10 Healthy Habits To Make Your Immune System Stronger
10. Get Your Hands Dirty
Planting a garden without gloves is possible. To put it another way, get your hands dirty in the dirt.
You may recall the “hygiene hypothesis,” which was proposed in the 1980s and 1990s by researchers who linked the rise in allergies and other immune system disorders to an increasingly sanitized modern world with limited exposure to environmental microbes.
Human studies comparing farming communities using hand tools to those using modern, mechanized equipment found that farm families who literally got their hands dirty suffered from fewer allergies.
