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New research suggests nose picking could increase risk for Alzheimer’s in mice

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24 pointsjnord22 comments

“ Shut up please. Seriously, just stop. Hand in your “journalist” license and find a new career. Anything else, so long as it does not constitute communicating with people.” - Peter Attia

https://twitter.com/PeterAttiaMD/status/1586373837205151744

I’ve uttered the same thing about Attia after watching his debates about nutritional epidemiology.

Though bad-mouthing something/someone without engaging with the claim being made is on brand for him. I don’t see the value it brings to the discussion.

So once again we are talking about mice here and “We need to do this study in humans and confirm whether the same pathway operates in the same way.”

Also in order to have any effect, you need to actually create a pathway for the bacteria - i.e. damage tissue in your nose.

Smells like someone is in desperate need for funding for their institution rather than serious research results...

Also making it about picking your nose specifically when the research is really about “anything in the nose” is clickbait.

Let's be honest, who isn't picking their nose? How else do you get dried up mucus out of there? By blowing it out?

Yes

I remember somebody with ALS explaining the indignity of somebody else having to pick their nose for them - at that point, I finally accepted everyone does it and made my peace with the guilt instilled in us as children.

Perhaps later a more sophisticated study will come out that reveals that people who are not clever enough to hide their secret nose picking from researchers are at elevated risk.

Nose picking and nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16874648/

Wash your hands, get dry mucus out, wash hands again.

Some people are just wet. My sister blows her nose several times a day and I've never needed to blow mine without having a severe respiratory infection.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_(Hatha_Yoga)

For example (there‘s also non-Yoga variants of this of course)

Not only everyone does it, nosepicking is instinctive behavior.

Everything our body does for us (with maybe a handful of exceptions) is "healthy" for us, for survival of our genes, or best case, both. :)

As the old saying goes: “There are two types of people: those who pick their nose, and liars”

Saline nasal spray helps a lot.

Hmmmm.... I can't remember the last time I picked my nose.

Uh, oh. Your memory is going.

To be specific, it's not just nose picking, it's piercing the mucus membrane. I.e. causing your nose to bleed while nose picking.

Not a scientist so more of a question than a statement, but how can this be relevant given that: - We are talking about a pathway found in mouses, we are not even sure it exists in human - These bacterias are only markers, therefore doesn't it mean that causation!=correlation and this does not prove anything?

Not how I wanted to start my Sunday morning.

Another research suggests rubbing eyes also increase risk for Alzheimers.

The virus getting into the eyes will slowly eat the brain.

Oh shit, I’m fucked.

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