The exotoxin mystery
Hello there, Recently I've been preoccupied with the following question: Why do human bacteria produce exotoxins?! After all, if they are lingering happily with the nutrients at the site of infection, why harm the organism that harbors them?! Credit: Wikimedia Commons . What struck me even more is that I haven't asked such a simple and rather primitive question earlier! why do bacteria produce exotoxins? " did not do so because they subconsciously think that "bacteria are bad, so it's natural that they harm us!" . And after a moment of thought, I started to realize that this stems from our human tendency to polarize things and to take things to the extremes, being content with the simplest explanations that satisfy our child-like brains. People are either good or bad! This all-or-none mentality has been engraved into us from our early childhood, as a natural biological safety measure. As children, many of us saw our parents as the ultim...