The Biology of Why We’re All Just Big Slime Buckets
Why, when, where and how our slime is created and what happens when things go wrong.
What’s the first thing you do when you have a runny nose?
Well, if you’re like me, you head for the medicine cabinet, drawer, or wherever you keep the stuff and look for some over the counter med to get rid of it, right! Cause blowing your nose into tissues or hankies for a day or so isn’t much fun, and your nose gets sore.
And now it’s out of sight and out of mind and you can forget about all that unwanted mucus for a while and get back to some kind of normal.
So let’s get one thing straight. You need to keep some slime (mucus) around.
But…
If you have too much it’s big problems 😡
If you have too little it’s big problems 😡
So…
You need just the right amount 😄 give or take a bit now and then.
In this article, I’ll look at our upper respiratory system to illustrate how and where mucus is made and by which cells, what its constituents are and how it works to protects us from infections and keeps our bodies operating like well-oiled machines.
