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		kamaal on Sept 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘Uncontacted’ Amazon Tribe Members Are Reported Ki... Source is thousands of years of human civilization before the industrial revolution. We weren't always taking asthma inhalers from Walgreen for the several thousands of years of our existence on this planet.

azernik on Sept 11, 2017 [–]

That's a specifically auto-immune issue, which has more to do with growing up in a mostly-sterile environment than with the loss of any ancient medical knowledge.

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