Besides the obvious issue of junk science as a marketing tool, we need to be cautious of the dangers inherent with avoiding ALL microbes. In order to have a healthy immune system, the involved systems need PRACTICE. If you think like a sick person--you will become one. Of course, if your immune sys...

The study was paid for by them, but referenced many other studies and also replicated the other studies at the beginning of it's own work. The point of injecting bacteria into the water was simply to have a controlled known amount of bacteria, which is normal procedure for such a study. The results ...

Well, darn, you beat me, I was about to post a reference to the same study. I see these posts about "what makes sense" all the time and I find it concerning. What makes sense and what is true are often at odds. What makes sense is often anecdotal, meaning personal or untested experience. It is TRUE ...