Way-out, Saturday party-time, plist-type open-ended question....grounded in Puritanism maybe?

[Ian Livingston]

I heard we're something on the order of 90 percent bacteria and 10 percent
human. I've also heard that people who drink only purified water have less
resistance to bacteria in untreated water. I've always been a proponent of
leaving my small wounds open to heal on the belief that many small
infections boost resistance against the advent of staving off bacterial
infections in larger wounds. Whether or not it works, I don't know, but I
can drink the water most anywhere I go without any problems, and I have a
nice collection of scars untouched by physicians.

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Michael Bailey <
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> first of all...please post plaintext...my reply would've gone out in
> the evil html-cruft mode of your post, but I manually changed it back
> to plaintext...
>
> anyway, a friend of ours from church perhaps encountered this with her
> daughter, she (the mother) is a neat freak and always using those
> sterile wipes and so forth, (those things sort of give me the creeps
> although I can handle it...) anyway the daughter came down with this
> weird immune-based failure to thrive -- but eventually recovered...not
> sure if the therapy involved getting down and dirty or not
>
> however, didn't I read somewhere how the human body's mass is like 70%
> germs anyway?
>



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the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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