Boogers - The truth

Have you ever taken a moment to reflect on the booger? Have you ever wondered what it was good for and why your nose will at times fill up with them? Let me inform you here and now that a booger plays a very important  role in the human body.

First, before it forms into the slimy or crumbly booger it is mucus. Mucus, as icky as it is, plays an important role in the body by protecting your lungs. When you breathe through your nose you inhale a lot of foreign matter such as dust and dirt, germs, bacteria, pollen and fumes. Your body makes an effort to protect your lungs from this pollution by filtering it or trapping it by the use of snot. If all these elements made it through to your lungs you might have trouble breathing or get an infection. However, once all that stuff gets trapped in your nose the mucus rushes to the rescue by surrounding it on all sides and your nose hair aide the mucus to move toward the front portion of your nose or the back of your throat. When all the elements and mucus all lump up together you then have your booger.

There is not a scientific name for boogers. A booger is a booger and there is no other name for it, however, the technical name for using your finger to extract boogers is rhinotillexis. Eating your boogers is called mucophagy.

Dr. Friedrich Bischinger, an Innsbruck-based lung specialist has said: "With the finger you can get to places you just can't reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner. And eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the body's immune system. Medically it makes great sense and is a perfectly natural thing to do. In terms of the immune system the nose is a filter in which a great deal of
bacteria are collected, and when this mixture arrives in the intestines it works just like a medicine. Modern medicine is constantly trying to do the same thing through far more complicated methods, people who pick their nose and eat it get a natural boost to their immune system for free."

Dr. Bischinger also states that a person who happily booger picks without reservation is a healthy, happy person who is very in tune with their body. He says society should embrace nose-picking and encourage children  who happily pick their noses be encouraged to continue. He states that by the time children become adults they have stopped nose picking due to pressures from a society that has branded it disgusting and anti-social. Dr. Bischinger states that is a completely natural response and medically a good idea as well," he said News Source: Ananova
Of course, contrary to how Dr. Bischinger feels about happily nose picking, the other side would say that boogers should be blown out with a clean tissue to prevent getting more germs inside the nose cavity or cause it to bleed when digging around in it to free up boogers. 

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