I've often wondered....

if my own OCD/germophobe-cocktail condition is actually setting me up to catch some superbug or illness.

Especially kids growing up today who have parents who sanitize anything and everything.

'But here is the problem: We have become victims of our own success. Ever wonder why your dog can gobble, lick, and gnaw all he wants along the glorious buffet of a city street and (almost) never get sick? Your dog is used to eating sh*t. Americans, on the other hand, grow up eating almost no sh*t at all.

Our food is hosed and boiled and rinsed and detoxified and frozen and salted and preserved. Recently, we have begun to irradiate it, too—just in case. As a result, when our bodies encounter the occasional inevitable bug, they're unhappy. Our centuries-long program of winnowing out all the muck has turned us into sissies and withered the substantial part of the immune system mediated by our intestinal tract.'

Why Americans should ingest more excrement.