[cripplecreek]

Nearly 40 years later and im still alive. Personally i think humans are growing weaker due to overmedicating and over antibioticizing ourselves.

As a kid i missed a great many of the usual childhood vaccines due to an illness but i grew into a healthy adult who gets sick only once every 4 or 5 years.

[dirtbiker]

Same here, I grew up on a farm, and I always had a cut or scrape on my body somewhere.......and I got the scars to prove it (along with 2 mutilated fingers!)

BTW, my mom grew up in a section of our county called Cripple Creek......

[chatham]

I think you are right on.
When I was a kid we swam in the Hudson river just off the ferry dock at 125th street.
After a dive while coming to the surface of the water we had to wave our arms wildly to drive off the stuff floating on the surface of the water.
Years later I found out that was the lowest point in the area and the place where all the Raw Sewage was emptied into the River.
I must have had a great immune system.
At that spot they have eracted the biggest Sewer plant I've ever seen.

[WV Mountain Mama]

That is also my husband's theory. Kids need to get dirty so they can build resistance. Anitbacterial soaps are bad because your body doesn't build up antibodies to fight. When I taught, the dirty kids never got sick. There were a couple that I prayed would get sick cause they were such a pain in the arse. Never happened. It was the nice, clean polite kids who were sick all the time.

[chiller]

As you and many others know, crip...these antiobiotic soaps and dishwashing liquids are breeding stronger bacteria. We'll soon have grown a killer that modern medicine won't be able to stop.

I gave up the anti-bac soaps.