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We’re All Just Big Slime Buckets!

And that’s a good thing. Why you should appreciate your sliminess.

Rich Sobel
6 min readDec 10, 2019

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As you may remember, in a previous article I told you about my personal history and battles with mucosal slime.

And I said that due to some new discoveries, we’d get explanations for some of those conditions.

Let’s start with a typical scenario.

Say your kid (or your partner or best friend or someone at work) has been running around with a stuffed up drippy nose all week and now your own nose is getting stuffed up and drippy. And you think, shoot, I’m coming down with a cold! I hate being sick.

But maybe you’re not. Getting sick, I mean.

Maybe all that slime is actually doing something good for you.

What!! How could it be good for me? I get it, I know I’m getting sick.

Well…what do you really know about stuffy noses and mucus?

Do you know all the other places in our bodies besides our noses that produce and use…

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Rich Sobel
Rich Sobel

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