Why healthy (perhaps too healthy) people start being at mercy of bugs.
Jay, we people were born with an immune system which is a defense system. As with any defense system, it needs to be tested once in a while so that it remains effective.
The system needs to go out seeking the building blocks of to build anti-bodies, vitamins etc, so that other parts of the body supply them, raise the number of anti-bodies at a fast rate. Burn them out with high temperature and other sort of measures on their arsenal.
But people decided that they should avoid anything that's not clean. They employ tons of detergents. They don't live close to dirty, don't let the clean kids mingle with the dirty kids.
Slowly that defense system stopped being fit for its purpose. Like someone who has not been to the gym, is totally unfit, and suddenly needs to move houses and discover he's dead tired half way through it and need someone to do it for him.
But the bugs, Jay, the bugs haven't been idle. They've been at their business all along. In Africa, LATAM and Asia, all places where high level of hygiene, education and means to buy detergent are not widespread. So the bugs are top fit and combat ready.
And while they have been getting better and better at their business, humans have become less and less able to fight.
Now the bugs have a field day. Instead of facing a barrage of measures, they walk inside the body and the body just tell them to stop, they forgot what fighting is all about.
The bugs ravage the body.
In about 1.000 years the people who use detergent to fight germs by the ton, will be extinct and the people whose bodies kept at a higher level of preparedness to fight diseases, will survive.
That's how evolution is doing with modern man. It doesn't augur well for people in the North Hemisphere who -apart to be more educated and affluent and can afford tons of detergents- have cold weather, ice and snow to kill the bugs for 9 months.
Southern people, who have no winter, have to live with the bugs all year long, and they have bad hygiene habits which in the end make them better prepared for survival. |
