ForbiddenKnowledgeTV
Alexandra Bruce
March 18, 2015
Everybody’s got them. They’ve been found in every ethnic group where people have cared to look, from white Europeans to Australian aborigines to Devon Island Eskimos.
In 1976, legendary mite specialist William Nutting wrote: “One can conclude that wherever mankind is found, hair follicle mites will be found and that the transfer mechanism is 100% effective!
The mites aren’t inherited at birth, so each generation picks them up anew, probably from direct contact with our parents.
The mites spend most of their time buried head-down in our hair follicles – the stocking-shaped organs that enclose and produce our hairs. They’re most commonly found in our eyelids, nose, cheeks, forehead and chin.
They have sex along the rims of your hair follicles. Half a day later, traveling at 16 milimeters per hour, the female lays her eggs in another pore. Two and a half days later, they hatch. The young mites take six days to reach adulthood, and they live for around five more. Their entire lives play out over the course of two weeks.
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Sources:
http://www.cas.miamioh.edu/mbi-ws/BiodiversitySymbiosis/commensalism.htm
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22227-rosacea-may-be-caused-by-mite-faeces-in-your-pores.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21955627
http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/content/early/2012/08/28/jmm.0.048090-0
http://bjo.bmj.com/content/89/11/1468.short
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22933353
