Moises Velasquez-Manoff

Ever wonder why your kid's class has at least one or two kids with a severe food allergy and you remember none in your school room growing up? Ever buy that prescription for Claretin and wonder why your allergies seem worse than ever before? If you or a family member suffer from allergies, asthma, or an autoimmune disorder such as Chron's, then I highly recommend this book to learn about the latest research. The author wraps up the latest studies with his own personal story battling allergies and a quest for a cure involving parasites. Yes, parasites. Seriously. When I began reading I wondered if I had perhaps picked up a book by a whacko, but Velasquez-Manoff backs everything up. It is perhaps that we have so throughly cleaned our environment of microbes and other critters that we have evolved to live with that could be our undoing.

Now go eat some dirt.
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Our health depends on microorganisms in our gut and other parts of our body. The more this culture kills our inner ecosystems, the sicker we get. Our immune system needs the experience of maintaining an inner microorganism balance. It needs to encounter harmful organisms. It needs diversity. The culture we live in kills microorganisms, from city-living to antibiotics, to too much soap, and too much sterile food, it all harms us. A well-researched book that clearly shows the relationship to modern sterile living and the decline of our inner ecosystems. The less diverse our inner ecosystems are the more we have allergies, auto-immune issues, autism, and asthma. There is also a relationship between declining worldwide biodiversity and the biodiversity of our inner microcosms. If we want to be healthy, we must stop the ongoing killing of life on Earth.… (mehr)