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Now there's an interesting topic. That's a less common debate, although it's become a bit louder recently for obvious reasons. I've always figured it's like nurture/nature: two camps making good points, but so attached to their partisan viewpoints that they don't see that reality lies at the intersection. The terrain theorists have obviously never had an infection cured by antibiotics. The germ absolutists never seem to notice that people who exercise, eat properly, and get lots of sunshine don't get infections nearly as often.

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I’ll help them both out soon by writing about how deadly infections can also be curative of life-threatening diseases.

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I've heard of this happening too. It seems to me that the commensal, symbiotic nature of germs is largely overlooked.

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