Do you think that sterilizing your skin will improve health?
Everyone has loads of bacteria all over them, the vast majority of which are completely benign. AIUI, there's a little ecology there, with all of them competing to survive.
So if you kill them all by sterilizing your whole surface, you create an opportunity for the bad bacteria to gain the initiative and take over the ecosystem when the benign stuff can't fight back as well. The end result, then, could be that where you'd had just a few of the bad guys, you're now covered with them.
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Do you think that sterilizing your skin will improve health?
Everyone has loads of bacteria all over them, the vast majority of which are completely benign. AIUI, there's a little ecology there, with all of them competing to survive.
So if you kill them all by sterilizing your whole surface, you create an opportunity for the bad bacteria to gain the initiative and take over the ecosystem when the benign stuff can't fight back as well. The end result, then, could be that where you'd had just a few of the bad guys, you're now covered with them.