I watched a documentary some time back about some Indonesian Islands. Among the wildlife there were these Komodo Dragons, freaking big Lizards, six to ten feet in length.
The image I can remember is of a pair of these animals feasting on the carcass of a large Tortoise. The Tortoise had decomposed to the point where its innards had converted to a gooey black slime.
Probably a teaspoon of this stuff would be enough to make a person extremely sick, if not dead.
But these Komodos were slurping it up like it was chocolate syrup. All species have adapted their immune systems to meet their needs.
My point is that Bacteria is not a bad thing. Our levels of immunity determine which bacteria is benign and what is harmful.
If you took minute amounts of this black slime and gradually increased the amounts over time, I am pretty sure even a human being would be able to digest it.
Your immune system is like your muscles, you have to use them to make use of them. Yet their are housekeepers at war with germs in their kitchens and bathrooms and doorknobs, trying to kill them where ever we are told they might reside.
There is a lot of fear mongering about germs lately, we are told we have to wash our hands many, many times a day, there have been recently many recalls of meats and vegetable due to isolated outbreaks of nasty Germs.
All this paranoia about Germs is going to kill us! Most people know that if you try to but don't kill all the germs or viruses in an outbreak that only the strongest germs will survive. And that's a bad scenario.
So what I am saying is, let's not try and kill the germs, let's learn to live with them. Exposing ourselves to germs and viruses regularly will keep our immune systems running at peak efficiency.
We'll never kill all the pathogens, so why even try? The frequency of immune system related diseases is growing at a remarkable rate. One reason may be that we are trying to be too darn clean.
