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Originally Posted by HeartsOfFire
Want a surefire way to boost up your immune system?
Pick your nose, and eat it. No word of a lie. Discreetly, of course. No one wants to SEE you do it.
The hairs in your nose act as a sort of natural air filter as well as pheromone processors. Viruses and bacteria collect on these hairs, and then get absorbed into the mucous that forms on them over the course of the day. Absorbed, trapped, and defenseless. Through ingestion, they are then introduced into the body in a safe, unintrusive manner where your immune system will have no trouble overwhelming, destroying, and developing an immunity to that particular strain/mutation of ailment.
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Sounds dubious. Wouldn't stomach acid anihilate the virus and bacteria? Don't we all swallow phlegm all the time anyway?
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...g2.html?cat=51
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...6091321AA8Pnzg
http://straightuptruth.blogspot.com/...lly-grody.html
Risks aside, can the immune system really be reinforced by introducing germs into the gut via boogers? While the unpleasant notion may have some scientific merit, it is not based on any formal studies. For this reason, I propose a clinical study where each test subject is given real boogers or placebo boogers for a period of several months, and each group's susceptibility to disease is cataloged during that time. Only then can we know with any certainty.
I have submitted this question to the good people at the science-based medicine blog.