Wait, What! Can Picking Your Nose Cause Alzheimer's Disease?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So all right, do you pick your nose? Yes? I
know everyone does, and we all do. Where do you
put it?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes to the counter, you, Brian John, I'm not saying we,
I'm saying under the counter.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
A lot of people do.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Now I know what you do.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I don't want to go over in your area over
there once I put on your passenger seat when you
took me to launch.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
Now that one is actually more believable.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Transparency, Tanya, please, it is so Now, this is serious.
Picking your nose can lead to something really bad, Sisney,
what do we know?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yes, And they're saying that picking your nose may increase
your chances of getting Alzheimer's. Now, they've been trying to
figure out Alzheimer's for years, right, and they think that
there is like a protein called beta amyloid and it's
the key cause of the disease. So this new report
says that beta amyloid may be produced by the brain

(00:56):
as a like a defense against athogens introduced into the
nose like a dirty finger. And so it's all being
traveled through your nasal, canal, cavity, whatever. And they're saying
it's linked all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Whatever's on your finger has this googkun it and the
whatever you call it is bad, bad, bad over time,
and it could lead or increase your chances of getting Alzheimer's.
That is worth shattering to think about. I mean, I
already I've trained myself not to put my fingers in
my eyes, like I've really gotten good that not touched

(01:36):
my face. I've gotten better at that, but I do
roll up in there sometimes to check it out.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, and especially if it's more so. Sometimes if you
have like an itch and you just go digging for gold,
you gotta get it out.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, So get your kids to start not doing it early.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
I mean when we have the nose freda, when they
were like babies because they couldn't figure out how blow
their noses or whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Now they just yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Don't know what they do tissues.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
But when I was a kid, I used to go
in there hard. Or you don't now as an adult
as an engagement, honest, not really. I don't pick my
nose all that often.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Or you're going to live longer. Yeah, I mean, your
odds are in your favor. So it's something to think about, though,
I think twice before you do it. It is a
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