On sage, phytochemicals and dudes who won't eat plants 

A video on Sage? F**k yeah! Love these kinds of topics!

The microscope is truly cool!

You should have mentioned salvia is a horrible time. You're basically guaranteed to lose contact with reality and experience really horrible visions that can feel like they go on for years. The reason it isn't all that regulated is because 99.99% of sane people would have no interest in it. This should really come up every time the stuff is discussed so someone doesn't go give themselves PTSD.

@@GodBlessCanada He made it clear that he wasn't going into the subject, just as I, as an amateur mycologist, do not get into the properties of certain mushrooms with the general public.

Adam, please block and report porn bots like KatiLiza; they are out in force, emerging every day like cicadas.

You can have flowering herbs and edible flowers if you like,

A very Italian thing

Yeah! I wish I had thought of that!

Isn't it! Such a low-waste solution I'm surprised more people don't do this.

how about weed

That's the dividing line for me! Those last few months definitely felt like "this is Adam's job" but this feels like early Adam and are so charming and engaging and REAL!

he is not retired he just read a Helix commercial for like 3 minutes. He works for Helix. You're a bot

@@dreaziemobbins he did a video talking about how he's in semi-retirement. They may have been imprecise in their language, but that doesn't make them a bot. Your reaction, however, makes you an asshole.

He's retired?

yeah i’ve enjoyed them so much

Call it his Tom Scott era

Call it his *Late Middle Ages of the Tom Scott Era. Less computer science, variety of topics, some travel, Pre-roller coaster era haha

Well said

Ethan Chlebowski has become my default for actual cooking content, but I enjoy Adam's random topics.

Those PBS vids have always been my favorite. I love his old why is turkey called turkey video.

Capsaicin. Plant evolves to deter mammals who would eat it and crush the seeds: we decide we like the pain and eat it anyways.

​@@Your-Least-Favorite-StrangerNot just humans. Back in the early 2000's, I read a story about telecom companies coating long-distance cables with capsaicin to discourage rodents from chewing on them, only for some squirrels to develop a taste for spice and actively seek out spicy cables to chew on.

Turnzs out Adam watches lindybeige too!

Another thing is that scurvy was caused more by sailors heavy diet of ship biscuits, rather than any deficiency of vit C in meat Not that I am a 'manly sigma'. I am actively reducing meat in my diet, though not vegan or even vegetarian, just wanted to say that

whooooooaaa

Whoa!

That is so interesting!!

Is that a y/i sound? Or j/zh?

How does one get into Perfumery

@@MintyFreshCupcakesprobably some kind of chem degrees i think

It’s grass you can pet, of course the decline of it coincides with cyberbullying

I read this in their voices and it was amazing :D

Infomercial Adam voice comes easy to the mind.

In general yes, dose makes the poison but the fact that he didn't mention that, and the fact that some humans have adverse reactions to sage is more it more likely to be a specific tolerance we have built up. Similar to predators of poisonous animals, those of us who could eat those poisons without dying were more likely to live and breed, thus weeding out the genes that make thujones poisonous

Sort of but also no. To quote another example from the video, a big onion portion for a human is tasty food, a small portion for a dog is dangerous poison.

Bugs should consider a more varied diet.

also keeps the 70mg bugs from eating the food in storage

That’s not entirely true, because you have to scale the portion accordingly based on the relative size of each. Otherwise yes, the amount of sage a human might regularly consume would kill a 70mg bug, because its organs would explode as it’s filled with seemingly endless amounts of sage. While dose is certainly super important, it’s not something that is comparable across species in the way you describe.

That makes sense. All poisons have a threshold they can cross where they go from friend (or at least benign) to enemy.

I bet you never had a problem with flies though lol

@@lordyhgm9266 Basil-lice :( Even more evolved than I.

so true, this happened to me while extracting basil oil in the lab

huh, nice to know

"'There is no such thing as a universal diet." THANK YOU. I'm actually sympathetic to veganism (the philosophy), tho am not currently on a strict plant-based diet myself. It's frustrating for me to see people who care about other animals to dismiss fellow human animals when they say they have a medical issue that prevents them from eating completely plant-based, like saying they haven't tried hard enough or "there has to be a way, it has worked for me." No such thing as a universal diet. People are different and the not understanding people's differences in body constitution, psychology, outlook, etc causes a lot of strife. Would I want more people to try plant-based? Sure. But not at the expense of their own well-being, ofc.

I'm trying to grow garlic too I live in Malaysia, so my idea is to keep it in my bedroom with the AC so it doesn't overheat

I'd definately be learning to cook my own food if my diet had to be so limited. What a struggle

Glass half full: in older times, he'd just be dead. But we live in a time where medical technology allows him to live and society, while not great, still accommodates him. I'm in kind of the same boat with allergies and asthma. Kind of sucky. But the only period of history where I can even be alive.

​@KatiLiza shut up bot

It was really hard to look away. 😄 The pacing was great!

Ha I just got done writing something similar.

We had a watered down version of this as a hands on demonstration in one of my high school science classes (back in like 2012). We covered the same topic, adaptation suiting or failing to suit the environment, but we used hand size as a determining factor. There was a hypothetical tree which had a hollow, within which was a deposit of resources - the first tree had a wide hollow which allowed larger handed individuals (myself included) to grab huge fistfuls of resources to bring back to the group. In this situation, being able to climb the tree and retrieve large fistfuls of resources was a beneficial adaptation. From there we traveled to an isolated island which also played host to the trees, but due to environmental factors the hollow was much smaller compared to the mainland equivalents - my hand could barely fit, let alone get resources from the tree. People with more slender hands were able to get their hands in easily enough as well as bring out a reasonable amount of resources per trip up the tree - in this setting, people with large hands were at a clear disadvantage. Obviously there are other factors to consider if this were a real scenario, but the essence is the same: traits which are beneficial to survival or benign in nature generally get passed on to the next generation. We benefit from the ability to eat a bunch of different plants and animals - if you're limited to only one or another plant, sorry but genetically speaking you're somewhere else than the majority of people. We live in a world where thats perfectly fine and we have workarounds to keep you happy and healthy, but that doesnt mean everyone else should follow your example.

And this, children, is why genetic homogeneity -- whether of human society or of our food crops -- is bad.

The scavengers will inherit the Earth.

Lolz!

East Tennessee is full of the best natural beauty God or the vagaries of fractal patterns can cook up. Great place to visit, the barbecue is out of this world, but after living there (lived in Sevierville) for a chunk of 2013, I've no interest in moving back. Adam and Lauren may make great neighbors but in general I'm happier in Seattle in terms of feeling like I'm among my tribe.

East Tennessee is gorgeous and much of it is still very inexpensive don’t tell anyone.

Yep! I lived in eastern TN during my early 20s, it's a truly gorgeous area. If the discriminatory politics don't target you then it's a lovely place to live, but the beauty of the land isn't worth putting up with the ugliness of most people's hearts there.

Appalachia in general is beautiful. A true hidden gem ravaged by the coal industry

@@araguseaYou already own a house there, don’t you mean “tell everyone”? 😂

I am here for all of it 😂

Have a like for DILLIGAF

I like the relaxed Adam, having a good time sharing stuff with us. He was getting visibly stressed in his delivery before he stepped back, and I find this far easier to absorb.

The Green brothers call this “The Format”

Yes we have it a lot in Cyprus! Especially when one gets down with a cold or the flu. It’s perfect with some honey! 😃

@@nicoskefalasOh this sounds lovely, I definitely gotta make some.

Probably a little palatable if the flower is also used to make the tea.

Herbal teas can be surprisingly tasty. I never thought I would like it, but then I did, when I tried.

I second this!! Well put

Imagine thinking that dietary fiber is bad for you...

@@dtemp132maybe for a small amount of people, right?

Seriously, if I subsisted only on meat and no veggies, I would get constipated beyond repair.

meat has fibre lol. very little, but it's there.

​@@rallekralle11Not enough fiber though. Most American adults are fiber deficient

Thai basil is just a straight up snack - its perfect

Yeahhh!! I eat this regularly with banh xeo

A hypothesis suggests that the very fact that it is poisonous is why we grew to like it so much. Herbs and spices could stop food from spoiling and eventually we adapted to the poison and started actively seeking it out

Ok let me counter that argument... (while i sgree plants are delicious) on the other hand take koala's for example "Evolved" into freaks of nature... with such and incredible stomach They can breakdown and feed on one of the worst most toxic leafs known to man Now is that impressive by any means? Nope What we end up with are horrible bears with smooth tint brains (Cute... perhaps) but non the less horrible... The amount of energy they require to survice and thr smount they get from the eucalyptus plant leaves very little for the brain/anything but eating shitting and sleeping all day Some super power uh.... Can≠should/ideal

@@donotlike4anonymus594 Yeah but we don't have that one, we can just 3eat all the poisonous stuff as well as lots of other things

I always think about capsicum and how pissed off they'd be to find out they developed over how ever many hundreds of thousands of years only to get farmed by us by the bazillions for hot sauce and salsa etc.

​@@Baulder13i think that was a double edge sword but in this case both edges hit the target they became unappealing to every animal except the one hominid who can aid and expand their reproduction massively

In danish sage is called "salvie"

What about the dudes who complain about dudes who eat exclusively red meat and talk about it on the internet, and talk about it on the internet?

​@@FLPhotoCatcher Obviously, they'll be called the Sages.

​@@Nijht Good comeback 😅

Im all for this

The motion passes. "Nutlets" has entered standard vernacular.

It for sure does. For a more shelf stable version it's also possible to very slightly heat it with olive oil and garlic, this way you'll have a nice condiment to make every salad incredible!

Italy. Sage roasted in butter is the traditional condiment for "ravioli di magro", i.e., ravioli stuffed with ricotta and spinach.

how can liver king still have followers after the steroid fiasco?

​@@fc-js3qjbecause he's super funny

Is it meant as a riff on his post-chemo curly hair? That would be pretty on brand for the Green’s media empire.

​@@thehousecat93John didn't have cancer. That was Hank. As a side note, I always wanted the Chia Garcia (Jerry Garcia) and the Bob Ross version.

@@drewharrison6433 Nonono, John and Hank are clearly the same person!

I saw the fabric of the universe.

That's what he's referring to.

Yes, mint goes crazy!

On April first I told my wife that I had fertilized the mint in the garden.

So long as you regularly trim it back, you're good. Having a lot of mint means a lot of mint tea

@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger Ah. Good, good.

I explicitly recommend against planting mint for most gardeners unless they are the type of person who is extremely diligent and regularly maintains the garden. If you often forget about maintenance or are very busy (i am both) I wouldn't plant it at all. And I especially advise against planting it directly in the ground, you want it in a raised bed with a barrier or a planter.

Ah, another fan of the Green brothers!

DFTBA :)

I don't know, he'd rip that lawn right out of there.

whuddyadoing there nice?

Fascinating, thank you.

Unfortunately the one size fits all attitude with the carnivore bros is a really good grift that resonates with insecure young men. These kinds of dudes can make a lot of money from online content

they're not tough - they are afraid of broccoli, my man!