Sunday, July 27, 2025

Amish Kids Almost Never Get Allergies

and Scientists Finally Know Why How Amish barns could hold the secret to preventing the onset of allergies.

Posted by Corky at 08:33 PM | 21 COMMENTS | permalink

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Allergies seem nearly impossible to avoid -- unless you're Amish In fact, an Amish community in northern Indiana is considered one of the least-allergic populations ever measured in the developed world. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/ ...

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"Moreover, "generally, across the country, about 8 to 10 percent of kids have asthma. In the Amish kids, it's probably 1 to 2 percent.

A few of them do have allergies, but at much, much lower rates compared to the general population," Carole Ober, an expert on human genetics from the University of Chicago, told The Washington Post.

These numbers are so incredible that scientists are now digging deep into Amish barns and homes to understand how these children are being protected. They believe that their findings could lead to treatments that prevent allergies altogether."

"Ahh-chooo!"

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-27 05:05 PM

It's the foods we consume.

The typical diet of the average American is full of forever chemicals, preservatives, sugar and microplastics.

Our bodies aren't meant to process these things and the results are apparent.

It's effecting hormone balance in the brain and being passed on from mother to child.

But at least now our food comes in neon colors and can last forever.

Huzzah!!!

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-27 05:15 PM

This is difficult to prove. They certainly don't get diagnosed with such things because they never go to the doctor.

#3 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-27 05:18 PM

Maybe it's the lack of vaccinations?

Is that where this was supposed to go?

#4 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-27 05:20 PM

Yea. I'm pretty sure it's an anti vax thread.

Ever since Covid, the anti vax movement in America has become a republican movement.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-27 05:22 PM

Meaning. It use to be some fringe groups in both parties.

But now it's RFKJr and the Republican Party.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-27 05:23 PM

I live between the two oldest settlements of Amish in Kansas. You rarely see them going out like the English (none Amish) people. They usually go to Aldi's and Walmart if you do. Of course the Barn thing does help.

#7 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-07-27 05:29 PM

- forever chemicals, preservatives, sugar and microplastics.

aka, "What's for dinner?".

Go Low processed Foods

www.healthline.com

Brown rice, black beans, and guacamole; my go to meal that a person could actually live on eating nothing else.... which I ain't doin', but still good to know for when ICE mistakes me for Geraldo Rivera.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-27 05:32 PM

It's so much easier to buy fast food or open a bag of frozen whatnots and throw it in the air fryer for 10 minutes than to cook a meal.

Our lives have become all about convenience.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-27 05:38 PM

#7

I saw so many Amish when I was traveling year before last around the southeastern part of the Great Lakes.

One picture that still sticks with me is the Amish farmer in full overalls and hat standing like a charioteer with a whip and 4 horses on a plow that was really like a big piece of decking on top of the claw thingies.

He was right up near the small backroad which curved right by his farm... but there was no place to stop for a pic. It was so cool thought he looked like Amish Ben Hur.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-27 05:39 PM

When I was in 8th grade, junior high school, the school took us on a trip out to the east coast to visit historic monuments in DC and Pennsylvania.

We stopped in an Amish town and ate there.

I remember it being the best food we had on the trip.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-27 05:45 PM

I have no known allergies.

I sometimes have wondered if the reason for that is that my parents, when I was a kid, allowed me to spend a lot of time in the local woods, digging in the dirt with my bare hands, etc.

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-27 06:08 PM

The hygiene hypothesis.

Work in this has been ongoing for years.

The flip side is that we tend to live in overly clean homes/environments.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-27 06:08 PM

@#13 ... The hygiene hypothesis. ...

Yup. I had heard of that, which led to my wondering about my visits to the woods back in the day.

Good to see research seems to be continuing on this matter.


#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-27 06:55 PM

@#13 ... The flip side is that we tend to live in overly clean homes/environments. ...

And, fwiw, I do not remove my shoes when I enter my house.

I recently read an article that seemed all but hysterical about all the germs that one tracks into your house if you do not remove your shoes when you enter. Especially if you were crazy enough to walk on your lawn before entering your house.


#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-27 06:58 PM

I've chewed my fingernails all my life. Had asthma early on, grew out of it before 1st grade. Not allergic to anything I know of. Strong immune system. Rarely get sick.

#16 | Posted by et_al at 2025-07-27 08:11 PM

Modern life is awash in chemical toxins.

Amish don't live a very modern life.

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-27 08:13 PM

@#17 ... Modern life is awash in chemical toxins.

Amish don't live a very modern life. ...

Yup.

There is that aspect also.

But not likely applicable to me, as growing up in NYC, you may say that I was also awash in chemical toxins.

That aside, given my experience, my main hope at this point is that the research continues.

imo, there may be something here. Or not.

#18 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-27 09:16 PM

You're a sample size of one, so, not something you can draw any conclusions from.

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-27 09:20 PM

@#19 ... You're a sample size of one, so, not something you can draw any conclusions from. ...

I agree.

Which is why I want this research to continue.

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-27 09:41 PM

The real question is how do they survive drinking non-homogenized and non-pasteurized milk?

And their butter.. I buy it by the block, it must have some kind of.. magic?

#21 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-07-27 11:14 PM

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