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How a Indecent or Well-kept Beard Can Make a Diversity to Your Overall health
Blogging is, at its core, a service that is public. This is why several days past the reporters at Motion 7 News in Albuquerque, Nm, chose to inquire just what, exactly, teems inside the beards of the polity. They swabbed on the whiskers of some of neighborhood men and took the results to Mission Diagnostics.

The outcomes were the sort that your answering machine isn't left on by medical labs:

Several of the beards which were examined included lots of normal bacteria, but some were comparable to bathrooms.

"Those will be the kinds of things you'd find in (fecal matter)," Golobic said, talking about the tests.

Golobic stated it's still a little regarding while a few of the germs will not direct to sickness.

But are these results typical? Are they limited to these few unfortunate Albuquerqueans? Or is kissing of directly using a test lipstick that's chained to the makeup display at Target.com, a man the microbial equivalent?

Some physicians have suggested that beard hair could be a bristly breeding-ground for germs. "Beard hair; it's rougher. It's the shape of a bayonet, a round, convexed bottom and after that comes up the medial side to your point," Denise Walker, consultant trichologist at Birmingham Trichology Centre, told the UK's Daily Mail. "The cuticles to the hair--which are like levels of tiles on a roof--trap the bacteria and oil."

In 1967, scientific researchers sprayed bearded and clean shaven men with germs, then attempted to collect the microorganisms from their encounters (by swabbing, patting, and imprinting ... oh my).

Afterward, in 2000, another study found that when 10 bearded and 10 cleanshaven men used surgical masks, the bearded types shed considerably more bacteria onto agar plates below their lips--particularly if they "wiggled" the goggles. The analysis authors recommended that surgeons that were bearded attempt to not wiggle their face masks. "Bearded males could also consider removing their beards," they added joylessly.

Nonetheless, the Quest worker in the Albuquerque information spot only said that beards harbor the forms of microorganisms you'd generally see in the gut--and consequently, in feces. But other parts of the skin also can occasionally be polluted with one Conditioner of these microbes. Allegedly, there's around a-one in six chance that the I-phone hosts poop corpuscles. All of this led the Guardian's Nick Evershed to conclude, "That Is more crap in these types of reports about poop in beards than that is in beards."

Nonetheless, there likely is some truth to the idea in case you let it, that a beard, like another body-part, can get pretty amazing. The report may possibly dissuade some wouldbe beard- because beards are really so hot at the moment bearers, which can be a shame. Matthew McConaughey has one, for cryin' in the mud. Beards will be the ideal way to say, "I do not worry about society!" while simultaneously saying "I care enough that each few times I 'll ransack the bathroom in search of the right electrical-razor attachment, and then invest many minutes trimming my beard and establishing its borders." Beard is the latest black.

To men who decide, in this Albuquerque news' face, to espouse their face curtains, I provide my applause. In addition , I offer the suggestion of a nice beard clean, which will sanitize that stubble right away.




 
 
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