My intuitive insights about microbiome

[EugeneTheSage]

• Pharaons believed to take sand baths [could be false]
• Indian swami's orange robes has their color because the Swami regularly were rubbing their clothes with special sort of land
• Farmers cover land around trees with hay+compost which increases number of bacteria in soil around trees [I think that is a real practice, at least my grandma was doing so]
• Sadhguru said that there is great benefits of exposing yourself to earth. He says that wearing ?, having double-deck beds, having multi-storey buildings, pavements disconnects us from our innate default karma which comes from earth. I believe he said that you can reset your physical karma by laying on earth for a long time (citation needed, I may mistaken). He says that you can achieve great benefits by doing the following:
• Recent time I have trouble washing, because I have electric boiler in home while Russia seriously damaged Ukrainian electric infrastructure, so I usually wash once per 4 days, once a week - and I feel terrible.
• I've had a accident when I've dirtied my hands with shit and the closest tap water crane was 1 kilometer away, so I wiped hands with grass and immersed my hand in sand - I had intuition that I'd "fix" the microbiome on my hands

What do you guys and girls think about my insights? Do you share or oppose them? Remember they are not derived by scientific method, but just by paying attention and making connections between some dots.

If they make sense what do you think are ways to improve your microbiome (not only gut) at autum and winter? I wouldn't be able to dig a hole in earth as Sadhguru had said, but maybe eating clay, do some dirt-wrapping procedure. Maybe I'll manage to lay on earth on leaves if there would be a good weather.

[Yarco]

There's some science to back it up

Gardening and just getting your hands in the soil is shown to help depression and lower stress, because of beneficial bacteria in the soil.

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Previous studies demonstrate that Mycobacterium vaccae NCTC 11659 (M. vaccae), a soil-derived bacterium with anti-inflammatory and immunoregulatory properties, is a potentially useful countermeasure against negative outcomes to stressors.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2020.524833/full

Mycobacterium vaccae is one of the top contenders. Found naturally in soil and cow poop.

It's closely related to the virus that causes tuberculosis. I'd venture to guess there's some kind of yin-yang thing going on in nature, and pretty much a 1:1 ratio of beneficial bacteria and virus for every harmful one.

A living soil is one that's full of bacteria and fungi. Plants grow better and develop symbiotic relationships with organisms that live in the soil. Wouldn't be a far stretch to say that humans would get some kind of similar benefit by being more in touch with the soil.