Pellagra - A Medical Mystery - Extra History

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📜 Pellagra can cause depression, dementia, and diarrhea, eventually leading to death. Dr. Joseph Goldberger was put on the case to crack it.
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@extrahistory 5 лет назад

Today's special edition of Extra History delves into another terror from the history of public health: a disease called Pellagra that killed up to 100,000 Americans in the early 20th century. This extra-Extra History video comes thanks to the Child and Teen Checkups program of the Minnesota Department of Health. Children should receive a health checkup every year. If you live in Minnesota, learn more at GetCTC.com. If you don’t, go to www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/epsdt/index.html

@thomasoleary9120 5 лет назад

Extra Credits cool

@finnishguy4002 5 лет назад

Extra Credits Make a video about Tsar Nicholas the second!

@KeybladeSpirit 5 лет назад

With this, the flu series, and the episodes about cholera, you guys ought to spin off into yet another series all about diseases and the medical profession. Maybe call it "Extra Medicine?"

@finnishguy4002 5 лет назад

Keyblade Spirit Well its a part of history,so why not talk about it?

@powerup4681 5 лет назад

this episode was great. thank you rip Joseph

@AlRoderick 5 лет назад

Fun little addition to that story, there actually is plenty of niacin in field corn, but it's locked up chemically inside the seed. Soaking the raw corn in alkaline water, traditionally this was done with wood ash, softens the outer pericarb and makes the corn easier to grind, but it also unlocks most of the nutrition. People in Mexico treat their corn this way, in modern times it's done with slaked lime, calcium hydroxide. It's called nixtamalization. So despite living on about that same kind of southern poor diet, people in Mexico and South America didn't get pellagra.

@otsoko66 5 лет назад

see my post on this -- traditionally southerners did this to corn (& still do, it's called hominy), it was only in the early 20th century that cheap midwestern cornmeal -- which wasn't nixtamalized - took over the market that people got pellagra. That's why pellagra suddenly appeared in 1902, even though corn had been the staple for centuries.

@Sam-iu8nb 5 лет назад

Awesome bonus fact. Occasionally, reading RU-vid comments pays off.

@darcyrobbs6866 5 лет назад

HOW ARE THERE SO MANY PEOPLE WHO KNOW THIS?

@otsoko66 5 лет назад

I know it from my Momma telling me why you should only buy hominy grits. And to NEVER buy cornmeal from outside the South. BTW: Mexican cornmeal like Maseca is also nixtamalized.

@profharveyherrera 5 лет назад

I'm Mexican and completely ignored this fact, thank you so much!

@trygveplaustrum4634 5 лет назад

So remember, kids: eat your niacin!

@Mr.Sparks.173 5 лет назад

Trygve Plaustrum but make sure you stay away from the ricin.

@robertwalpole360 5 лет назад

And your Walp-O's!

@rjfaber1991 5 лет назад

Yes, or Vitamin B3, as it's more commonly known. I figured niacin would have to be a vitamin of some sort, and indeed it turns out it is.

@claymoresteel 5 лет назад

A healthy sprinkling of wood ashes or Vegemite/other yeast extracts

@atemnal 5 лет назад

Or you'll get diarrhea

@mo3o4 5 лет назад

Dr. Joseph Goldberger, what an absolute genius. How would one even begin to think that what made people sick was what wasn't in their diet. That's insane. The way he approached this problem was so unique and the passion he had for his job, even in sickness, made me type this out. What a boss.

@krist-yonnarain7786 5 лет назад

Although it’s great that goldburger managed to find a compromising solution to pellegra, it’s kind of sad that many American business owners still carry similar mentalities like those in the old south. The idea that people who work at laborious and time consuming jobs can live off of minimum wage and that the welfare of the company is more important than that of the employees.

@Xalerdane 11 месяцев назад

That mentality is the core of the American South. Unlike the North, which was formed from communities of independent land owners and businessmen that self-ruled through elected councils (and religious extremists that believed in collectivization and self-loathing), the South was born from wealthy plantation owners that owned slaves. No accountability, no social mobility, and no government participation except through bribery and nepotism. Government ‘service’ was merely another way to enrich yourself and your friends and family at the expense of everyone else. It’s the same reason why Latin American nations trend towards being dysfunctional and unstable, as they all started as colonies of plantation owners, indebted laborers, and slaves. The Carolinas and Georgia were originally settled by plantation owners from the English Caribbean colonies, who’d run out of land to expand their slave plantations onto.

@lucaskp16 8 месяцев назад

because that is what a free market causes. if there is little unemployment and they cant get workers you ber they are gonna pay more. is spares are plentiful then why pay more than you need to get a new body on the line. human resources is just that a resource, and all every other it gets cheap when plentiful and expensive when scarse.

@MM-xm5vx 5 лет назад

Wow is this Extra Epedemics

@mehmeh2255 5 лет назад

Exquisite Elephant Extra Epidemics!

@joshuadarrow 5 лет назад

Where’s John Snow when you need him?

@AlRoderick 5 лет назад

Well it's been a lot of series about wars, but nobody's about to accuse Extra History of being Extra Wars. If anything great disease history is just as important as great man history or great event history.

@ginoclaves 5 лет назад

Even if it was Extra Wars, a great deal of it would be composed by epidemics anyway lol.

@faceoctopus4571 5 лет назад

Is that a complaint or just an observation?

@JasynSuin 5 лет назад

Ah yes, Montezuma's real revenge. Corn is actually extremely rich in niacin, but it's inaccessible without being treated through a process called nixtamalization, where the corn is soaked in an alkaline solution, usually limewater. The Aztecs, among other tribes, obviously knew about this, since corn was a staple for them; however, when the Spanish brought corn back to Europe, they didn't bring nixtamalization with them.

@monkofdarktimes 5 лет назад

Zanna I thought it the revenge was a STD

@JasynSuin 5 лет назад

Montezuma's revenge is a euphemism used for diarrhea suffered by travelers, particularly to Mexico. There's an old theory that venereal syphilis originated in the New World and was brought back to Europe by Columbus and members of his crew, but it's never been definitively proven.

@kneau 5 лет назад

_”usually limewater”_ Is... is this why even organic tortilla chips often include lime in their list of ingredients?

@JasynSuin 5 лет назад

Limewater as in a solution of water and calcium hydroxide, aka slaked lime; the fruit would be acidic instead of alkaline, and was introduced to the Americas by the Europeans. Masa harina or masa de maiz, a flour made from nixtamalized corn, is often used to make corn tortillas, though.

@kneau 5 лет назад

Neat.

@jemmaisweird 4 года назад

“it was walp-os” has me wheezing

@ATLAS_JET132 4 года назад

2:35 here at vault-tec, we keep your safety in mind. *procedes to leave a vault open just a small bit to see what happens if people get exposed to radiation over time*

@trygveplaustrum4634 5 лет назад

Good ol' helpin' of Walp-Os.

@robertwalpole360 5 лет назад

Now with Niacin!

@Draezeth 5 лет назад

How did I get over my Pellagra? It was Walp-O's!

@AnimeShinigami13 5 лет назад

or just eat your veggies... after all glyphosate is unsafe on any plate!

@evancohen2147 5 лет назад

Cause why let an unbalanced breakfast get in the way of becoming the prime minister of England? *steals thousands of boxes*

@aghhh530 5 лет назад

Ned Kelly Thanks to Walp-O's I have been able to remain the prime minister of England for 60 year!Wait....where are the boxes?

@tommykarrick9130 5 лет назад

JOHN SNOW GOLDBERGER ALL THOSE FLU GUYS _WHY ARE OLD EPIDEMIOLOGISTS SO BADASS_

@asarcasticdragon4419 5 лет назад

Why didn't you mention me?

@blunderbus2695 5 лет назад

"all those flu guys" they did

@mrpellagra2730 5 лет назад

Mention me

@TheRoseFrontier 5 лет назад

The OG Pandemic players

@mildanvongrius5530 5 лет назад

Easy, they don't want to die or their younger generation to die to infection, worst way to go.

@ellsworth1956 5 лет назад

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 could be a series on its own. A lot of nasty political stuff went on, we are talking about money over lives.

@Francesco-cj3oi 4 года назад

Politics is 99% money over lives

@GiordanDiodato 3 года назад

that doesn't surprise me. The South has pretty much always been like that.

@justanotheremptychannel2472 3 года назад

@@GiordanDiodato that's 'Murica for you, pal!

@marcusbowman5666 2 года назад

Don't ever put your faith in politicians. They won't help you unless it's something that they want or when there's big money involved.

@klom89 5 лет назад

"Welcome to da Salty Spitoon. How tough are ya?" "I watched the Pellagra Extra History video." "Yeah, so?" "WHILE EATING A THREE-COURSE MEAL." "Oh, go ahead in; Right this way..."

@va960 2 года назад

Underrated

@elizabethlee2136 2 года назад

Eat your vitamins

@TheSyntheticSnake 5 лет назад

4:41 Holy crap, that's animation.

@deaconblackwood6785 4 года назад

David San Edgy

@kcocozza 4 года назад

I want a 10 hour loop of that

@mikajulin 5 лет назад

The doctor giving radiation treatment looks suspiciously like Vault Boy from Fallout. Coincidence?

@caspramio 5 лет назад

I think not!

@meinraddreizacker5845 5 лет назад

Walpole MUST have been involved.

@hamzali84 5 лет назад

Richard Fore sorry for tge noob question. I noticed the word walpole being mentioned many times but i do not know what it means. Care to share tge knowledge?

@owen9795 5 лет назад

mohd hamzali Azizan it is a meme from the south sea bubble series

@hamzali84 5 лет назад

Owen Green i see.. will watch that on too.. thx... :)

@davidgoldenrose 4 года назад

Seeing what's happening now, with a death rate of

@jimmyjohns3261 2 года назад

This should be on national television. Your show is very important to our true history.

@Googledeservestodie 5 лет назад

Are you telling me the cure to a horrible disease is *DRINK MORE BEER*

@skoockum 5 лет назад

The message here is: if it's yeasty, eat it.

@robertwalpole360 5 лет назад

Chug! Chug! Chug!

@Googledeservestodie 5 лет назад

skoockum If it's YEETy eat it

@petrapatia6395 5 лет назад

skoockum if it's yeasty make it a feast-y.

@skoockum 5 лет назад

pap smear beer

@taitaisanchez 5 лет назад

Looked in my trash and found a bag of Cheetos. Ingredient 3? Niacin.

@LimeyLassen 5 лет назад

How nutritious!

@mrpellagra2730 5 лет назад

I'll stop people eating Cheetos

@Bailey_Dreamfoot 4 года назад

4:40 HOLY SHEET THAT ANIMATION

@giladkay3761 3 года назад

Lol that part made me laugh so hard

@jackvandeputte5691 5 лет назад

Hey, extra credits can you please please PLEASE do a video on the history of HIV/AIDS out break, Alphabet City, and the political moves to either help or obtain. I not only feel like that would be a great few episodes, but also a great way for kids and young adults (like my self) to learn what actually happened, for you see most schools don't teach more modern history. or they get it from there parents that might be bias. And the one real piece of media that talks about it, RENT has it's own problems, and it doesn't really go into the history.

@avienblue 5 лет назад

It's such a shame that in a distant past, powerful and influential people could discredit scientific research that could've saved countless lives.......oh wait......

@barrybend7189 5 лет назад

Remember vaccinate your kids and yourselves.

@danilooliveira6580 5 лет назад

its much harder nowadays, unless something is extremely under researched, all you need to do is gather all the evidence and research to prove your point. of course it doesn't mean that people will listen to it and won't bring a lot of innocents with them, but at least to believe it all you need to do is look at the evidence, instead of being forced to choose to believe in a single scientist or the people trying to discredit him. you are only manipulated by pseldo science if you want or if you are extremely dense.

@danilooliveira6580 5 лет назад

I believe some people just want to feel special by acting against the masses and refusing things the society (or people in control) imposes on them, doesn't matter if its a good thing or not, and then they end up dragging a lot of people with them. the reality is that people have no reason to not believe in science, if they don't believe its either because they don't understand (forcing them to resort to news outlets that give bad reports about one or two papers) and don't want to try to understand, or they know everything about it but rather stay firm on their beliefs for their own agenda (or simply belief bias).

@Scarletraven87 5 лет назад

Global Warming scam booohooo

@kin2naruto 5 лет назад

Autism is GENETIC... nothing a vaccine can trigger. Ok, the real "cause" of autism is something epigenetic, not straight heredity - twin studies have proven that much. Descriptions of autism are also present in folklore and legal/medical history for centuries.... AND at the present "epidemic" rates. Plus, Adult Autism doesn't have to be disabling at all! With training and reasonable accomodations, the vast majority of Autistic Adults make for perfectly functional humans.

@jjc5475 5 лет назад

medical history is so much overlooked on RU-vid. keep going with these video's! really really interesting.

@piteoswaldo 5 лет назад

If it's overlooked, shouldn't they stop making it? Or perhaps it is underlooked...

@junxianwu1874 5 лет назад

Fabrício Lara Buck up on your English comprehension

@piteoswaldo 5 лет назад

Oh, sorry, I forgot that the internet can't understand irony without a winking smiley at the end. ;)

@jjc5475 5 лет назад

the confusion is real.

@virus5600 5 лет назад

This was so cool! Never heard of him nor this illness but I sure was stunned to know this! Channels like you and Simple History truly deserve to have sponsors and definitely more subscribers! I'm definitely rexommending this channel as well when we stumble up some lessons that this channel has! Thank you so much! 💞

@JusticeForPottsvilleMaroons 3 года назад

*Pellagra:* I affected 3,000,000 Americans, and killed 100,000 over the span of 40 years *Coronavirus:* *laughs in 4 months*

@Ratliff5x 3 года назад

That’s not too fun of a joke, people are suffering from COVID, and back then pellagra...

@zachiangelonunez9113 3 года назад

@@Ratliff5x yes

@justanotheremptychannel2472 3 года назад

@@Ratliff5x tell that to conservatives who refuse science and think masks are communist

@katsunada 2 года назад

@@justanotheremptychannel2472 yeah no, they are listening to science, and listening to medical experts change their minds back and forth, and watching them lie, and cover up, and inflate numbers.

@justanotheremptychannel2472 2 года назад

@@katsunada yes, those communist doctors trying to force people to avoid infecting others

@jophielswings 5 лет назад

F O R S C I E N C E Also that animation was stellar. Great job Extra History Team!

@robertwalpole360 5 лет назад

F O R M O V E M E N T!

@nikkid3516 5 лет назад

owo i didn’t know they could animate too.

@nathantredwell8313 4 года назад

We need more moving animations

@DAVMCPRJT 4 года назад

@@robertwalpole360 it's Walpole

@VoidViper 5 лет назад

I saw that sneaky Walpole.

@reylimesa4019 5 лет назад

VoidViper Mapping Animation Production oof

@99batran 5 лет назад

same

@et496 5 лет назад

WOW UR HERE

@bunga4747 5 лет назад

Never thought you would be here

@Sean-px3kd 5 лет назад

WALPOLE

@TheImmortal336 5 лет назад

Absolutely fascinating! I just love these episodes so much! Its the little things that you never learn attending school that just blow my mind, thanks again Extra Credits!!

@Kurtizss 5 лет назад

2:34 Dr. Vault boy: Everything is fine Kids *Never Trust a Doctor with blonde hair with a thumps up smiling if you have a disease*

@thetsar2851 5 лет назад

“Palagra had become politicized”, just like everything else in the modern day

@leeroyjenkins5504 5 лет назад

These are the truest words ever spoken....and they sure do hurt

@farkasmactavish 5 лет назад

Don't blame the modern day for things that have always happened since forever.

@thetsar2851 5 лет назад

Sure, it’s happened throughout know history, and I’m not blaming the modern people, I’m just saying it’s never been to this extent before

@dynamicworlds1 5 лет назад

Anything that involves the distribution of power is political. It is naive to expect any other reaction.

@azelfdaboi5265 5 лет назад

That hurts

@walpol3 5 лет назад

There’s a reason i kept it a mystery

@finnishguy4002 5 лет назад

It was you!How dare you!

@walpol3 5 лет назад

Finnish Guy trust me, you dont want to know the truth

@MALEMization 5 лет назад

Finally, a rival to the FLU!

@deanspanos8210 5 лет назад

It was in the Walp-O's cereal.

@quickmotor 5 лет назад

If I was your boss I'd fire you

@kappakumplete 2 года назад

I do lots of genealogy research for my family and it’s heartbreaking when I see this as a cause of death for my ancestors in South Carolina.

@Seth9809 5 лет назад

I don't want to get political, but the kind of economy the south had at that time looks very...... Old World.... Farm based, powerful landowners, poor diet of workers, heavy use of underpaid farmers.

@GiordanDiodato 5 лет назад

welcome to the South, where conservatives think they're doing the best job

@Redbird-dh7mu 5 лет назад

Yeah, that was the point. The south has very good land for growing stuff. So, that is what they did, however, when industrialized happened, the south had a problem... their economy relied too much on agriculture. As such, there was a huge demand for cheap labor, and not enough of people who wanted to develop the south.

@ix-Xafra 3 года назад

Quasifeudalism?

@raydavison4288 3 года назад

The South is still behind the rest of the country in health, education and labor relations and this is the model that the oligarchy want to spread to the rest of the country.

@elizabethlee2136 2 года назад

@@ix-Xafra they literally had unpaid serfs and slaves until the 1860... how is that not feudalism

@15098D 5 лет назад

Note to self: Vault Boy not a good doctor

@paulsagmit3029 5 лет назад

IKR! LOL

@velnz5475 3 года назад

note to self, my people are actually pretty smart but are hated enough to make everything politicized lol.

@VectorMaximus 5 лет назад

Hey, good on my home state for sponsoring this! Minnesota, represent!

@timothymclean 5 лет назад

Hoosier here, but I'm glad they did that, too. It's nice to see non-commercial sponsors for this kind of content. I mean, the content is the same whether the sponsor is a health charity or a Pandemic knockoff, but it's nice to see charitable groups taking advantage of these opportunities.

@crushermach3263 5 лет назад

Huh. Being from Minnesota myself I'd wondered if they'd somehow georestricted different versions of this video referencing similar programs in their respective regions since referencing where I'm from on a state level on a global platform would be oddly specific and highly coincidental. Seems not though.

@Merkalto 5 лет назад

Gotta love Minnesota!

@jerrymcfletcher3672 5 лет назад

Love this channel, 14th time I have seen Minnesota referred to in a non-school text (this is a video but I'm counting it anyhow) in my many years of reading.

@ethanober2365 5 лет назад

FFS im fargo nd

@Faolynn 5 лет назад

Oh man I LOVE these new videos focusing on microbial and medical research! I know the audience will be too small but please keep them coming!

@diegoalejandrosuareztitze235 5 лет назад

Love your epidemics and healthcare episodes! Please keep them coming.

@fellowkid6032 5 лет назад

Oh my god, frame by frame animation looks stunning!

@leeroyjenkins5504 5 лет назад

Лупа Кампутантис *God

@Knightfall8 5 лет назад

another excellent episode! keep the medical history videos coming!

@verdatum 5 лет назад

Pellagro is one of my favorite stories in the history of medical science. Thanks you all!

@djambazkere 5 лет назад

As a medical student and a history enthusiast I love this disease related series (the pellagra one, and the spanish flu one). You are making me very happy, thank you!

@Eric_Pham 5 лет назад

it was walp-o's

@nikkid3516 5 лет назад

EEE WALPOOOOOO-

@tippitytopp6055 5 лет назад

MORE EXTRA EPIDEMICS! PLEASE I'm a microbiologist-to-be and I find them fascinating

@kap79 5 лет назад

Fascinating as always. Keep up the good work.

@drawnseeker 5 лет назад

I have a deep love for Extra Credits and this made my week. I love learning about history and science. Thank you for making such a great jumping off point.

@kurdishgeneral 5 лет назад

Absolutely love the current focus on health! This is a part of history too often overlooked. Learning about these things really puts things in perspective. How politics effects science, how we defeated many of these diseases (which we take for granted today) and how frail we really are (just to name some). Keep it up!

@purplespeckledappleeater8738 5 лет назад

True American hero. A lot of people today probably owe their existence to this guy saving their ancestors.

@Dio5ful 4 года назад

This video is heartwarming to be honest. Thanks for making this video :)

@XalphYT 5 лет назад

This is an amazing story and one that I've never heard of before, ever. Thank you so much for making it.

@katherineofarrogant6370 5 лет назад

I love these happy endings like John snow and Mary seacole, it just makes me smile.

@profharveyherrera 5 лет назад

As always, so much informative and entertaining! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

@mathewdeering 5 лет назад

I didn't think it'd ever happen Matt, but I'm coming around to you. Good job on this one.

@influenza3736 5 лет назад

My microbial friend!

@asarcasticdragon4419 5 лет назад

Oh hey Flu. *looks at you with suspicion*

@andyb2028 5 лет назад

But it's not a microbe. You have no friends now

@influenza3736 5 лет назад

I am from the past

@joe6go 5 лет назад

wait.. your from 1914... yet have acess to the internet... I CALL WITCHCRAFT! (or it was walpole...)

@anthonyeaton9049 5 лет назад

It appears the 1914 Flu has evolved into a computer virus. < panic >

@itaybron 5 лет назад

thank you Dr Joseph Goldberger

@trym197 5 лет назад

seems like the speaker managed to tone down the excitement and speak in a way that is pleasant to listen to, good job!

@ottohoffman4144 5 лет назад

Great stuff !!! You make me love history again.

@SattlerFamily 5 лет назад

This is an awesome episode! I love it when you guys do epidemiology episodes!

@ShiolaValntn 5 лет назад

Extra Disease Series Confirmed

@NicitoStaAna 5 лет назад

PocketChange 9000 I really liked the investigation part of it. Its similar to a movie tense with finding the cause and origins of a disease Its similar to yt channel that explains the effects of a victim. Then finds the cause. But that channel focuses on individual weird cases. (Can't tell the name of the yt channel due to it being disrespectful to extra credits)

@loganknowsnoneofyourbusine263 5 лет назад

Tarrare what are you doing here?

@CrazyBomber22 4 года назад

Why so little views? This is good stuff, thank you for the hard work!

@thomasdaywalt7735 5 лет назад

5:50 WARNING the following is historical yet well led to lunch loss we recomend paper bag if your eating right now please throw it out

@ethanotoroculus1060 5 лет назад

Didn't know "Medical Mystery" was a series.

@scarletletter4900 5 лет назад

The seasonal pattern of the pellagra flair ups would indicate that the southern poor only saw foods with B vitamins during the hog slaughtering season, when meat (think things like trotters and chitterlings) was more available to the poor.

@thecrazyyoshi3616 5 лет назад

I love the disease pseudo series! I love medicine and the Broad Street series was always my favorite. Keep up the great work Matt!

@nibbaccinomemes1600 5 лет назад

This channel deserves 100 million subs just from this series alone

@DragoniteSpam 5 лет назад

"grain developers conference" Good god.

@LimeyLassen 5 лет назад

Graincon

@silvernskye5132 5 лет назад

It's GDC

@varunnrao3276 4 года назад

👏👏 Great, That is a wonderful life. Respect Dr. JOSEPH GOLDBERGER 👏👏

@daisyxu3050 5 лет назад

Such a great epidemic history story! Super cute drawing and very detailed!

@brendanobrien8198 5 лет назад

What a surprising, fun video. Thanks!

@fristi61 5 лет назад

Goldberger said to Pellagra: "YOU'RE NEXT!" ...or something like that

@livingbeings 5 лет назад

It is so sad how many people have suffered and died from exploitation.

@Bambisgf77 6 месяцев назад

I love the Deep South born & raised in Louisiana but now after 5 years in the Midwest I will never move back. The struggle in the South is very real. I definitely owe thanks to Dr. Goldberger as this likely saved my grandparents. Great vid!

@1JamesMayToGoPlease Месяц назад

I'd heard or read just a tiny bit about Pellagra over the years, but never knew just what it was. Now I do. Thanks! :)

@otsoko66 5 лет назад

The one bit of history missing here is why pellagra didn't show up in the South until the 20th century, even though corn had been the staple for centuries. The traditional southern method for corn meal was to nixtamalize it with lye or ash (later calcium carbonate), producing hominy (a.k.a. pozole), which was then dried and ground for cornbread flour or grits. The nixtamalization released the niacin in the corn, so no pellagra. It was only when people started buying cheaper (un-nixtamalized) corn meal from the midwest instead of home-grown hominy that pellagra appeared. That's why Southern politicians didn't believe Goldberger -- not because they were just evil southerners as the video (kinda shittily) suggests - but because people had lived on a cornmeal diet for centuries without pellagra. No-one, including Goldberger, realized that the industrial corn meal from the midwest was qualitatively different from the traditional corn meal Southerners had been making and eating for centuries.

@MrMarinus18 5 лет назад

Well they do say that. That it was said that it was because their food was now imported instead of home grown that the disease happened. But you do have a point. Another thing they could have mentioned is that the idea of spoiled corn is not at all a weird idea. There was a disease with quite similar symptoms caused by spoiled grain. It had been known extremely well for centuries and had ravaged Europe whenever food stocks became low and people were forced to eat low quality grains.

@jakerelind5577 5 лет назад

That's an interesting insight I was not aware of. Still there is the question of what would have been done had they been aware of it. The farmers and workers might have had to make a tough decision on how they were going to get better food on their relatively meager pay, but for institutions like the Orphanage and Asylums they would have to convince the heads to start ordering more better quality food for everyone else besides the staff, and that does not sound like an easy negotiation at all.

@blinkyrem 5 лет назад

0:21 "when the weather cooled, the rashes faded. Until next spring..." If pellagra is caused by a niacin deficiency, then why's this the case?

@tiedyedowl8367 4 года назад

Angel Fox I was wondering the same thing, this makes perfect sense. Thanks!

@bobb7993 2 года назад

Perhaps the diet changed seasonally? Better food over the winter months?

@weswelk6014 2 года назад

deer season

@melissamarsh2219 2 года назад

@@bobb7993 they’d eat more meat

@shadowrunner2323 5 лет назад

Thanks for this video guys, just used it for a biology class!

@josephrogers1282 5 лет назад

of course technically Pellagra never "infected" anyone, since as Dr Goldberger showed us, it's not an infection facinating episode guys, I love that you often cover somewhat lesser known events which may have slipped by us. Kind of a "history you may not have tried". Keep up the good work

@SpiderMan-ni8ek 5 лет назад

Please cover the American-Philippines war. It's one of the MOST forgotten war and part of history and it would mean the world to me if you could talk about it. Please. People are forgetting what they did to Filipinos. It's a great injustice that should never be forgotten.

@reiskywalker0964 2 года назад

This makes me happy to live in the 21st century... Doctors and scientists are alot more aware of diseasea

@funveeable Год назад

They aren't aware of the disease if the people paying them don't want the disease to be cured. All evidence points to a Chinese biolab in Wuhan making the virus, yet Fauci and the WHO are doing everything they can to cover it up.