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This is a dangerous (and common) misconception about the immune system.
It's a misconception that the immune system builds future resistance from past infections?
Most of your immune system training occurs in the stomach where, predictably, an absolutely enormous amount of foreign matter enters your body. This is standard medical teaching.
Then shouldn't we just eat diseases to build immunity?
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