RE: Re: paradox of parasites - health-promoting parasites

[Guest guest]

>> questioned the (seemingly obsessive) need to pretty much sterilize

everything to keep it free of parasites. I've always believed that a

great deal of these critters live in harmony with us and are what

keeps us healthy. <<

I agree. It's like yeast: we all have it everywhere in our bodies, but a

healthy host body won't have health problems from yeast, whereas someone

with compromised health will be overrun by it and further debilitated. I

suspect it's the same for parasites, like the mange mites in my eyebrows

(yuck!), usually there but unnoticed until the health reaches a certain

low when they begin to overpopulate and cause the health to deteriorate

further in a downward cycle. I also suspect that's what was meant by

whoever said healthy animals don't have parasites.

~ Carma ~

To be perpetually talking sense runs out the mind, as perpetually

ploughing and taking crops runs out the land. The mind must be manured,

and nonsense is very good for the purpose. ~ Boswell

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