The habit of picking your nose will lead to dementia

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A study has linked the habit of picking your nose or pulling hairs out with an increased risk of senile dementia. This is the conclusion reached by Australian scientists from Griffith University.

If you like to pick your nose or pull hairs out, that is, regularly cause micro-damage to the mucous membrane of the nasal passages, then you are at increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or other types of senile dementia. Scientists from Australia came to this interesting conclusion.

It turns out that these microtraumas can allow chlamydia pneumonia bacteria, which have been proven to cause late-onset senile dementia, to enter the bloodstream. Through the nose, these bacteria made their way to the central nervous system of laboratory mice, using the olfactory nerves.

The brain cells of the mice showed a reaction to these pathogens, which was manifested, in particular, by deposits of beta-amyloid proteins.

And when they stick together in characteristic nodules, the connection between brain neurons is destroyed, which leads to the characteristic symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia.

Australian researchers have confirmed for the first time that these bacteria can enter the human brain through microcracks in the nose. Therefore, we need to be especially careful in our habits, not to pull out hairs from the nose, but to use a special razor and not to pick this part of the face.