Toddlers can eat their boogers - it should be healthy

Popeln promotes health
Everyone does it, no one is allowed to: Popeln. The food of dried nasal secretion health-promoting effects is said - and the highly scientific. Scientists at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found in their study that flounder and the subsequent consumption of nasal mucus can, among other things, lead to health benefits for our teeth. The physicians published the results of their study in the journal "Applied and Environmental Microbiology".

Should people drill more in the nose?
The consumption of solidified nasal mucus (poppy) is often observed in young children. However, there are also quite adults who drill in the nose when they feel unobserved. This type of behavior is considered disgusting and wrong in today's society. And exactly this view of the majority of all people seems to be wrong. According to researchers, we should all drill more in the nose and eat our poppy after the removal.

Popeln can protect our health. (Image: MAK / fotolia.com)

Health benefits of nasal cannulation are important for adolescent children
The reason for this peculiar recommendation is health benefits associated with consumption. This could be especially important for adolescent children, say the authors. The scientists found in their study that solidified nasal mucus contains so-called salivary mucins, which protect our teeth from harmful bacteria. Such bacteria usually cause cavities in our teeth, explain the experts.

Scientists are currently developing a synthetic nasal mucus
Researchers are now even busy developing a synthetic slime that may be contained in chewing gum or toothpaste in the future and also protects the teeth. There is also more and more evidence that the nasal mucus, for example, seems to protect against respiratory diseases and gastric ulcers, add the physicians.

Nose drilling is natural and makes perfect medical sense
Some experts even believe that nose-boring people are generally happier, healthier and more in tune with their bodies compared to other people. Nose drilling and later consumption of the dry remnants of nasal mucus is a great way to strengthen the immune system of our body. This behavior makes sense medically and is actually a completely natural process, explain the scientists.

Bacteria in the nasal mucus function in the gut like some kind of medicine
In terms of the immune system, the nose is a kind of filter in which many bacteria are accumulated, explain the researchers. When this mixture of bacteria then enters the intestine through consumption, they function as a kind of medicine.

Should parents now teach their children to drill in their noses?
Social stigmatization of the nose is wrong and should be stopped, say the experts. Actually, parents should even encourage their children to drill in their nostrils and consume the solidified nasal mucus, the researchers say. (As)