In the immediate pursuit of a healthy life, the concept of “antibacterial” is ubiquitous, from antibacterial hand-washing fluids, antibacterial clothing to antibacterial home supplies, as if it were to create an antibacterial environment that would protect health. Many even believe that the human body has long been in this antibacterial environment, and that its own immunity will become as powerful as it has received “special training” and that it is wrong.
The environment created by antibacterial products was originally designed to reduce the growth and exposure of harmful pathogens. For example, antibacterial hand-washing fluids can be effective in removing common pathogenic microbes such as coli and golden grapes from hands and in reducing the risk of hand-borne disease; antibacterial home-based materials can inhibit fungus, bacteria reproduce on walls and floors and maintain interior cleaning. At first glance, the disease “disturbs” is missing, and the body should grow and become immune “in the air”.
However, reality is the opposite. The human immune system is a fine and complex “defensive machine” that requires appropriate “exercise” in order to maintain its optimal state, and the bacteria happen to be an indispensable “collaboration”. Long-term exposure to anti-bacterial environments, exposure to bacteria has been significantly reduced, and the immune system, like being “inactivity”, has gradually deteriorated in its ability to identify and respond to bacteria. For example, an army that has long passed the sand, without fighting for many years, will inevitably decline its combat skills and speed of reaction. When occasionally exposed to bacteria, such as going to public places or travelling, the body is caught short of hand, is highly vulnerable to diseases, ranging from common influenza to epidemic infectious diseases, and can take advantage of them.
Moreover, anti-bacterial environments are often unable to accurately combat harmful bacteria. The extensive use of anti-bacterial products may “wrongly hurt” beneficial microbial communities, in particular in the human body and in the intestinal environment. Prophyxia in the intestinal tract, which helps to digest foods, synthetic vitamins and stimulates the development of the immune system, are useful. Excessive antibacterial resistance breaks this balance, and the number of beneficial bacteria is reduced, giving the fungus a chance to take advantage of it, thus affecting the overall health, and the immunity is also “stable” in the tumultuousness of the strain.
In addition, psychological insinuations resulting from long-term reliance on antibacterial products have a negative effect. People mistakenly assume that they have an anti-bacterial “patronage” to ease the stringent requirements for their own hygiene. The hand-washing is superficial, without attention to personal protection in public, and the underlying health line is relaxed, making it easier for the disease to break through human defence.
If we are to truly improve our immunity, we must not seek an antibacterial environment. First, moderate access to the natural environment is essential. Having children play in the soil outside the house, being close to the grass trees, and being exposed to the naturally occurring micro-organisms can stimulate the development of the immune system, although clean-up measures such as washing hands after playing cannot be reduced.
Second, to maintain a healthy lifestyle. A balanced diet, ingestion of vegetables and vegetables, whole grains, high-quality proteins, and provision of adequate “ammunition” to the immune system; regular routines, guaranteed 7 – 8 hours of sleep every night, to enable the body to recover and enhance its immune function during rest; moderate exercise, aerobics at least three times a week, to promote blood circulation, and “patrol” the whole body of the assisted immune cell.
Finally, anti-bacterial products are properly viewed as auxiliary rather than dominant. When necessary, special facilities such as hospitals, kitchens, etc. are used in a rational manner, and day-to-day attention is paid to basic hygiene, hand-washing, regular cleaning of rooms, and life details for immunisation.
Long-term human exposure to anti-bacterial environments does not only increase immunity, but is ingrained in many crises. Only by breaking out of the “anti-bacterial-first” shackles and following the path of scientific health will the body’s immunity be truly strong and able to cope with the challenges of the disease in life. Don’t be misled and start the right journey to protect health.
