Or the other ay around, Last week in Whistletown and it is just a compilation of short clips of last week's videos with cards linking to the full video
@@jelmerprins that would prolly be even better! I just want a way to ensure i dont miss any of Simon's sidebars on channels im not aware of since he seems to make a new one every few months....
Ulcers used to be caused by "stress" and "tension" and even repressed emotions. This was just about universally believed by everyone, even in the medical community, until the bacterial connection was made.
There is also a drug that is a cure, but the pharmaceutical companies stopped manufacturing it for other drugs that only treats it and you have to buy for the rest of your life.
Wow, the heart catheter doctor literally saved my life a few years ago when my digestive system totally failed. TPN is delivered through a PICC or similar tubes that go directly in to the heart so food can be delivered (it’s specialist formula that costs a fortune!) and when nothing would stay in, it saved my life, I was dying even with a nasojejunal tube (nose to intestine tube).
Biochemist here, can confirm that yeah, we like to be self-reliant, lol. I've walked in on colleagues drawing their own blood so they can extract their own DNA and use it as a positive control for pcr. Self-experimentation is how you separate the 'real' scientists from the dilettantes...
@@jmgajda8071 but in the same rite, I can say that your comparison of self blood draws to self experimentation makes it highly questionable that you are in fact, a biochemist. Edit: wait for it..... 😆
Amateur chemist here and I put my hand back together after shooting it by accident and have drained numerous accessed over the years sadly the only one that has given me trouble, not healed for 22 years, is the one I took to see a real doctor. A lot of the wonderful scientists I have known were psychonauts in every sense of the word. Where would we be without these brave souls who take human experimentation very very personally. Thanks guys x
Ooh, I had that heart catheter thing put in back in 2018! :D Warning for probably TMI with veins and stuff, sorry! :D I was getting chemotherapy (full recovery, we caught it in time), which tends to make your veins collapse rather a lot, making it increasingly difficult to draw blood or insert an IV, both of which happen with a great deal of regularity if you're getting chemo. So they put in what's now called a PIC line (forget what it stands for), and yeah, it's just a small, flexible tube that's run into a large vein from just below for bicep on your inner right arm, and then threaded through to your heart. In my case, they left it ending just a centimeter or two shy of entering my heart, so it wouldn't interfere with the valves, but they absolutely could have kept going. It was really cool! I got to watch, (they guide it to and then down the vein with a live X-ray TV feed, kind of like an ultrasound) because they only need to numb the part of your arm they're feeding it in through; once it's into the vein it's just following the current of your bloodstream returning through the vein to your heart, and you can't even feel it. Didn't even feel it really once the local anaesthesia wore off either, frankly. You get left with about an inch and a half of, like, the flat end of an IV that they'd attach the bag to hanging out (with a sort of tap pinching it off, of course!), and that's kept in place with a couple of stitches so it wouldn't pull out, and a clear IV sticker thing over the whole lot to keep it clean, and a stretchy tube of a bandage pulled up over the whole lot so you don't catch it on stuff, and off you go! *Extremely* handy for all the blood tests! Don't need to deal with needles anymore; they just flush it with saline to ensure it's clear (don't worry; they pull blood out until they can see it before they flush the saline in to be sure there's no clots in it; wouldn't want an embolism!) and then draw out as much as they need, with the syringe just screwing onto the end of the line. Much better!! The only inconvenient part is that it goes in your *right* arm, even if you're right-handed, because as you can see in that X-ray, it's a nice straight run with a gentle curve, whereas the route from the left arm is a *lot* more convoluted-to the point it's easier to come in through the inner thigh instead, iirc. Did see someone else there later with their PIC line installed near their collarbone instead of their arm, which frankly did look simpler to deal with. But still, mine was pretty cool, and waaaay better than dealing with collapsed veins! -No anaesthetic needed to take it out after we were all done, btw; just gotta take out the couple of stitches and pull it out, and then measure it against what they said they put in to ensure it hadn't broken off. All good. :D
KryssLaBryn My mom had her port for chemo right up by her collarbone as well, which in her case was used to administer her chemo during each session, for the same reason that you stated which is the necessitated avoidance of collapsed and overly incredibly difficult increased amount of times it would need to be done in order to provide for and also like you said also similarly regularly perform assessments of her during her entire treatment period. Which, actually just like you said for yourself (and this was about 15 years ago for my mom even too actually) they were able to catch it early enough to give her a full recovery as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m glad your celebrating the same AMAZING outcome from such unbelievable (continually advancing all the time) ingenuous and almost beyond imagination medical breakthroughs and innovation that are surrounding the treatment and hopefully eradication of that awful diagnosis, regardless of what kind or where it effects you in your body. YAY LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳💕💕💕💕
When my wife was a baby her mom was bitten by a black widow but didn't really suffer from it. On the other hand my wife had to be rushed to the hospital as the toxins were passed through breast milk.
Hello Simon, check out the history of Bill Haast, who used to run the Miami serpentarium in Miami Florida. He injected himself with venom for decades and also happened to be the universal donor blood type. His blood used to get made into antivenin for crotalid (pit vipers like rattlesnakes) if I remember correctly.
Have to give you Kudo's Simon. That is the closest correct pronunciation of Saskatchewan by a non-native of either Canada or said province. Us locals pronounce it Sask-at-chewin, but yours was really good. My favorite 'joke' about my city and province is (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) is "That is our DUI (drunk driving) test. Cop pulls you over, asks you where you are, and then asks you to spell it". Anyone who isn't from here would pretty much fail either question.. LOL.
I was wondering if anyone else noticed that! To me it sounded like he said, "Sahsk-chiw-WAHHN", but then I never lived there. I DID however live in Alburduh, near Cowgry. Never lived in Tronna, however, and we find it funny how Americans prounce it as if it has two Ts. And NOBODY knows how to pronounce Quebec or, God help us, Newfoundland.
That's strange, I was in a clan on Call of Duty with a guy who said he was from Saskatoon (though idk what would be the point of faking that information lol), but I've always remembered him pronouncing it as "Sass-KAAtch-ewan" - though I suppose it's completely possible that that was the only way my brain saw/heard it and made any amount of sense 😅
@@SteedRuckus that pronunciation is also common. I was more commenting on the fact that most people unfamiliar with that particular word don't even come close to an acceptable pronunciation.
@@SteedRuckus Non-locals seem to enunciate the "wan" at the end, whereas locals are closer to "chwn", running the two syllables together. Of course it is impossible to replicate a pronunciation without using phonetics, and even that doesn't come close. There are all sorts of variations.
In 1989 my father had been seeing his doctor for treatment of indigestion and suspected ulcer. My mother had heard about this study and mentioned it to the doctor who said that it was still unproven and that many trials has not seen any benefits and so refused to give him anything more than antacids. 3 months later he almost died in my 10 year old arms when his ulcer burst and he vomited a couple of litres of blood. My ignoring his direction not to call an ambulance is probably the only reason he's alive today. I have learned this lesson very well. If I'm ever uncertain about a doctor's diagnosis, I request a second opinion.
Thx for all the great work Simon and friend's! I'm subscribed to almost all of your channels and look forward to new vids everyday. 😀 Keep up the good vibezz.
Sir, do you know that the episodes you say you will link to at the end of your videos are never the ones that are actually linked to? For instance, at the end of this video, you said there was a link to one about vaccines and how influential they've been. The link presented was to your video about the SS Carl D Bradley. You might want to look into that.
What makes someone think "man, I should start injecting myself with snake venom". The amount of respect I have for him is incredible. So is my amount of fear
Winter in Wisconsin. You have to relieve the boredom somehow. 🤣🤣🤣 In all seriousness, I wonder if it had something to do with him having a venomous snake as a pet? Like, less of a "I should start injecting myself with snake vemon" and more of a "man, it would really suck if I got bitten. Wonder if I can do something about that."
Yeaaahhh... He wouldn't have made it past one experiment SOOOOOO..... Yeaaahhh.. not a question of if only but whether he could or not.... And the answer is he couldn't have unless he was suicidal. But I get your point. (I'm just busting balls)
Snakes are absolutely beautiful and fascinating! When I was about 12 my friends older brother had a lot of snakes and I would help him take them to schools and show them to kids so they could learn to appreciate their beauty and that not all snakes are deadly!
It is somewhat horrifying to think that as recent as the 1980's the medical fraternity still thought they knew "everything" about certain elements of the human body! The persistence of these two men showed otherwise. Simon has presented other videos where the common thoughts of doctors at a given point in time were deemed correct & any suggestion or hypothesis otherwise were often ridiculed, only to be proven wrong by those that were proposing something outside the current beliefs of the day. How many lives could have been saved, how many patients quality of life could have been improved had the established fraternity of doctors been open to new ideas & thoughts? We will never know, however I am sure the numbers would be horrifying if ever determined & published for the last 50 or 100 years.
It's rather odd, but I've noticed that on every one of Simon's videos where he tells us that a link is onscreen, the thumbnail shown is for an entirely different video. Who coordinates this and what's going wrong?
That GW died from something so unscientific as blood letting is just mind-boggling when in the same time frame you have GW making all his men get inoculated against small pox.
The pain was so bad he was like, "nah bro! Please dont let that spider bite me again!" Simon there are people in Africa and India that handle snakes like they're members of the family. But thank the Lord for those brave folks that risk their lives to better humanity
Personal anecdote. In grad school, a group in my lab would draw blood from each other to purify the white blood cells. I hear a thud and see one of them (she was about 5'2" 110lb) collapsed on the floor. They had drawn about 500cc of blood while she was standing... 🙄
A doctor in my town preformed his own hemorrhoid surgery at home in his bathtub. He was a good doctor with some crazy ideas. He was still practicing when I was a toddler, my mom took me to him. He confirmed I had chicken pox, but I only had 2, so my mom isn't convinced that I truly had them.
I used to be uncomfortable about snakes until I watched some snake center and some snake handlers both handle the snakes and educate about snakes, that like majority of the animals, most of them are scared of humans and other animals and only resort to attacking as their last resort because it puts them in grave danger with their only defensive tool reserved. Also seeing the handlers calm down the snakes and the snakes behaving rather calm made them much less scary. I believe Tim Friede followed what was known for ages by the snake charmers who would regularly let their snake bite them to build the immunity. Also imagine how medical research has struggled to progress at times if it wasn't particularly scandalous that a lab assistant had thrown almost 30 samples away because they hadn't shown signs in 2 days. Also imagine that you had to drink a glass of bacteria to win a nobel prize about a thing that everybody ridiculed you for when you released a research paper. "If you really liked this medical video, you should check out this vaccine video we did *Siberia's 1300 year old mystery fortress on screen*"
Yuppi, some advice. Never ever trust a tiger snake 🐍. Most Australian venomous snakes will bite you because you have frightened them or are near to their nest. The Tiger snake is aggressive, will chase you, can leap in the air after you. Fact.
I've had difficulty watching the video due to buffering, but if Henry Head isn't on here, he should be. He voluntarily had several of his nerves severed just so someone with an in-depth knowledge of neuroscience could methodically record how they regenerated over time. Apparently, his patients who simply happened to sustain nerve injuries didn't know enough about the science to give him data that he found useful. So his solution was to intentionally give himself debilitating injuries. Obviously.
Simon: Is surprised that not everyone is bothered by snakes. Me: points at massive pet snake trade that spans across the globe. I personally don’t get how people can look at a snake’s little puppy face and think it isn’t absolutely adorable.
He has one on xplrd about the Tuskegee syphilis experiment... One about Josef Mengele on Biographics... one on Into The Shadows about MKULTRA, and another one on the same channel about Unit 731 (Japanese)... There's one on Brain Blaze about "Crazy social experiments that crossed the line", and another one about the Russian Sleep Experiment... and those are just the ones I can find in a quick search/remember. Simon already has lots of videos on that subject. Besides, "human experimentation" is a very wide subject, so a video falling into that category is probably going to focus on one particular experiment at a time, like the ones I mentioned. Also, as Simon's channels are ever mutating and multiplying, they're not all gonna be in the same place.
@@trishapellis Wow, what a thorough and helpful response! Much more helpful than my lazy one, lmao. The Russian Sleep Experiment is not a true story, but it's still a REALLY good creepypasta!
My brother had a girlfriend who worked at Royal Perth Hospital and was infected with H Pylori as part of the study. Unfortunately she developed some sort of antibiotic resistant strain and suffered for quite a while before they managed to knock it on the head.
Australia invented the Polyvalent Snake Antivenom a long time ago. It's not "universal" but it covers pretty much all deadly venomous species in Australia. I think browns and tigers are the only ones it doesn't specifically cover.
Hey with that heart cathada I had that same sort of operation performed on me when I was in highschool!, had it in for months! Only threw up looking at it wiggle in and out of my arm a few times!
Simon, I look forward to your videos, but one thing I've noticed is that every time you mention that a particular video is link to on the screen, it isn't. Example, in this video you mention that your previous Vaccine video is linked, but instead the video was about the Siberia fortress.
Mosquitoes are way more deadly than any snake, body count wise. Snakes need venom to secure prey & protect themselves. Since they know via their senses that most humans are too big to eat, they would rather save their venom unless threatened. They are NOT out to hurt humans.
The black widow is not called that because it kills humans. It's called that because it kills spiders - specifically, males of its own species with which it has mated. Hence why she is called a widow.
I had the unique experience of having to extract a piece of rock that was smashed into my right hemisphere while rock climbing and sewing the ragged gash closed. Several hours later when my climbing partner delivered me nearly unconscious to the local clinic a neurologist reopened my bad job, extracted several smaller pieces of stone and closed after an hour of brain surgery….so sometimes self medicine is not a good thing.
i love the stories you covered on TIFO of the crazy guys and ladies that TASTED and ATE their research just to see what would happen. like..you crazy xD
Simon; *Only 50% of people are uncomfortable around snakes?* I thought this was everyone. Herpetologists and Specialists in Venom milking these nope-noodles literally everywhere -- *HI SIMON.*
I have a question... Snakes are often referred to as being Satan in the garden of eden, however the 'serpent' was cursed to crawl on his belly afterwards. Does that mean the serpent had arms and legs? or just looked totally different to what we think.
While the appendix is not a vital organ it does serve a purpose in the final stages of digestion and as a storage for vital gut bacteria so if you don't need it removed don't get it removed that way when you eat bad seafood in a couple years and have all your blood gush out your back door it won't kill *all* your bacteria.
In the USA, you are far more likely to be killed by you pet dog (or your teenage child) than a snake (of any kind). In fact in the US averages less than 1 death by a non-venomous snake a year and 5 deaths by venomous snakes. Most non-venomous snakes are perfectly safe to own and handle, as long as you go by the rule of 1 foot of snake per 1 foot of human. Meaning if you have a 5 foot snake and you are 6 feet tall you are safe. If you have a 15 foot snake you need 3 (5 to 6 foot) people to safely handle it.
Estimates total watching time of all Simons Channels I could find 72 DAYS! It would take roughly 72 straight days with no break in time ever. Roughly 102,800 mins (based on what I saw in the most recent videos and oldest) As of June 4, 2022 10;30 MST Simons Chanels consist of: Biographics 581 videos started 5/2017 Mega Projects 320 videos started 5/2020 Brain Blaze 351 videos started 5/2019 *3 & 4 hr streams of Simon playing videos games Today I Found Out 1,974 videos. started 10/2011 Visual Poltik EN 628 videos started 1/2017 The Casual Criminalist 117 videos started 10/2020 Top Tenz 2485 videos started 2/2010 Geographic 185 videos started 5/2017 Xplrd 66 videos started 8/2020 Warographics 185 videos started 5/2017 Side Projects 243 videos started 5/2020 *included in time total but channels are old and not active The Simon Whistler Show Highlights 93 videos started 9/2019 Simon Whistler (Green thumbnail) 3 videos started 2/2013 Simon Whistler (Brown thumbnail) 1 video started /2015 Again, the time estimate is rough as I couldn't find anywhere that listed total time for each channel You could stretch all the videos out to a 1 year 8 hour work day, unpaid Holiday/PTO, at $15 USD/hour you'd make $25,695 USD/year
The snake phobia is so funny to me, I just got lucky enough to not get it at all. I love snakes. I’ll pick up snakes and hold them etc. meanwhile my grandpa left my mom at the zoo as a kid and stayed outside the snake enclosure because he was too afraid to even see the snakes through the glass lmfao
Simon, I wanted to give love to the vaccine video you talked about at the end but it just ended up being one of your new ones (which I've already watched) . So where's the vaccine video?
Lol, i was the kind of girl as a kid that wanted a pet Snake when my Mom forced me to give away my cat. 😂 Im definitely a reptile lover. Black Mamba is actually one of my favorite snakes too
That guy who injected snake venom for 10 years: what would happen to somebody who was bitten by him? What about deep kisses-loving or lethal? Inquiring minds want to know.
I imagine that _at least_ as many if not far more brave doctors and specialists, have been their own extreme medical guinea pigs to the education of the medical world - where it did _not_ go this well.
This is about the 20th video that I've watched from many of your channels where you say that a certain video is linked on the screen. The one that appears is NEVER the one that you say it is.
Never been uncomfortable around snakes but then I grew up in the UK.. I've seen maybe 3 wild snakes and only 1 of them was a black adder. Snakes are cuties.
To be fair, the vast majority of snake species pose no threat to humans whatsoever. They really just want to be left alone. Plus I think they’re pretty cute.
The video link you in the corner if the screen you identified as on vaccines was for "the creepiest mysteries you haven't heard of". Please add to the video description the vaccine link.
Sir Whistled, can we please have more?? 🙏🏻 🥺 Lots of us want you to make a "shorts" channel with some daft name like "Whistled Wednesday" or "Simon's Sunday Shorts" (or some much better, much funnier pun) but basically this is a channel that does shorts to promote all different videos on all your channels, and thus does frequent trailers for what to expect in the upcoming week, with maybr a bunch of short clips from each video spliced together, to hook viewers and then link in pinned comment/end card/description, as well as posting particularly intriguing or funny excerpts as well that make people want to watch the whole vid on whatever channel it's on.... that way you have another channel to potentially earn revenue, which is especially true if you bite the bullet and make a tiktok to cross post!! People are already doing it with Simon Whistler videos, so shouldn't Simon Whistler and his team of writers and editors get the income from the high views these clips are getting ?!? 🤷 (And just to clarify, this is not initally my idea, I've seen it on several videos, and I just saw another one today which reminded me of it and made me want to comment bcs I actually think many people came up with it at different times, tbh, but just wanted to give an FYI so no one thinks I'm trying to say this was my idea first cos it wasn't lol)
Love how he says, "each year thousands of people die from venomous snake bites" as they show a constrictor (non-venomous) readying itself in an S curve stance. NON-VENOMOUS, WHISTLER!!! NON!!!! VENOMOUS!!!!! lol
I'm a tad confused about the snake thing. Some docs say that herpetologists continuing exposure to the snakes make it so the person is vulnerable to the venom, to the point where there is no time for antivenin or the like. But then there's a lot of docs like this that have the immunity build up from injection. So, how does that all work?
For the immunity, the key is the dosage. The first time you inject yourself with the venom, you make sure it's a dose that won't kill you. The dosage of venom in the bite of a black widow spider is just not enough to kill an adult human. As the venom does its thing inside you, your immune system is trying to find something to stop it - trying to make antibodies that will neutralize it. Once it finds those, it should be capable of starting with the production of these antibodies the next time it encounters that same venom, which should mean a) that the pain and other symptoms should be less bad and clear up more quickly, and b) that you can theoretically inject yourself with a higher dose and it should not kill you. However, the immune system does not necessarily find the correct antibodies on the first try, so the second try may still be just as bad (which is why Allan Blair canceled the second black widow bite - he couldn't be sure it would be less bad this time, the point of the planned second bite was to see IF he had built up some immunity). If the venom you're injecting yourself with is something that will kill you if you get a full bite of it (for example cobra venom), then you take a dose that's much smaller than the dose the animal itself would give you for your first hit. Then after one, or two, or five injections, when you notice that the pain is less and goes away more quickly, you raise the dose a little, until eventually you can handle a full snake bite and not die. It may still hurt like hell though. I feel it also needs to be noted that, as far as I know, immunizing yourself against one venom does not necessarily protect you from another, because snake venoms can contain a range of different toxins and not all snake or spider species produce the same compounds. So the truck driver up there probably didn't just use the venom of his cobra to immunize himself for the bite of an inland taipan, he used other venoms as well. What you say about herpetologists is something I'd never heard before, and i can't immediately find anything about it on Google. Do you remember where you heard or read that? If it's true, I would assume that the cause would be something like this: a full snake bite delivered to a person who is not immunized, in a dose that can absolutely kill you, is a big strain on the system. Even if you get antivenom, the antivenom still needs time to counteract the venom, and during that time, the venom is still destroying your nerve tissues/ blood vessels/ whatever it is this particular venom does. I can imagine that after going through that on various parts of the body like twice a week, at some point those tissues may just be too weak to handle more, the immune system may be too frazzled to put up a decent resistance and prevent the venom from spreading too fast... something like that. This is pure conjecture though, as I can't immediately find any evidence that this is a thing.
@@trishapellis It took me a while, but think I found it. It used to be on youtube, but probably was taken down. Was hard finding it elsewhere. I THINK it was Fatal Attractions by Animal Planet, Season 2, episode 1. Had the guy with the snakes in the trailer, and a snake milker (I think he was a herpetologist, but I can't remember.) who 'developed an allergy from exposure to the snakes on a daily basis'. I remember in the show, I think, specifically, there was a herpetologist talking about the exposure allergy thing, and said it was something that a lot of them think about and have to deal with, as an eventuality for them working with snakes. He worked at a zoo, or rescue center, or something. I think? It's been years.
@@trishapellis The herpetologists are referring to anaphylaxis. The term aphylaxis was coined by French physiologist Charles Richet in 1902 in the sense "lack of protection". Richet himself later changed the term to anaphylaxis on grounds of euphony.[24] The term is from the Greek ἀνά-, ana-, meaning "against", and φύλαξις, phylaxis, meaning "protection".[60] In his experiments, Richet injected a dog with sea anemone (Actinia) toxin in an attempt to protect it. Although the dog had previously tolerated the toxin, on re-exposure, three weeks later with the same dose, it developed fatal anaphylaxis. Thus instead of inducing tolerance (prophylaxis), when lethal responses resulted from previously tolerated doses, he coined the word a (without) phylaxis (protection). He was subsequently awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on anaphylaxis in 1913.[19] The phenomenon itself, however, has been described since ancient times.
As far as Tim Friede being the first to use himself as a snake venom incubator I believe this to be false as Ram Chandler preceded him with this endeavour to create an antivenom in Australia in 1955
My God Simon I never knew that the founder of my country died of some wild bloodletting with leeches.... I will say this there's quite a brilliant young man his Irish and I know that possibly you might have problems with the Irish people I'm ginger by the way. It a channel call qxir... Fresh topics with Irish humor.. well piece together.
