Nose Picking: Why Do People Do It and How to Stop?

Today, you’ll learn about a possible new treatment for chronic pain, a major obstacle to the world’s tree-planting plans, and some bad news for nose pickers.  

Chronic Pain Treatment  

• “Identification and targeting of a unique Nav1.7 domain driving chronic pain.” by Kimberly Gomez, et al. 2023.  
• https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217800120 
• “Nav1.7 withholds its pain potential.” by Katie Kingwell. 2023.  
• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41573-019-00065-0 
• “Chronic Pain Among Adults - United States, 2019 - 2021.” CDC. 2023.  
• https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7215a1.htm 
• “Prevalence of chronic pain among adults in the United States.” by R Jason Yong & Neil Bhattacharyya. 2022.  
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33990113/ 

Tree Planting  

• “Plans to plant billions of trees threatened by massive undersupply of seedlings.” by Joshua Brown. 2023.  
• “A lack of ecological diversity in forest nurseries limits the achievement of tree-planting objectives in response to global change.” by Peter W. Clark, et al. 2023.  
• “Trees Help Fight Climate Change.” Arbor Day Foundation. N.d.  
• “Benefits of Planting Trees.” Tree Advisory Board. N.D.  

Nose Pickers 

• “Why Not to Pick Your Nose // Association between nose picking and SARS-Cov-2 incident, a cohort study in hospital healthcare workers.” by A.H. Ayesha Lavell, et al. 2023.  
• “Nose picking linked to higher risk of covid, study shows.” by Lindsey Bever. 2023.  
• “The Anatomy and Function of the Nasal Cavity.” by Kristin Hayes, RN. 2023.  

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