"flushed the whole bag of drugs down the toilet" Don't do that, (at least close to where you or your kids will possibly live, haha).
For example antibiotics, as well as many other drugs, produce resistant bacteries, etc wherever that stuff will go and stay.
Unluckily lots of the drug-stuff is nothing like "biodegradable", instead produced for a maximum "shelf life", although not as perfectly stable as DDT.
All the antibiotica which has been produced, lots of it "flushed down" is already a problem, as is the part which goes the same way after passing the body of the patient.
Note, I'm not just talking about the sewage treatment plants of the most industrializeed world, but they have to watch out as evolution is "accelerated" in their plant..
PS You are right about the "immunity sysem", should not be overloaded, nor have nothing to do, especially at an early age.
Another "western" mechanism is probably lots of "complicated chemicals" which acts as hormones, antibodies, etc,etc.
The chemical, plastic industry is and has been busy changing their production in "silence".
Another thing which has not been "proved" until recently is that pregnat women actually turn genes on and off in the fetus.
That blows another set of big hole in the US "Genius, Heroic, Virtuous DNA-gene-debate" as well as health- and other care for pregnant women, continuing to maternity leaves, etc,etc..
(statistically proven by old mortality statistics, church books and agriculture-weather cycles in northern scandinavia where the pool of genes was very constant until appr 100 years ago) |
