
Is It Possible to Be Too Clean?
April 16, 2004
Mr. Clean may have a bad immune system. A story in EurekAlert says kids without enough exposure to infectious agents are at greater risk of autoimmune diseases. “The cleaner everyone is, the less stimulation their immune system gets,” says [Nora] Sarvetnick [of Scripps Research Institute]. “Their immune system tends to be incomplete.” Stimulation increases the […]