SavageFaerie
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ORIGINAL: BlackPhx
Immune systems aren't up to snuff any more..that is a known, we keep treating everything before it IS anything...but we are also breeding bigger and better diseases, mostly through inadequate cleaning methods ( which leave the strongest bacteria and virii to survive and breed) and not finishing up antibiotics once we start feeling better. Basically with that last we are vaccinating them against the antibiotics designed to kill them.
I remember going out to the chicken yard and gathering eggs, some of which got stored in the crisper..and some of which sat on the kitchen counter until grandma used them..no worry about salmonella or anything. Same for pork (slaughter her own pigs cooked the meat well) beef, same thing, and chickens, kill, clean, pluck, cook. Yes we probably took in all sorts of things that today would lay us low, but in amounts that stimulated our immune systems to fight back like a vaccination. Then again there was far less contamination of meat by fecal matter by the old methods, etc. than there is today with the factory slaughterhouses, and they weren't over crowding or feeding animals massive doses of hormones, antibiotics or other animals to bring them to market sooner.
The same goes with vegetables and fruits, modern shipping and processing methods don't really lend themselves to proper inspection. My ex husband worked for a produce delivery company at one point and constantly came home with infections of his hands from molds and fungus growing on damaged fruits and produce they had to separate out from the good stuff. Heck..take a look at the blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries at the market..look closely and you will usually find at least 2 or more in the container that have gone off and started growing mold.
poenkitten (wondering how all the medications and preservatives are mixing in the modern human body considering how careful we have to be about medications cross reacting) 
I guess Im a loner. I am so not a germaphobic. I have an exceptionally good immune system that can damn near kill anything that hits me and fast. I dont do anything special, I dont even avoid cautions on food, still ate fresh spinich during the spinich scare. I avoid antibiotics like the plague and more often than not refuse them because my body kills it faster than the medication can.
I dont take extra precautionary measures when cooking and nothing has ever happened.
I realize not everyone is blessed with a super immune system but Im of the mind of letting my body build up immunity to things naturally.
I think the worst thing I have had in the past 15 years was west nile virus and even that I let my body take care of it and treated the symptoms.
If I do get anything that runs rampant generally Im over it in a day.
Perhaps Im just lucky I dunno. I just know that when colds, virus's or whatever is going around, everyone in the house will get it and it bypasses me.
Of course anyone that is immume deficient could certainly take all precautions.
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