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Keepongoing · Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Location: Korea

found this on another forum and thought it was interesting

The more you protect yourself from dust, dirt, etc., etc., the body looses its ability to fight them when you're all of a sudden one day exposed to it.

The more you drink bottled water all the time, and one day when you eat some salad at some place washed in tap water, you're done.

The more clean you are , the more prone to diseases when you're exposed to them, because your body has no training to fight it (not storing up enough antibodies).

Taking shots such as flu, pneumonia etc., does the job of building an immune system. TEchnically you're taking in the bateria or viruses that cause them in ample dosage, so that your body is ready for the next attack.

To tolerate what you have to avoid, first of all you need to consume or be exposed to them little at a time. This helps building natural immunity.

I specially drink tap water once every day. If you're not used to it, you might get sick once or twice, but once you build your immunity you won't get sick anymore with tap water.

If you try to be one with nature, you will never have any of these problems.

Most of us either stay indoors all the time and then move around in the car and then into our office doors. Not much time we spent in the nature. And then one day you become allergic to pollen, because your body lost track of how to deal with it and now thinks its an enemy.

The best option is go to a third world country and stay in a middle class area for a year, and you will have immunity that will last for about 4 years. I tried it myself I even asked my friends to sneeze on my face and for about 4 years I didn't even get a cold.

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VanIslander · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject:

That which does not kill us makes us stronger
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babtangee · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: Re: Having a strong immune system

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JMO · Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Location: Daegu

I think you are taking a premise(a little of something bad can make you immune to alot of it) and applying it way too widely. I'm not sure you are correct about some of your examples also.

I'm allergic to pollen(i get pretty extreme hayfever) but I grew up on a farm and worked on golf courses(and played golf, soccer, gaelic football) all my life. I just had to take a pill every day of the summer in Ireland. By your logic I should be able to stick flowers in my eyes by this point and be cool.