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A review by holly_keimig
An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases by Moises Velasquez-Manoff
4.0
50 Book Reading Challenge 2015: A book that scares you
This was SO good! As someone who has had allergies my whole life, this made a lot of things clearer for me. The author delves into the hygiene hypothesis a bit deeper and shows that losing our parasites and other organisms that can potentially harm us, may have harmed us in different ways by creating autoimmune disorders and allergies. Worm therapy might be a very real possibility in the future. Anyone interested in autoimmune disorders and allergies should read this book! Highly recommend. :)
This was SO good! As someone who has had allergies my whole life, this made a lot of things clearer for me. The author delves into the hygiene hypothesis a bit deeper and shows that losing our parasites and other organisms that can potentially harm us, may have harmed us in different ways by creating autoimmune disorders and allergies. Worm therapy might be a very real possibility in the future. Anyone interested in autoimmune disorders and allergies should read this book! Highly recommend. :)