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Don't Pick Your Nose: Never Mind, Boogers May Be Good for You

  • May 13, 2013
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  • Eating your boogers may help introduce pathogens from your environment to your immune system, helping it to learn and build defenses, according to a new theory in support of the hygiene hypothesis

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