THX for sharing.

Today, it's practically illegal to let your kids play outside, walk to/from school or anywhere else, etc. Instead, your kid is pretty much cocooned in an SUV their entire childhood. As a result, their immune system is crippled for the rest of their lives.

wandering through the forests, bathing in the little streams that probably came from some pasture far up the hill.

In the summer playing in the creek that ran through it.
In the winter sledding in it, and some of those sled runs included shortcuts through cow pies !

My immune system has held out for a long time now.

for children. Doctors could not find out what was wrong with a young girl who had all sorts of health issues. Her mother found a testing site that showed her what was wrong, and how to go about healing it.
(found it. it is in the health forum. Titled "doctors couldn't help".)


To all of it I want to say NSS. Just now figuring this out?

Too bad this country will never emulate it.

Get the kids outside to play and skin their knees. Play in the sand or dirt with others. If in a very urban environment, buy some dirt and set up flowerpots in the window--and be sure that the kids play in the dirt. Let them go to the park and be dirty, assuming it's not a paved-over park. Eat without washing their hands. Avoid hand sanitizer. Don't coddle them--learn to resolve small problems so they have the skills to scale them up to larger problems.

Kids are anti-fragile. Unless something does serious damage, it's likely to spur resilience.

For people who get sunlight exposure that's not related to vitamin D production. Not such excessive sunlight exposure as to cause skin cancer but more than an average urban adult gets today.

It seems to provide some kind of cardiovascular benefits beyond just vitamin D.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130507195807.htm#:~:text=a%20study%20suggests.-,Exposing%20skin%20to%20sunlight%20may%20help%20to%20reduce%20blood%20pressure,that%20helps%20lower%20blood%20pressure.

"Exposing skin to sunlight may help to reduce blood pressure, cut the risk of heart attack and stroke - and even prolong life, a study suggests. Researchers have shown that when our skin is exposed to the sun's rays, a compound is released in our blood vessels that helps lower blood pressure"