There are TWO kinds of ear wax?!?!
Welcome to my very first post on this blog. Heh, that makes it three useless blogs for me. Well, too bad. This one will let me outlet all the great ideas and tidbits that I wasn't able to divulge in my other two great blogs.
To start us off, here's something I just learned last night.
Did you know that there are two kinds of ear wax? Here I was, living in 29+ years of oblivion. Oblivious to the fact that there are two kinds of ear wax. Apparently, not everyone has dry ear wax.
So I came across an article last night that stated that the type of ear wax you have is genetic. Apparently, not only do I have dry ear wax, but it's a recessive gene. Meaning, both parents have to pass it down for you to get it. And that would mean that the dominant gene is, well I guess many of you know this, since you would have it, is wet ear wax.
Let me ask now...what is wet ear wax? Is it gooey? Is it sticky? Or is it like when you've been in the swimming pool for a long time, and then when you come out of the pool and stick your fingernail in your ear, and get some "wet" ear wax? I can't imagine it otherwise...and yet apparently, most of the Western Hemisphere (re: non-asians) have wet ear wax. I tried searching for a picture on google, but "wet ear wax" doesn't come up with anything useful. (Nor does "dry ear wax" for that matter)
Personally, not being able to imagine what wet ear wax is, I think dry ear wax is definitely the better ear wax. For those of you who are less fortunate, dry ear wax is a little flaky. Not as thin as say, skin peeling from a sunburn, but it's flaky. Oh, also it's usually, whitish yellow. I read that wet ear wax is often brown? what? brown ear wax? My goodness.
Well, that just about does it for my first entry. I figured I'd start with a bold and out of the norm segment.
PS. Apparently, there's a lower incidence of breast cancer in people with dry ear wax, than in people with wet ear wax. Sorry to you wet ear wax folk.
To start us off, here's something I just learned last night.
Did you know that there are two kinds of ear wax? Here I was, living in 29+ years of oblivion. Oblivious to the fact that there are two kinds of ear wax. Apparently, not everyone has dry ear wax.
So I came across an article last night that stated that the type of ear wax you have is genetic. Apparently, not only do I have dry ear wax, but it's a recessive gene. Meaning, both parents have to pass it down for you to get it. And that would mean that the dominant gene is, well I guess many of you know this, since you would have it, is wet ear wax.
Let me ask now...what is wet ear wax? Is it gooey? Is it sticky? Or is it like when you've been in the swimming pool for a long time, and then when you come out of the pool and stick your fingernail in your ear, and get some "wet" ear wax? I can't imagine it otherwise...and yet apparently, most of the Western Hemisphere (re: non-asians) have wet ear wax. I tried searching for a picture on google, but "wet ear wax" doesn't come up with anything useful. (Nor does "dry ear wax" for that matter)
Personally, not being able to imagine what wet ear wax is, I think dry ear wax is definitely the better ear wax. For those of you who are less fortunate, dry ear wax is a little flaky. Not as thin as say, skin peeling from a sunburn, but it's flaky. Oh, also it's usually, whitish yellow. I read that wet ear wax is often brown? what? brown ear wax? My goodness.
Well, that just about does it for my first entry. I figured I'd start with a bold and out of the norm segment.
PS. Apparently, there's a lower incidence of breast cancer in people with dry ear wax, than in people with wet ear wax. Sorry to you wet ear wax folk.
posted by JD at 3:55 PM
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