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So, someone's sitting there, someone comes in, they shake hands, and the person inevitably subconsciously touches their eyes. They are taking chemicals from the skin contact and they are placing it on a mucosal membrane of some sort, typically not up to their nose or in their mouth, typically on their eyes.
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And what they observed was almost every time within just a few seconds of having shaken hands with this new individual, people will touch their eyes almost without fail.
if they shake hands, they almost always, I think it's greater than 85% of the time they will then wipe the chemicals from the other person onto their own eyes, typically their eyes or their face. This changed a little bit during the whole pandemic thing, but this is thought to be a carryover from what other animals do in terms of exchanging microbiome elements, exchanging chemicals that we're constantly feeding our subconscious with the chemical knowledge of the chemical constituents of other people, right?
when people meet, if they shake hands, they almost always, I think it's greater than 85% of the time they will then wipe the chemicals from the other person onto their own eyes, typically their eyes or their face.
What they found was people would reach out and shake hands. And what they observed was almost every time within just a few seconds of having shaken hands with this new individual, people will touch their eyes. They are taking chemicals from the skin contact and they are placing it on a mucosal membrane of some sort.