【早安健康／張維庭編譯】小時候可能常有長輩會說，「不要亂摳肚臍，不然會肚子痛」，日本也有著如果清理肚臍會容易感冒的迷信，然而髒汙的肚臍不僅是體臭的來源，同時也是細菌的溫床！ 美國北卡羅萊納州立大學研究，分析了60個人的肚臍髒汙，發現肚臍中有2368種細菌，而且其中的1458種還是新的細菌。在廁所馬桶的水中棲息的有害菌約為290個，而潛藏在肚臍髒污中的細菌則高達120萬個，可以說是馬桶的410
When you return from this journey into the belly button of your mind, you can participate in one of the BBB's very real "sampling events," where you volunteer to be navally swabbed with a Q-tip. They
Rob Dunn and his team of ecologists aren't your average navel gazers. They're professional navel gazers, thank you very much, and their new study details the microbial contents of 60 volunteers' belly
Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Jiri Hulcr, Andrew M. Latimer, Jessica B. Henley, Nina R. Rountree, Noah Fierer,