Okay my weak-stomached friends, it’s about to get gross in here, so now’s your chance to look away. Do it. I mean it. Look away now.
Everyone else, I have some super grotty news: a study published in the journal for the American Society for Microbiology has found that picking your nose and eating it is probably really good for you.
According to the Telegraph, snot is such a cure-all that it prevents bacteria from sticking to your teeth, as well as boosting your immune system and possibly preventing respiratory infections and stomach ulcers.
In fact, boogers are apparently so good at protecting your teeth that some researchers are trying to develop a synthetic mucus toothpaste.
Co-author of the study, Dr Scott Napper of the University of Saskatchewan, told the Telegraph:
“Nature pushes us to do different things because it is to our advantage to have certain behaviours.“So maybe when you have an urge to pick your nose and eat it, you should just go with nature.”
Another contributor to the study, Professor Friedrich Bischinger, is to blame for possibly the worst sentence ever committed to print:
“Eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the body’s immune system.”
Look, if you must pick a winner and then devour it, go ahead, I guess. But for the sake of all that is good, holy and clean, keep it private – lest you end up immortalised in the halls of infamy otherwise known as Online:
Fucken’ yuck.
Source: The Telegraph.
Image: Seinfeld.
