Being Too Hygienic is Bad

I knew it. A theory of mine is currently being confirmed in research studies.

Send the kids out to play in the dirt and you'll be doing them a favor. Exposure to small amounts of environmental toxins during childhood strengthens a persons immune system. Keep them in a sanitized environment and they are far more likely to develop allergies to harmless environmental substances.

And I'm pretty sure they will soon discover women exposed to natural levels of environmental toxins (country girls) have healthier children with fewer allergies due both to exposure during fetal development and exposure from mothers milk after birth. A mother passes an immunological cheat sheet to her child. So if her immune system is weak so will her child's be.

Of course it's no reason to have poor hygiene. It just another example of too much of a good thing is actually bad.