Researcher says pop eating is healthy

Study to prove positive effects of nose drilling

10/05/2013

The so-called popping is supposed to be healthy, at least that's what the researcher Professor Scott Napper of the University of Saskatchewan in Canada claims. He wants to do an exceptional study with his colleagues and support this claim. This not quite appetizing research is intended to prove that the drilling and subsequent consumption of nasal secretions is a natural process and thus represents an immune protection.

In cars at the traffic lights, many people feel unobserved and start drilling their noses. But that „pick smb.'s nose“ As the vernacular describes the removal of dried nasal mucous membrane, in the western and very large parts of the Far Eastern society is considered not immoral and unhygienic. Nevertheless, most people, as well as all people, also pop. The Canadian scientist Napper is convinced that the popeln has a positive effect and therefore is not to be demonized. „Indeed“, emphasizes the biochemist, „The mere removal of the dried secretions with his hands is not enough, you have to eat the booze afterwards“.

Popel eating stimulates the immune system
Not a pleasant idea for many. But: The boogers contain many viruses and bacteria, which should train our immune defense, according to the theory of the professor. Everything is ready for the study, only the subjects are missing. Whether many participants will actually register is still uncertain. Because for study, all participants should drill and pop in public perceptibly in the nose. In addition, the participants at the beginning of the study do not know whether they the „Popler“ are or come to the control group.

The study should by no means be a nonsense study, that's what the serious scientist insists. In his view, be „popping a naturally vaccinated against all sorts of pathogens“. In children it is „perfectly normal if they bore in the nose and eat the secretion“. He believes that one „natural urge“ behind it and people therefore also in the nose boring and eating Popel.

Snorting the secretions into a handkerchief deprives the body of the opportunity to perceive the natural immune protection and to form antibodies, Napper emphasizes. The study is now to confirm this thesis or just show that drilling the nose has no deeper meaning.

Already it is clear: unhealthy is the food of poppies not
But it is already clear that pollen is completely harmless. Although there is a small risk of injuring the nasal wall with your finger, more than a small nosebleed usually does not follow. To reduce the risk of inflammation, hands should be washed before flushing.

Actually, the nasal secretion should flow independently back into the throat. But if too much time passes by or the nose is exposed to particularly dry air, the secretion dries and the well-known boogers form. (Sb)

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