WEBVTT - 8 Reasons Why Your Body Is So Gross 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.560 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:13.119 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:15.600 Clark Wood throws w Chuck Bryant. Do do Do Do Do 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:20.360 Do Do Do Do do? And this is news flashes 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:23.040 that the wire coming through. I'm watching the wire. By 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.840 the way. Oh yeah, the TV show wasn't that either 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.000 recommended that to me. I don't think so. I've only 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:30.000 seen like one episode of it. Oh, which is the 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:34.400 show that you said started it all? The Shield? Oh no, no, 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.680 I'm sorry. I like the shield. Okay, so it's like 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.199 the shield would be like you like the Stones or 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.360 the Beatles, you like the wire or the shield? Way 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.200 before this was OZ. I thought the Wire was before OZ. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.640 OZ was before the Wire. Yeah, by like a decade. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:54.160 I'm taking the wire. Yeah, I've heard nothing of good things. 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.120 The one that I think it was like dead Wood. 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:59.800 I saw an episode of I was like, I don't 0:00:59.840 --> 0:01:01.800 have room in my life for this right now? That 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.560 was so great? Yeah, I'm sure, yeah, but yeah, I 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.040 was just like, I can't commit to this. The wires 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:11.080 a slow burn. It's like, um, that was before they 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.319 were trying to like blow you out of the water 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:16.960 every week with some like amazing final scenes. It's it's 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.040 almost a documentary ask. Oh nice, Yeah, it's really good. Yeah, 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:22.000 I guess I kind of picked up on that the 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:23.959 episode I saw it was exciting. Well, now I gotta 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.880 watch ODZ too, Yeah you do. I was all piste off. 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.680 I thought I was gonna impress you and you'd be like, 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.120 your homework is done. Yeah, no, you have a lot 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.560 to do. Chuck all right. With OZ, they think there's 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.280 at least like three or four seasons. Well, that's an 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.040 odd start to this episode. It is because in this episode, oh, 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.200 Jerry's here by the way. Uh. In this episode, um, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:51.320 we're talking about your body, yes, which I guess the 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:53.920 human body was on display to some degree in different 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:58.000 ways in OZ. But that's not what we're talking about really. 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.200 In this we're talking about how like you sitting there, 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:03.600 you probably feel pretty good right now. You may be showered, 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:08.600 you just got a haircut recently, like haircut, your hair 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.919 smells like pencil shavings. Uh. And uh, let's see what 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.160 else did you know that? Like a haircut to you 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:20.280 me smells like recently, um, sharpened pencil. I did not 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.959 know that isn't that we every haircut weird like a 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:30.239 haircut does, like cutting the grass, smell like almonds. And 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:35.519 then she has a well she's okay, she's fine. She yeah, 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.760 she just smells pencil shavings with haircuts. But um, you're 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:42.320 you're feeling pretty good. Back to my little intro um, 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.240 and by you, I'm talking to everybody out there. Well, 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:50.560 you don't realize is this You're disgusting. You're disgusting bag 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:55.359 of nastiness. Basically if you really want to get down 0:02:55.480 --> 0:03:01.919 on a granular cellular uh even just an internal level, Yeah, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.240 you're you're gross. Thank you. Yeah, I'm gross too. I'm 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.519 not sitting in judgment like I I have all of 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:12.679 these things as well. Most likely, Um well yeah, I 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.839 mean it's not like I like perspective. I just it's 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:20.040 it's when you say you, it's like uh J McNerney novel. 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.160 You know, it's like put you in like the first 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.160 person of the action. So all of a sudden, you're 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:27.320 the one who has a coke problem and it's like 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.040 four in the morning on a Tuesday in Manhattan and 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:31.760 you have to go to work in two hours. You know, 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.760 it has more impact when you're saying that. Yeah, I'm 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.280 gonna I'm gonna nod and act like I know what 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.560 that reference was. It's a bright Lights, Big City reference. Okay, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.520 surely you've read that. I never read that. You haven't 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.720 read that. That was awesome. Yeah, it was good. It 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:48.240 was good. It was in that swid movie, the whole Yeah, 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.120 it's in that whole Bread eastern ellis vain sure like, 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.520 uh yeah, party in too much less than zero kind 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.480 of thing. Yeah, I read um well, I read American 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.640 Psycho and lesson Zero. Okay, yeah, yeah, this is one 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.680 of his contemporaries is still around. J mc McNerney or 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.920 Jane mkearney something like that. They both like their drugs 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.920 and loud music and yeah, dancing and Michael J. Fox 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.800 is in the movie Bright Lightspeag City. Anyway, it's a 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.800 good book, but it's all in like that first person. 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.760 Where is that? Second person? Yeah? Second person familiar? Anybody 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:26.719 your gross? Let's get to why chucky. So we're gonna 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.159 talk about some of the gross things going on inside 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.480 the body. And I think this article had ten but 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.720 since we've covered bacteria and poop so thoroughly. Plus it's 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.960 a long standing stuff. You should have tradition to never 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:41.400 do all ten of any ten list. And and it's 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.760 we should also say is arbitrary that all lists on 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.800 how stuff works in and ten I think, yeah, it's 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.080 a nice round number. Um. Alright, so I guess we'll 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.680 start with eyelash mites, um, which I didn't know about 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.400 until now, did you? No? I didn't either. Mites are 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.080 little arthur pods there in the same family as ticks, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:05.120 and um. They, if you are generally an older person, 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:10.919 are living on your eyelashes. Yeah, and not just your eyelashes. 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:15.440 There's actually two types of what are called dermodex mites 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:21.000 or demo decks. I'm sorry. Demo is uh, it's basically 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:25.640 Latin for lard, and dex is a boring insect, So 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.480 it's a fat, boring insect that demodex might And you 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.599 have two kinds, ones that live in your hair follicles 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.680 and the one that live in your pores basically from 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:37.320 what I understand. Yeah, dogs, there's another kind for dogs too. Well. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.920 There's like tens of thousands of of types of demodex mites, 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.560 but there's only two that live on humans, and they 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.720 live on our faces. Yeah, and like I said, more 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.880 likely if you're older, just because as you age you 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:54.520 produce more oils like see them. Kids don't produce a 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.040 lot of see them, So you're probably not gonna have 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:59.760 a child with eyelash mites. If you do, then so 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.040 services is probably gonna come after, although they won't be 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.560 able to tell because these seems are very tiny, like you. 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.520 They apparently move around at night. There's a really good, um, 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:14.160 very exhaustive article on demodex might by science writer Ed Young. 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:18.119 Are you familiar with him, Uh, the Youngster? Yeah? Yeah, dude, 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:22.480 speaking of stirs, you know Ed the Grabster Ed Grabanowski, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.799 who writes some of the best articles that have formed 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.080 the basis for some of the best episodes of stuff 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.200 You should know. He finally came out and claimed his 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.320 birthright on Twitter. I saw that he said I am 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:37.200 the Grabster, I'm I'm I'm coming out and saying hi, 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.120 And I did. And I had never seen his face before. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.120 I had once because he commented on some other oh yeah, 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.200 or like a Dungeons and Dragons forum or something like that. 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.480 It came across the comment and it was pretty much 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.680 the same picture. Yeah, it's definitely kind of weird because 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.760 I mean, if anyone the Grabster is almost like the 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.200 fourth stuff you should know team member, you know, like 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.400 we probably covered more of his articles than anyone else 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:03.720 I would guess, so, so welcome Ed anyway, Yeah, into 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.000 the world. Ed Young had a good one on demo 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:12.840 decks mites on Discover magazine's blog. Um, it's basically everything 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.080 you could ever want to know about them, and I 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.400 think that's even the title of it too. Well. They, 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:20.920 like you said, they move around at night because they 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:25.000 don't like light. Um at a very slow pace eight 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:28.040 to sixteen millimeters per hour, and you can't see them, 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:33.800 but they're microscopic there below the threshold of human sight. Yeah. 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.360 And while it might sound gross for your grandparents to 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:40.440 have mites in their eyelashes, Um, there's really no trouble 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.240 with them. They're not going to cause you any pain 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.120 or suffering generally. Yeah, they think it's possible that one 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:52.840 of the two varieties are responsible for rosatia UM and right, 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:58.080 if you're um particularly sensitive skin wise, you may find 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.520 them irritable. But for the most part, you probably have, 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.120 especially if you're over age sixty, you probably do have 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.400 demodex mites living in your face and just don't even 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.600 know it, and they're crawling across it at night while 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:14.480 you sleep. Um. And I found another little interesting mite 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.600 fact today that was just in the news. Um, there's 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:22.240 a southern California Mike called the Para Tarso Thomas Macro 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:28.240 Palace played by Brendan Fraser. Now I think it's Shyola booth. Um. 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.839 Brendan Fraser. Man, remember he was in Man. Yeah, a 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:37.400 good one with Polly Shore and Shawan Austin had like 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:41.040 the early nineties Triumvirate. Sean wasn't that Yeah, I believe 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:45.400 he was the street man. Um. So this might has 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.280 just been recorded as the fastest land animal beating out 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:52.360 the cheetah. Wow, this might move three two body lengths 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:57.400 per second. So obviously it's tiny, but that's super fast 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:02.400 because the cheetah only moves sixteen body links the second. Yeah, 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.200 so it's the new fastest animal. Well. Remember I think 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.880 it was the cockroach episode where we figured out like 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.679 that's the true measure of speed when you're comparing different 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.240 sized things, because remember the cockroachs can move like fifty 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.880 I think body links a second, which is way faster 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:20.439 than that, is fast. Well, my hat has been taken 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:23.959 off for this. Might it's the demo DECKX might. No, 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.360 it's not. I to know that was. That would be 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:31.800 a lot of eyelash to cover. Okay, well let's say 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.280 we move on, all right, We'll go from the eyelash 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.240 over a little bit to the ear, where you may 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:45.280 or may not know. You have something called serum gross 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:51.080 inside seremon. I like it either way. I think any 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:54.080 anything with the word s e r sounds sort of oily. 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.800 It's c e r oh is it c e r 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.880 U m e n h. Yeah, which I guess you 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.760 can make it with a hard seat like Cruman. No, 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.440 I don't think so. If you're a German you could. 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.640 But so you tell my ear wax though and Layman's 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:15.800 terms ear wax. Everyone's got it and we don't like it. 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.960 Americans spend about sixty million North Americans, so I guess 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:23.240 that includes our hat and our pants spend more than 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.600 sixty million dollars a year h on ear cleaning products. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.480 And what's crazy is a lot of those ear cleaning products, UH, 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:41.160 including cotton swabs attached to sticks, generic generic um those 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:47.760 actually supposedly are detrimental to or counterproductive to cleaning ear 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.520 wax out because your ear wax is produced in the 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.800 outer third of your ear. When you use a cotton 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:58.520 tip or anything cotton swab, yeah, or anything even your finger, 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.640 and you push it into your ear canal, yeah, you're 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.640 not removing your X. You're pushing it further in and 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.200 it's not meant to be in there, and it doesn't 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.559 go in there unless you jam it in there. So 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.360 when you're using some sort of swab or anything to 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.760 clean out your ear X, you're you're doing the opposite. 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.120 You're creating what can become a hardened build up, and 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:21.719 then you really have problems. Yeah, like real problem the 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.160 ear is pretty much self cleaning. Um. Real block edge 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:30.439 only occurs and about six percent of people. Um. But 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.079 you might know that you have an impactation if you 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.360 have decreased hearing, your dizziness or pain, or if it 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.719 sounds like you got your fingers in your ears or 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.600 ringing or itching or drainage. That means you've either had 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.400 it and happened naturally and you're one of the six percent, 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.880 or you've stuffed it in there with a cotton swab 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.320 and not done yourself any favors that in elvo grease 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.800 mixed together. Not good. Can we talk about your handling too, 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.360 sure you know the deal with your handling, right. What 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:04.880 what they claim is that you have this cone of paper, Um, 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.480 what is it? Like a waxy paper? You light it 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.920 on fire and stick in ear ear and it's supposed 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.840 to create a vacuum supposedly that sucks out this uh wax. 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:19.920 That's not true. It is a big, big falsehood sold 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.280 to you by the makers of ear candles. And they 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.719 can actually be dangerous and they do not create a 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:27.679 vacuum and they do not pull wax out of your ears. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.839 So if you're an ear candler, you're doing the wrong 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:35.640 thing because doctors say it's can be dangerous. Um. And 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.959 it's actually illegal. They have them in the US, but 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.000 it's illegal to sell them making any claims. Oh I 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.719 thought you're gonna say, they're just straight up illegal. No. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.440 But you can't like if you notice ear kindling packages, 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.280 can't say anything about like has like increases your hearing 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.719 or is medically sound. Um. And if you've seen the 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:58.400 candles rolled open and all that disgusting stuff that didn't 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.319 come from your ear, that's that's a product of the 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.360 burning of the paper, Is that right, Yeah, so it's 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.719 just a bunch of bunk. So apparently if you do 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.320 have uh what if you believe you have a hardened 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.280 build up of ear wax in your ear canal, the 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.280 first thing to try is just a couple of drops 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.959 of mineral oil. Yeah, because basically all that ear wax 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.880 build up is is it's dried ear wax. Like you said, 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:26.560 ear wax is part of a self cleaning process. Anytime 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.319 you chew or move your jaw, you're actually moving the 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.679 ear wax further and further out beside your ear and 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.920 then you can just kind of, you know, rub it out, 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.400 or if you're a gross person, you just leave it 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:39.520 and let it get caught up in your ear hair 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:43.360 for some reason. But if you have a build up, 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.400 you just just a little bit of mineral oil will 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.040 kind of re constitute it a little bit and so 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.600 it drains out. Yeah, I guess it'll work itself back 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:57.480 out again. Yeah. Yeah. Um I used the cotton swabs occasionally, 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.599 but um, I try to be responsible and like be 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:03.880 aware of not jamming things down in there and trying 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:08.000 just like swab along the outer outer thing. I do 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.720 not use swabs in my ears are perfect perfectly clean, 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.160 Yeah they are. Um, I do use the end of 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:18.880 a football though. That seems to work. I have great 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:23.320 memories about um my mother treating me with warm oil 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.160 for ear aches when I was a kid. For some reason, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.240 it's just a very comforting feeling. I remember that warm 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.600 oil like filling up my ear and it closing. Yeah. Yeah, 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.320 and it worked. Yeah, I think it helped the ear ache. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.040 And it's just it's just one of those soothing, like 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.920 mom things from when I was a kid. I didn't 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.040 have I mean, I have had ear aches before, but 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.840 I didn't have them chronically. You mean, did I guess too? 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.240 And yeah, that just seems so awful to have, like 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:52.840 chronic ear aches. Yeah, I had bloody noses and ear aches. Weird, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:54.720 did you fall down a lot or no? And I 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.040 haven't had a bloody nose and like since I was 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.080 a kid, But yeah, I remember kids who had bloody 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.680 noses a little like like chronically. I wouldn't say mine 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:06.320 was chronic. I wasn't. Like it just seems like you know, 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.440 now when you look around, if there's somebody with clean 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.360 X like sticking out of their nose, you're like, oh 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.600 my god, are you okay? But when you're a kid, 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:15.120 it's like commonplace, Like half of your class has clean 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.440 X chicking out of their nose at any time. It's 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:19.520 just I wonder what that is. We'll have to do 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.720 how bloody knows is work? Yeah, or we could do 0:15:21.800 --> 0:15:25.120 a fallow up to this Why kids are so disgusting? Yeah, 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:31.240 kids are especially gross even though they lacked dermodex. Your demodex. Miight? Um, 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.480 all right, you ready for another one? Yeah, this one's 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:39.320 so gross. Uh. Lipoma or fatty deposits is something that 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.120 you have in your body. Um, well, once you go ahead, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:48.120 explain about fatty cells, period and why these might want 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.840 to leave that scene. Actually, we don't even know what 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.160 causes this still, No, I mean, like you accumulate fat 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.040 in your body through your metabolic processes, Like different different 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:03.200 macro nutrients are convert in the liver I think too fat, right, 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.920 So the fats are generally stored in like certain areas 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:12.200 like around your gut, like in your lower back, in 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:16.880 your buttocks, and your breasts. Like there's just places where 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.360 fat normally goes. That doesn't mean like that's where it 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:24.280 has to go and technically, fat build up can happen anywhere, 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.400 and when it happens in a place that just seems 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:30.200 kind of weird. We've dubbed those like pomas or fatty deposits, 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.000 which are technically a benign form of a soft tissue tumor. 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:36.960 And it's just a bunch of fat cells that have 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.640 like come up on your face or your neck or 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.560 something where you're just like, man, this is not a 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.600 good day. Yeah, your neck, shoulders, arms, upper back, upper thoughts, 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.440 in your butt or where you're most likely to get them. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:51.720 And uh, it's between the skin and the muscle. And 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.840 it's just like a little sort of soft, doughy lump 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.560 that you can move around with your finger. Yeah, and 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.080 it touches squishes around. Because most of the time it's 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.080 not painful. And if it is painful, um, it's recommended 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.679 that you go have a doctor check it out pretty quick. Yeah. Um, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:10.879 it's probably not any cause of alarm. If you have 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.560 one um period, like you said, if it starts to 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.800 hurt though, or if it ruptures and oozes anything, then yeah, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.480 that's when you should go to the doctor. The problem 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:22.000 is they don't tend to really go away. They don't 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:25.960 once they once they arrive, they either won't grow much 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.440 beyond that or they'll grow very slowly. But the problem 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.520 is they don't reverse course, and just pushing them isn't 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:33.560 going to push him back down and spread them out. 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.879 So you generally have two options when you have a 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.520 lipoma that you don't want, and that's liposuction, which may 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.160 or may not be effective, and then surgical removal, which 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.800 is apparently like an impatient local and aesthetic procedure that 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.800 you can just go and have it done. If you 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:51.920 have a high pain threshold and a lot of gaulls, 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.560 you can technically do it yourself. But you don't want 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.400 to do that. And let me just reiterate, you don't 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:00.200 want to do that. That was a total joke. Do 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.480 not remove your life poema as yourself. No, although my 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.520 um I go to the dermatologist occasionally get little skin 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:10.640 tags removed. Is there any kind of local anesthetic for that? Yeah, 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:14.720 they do, just a quick little uh uh injection. But 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:16.960 I don't even think they need to. And my doctor, 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.560 the point I was making was my g P said, 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.520 you know you can do that yourself. I said, really, yeah, 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:24.000 if you want to just get some super sharp you 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:28.200 know plyers or scisters or something not plyers, but you 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:34.880 know snippers and get some bolt cutters. Yeah. Oh man, um, yeah, 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.160 I was kind of surprised to hear him say that. Yeah, 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.520 just do it yourself, because doctors love money. I know, 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:44.000 you know, they want your money. Well, he's not my dermatologist. 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.600 My dermatologist probably be like, no, no, was he like 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.000 your plumber or something? No, my gph. They love money, 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:55.400 their doctors. How about mucus. Mucus sounds great. Uh, let's 0:18:55.440 --> 0:19:01.840 cover it right up for this message. Okay, mucus. Uh, 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.520 let's talk about it. Boogers and mucus and snot Let's 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.920 are you a snotty person? You're not very snotty. I'm 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:12.280 not snotty because I'm not. I don't have allergies, and 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.880 I think that's people with allergies are definitely snottier. Oh yeah, 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.840 for sure, Emily sadly is very snotty. Yeah, Well, snot 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:24.600 is a snot production. Mucus production is a is part 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.159 of the immune response to things like irritants a k 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:34.160 A buffalo wing sauce. Yeah, um, and people who drink milk. 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:37.840 It can be activated by that sometimes. Yeah, milk can 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:42.040 make people kind of snotty. Um, But mucus production is 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:46.360 not strictly the result of an infection or an invasion 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:51.320 or an irritation. Uh. It's a very natural, beautiful biological 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:54.400 process that's ongoing every day. Yeah. I mean, we need 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.480 mucus in our body. It acts as a lubricant and 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.120 a liner of things like your stomach um. And we'll 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:04.639 get to stomach acid later. But if it wasn't for mucus, 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.359 then you would be in big trouble in your stomach. Um. 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:10.359 Your body makes about a quarter to a half a 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:14.160 gallon a quarter to a half a gallon of mucus 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:18.040 a day. Again, yeah, your body makes a quarter to 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:19.680 a half gallon of mucus to day. I think you 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:23.720 swallow like a leader of that or something. Yeah, I 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:26.440 think so. I can't remember. I remember reading that earlier though, 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:28.840 And we should say, for our friends who are listening 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:33.000 outside of the US and Liberia, that's one to two 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:37.520 leaders a day of mucus that your body produces. Yeah, yeah, 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:39.840 which I have to say. And I feel like a 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:42.080 chump for not looking it up and not thinking about 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:45.440 it until now, Like, why where does it go? Do 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:48.600 you pee it out? No? I mean if you're swallowing, 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:51.000 it doesn't go into your stomach, okay, but then you 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.359 you expel the stuff that's in your stomach one way 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:55.920 or another. It was probably part of your poop. I'm 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.240 sure it's part of it. But I mean, like, I mean, 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.280 where did your mucus go? Yeah? Oh, man, I wish 0:21:02.280 --> 0:21:03.879 I would have thought of this before, because that's a 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:06.560 great question. Well, and the angel question if you're sick, 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:09.840 is it make you healthier or not as healthy to 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:13.520 swallow your mucus? I don't know, do you know? Yeah? 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:14.960 I think I looked it up and I think it's 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:17.720 not supposed to make any difference. So um, I've found 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:20.320 that you know how mucus turns green, and it's a 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.520 sure sign of an infection. Not necessarily true, right, No, 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:26.560 it does mean that you probably do have an infection 0:21:26.640 --> 0:21:29.320 going on, or at the very least your body thinks 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:33.159 it does, do um, But it doesn't. It's not. It 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.160 doesn't indicate the presence of bacteria in your mucus. That's 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:38.320 not what turns it green. There's a type of white 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:43.120 blood cells that um have a greenish tint, and when 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:46.560 it's fighting off an infection. When they accumulate in your mucus, 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.000 they turn it kind of greenish color, yellow green. So 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.760 it's actually a type of white blood cell that's making 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:55.399 your mucus green. But it probably means that you have 0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.120 some sort of infection there. Yeah, And if you're sick 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:02.280 and you're hacking up that yellowy greeny brown stuff, then 0:22:02.800 --> 0:22:06.399 it's disheartening at least just concerning. That's the time to 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:09.280 apply mind over matter and be like, nope, I'm not 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:11.720 getting sick. I don't care if my mucus is yellow. 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:19.600 That's your whole thing. It works knock on wood, um 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:23.679 so dry mucus. It is called the boogers, and uh, 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.440 those are in your nose. And you're gonna tell them 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.520 about the video? Oh yeah, if you want to see. 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:32.040 Almost posted it to the Facebook page and it's just 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:35.960 like now, yeah, yeah, there's a video on YouTube. It's 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:40.879 something about dr removes Um Booker from Hell from man's 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:45.400 nose and are seconds of your not recommending you watch 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:47.639 it that you'll never forget. I can say this, I 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:50.200 was not prepared for how large what came out of 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:53.480