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I would like to read more about this. Could you point me along the way?
Recently, it’s been suggested that autoimmune disorders are the result of our bodies overreacting as an adaptation to parasites that produced immunosuppressants. Achieve a high enough parasitic load and you’re effectively immunocompromised and soon dead, unless your immune system started out turned up to 11 and dipped down to a natural level with a heavy dose of immunosuppressants via contemporaneously common parasites. That’s the gist, here’s the wiki link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy
Soooo... Go get yourself infected with some of the less-deadly parasites and then eat all the bread? Just be sure to avoid brain worms.
Not exactly an ideal situation either way, but that’s it. Fundamentally, figuring out a way to regulate overzealous immune systems is the ends. This is one means, based in our evolutionary history, maybe. That’s about as far as we’ve come on this thread