OMG when I die the research lab team is going to learn so much. I'm 44 and have had 33 surgeries. Of those, 6 were to add technical devices or hardware into my body, and 5 were to remove organs, tissues, etc. Research team is going to have a field day, i an just jealous that I cant participate in my own autopsy!
You might be able to participate in your own autopsy if you start your own religion. Get enough people to believe what you believe and give them solid evidence that it can come to fruition.
My husbands grandfather died in January this year and asked that his body be donated to medical/science. He'd had a quadruple heart bypass a few years ago but died of dementia. It was hard not having a funeral to say goodbye but it feels comforting to know that in death he's helping our future doctors learn.
Yes. I want mine donated, too. I have digestive issues. From my stomach to my bowel. I've had polyps removed and have to go back every 3 years to have more removed. I'm at the stage in my life where as I've moved through my forties, I've become more intolerant to food. I've had to slowly cut out anything containing preservatives, which is a huge amount. So I grow my own fruit and veg. Have free-range chickens and ducks. I fear I will eventually end up on a liquid diet indefinitely one day when I'm reaching my retirement age. Whenever I get I'll in any way, it takes about a week or so for my digestive system to recover and I'm on liquids with biotics, vitamin supplements, and digestive enzyme replacements. It totally sucks as I love my food.
@@shereebuckley7208 I'm so sorry you're going through this. I have multiple chronic illnesses, one of them being chronic nausea which I've had for 5 years now. All day everyday feeling nauseated is not fun so I sympathise with your chronic condition.
Not sure how their problem works, but often the bodies are cremated and returned after x amount of time when ppl donate to science. Regardless, that sounds hard and I'm glad the thought is a comfort
You guys do know that when you classify yourself as a "donor", these teams come-in and begin cutting out your eyeballs and other organs before your body even gets (cold). Kind-of gruesome if you ask me.. Moreover, Medical research has already learned as much as there is to learn. The Holy Bible tells us that there's nothing (new) under the sun. That leads me to believe that what (can be) learned, has been learned already. When the fallen angels were cast out of Heaven and forced down to the earth, they introduced humanity to all manner of information they'd never known. Some examples include, weapons of war, such as the sword, shield, spear. Even "war" itself was unknown to humanity prior to this event. Some of the fallen angels taught (chemistry), some taught how to paint. One of the more well-established facts is how they shared with (man) the science of "genetics", to include genetic manipulation/tampering. There are many more disciplines formerly unknown to mortal man on the earth until the fall of Lucifer and the angels that followed him. For a more in-depth study on the topic, refer to the Book of Enoch, there you will find more of what I've briefly mentioned. It's an interesting read to say the least.
My grandmother also donated her body to science. She was an educator in life and wanted to continue to educate after death. It was odd for me to think of college students cutting into my grandma (if that was something her body would have been used for)- but it was a beautiful wish for her to continue to educate. 💖
I’m a retired embalmer, went through college in 1973-76. Anatomy was such a favorite class and I had a wonderful and superbly smart anatomy and physiology teacher.
In my cousin's funeral home I always enjoyed collecting an autopsied body - and to closely examine the contents of the viscera bag. I learned so much about people who take care of themselves (and the people who don't). Did not become a funeral director, but I majored in English. (I would change the title of this video to things I have found INSIDE a body). Yeah, maybe I have A.D.H.D. Keep up the good work! 👨🏻🎓
Not a doctor, or have any desire to be in a medical field. I know that I dont have the work drive to do anything like that properly, but this is still such an interesting channel. Everyone should know how their bodies work.
@@theanatomylabcan you do a video on the Plastination used to preserve your cadavers? Do you guys do it yourself after a post mortem exam or it's done before you receive them? I've seen the body worlds exhibit and it's really interesting so I think other channel followers would also be interested
If only I really knew how. Unfortunately, the "same answer we're tired of hearing" apparently only goes so far. I mean, I've cut down empty calories and started exercising more, but all that's really happening is that I have more efficient muscles and am tired more. Turns out, it's a lot easier to put it on than take it off.
@@dakotahrickard so in large the "same answer were tired of hearing" will always work. The hurdle is time. The time it takes you to lose 5 pound and the time it takes me to lose the same could be drastically different, at that point there plenty of other variables as well. Just got to tick em off the list one at a time until you can find what works for you.
I had an inguenal hernia and it changed my posture just enough to put pressure on the syatic nerve causing such severe pain I couldn't breathe or sit or stand or lie down. It was easily repaired through a simple outpatient surgery by a highly skilled surgeon with mesh. I was back to normal that same day and haven't had a problem since. 8 years and counting.
My female coonhound had a inguenal hernia when I adopted her. We believe she was born with it. It was huge and required a specialist to fix it. She’s 2 now and doing wonderful. They are a very complicated hernia.
i was kind of expecting a few un-removed bullets, or shrapnel from world war 2 or maybe a splinter when the person got when they were a kid....But the visceral fat was amazing because most of us will eventually get some and exercise and diet are the best ways to keep it low....love the videos and look forward to Sundays just to see them...thanks
@@maryshkamiceli8388 He should have, but hes only human. Sometimes when the same information is repeated to you, you think of it as a basic fact and forget to label it out for others who may not know! Its possible it just slipped through the cracks and he forgot lmao
@@NAT-turners-Revenge port engineer? Very interesting were are you based? I'm a electromechanical engineer of electric vehicles, so I'm more apt towards electric stuff you must be a proper mechanical engineer
It was awesome to see the conditions in the body and have them explained. As a nurse, it helps so much to see the diseases and conditions I hear so often in a patient's diagnosis.
I am sure you have to live in the area where he owns his business so that you would be sent to him after death. plus most of the work he does with the bodies he probably cannot show on youtube but certain things as long as the algorithm allows it are ok. but i agree it would be cool to have your body featured on a channel like this at least in death you would be famous for a miniute.
Two years ago, without any diagnosis of Diverticulosis, I had a large Diverticulum which ruptured. I had emergency surgery and received a Colostomy. It turned out that I was EXTREMELY constipated due to a lifelong genetic illness called Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, which caused my colon to stretch a lot. I didn't even know I was constipated! I recovered slowly, but these days I am never constipated due to my colostomy! Yay!
That's crazy! I recently discovered that I may have hypermobility eds as well, and I never even thought about the colon stretching. I always just think of joints and ligaments hyperextending
Yeah I'm always amazed at how many people brush off digestive issues as normal. They really aren't and it's definitely worth figuring out the root cause. Mine was food allergies and I was actually going into anaphylactic shock but because my skin didn't have the type of response people were expecting, it went undiagnosed for years and I'm honestly lucky to be alive. Since I changed my diet I have had zero digestive issues which is a huge change from having failed classes in college because I was so sick I couldn't attend them regularly and got docked for attendance.
I have severe Ulcerative Colitis, which causes arthritis. I plan to donate my body to science once I die to assist in learning. This channel is really awesome.
The spine cross-section interested me. My husband had ankylosis spondylitis for almost 50 years. At age 74, he was in a serious MVA and some of his multiple injuries included broken C6 and C7, three broken vertebrae in the lower spine and a broken pelvis. One of his surgeries was to install spinal rods. The surgeon was hesitant. He said my husband’s entire spine had fused from the AS, but that the bones themselves were brittle. They did the surgery and it was successful, but unfortunately my husband succumbed to his injuries a few weeks later. ANYWAY, have you worked on cadavers with AS? Do you have spinal cross-sections? 41 yr of living with him and the multiple permutations of AS has made me curious.
I enjoy this channel. Many years ago, I was a medical transcriptionist at the Mass. General Hospital, mostly transcribing operative notes. I have always been fascinated with the human body.
This was fascinating. Im a Med Assistant that used to work for Orthopedic surgeons. The surgeons were very happy to educate us by explaining the MRIs and xrays, even explaining the surgical procedures ...but seeing the spine on an actual human...from that view, thats so amazing. 😊
1:40 Imagine offering your body to science after death and then being roasted for unhealthy fat your body contains 😂😂 Sorry this made me laugh a bit too much Ps I am aware of the fact that it isn’t roasting but science which is very cool and interesting! I was just making a joke :)
I recently started physical therapy for the first time. My therapist is young, recently out of school. He gets so excited when he talks about anatomy, then apologizes, lol. I am in healthcare myself, and I tell him, "Don't apologize! I love hearing you talk!"
Did he have respiratory tract issues? If I recall correctly, there are these ciliae that have two functions: moving goop up the respiratory tract but also they determine the asymmetry during early stages of development by literally moving some molecular factors to one side of the embryo. So when the ciliae are genetically disabled, Situs Inversus arises and the person has respiratory tract issues. I might of course be wrong.
My step dad had diverticulitis! It was excruciatingly painful. I remember I would find him curled up on the ground just crying, and he isn’t normally a cryer. He had to have a large part of his intestines removed because of it! He is doing so much better now, thankfully.
man, this channel is incredibly informative and well produced but sometimes i can only go so far before getting sick, this one in particular lol. i have mad respect for doctors, i could never do this.
We had two elderly people's cadavers and a younger guy with a clear gunshot wound to the head. The cranial vault underneath was shattered in a starburst pattern. Poor guy. Nobody claimed him.
just amazing easy to understand perfection 🥰 as a emergency first aid trainer im astounded that people know so little about how their body functions .. i am forever fascinated and grateful for this go to channel 👍👍
You really have learned everything about human anatomy, very good. My husband suffered several bouts of diverticulitis and was hospitalized and told to avoid seeds and nuts and he took Metamucil every night and he also suffered a perforated colon and had to have a colostomy while he was receiving chemo for what they diagnosed as Pancreatic cancer with Mets to the liver. He had a lot of problems with his digestive tract and he had a lot of stomach fat.
TY for what you do. When I was starting my degree in Southern California that Anatomy one class could only move to Anatomy too if they had an A and they were willing to work on the fresh cadavers for the other students. I learned so much more than I ever learned in any classes and any nursing program even in the ICU with open chests and ECMO thank you for all you do. And thank you to those who donated their bodies to science
My husband had diverticulitis once. Also, we decided to donate our bodies for medical research/medical school use. He passed away 10 years ago thiß November 2nd. These videos bring comfort to me, knowing how his body could help future do toes. Also .I've been through so much medically, your explanations of how things happen in our bodies helps me understand my own body issues. Thank-you! I'm hoping my body will be accepted for research also...but nephew who works at funeral home said they're not taking many lately as have plenty.
I will give you props for blending in the AG1 add with your videos. Of all the channels I watch, you guys do the best to make the "commercials" fit in and not interrupt.
I just watched a video explaining the history of the guy who started ag1.. apparently he scammed a bunch of folks on rent to own real estate deals in Europe and there are a number of cases against him in criminal court. So he came to America and started a supplement in an industry that literally has no regulation. And so many RU-vidrs are doing his advertising. Ugh. We pay for YT premium to get rid of commercials so now they have found a way to get their stupid advertising in anyway.
Excellent video! I actually was very sick with diverticulitis for an entire year. They had to finally do a left hemi colecectomy. Then just this past week the MRI ordered on my spine shows T7-T8 are in rough shape-- yes osteoporosis contributed to major disc problems. I do believe it was meant to be I stumbled across this video. Thank you so much for all you do. 🙏🙏
I just knew it wouldn't be some classic video about strange swallowed by both ends objects. Your channel is doing a great job maintaining a nice and professional image :)
So interesting! My baby boy had to have hernia surgery at 3 months old. His Dad & Grandfather felt bad for calling him testiculese after birth. My Father said “call an ambulance, it feels like something inside me is leaking inside me.” He was diagnosed with diverticulitis.
Great video. Can you do video on all the post operations stuff you can find inside the body? Like titanium, surgical mesh or maybe like how does acl reconstruction looks like and things like that?
I can't watch this. I just turned 36 and somewhat recently, both of my parents passed within about a year of eachother. My father being in his early 60's and my mother in her early 50's. The weight of the contemplation of death plagues and unsettles me of late. Thank you for doing what you do though, it helps us all now and those ahead of us too.
My brother donated his body, they'll have a field day. He drank poison when his drink was spiked, got hit by lightning, and died of a rare esophageal cancer.
Could you please make a film on the sciatic nerve route through the hip bones ischium, ilium, pubis. Some images route it differently from the sacrum through the sciatic and obturator foramens. It will help understand a pain caused by a swelling on the ischium better. Thanks much.
Yes! That'd be interesting! Sciatica is the worst and no med will help the pain, not even opiods! I had a severe case of it in my mid 20s for several months. I couldn't sleep at all. From my right hip running down my leg to my foot I'd feel a electric, very painful zap every 15-20 seconds. I didn't have health insurance and didn't go to physical therapy. And this was before RU-vid videos.. It slowly stopped. i have it occasionally, but nothing compared to that! I'm sure it didn't help that I fell on my tailbone while roller skating a few weeks before the sciatica started. One of the worst pains I ever experienced!
Jeffrey is the perfect model, just hangs around, not seeking any attention and makes no bones about it. 😂 As always - thank you for uploading and sharing. I wish I could give this more than 1 thumb up.
I miss my Anatomy & physiology classes . I drove my tutor bonkers asking more & more questions ☺️ Although it saddens me that we know more about our ailments after death . 👍
I was always "grossed out" by the thought of looking at the inside of a body, but you make it actually very interesting and not bloody or gross at all. I could not bring myself to look at the hand video yet, maybe some day. Also, because of this channel, I have sent in forms to donate my body to a medical school. As long as they receive the body quickly after death and no autopsy is done, they will accept it. Hopefully, a med student interested in orthopedic surgery will find interest in my very well-done broken wrist repair (ORIF) and my TAH/BSO for ovarian cancer.
Had my first bout of diverticulitis recently !!! Never knew I had it and still have no idea what caused it or what to do to prevent it from happening again !!! Very scary !!! I don’t want further issues !!!
My nephew is just healing from surgical removal of inflamed diverticuli and having a temporary osotmy bag. Thank you for this informative and visual explanation of this condition.
We may not be sure if visceral fat is the cause but it is associated with a lot of diseases and specially the chronic ones so if you get an abdominal MRI/CT have a look at them to see how much visceral fat you have and perhaps act as motivation to improve your diet and exercise. Dr. Sean O'mara here on RU-vid is a big advocate of showing the visceral fat to their patients as motivaton.
I've never encountered this channel before, but this video showed up recommended. Was not expecting to see an actual cadaver within the first minute 😅 I'll be subscribing, this is super interesting!
About Soda or soft drinks, You'll be fine if you only Drink them sometimes. Like, Once every 7 months. But Like every day, drinking 6~7 bottles of it.... NAhhhhhhh , say hello to more pain haha
Its not about what the person ate, but how much... You can eat fast food every day for every meal, but if you're consuming less energy than your body needs or balancing it, you will not gain fat.
I'm an archaeology student, I've always loved human and animal anatomy and cadaver/carcass decomposition. i doubt i'll ever personally see bits of "fresh" dead body but for my personal learning about human death and knowing what stuff like visceral fat looks like before it gets, idk preserved or mummified by whatever means is super interesting
It's still wild how we can dry out the body enough to make everything look like stringy jerky but still moist enough to move around. Humans are weird lol. Weird lil creatures.
I showed this to my evangelical neighbor and he was INFURIATED! There were many words that he didn’t understand in the video so he said it’s actually the “work of the devil”. What do we do with these people??
Thank you for presenting this episode. I have diverticulitis. Years ago I suffered from a yeast infection that extended throughout my descending colon. I was a bland diet for two years and the infection went away. Wondering if this could contribute to my sensitivity today. Enjoy all your programs especially on the heart. You describe the type of heart attack I had many years ago.
Hey Jonathan, how long do these cadavers usually last? I’d imagine the institute is provided a regular supply, but I’m curious about the numbers, ie how often the institute gets more. Thanks for the videos!
A few months I'd imagine, just long enough to dissect them completely. If the cadaver (or more often part of it) are intended to be used as a teaching aid then they can be preserved and used indefinitely, as anyone who has seen human body parts and embryos in jars of formaldehyde/alcohol will attest.
@keithmanning6564 at the very beginning of this video we have some BRoll of the lab from a few years ago (before we painted and added artwork, etc.). The body that is furthest back and by the open backroom door, I brought that body into the lab in December of 2012, and have continued to get bodies from donor programs since that time. As long as the bodies are embalmed properly and we continue to take good care of them, they can last for years. We will get new bodies as we needed for our students that come into the lab. Usually we have a plan for each body. Like... once body might be utilized for teaching more muscular anatomy, and another might be utilized to teach specific organ systems. It might be time to do another lab tour video....
Having such science in our body was great the way u expressed was marvelous sir!!!! By this we can visualise all the parts and knowledge by these videos..!!!!
Great video! I wish everyone would watch this and learn about these different things. But I know some people can’t handle cadavers. I find them fascinating and I learn so much. Thank you again for the wonderful video.
I have a genetic connective tissue disorder and I would love to see how it makes a difference in the physical presentation of my body. I hope to donate my body to something like this cadaver lab to further knowledge on this condition that isn’t as well known as it should be
This made me wonder about the actual process for creating cross-sections of bodies. Like, is it just a regular table saw? Do y'all draw a line first? How is trauma/destruction of the body minimized? What's the sanitization/cleanup process like? What happens to the other half of the body?
When I was in school for medical asst we took a trip to a hospital pathology lab. They were dissecting a piece of a brain. They did it by cutting it into slices like slicing cold cuts with a scalpel. Very interesting to watch. Then they look at the pieces under a microscope. I was fascinated.
@@LaurieWisti-go3yr Thank you for the info and the vicarious fascination!! That makes sense for microscope slides, but I still wonder about the half-complete bodies with the half-bones still in them!
@@yesterdaydreamThat i dont know about. They didnt show us that much.i would imagine they take tissue samples like when you have cancer. Theyre called biopsies. 5hey also find things by microscopic tests. Like I'm bleeding internally. The way they found out is that they took a stopl sample and looked at it under a microscope. Its not detectable by the naked eye. Also causes you to have a low iron count even though im taking iron 3x a day.
The diverticulosis is interesting!I wonder if there’s a tendency for diverticula to form in people with softer tissues, or connective tissue disorders. And if they keep getting bigger if you have other inflammatory digestive conditions. Like a pore that gets stretched out.
My dad was diagnosed with diverticulosis prob a decade ago at this point through a routine colonoscopy, and his doctor told him to not eat nuts so much or basically at all to avoid it possibly getting inflamed or anything bad happening to him. Basically what you said is now outdated knowledge. When I found out about this, I tried to keep him away from nuts. But he LOVED nuts like pistachios and Planter's mixed nuts cans so it was impossible. Nothing bad happened to him cause of it at all, but I'd always remind him about what his doctor said back then cause I was worried. Glad to know that him enjoying one of his fave snacks so much was never gonna cause him that much harm!
Oh yeah and maybe do something to show what an internal decapitation looks like from the inside of the body - atlanto-occipital dislocation. Saw a video of a gal who was in a motorcycle accident who had that and she was one of very few who actually survived it..
@@AllThingsConsidered333 Actually, what Cervical Instability looks like. Likely too wasteful to have a brainless Occiput to view down the Foramen Magnum. That would be awesome. IDK if they have any facet joint slices. 🫣 we are crazy mad scientists!
Please do a video explaining *ankylosing spondylitis* - Mick Mars, the guitarist for Motley Crue has advanced ankylosing spondylitis and this has let do his departure from the band. He nearly died from it as he went into seclusion as a result of the chronic pain killers he had to take. Thanks
18 BMI. Due two years of taking medication I did not want to take. I have visceral flat galore. I have close to a perfect diet with little carbs, almost no sugar and lots of whole food and using Italian olive oil or butter. Viceral Fat is very uncomfortable and I have very little subcutaneous fat. I had gotten into pre-diabetes and have been non-pre-diabetes for eight years. I had to have my belly button surgically fixed because it had gotten so pushed out by the fats that it was like a thumb coming out of me and it hurt just to barely touch it. I’d be in a lot more trouble if I wasn’t so strict about diet. (lifestyle.) and exercise.
I have a undescended testes 😅 ..... im a one nut wonder! I am fertile 😮... 2 sons so far. Ive had a inguinal hernia at only age 11. Thank you for the visceral fat commentary! I have a " pot belly" and I need to make some lifestyle changes always on the go being a workaholic.
It’s unlikely you have marketing training so I’ll tell you you’re doing a great job. Your title is so good I clicked immediately without hesitation- no way I’d miss seeing this! Excited for how it unfolds since I’m watching it now Edit 1: this is indeed my first time seeing visceral fat. Even having done some physician shadowing in college! Awesome job showing it and comparing it to normal. Edit 2: “apparently the testies are adventure seekers” 😂 Edit 3: as I watch the diverticula part, I realize just how good you are at this. Explaining exactly what the things inside our bodies are to regular people with no medical training. Last edit: I’ve never seen spinal degeneration! Really fascinating. This was an amazing video. Literally no notes. Following to learn more! Thanks for sharing this information with the general public so we can better understand our own bodies!
First time seeing one of these videos....WOW!!! Jonathan is incredible, how he's able to explain these very technical medical processes, and keep me interested, fascinated, and understanding everything he says! What an amazing teacher! Is he a doctor, a researcher, or instructor at the institute? I'm gonna deep dive all the videos, cuz this is just too fascinating to stop watching! And I'm totally shocked that I was not grossed out in any way....completely due to his explanation, and matter-of-fact speaking and touching of the cadaver. Truly professional in every way! He's amazing!
Hi from Sacramento California. Great video on exploring and explaining parts of the human body. Was this video going to give you college credits? Great job 👏
