Natural hygiene
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Natural Hygiene can refer to:
- a school of medical thought also named orthopathyOrthopathyOrthopathy or natural hygiene is an alternative medicine originating from the nature cure movement. It is a form of vitalism that considers self-healing the best and only cure for disease, and favours fasting as restorative and favours dietary and other lifestyle measures as preventative...
, founded by Herbert Shelton - naturopathy
- a reference to the hygiene hypothesisHygiene hypothesisIn medicine, the Hygiene Hypothesis states that a lack of early childhood exposure to infectious agents, symbiotic microorganisms , and parasites increases susceptibility to allergic diseases by suppressing natural development of the immune system...