Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthier and smarter

Re:Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthie... by abraae on Thursday August 05, 2021 @11:49PM (#28083131)

Studies have shown reduced rates of asthma in children who grow up on farms, which I suspect supports your concerns [0].

A damp and mouldy environment is clearly not good, but I wouldn't want my home to be a sterile environment whichlimited opportunity to build immunity.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1069066/

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Re:Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthie... by ch4s3 on Friday August 06, 2021 @12:18AM (#28083277)

I grew up on a farm with a lot of animals around, and spent a ton of time in the woods until I was 18. I have terrible allergies and asthma, so farm life was pretty awful. YMMV

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Re:Scientist says cleaning indoor air could make us healthie... by supperburg on Friday August 06, 2021 @02:46AM (#28084028)

No, it almost certainly does not. There are lots of reasons why farmers would have less asthma, one being the fact that there is a correlation with asthma and ASD, a correlation with ASD and intellectual excellence and therefore a potential reason why you don’t find many farmers with asthma or other disorders on the autoimmune spectrum. This study is a heuristic at best. Kill epidemiology with a rusty pocket knife.

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