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[elhudy]

Auto immune diseases as a whole have increased over just the past 30 years; I'd speculate asthma is a part of this.

It will be interesting to see the driving environmental causalities behind these autoimmune disease increases if pollution is not a key variable.

[blaser-waffle → elhudy]

The immune system is a use-it-or-lose-it thing. Lots of healthy bodies mean the immune system has to go after something...

[elhudy → blaser-waffle]

yeah, like in my case... rolls dice....eggs

[cookingrobot → blaser-waffle]

Is that true? Would frequent vaccines help give the immune system something to do?