Is your face potholed? Are there still a churn nose and allergic skin? Almost all "beauty teachings" will tell you that if you want to solve the above problems and transform into a goddess and goddess, one of the indispensable ways is to "remove mites". But this creature that all of humanity has worked so hard for decades to drive away from our faces, and recently studies have shown that it is going to self-destruct?
This is not a strange "pie in the sky", but a scientifically verified thing that is happening at the moment! Imagine if one day the mites did leave our faces, what would happen? Does everyone have smooth, white, and skeletal skin? Unfortunately, scientists say this is also unrealistic.
Mites that live on everyone's face
Mites are a broad-bellied subclass of arthropod phylum arachnids. It is a body and its tiny creatures, most of which are longer than 1 mm, generally from 0.3-0.5 mm or so, and some are more "perverted", only 0.1 mm. Because they are so small that they cannot be observed with the naked eye.
But this is also another kind of luck, after all, if you can see it, you are likely to be scared to the ground by swarms of mites and cast a psychological shadow. Yes, everyone has a large number of mites living on their bodies, and they think of your skin as a place to "eat, drink and sleep". In their eyes, your skin is no different from the land that has been trampled by countless people outside.
At present, scientists have found more than 50,000 kinds of mites. Numerous studies have shown that these mites are closely related to our personal physical health, and some mites can invade our skin, bite, and suck blood. Symptoms such as "rosacea", "demodex", "allergies" and other symptoms are related to mites.
Hair follicle demodex mites
There are two main types of mites that parasitize us: demodex mites and sebaceous gland mites. Humans became their promised land, and there were few who were spared. Many people think that as long as they are mites, they will become the destroyers of our faces. They will run around our faces like excavators, causing the otherwise smooth skin to be cratered.
But this view is actually wrong. Unlike other mites, demodex mites actually coexist peacefully with humans, and they never consider themselves invaders. Jondra Perot, associate professor of invertebrate biology at the University of Inreddin, says it is because of the presence of hair follicle demodex mites that our pores remain clean and our skin healthier.
Think about it another way, they eat the oil secreted by the skin, but they actually play the role of a cleaner, specifically cleaning up our skin. The life of the demodex mite is pitifully short compared to that of humans. Their lives are often only ten days, during which they must seize all the time to eat, mate, and reproduce. And a person's life, may carry the "hundred generations of inheritance" of the mite family.
They're going extinct
The worm mites, which are so attached to humans, will soon become extinct. Perot said that although these mites may be helpers for humans, their research shows that these mites are heading for the end of extinction.
For the first time ever, they genetically sequenced demodex mites and came to such a somewhat "sad" conclusion. And the reason is that we can't laugh and cry, it turns out that they live too comfortably in human beings, and they are slowly degenerating, losing many unnecessary genes and cells. In this way, they will disappear within a few generations.
As we said earlier, demodex mites live on humans, and where do they come from? The answer is "inheritance", which we "get" from our mother, sometimes through other means such as breastfeeding.
Because they are born to live in a happy paradise, living a life of "food to open their mouths, clothes to reach out", neither existential crisis nor same-sex competition. So they're on the path of self-extinction, which sounds like some kind of philosophical theory, but for the demodex mites, it's a huge crisis of reality.
Scientific research has found that because of the "lying flat", the evolution of mites is becoming more and more simple. For example, they now have only three single cells to supply energy, become nocturnal animals, and cannot produce melatonin (a substance that can bring kinetic energy to mites at night).
In the end, they are so dependent on humans that their ability to reproduce is about to disappear!
Pros or cons?
Will demodex mites become extinct? It's up to the mites themselves, and humans obviously don't have an effective way to intervene. Perhaps, we should accept such a fact and consider what impact their extinction will have on us. Or is it bad?
According to Perot, mites, as clean-up workers, are naturally not a good thing to leave. In the future, there will be no creatures to suck the oil secreted from our faces, and then our pores will be blocked and the whole face will become ugly.
There are also those who hold a different view, and opponents believe that mites have advantages, but also have their disadvantages. When our skin's immune system declines, mites multiply in large numbers and get out of control. When their number exceeds a reasonable range, the skin will also be a little unbearable. This is the same as human life on the earth, when human beings overbreed, the earth will suffer all kinds of harm.
Some studies have shown that some skin problems are associated with demodex mites. For example, the "wine tank nose" that bothers many people, about 3%-5% of it is demodex mites at work. On the other hand, the death of demodex mites will also bring a lot of trouble to the skin. The carcasses of animals, imagined, are also very dirty, and all kinds of bacteria breed, they can damage the skin, causing the skin to become inflamed, broken, etc.
In summary, demodex mites are in a state of harmonious symbiosis with the human body most of the time, and in a few cases they will also become the culprits of skin problems.
Washing your face doesn't have to be very washable so clean
Believe that you already have a more comprehensive understanding of the mites that parasitize the human body, so next you should also try not to fully trust the so-called various "online beauty teachings".
Gentleness with your own skin is the real skincare. As an example, many people always feel that their faces are not clean and are washed with facial cleanser many times a day. But what these people don't know is that human skin is actually very wrong, and some of the "dirty things" such as cuticles and sweat stains that we want to remove are actually a protective layer to protect our skin from external damage.
After we clean them up, our skin will face the attack of the external environment, become very sensitive, and are more likely to suffer from skin problems.
Of course, if you pay attention to a degree, if you completely release yourself and do not wash your face for a few days, you will also suffer from other skin problems. Remember, existence is reasonable, but don't abuse your skin anymore.
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