{"id":14296,"date":"2012-03-26T10:13:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T15:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14296"},"modified":"2012-09-10T14:55:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T19:55:22","slug":"ive-thought-this-might-be-the-case-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/03\/26\/ive-thought-this-might-be-the-case-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve thought this might be the case for years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s nice to find that the science seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/the-scientist.com\/2012\/03\/22\/let-them-eat-dirt\/\" target=\"_blank\">pointing in the same direction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s okay to let your toddler lick the swing set and kiss the dog. A new mouse study suggests early exposure to microbes is essential for normal immune development, supporting the so-called \u201chygiene hypothesis\u201d which states that lack of such exposure leads to an increased risk of autoimmune diseases. Specifically, the study found that early-life microbe exposure decreases the number of inflammatory immune cells in the lungs and colon, lowering susceptibility to asthma and inflammatory bowel diseases later in life.<\/p>\n<p>The finding, published today (March 21) in <em>Science<\/em>, may help explain why there has been a rise in autoimmune diseases in sterile, antibiotic-saturated developed countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been many clues that environmental factors, particularly microbiota, play a role in disease risk, but there\u2019s very little information about when it\u2019s critical for that exposure to take place,\u201d said Jonathan Braun, chair of pathology and laboratory medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was not involved in the research. \u201cThis is one of the most compelling observations to pin down that time frame.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s nice to find that the science seems to be pointing in the same direction: Maybe it\u2019s okay to let your toddler lick the swing set and kiss the dog. A new mouse study suggests early exposure to microbes is essential for normal immune development, supporting the so-called \u201chygiene hypothesis\u201d which states that lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66,16],"tags":[374,846,375],"class_list":["post-14296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-health-science","category-science","tag-children","tag-hygienehypothesis","tag-parents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3IA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16882,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions\/16882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}