How after thousands of years without shampoo and soap, we survived, and now we can’t even think in a life without it?

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I just don’t get it, I was trying to not use shampoo or use less of it, but when I train I really need it the same with soap, I don’t understand how our ancestors clean themselves without chemicals that now we have, and I don’t know if it’s a thing like washing your teeth that actually increase your life expectations.

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You’re right. Even in medicine before the general use of soap, doctors pushed back against it because they didn’t want to think that they themselves were infecting patients with contagions on their own hands.

The simple truth is that before hygiene people died. If you go backwards in time, cause of death has changed drastically from acute, infectious disease (eg-cholera) to chronic, lifestyle disease (eg-heart disease).

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