Originally Posted by
ZenOps
What do you think exposing yourself to virii does? It temporarily makes you weaker and you feel like crap for a month.
However, its arguably better than vaccines because as long as you come out of it ok, you have successfully fended off the live virus instead of fending off the dead virus. True strength only comes from knowing weakness is the other saying.
Its when people don't successfully fend off a virus when it becomes a problem, that and person to person transmissibility. But in a controlled environment, or in an environment where others have the option of immunization that it may become acceptable.
In Asian physical training, you smash your head against boards hundreds of times a day, until your body adjusts and eventually can break concrete. Nature has an amazing ability to overcome obstacles, but you must stress it. If you constantly remove the stresses (with anti-bacterial soaps) in the evolutionary long run it may be a very bad thing.
Crazy North Koreans... Uhhh wait a second.
Also: Any "stress training" done in such manner should only be done for those who are of child bearing ages. There is little to no point in stressing an elderly person as any resistances they build up in a lifetime will not be passed on to future generations.