Germophobia May Make You Sick

I always say that the only place where one needs to be super-vigilant about microbes, unless one is immunocompromised, is in a hospital setting. Otherwise we are not doing ourselves any favors by not allowing our immune systems to become stronger by fighting off microbes that we encounter on a daily basis. There is a theory that this may be part of why so many children have asthma these days. Their immune systems have never been allowed to grow strong. Of course there are many other possible reasons for the rise in childhood asthma, such as the number of chemicals in the environment and even exposure to food additives such as MSG, which are deemed harmless but are actually anything but.