I was reading this newsweek article about bugs in our gut, & how every person has different amount of helpful organisms in our bodies. I wondered if just the way industrialization & the use of chemicals is causing entire species to become extinct - perhaps the new chemicals in foods, trace amounts of pesticides, heavy metals etc are causing the eco-system inside our bodies to change, & perhaps some of the friendly organisms arent able to thrive.. Perhaps that is one of the causes of increased disease in the world?
Update: Found an older article in Newsweek that talks about pretty much the same (albeit from a medical angle). Very interesting. I've often wondered how come people in developing countries are much more healthy than those in first world countries, despite the lack of proper sanitation / attention to hygeine. This article gives some basis to my hunch.
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Don't you think extinction is a natural phenomenon. Nature is far more supiror than the human race and no matter how hard we try to destory it mother nature has her own way of protecting the earth. It's time for the Human species to go - it's too much for the earth to handle. We are smart enough to deal with the various viruses that nature created to remove us but now it's playing it harder. Just Imagine AIDS - it destroys your immune system so that you can get effected by even common cold and it spreads when we procreate so that it's instant death for the human race. Similarly your theory of extincttion inside our body is also part of the same equation.
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