16 and me
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Most of the large families I know (6-12 kids) home-school their kids, and don't vax. They live rural lives, wear hand-me-downs, and live simple lives with minimal technology. With the odd exception, their kids have been and still are much healthier than the 1-2 child families I know who live the typical modern lifestyle. Our grandparents and great-grandparents would be tsk tsking us, for they really did know better.this reviews the hygiene hypothesis as of 2022
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/falgy.2022.1051368/full
spoiler: "Children from large families with farming exposure have approximately sixfold reduction in prevalence of hay fever, indicating the potential strength and epidemiological importance of these environmental determinants. During the 21st century, a wide range of specific microbial, environmental and lifestyle factors have been investigated as possible underlying mechanisms, but sadly none have emerged as robust explanations for the family size and farming effects."