Not only that, but some studies have suggested that bacteria which enter our nose, i.e., through nose-picking, could increase our likelihood of dementia (though this has been debated). Still, another paper involving mice found dementia-like changes in the rodents’ brains after nasal exposure to the respiratory tract pathogen chlamydia pneumoniae.
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