WEBVTT - Hulking Out With Hysterical Strength 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.680 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:13.720 Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:16.439 My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:18.560 tell me this. If you ever just holked out something, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:20.480 we'll provoke you. And if you're just flying to over 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.800 like a rage and you're suddenly able to tap previously 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:27.440 inaccessible reserves of strength in order to demolish things. Yeah, 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.319 it was so hungry. One time I was angry and 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.199 there was his jar of pasta sauce, and I just 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:37.920 and I popped it open like that. Is that what 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:39.880 you're talking about? More or less? You know, Holking out 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.720 like tends to of course imply a you've got the 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.200 Incredible Hulk Bruce Bruce Banner due to get my shirt 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.519 tour and everything. Yeah, Twin Green, did you okay? Was 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.640 that after you ate the sauce? This wine? It was 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.240 so easy to open it expired? But of course the 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.760 incredible Hulk comic character, due to radiation, he gets angry. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:05.039 He muta into this genormous green muscle man who just 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.960 goes on a rampage in destroy right, and he's usually 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.480 angry or stressed. I mean, he's he's an agitated state, 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.839 right right, And then of course there's Huole Cogan who 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:18.200 also hulks out. Are you familiar with this? Yes I am, Yes, 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.839 So you've seen a Whole Cogan match? I have, yeah, 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:25.119 how on the TV and I turned it on once 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.600 and I admired his his wonderful mustache and how could 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:32.000 I not sit there and be riveted by his blonde 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.640 sheen of hair. Well, the man was a consinate performer, 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:38.440 it's true. But he would do this thing where he 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.520 would get beat down at last by the bad guy, 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.200 by the enemy, by the heel, and then he starts 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.880 hulking out. He's he starts getting up like he's he's 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.000 shakes his arms, there's a lot of shaking of the body. 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.880 But but what is implied is that he has been 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:56.120 beaten down to the point where the rage is building 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:01.200 and he's hulking out his superhuman strength is kicking. Yeah. Yeah, 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.400 And that's what we're talking about, what not Whole Cogan, 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.320 of course, but we're talking or like I don't know, 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:11.720 a hundred pound moms who are lifting pound cars off 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:16.280 of their kid who's pinned underneath. Yes, that's the yeah, yeah, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.760 I think we've seen this motif pop up in any 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.480 number things where it's the idea that the average person, 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.840 you don't have to be Hulk Cogan or Bruce Banner, 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.280 but the average person can somehow tap into the strength 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:32.760 and and suddenly someone in human strength to save somebody 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:37.079 or to get out of some sort of um bad situation. Yeah, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.200 And it's it's an intriguing idea because I know we've 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.920 talked about this idea before about how we only use 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:43.919 tempercent of our brain, which we know is a myth, right, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.679 but it's sort of similar like, oh, well, we only 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:51.200 use perhaps of our muscle fibers, and that there's a 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:56.360 super human strength available to us. And that's sort of right. Yeah, 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.880 I mean, under the right circumstances, this could be a 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.760 a possible condition. Now, of course, medical science doesn't actually 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.520 recognize something called hysterical strength, which is what we're talking right, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:08.840 because for I mean, for one thing, how do you 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.720 study it? Um? Yeah? Do you you'd be like, all right, 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.840 we need um, you know, eighteen moms and their beloved 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:20.239 children to participate in the study. Um. Just warning, fair warning, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.080 we may have to stick your toddler under a buick 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:28.200 you know, fall down on the kid um, you will 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.440 sign right here, right, it's not gonna fly. And in 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.040 most studies so it's difficult to to to study. But 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:36.760 we do know some I mean, we've know a lot 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:39.600 about how the human body works, so we are able 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.720 to to say, yeah, some version of this exists, and 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.320 adrenaline is the key player, right, and we again, this 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.760 has been observed over and over again, and and you know, 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.520 we've got anecdotal evidence of it. I've got a few here. 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.920 Two Lawrence Pille, Georgia. Right around the corner. Right around 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:01.520 the corner, Angela Cavallo lifted a Chevrolet and Paula from 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.520 her son Tony after it fell off the jacks that 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.520 it held it up while he worked underneath the car. 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.760 She lifted the car high enough and long enough for 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.720 two neighbors to replace the jacks uh and pull Tony 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:13.680 from beneath the car, but she didn't actually hold it 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.760 up long enough for them to finish working on it. Yeah, 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.840 here's another. In two thousand six Tuson, Arizona, Tim Boyle 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.560 watched as a Chevrolet Camaro hit an eighteen year old 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:25.960 by the name of Kyle. The car pinned tile to 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.640 the ground. He's still alive right underneath it. So Boyle 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.960 runs out to the scene of the accident and lifts 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:32.800 the car up while the driver of the car pull 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.440 and pulled the kid to safety. So again a situation 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.520 where cars pinning somebody. Somebody sees it happen, runs out, 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.440 hulks out, Yeah, you don't have to be a mom. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.400 You can be a concerned citizen, which which I kind 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.760 of like because you know, we recently did the podcast 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.400 about how people behave in crowds, and so I feel 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:51.880 like this is a nice little panacea too, like, well, okay, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:53.880 people can be jerks sometimes, but they can also be 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.719 um terribly great. And there are some there are also 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.880 some phenomenal videos of of multiple people coming to the 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.200 ascue of of individuals that are trapped in or under vehicles. 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.320 There's one recent one who that was, you know, a 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.600 huge success on YouTube. Whar It's like an entire town 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.279 coming out to help. So it's pinned um and and 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.400 that also was a nice counterweight to the crowd apathy 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.920 we were talking about before. UM. But let's talk about 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:22.159 why this could happen. What you know, again, medical science 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.800 doesn't necessarily recognize it that we don't we can't really 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.160 study it, but we know in theory that it's very 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.960 possible and adrenaline has a lot to do with it. Yeah. Basically, 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:33.320 I have one thing you have to do is just 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.640 think about, like the last time you were afraid or stressed, 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.000 and think about how your body felt, all right, because 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.720 generally what we're talking about here is adrenaline's effect on 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.120 the body all part of the flight or light situation 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:46.120 where there's some sort of danger, so you need to 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.520 be able to run towards it and run away from it, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.080 run away from it, and adrenaline put your body through 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.680 a number of changes to facilitate either of those, because 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.960 you're gonna want to run fast or you're gonna you're 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.840 gonna want to be able to hit heart. Yeah, and 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.400 let's talk about the nuts and bolts about this, okay. Um. Basically, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.800 you've got stressors engaging the hypothalamus. There is the region 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:08.240 of the brain that's responsible for maintaining the balance between 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.880 stress and relaxation. Right, it's the homeostasis part. Right, keeps 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.839 everything nice and calm unless it needs to to hook out. Um. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.840 And that is so when you are hooking out, that 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:22.159 that hypothalamus then says to your adrenal glands, hey, you 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.599 need to go ahead and tell the sympathetic nervous system 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.719 that you've just hit defcon for you know, and adonlin 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:33.000 and nora adrenaline are then released and they just completely 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.760 flood your body. So the heart rate rises, increasing, respiration 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.719 dilation with the pupils, digestion slows down, and then the 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.720 most important part, it allows your muscles to contract more 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.440 than normal. This is if we could, you know, underline 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.479 with our voices, this is the most important part that 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.920 muscles contracting. Right, Yeah, I think of it. It's kind 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.320 of like the government of your nervous system is temporarily 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.880 giving increased power to the muscles. It's it's like putting 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.400 your body under martial law and saying, all right, armed 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.000 forces of the muscles. Normally you don't have this much power. 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.200 But but since we're in a pretty dire situation, I'm 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.600 temporarily authorizing you the use of additional force, which I 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.760 am I'm hoping you will use to run away from 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.480 the enemy or leg drop it. Right, We're taking resources 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.280 away from digestion and give them to you muscle fibers. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.200 The lucky ducks. Um. So yeah, they adrenal and just 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.240 completely acts on the muscles. It allows them to contract more. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.800 And then when the body is in a calm um 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.040 allowing them to contract more than if the body is 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.240 in a calm or neutral state. And um, it allows 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.920 for blood to flow more easily to your muscles and 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.400 more oxygen is carried to your muscles. So that results 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.640 in a muscle activation at a much higher level. And 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:46.800 you're also converting gluck again uh into glucose, which gives 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.360 muscles a sudden burst of energy. And again, this is 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.280 what is happening when you're lifting a really heavy object, 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:56.880 or you're running for your life or uh, you're running 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.880 to something or if if I hope this is an 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.520 up and you're electrocuted. Yeah, now this this is really 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.280 mind blowing. Here is an example of how we we 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.360 think this works with with the hulking out. You could 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.560 in theory hulk out if if a live wire, we're struck, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.400 we're stuck to your body. Or he was struck by lightning, 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.760 which explains why whole Cogan when he's walking out does 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.360 kind of look like he's being shocked by He does 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.440 kind of look like tesla like undergoing the currents. Yes, 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.760 I mean, anyone who's ever touched a live electrical connection 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.360 on on accident, of course, knows that it's quite possible 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:34.199 to be blown clear across the room. And I cannot 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.280 stress how little we want you to try this at home. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.920 Do not touch a live wire just to experience muscle. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.120 And we'll talk about why you would never want to 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.280 do that in a moment um because sometimes, I mean, 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.839 the best case scenarios that you get blown across the room, 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.800 right to survive that. And the reason that you're blown 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.559 across the room isn't because the electrical current pushed you. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.880 The force is actually coming from your own muscles. Yeah, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:00.720 and that's that's just crazy to think about, because we've 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:02.560 seen this is one of those things that like hulking 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.360 out just shows up again and again and TV shows, 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.120 movies and and it's and it's generally um, you know, 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.200 done with like they do the effect by attaching a 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.280 wire to somebody's back and jerking them back, and so 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.120 it creates this uh, this this idea that that the 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.560 blast of the shock or something, you know, it's like 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.720 thrown away from an explosion or something. But it's really 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:26.439 a situation where your your limbs just suddenly just spasm 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.040 out with this strength, and you it's kind of like 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.000 a cat being startled and leaping off its feet step 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:34.840 instead of just going up into the air, you're across 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.000 the room and through the coffee table. And think of 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.439 it this way too. It's it's the same extreme stress 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.760 right like your body is just getting it instantaneously, just 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.120 like it would in another instance. But you know, you 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.640 just don't normally put the two together. Electrical current and 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.800 child trapped under car. It's the same. Your body as 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.440 undergoing the same response. And this is from a New 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.600 Scientist article. It says the electric current typically flows into 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.760 one arm, through the abdomen, and out one or both legs, 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.000 which can cause mos to the muscles and the body 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.480 to contract at once. The results are unpredictable, but given 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.720 the strength of the leg and buck muscles um this 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.000 can often send the victims flying across the room with 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.520 no voluntary action on their part. Combined with the unexpected 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.559 shock of an electrocution, this feels as if you are 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:21.280 flung rather than flinging yourself. Wow. Now imagine that we 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.200 could manipulate this, and we took all our nb NBA 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:29.040 players and I had like some sort of electrical device 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.920 and planet so that at just the right time when 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.319 they're about to go put a layoup. I don't know, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.920 I'll go up, you know, when they're about to score 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:44.240 a basketball goal on the basketball hole. Um they they yeah, 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.680 the fish net on the circle. Yeah. So so like 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.480 you know, the basketball player will hit a button on 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.320 his wrist and then wham, he starts flying through the 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.800 air and just massive slam dunk. I'm just saying that 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.840 maybe we'll get there with science, yeah, yeah, or we 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.440 could harness the power of lightning, yes, and just make 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:04.800 them play into Yeah, so you just able to have 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.360 random bursts of incredible strength throughout. Can you imagine Michael 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.000 Jordan's like lightning, like just flying through the air and dunking. Yeah. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.000 I mean I'm not a big basketball person, but that 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.560 is exciting. Yeah, although I wouldn't want any harm to 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.600 come to them. More lightning and super strength in my 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.040 team's sports place. Yes, then I'll watch. So. Yeah, being 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.280 thrown across the room can save your life, you know, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:29.439 by breaking the electrical contact that you are holding onto. Right, 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.240 So this is actually a good thing. But there are 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.240 other cases, particularly where the source of the current is 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.280 something that the person is holding. The victims arms and 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.720 hand muscles may actually lock onto it. Yeah, and this 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.199 is where it gets deadly. They're unable to let go, 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.480 and if nobody intervenes, or nothing else intervenes, then they 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:50.400 could die through heart up fibrillation or electrocution. Yeah, this 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:51.560 is where we get the whole idea of life. If 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.920 somebody's being shocked, you're supposed to hit them away from 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.880 it with a broom handle or something. I've never heard that, 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.360 but it's good to know. Yeah, I don't know. I 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.600 can't remember the origin of that. Maybe it's a story 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.600 from like my family's history, like somebody who's being shocked 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:11.760 and somebody had to hit sixty four. And yeah, sometimes 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.360 it's an individual shocked and they don't fly away. They're 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.880 stuck there is getting more and more electrocuted, more and 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.679 more a power coursing through their body, and the only 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.760 way to get them off is to knock them away 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.679 with something that is not going to conduct electricity. Yeah, 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:28.479 because again remember that this is a massive skeletal muscle contraction, 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:30.920 and yeah, they're they're not going to be able to 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.480 you know, let go of this themselves. So that's good 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.200 to know in case I'll always have a broom nearby 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:39.720 in my house. Well that's because of you're a witch. Yeah, 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.079 more than that in a future episode. Yeah yeah, I 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:44.240 mean Halloween's coming up. We can talk about that more later. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.480 Um that, I did want to mention that that I'm 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.520 sure a lot of people have. You know, everybody actually 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.280 has had some sort of um dalliance with adrenaline, right, 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.600 I mean, whether it's you know that you picked up 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.920 a thirty pound car, or you just felt fearful, you've 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.880 something in the middle of the night and you know, 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.920 you just your your body is just flooded with energy, 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.760 or even something like an EpiPen for people who have allergies, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.520 you know what I'm talking about, or albuter all the inhaler. 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.080 It's like you get that feeling like you just run 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:18.760 a marathon. Also, if you ever go to Thailand, a 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.280 tie red bull kind of feels like this. Yeah, it's 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.000 like it's different than normal. I don't know the exactly people, 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.480 because it's like back in the day when Coca Cola 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.120 actually contained cocaine, that this red bull, this tie red 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.920 bull has some sort of like crystalline. I wouldn't. I 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.480 don't know if it actually contains um, you know, anything nefarious, 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:44.160 but it is. It's like sweeter tasting, definitely like blows 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.920 you up in terms of energy. And it also comes 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.280 in like a little bottle that looks kind of like 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.599 a medicine bottle. Wow, this is just getting atter. And 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.000 and it's red Bull. Yeah, it's red Bull. It's branded 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.000 red Bull, or at least the bottle I I purchased 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.200 from a street vendor had red Bull on the side 0:13:58.200 --> 0:13:59.720 of it. So now I know what you did. The 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.480 our time you're in Thailand. I only had the one, 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.360 but ever since I've kind of every now and then 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.640 I'll be like, I could order some thy red Bull online. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.599 That's somebody's got to be sold it on eBay. But 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.080 if you've ever been if anyone listening to this has 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.480 ever been to Thailand and and or lives in Thailand 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.959 and uh and has access to Thai red Bull, I'm 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.240 not asking you to send it to me, but do 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.120 you send us I would be very curious to see 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.640 if everybody else has had the same same experience. It 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.440 is actually a different, different kind of chemical things and 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:31.320 just out of nowhere, like you know, months later thinking 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.960 oh I should really get some of this online. Yeah, okay, 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.080 I'm just here amazing because it's possibly I had an 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.160 isolated incident where I'm just kind of like, oh wow, 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.840 this is an amazing it's all in my head. But anyway, 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.040 I'm digressing away from our hulking here. Yeah. Yeah, Actually, 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.120 right after this break, we are going to talk more 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.000 about adrenaline and what it has to do with cherry 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:55.240 Trees in Washington, d C. This podcast is brought to 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:59.520 you by Intel, the sponsors of Tomorrow and the Discovery Channel. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:04.200 At Intel, we believe curiosity is the spark which drives innovation. 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.320 Join us at curiosity dot com and explore the answers 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:13.600 to life's questions. All right, now we're back, and before 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.640 we get back, I do want to mention that the 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.440 hulking out that is experienced by UM wrestlers like Hulk 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:23.280 Hogan in the United States in in Japanese pro wrestling, Uh, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:24.960 they have a very similar thing where it's like the 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.240 individual summons their fighting spirit and I think it's tied 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.640 very much in with like you know, old Bushito code stuff, 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.880 but it's a very similar situation. Where the individual has 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.680 been beaten down, he's taken damage, and suddenly he's able 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.920 to tap into this warrior spirit and fight back. So 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.400 I'm just throwing it up, Okay, Yeah, I mean, and 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.640 I'm sure that whole Cogan was legitimately hulking out to 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.840 right like it wasn't just a show. Well, the warrior 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:51.840 spirit was shining for take it till you make it right. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.600 But speaking of of the Japanese um um, an individual 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.760 of Japanese descent actually plays the crucial role in the 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:05.440 isolation of adrenaline. Yeah, Jochici Takamini. Uh, he's a Japanese 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:09.120 chemist who was actually in the United States, and well 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.200 I believe he was between Japan and the United States 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.960 of the time that he was looking into this. He 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:16.720 actually brought it to the market. As you say, he 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.960 isolated adrenaline and this was the first hormone to be 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:23.800 obtained in pure form and called quote the blood pressure 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:27.120 raising principle of the super renal glands. You may know 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:32.200 it as US patent. Yes, and we're talking one made 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.880 interested in that. But before then, George Oliver and Edward 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.080 Shaeffer had discovered that when the secretions of adrenal plans 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.520 were extracted and injected into an experimental animal that could 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.200 raise blood pressure, and a lot of people took interest 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.840 from that. Uh Takamini actually visited their lab at Johns 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.520 Hopkins and he was welcomed there and he was shown 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.840 the full scientific cur courtesy of you know how they 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.760 did it, um, and then he took that knowledge with 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.200 him m back to his own lab and crystallize the 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:07.120 hormone and then filed a patent. He was incredibly savvy, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.720 and he had studied patent law, and some people would 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.600 accuse him of sort of taking that technology and and 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.560 and um being a bit of a scoundrel. But the 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.359 fact of the matter is is that he actually was 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.520 taking it to another level and he did have the smarts, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.240 the patent lost smarts. So how's it used? Back in 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.360 the day? Physicians carried it in their bags, and it's 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.760 said that Gene Tunney, the champion boxer, always kept some 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.200 on hand when he went into the ring. Yeah, so 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.480 you know, it wasn't just our our current day UH 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:43.840 sports stars trying to bulk themselves up or hold themselves up. Now, 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.560 I also know there is there is an adrenaline concoction 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:50.080 that's used when the you know, when when they're doing 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.600 the whole cut me thing with the boxer, you know, 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.800 and they're they're like touching up their face. There was 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.240 something Oh yeah, yeah, I'm thinking Rocky right now, exactly 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:58.600 what you're talking about. One of the things that they 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:02.000 smear on their faces. So like, is uh some is 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.040 some sort of topical Yeah, topical thing to cut down 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.240 on bleeding. Huh, but yeah, not the kind of makes 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:13.640 that part of their face whole coat. Yeah yeah, but 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:14.919 but I mean it's it's not not the kind of 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.080 reaction we're talking about here. It's yeah, yeah, yeah. But 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.520 the drug transformed surgery at that time, where it was 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.920 usually used to control hemorrhages you just pointed out. Um. 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.679 It also found uses in cardiology and the treatment of 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.040 asthma and other allergies, and of course it was the 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.479 wonder drug touted to help everything, although it could not. 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:37.200 But it was prescribed for conditions like deafness, um in 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.239 Addison's disease, which it actually didn't do anything. In the 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:44.080 Nightmare on Elm Street remake, some kids injected to stay 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.919 awake so that Freddie doesn't get them. It seems like 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.800 that would just go terribly awry. Well I think it. 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.480 Well it did. Yeah, that didn't really work out for 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.879 everybody because now now you're you're all pumped up on 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.840 adrenaline and Freddy's coming after you, so you're like, your 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.320 heart's got to be bursting. Yeah, but the thing is 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:03.040 he comes for your in your dreams. So it's like 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.560 they're keeping from Yeah, but somehow, I'm gonna guess they 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.440 still fell asleep even though they were pumped up with adrenaline. Right, 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.320 I haven't seen it, but that's how those kids go. Yeah. Yeah, 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:17.359 it's just that's how the cookie crumbles. Um. So cherry Trees, Yeah, 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.320 what does adrenaline have to do with cherry trees? Exactly? 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.479 Tack Amine just he did great with this drug, right, 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.880 He just got all sorts of riches and jewels from it, 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:30.360 and he used the royalties from it to create diff 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.320 like three new companies, and he got very interested in 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:38.359 Japanese American relations, right yeah. So, so as a token 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:41.719 of goodwill from the Japanese people to the United States, 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.600 cherry Trees. Yeah. First, Lady Helen Herron Taft was working 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:49.280 to beautify the title basin around the Potomac River in Washington, 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:53.159 d C. And he gave them two thousand cherry trees, so, 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:55.560 which I thought was fascinating because you don't mean, you 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:59.480 know of DC is you know cherry tree blossoms. That's 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.879 when the finding things physical features of Washington, d C. 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:06.680 But but there you go. It's all has its ties 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:11.640 back to adrenaline. Huh. Now, now do these trees hulk out? 0:20:12.480 --> 0:20:15.600 I don't know. I doubt it. I'm not going to 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:17.520 hazard to guess. Yeah, alright, so we mentioned about before 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:19.160 the hype of aalmus is the region of the brain 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:22.560 that's responsible for maintaining the balance between stress and relaxation, 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:26.360 between pulk Cogan and like the dude, between between being 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:30.560 chill and being out of control. Um and of course 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:32.159 you know, it's it's kind of like the yoga of 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:35.119 the brain. It's all about like maintaining that balance because 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:37.760 in in the the you know, extremes are bad. You 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:39.560 don't want to be chilled out all the time because 0:20:39.600 --> 0:20:42.520 you're going to forget to eat or you know, or 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.000 something I don't know, You're just gonna you're not gonna 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.080 get anything done or and if you're agitated all the time, Um, 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:50.719 you you may die. Well, we talked about this before, 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.760