WEBVTT - Eggs in the fridge, expired meds, loud sneezes, and more (Mailbag) 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.440 I'm Manny, I'm Noah. This is Devin and this is 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:16.319 no such thing. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.400 The show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:23.479 by actually doing the research. Today's episode is another mail 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:28.000 bag episode. We're gonna be talking about eggs, sneezes, medicine, 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:32.120 the twenty four hour day, and whether grape or strawberry 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.720 is the traditional jelly and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:44.040 No, there's no no such thing, no such thank no touch, 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:56.240 thank touch, thank touch thank all right, We're starting with 0:00:56.280 --> 0:01:00.280 a question from Fran who is based in London. She says, 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.680 just had a somewhat heated debate last night with my 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.280 flatmates about whether eggs should be kept in our fridge 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.640 or not. Our fridge is small and we only have 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.840 one shelf each, so all three of us having our 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.120 own carton of eggs takes up a lot of space. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:17.119 I personally have always grown up with my family keeping 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.240 eggs in the fridge, but one of my flatmates keeps 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.200 harries out on the counter and said we should too. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:24.320 Do they last longer if kept in the fridge or 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:31.240 does it remove any nutritional value? So before we get 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.400 into friend, what do you guys do with regard to eggs. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.319 Oh, you gotta put your eggs fridge? 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.480 Yeah, I think I put a lot of stuff in 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.639 the fridge that maybe doesn't necessarily need. 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.640 To be in the fridge, but eggs just out of space, 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.280 leaving your milk out here. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.279 Yeah, I do think it is a US UK divide 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.600 perhaps in my head. It's just like, yeah, it's gonna 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.920 make it last a little bit longer. Yeah, because it's 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.800 colder in there. What do you leave out of the 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.360 fridge that could be refrigerated? 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.440 Do you think I don't put like potatoes and your 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:00.480 stuff like that the fride? 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:01.200 Interesting? 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:02.280 Big? 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:02.720 Uh? 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:04.760 No ketchup in the fridge. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.800 Guy, ever, Now that's no like my ketchup cold. 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.080 I want my ketchup. Ketchup. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:12.280 You just have open ketchup in your cabinet. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.440 It's not Yeah, it's opened as and I used it 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:15.679 before and then I toasted that. 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:18.359 Yeah it's open though. Yeah, Yeah, it's not sealed. That's 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:18.799 what I mean. 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:23.000 It's it's opened, it's unsealed. 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.359 It doesn't need to be refrigerated, does it say that? Yes? 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.640 Because look we're getting confused here between there's things that 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:30.839 need to be refrigerated. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.000 And there's things that they're that's what we're discussed. 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.160 There's things that there's things that they recommend. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:39.120 Refrigera ketchup is one of those things that they're like, actually, 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.639 it'll be better if you refrigerated. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.840 Well, how quickly are you going through ketchup? 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:47.799 I got a big one from Costco, so it takes 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:48.280 me a while. 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:50.160 So I'm only really using it on like if I 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.320 get a if I make burgers or something like that, 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:53.280 or hot dog. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.000 So it will last a long while. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.560 I've had that ketchup. Look, this is not the first 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.560 time in life that I've done it. Actually just opened 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.160 a new, huge thing of it. 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.400 So but by the time you're getting to the bottom 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:04.720 is you don't notice anything. 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.840 No, that's what I'm saying. I've been through this in 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:07.280 my life. 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.280 Okay, I'm living that way, not just recommending it and 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:11.000 not doing it. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:16.280 I've got bread in the fridge, all vegetables, including potato, butter. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:16.520 And a fridge. 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.359 You put your you put your potatoes in a fridge. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:22.120 Yeat that often, but I've never I've never done that. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.280 No, I don't put them in the fridge. I don't know. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.120 I try to keep most produce. Well, it depends on 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.840 the produce. I mean, but like if it's not cut 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.800 at all, I'm trying to keep it fresh outside, especially 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:34.480 like that. 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.000 Yeah, once you cut it, then I put it once 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:37.320 it's cut. 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.760 Yeah, onions. What about butter for you guys? See, butter 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.520 is interesting because I always grew up butter in the fridge. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:43.320 Yeah. 0:03:43.040 --> 0:03:44.680 Yeah, a couple of years ago I got one of 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:49.240 those butterbell devices. Yeah, it's like a little it's kind 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.120 of like a cover. Yeah, it's like a little contraption. 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.240 You you put water in the bottom and then you 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.640 put butter in kind of the top. Nice you store 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.440 it so it keeps the butter nice and fresh and soft. 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:01.600 Was the water have to do? It? 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:05.200 Like helps seal it once it's in there creates a seal. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.120 So if you're having butter like every day and you're 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.920 gonna actually go through, it's pretty good because it doesn't 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.160 go bad unless it's like sitting for a long time. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.200 Maybe that's it's nice to have really soft butter. 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.120 Yes, I don't put I don't have a lot of 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.520 bread with butter, only using butter when I'm cooking, I'll 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.520 put it from my eggs and it doesn't really matter. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:25.880 But to circle back, I got another fifteen minutes on this. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.800 All three of us put our eggs in the fridge. 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:29.480 Why is that. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.680 I don't know the specifics of it, but I know 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.600 there's a difference between our eggs and UK eggs for 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.320 some reason, like we can't have our eggs outside because 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.560 they'll go bad or something, or we can get I 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.599 don't know, salmon l or something orreas some way that 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.240 they process their eggs in the UK that it's okay 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:48.920 to keep your eggs on the shelf. That's what I've heard. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.000 I don't know what the specifics of it are though, Well. 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:57.000 Just so happens that I do because my wife Mia 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.640 is an executive editor at Business in Cider overseeing health 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:08.360 in science. She's British, so she also knows about this. 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.680 Wow more importantly British. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:12.359 British. 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.320 Okay, So the question of whether or not you need 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.039 to refrigerate your eggs really depends on where you are. 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.880 So if you're in the US, then yes, you do 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.279 have to refrigerate your eggs, and you don't have an option. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.360 And that's because commercially sold eggs in the US are 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:39.480 washed and refrigerated before they're packaged, and that is to 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.599 get rid of any kind of bacteria or dirt that 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:45.839 could be dangerous, such as salmonella, which is a good thing, 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.520 but the problem with that process is that it removes 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:52.960 the protective outer layer called the cuticle. So when those 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.799 eggs are shipped and once they make their way to you, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.000 you need to keep those eggs in the fridge because 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:01.080 they no longer have the protective layer that would defend 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:05.839 the egg from bacteria in your kitchen. Something like salmonella 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.960 thrives in warmth, so if your eggs are on the 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.320 kitchen counter, salmonella can permeate the shell and get into 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.400 the egg. If your egg is made in the US, 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.000 it's different if you're in Europe because in Europe they 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:24.920 don't wash and refrigerate the eggs in processing because their 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.599 goal is to retain the protective outer layer. In Europe 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:33.480 and in the UK, their priority is to package and 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.000 ship and consume the eggs locally, so you're having them 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.719 very fresh and they're retaining that protective outer layer, so 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.760 there isn't time or opportunity for salmonella to permeate the egg. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.240 And that's why in Europe, the best by dates are 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.480 also shorter, so you usually on the package it will 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.600 say that you have less than a month to eat 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.159 the egg, whereas in the US, much bigger country, they're 0:06:55.200 --> 0:07:00.000 transporting these eggs much further. That's the benefit of refrigerating them, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:02.560 and that's why you usually have like six weeks eight 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.000 weeks to eat those eggs. So t LDR. If you're 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:07.800 in the US, you have no option. You need to 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.800 keep them in the fridge. In Europe, it's up to you. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.080 You can keep them in the fridge to preserve freshness, 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.760 but there is perfectly safe outside the fridge as well. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.320 That made sense in tracks with basically what you were saying. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.080 I didn't realize exactly what it was. I didn't realize 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.080 it was literally just what was on the outside of 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:40.840 the show. I assumed it was something more like biological almost. Yeah, like, yes, 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:42.080 this is actually. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:42.480 Much more simple. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:45.800 Yeah, it's funny how many times washing something is actually 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.240 kind of bad in a way, like the chicken debate 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.239 that we've had that people are still mad at us about. 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.440 Yeah, washing the chicken itself, the raw chicken. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.520 Spreads the bacteria around, and with the eggs, washing it 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.080 and refrigerating, it kind of removes like a natural protection 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:01.560 that it has. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:06.240 And I believe the questionnaire lives in London but grew 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:10.320 up in the US. So that's that's why why there's 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.600 confusion and they're arguing with their flatmates, as they say, 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.320 because I was thinking about this, because I was like, 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.880 I don't know. I definitely have seen people keep their eggs, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.520 like you know, upstate or something, and they buy them 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.280 from the farm next door, and it's like, oh, well 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.920 they're not. Now it makes sense. It's like they're not 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:31.160 doing this industrialized process of washing them. You just go 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:32.480 pick it up from the farm and you can keep 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.720 it out. Because I knew it are people who have 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:36.920 chickens and that sort of thing. They're not keeping them 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:38.640 in the fridge and they're eating them that day. 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.600 Probably the chickens aren't putting their stuff in the fridge. 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:44.120 They're talking about. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:44.560 They're keeping them more. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.240 Nobody talks about many. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:49.680 Fridge in there. 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.200 We stayed upstate once and there was like a chicken 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.200 coop in the backyard and the owners were like, feel 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:56.840 free to go back there and pick up any eggs 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:00.079 that's for cooking. So we did, and that well know, 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.400 actually we didn't. We were about to, and then we 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.439 got an email later being like, oh wait a second, 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:05.600 these are the fertilized ones. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:14.520 And I was like traumatized. If chicken, well, they wouldn't 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:15.280 have been born. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:16.480 It would have been. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:24.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, the person it was just it was 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:25.240 just a clumb themselves. 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:29.400 Sure, sure, sure, I remember during COVID. I don't know 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.400 if this was like a national thing, but certainly in 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.319 our friend group, we just started eating a ship ton 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.199 of eggs because they're just easy to make, you know. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:35.560 Yeah. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.439 I wasn't really cooking all that much until everything shut down. 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.200 So I was eating a ton of eggs. And then 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:43.720 there was like a lot of discourse on Twitter at 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:46.120 the time about how that's actually bad. You shouldn't be 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.640 eating that much, that many eggs. 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.800 I could be shooting up here, What do you want 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.559 from me? It's like. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.200 Eggs, Yeah, shut the hell. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.520 Up unless you're Unless you do it. It's like, don't 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.400 turn on me if you're eating ten eggs a day. 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.199 Sure, just like anything, Yeah, what's next? 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:07.760 Next up? 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.320 We're staying on the expiration dates? Okay. Theme This is 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:16.200 from Steph I'm quoting now. That is in stest's voice. Okay, 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.760 so you know how you buy medicine tail and all prescriptions, 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.640 NIQ will whatever, and there's a date for when it expires. 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.960 Why does it expire? Like I get that cheese goes bad, 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.400 milk spoils, vegetables rot, But what is the actual reason 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:35.560 why pills or medicine go back. That's a great question 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:36.080 as this. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:38.040 I don't know if they go bad. 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:39.960 I think they just become less potent, right. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.760 That's my thought, And I always think about this when 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:48.199 I go visit my family. There's like the kid's bathroom 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.800 and you open the closet there and it's like kids. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.720 First of all, there's no children living there anymore, so 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:59.040 it's like kids advil or kids time. Literally it's from 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.880 before I was born. It's from like even before my 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.000 brother was born. I think, like literally stuff from the 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.760 eighties that's in and it's probably if you open it up, 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.280 it's probably just like dusts, yeah, or like not even. 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.080 But then there have been times when I'm looking for 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:13.760 something and it'll be more recent, but then I'll look 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.520 and it's like expire twenty sixteen. I'm like, oh, it's 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.600 like you know, it creeps up on you. Yeah, I 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:18.920 don't know. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.000 I mean I agree with them, and it won't be 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:22.839 that it goes bad in the sense that if you 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.760 consume it you'll get sick. I've definitely run into this 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:31.040 because I'm a gas X connoisseur of sorts power us. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:32.840 I love using it. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.600 I think it's probably placebo, but it makes me feel better. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:40.280 And they will have expiration dates and I don't know, 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.280 like I'll take I'll have one after the expiration date 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:44.720 and I'll be like, oh, that one didn't do as 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:45.319 much as. 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.240 So, Yeah, how long do you think that's? 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:48.360 Like? 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:49.880 Typically? Is it like a year? 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:50.600 Is it? Yeah? 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.480 It's really long because I'll be like fall, I'll be 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.640 just digging through trying to find something. Okay, I think 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.000 the one that I found was like over. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:11:59.959 A year old. You take your normal dosage of it. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:05.320 Yeah, so you didn't like double up one one caveat though, 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.360 gas X. I hope they're listening to this. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.760 Why there's one of the boxes called maximum strength and 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:16.000 the stronger one is called Ultimate strength. Actually, we already 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.319 passed the maximum so I don't know what I'm doing here. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.080 Like don Draper took up. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.240 Maximum, so it could be possible that I did. I 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.679 took the same dosage was just two pills, but that it. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.480 Was maximum and not ultimate. I don't know what anyway, Yeah, 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.240 I mean, what do you go for in the store, 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.080 like if you were going right, I try to get now. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.960 That I know ultimate is the strong one. I go 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.520 for Ultimate. Sometimes they don't have it. I don't know why. 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.840 But also it's just a matter of the dosage, like yeah, 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:46.599 I think two or like three maximums is two ultimates 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:53.679 or if you do the math. So anyway, all that 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.440 to say, I've dealt with the medicine expiration dates before, 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:58.720 and I would like to know the answer. 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.480 You know, this reminds me of I recently, for the 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.479 first time I ever saw Wolf of Wall Street Crazy. 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:09.320 Oh yeah, and they have that scene what they're taking. Yeah. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.880 Yeah, they're all made in the nine eighties. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.840 They stopped selling whateveryone and they take a bunch of 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.920 them and they're like, Okay, it's not working, and take 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:18.880 more and then they find out that like, actually it 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.400 just has a longer release times. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:21.960 They're older. 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:26.280 Oh, they get it extra high. So I'm not sure 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:27.840 if that's the same with pills. 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.959 I'm not in the issue too. I have this issue 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.160 with pills because I'm not a real pill popper, you know. 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.160 If I'm getting some pills, yeah, I gotta get kind 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.559 of fucked up to take. Like even like an avil. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:40.800 You can't you can't swallow it. 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.000 No, I can. I can swallow. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.079 I don't want to change. You just don't want to. 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:47.120 I don't like, I don't really get headaches, you know, 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.400 so if I get a little ache and pain, I'm just. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:50.640 Taking care of you. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.640 Well, you don't get hangovers. 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.360 Because right, So it's like I'm taking I'm maybe taking 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:56.400 an avvil. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:57.640 Twice a year of that. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:13:59.959 Wow, but I buy you know, when you buy it, 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:01.439 you got to buy a big one because it's the 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:02.720 best for money. 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:03.520 Yeah, exactly. 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.640 So I'm getting one hundred hundred pails. 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:07.560 They're like two years old now. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:08.840 Yeah, I'm taking four a year. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:10.960 It's lasting as long as they're catch up. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.280 So this is this is a good question of like 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:16.760 sort of what is happened? I guess I feel like 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.240 with all things, it's like, yeah, it just loses its oppotents. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:22.600 I don't know what would be happening now, like chemically, Yeah. 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.320 Is it the case that twenty years after it actually 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.320 does literally nothing to you after you take it. 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.360 Well, luckily, the good people at Harvard, oh, Harvard Medical School, 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.000 to be exact, Okay, those are the people you do 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.280 want to talk to. That that's a good clarification, have 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:40.320 looked into this. So in nineteen eighty five, the US 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.640 Air Force conducted a study where they gathered a stockpile 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.120 of medications because they you know, countries do have those 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.880 stockpiles for certain things, you know, for emergencies or obviously 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.360 for military et cetera. So they gathered a stockpile of 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.720 medications worth more than a billion dollars that were close 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.160 to or pass their expiration dates. They didn't want to 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.520 just throw them away, so they did studies. They tested 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.280 to see if they're still safe and effective. This is 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:09.200 the US Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, in other words, 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:15.760 lets some call them. And the verdict, according to Harvard Retelling, 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:19.360 this most medications were still good nearly three years past 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:23.880 their expression. That's nuts. But there are a few caveats 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.240 to keep in mind, they say. So one, those tests 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.160 that we're referring to were from the mid eighties and 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:32.040 early nineties, so newer medications may not have been tested yet. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.600 In this way. Only about one hundred types of drugs 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.240 were tested, so and some of them were like things 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.640 that people who are not in the military probably wouldn't 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:44.520 be using so much like you know, antidotes for chemical 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.080 poisoning or antibiotics from malaria. And some drugs did fail 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:54.840 the stability test. So liquid antibiotics, Yeah, antibiotics aspirin, nitroglycerin, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.800 and insulin have found signs of physical decay, so not 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:03.360 best to use them past the expiration dates. Physical decay. Yeah, 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:07.160 but it's like the pills cracked. Yeah, and then yeah, 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.760 epipends also held up poorly past the expiration dates. This 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.680 doesn't seem harmful though, it's probably just, like you're saying, 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:14.520 not as effective. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:14.880 Yeah. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.080 So one, it kind of depends how serious the medication 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.200 is or the what you're trying to fix. You know, 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.840 you can probably take an allergy medication a month past 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.080 the expiration date, but a heart rhythm medication is going 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.200 to be riskier. Yes, Yeah, so you want to make 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.200 sure that's gonna help you. 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.640 So pretty much like the over the counter stuff that's 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.160 not gonna be life or death, Yes, spring gas X 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:43.880 that kind of thing. 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:49.080 Something like that. Yeah, it might not do the trick 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.120 that you needed to do, but it's not gonna hurt. 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.120 This also says that generally they keep the expiration dates 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.520 on the more conservative side exactly for this reason, which 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:02.200 makes sense and I agree with as a practice. Yeah. Yeah, 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:05.159 And drug makers say that extensive testing for drug stability 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.920 over prolonged periods of times would be ideal, but it's 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.360 too expensive. And yeah. Also in this study, the military 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.320 study found that by keeping these expired medicines is saved 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.399 about two hundred and sixty million dollars from the one billion, 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.240 so it's pretty significant. Yeah, it showed that there was 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:25.920 a lot of useful There are a lot of medicine 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.479 that was still useful. So basically, expiration dates in the US, 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:33.159 after a law in nineteen seventy nine, drug manufacturers have 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.720 to stamp an expiration date on their products. So that's 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.400 like where they can guarantee full potency and safety. It's 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:42.000 not necessarily means it's gonna not work after that, which 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.320 makes sense. It's just like a regulation. So it's true 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:46.480 that effectiveness of a drug may decrease over time, but 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.080 much of the original potency still remains even the decade 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.680 after the expiration date. Placing a medication in a cool place, 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.600 such as a refrigerator, will help the drug remain potent 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.600 for many years. That's a good question, right from the 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.440 previous question. I also put my dequill in stuff in 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:04.439 the fridge, do you guys? No, keep it outside in 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:04.920 the closet. 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:06.560 Yeah, I don't. 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.040 I'm really only getting that when I have Once again, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:11.680 I don't really take that stuff, so. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.119 I always just have it in the fridge. 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.840 Not for any real reason, but that's all you taking. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:19.439 I mean only when I get sick, but like it 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:21.080 lasts for during that period. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:21.879 In the fridge. 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.880 Yeah, yeah, No, I don't keep it in the fridge. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.719 Oh yeah, it looks like babies. 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.560 Actually they have one for babies and it says four babies. 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:40.960 I got the liquid one for Yeah. Yeah, prefer when 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:43.280 I'm like out, Like back when we used to work 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.240 in an office every day, I would bring pills with me. 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.359 If I'm at home, I'm like a little something to 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:55.880 sip on is nice. All right, After the break, we're 0:18:55.880 --> 0:19:00.440 gonna answer some questions about sneezing behaviors, the twenty four 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.920 hour day, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches or We'll 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:04.399 be right. 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:18.880 Back all right, next up? Hi, Have y'all ever argued 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.200 about why some people sneeze loudly? Is it a learned behavior, 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.920 maybe to mimic a parent or get attention or clear 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.760 nasal passages more comfortably or effectively. Or is it biological 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.000 maybe based on lung size or muscular strength or age. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.280 Can a louder soft sneeze to become softer loud, respectively? 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:40.199 Or is that dynamic range of sneezes actually small and 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:44.280