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hey guys let’s talk about your amazing mucus and I know it’s kind of a

disgusting topic but I think it’s underrated I think it’s not emphasized

enough it’s a very very important part of your body you make between 1 & 1 & a

half liters of mucus every single day you’re obviously swallowing it’s a lot

of it’s getting recycled and the mucus is sitting on a mucous membrane covering

the inside of your body and the size of that membrane is huge it is 400 square

meters now how can that be well if you take a look at the inside of your body

there’s a lot of folds and your sinuses there are a lot of it’s called villi and

your intestines then look like that so if you were to stretch them out it’s

quite large so that would be the size of two tennis courts or one large

basketball court and so the mucus membrane is part of your immune system

and you have all of your friendly bacteria that live in the mucus that are

protecting you you have your own immune cells that are ready they’re waiting for

an invader and there are millions of invaders all the time trying to get into

their body and the immune systems job is to prevent it from getting in and

invading because it creates a lot of damage the good bacteria that you have

are friendly they exchange with you they give you compounds that are very

beneficial but these pathogens don’t all they do is they take your nutrients they

create destruction they don’t give you anything good and that would be a

definition of a criminal right this mucous membrane and the mucus on top of

it lines the sinuses the mouth the throat the lungs the stomach think about

it your acid in your stomach it ranges between 1 and 3 this acid is so strong

why doesn’t it burn a hole through your tissues because of the mucus it’s a

protective thing in testo mucus you have mucus in your kidneys urogenital so

anyway there’s a lot of mucus going on what does it do it acts as a lubricant

okay it also is antimicrobial you have all sorts of enzymes that are sitting in

there you can vision the mucus as like a flytrap

so this microbe comes by it gets stuck in there certain enzymes start

dissolving it and killing it it’s a great way to prevent pathogens from

invading the body because you have this like this gel thing that gets stuck

in also all the good bacteria in there create an environment so it makes it

very difficult for them to get in and there’s also antibodies antibodies are

these little things right here that kind of like a lock and a key attached to

certain pathogens and bind them and prevent them from doing anything so they

can just dry up and and die so you have millions and billions of

these antibodies that are very specific to certain microorganisms now I already

mentioned the flytrap because they’re like a trap it’s going to hold and

contain a pathogen much like a spiderweb actually but the main purpose of mucus

is a barrier to the pathogen now realize to when your sinuses are congested not

all of that is mucus there’s a lot of inflammation and swelling and there’s

mucus as well but it’s really the swelling and the mean reaction that’s

creating the congestion now there’s a couple things you can do to thin the

mucus there’s a really good antioxidant called NAC you can get this as a

supplement and that is really good if you have real thick mucus and you need

to actually kind of loosen it up but out of all the vitamins the most important

vitamin for the mucous membranes is vitamin A if you’re deficient in vitamin

A you’re going to have a lot of sinus problems a lot of allergies a lot of

irritation inflammation in the mucous membranes the next most important

vitamin for this mucus would be vitamin D why because vitamin D is an

anti-inflammatory and there’s a lot of conditions within the mucous membranes

that involve inflammation so anyway I hope you now appreciate this amazing

thing called mucus