Sriram Jagannathan

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When it is warm, humans sweat a lot, which both cools us and also transports a lot of salt to the surface. Most of it is reabsorbed but some of it remains, overall making your skin a pretty salty place, which many microbes don’t like. As if that’s not enough, sweat contains even more natural antibiotics that can passively kill microbes.
Immune: A journey into the system that keeps you alive - the book from KURZGESAGT IN A NUTSHELL
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