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The Dirty Truth About What’s In Your Socks: Bacteria, Fungi And Whatever Lives Between Your Toes
Study Finds ^ | August 03, 2025 | Primrose Freestone, University of Leicester

Posted on 08/04/2025 9:54:13 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 08/04/2025 9:54:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
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... your feet may be home to a miniature rain forest of bacteria

So, is the author pro-sweaty-feet or anti-sweaty-feet?

2 posted on 08/04/2025 9:59:29 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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3 posted on 08/04/2025 10:00:42 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Goody, more fear porn. Dirty feet and socks are not really a problem, beyond the odor. Just put on clean socks when they get dirty or start to smell.


4 posted on 08/04/2025 10:03:49 AM PDT by jimtorr
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Which is why you always put on a sock and a sock, then a shoe and a shoe.


5 posted on 08/04/2025 10:05:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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So toe jam is really a lot like yogurt mixed with blue cheese and magic mushrooms for the high?


6 posted on 08/04/2025 10:06:51 AM PDT by sopo
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Don’t get me wrong. Clean socks are important. But I’m more interested on how a sock is able escape the dryer and run away.


7 posted on 08/04/2025 10:07:39 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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But what if it’s raining?


8 posted on 08/04/2025 10:09:27 AM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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Very simple to have clean feet and non smelly shoes or boots. Wash feet and toes thoroughly. Blow dry. Use powder and anti fungal spray. Good to go.


9 posted on 08/04/2025 10:10:52 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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So going barefoot must be deadly.


10 posted on 08/04/2025 10:11:15 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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I wonder how much they spent on this study to prove what everybody already knows, i.e., that your feet - just like every other part of your body - can accumulate bacteria which can also cling to your clothes.


11 posted on 08/04/2025 10:14:08 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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Your socks pick up microbes from every surface you step foot on.

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Stopped reading right there.

If you take off your socks, then soles/pads of your feet do the picking up.
I’m not greek. I’m down with socks


12 posted on 08/04/2025 10:15:13 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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I think you’ve been hopping around on your head.


13 posted on 08/04/2025 10:15:28 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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It took Primrose Freestone to give us this bombshell report.


14 posted on 08/04/2025 10:15:32 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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15 posted on 08/04/2025 10:17:15 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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Merino wool socks are the bomb!


16 posted on 08/04/2025 10:18:23 AM PDT by kawhill ("What's that? Conductant. A little dab'll do ya, isnt that right Mr. Jackson?")
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Quite Interesting, considering it is by two different Freepers and wrong article under the first title:

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8/4/2025, 12:54:13 PM · by marcusmaximus
X/Twitter ^ | 8/3/2025 | Laura Loomer

Your socks pick up microbes from every surface you step foot on. (Photo by K-FK on Shutterstock) ================================================================= Your feet are microbial hotspots. The area between your toes is packed with sweat glands, and when we wrap our feet in socks and shoes, we trap that moisture in a warm, humid cocoon that’s ideal for microbial growth. In fact, your feet may be home to a miniature rain forest of bacteria and fungi, with anywhere from 100 to 10 million microbial cells per square centimeter of skin surface. Not only do feet host a huge variety of microorganisms – up...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4332603/posts

And then, AT THE EXACT SAME TIME down to the second, and the same exact excerpt:

The Dirty Truth About What’s In Your Socks: Bacteria, Fungi And Whatever Lives Between Your Toes
8/4/2025, 12:54:13 PM · by Red Badger · 2 replies
Study Finds ^ | August 03, 2025 | Primrose Freestone, University of Leicester
Your socks pick up microbes from every surface you step foot on. (Photo by K-FK on Shutterstock) ================================================================= Your feet are microbial hotspots. The area between your toes is packed with sweat glands, and when we wrap our feet in socks and shoes, we trap that moisture in a warm, humid cocoon that’s ideal for microbial growth. In fact, your feet may be home to a miniature rain forest of bacteria and fungi, with anywhere from 100 to 10 million microbial cells per square centimeter of skin surface. Not only do feet host a huge variety of microorganisms – up...

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4332604/posts

Now, one of them is deleted. But I still have the page up, where it is not deleted.

How does this happen?


17 posted on 08/04/2025 10:21:43 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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Put in bread, abracadabra! toast comes out. What’s up with that?


18 posted on 08/04/2025 10:22:36 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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I live in Florida.

What are ‘socks’?..................😏


19 posted on 08/04/2025 10:34:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Slight of foot..................


20 posted on 08/04/2025 10:40:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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