Snot plays a powerful role in protecting us from disease – and its colour alone can provide insights into what's going on in our bodies.
  • memfree@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Research suggests that how a body reacts to a vaccine is altered by the type of microbiome a person has. Studies on the Covid-19 vaccine, for example, suggest it affected the snot’s microbiome, and in turn, the microbiome affected how efficient the vaccine was.

    I hope those researchers get paid extra.

    The researchers asked 22 adults to shoot themselves up the nose with a syringe full of snot from healthy friends and partners each day for five days. They discovered that symptoms like cough and facial pain, for instance, dropped by almost 40% for up to three months in at least 16 of the patients.

    <shudder> There’s no way those 22 could have been paid enough.