We live in weird times, where a lot of our focus, goes into being scared.

Scared that we’re not healthy enough, eventhough we really are. But we still buy a million health books about living healthy. Instead we should maybe, for a second, shut our ears to everything on the outside, and just listen to our body.

Scared that what we say, might be wrong or be misinterpreted, some would rather say nothing, or make so sure that they are so politically correct, that they end up saying the wrong thing anyways.

Then there’s the germ phobias… I’ve seen the decription “The Antiseptic Mothers” a couple of times now, and there is no doubt that they’re out there.

Hopefully some of them will read this:

“Normal bacteria living on the skin trigger a pathway that helps prevent inflammation when we get hurt, the US team discovered. The bugs dampen down overactive immune responses that can cause cuts and grazes to swell, they say.

Their work is published in the online edition of Nature Medicine. Experts said the findings provided an explanation for the “hygiene hypothesis”, which holds that exposure to germs during early childhood primes the body against allergies.

Many believe our obsession with cleanliness is to blame for the recent boom in allergies in developed countries”.

Plus the there is also logic sense of letting kids be kids, so they don’t grow up to be another scared adult!

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