirty environment may die from that, but won't generally go on to develop asthma. In the developed world we have a lot of health problems coming from the immune system looking so hard for threats that it starts attacking your own body.
There is very, very good reason to believe that the right probiotics would solve this problem. However discovering what those probiotics are is not so simple...