Surprising Reason Why Western Children Are Not As Healthy As You Think They Should Be

Children having autoimmune disorder, may have issue eating anything with gluten, affected with celiac disease, getting allergies for some reason. This is the problem with many of the Western children nowadays.

The Business Insider had an article about it. It went to explain that back in the 1980's scientists has been looking for the culprit of this unexplainable diseases children get even when they are living in a clean environment.  Now they have this hypothesis regarding hygiene.

They call it the hygiene hypothesis. Scientists have steadily observed that living in a place too clean for us can impede or weaken our immune system. Simple things like gluten and peanut will not have the power to cause us allergies if we've been exposed to good bacteria around our surrounding areas.

But of course, trying to be obsessed about cleanliness is not the only cause for a weak immune system. Researchers have teamed up to examine the gut of infants living in places this includes Finland, Estonia and Russia. Finland being the most wealthy and modern and Russia being the poorest.

These 222 babies, were taken some stool samples from them for three years of study. It was found out that Finnish children are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those living in the other two countries.

What made the difference? It was not about breastfeeding or their diet. It was the environmental factors in the children's microbiomes that can only be explained by the lifestyle choices their parents had for each of their family. Russian children who drink untreated water are exposed to pathogens that have microbes helpful to their health as compared to Finnish children.

According to the New York Times. If we would like to prevent autoimmune disorders, we have to get used to a dirtier world. This way we can give others a guide regarding the postmodern immune system suitable to our modern day living.