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[–] memfree@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Research suggests that how a body reacts to a vaccine is altered by the type of microbiome a person has. Studies on the Covid-19 vaccine, for example, suggest it affected the snot's microbiome, and in turn, the microbiome affected how efficient the vaccine was.

I hope those researchers get paid extra.

The researchers asked 22 adults to shoot themselves up the nose with a syringe full of snot from healthy friends and partners each day for five days. They discovered that symptoms like cough and facial pain, for instance, dropped by almost 40% for up to three months in at least 16 of the patients.

There's no way those 22 could have been paid enough.

[–] piranhaconda@mander.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you heard of fecal transplants? Same idea, different orifice

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

Honestly? Less gross by a mile.

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