The More You Know

Mucophagy is the consumption of the mucus extracted from the nose with a finger, and is commonly referred to as “picking your nose and eating it”. (Where ‘it’ refers to the mucus and not your nose.)

Nose-picking generally is disgusting and to ingest it is even grosser… eww…

However, at least one well-known doctor sees nose-picking and mucophagy as beneficial. Prof. Dr. Friedrich Bischinger of Austria, thinks people who pick their nose have the right idea when it comes to proper nasal hygiene. Eating the dried remains found on your finger after a good deep dig makes perfect sense. When the bacteria in the boogers reach the booger eater’s intestines, it works as medicine giving your immune system a much-needed boost.

Now while this is refuted by the vast majority of the medical community, I can see why some of you out there would do it. Just don’t do it around me…