#hygienehypothesis — Public Fediverse posts

Hands-up whose heard of the #HygieneHypothesis ?

This #PNAS piece suggests that the concept needs to be radically revised in the public consciousness as it's misleadingly named:

"Various research teams have proposed alternate names: microbiome depletion hypothesis, the microbial diversity hypothesis, and, of course, the old friends hypothesis."

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1700688114

@shawrd773

(I always wanted to write something about how #demography could help to disentangle these two different versions of, very broadly, the #HygieneHypothesis, but I’m sure that moment in #microbiome science has passed, if it was ever actually here)