alt Hacker News> [greater activity within] our immune systems long-term can't be healthy
Not trying to be flip, but why? "Natural" isn't always better, and as the obesity epidemic has shown, our evolutionary past hasn't done a perfect job of preparing us for our current environment.
You might be right, but I'm skeptical that there is any non-extreme limit to something as simple and mechanical as our innate immune system.
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We know that systemic inflammation is associated with all kinds of chronic diseases. I don’t know whether we have figured out which causes which, but I’d be wary of overstimulating the immune system too.
Normally when your immune system is on high alert for a prolonged period of time, it can lead to more false positives and trigger auto immune issues.
calling the immune system simple and mechanical is completely wild, like half of americans have some kind of medically diagnosable immune dysfunction