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Originally Posted by lady_express_44
When I first started researching MS, I found that it was a fairly new disease (except one isolated case from around the 1500's), and it dated back to the mid-1800's. I researched what changed then (industrial revolution), and discovered that it was called the "rich man's disease" back then because poor people never got it.
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Folks in Africa or India don't have as many allergies either. Allergies are essentially a rich man's disease also. One of the theories is that we are too clean with modern septic systems and sanitation and therefore our immune systems are bored and have nothing to react to so they start to react to harmless things like foods and pollens. The autoimmue diseases are one step up from that when your immune system starts to react to your body.