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The FDA didn't remove dirt from kids' environment.

They also didn't prevent the abundance of pesticides and herbicides which may cause immune responses to other things in food.

Then there's all the microplastic and teflon and whatever else seeps into the food supply from industrial equipment operation.

We've not only eliminated a lot of "dirt" but introduced a lot of things which can cause issues whether due to volatility or chemical stability causing inability of the body to clear it up.

But FDA did stamp the covid vaccine. The study that touted its effectiveness, was used to approve it, was obviously flawed. A billion dollar Fraud, and theft from tax payers that were mandated into taking it. FDA so far has faced no repercussions for it. In fact, for the longest time you would get censored for questioning its effectiveness, or even asking for some accountability.

Immune system needs to take in some dirty stuffs to adjust itself. The hygiene standards and ultra-processed foods in developed countries have made people's immune system highly sensitive by not giving them chance to be better adapted.

A plausible explanation, but you have no proof it's actually true.

A) hygiene hypothesis, people ate way more dirt and straight up almost everyone had worms

B) the people with really bad food allergies like Coeliac just died young.

We have severe amnesia when it comes to just how rough the state of health was until basically the 50s (eradicating Polio is a big turning point). Fortunately, we can learn about history so we don't repeat it :massive eyeroll:

There's a lot of evidence indicating that the hygiene hypothesis is not accurate or at the very least not the whole story. The old friends hypothesis suggests that exposure to certain pathogens is just as important or more so. Also microbiomes may play a part in things as well. Everything is a bit up in the air, tbh.

> really bad food allergies like Coeliac

Coeliac is just a word that means "relating to the abdomen", Coeliac Disease is a disease of the abdomen characterized by an immune response to gluten that causes the villi in the intestines to consume themselves, among other characteristic symptoms. Coeliac (or Celiac) Disease is not a food allergy.

Americans take more and more pills. Yet life expectancy is going down. So please prove these drugs are doing anything to improve the health of the American Population. Reproductive rates are worse than ever.

They feed us poison, so they can sell us the cure. I believe that food additives and artificial foods are one of the main culprits for the increase in food allergies. That doesn't mean that the food allergies aren't real, or that this drug doesn't really treat them. Just that there are some insidious forces at play here as well and that if we ate a better diet, free of poisons, we might not need quite as many of these extreme medical technologies to fix the problems the industrial way of life has created for us (while simultaneously solving many other problems).

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