Name: What If You Jumped Into a Pool Filled With Human Saliva?
Uploaded: 2020-04-04T07:40:29.000Z
Duration: 5 min 20 s
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Why do we find other people's saliva so gross?

from a "spitty talker" isn't going to kill you, but

The average-sized swimming pool in America

since you only produce about 1.5 liters a day.

it would still take a long time to produce

Okay, so let's say you're getting really impatient

as you wait for your volunteers to fill up this pool.

Here are a couple of tips to increase everyone's saliva production.

For starters, and this  one's pretty obvious,

Then, start handing out as much chewing gum as you can.

Chewing cues the salivary glands to get to work and start producing more saliva.

Also, you're going to need to tell your volunteers to avoid coffee,

and anything to do with tobacco or vaping,

as they can all cause a severely dry mouth.

And don't worry; if that's not speeding things up enough,

we've still got another trick up our sleeve.

If you think about food, see it or smell it,

a reflex signal is sent to a portion of your brain called the medulla oblongata;

So, if you were to place a bunch of food that

looks and smells fantastic around the pool,

that would fire up everyone's nerve signals to get that saliva flowing!

Once the pool is completely full, all you'd need to do is to dive in.

as you stare down at the lukewarm slime bath of DNA samples,

you don't really know anything about the substance you're about to jump into.

So maybe you should get acquainted first.

with the other two percent consisting of things like bicarbonate,

sodium and potassium, plus other active ingredients.

Saliva not only adds some  lubrication to help us swallow our food,

it also protects our teeth and gums from stomach acids,

and wards off the billions of microbes that are in our mouth at any given time.

That's right; the human mouth is a pretty gross place.

It can contain up to 700 different varieties of bacteria,

and one of the easiest ways to transfer those bacteria to other people is through your spit.

And that's what makes this whole saliva pool idea pretty dangerous.

Some of the fun things that can be passed on through saliva include colds,

flu virus, herpes, hepatitis B and C, avian flu, and ebola!

you're going to want to make sure you have no

open cuts or wounds when you jump into the pool.

Oh, and definitely keep your mouth closed.

Even if you could confirm that every one of your spit donors

you still wouldn't want to swallow mouthfuls of their saliva.

Not only would it be gross, but it would also make you dehydrated.

Because saliva contains high concentrations of proteins and enzymes,

drinking it would cause the fluids in your body to flow towards it,

As for the actual experience of jumping into the saliva pool,

it'd be just like swimming in thick, frothy water;

and you'd probably want to wear nose plugs.

it can also have quite an unpleasant smell.

It's something you'd want to wash off immediately after your swim,

because the scent would only get worse as it dries on you.

when it comes to swimming in bodily fluids,

you could do far worse than a pool of saliva.

But that sounds like a story for another WHAT IF.

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What If You Jumped Into a Pool Filled With Human Saliva?

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