WEBVTT - Can You Eat A Tapeworm To Lose Weight? 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:04.040 Hey, everybody, it's Josh and Chuck your friends, and we 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.960 are here to tell you about our upcoming book that's 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:10.120 coming out this fall, the first ever Stuff you Should 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.240 Know book, Chuck. That's right. What's the cool, super cool 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:16.680 title we came up with. It's Stuff you Should Know colon, 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.520 an incomplete compendium of mostly interesting things. That's right, and 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.600 it's coming along so great. We're super excited, you guys. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:29.080 The illustrations are amazing, and there's the look of the book. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.720 It's all just it's exactly what we hoped it would be. 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:33.480 And we cannot wait for you to get your hands 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:35.800 on it. Yes, we can't. 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This is about tape worms. 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:26.280 It is disgusting and super creepy and gross, and I 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.399 knew that you would love it. It's so great, it's 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:32.279 so great. It's just so crazy. We're going all the way. Baby. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:36.399 The word perianus comes up at least once, and not 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.520 in a good way. Oh man, Perry As he was 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.480 a good guy. He was that's I've ever had was 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:48.080 Oh he was? Was he? Uh? Was he the one 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:52.160 who who made himself everybody's secret saying every year that's right, 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.760 you know, old perry Anus uh down on him and 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:04.320 he would he would sign his name perianus parentheses saw ari. Uh. Well, 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:09.960 if you don't know what perenus is, just buckle up, because, 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.400 like you said, Chuck, it's going to be quite a 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.840 ride because we are talking about tape worms, and we're 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.160 not talking just about tape worms. We're talking about the 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:24.120 idea of taking a tapeworm, ingesting it, and letting it 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.919 live and grow in your body and the hopes that 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:32.040 it will uh divert enough nutrients and calories away from 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:34.680 you that you can just eat whatever you want and 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:37.919 lose weight at the same time because you're not getting fatter. 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:42.320 The tapeworm is right, but we're mainly just talking about 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.480 tape worms because well, I don't want to issue a 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:49.639 spoiler this really seriously, We'll save that for Act three. 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.519 So tape worms. Uh. This is from our old house 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:57.360 stuff works dot com website, which is nice to find 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.880 one of these. It is a little hidden gym hanging out. 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:05.000 This is a grab store article, originally just hidden in 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.240 the anus, waiting for us to discover it. That's right. 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.760 Actually it crawled its way out and dropped it at 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:15.840 my feet. So tapeworms. The very first line of this 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.240 article is a tapeworm is like something out of a 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.240 horror movie, and it really is. It is this wormy, 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:26.600 little ribbon shaped creature that is a parasite in every 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:30.200 sense of the word. They can be very big. It 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.919 can be as big as eighty ft long, and they 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:38.240 can live in a host for up to thirty years. Yeah. Like, 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.840 you could get a tapeworm as a kid, and that 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.119 thing might be with you through every formative experience you've 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.640 ever had, and you might actually be sad when it 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.840 calls out of your anus and detaches itself from you. 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.480 That sounds like a Simpsons episode or something kind of Yeah, 0:03:55.040 --> 0:04:01.560 maybe a little more like um Cleveland show. Um. The 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.200 good news is, uh, if you don't live in a 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:08.640 developing nation, then you probably don't need to worry about 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.120 a tapeworm, although it can still happen, to be sure, 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:18.880 but with good hygiene, good hand washing, good livestock practices, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:24.360 and good um just feak overall fecal and food handling practices, 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.479 it's not likely to be an issue with you. Yeah, 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:32.400 great practice livestock, great practice everybody. Yeah, So if you 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.599 are in the developing world, Um, you there is a 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.440 good chance that you can get a tapeworm because in 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:44.040 some cases, uh, sanitation is not as great as you 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.599 would like it to be, and there's more poop hanging 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.400 around than then there should be, or that there there 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:55.480 could be considering other modern practices. And then even beyond that, um, 0:04:55.600 --> 0:05:00.520 there's a lot more living among livestock then there are, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.839 and say like developed urban areas. Right, so even in 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.359 the developed world, there there if you go outside of 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.960 the urban areas and you start running up against pigs 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.920 and cows and their poop and stuff like that, um, 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:17.080 you can conceivably catch the tapeworm fairly easily, especially if 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:21.400 you're not really big into hand washing, sure, which you 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:25.359 should be if you're around poop from animals or humans 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.320 or any kind of poop. Yeah, just any time there's 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.880 even any kind of coincidence of poop in your hands, 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.680 even possibly, just take twenty seconds, recite the alphabet, and 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.200 wash your hands, because if you don't, you might get 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.920 some of that fecal material in your mouth and a 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.080 board that fecal material can be um tapeworm eggs, and 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.680 that is how you get a tapeworm infection. One way. 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.640 In the developed world, you're much more likely to get 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:56.719 it from something like eating undercooked meat. Right. I've never 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:00.800 even had pink eye. Oh really never. It's not a 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:05.160 pleasant experience. Chunk, all right, pop, Yeah, I got some 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:08.080 FeCO material in my own eye a couple of times, 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.440 I guess poop by the sailor man. Yeah, Like I 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:13.920 was sniffing my fingers and I guess I got too 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:17.800 close to my eye. Then you got your nose confused 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.719 with your eyeball right again, Right, I had a little 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:22.719 itch and I was like, oh no, what have I done? 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:26.640 And it was too late. So parasites, like I said, 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:30.839 A tapeworms, like I said, are true parasites. Um. Everything 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:36.000 that it gets that it needs it gets from its host, right, 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:39.680 and like that's how it lives. Man. It just it is, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:43.120 like you said, a true parasite in that, like all 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.080 those things that you're supposed to be getting from the 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.680 food you eat, some of it is being diverted by 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:53.120 to the tapeworm um and they absorb nutrients like gangbusters. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.320 They actually don't have a mouth, which is weird because 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.760 it looks like they have several mouths, but they actually 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:02.920 use those mouths to hang onto your intestines inside so 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.599 that they don't get flushed out by the paristalic action 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:09.120 that you know, helps move poop and stuff along your intestines, 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:12.680 and instead the tapewormage is kind of floating there absorbing 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:17.400 nutrients in the matrix of your gut juices basically, and 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.920 they absorb it. They absorb it through their skin um 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.640 and they're just really good at it, so much so 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.000 that there's at least one type of uh tapeworm out 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.600 there that you can actually get from eating undercooked fish 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.880 pike specifically. That's so good at absorbing B twelve. It 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:37.440 can outcompete you it's host, and you can get a 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:42.080 pretty bad vitamin B twelve deficiency as a result. Do so, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.880 these tapeworms live in uh all kinds of host animals, 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:49.080 like they could you could be you or me. It 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.320 could be, like you said, a fish, which is pretty surprising. Um. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:57.520 Most often you hear about beef and pigs or cow. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.560 I guess it's the animal and pigs. Uh. But they 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.840 you know, depending what kind of species it is, it 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:07.600 might have a preference for a kind of host. And 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.800 I guess we should describe the body of this thing 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:17.040 right now. It's it's pretty gross. It's got a a head. 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.840 I guess you would call it. I call it the 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.480 skull X. Yeah, it's called the skull ax skull X. 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:27.080 It's the top of the worm what we as humans 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.960 might call a head. Yeah, but it looks like an 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.520 old timey diving head diving helmet, you know what I mean. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.720 It's it's round, it's got those suckers, so they look 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.280 like kind of the portholes on the old div diving helmet. Um. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.640 And those again, those suckers, they look like mouths that 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:46.840 the thing would eat on, but no, they use it 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.080 to suck onto the sides of your intestine. But at 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.959 the top of the head um there are some hooks, 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:56.320 like a ring of hooks that actually latch onto the 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.520 like really grip onto the side of your intestinal wall, 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:02.000 so that that tapeworm, once it gets its hooks and 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.840 it suckers into your intestinal wall, it's not going anywhere. 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.040 You know, we should bring back the term skin diver. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.679 Sure you remember that skin diver. Yeah, wasn't that like 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.880 a snorkeling. I think snorkeling or maybe even scuba is 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.920 just such an antiquated term, like nobody uses that anymore, No, 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.360 I know, because it makes no sense now, and it's 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.280 possible it never made any sense. Like I could see 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.040 someone's granddad now saying, you know, I'm gonna get certified 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.880 to be a skin diver, right, and then we're gonna 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:34.720 get me some pearls, and all the kids laughing Grandpa, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.800 No one's his skin diver, right, And Grandpa was probably 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.959 saying a bunch of other stuff. Nobody says anymore to 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.120 you know what I mean? Yeah, I know what you mean. 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:47.439 So we're bringing skin diver back. What was the last 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.880 thing you said something about the skull X. I said 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.880 that once this thing gets his hooks and it's uh, 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:56.440 it's suckers into your intestinal wall, it's not going anywhere. Yeah, 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:01.920 like a good catchy tune. Yeah, like it your tape worm. 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:06.079 So if it wasn't for the skull x, uh, this 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.920 article points out, you know, the skull eos is the problem. 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.440 If it wasn't for this thing, that your intestines would 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.440 just churn it out and you'd poop it out, no problem. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.840 But the skull X is really where the rubber meets 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.960 the road as far as attaching to your body and 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.040 that need to think that paristalic action I was talking about, Like, 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:27.520 that's just a bunch of like quivering muscles that move 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:32.559 in a progressive direction towards your your rectum and anus 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.839 and all that that push like poop out through your 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.880 intestines or push nutrients through and where they absorbed. But 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.080 then it ultimately like pushes the poop out um. And 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:43.840 that's how the whole thing works. It's just like some 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:47.360 quivering muscles in there. And I read Chuck that if 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.720 you take a stimulant um laxative, that that's actually what 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.599 it does is it really kind of um energizes and 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.880 makes those muscles contract, which is good on the one 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.120 hand because it really works. But on the other and 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.400 it's bad because your body becomes dependent on those things 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.400 really quickly. So you don't want to just take those 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.680 willy nilly from what I saw. You want to try 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:11.120 just about every other type of laxative there is. First 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.760 starting with a diet high and insoluble fiber, and then 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:17.920 work your way on up to where you're talking to 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.320 a doctor or a nurse practitioner or something before you're 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:26.440 hitting those those um stimulant laxatives. Yeah, I think the 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.079 word laxative it's sort of is backward because it it 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.800 makes it sound like it's relaxing everything, when in fact 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:37.880 it's making everything work harder. It's pretty interesting. It's all 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.079 upside down and dipsy do. But I'll tell you what. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.560 There's a bunch of signs along the way that say 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:47.760 one way, one way, everybody. You're going this way whether 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:52.360 you like it or not. Right, So, the sculex is 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.680 the is, like I said, where you're you're sticking to 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.160 the intestine, and then below the skull x is the 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:02.160 neck and and the rest of it is, I mean 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.880 from the neck down, it's just sort of the same thing. 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:09.680 There are all these uh, just individual segments, can be 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:14.640 thousands of them, at least hundreds, called the strobilla, and 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.880 each segment by its own is known as a pro 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.360 glatted And those are like when you look at a 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.000 tapeworm and it just looks like a piece of like 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:31.079 segmented tampe tape. Those those little segments, those proglottids. I 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.720 I did not know this at all, but there they're 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:42.360 they're basically reproductive organs that also contain eggs, and that 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:47.679 the ones closest to the head are male sperm sacks. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.920 And then as you get further away from the head, 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:55.280 those proglottids um become female and egg holding, and that 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:59.280 under under some circumstances with some species of tapeworms, they 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:05.880 can sell um, fertilize and and basically we produced themselves, right, 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.080 But more often than not, they're they're just kind of 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.600 exchanging sperm and eggs with nearby neighbors who are again 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:17.840 floating around in your intestines, absorbing nutrients and just sperming 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:22.040 and egging everywhere inside your gut. Yeah, and you're just 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.240 sitting there watching Jeopardy and it might be eighty ft 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:29.080 long and thirty years old. You're just you have no 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:34.360 idea what's going on. Like your gut maybe infested with 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:39.720 tape worms right now, and you probably you might not know. Yeah, 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.120 isn't that creepy? It is super creepy. Yeah, all right, 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.000 let's take a break and I gotta I'm gonna go 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.240 wash my hands again, and we'll talk more about these 0:13:48.360 --> 0:14:00.880 proglottics right after this. Well, now, when you're on the 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:04.440 road driving in your truck, want to learn a thing 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:08.560 or two from Josh Man Chuck stuff you should know? 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:16.320 All right, okay, Chuck, so you promise more purglotted talk 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:23.080 laid on us. Yeah, So these purglotteds can um like 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.480 the tapeworm is hardy, but it can also break apart. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.680 It'll still be alive, like make no mistake, Like like 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:33.280 a chameleon's tail. It's no big whoop if some of 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.840 these purglottis break off and they'll just come out of 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.720 your poop. And you might look at your stool and 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.160 see these things and say like, wow, I have a 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.520 tape worm. Thank goodness, I got rid of it. But 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.720 don't be fooled. There might be a lot of tapeworms 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.280 still back up in your body. Yeah, because remember up 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:54.600 towards the neck is sperm. Down lower along the body 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.080 is um eggs, and then the lower you get our 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.720 fertilized eggs. So when those proglotteds break off towards the 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.840 end and make their way out in your poop um, 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:08.200 they are they're fully fertilized egg sacs and that's how 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.400 they enter the environment. It's all part of the life cycle. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.600 The proglottis breaking off and making its way out of 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:18.920 your anus. By the way, proglottids are spectacular in that 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.640 not only are they segments filled with fertilized egg sax 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.440 by the time they break off and leave you, they 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:29.960 also contain muscles, meaning that they can walk on their own. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:34.680 So these little segments of tapeworm filled with fertilized tapeworm 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:39.920 eggs can move and crawl their way out of your butt, 0:15:40.600 --> 0:15:43.640 so much so that there's something called discharge of the proglottids, 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:49.280 which um is when when right when totally I was 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.800 gonna say that is so progressive, it's crazy, But when 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.640 they start marching their way out of your butt, you 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:02.400 have a there's a crawling sensation arianus um, and that 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.520 this is one reason why dogs with tapeworms but scooch, 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.720 and also why you might butt scooch too, because you 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.400 are trying to erase the the very anus from your 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.320 body to get rid of this crawling sensation. For sure. 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:18.400 But even if they don't crawl right out of your 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.400 bottom um, they they can still make their way out 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.520 in your poop, and then they crawl away from the poop. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.520 Because if they crawl away from the poop, and say, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:31.280 like a pasture right where some human is just pooped, 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.000 there might be a cow nearby that eats the grass 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.760 that this periglotted has broken open and like deposited the 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:42.960 eggs into the soil. And when that cow eats those eggs, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.920 this life cycle starts all over again. You know what 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:51.120 we call that dog scooch in our house the boot 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:56.000 scooting boogie. That's whenever you see the boot scooting boogie 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.360 happen in your house. It may not meet a tape worm, 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.920 but there it's not good. No um. Little Moe does 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.000 it sometimes, but she does this cute thing where she 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.639 does a little one eight in one place. She doesn't 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.639 go like, she doesn't make a line, she stays and 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.879 just kind of does like the twist, and she eventually 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:15.800 bores a hole in the floor and falls through to 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.640 another dimension. That's right. Yeah, the boot scooting boogie also 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.880 could be like anal glands that need expressing, or just 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:28.359 uh dingle berry that needs taken care of board on 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:32.840 a Saturday night. But it's never something awesome. It's never 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:37.760 you know, hundred dollar bills or just a dog that's 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:43.520 like making some cool noise with their butt, right exactly. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:48.560 So man, Yeah, so the this life cycle thing that 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.200 just kicked off again, we should follow this through one 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.359 more time. Okay, I don't actually I don't even know 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.160 if we've gone through this. But the thing about tape worms, 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.080 and you kind of touched on it before, is they 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:02.119 infest different animals, But the same kind of tape worm 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:06.880 might infest different animals as part of its life cycle. Right, So, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.399 like when you just pooped in the cow pasture and 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.639 that purglotted opened up in deposited the eggs into the soil, 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.760 and this cow eating grass ate that soil. Those eggs 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:20.760 went into that cow and they said, okay, time to 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:24.960 turn into our larval stage, and in the cow they 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:29.160 turned into larvae. But the larvae of tape worms form 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.000 like a cyst around them, and from what I can gather, 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:37.040 the reason that they form the cyst is because they um. 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.840 It prevents them from setting off an immune response. Because, 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.080 like you were saying, you can have a tapeworom infection 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.600 unless it's really bad and you're becoming really malnourished as 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:49.720 a result. UM, and it's a it's an adult tapew 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:51.960 room in your gut. You may never know that you 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:54.040 had one until the thing just falls out of your 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.800 bottom one day, like it's done um or you start, 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:03.119 you know, discharging purglotted in your stool. The same thing 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:07.080 with cows, like when they become infested with um tapeworm 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:11.680 larvae in these cysts forms, the cysts burrow their way 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.080 out of the intestinal wall and then just implant themselves 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.040 in the cows muscles don't seem to really provide any 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.840 kind of discomfort or problem, and again they don't sit 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:23.920 off an immune response. But the reason that they deposit 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:28.160 themselves in their muscles is because somewhere along their evolutionary history, 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:29.720 which from what we've seen and goes back at least 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.280 two seventy million years. They figured out that the animals 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.480 eat the muscles of other animals, and so we come 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.000 along and we eat the muscles of the cows, and 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.720 those cysts, those larval cysts of tapeworms deposit into our 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:47.560 guts and they mature into the adult tapeworm, so that 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.760 the whole life cycle begins again. Yeah, what these uh 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:53.800 at the larval stage, what they're trying to do. They're 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.400 trying to get to the bloodstream, right, So like if 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:58.800 you eat eggs or whatever, then the they will become 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.639 those syste the larval's and then they go into the 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:08.840 blood stream. Right, that's right. Okay, So if you have this, uh, 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:12.520 if you have the tapeworm, then you haven't an infection 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:16.560 known as human tenise. Uh a man, I had it. 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:21.800 I even spelled it out tiny assis, Is that right? 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.639 I think? So that's how I was gonna say it. 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:26.520 And if you have that, like it's like you said, 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:28.960 it's not a big deal. It's asymptomatic probably and you 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.600 won't even know you've got it, but that can develop 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:36.920 into sisters yarcosis, and that is when these things get 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:38.920 into your blood stream, and that is not a good 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.000 thing because the chain reaction that can happen from here 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:44.880 is pretty bad. I mean, it can lead to death. 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:48.800 It usually doesn't. But they can be anywhere in your body. Uh, 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.760 they can grow, and they can inflame tissue. So if 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.359 it's putting pressure, like near your eyeball, it can cause 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:58.120 temporary blindness or permanent blindness. If it's near your brain, 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.919 that's no good. It can cause brain damage and uh. 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:05.040 In fact, in some UH countries they think it's the 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:11.080 main cause for adult onset onset seizure. Isn't that crazy? Yeah? Yeah, 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.200 I saw that. There's there's one guy it's called neurocystic 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:17.919 or kosis, and this one doctor says that at least 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:23.600 five million cases of adult onset um seizures worldwide or 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.520 from having tapeworm cysts in your brain. So that that 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:32.200 was the appropriate response, chuck. So the thing is like, 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:36.919 when you eat a tapeworm larva um, it becomes an 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:40.680 adult tapeworm in your gut. Humans aren't our bodies aren't 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:43.840 set up or they're not in this kind of symbiosis 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:47.200 with tapeworm eggs to do the same thing. So if 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:51.040 we eat tapeworm eggs accidentally then those become those cystic 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.320 larva's larva, and then that's that's what travels into our 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:57.840 bloodstream and causes all of these problems. And there's specifically 0:21:57.920 --> 0:22:01.680 one kind of pig tape worm that it goes through 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:05.680 its life cycle from pig to human to pig, and 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:09.920 under normal circumstances, if we undercooked pork and get those larva, 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:12.439 they're going to turn into adult tape worms. But if 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:16.320 we undercooked pork and we accidentally eat some eggs from 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:20.159 that pork, then that's when that cistic or cosis. Is 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:23.280 that right, Yes, sistic or cosis. It can be a 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:26.399 real problem that you will know, like you were saying 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:30.520 that you've got a tape worm problem pretty pretty quick. Yeah. 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.119 If they get big, they can block your your ducks, 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:36.520 your pancreatic ducks, your bile ducks. Uh, they can get 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:40.000 in your organs and grow within your organs, which is 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:43.439 something that should keep you awake at night. Uh. If 0:22:43.440 --> 0:22:45.960 they get large enough in your organs that that's gonna 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:48.480 like those organs are not going to be good for 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:52.920 very long. Uh. They can rupture sometimes. Um. And this 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:55.080 is just in the body, not necessarily in the organs, 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:58.400 but if it ruptures in your body, then it's your 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:01.760 Your body is gonna out like an immuno response. You're 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:05.080 gonna get hives, it's gonna itch uh, it's gonna swell, 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:08.359 and you're just gonna have like this massive allergic reaction. 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:12.040 You're gonna be like what bug bit me, right, except 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:13.840 you won't be able to talk because your throat will 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:18.600 have closed. Perhaps, so chuck um. If you don't want 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:21.440 a tapeworm, which hopefully by now you've realized you don't 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:25.560 want a tapeworm again, in the in the developed world, 0:23:25.640 --> 0:23:28.399 it's not that hard to avoid a tapeworm, and in 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:33.320 the United States in particular, um like the meat packing 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:37.320 industry is I mean, it's dirty and gross and horrific, 0:23:38.240 --> 0:23:42.359 but it's actually pretty good at spotting things like tapeworms. 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:45.639 So there's a really low chance that you're going to 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:48.720 get your hands on meat from an American grocery store 0:23:49.040 --> 0:23:52.520 that has tapeworm cists in it. Right, probably not going 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:55.040 to get a tapeworm, but just to be sure, the 0:23:55.119 --> 0:24:01.240 government has very um conscientiously recommended some minimum king temperatures 0:24:01.240 --> 0:24:03.200 for things like whole cuts of meat like a chopp 0:24:03.280 --> 0:24:05.479 or a steak, right. I think it used to be 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:09.479 one sixty fairret height. Now they've lowered it to something 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:13.920 like one, which is sixty three degrees celsius. And here's 0:24:13.920 --> 0:24:16.320 the key. They say, after you've done cooking it to 0:24:16.400 --> 0:24:19.119 that internal temperature which you want to meet thermometer, Do 0:24:19.119 --> 0:24:21.480 you have one of those? One of the best things 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:24.320 I've ever bought, Chuck. That really up my steak game 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:27.679