Should You Really Wash Your Hands?

What do we really mean when we say that we’re clean?
Check out Melissa’s video at Clean My Space! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKO2gFWzxqU
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The concept of hygiene and the human microbiome:
https://biobe.uoregon.edu/2017/01/11/the-concept-of-hygiene-and-the-human-microbiome/#.WPk21VKZMUE

Time to abandon the hygiene hypothesis: New perspectives on allergic disease, the human microbiome, infectious disease prevention and the role of targeted hygiene:
http://www.grahamrook.net/resources/Bloomfield_obsolete-terminology_16.pdf

The Scientist: Microbes of the Skin:
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/40228/title/Microbes-of-the-Skin/

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Host, Writer, Producer, Editor
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