Don’t live too clean, share a bit of microbiome and share a bit of dirt
If I wanted to have a really healthy, disease free life and neither wanted to die of nasty viral infection
nor having an over active immune response, an auto immune disease or one of these things
like arthritis or multiple sclerosis or something, first thing I would do is choose my parents really, really carefully
and have really brilliant genetics
because although we learn from twins that some parts of the immune response are very inherited and some parts aren’t
when people did studies in the olden days on twins and twins that had been separated, people love researching twins…gold dust..
Guinea pigs!
They found that one of biggest markers for what you were going to die of was what your parents died of if they died young,
whether or not you were living with them and the biggest one of those
was dying of infectious disease so you want to have really good immune response genes before you start.
Well we are absolutely screwed, yeah everybody died young in our family, live fast die young.
Ok well then let’s move on from there.
So once you have dealt with your genes you need to have a really good environment
and you are looking at your eternal environment, your microbiome.
So when we are talking about microbiome we are talking about quality and quantity,
you want it to be as diverse as possible but also want the right kind of bacteria in there,
the kind that do good stuff for you not give you diseases, so probably the best thing you could do is…
either be or be like or marry a young Amami Amazonian Indian,
Yes!
They are one of these people who you find in the Amazon jungle around Venezuela
who haven’t really had contact with modern people or westerners for certainly the last 11 000 years,
so live essentially an unchanged life as hunter gatherers.
So they have a much more diverse diet than we have, much more roughage and nuts and berries and things
and they have the most stupendous microbiomes so either live like one or marry one.
The only other thing I can offer is don’t live too clean, so share a bit of dirt, that’s also helpful.
Hug
Yeah, hug! - Eat the food off the floor
Oh good.
