The myths we believe in №7

Hello everyone! I welcome you in the New Year's release of myths in which we believe. Is that all? No snow, no crackers. It seems that it’s winter outside, and the snow isn’t lying around, only drunks, perhaps. A holiday comes to them so to speak. Yes, it’s not a secret to anyone that sales and the amount of alcohol consumed increase during the holidays. People may be teetotalers, but still drink in honor of some epic feast. And if you are one of these, then I have free advice for you on this occasion. Do not drink when it is cold. Not at all, you’ve subscribed to the channel. I’ll tell you more about this, but now there’s a fascinating story about a dog. You know this breed of St. Bernard. If you suddenly look for photographs of these stunning animals, then sooner or later you will stumble upon those where they are depicted with barrels on their neck. These photos are just thousands. The fact is that these dogs were used for rescue operations in the Alps. They really helped people in their searches. Since dogs themselves often found people, they often kept alcohol in barrels to warm their bodies and the loss could wait for the rescue team. Wow, now I get it. It’s not training that makes owners drag beer, it’s the dogs that just save people.

"Wow."

Now forget what I just said. Disintegrate these memories and pretend that this has never happened. This picture, with which it all began, does not repeat a certain moment. This is a pure invention of the author, who by the way was 18 years old at that time. I should draw like that. His name was Edwin Landseer and he drew this barrel just like that. I wanted and invented a story for him that brandy was stored there. Krasava. This barrel of alcohol is well integrated into pop culture. At first, other artists adopted this nonsense. Then there were eyewitness accounts, now there is “Tom And Jerry” and “Pluto” for example. These cartoons clearly show what is inside this thing and how it helps to warm the frozen poor fellow. The game is being rubbed right on all fronts, but in reality no one ever hung such barrels on dogs, but the myth was not to stop the car, look. The most popular Saint Bernard was called Barry and he saved 40 people. The 41st killed him unfortunately because he thought it was a wolf. Now in the Berne Museum of Natural History there is a scarecrow of this legendary dog. Guess what's on her neck. That's right, a myth in person. Museum 12 out of ten. Everything is reliable. Why are there such photos now? Because it is bought. Souvenirs, photo with a rescue dog. The whole set is straight. But why not be true. What is it, because alcohol really warms. There is even such a word in the dictionary, it means a little drink to keep warm. Logically, no. You only think that you are warm. Alcohol causes the expansion of blood vessels, this leads to a rush of blood and a feeling of warmth. It was this feeling that uprooted the myth that alcohol warms, but in fact everything is the other way around. Body temperature drops rapidly, so it is very dangerous to thump in the cold. Don't even notice how you get re-cooling. Now imagine if the St. Bernards really had barrels of alcohol. A squad of killer dogs. I would make such a film.

"Find them."

Here is how one picture was able to affect all dogs of this breed, and stories about how alcohol warms affect the number of problems associated with this. This issue, in addition to being interesting, is also very useful. So here’s some good advice if you don’t want to put your hooves back in the new year. If you already decided to get drunk on the street and fall into a snowdrift, then keep a sober brother nearby who can help you if something happens. Speaking of snowdrifts. I would like to devote the following plot to snow. This is probably the only reason why winter can be expected. Apparently she never came. Some kind of Apocalypse came, judging by what I see outside the window, but that is not the point. In childhood, after school, when I was going home, I loved to eat snow. Why are you looking at me like that. Many do this, children generally adore this business. Who cares, water is all the same. What will she do to me? So studies have found that snow absorbs absorbs air pollution. And there is nothing there and it just looks white, but in fact, every snowflake is a trash. When she flies, she already collects the nastiness from the exhaust of cars, and when she lies, then generally many times more. Try to collect snow in a bucket at the playground, come home, melt it and show the child that any dirt will float there, from small pieces of something, dog feces, to sticks lying just on the road. Okay, I'll show it myself. Sasha, there’s such a thing.

"Yes, I’ll do everything. Zhenya, as if he had guessed. Today it has been snowing all night. Now we will select it, but first we put on gloves, unusual fleecy, so as not to put dirt there, but special laboratory ones. Let's go get some snow."

Sasha, host of the Chemistry channel. Simply, kindly agreed to provide his snow and even melt it in the laboratory. I want to note that this is freshly fallen snow, and we already see all sorts of muck in the water, but that's not all. If we filter this water, then we will see a rather dumb picture. I liked it, then you will like a lot more snow, which lay a couple of days, but the look is also very white. Would you drink that kind of water? Hardly. But what if we analyze this filtered water?

"So we have two samples with melted snow. We will analyze them on an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. And the analysis will be carried out by Masha. Come on. The content of most of the detected elements is quite small, but there are a lot of some elements against the background of the rest. A lot of carbon, this suggests that there was some kind of organic matter in the water. Which one can’t be said, since the mass spectrometer sorted all the substances into separate atoms, and then counted them. So in the water there could have been petrochemicals from automobiles and some kind of bacteria and corny dissolved carbon dioxide. So I would not drink such water, at least without thorough filtration and boiling."

In fact, everything found in water is also confirmed by research, I just wanted to show clearly that it would be more interesting. And the channel Chemistry-Just sent a well-deserved like and subscription. It’s interesting there, believe me. Of course, we are talking about cities and towns in the main. But the idea is clear, the more pollution in the city, the more it is not recommended to eat snow. Especially if it is yellow. But what if you were left alone in the mountains, there is a noise and a blizzard around you, but you want to drink. You probably still need to restore the lack of H2O necessary for life in any way. That's right, but again, there is snow, probably not the best idea. You see from it a lot of air and little water. A bucket of snow is far from a bucket of water for example. So, in order to drink normally, you need to eat a lot, and it’s generally very cold, if you didn’t know, so by eating a lot of snow you lower your body temperature, this can aggravate already possible hypothermia. This is a very basic warning for emergencies. Of course, snow is better than if there was no water at all. Well, of course, it will be safer if you first melt this water in any way, as the survivors do. In general, the main thing is to have a head on your shoulders and to maintain balance, not to remain dehydrated, and plus everything not to freeze to death.

"Finally snow. I would not advise. There can be so many incomprehensible things. I told you so."

So if you are in the mountains in extreme conditions, whether you are in the city, it is better not to eat snow. And it’s better to sit at home altogether, but it’s better to sit at home altogether, wrapping a blanket with a cup of cocoa and thinking about it, and then fall asleep and wake up preferably in the spring. Yes, I really would love to sleep more than expected. I'm trying to. I lay there counting sheep. 98 sheep, 99 sheep, 100 sheep. I can not sleep. From this count only questions more appear in the head. Why do we consider sheep? Does it really help to fall asleep? Who ever came up with this? Well, the exact version of why we consider sheep is not. But the most popular assumption is associated with shepherds in the Middle Ages. Each time they had to keep in mind the amount of their herd, so every night before going to bed they counted their sheep to make sure they were in place. The idea itself is logical. Counting sheep is so boring that you just cut down. But no. Researchers at Oxford University recruited people with insomnia. Divided into groups, each of which they proposed to use different sleeping techniques. And then they watched what really helped them disconnect faster. One group was invited to present all kinds of relaxing scenes, for example, a waterfall, a beach, and the other was offered just the same to count something. As a result, people who mentally flew away to beautiful landscapes fell asleep 20 minutes earlier than usual, but the night shepherds took much more time. In general, the conclusion was that such a cure for insomnia does not work, because it is too boring even for sleep. Estimate so many people use this bike, but it is no longer relevant, and it has never been relevant. Speaking of bikes. Not about these. I think many have heard stories about how a person who experienced extreme fear or stress could suddenly become gray-haired. In my life, I also met such stories. One family friend after the war returned home completely gray. At least that’s what everyone said, because this is, without jokes, one of the most terrible shocks. In the end, now it serves as an artistic device that can show external changes from intense horror and stress. And the sudden gray hair is now called Marie Antoinette’s syndrome and for a reason. In 1793, the overthrown queen of France, Marie Antoinette, who was sentenced to death, went to the guillotine with completely white hair. They say that she sat the night before the execution. Also in 1535, English lawyer and philosopher Thomas More quickly turned gray, waiting for his execution at the Tower of London. And in 1982, pilot Eric Moody was faced with the fact that at first one airliner failed, then a second, and after a few minutes the aircraft did not have a single working engine. He was not taken aback and made an emergency landing, but after the incident, Eric noticed that the fringe on his head turned gray, and then his whole head sat. Mysteriously. It turns out that this is all true, since there are so many stories around and everyone is sure that it is possible to sit in an instant. Well, let's figure these stories out for a start. The pilot turned gray after an emergency landing. Yes, a year later they forgot to add. I also somehow found a gray hair in me, you know after what? After the toilet paper is over, horror, huh? And once I even turned gray after I dyed my hair. You understand. Thomas More also sat in the Tower of London for about 15 months. Everyone remembers him alone, but he turned out so gray. Oh, how it happened. In short, time has done its job with the old man. And about Marie Antoinette, the most interesting. Firstly, several months have passed from the moment of imprisonment to the moment of execution. Secondly, all these stories never mention one detail. Firstly, very long before the verdict, it was reported that she had already lost her hair and more than once, and also used light wigs. In fact, she could lose her hair for a long time or turn gray and carefully hide. And the detention cell is not a beauty salon, it won’t do it there. And thirdly, since she was already losing hair, then maybe she had focal or diffuse alopecia, this is when the hair falls out in certain areas or throughout the head. But the joke itself is that mostly pigmented hair falls out, and gray hair can remain. And in principle, the answer. Diffuse alopecia very much explains the sudden gray hair, because one of the factors is also stress. Yes, stress contributes to hair loss, and not repainting them, and in a short time. Quote - in the case of diffuse alopecia, the patient has a loss of dark hair, usually for a short period of time, so the patient remains only with white hair, creating the illusion of a color change to white, so that phrases in the style of a moment turned gray is no longer relevant. Instantly bald - even less. And therefore, do not stress, or else you will lose your hair or even worse lose not only hair, but also neurons. They are not recovering. Remember, we’ve always been told about this? So forget it. Of course, we are used to the tales that we are born with one set of nerve cells and almost monitor their number so as not to accidentally lose everything. Do I have any kind of counter? How should this work? Especially when you consider that we lose nerve cells even when we exist. Imagine back in the 60s, biologist Joseph Altman described changes in the hippocampus of rats, suggesting the formation of new cells, that is, neurogenesis. But bad luck, no one believed him. Two decades later, Fernanda Notem, while studying songbirds, discovered that canaries have a brain area responsible for learning new melodies. He noticed that in this area new neurons appear in birds. Even in adult animals, there is so-called adult neurogenesis. Over time, it was found that in humans, as in many other animals, it is present, perhaps the reason for this distrust is the insignificance of this process, occurring in only a few areas of the brain. In the olfactory bulbs, hippocampus and cerebellum. And in those years, scientists simply did not notice the growth of new cells, and therefore thought that new ones would not appear. They are formed in certain previously listed areas of the brain, and then they climb very close and camp there. That is, nerve cells still recover, only in a certain radius, so to speak. Most of the brain, of course, was left without beginners, but in the hippocampus, which is responsible for processing information for its further memorization, there is a party throughout and there are more and more neurons. And super. But what about stress? It really greatly affects neurogenesis. Here they didn’t lie to us. So try not to panic over trifles. Stress slows the formation of new nerve cells, and does not completely stop it. What to do? We don’t want to lose at least anything other than being overweight, right? Physical activity, hobbies, hobbies, language learning, travel, science, self-education, all this has a positive effect. Yes, I feel like a dude who has gathered Olympic and says the most banal things in the world there.

"You have restored 125 nerve cells."

"Super."

"You have lost 500 nerve cells."

What did we find out? Nerve cells cannot be restored - this is really a scientific theory that has long been outdated, but at the same time has remained in the heads of people who transmit this misinformation from generation to generation. They are being restored, but not everywhere. I hope they have more than recovered from the scientist who discovered this. They did not believe him and he had to study something else. I would hardly have recovered, especially before the new year. For me, it’s crazy stress to release more videos in December. It seems like during the installation I get Tourette syndrome. Tourette's syndrome. For the first time I learned about this syndrome from the movie “Call Man,” where they told in paints how...

"A good day."

"Yes. Shut up."

After that, I heard about it in films a huge number of times and all the time the emphasis was on only one. People with Tourette syndrome swear, a lot and not arbitrarily. You would know how this adversely affects people who really have such a syndrome. What we are shown in the films has nothing to do with the real disease. Shouting out matyuki is just a symptom called coprolalia, which literally translates as dirty speech. But if we are talking about Tourette’s syndrome, then only 10 to 30 percent of people with this ailment meet with involuntary shouting of swear words. And not only obscene, sometimes any words. This girl, for example, constantly says the word biscuit. Here take a look at this guy. He has Tourette's syndrome, but says that when he sings, this does not bother him. A tick begins immediately after that. Vocal and multiple motor tics are just what Tourette’s syndrome includes, but that doesn’t necessarily mean swearing. I reviewed a lot of visual materials on this topic. I saw how very pronounced ticks from which it really becomes uneasy. But I also saw a lot of those that you won’t look askance at. For example, many whistle. They show the middle finger and even the goat. And for some it is not so pronounced that you would never even say that something is wrong with them. You didn’t think that Billy Elish could have Tourette’s syndrome? And she herself admitted that he is. Most interestingly, they have shown us the syndrome thousands of times on television and are almost always wrong. Now remember the “South Park” series, in which Cartman swore and justified this by the syndrome.

"Smelly. I want to tell you that I can’t control it."

Real people with the syndrome are shown there more or less reliably, which was noted by the association of Tourette syndrome.

"A syndrome is like coughing or sneezing, it is not contagious, but they are afraid of it."

"People with the syndrome can have a variety of tics. For example, my tick."

Of all that was shown, the scriptwriters of the animated cartoon South Park approached the matter most of all. And all because, not all that glitters is gold. It’s time to understand this already. Although it is only about one scene. The rest is nonsense about matyuki. Popular culture has done its job, but do not let yourself be deceived. Suddenly I am also a deceiver, so always check everything. Is there some more? Thank. Get a good mood from this integration. It will do.