1 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to stuff to Blow your mind. 3 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and Julie Douglas. And Julie, 4 00:00:17,720 --> 00:00:20,760 Speaker 1: let's talk about urine. Let's do it as the as 5 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:22,880 Speaker 1: the commodity urine, not so much about the I mean, 6 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: we'll get into some of the biological processes that are 7 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: involved in the creation if you're into a certain extent, 8 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: but for the most part, urine as this semi magical 9 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: golden liquid that comes out of our bodies. And there 10 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 1: it is on the ground, in a jar, in the toilet, 11 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,800 Speaker 1: in the urinal, on the side of a bus, wherever. 12 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: We're left to contemplate this liquid and figure out what 13 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:47,839 Speaker 1: we should do with it, what can we learn from it. 14 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:50,479 Speaker 1: And indeed, every time you get to the doctor, or 15 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:52,159 Speaker 1: most times you go to the doctor, what you have 16 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: to do, you have to be in a cup, that's right, 17 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: because that's that liquid goal that will tell you all 18 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,800 Speaker 1: sorts of things about your presence and your future. And 19 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,200 Speaker 1: we've been been divining with urine for thousands of years. 20 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: I mean, the practice goes back, uh literally thousands of years, 21 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: and we're still the thing about is we still haven't 22 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 1: completely refined the process. We're still finding new ways to 23 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: learn from urine and uh and actually uh discovered the 24 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: the curative properties of urine, but not in the way 25 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:20,839 Speaker 1: that you might be thinking. We'll get into the whole 26 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 1: urine drinking as well. Yeah, it actually turns out to 27 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,479 Speaker 1: be far more complex and nuanced beyond some of the 28 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: things that we already know about urina. We'll talk about 29 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 1: that moment, Like what does it mean when my p 30 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,560 Speaker 1: is like electric yellow? Yeah, hold on because we'll get there, 31 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 1: so piano jar. We'll get to to the color in 32 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: just a minute. But but first let's just rehash the 33 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: basics about urine. Urine, of course, is there for a reason. 34 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: It is a waste product. It's their remove extra water 35 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: and water soluble waste that the kidneys filtered from the blood, 36 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: so it gets rid of toxins and things that would 37 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: otherwise build up in the body. Yeah. I kind of 38 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: think about the kidneys as a brew house. Yeah, and uh, 39 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: you know, the waste products as the hops. They're kind 40 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: of like flavoring what your urine is going to look like. 41 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 1: And it's really important because kidneys do maintain water volume 42 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: and balance as well as regulate blood composition. And if 43 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: you think about it, there are really only four exit 44 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: strategies for substances in your body feces, your breath, sweat, 45 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: and urine. So urine is obviously one of the think 46 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: four here. I remember when I wrote the article about 47 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,800 Speaker 1: saunas for how stuff work, I was looking into the whole, 48 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: uh you know, question of what can you can you 49 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: sweat out impurities, and you can sweat out some impurities, 50 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,399 Speaker 1: but really urine is the go to for for those 51 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: liquid impurities. So you'll get a little with sweat, but 52 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: it's mainly the P. Yeah, and let's talk about that 53 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:43,519 Speaker 1: P because it is composed primarily of water. We're talking 54 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:47,640 Speaker 1: about in a well hydrated person. The other five percent, 55 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:54,520 Speaker 1: we're talking all sorts of organic solute including uria, creatine, 56 00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: uric acid, and tracing massive enzymes, carbohydrates, hormones, fatty acids. 57 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: It goes the list goes down and down and down. Yeah, 58 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 1: it's it's kind of I mean the thing again, it's 59 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,519 Speaker 1: a waste product. So you get into that whole situation 60 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 1: of when you want to learn about an ancient culture, 61 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: what do you end up looking for as an archaeologist. 62 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,639 Speaker 1: You look for their garbage heat, you know, you find 63 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: out what they're eating, what they're they're throwing away, what 64 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: kind of little bits of detritus um give us a 65 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 1: picture of their lives. And thus we do the same 66 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: with urine. And and we're discovering more and more ways 67 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: to do that with urine because you see what they ate, 68 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: what kind of uh, you know, what they took, part of, 69 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,160 Speaker 1: what kind of environment they lived in. So we're talking 70 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,679 Speaker 1: about here is a a parr more nuanced understanding or 71 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: beginnings of understandings of urine, because you know, if you 72 00:03:38,720 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: look at compounds right now that are tested in urine, 73 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 1: you're you're talking about hundred and fifty, not three thousand. 74 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: So it turns out that urine beats out saliva as 75 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:48,279 Speaker 1: one of the most complex fluids in the human body. 76 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: And it h that has ushered in new urine based 77 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:56,840 Speaker 1: diagnostic tests for colon and prostate cancer, celiac disease, and pneumonia. Yeah, 78 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 1: that was fascinating. We're you know, talking different compounds can 79 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: show up in there that should show you know, what 80 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 1: kind of drug the drugs the person that happens to 81 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: be taking, what they're drinking, what food's reading, what's cosmetics 82 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: they're wearing. I never thought about cosmetic signatures in urine, 83 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: But there you go. And uh, I mean in the 84 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: course of great thing, and this will come up again again. 85 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: The great thing about urine is that, unlike other ways 86 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: you might test the body, I mean, it just comes 87 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: right out. It's it's you're not having to dig into 88 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 1: the body, cut into the body. It's it's a pre 89 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: and invasive way of getting at some data about how 90 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 1: the organism is working. And it's I mean it's as 91 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,679 Speaker 1: far as gross things that come out of the body, 92 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: it's generally not that gross. Now, if you want to 93 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: read the tea leaves as it were of your own 94 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: p at home, without going through a highly diagnostic test, 95 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: you can do so just by looking at the color, right. Yeah, 96 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: And you know, in urine comes in a rainbow of colors. 97 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: Like on one hand, you can have like the extremely 98 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 1: dark urine. You can have the crystal clear urine. That's 99 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: what I tend to try and go for on a 100 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: good day, drink enough water tour it's just straight up clear. 101 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: I'm being all day long. And then you have you 102 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: have various other shades in between. So, uh, the big one. 103 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: If you have colorless water urine, what does that mean? 104 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: Just straight up, you've been drinking a lot of water 105 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: all right, which I tend to see. It's like a 106 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: badge of It's like it's like an achievement award that 107 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,560 Speaker 1: you get. It's like, there we go, I'm doing it. Now. 108 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 1: Let's let's get really specific here. Have you ever peed 109 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:25,120 Speaker 1: into the boilet, looked and then saw that day glow 110 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 1: yellow and you're just a little bit taken back? Yes? Um, 111 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: so certainly when I've taken like a lot of vitamins, 112 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:35,359 Speaker 1: sometimes I'll see that really yellow, or or if I 113 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: take those when I had a U T I recently 114 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 1: I took those pills that help kidneys have flesh of 115 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,799 Speaker 1: kidneys and decrease of paint, and that's like bright orange. 116 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 1: It's one of those things you take it in an 117 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: hour previously and then you forget that you took it, 118 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: and then whoa, you know, it's like a it's like 119 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: a muppet in there. It's alarming, it can be. And 120 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: if you have tea colored urine, well that means that 121 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: you're probably dehydrated. Now a lot of these more concentrated urine. Right, 122 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 1: this tends to be the kind of urine you see 123 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: in abandoned soda bottles. I notice, you know, you never 124 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,760 Speaker 1: see like really clear, healthy urine in an old sun 125 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: drop container. It's always like dark brown urine that you're 126 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: not sure if it's if it's p R motor oil 127 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 1: at first glance. Yeah, But if you're urinating into a bottle, 128 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,120 Speaker 1: you're probably there's probably some sort of thing going on 129 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 1: there that means that your entire circumstances and you're just 130 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: reaching for the the nearest vessel. Now, the thing that 131 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:32,159 Speaker 1: you want to strive for is straw colored urine. Really, 132 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: so am I overreaching with my crystal? It's possible. It's 133 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:38,160 Speaker 1: possible that you might have to dilute of urine, in 134 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:39,720 Speaker 1: which case you might want to back off a little 135 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: bit because that's raw color kind of shows that there's 136 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: a balance going on in terms of the salts in 137 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: your body and everything else. Okay, Now, of course the 138 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,320 Speaker 1: big one, of course, if there's any blood, and that's 139 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: generally that's generally I mean, that is a sign that 140 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: you need to get it checked out. It could be 141 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 1: something simple, could be a U T I. But it 142 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 1: can also be something far more serious, I mean, bladder cancer, 143 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: you name it. So it comes down to again the 144 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: fact that that you can tell so much about how 145 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: the organs is functioning by looking at the year, and 146 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: even something as simple as just visually what's going on 147 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,160 Speaker 1: there now? Since and we won't put too much into 148 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: this because we could probably spend an entire podcast about peace, 149 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 1: but a sugary smell might indicate the presence of blood 150 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 1: sugar that's been excreted into the urine and could be 151 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: caused by diabetes or pregnancy. And of course, as we know, 152 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: certain foods produced a sulfur containing amino acid. Looking at 153 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: usparagus v. S asparagus for the first time following this podcast, 154 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: be prepared possibly for something a little a little funky. 155 00:07:36,080 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about some myths of p because 156 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: there are ideas of P use out there in the world, 157 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:49,200 Speaker 1: and I'm talking specifically about drinking your own P Is 158 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: this a good idea? Yes? Or now? Um no, it's 159 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: not a good idea? And uh what, I I know 160 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: it sounds amazing. I mean a lot of it comes 161 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 1: down to the fact that you know we're talking about 162 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: it earlier. What's it made off water. Okay, that's great, 163 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: we need water, but that remaining five is garbage and toxic, 164 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: toxic garbage that you're better better off not drinking. Now, 165 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,160 Speaker 1: it's an idea that has that keeps coming down. I 166 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: guess you're something, you know, cyclical and sort of magical 167 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: sounding about drinking urine. As pointed out by Ryan Bradling 168 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 1: in Popular Science article Classic f y, I is it 169 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: ever okay to drinking on urine? Points out that that 170 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,119 Speaker 1: that the Celts and Iberian Peninsula gargle it to whiten 171 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 1: their keith, that in air vetic medicine you had the 172 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:33,720 Speaker 1: practice of ama roli, which is the Sanskrit word that 173 00:08:33,760 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: refers to urine therapy. And there's even the argument that 174 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: the problem that Proverbs five supports the act saying drink 175 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 1: waters from thy own cistern, flowing water from thy own self. Now, 176 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 1: there are some readers who took issue with that proverb, 177 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:50,199 Speaker 1: so we won't spend a lot of time with that 178 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: parsing that up. But yeah, this idea of drinking your 179 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: own urine has been around for a long time, and 180 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: you really see it in survivalist situations. So you have 181 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 1: someone like Aaron Rawlson. He's the rock climber who was 182 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: pinned under a boulder and he drank his own urine 183 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 1: during a five day or deal in which he ended 184 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: up amputating his own arm. And you have people like 185 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: Bear Grills. He's a survivalist who say, yeah, it could work. 186 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: But the idea there is it might work to drink 187 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: your own urine in um this dire situation only if 188 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: you have that correct level of dilute water in your pea. 189 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: So if you are dehydrated to the point that you 190 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,079 Speaker 1: drink your pea, it's not a good idea because it 191 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: becomes more and more concentrated with all of those um 192 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: excess electrolytes. We're talking about chloride, sodium, and potassium. You 193 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 1: do not want to fill up on this stuff. Yeah, 194 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 1: I mean, it's one of the reasons why the Army 195 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 1: Field Manual for Survival, Evasion and Recovery listed on the 196 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,400 Speaker 1: do not Drink list along with seawater and blood. So 197 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,920 Speaker 1: really it's it's to think about that it's basically on 198 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 1: the same level as drinking seawater blood in a survival situation. 199 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: To your point, if you had you know, somebody around 200 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: with really crystal clear urine. You could maybe make the 201 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: case for it, but in a survival situation, it's going 202 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: to be that orange stuff in the sun drop container. Yeah, 203 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 1: because most likely in that situation, you maybe you get 204 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 1: that first batch and it's fine, but as you continue 205 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:17,080 Speaker 1: to not replenish your system with fresh, clean water and 206 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 1: your kidneys don't get fleshed out, well, then again, the 207 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:26,760 Speaker 1: more concentrated toxic substances accumulate. And what we're talking about 208 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: here is sodium drawing water out of yourselves, dehydrating you. 209 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: And of course too much catasium can lead to heart attacks. 210 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: All Right, we'll hold on to that jar of urine 211 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: because we're gonna take a quick breaking. When we come back, 212 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: we're going to get into yet another popular myth about 213 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 1: the use of urine in do it yourself medicine. Okay, 214 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 1: if you're on the beach, friend is has just emerged 215 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,000 Speaker 1: from the ocean screaming. It appears that they have been 216 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:08,959 Speaker 1: stung by jellyfish. Now, some people might decide that at 217 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: that very moment that they are going to break protocol 218 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 1: and friendship, assuming they don't have this level of intimacy, 219 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: and urinate on their friend because they think that will 220 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: alleviate the pain. Well, I'm pretty sure you should never 221 00:11:22,559 --> 00:11:26,199 Speaker 1: urinate on your friends. First rule, first rule. So if 222 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: you find yourself breaking that rule, you need to ask 223 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: yourself some serious, hard questions about what's going on. Um. 224 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: But yeah, this is something we see a lot. It's 225 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 1: this is it's just a common trope. It shows up 226 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 1: in TV shows and uh, just sort of part of 227 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,760 Speaker 1: our popular consciousness, the idea that, oh, the jellyfish sting 228 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: is awful, but we have the cure right in our 229 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,559 Speaker 1: own body. All we have to do is is muster 230 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,120 Speaker 1: up some urine and splash that on there, and that 231 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: will relieve the symptoms. Right. And I think, oh, it's sterile. Well, 232 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: sure it's sterile while it's inside of you, but when 233 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 1: it goes down the track, it's picking up bacteriaus. So 234 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 1: when it exits your body, it is not errol any longer. 235 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 1: But that's not even really the problem. Um. And to 236 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: discuss the problem of why this actually may worsen the sting, 237 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,760 Speaker 1: we have to look at the jellyfish's skin cells, these 238 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:15,319 Speaker 1: stinging cells or nita sites. Now, these cells hold a 239 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: barbed thread like tube called a neumoticist and this is 240 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,439 Speaker 1: filled with venom, and Matt Sonicic writing from Mental Fault, 241 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:24,520 Speaker 1: describes it further. He says, on the outside of each 242 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: cell that tiny hair called a nita cell, and when 243 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 1: this hair trigger is to serve the cell's toxic harpoon 244 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:33,599 Speaker 1: explodes from its capsule and into the skin of the 245 00:12:33,679 --> 00:12:37,520 Speaker 1: jellyfish's prey or an unlucky swimmer. Yeah. This one thing 246 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: to keep in mind about the jellyfish thing is that 247 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: it's not just this magical touch that you know, dark 248 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,880 Speaker 1: magical touch that that burns you. It's not like being 249 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: burned by something where the source of the burn is 250 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: taken away and therefore all you have is the injury. 251 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: You have those uh, those little nemetosis still present and 252 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: they're clinging on, so they're still there. There's still some 253 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: weaponry on the skin that can be activated, for instance, 254 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: by scratching. If you start scratching the jellyfish sting, you're 255 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: going you're gonna aggravate those nemetosis that are still clinging there, 256 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: and you're gonna get more sting. Yeah, that's right, because 257 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,560 Speaker 1: there are a couple of things that really spring those 258 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: harpoons of venom into action. And whe is pressure so right, 259 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,199 Speaker 1: if you use your own fingers to squeeze at it 260 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: or try to pinch it off, you're gonna get stung. 261 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: And it also senses changes in its environment, like chemical composition. 262 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 1: So what would happen if you peet on this, Well, 263 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 1: what would happen is that those cells would say, hmmmm, 264 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:36,800 Speaker 1: this is odd. There's more water in this composition than seawater, 265 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: and we see this as an attack, and it would 266 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: actually release more venom as your urine trickled over the wound. Yeah, 267 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,079 Speaker 1: any change to the balance of solids is going to 268 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: set off more stinging. So I mean because the thing 269 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,800 Speaker 1: about this, The thing is, though um amusing and perplexing 270 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: about the urine of situation, is that what we're saying 271 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,160 Speaker 1: here is that the liquid you need to use to 272 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 1: wash off that sting and get rid of any clinging 273 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: neumatsis that are still there is saltwater. And and and 274 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: since there's an extremely high probability that you were stung 275 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 1: by that saltwater jellyfish in saltwater, then it stands the 276 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,839 Speaker 1: reason you need to just walk three feet and get 277 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,360 Speaker 1: some more saltwater and wash it off. And if for 278 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:21,840 Speaker 1: some reason you're stunt like somebody males a jellyfish to 279 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 1: you and then you're stung. Well, then you need to 280 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,960 Speaker 1: get something like vinegar. But but you're just using urine. 281 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:31,400 Speaker 1: I mean, you would like we said, you have that 282 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: water five percent impurity, but then there are all these 283 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 1: varying degrees of of uncertainty as to what its actual 284 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: content is going to be. So it's possible that you 285 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: could have like magic uh urine. You can have just 286 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 1: the right level in your urine super dehydrated, just super 287 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,920 Speaker 1: dehydrated I guess, just the just the right salt nous 288 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: to where it would be effective. But that would the 289 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 1: chances of that being the case are are pretty rare. 290 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: And if your urine is that concentrated with salt, then 291 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: you haven't entirely different problems right right, Like you put 292 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:05,800 Speaker 1: the jellyfish thing now is sort of on the sidelines, yeah, 293 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: I mean, but again it comes back to the saltwater. 294 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: Saltwater is what you need to watch that staying with. 295 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 1: And there's an ocean of it there in front of you, 296 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,080 Speaker 1: so use it all right, So there we go. Now 297 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: you know about jellyfish things, please don't pee and your 298 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,320 Speaker 1: friends and should we even talk about the asparagus problem. 299 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 1: I feel like this is such a chicken and egg problem. Yeah. 300 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,480 Speaker 1: And you know, back when the podcast was Step in 301 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: the Science Libe, I feel like we did an episode 302 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: on it about like something, because there's a lot of 303 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: it's legitimately interesting research into the genetics of this. You know, 304 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,320 Speaker 1: the idea that some people have the gene that that 305 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: lets them makes their peace smell like asparagus when they 306 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: eat it, others don't. And then the reverse of that, 307 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 1: some people have the gene that allows them to smell 308 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:49,280 Speaker 1: the the the asparagus smell and others don't. So which 309 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:51,400 Speaker 1: way is it? Yeah? And as as far as I 310 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:54,120 Speaker 1: can tell, in all the literature that is built up 311 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 1: on this, and there's a ton of it, by the way, 312 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 1: the consensus seems to be it could be a little 313 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:01,040 Speaker 1: from column A M B right, a little bit that 314 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: you could smell it or you can't smell it, you 315 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,360 Speaker 1: can produce, you can produce it, or you can't produce it. 316 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: I mean, I think this is we'll put this in 317 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,800 Speaker 1: the area of consciousness. We don't know asparagus. We don't 318 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 1: know exactly why pie smells like asparagus or doesn't. And 319 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: we don't know the center of consciousness. Yeah, those are 320 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: the two big ones that science. Science has on the 321 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: blackboard if you have to cross them off. But you know, 322 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: while people are worrying over the genetics of asparagus p 323 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 1: there's a lot of precious euro kinees's going straight down 324 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: the toilet and that stuff is gold. I love. This 325 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 1: story to me is about innovation, It's about imagination, creativity. 326 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: And one guy by the name of Earl Braxon. Now 327 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: this is a portable toilets businessman who also has a 328 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: pharmaceuticals firm pharmacuticles dot org. And he figured out that 329 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: if you could ease out this enzyme euro kinds, and 330 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,159 Speaker 1: you could figure out the sort of volume that you 331 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: need to to really make enough of it, well then 332 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:13,240 Speaker 1: maybe you could turn a profit in a medical world. 333 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: But how how to collect all of this urine? But first, 334 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:19,880 Speaker 1: let's talk about why euro kindness is important. I mean, basically, 335 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 1: it's it's gold because it is used to dissolve blood 336 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: clots and heart patients. So it has an an enormous 337 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: potential out there as a as as a as a medicine. 338 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:32,679 Speaker 1: So even even though this idea that you can just 339 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: drink your urine for health is complete bunk. Here we 340 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:39,000 Speaker 1: see someone who has who has said, yes, there is 341 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:42,960 Speaker 1: this a fabulous medicine hidden in our urine. All we 342 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:44,359 Speaker 1: have to do is find a way to extract. And 343 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: of course that becomes the problem, especially if your businesses 344 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 1: is poor to bodies. Because we've we've all seen a 345 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,639 Speaker 1: portable toilet before. We know there's not there's not always 346 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: a lot of technology going on there. Generally it consists 347 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,760 Speaker 1: of a of a dark hole into which we cast 348 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: things and then we we just assume that somebody else 349 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 1: is going to suck it out with a with a 350 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: giant tank on the back of the truck. Well, and 351 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:08,480 Speaker 1: they do right, and then they deliver it over to 352 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: Braxton's business. And that's where it becomes really important that 353 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:17,840 Speaker 1: those participants that Coachella with full bladders are are really 354 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 1: depositing this, because it turns up that he, along with 355 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,480 Speaker 1: biochemists Dr. E. Kendall Pie, they created a system that 356 00:18:24,520 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 1: could separate the enzyme from the urine and come up 357 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:31,040 Speaker 1: with a viable product that could be used in a 358 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 1: life threatening situation where you you know, you have the 359 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 1: blood clot and a lung and you just get this 360 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:42,359 Speaker 1: injection and poof this enzyme actually dissolves it. It's pretty 361 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:45,719 Speaker 1: amazing stuff. And in the process of of seeing this 362 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,439 Speaker 1: this stuff out of the urine and to u the 363 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: medical industry, that millions and millions of dollars are made. 364 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,000 Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. Well, yeah, that there we go. Yes, 365 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 1: there's always profit at the bottom of the toilet there, 366 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,639 Speaker 1: but again there's a there's there's a pretty nickel process 367 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: involved in extracting neuro kinny. There's a certain amount of 368 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: volume of urine that is required, so you're probably not 369 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 1: gonna really benefit from starting to do it yourself with 370 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,399 Speaker 1: your own golden leavings. That's a really good point. By 371 00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: the way, just in case you guys are there are like, hey, 372 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: this is something I could get into a little niche business. 373 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 1: And by the way, I think that Braxton has cornered 374 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:23,879 Speaker 1: the market on that. I mean he's got he's got 375 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:25,959 Speaker 1: quite a little business of porta potties. He's been doing 376 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: it for a while too, so this is not something 377 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,680 Speaker 1: that's spread up in the last even few years. Here's 378 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,080 Speaker 1: a little factoid for you. For one of his porta 379 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:39,719 Speaker 1: potty lines, he tried to use um the phrase here's Johnny. Oh, 380 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: I like the well I was thinking of the shining 381 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:46,879 Speaker 1: Well you're thinking of Johnny Carson. Yeah, And the Tonight 382 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 1: Show sued him and said, you cannot use our famous 383 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 1: term here's Johnny for our porta potties. Wow. See, I 384 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: would think it would be bad because I'm picturing Jack 385 00:19:57,359 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 1: Nicholson hacking through the side of the portagon one and 386 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,439 Speaker 1: to do my business. Maybe that's the other part of it. 387 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,719 Speaker 1: They're like and subconsciously people think that they're gonna get 388 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,880 Speaker 1: hacked to death while they're popping a squat um. But 389 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:12,199 Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is the essence of just persistence. 390 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:16,199 Speaker 1: Because even after Carson died, he tried again, well you 391 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 1: know name and again This Night Show said well, yeah, alright, 392 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: what else could we get from urine? I mean something groundbreaking? Yeah, 393 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: And this is amazing because I know what some of 394 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: your thinking. You're thinking, all right, well you can you 395 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: can get your knees out of urine through this complex process. 396 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,679 Speaker 1: But that's not really the same as saying, you know, 397 00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,480 Speaker 1: urine has curative properties, so there's magic in the urine 398 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,359 Speaker 1: that can be used to to to heal um a 399 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 1: wounded or aging or disease human body. But this really 400 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,639 Speaker 1: I think settles the argument. According to a two thousand 401 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: thirteen paper published in the journal stem Cells, Wake Forest 402 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 1: Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenitive Medicine and colleagues identified 403 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: stem cells in urine. So stem cells. Again, stem cells 404 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 1: are important because they're the of the children of the future, right. 405 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: They are cells that can become various different types of 406 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 1: cell types. There there are blank slate so in the 407 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: you can you can use and we talked about this 408 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 1: before in the especially when we're talking about the tissue 409 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,440 Speaker 1: growing and the potential to grow new organs. These are 410 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: the blank slates that can be used to create tissues 411 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: of varying types and then create new replacement flesh, replacement organs, 412 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:26,399 Speaker 1: you name it. I mean, it's key and cord to 413 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:28,960 Speaker 1: the future of medicine, and how to get those stem 414 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,679 Speaker 1: cells has been the problem so far. So to know 415 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,919 Speaker 1: that this is a viable resource, we don't know exactly, 416 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: you know, to what extent, but to know that this 417 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: the resource is pretty huge and the team successfully directed 418 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,879 Speaker 1: stem cells from year and to become the ladder type 419 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: cells we're talking about smooth muscle and uh, we're talking 420 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 1: about the cells in line the bladder, but the yurine 421 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:53,879 Speaker 1: derived cells could also form bone, cartilage, fat skeletal muscle, 422 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: nerve and endough flial cells which line blood vessels. In fact, 423 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,879 Speaker 1: and the bone thing here, researchers at the Chinese Academy 424 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:05,960 Speaker 1: of Sciences at the Kwandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem 425 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:09,919 Speaker 1: Cell Biology and regenera IF Medicine have created a potential 426 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: method for growing teeth from stem cells obtained in urine. 427 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,240 Speaker 1: And when I mentioned this to our video producer, Tyler Klang, 428 00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:19,880 Speaker 1: do you know what he said? What did he say? 429 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,719 Speaker 1: He said, Well, that would make you a real potty mouth. Ah. Now, 430 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: one thing to keep in mind about this study is 431 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 1: that what they were able to achieve here is they 432 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:33,200 Speaker 1: grew tooth like structures on mice, so soft, tooth like structure, 433 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: so um. And so it's not like that the mouse had, like, 434 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,879 Speaker 1: you know, a big mouthful of human teeth. Think more like, 435 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 1: you know, you threw a mouse and some teeth into 436 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,400 Speaker 1: into two different teleporters and combine them into one horrific 437 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: thing on the other end. That this is the very 438 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,240 Speaker 1: beginning of the ability to grow teeth. But but it 439 00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: sheds some light on the future where you can imagine 440 00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,919 Speaker 1: a day when when we can look to urine, this 441 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: thing that for ages we have just you know, washed away, 442 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,320 Speaker 1: we can go to that and uh and then use 443 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: the stem cells in the urine to heal the body. 444 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 1: So we have in a a one episode called I 445 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: think it was called Doctor in Your Toilet, But we 446 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: talked about how important it is that you know, what 447 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: comes out of our body can really help direct us 448 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: in terms of curing ourselves, and how in future senses 449 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 1: we might be able to do more of a d 450 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 1: I Y set up. But can you imagine, um, you know, 451 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:31,800 Speaker 1: a hundred years from now, sort of taking some of 452 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,040 Speaker 1: the stem cells out and being like loss of tooth, 453 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 1: better put it in the little stem cell incubator and uh, 454 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: you know maybe in a couple of hours I have 455 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:41,640 Speaker 1: a new tooth to put in there. Yeah, you would 456 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,080 Speaker 1: go into the dentist and the first thing you do 457 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: is you just pean a cup and then they we 458 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: take it from there. Um. You know, I like what 459 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: you're You're talking about the doctor and the toilet. You know, 460 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: I often think of that when I I think about 461 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:55,879 Speaker 1: the human need to look at the things that come 462 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 1: out of our bodies. You know. Uh, and you know 463 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,879 Speaker 1: because because again it's something is simple with seeing blood 464 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 1: in the urine is a is a sign that something's wrong. 465 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: If if there's something weird about our stool, that's another 466 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: sign that something's wrong. There's something weird coming out of 467 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:10,439 Speaker 1: our nose, out of our mouth. I mean, it's just 468 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: at it's very basics. It's it's the organism evaluating itself 469 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,199 Speaker 1: looking to the urine for answers, and our techniques of 470 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:20,560 Speaker 1: looking at the urine have only improved, and again we're 471 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: still finding things. That's That's just it blows my mind 472 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,360 Speaker 1: to think of that. Yeah, and I also started thinking 473 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,119 Speaker 1: about Freud. We said that was like one of the 474 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:32,359 Speaker 1: phases of children is creating, Yeah, creating the thing that 475 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: came out of their body. And they're so excited because 476 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: they're like, I created that, I did that. Um, alright, 477 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,440 Speaker 1: let's not bring for it into it. Instead, let's talk 478 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: about urine and courtship in the animal kingdom, because you 479 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: know that's happening there. Oh yeah, I mean it's it's 480 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,200 Speaker 1: pretty huge. Um. You know, we've talked about especially when 481 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: we we've we've talked about parasites in the past. We 482 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 1: often talk about mouse urine, and of course mice live 483 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: in this world of senses, a world of smells, so 484 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: they live in a world of pheromones, and that's where 485 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: the pheromones are coming out in the form of urine. 486 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:04,359 Speaker 1: So in that sense, my mouse urine is a form 487 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: of communication, and you see that in other examples. I'm 488 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:09,359 Speaker 1: thinking about crayfish and I'm essentially thinking about this as 489 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 1: the urine fight club because the reason is is that 490 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:18,639 Speaker 1: males male crayfish will respond to urinary signals of female crayfish, 491 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: but the females will exhibit aggressive behavior at the same time. 492 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:27,800 Speaker 1: So it's thought that by stimulating aggressive behavior and males, 493 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 1: that females are gauging the male size and their strength 494 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,919 Speaker 1: and trying to figure out who is going to be 495 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,399 Speaker 1: the fittest male to fertilize their eggs. And this was 496 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: actually information that was found by Fiona Barry and Thomas 497 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,919 Speaker 1: Brighthapped from the University of Whole UK. I kind of 498 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 1: love to peek into that lab and see these crayfish 499 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,119 Speaker 1: fighting it out. Now. Another animal of note is of 500 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,640 Speaker 1: course the giraffe, and I've been reading a lot about 501 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,320 Speaker 1: giraffes recently, m probably more so than most people for 502 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:00,679 Speaker 1: fun um sort of. Um, so, my son has a 503 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: book on giraffes. It's only five pages long and it 504 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: stuff called the Baby Giraffe, and it only has limited 505 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: information about their life cycle. But I'm I'm asked to 506 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: read this book over and over again, and oddly enough, 507 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 1: it does not get into what we're about to talk 508 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 1: about here, and that is the fact that male giraffes 509 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:20,159 Speaker 1: assess female fertility by testing the females urine to detect 510 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: their reproductive status. Yeah. I thought that's just pretty interesting. 511 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,359 Speaker 1: They act as a kind of piece at fertility test. 512 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean, I'm not suggesting that in the 513 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,919 Speaker 1: human species, but in some ways it might be more convenient, right, 514 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: because you just assess that the quality of the p 515 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: and say, ah, yes, okay, you're an asteris. But the 516 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: thing is is that the female draffe is in heat 517 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,959 Speaker 1: and asters only one day out of every two weeks. 518 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,520 Speaker 1: So it would makes sense that they would have such 519 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: a refined system to pinpoint when that is, and they 520 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,360 Speaker 1: don't have a lot of time to waste. I mean, 521 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 1: the giraffes are prey animals. They have to be on 522 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,159 Speaker 1: the run. And I remember correctly, they're only sleeping thirty 523 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,960 Speaker 1: minutes a day in in small chunks. So it's it's 524 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: a it's a life on the run. It's a life 525 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,280 Speaker 1: of always keeping your head up and noticing what's going on. 526 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: So you don't have a lot of time for extra 527 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: fooling around. You need to get right down to business. 528 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,640 Speaker 1: You need and know that this is going to benefit 529 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 1: your jeans. And if you're curious about how this urine 530 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: tasting is going down, just to let you know, the 531 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,199 Speaker 1: female can choose who to give her data to by 532 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: choosing to urinate or not when the male lowers his 533 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 1: head to her rump. So it's not just that the 534 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: males are going up to females all day long and 535 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: having a taste. But you know, there's certain times that 536 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,879 Speaker 1: the female says, okay, fine, it's a little more refined 537 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:42,840 Speaker 1: than that. So in a sense, there's a little more romance. Sure, yeah, sure, 538 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 1: and you know, so you know there's a little bit 539 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,359 Speaker 1: more selectivity going on. She's not just giving her data 540 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: out willy nilly, Okay. Well, I think that's fascinating. I 541 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: think that the book on the baby Drafte could have 542 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: been six pages long, and we could have we could 543 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,439 Speaker 1: have gotten that info in there. I think that you're 544 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:00,240 Speaker 1: going to write that book on the drafte, but I'm sensing, yeah, 545 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: six pages of scientific wonder. So there you have it, 546 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: a little insight into the salty leavings that we all 547 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,400 Speaker 1: face every day, and hopefully we'll all leave here with 548 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 1: a little better understanding about the possibilities contained there in. 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