I am not anything close to an ecologist or a biologist so this question may be really dumb. But I know that water is essential. It is used in many important bodily processes and we would die without it very quickly.
So my question is, how did so many generations of humans survive without the water purification standards that we have today?
Is there a reasonable amount of dirt, toxins, bacteria, etc… that can be in water and it won’t make us sick?
I also know people have boiled water for a very long time but didn’t we only discover bacteria and viruses in the lasts several hundred years? Did people know that boiling water would purify it?
Also am I wrong for thinking that most water in nature is dangerous to drink?
Hopefully these questions make sense.
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We now live in a sterilized world, everything has to be “sanitized for your protection”, every mom carries hand sanitizer and Clorox wipes.
Kids don’t play in the dirt anymore or eat wild raspberries. Every scraped knee is immediately cleaned and bandaged.
This is terrible for us, it kills the natural bacteria on our skin that forms a protective layer, it kills the gut biome that fights off and kills the parasites in the water.
This has been scientifically proven, yes we need to be clean, but we do not want to be sterile.
Play in the dirt. Your kids scrapes a knee let it bleed and crust over, clean it later when they bathe.
Leave the hand sanitizer in the bag at the petting zoo.
It’s okay to eat with unwashed hands.
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