Hygiene Hypothesis? Growing Up On A Farm Halves The Risk Of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

If you grew up on a farm, you may have gotten sick lots of times due to exposure to any number of microorgansms. You might not remember getting sick more then, but a new study finds you are less likely to have chronic maladies as an adult. New research conducted at Aarhus University finds that people who have grown up on a farm with livestock are only half as likely as urban counterparts to develop the most common inflammatory bowel diseases: ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease.    read more

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