My mother made me drink cod liver oil once a week when I was young. It tastes like poo, I loathed drinking it, so I asked her why I had to drink it. She said it would keep diseases away. I now know it was Rickets she was talking about. The thing is........ We lived in central Australia. No real shortage of sun....... I'm gonna call my Mum.
As a Norwegian, I have drunk cod liver oil since I was a small child every day. I loved the taste apparently back then. But now, recently, I have gone over to take cod liver oil pills instead since I don’t like the taste and it’s easy yet very healthy!
Liver, not just cod, is incredibly healthy. Beef liver, for instance, is #1 on the list of most nutrient rich foods, made by the food agency of my country.
My father made us take a spoonful of cod liver oil every day as a kid. Same reasoning, it keeps you healthy without any greater understanding. I still remember that awful taste.
Interesting in the things that truly make us different. Most black people live close to the sun and therefore wasn't ever a real issue for us. However fish is so healthy that it's protein is great for you. Never knew about cod fish. Never even heard of cod. Eating used to be for survival now it's for consumption🤦🏾♀️
Your videos have always been interesting but lately the cinematography has just been breathtaking. It's like watching the old discovery channel documentaries I loved so much as a kid. Keep up the great work!
The Gëŕ, with metal bones that *unbend* gradually after they've been bent by what would crack and break another person's bones: I'm four parallel universes ahead of you! ⠀ Don't ask what is a Gëŕ, it's complicated to explain.
Unfortunately, while tactifully avoiding bringing up the evolution of lighter skin, to maximize UV absorbtion for said vitamin D production, as man migrated north.
Billy Wardlaw most likely it was left out for time, since he’d then have to explain why that works that way, especially considering that intuitively, darker surfaces absorb more light.
Couple key things left out. 1. Importance of vitamin D on immune function and immune system development. Aka less illness, less auto immune disease. Some think it may activate a significant portion of our genome(vit D is actually a hormone) 2. Vit D absorbs the calcium, but vitamin K2 is also needed for proper bone development. Vit K2 is sadly very deficient in a modern western diet. Thia deficency is the likely cause of improper formation of our maxillary bone/jaw, resulting in tooth crowding and orthodontic issues. Some would say it's the missing link in bone and tooth health.
Another amazing video. I particularly liked the part around 5:00 where you explained how the practice of drinking the liver oil might have caught on. Too often in teaching complicated ideas we get bogged down in personifying the involved parties. This was a great description about a natural emergence and development of a concept.
Production quality epic. Man you really can tell the story and the video composition and style is very immersive. I was watching this with a smile the entire time
Yeah, surprised Derek whiffed on not commenting/knowing that he was explaining a thing that had already been explained and named. And it's this attribute that may be the greatest thing homo sapiens ever discovered/implemented. The scientific method is kind of a version 2.0.
Oh you foul man, I will remember that for the rest of my damn life, I can feel it On my deathbed I'm gonna grasp weakly at whoever is nearby and whisper "Did ... did she get the cod"
"I would argue that the scientific method is the greatest technology humans have ever developed. It allows us to understand not only what works, but why it works. And with that knowledge, our future is determined not by luck, but by our ability to manipulate reality to our advantage." Wow, that's a really powerful way to end a video!
But in the last 4 years, we have discovered that ignorance, xenophobia, political stupidity and orange fake tan is sadly stronger than facts and scientific knowledge. A whole society that once excelled at science has effectively lost its mind.
I remember as a kid I was forced to take Cod Liver Oil and I absolutely hated it and my parents were not able to explain why it was good for me and why I need to take it. It was definitely a cultural practice. Thanks for finally teaching me why it was good and established that science really is the best tool we have. Thanks
Also I believe cider drinking is also a leftover of viking culture, bringing with them apples that were gross to eat but processing into drink quite drinkable when water was not so trusted.
@@TVjoakim And getting even more common to eat it as oil-capsules, swallowing whole and bypassing the horrific taste and smell of this nectar of the ....cods :D
Never fails to make such a detailed and quality video, and the points and conclusions made from it are just amazing. Keep making excellent videos like these derek
I've been a subscriber of your channel for more than 7 years now... But I've just recently come to the realization that your channel is substantially better than Discovery Channel, precisely because of the quality of the content of every ingle video you make and also the Topics you speak of... Thanks to you Derek and Kurzgesagt for spreading the word of Knowledge all over the world!!!
"Like evolution but for ideas" Memes Not image macros, that was the original use of the word meme, coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)
@@x.r.6392 It isn't really though. "Memes" in the popular sense are great example of "memes" in the original sense. Someone has an idea, then it gets iterated on. Good iterations become popular, bad iterations die out. It's exactly like ideas undergoing evolution.
The word is not being misused. Internet memes are just a specific type of memes. Like biological organisms, memes can have many different modes for generating and spreading.
I also find it interesting that the studies into cod liver oil took place at the University of Wisconsin, being that Wisconsin was one of the primary states in which Scandinavian immigrants settled in (along w/ Minnesota). Not to mention that I too live in Wisconsin and that I'm of both Norwegian and Danish descent.
@@yaboitorso5455 To be completely honest, I'm a mutt, like many Americans, lol. I'm also German, Dutch, English & Welsh. Everything seems to come in pairs. Regardless, Genetic Diversity is definitely a positive.
How fantastic it is to see my homeland on a world map! That little speck halfway between Norway and Iceland is where I live. Greetings from the Faroe Islands!
As a little disclaimer: Atlantic cod is actually becoming endangered species. It's already ranked as a vulnerable species. Not trying to hate or anything, but just wanting to inform people that we have to take care of our nature and fishing waters❤️
Cod is gone from the Grand Banks,George's Bank & most places in between. Iceland managed their Cod fishery with great wisdom & foresight. Norway must have done something correctly if they still have sufficient catch to air dry & salt a good percentage of their total catch. ay
I think there is a big difference between NA and European. North American side was overfished heavily causing the population to collapse. Barents sea, North Sea and Iceland populations is still doing well which allows maintaining similar catch levels as early 20th century. European side was also overfished but quotas were reduced before population collapsed.
@@suokkos I'm not arguing but the Norwegian coast is heavily fished and it might cause problems later in our lives. For example cod might becom extinct if there fish population drops suddenly because of different nature related issues that may occur in the future...
Mainly because the world came to overfish off Canadian coast, while managing their own local population. It certainly wasn't Canadian fishermen considering the small population.
this is awesome, this is from vitamania documentary hosted by Dereck. I got to meet him in Melbourne when he premiered the doc. So nice and friendly :)
This was a really great video man. I know there are some hard times with demonetization, but I hope no matter the platform you are able to continue doing things like this! I loved the format of looking at history, while still mentioning the science that contributed to the successes of the past. Keep up the great work man!
this video brought me to veritasium of 2016 circa, the way you spoke and the calm and slow narrative, very cool video, very good topic and a great job as always, keep up Derek
@Jokus Jodokus there were some, but not very many. Vikings did trade in slaves from Europe and North Africa, and some managed to buy their own freedom, but they were a very small minority.
@@someguy2135 That's not correct. The native Americans, for example the Inca, didn't discover America, for the same reasons the Vikings don't count as discoverers of America. Unlike Columbus. Discovery is a recorded historical event. And their records, if there were any, are lost or were never known to Europe.
roller4312 Well there are records of Vikings sailing to America and settling there. It’s mentioned in the Icelandic sagas. However they didn’t stay very long since the plague would break out just 100 years later in Europe and it would draw the Norse settlers back to Europe to replenish the dwindling population. Columbus was a sociopathic criminal with no sense of direction..
First saw this on your TH-cam-channel (which I love!), then suddenly discovering your face on national television here in Norway as well! Didn’t know this was part of a TV documentary! Impressed! Please continue with your extremely high quality science videos!
Our Precious!! Hehe From a local perspective here in Iceland I can tell you the following: Icelandic Viking warriors are said to have taken Lýsi to stay strong, also supposed to prevent you from catching cold, the Greenland vikings vanished during the "Little Ice Age" likely from combination of factors. The Icelandic currency Króna has a Cod on its front. (Not to be confused with the CCP EVE ISK). Here in Iceland the product is known as LÝSI and marketed as the "Nations Secret Weapon", sometimes stores have reported how shelfs of Lýsi are bought up when tourists from Asian come to town, they seem to appreaciate this golden liquid too. Iceland "won" ~3 so called Cod-Wars with Britain over this fish, in some part thanks to the Secret-Weapon "Net-Cutters" and well NATO worried about Communist making the alliance look bad. Oh Yeah also not the first time one hears the story of a bigger guy trying to take someones elses oil (albe it fish-oil;)" Also Iceland has a very strict Fish-Management system called the "Kvótakerfið" its been a cause of much debate over the decades as while it helps manage the fish stock very efficiently compared to other places it also has created a type of elite called KvótaKóngar/KvótaGreifar as in QuotaKing/QuotaCount, I guess comparable to the Banker Elite that runs the US ;D I remember hearing news back in the day where trawlers had their nets confiscated and needing to pay fines coz the fish holes in the net were just 1mm smaller than was allowed, as in making sure nets were up to specs and not catching the smaller fish. I suppose Iceland manages their fish stock better in part coz its a Island and so it dont have to share much of its fish-stock quota with neighbouring country's which may or may not be upholding a entirely trustworthy fishing management system. Btw LÝSI can be from shark as well, as in "Hákarlalýsi" which is made from Greenland Shark who is said to be the Longest-Lived Vertebrate on Earth as in older than some countrys like the United States for example, even as old as the re-discovery of Wineland or as you know it today as America though the guys name was Columbus who incidentally thought he was in India, anyway "Leif the Lucky" son of Eric the Red in Greenland discovered it 2x times earlier than Columbus and the Indians were called Skraeling, yeah Lýsi is also supposed to help with good memory like what comes handy for keeping records from long lost times incidentally ;D
@@mymo_in_Bb I'm just thinking historically. All nordic people of that era werent vikings. Vikings were the ones who rent raiding, trading and settling around the world with their ships. The vikings who went to iceland tried to start a new life in a paradise close to the gods without the raids etc. So technically they werent vikings anymore, even though their ancestors were vikings. I'm just nitpicking for no reason and honestly dont know why i commented on it.
@@mymo_in_Bb That's very true. Skallagrim the youtuber? I have seen some of his videos, but im scandinavian myself so most of it we just learn in school.
@@mymo_in_Bb What are the other definitions of "Viking"? I'm Swedish and as i've been taught a Viking is specifically a form of raider/warrior-sailor. The word itself comes from Vik (Bay) and the ending "-ing" (in this case denoting a living creature/person). Viking translated to modern English would roughly mean "Baymen" seeing as they'd sail from... you know... a bay. Viking was a job in the larger society, the members of which are called Nordmän (Norsemen). There are viking ships but not viking smiths because a smith is another job entirely making the smith Norse. (The term Nordmän also evolved to fit the times. In the modern era we're Nordbor: Those who live in the north.)
It's always fantastic when someone decides to travel to norway to experience and tell the tale of our history and culture. This diet of cod or Torsk as we call them, was such a great way for me personally to learn that no food is disgusting. Made properly, the only things not eaten on a cod would be the eyes, intestines and bones. Fried cod head and tongue + liver with fat and bacon fits very well with potatoes and carrots, and of course the meat itself :D
Important precautionary note: Not all fish livers are edible. _many_ if not most are *toxic* and can cause *serious* *illness* and even *death* *!* Make sure, it's an edible one and the fish lived in non-toxic waters. *Please* be *careful* while consuming fish liver. Thanks for reading.
Yikes.. I remember having to drink “levertran” when I was a kid.. It tastes so bad and inherently made me aware of the fact that things that are good for you; tastes terrible.
When you're from Norway but still learn stuff you never knew from foreigners about your own country haha, love it though! Veritasium videos are always great
There's actually a story on how it became famous thanks to Möller a pharmacist that in more recent years understood the health benefits and started getting the cod liver oil factories around the coast to then only afterwards distributing it as a supplement. They still own almost the monopoly of it nowadays
@@Spark-Hole She is correct, it was actually adding carbon to the bog iron that was creating steel well before it existed anywhere else. Considering they were making steel weapons when everyone else was still in bronze and iron ... the impact would have been signficant
@@huebdoo bone full of calcium and phosphorous. Carbon must come from coal . And the only two elements that make steel brittle is sulfur and phosphorous. Go talk to your high school chemistry teacher.
Pedantic correction: at 7:39 there is (from my estimation) an error in this video when Vitamin A is claimed to be the first vitamin to be discovered. That honor goes to thiamine (vitamin B1) which occurred through the reserach on Beri Beri and rice polishings rather than cod liver oil. I believe retinol acid (vitamin A) came soon after.
Your videos are highly educational and I have learned a lot from your channel. Thanks for putting all the hard work and changing our way of thinking. Much love from Nepal!! 💕
My understanding is that when the video comes out, a number of titles and thumbnails are tried out, until it stabilize when the most successful are determined.
My mother made me drink cod liver oil once a week when I was young. It tastes like poo, I loathed drinking it, so I asked her why I had to drink it. She said it would keep diseases away. I now know it was Rickets she was talking about.
The thing is........ We lived in central Australia. No real shortage of sun.......
I'm gonna call my Mum.
As a Norwegian, I have drunk cod liver oil since I was a small child every day. I loved the taste apparently back then. But now, recently, I have gone over to take cod liver oil pills instead since I don’t like the taste and it’s easy yet very healthy!
Liver, not just cod, is incredibly healthy. Beef liver, for instance, is #1 on the list of most nutrient rich foods, made by the food agency of my country.
My father made us take a spoonful of cod liver oil every day as a kid. Same reasoning, it keeps you healthy without any greater understanding. I still remember that awful taste.
Interesting in the things that truly make us different. Most black people live close to the sun and therefore wasn't ever a real issue for us. However fish is so healthy that it's protein is great for you. Never knew about cod fish. Never even heard of cod. Eating used to be for survival now it's for consumption🤦🏾♀️
Jacque Renee *Africans, don’t say black people.
Your videos have always been interesting but lately the cinematography has just been breathtaking. It's like watching the old discovery channel documentaries I loved so much as a kid. Keep up the great work!
Dinoenthusiastguy It’s truly high quality content. The way he speaks and presents his he information is top notch.
I was gonna say this is the stuff I'd want to watch on Discovery!
no *you're* breathtaking!
You're right! In fact this is made with excerpts from a feature length documentary by Derek 8:44
well the video contained excerpts of a real documentary by Derek. So go figure
Future video: “Why Bones that Bend are Better”
The Gëŕ, with metal bones that *unbend* gradually after they've been bent by what would crack and break another person's bones: I'm four parallel universes ahead of you!
⠀
Don't ask what is a Gëŕ, it's complicated to explain.
@@ynntari2775 what is a Gëŕ?
it's complicated
lol
Don't bone-shame me!
Next video: "Can cod swim in shade balls?"
That's a great one😂😂
No bro, do cod swimming in shade balls contain vitamin d?
@@taozam
o......m........f................g
@@taozam
The most important question of modern science!
That meme is going to follow him around for years, isn't it?
I love how you take a vacation in completely other countries. You make it entertaining and educational for your fans
Also how the video was edited
Maybe the vikings had a reputation for invading southern places because they wanted a sunny vacation
Your comment reminded me of Tom Scott too, he just goes and films everything a country has got to know about
I hear that in my head with a valley girl voice. LIKE OMG COMPLETLY other COUNTRIES
@@fuzzypenguino We still do, just not the invading part xD
my mom used to feed me spoon fulls of cod liver oil when I was a kid during the long winters of canada. now I know why.
Tasted disgusting though
Me too. She said she told us to take it and we opened the hatch end of story lol. Im less compliant as an adult..
Thanks for including the explanation of how humans get vitamin d from sun exposure.
Unfortunately, while tactifully avoiding bringing up the evolution of lighter skin, to maximize UV absorbtion for said vitamin D production, as man migrated north.
@@Vorpal_Wit My boy billy out here droppin some redpills
Billy Wardlaw most likely it was left out for time, since he’d then have to explain why that works that way, especially considering that intuitively, darker surfaces absorb more light.
@@Vorpal_Wit you really need help dude, like ASAP ;)
Couple key things left out.
1. Importance of vitamin D on immune function and immune system development. Aka less illness, less auto immune disease. Some think it may activate a significant portion of our genome(vit D is actually a hormone)
2. Vit D absorbs the calcium, but vitamin K2 is also needed for proper bone development. Vit K2 is sadly very deficient in a modern western diet. Thia deficency is the likely cause of improper formation of our maxillary bone/jaw, resulting in tooth crowding and orthodontic issues.
Some would say it's the missing link in bone and tooth health.
"You need to go outside."
"It's ok, mom, internet told me CoD makes up for the lack of sunlight."
Press F for CoD
I approve this message :D
Mom: Get out here right now or I'll beat the hell out of you!
Mom: Ok. Here, have a spoonful of Cod Liver Oil
Kid: HOLY @%@#%!!! What is that @#$@#@!!!!... I'm going outside, be back in ten!
@@manriquemata1650 And he never said no to going outside again.
My Norwegian friends would always have cod oil pils in the fridge while studying abroad. Aside from packs of snus, that is
cod oil for rickets, snus for studying.
Seems legit
snu......snu?
@@Drag0nStorm1 snus, a kind of tabacco pouch you put under your lip
@@manuelelia6702 o!
thank you. new word to me.
Viking motto: "In Cod We Trust."
Noice
In God We Trust didn’t used to be the US motto. We used to have a cool (and not factually incorrect) motto!
E Pluribus Unum
“From many, one.”
@@eigilhysvr2292 that is very cool! Nice
@@eigilhysvr2292 cool. Why does it say "-ed" after "trust" in feint letters though?
Remember, no sunlight!
British People: God Save the Queen.
Scandinavian People: Cod Save the Vikings.
Americans: Call of Duty
Isn't there something about Odin catching a cod or Loki disguised as it making their tails thinner than their bodies... or was it another fish?
For Cod and country.
the piece of cod which passeth all understanding
Citrus fruits save the British fleet
Didn't know the Vikings played Call of Duty. They must be really good now
Theyre talking about the game
whoosh me up bois
Top comment god
Ironically Sweden made Battlefield, not COD
CALL OF WARFARE MODERN DUTY 2!!!!!
Do they talk trash tho?
Michael not posting videos on his main channel has left a void inside my soul that fortunately Derek is filling.
Veritasium >>>>> VSauce
@@aampudia8 hmmmmnn. Nope
@@aampudia8 nothing against Derek tho.
Vsauce is dead and it is such a TH-cam tragedy. And D!NG is garbage compared to what Vsauce used to be :(
Christian Jaic Ramos They both make great videos, they have different formats that I enjoy equally.
dude you are destined for making sick documentaries, the use of various bits of footage to back the narrative was completely immersive
And we’re all looking forward to watching them!
The production value level is 9000!
You're watching one of them.
I'd say that it's over 9000.
David attenborough soon need a replacement.
Another amazing video. I particularly liked the part around 5:00 where you explained how the practice of drinking the liver oil might have caught on. Too often in teaching complicated ideas we get bogged down in personifying the involved parties. This was a great description about a natural emergence and development of a concept.
Production quality epic. Man you really can tell the story and the video composition and style is very immersive. I was watching this with a smile the entire time
I watch several other science channels, but Veritaseum is on its own level above the rest
5:28 "like evolution but for ideas" That's the original meaning of the word meme as coined by Richard Dawkins.
Yes, correct. Meme = a unit of cultural imitation.
the cod meme!
Yeah, surprised Derek whiffed on not commenting/knowing that he was explaining a thing that had already been explained and named. And it's this attribute that may be the greatest thing homo sapiens ever discovered/implemented. The scientific method is kind of a version 2.0.
Except memes used nowadays are not to spread ideas but to make us more stupid.
@deathincarnate Atheist Hey, they're funny! Stop bashing on memes!
6:27 Legend has it she's still there trying to pick up that one piece of cod
😂
patience of a saint
Cod is so annoying to pick up with a spatula
Oh you foul man, I will remember that for the rest of my damn life, I can feel it
On my deathbed I'm gonna grasp weakly at whoever is nearby and whisper "Did ... did she get the cod"
Ha ha ha ha
The Vikings' survival was an act of Cod.
sharpshooter9407 nice one
You made me forcefully exhale from my nose. Well done.
Hahahaha!
He had me in the first part
Call of Duty?
"I would argue that the scientific method is the greatest technology humans have ever developed. It allows us to understand not only what works, but why it works. And with that knowledge, our future is determined not by luck, but by our ability to manipulate reality to our advantage."
Wow, that's a really powerful way to end a video!
but isn't "our ability to manipulate reality to our advantage" determined by luck?
@Adena Properties lmao ok virgin
I don't mean to be mean but yeah.
read the quote again, it is common knowledge lol
But in the last 4 years, we have discovered that ignorance, xenophobia, political stupidity and orange fake tan is sadly stronger than facts and scientific knowledge. A whole society that once excelled at science has effectively lost its mind.
“Like evolution, but with ideas” -the most underrated quote in this video
Memeolution?
I remember as a kid I was forced to take Cod Liver Oil and I absolutely hated it and my parents were not able to explain why it was good for me and why I need to take it. It was definitely a cultural practice. Thanks for finally teaching me why it was good and established that science really is the best tool we have. Thanks
Bacalhau! The Portuguese Fisher's Villages are mostly old Viking Colonies, and they brought Cod to us. God bless them.
We love that dish in Norway :)
Eu sabiaaa acabei de confirmar minhas suspeitas de que a tradução é bacalhau :)
You mean Cod bless them.
Also I believe cider drinking is also a leftover of viking culture, bringing with them apples that were gross to eat but processing into drink quite drinkable when water was not so trusted.
And may Oðinn bless you.
Thank you for putting so much thought, time and research into your videos to the benefit of all of us. Sagan would be proud.
From 1978 movie "Circle of Iron"
Philosophical Blind Man: "A fish saved my life once."
Cord: "How?"
Philosophical Blind Man: "I ate him."
How time has changed!
Nowadays CoD causes spine curvature, carpal tunnel & the lack of Vitamin D...
Everything was better in the old days.
Hah!
🎖️
@itsmejohny Good call, i edited it in! :)
lmao
yup - and their liver is a rare drop only found in premium loot boxes.
This young man is definitely one of my absolute favorite human beings. A global treasure.
This was fascinating! It shows your skill to take a conversation about cod and turn it into a discussion about scientific method!
Aspect Science yeah it really does!
I second this motion!
My favorite TH-cam channel is this one. I am honestly never disappointed with the unique content explored here.
So you're telling me I can sustain my bones without sunlight by using Cods?
Ha, thank you! Now I've perfected the art of being an introvert.
5:27 "Like evolution, but for ideas."
So drinking cod liver oil is a Viking meme.
Yes, correct. As mind-blowing as it might sound. 😁
Literally!
Absolutely a meme. It's still common to drink it in Norway
"evolution, but for ideas" is the definition of the word "meme"
@@TVjoakim And getting even more common to eat it as oil-capsules, swallowing whole and bypassing the horrific taste and smell of this nectar of the ....cods :D
Never fails to make such a detailed and quality video, and the points and conclusions made from it are just amazing. Keep making excellent videos like these derek
I've been a subscriber of your channel for more than 7 years now... But I've just recently come to the realization that your channel is substantially better than Discovery Channel, precisely because of the quality of the content of every ingle video you make and also the Topics you speak of... Thanks to you Derek and Kurzgesagt for spreading the word of Knowledge all over the world!!!
A very well produced video.
This was interesting. I always love to spend a few minutes going though and finding undiscovered videos on this channel. So many interesting things!
The quality of your videos gets taken for granted. Great video as always
This whole time I felt like I've seen this video before but I wasn't sure where, then it hit me that I watched Vitamania. :)
Yea, I was like "this seems familiar" then it hit me too.
Must be nice to be able to afford a subscription
@Kristo Veeroja What piracy website is an aggregator for documentaries? I know about anime and movies but not sure where to find documentaries.
"Like evolution but for ideas"
Memes
Not image macros, that was the original use of the word meme, coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)
Yep, he originally defined it as a unit of cultural imitation. It evolved from there. :)
I find it tragic how this word is being misused nowadays.
@@x.r.6392 It isn't really though. "Memes" in the popular sense are great example of "memes" in the original sense. Someone has an idea, then it gets iterated on. Good iterations become popular, bad iterations die out. It's exactly like ideas undergoing evolution.
@@x.r.6392 it's almost like.. it has undergone evolution..
The word is not being misused. Internet memes are just a specific type of memes. Like biological organisms, memes can have many different modes for generating and spreading.
8:03 The British would stop and fill their ships with limes when ever they had the opportunity. Hence the nickname for the English as Limey's
Gin + tonic is therefore the most health-promoting drink: prevents both scurvy and malaria.
@@JohnDoe-wx2oo
Yes, As long as the tonic in question contains quinine. Personally, I like bitter lemon myself, but to each their own.
I also find it interesting that the studies into cod liver oil took place at the University of Wisconsin, being that Wisconsin was one of the primary states in which Scandinavian immigrants settled in (along w/ Minnesota).
Not to mention that I too live in Wisconsin and that I'm of both Norwegian and Danish descent.
You have good genes mate, the very best.
@@yaboitorso5455 To be completely honest, I'm a mutt, like many Americans, lol. I'm also German, Dutch, English & Welsh. Everything seems to come in pairs. Regardless, Genetic Diversity is definitely a positive.
Yeah Black Ops 2 was how I stayed alive.
Mr Avocado Man those were the days back in bo2. Great memories
DMoney Industry r/woosh
@DMoney Industry r/woooosh
DMoney Industry when you “miss” the joke but it’s been overused it lost its meaning to me imo
Mr Avocado Man its soo bad yet soo good. How did you do it?
How fantastic it is to see my homeland on a world map! That little speck halfway between Norway and Iceland is where I live.
Greetings from the Faroe Islands!
Faroe islands cool
skál! Frá Portugal
How do you pronounce the name correctly ? The faraway islands?
@@dipling.pitzler7650 in English? Faroe is pronounced similar to pharaoh.
Vikings' Motto: "In Cod We Trust"
ROFL! 🤣 😂 😅
nice! :D
Holy Mary, Mother of Cod.
As a little disclaimer: Atlantic cod is actually becoming endangered species. It's already ranked as a vulnerable species.
Not trying to hate or anything, but just wanting to inform people that we have to take care of our nature and fishing waters❤️
Cod is gone from the Grand Banks,George's Bank & most places in between.
Iceland managed their Cod fishery with great wisdom & foresight. Norway must have done something correctly if
they still have sufficient catch to air dry & salt a good percentage of their total catch.
ay
I think there is a big difference between NA and European. North American side was overfished heavily causing the population to collapse. Barents sea, North Sea and Iceland populations is still doing well which allows maintaining similar catch levels as early 20th century. European side was also overfished but quotas were reduced before population collapsed.
@@suokkos I'm not arguing but the Norwegian coast is heavily fished and it might cause problems later in our lives. For example cod might becom extinct if there fish population drops suddenly because of different nature related issues that may occur in the future...
Mainly because the world came to overfish off Canadian coast, while managing their own local population.
It certainly wasn't Canadian fishermen considering the small population.
There's one fishery in Canada who's Atlantic cod population is certified by the marine stewardship council as highly sustainable and well managed.
this is awesome, this is from vitamania documentary hosted by Dereck. I got to meet him in Melbourne when he premiered the doc. So nice and friendly :)
This was a really great video man. I know there are some hard times with demonetization, but I hope no matter the platform you are able to continue doing things like this! I loved the format of looking at history, while still mentioning the science that contributed to the successes of the past. Keep up the great work man!
Worst case, surely he can move to another platform like a few creators are and subsist on Patreon / their advertising instead
"Yeah I'll just watch this one Vertasium video about space gel or something," I said two hours ago.
this video brought me to veritasium of 2016 circa, the way you spoke and the calm and slow narrative, very cool video, very good topic and a great job as always, keep up Derek
Did you know, the 'evolution of ideas' is called memetics? And the basic unit of memetics (analogous to the gene in genetics) is a meme.
Richard Dawkins.
Cod liver memes
Metal Gear Solid 2 taught me this
I wish the Viking animations were not wearing the fabled horn helmets but great video still.
You could also mention the massive cartoon warhammer, but yeah
@@SimoKR98 🤣😂
@Jokus Jodokus there were some, but not very many. Vikings did trade in slaves from Europe and North Africa, and some managed to buy their own freedom, but they were a very small minority.
They had horn helmets but for religious reasons
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Documentary quality. Your killen it dude. Head and shoulders above the rest.
I love how it ends: "with that knowledge, our future is determined not by luck, but by our ability to manipulate reality to our advantage"
"not only are their winters long and cold, they're also dark."
*and full of terrors*
Well, the vikings ARE the terrors in the dark of the night.
Maaaaan, these strung together stories in the first three minutes were amazing
I dunno about their cod skills, but I heard they were good at Battlefield.
This is a great pun tbh.
Especially with that new Norway's Map in BFV
Columbus: I finally discovered America!!!
Viking: *Yes son you did it!!!*
But Columbus didn't want to discover America, he wanted to find an alternate way to India
If Leif Erickson were crazy enough to say that, the native Americans would say the same thing as they could have said to Columbus: "We already did!"
@@someguy2135 That's not correct. The native Americans, for example the Inca, didn't discover America, for the same reasons the Vikings don't count as discoverers of America. Unlike Columbus. Discovery is a recorded historical event. And their records, if there were any, are lost or were never known to Europe.
@@ritwikreddy5670, Columbus didn't even discover America, just the Bahamas. it was Amerigo Vespucci who 'discovered' the continent.
roller4312 Well there are records of Vikings sailing to America and settling there. It’s mentioned in the Icelandic sagas.
However they didn’t stay very long since the plague would break out just 100 years later in Europe and it would draw the Norse settlers back to Europe to replenish the dwindling population.
Columbus was a sociopathic criminal with no sense of direction..
I legit thought this is a rare earth episode... “the fish that saved the Vikings”
I always thought my videos were just poorly devised versions of veritasium so it's nice to see proof.
I prefer to think you’re the history counterpart to Veritasium. Loooove your videos!
@@RareEarthSeries well funny finding you here, kinda get the same vibes from how the info is delivered in the video
This was amazing, thank you. The quality of your videos is astronomical.
You produce the greatest videos on TH-cam. Thank you and never stop learning!
This was one of your best videos, man. You're alive again!
8:31 I seriously thought that you are going to say that our future is determined by cod
This video is so awesome!! I'm traveling to the Lofotes in 2 days, for the sixth time now to go open sea fishing... I'm so excited to go back there!
I love that you said skål at 5:49 as a real Scandinavian.
0:36 as a polish man i can say we the Poles are indeed hostile to life.
the best part about your video is that i know i am clicking on it for a much bigger treat of knowledge than what's on the thumbnail.
Love the style of your films. They have started to look really professional and refined recently. GOOD LUCK TO YOU SIR.
Changing the title based on realtime analytics?
dumb ass drink some cod liver oil
@@JonPais calm down, Gramps.
It's only the internet.
@@JonPais He's referencing another Veritasium video, in which he stated he would be doing this.
@@horrorfan1122 Srs? What video?
About his viral video he made a video on that
First saw this on your TH-cam-channel (which I love!), then suddenly discovering your face on national television here in Norway as well! Didn’t know this was part of a TV documentary! Impressed! Please continue with your extremely high quality science videos!
Our Precious!! Hehe
From a local perspective here in Iceland I can tell you the following:
Icelandic Viking warriors are said to have taken Lýsi to stay strong, also supposed to prevent you from catching cold, the Greenland vikings vanished during the "Little Ice Age" likely from combination of factors.
The Icelandic currency Króna has a Cod on its front. (Not to be confused with the CCP EVE ISK).
Here in Iceland the product is known as LÝSI and marketed as the "Nations Secret Weapon", sometimes stores have reported how shelfs of Lýsi are bought up when tourists from Asian come to town, they seem to appreaciate this golden liquid too.
Iceland "won" ~3 so called Cod-Wars with Britain over this fish, in some part thanks to the Secret-Weapon "Net-Cutters" and well NATO worried about Communist making the alliance look bad.
Oh Yeah also not the first time one hears the story of a bigger guy trying to take someones elses oil (albe it fish-oil;)"
Also Iceland has a very strict Fish-Management system called the "Kvótakerfið" its been a cause of much debate over the decades as while it helps manage the fish stock very efficiently compared to other places it also has created a type of elite called KvótaKóngar/KvótaGreifar as in QuotaKing/QuotaCount, I guess comparable to the Banker Elite that runs the US ;D
I remember hearing news back in the day where trawlers had their nets confiscated and needing to pay fines coz the fish holes in the net were just 1mm smaller than was allowed, as in making sure nets were up to specs and not catching the smaller fish.
I suppose Iceland manages their fish stock better in part coz its a Island and so it dont have to share much of its fish-stock quota with neighbouring country's which may or may not be upholding a entirely trustworthy fishing management system.
Btw LÝSI can be from shark as well, as in "Hákarlalýsi" which is made from Greenland Shark who is said to be the Longest-Lived Vertebrate on Earth as in older than some countrys like the United States for example, even as old as the re-discovery of Wineland or as you know it today as America though the guys name was Columbus who incidentally thought he was in India, anyway "Leif the Lucky" son of Eric the Red in Greenland discovered it 2x times earlier than Columbus and the Indians were called Skraeling, yeah Lýsi is also supposed to help with good memory like what comes handy for keeping records from long lost times incidentally ;D
A Viking maybe i will sell my golden liquids to asians aswell
The people of Island werent really vikings anymore were they though?
@@mymo_in_Bb I'm just thinking historically. All nordic people of that era werent vikings. Vikings were the ones who rent raiding, trading and settling around the world with their ships. The vikings who went to iceland tried to start a new life in a paradise close to the gods without the raids etc. So technically they werent vikings anymore, even though their ancestors were vikings. I'm just nitpicking for no reason and honestly dont know why i commented on it.
@@mymo_in_Bb That's very true. Skallagrim the youtuber? I have seen some of his videos, but im scandinavian myself so most of it we just learn in school.
@@mymo_in_Bb What are the other definitions of "Viking"? I'm Swedish and as i've been taught a Viking is specifically a form of raider/warrior-sailor. The word itself comes from Vik (Bay) and the ending "-ing" (in this case denoting a living creature/person). Viking translated to modern English would roughly mean "Baymen" seeing as they'd sail from... you know... a bay. Viking was a job in the larger society, the members of which are called Nordmän (Norsemen). There are viking ships but not viking smiths because a smith is another job entirely making the smith Norse.
(The term Nordmän also evolved to fit the times. In the modern era we're Nordbor: Those who live in the north.)
Pretty impressive footage! Derek, you’re truly overcoming yourself everytime. Keep on going with the great work!
This might be my favorite Veritasium video! Love the blend of history with science.
It's always fantastic when someone decides to travel to norway to experience and tell the tale of our history and culture.
This diet of cod or Torsk as we call them, was such a great way for me personally to learn that no food is disgusting.
Made properly, the only things not eaten on a cod would be the eyes, intestines and bones.
Fried cod head and tongue + liver with fat and bacon fits very well with potatoes and carrots, and of course the meat itself :D
Important precautionary note: Not all fish livers are edible. _many_ if not most are *toxic* and can cause *serious* *illness* and even *death* *!* Make sure, it's an edible one and the fish lived in non-toxic waters. *Please* be *careful* while consuming fish liver. Thanks for reading.
Why do you use bold if even the words you used bold on can be seen?
@@randomguywithagun cause I'm cool.
Is it just me or this channel (which has always been great) is just skyrocketing in quality and production?
Comment, comment and comment on....
May this video reach the viral pages of TH-cam!!
Keep up with the good work!
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“Like evolution, but for ideas”
So the oil drinking was a meme!
Exactly
Dawkins would agree
Thanks man! Such enthralling videos always
Yikes.. I remember having to drink “levertran” when I was a kid.. It tastes so bad and inherently made me aware of the fact that things that are good for you; tastes terrible.
Idk man, generally things that taste bad are poisonous
When you're from Norway but still learn stuff you never knew from foreigners about your own country haha, love it though! Veritasium videos are always great
There's actually a story on how it became famous thanks to Möller a pharmacist that in more recent years understood the health benefits and started getting the cod liver oil factories around the coast to then only afterwards distributing it as a supplement. They still own almost the monopoly of it nowadays
Veritasium is secretly turning into a fishing channel. I like it.
Vikings also accidentally made the strongest steel by adding bone to the swords because they thought the souls were helping them
Also fertilizing the soil with animal blood. Pagan traditions existed for a reason.
Funny, but impossible because bone full of phosphorous which deteriorate steel.
@@Spark-Hole She is correct, it was actually adding carbon to the bog iron that was creating steel well before it existed anywhere else. Considering they were making steel weapons when everyone else was still in bronze and iron ... the impact would have been signficant
@@huebdoo Was just about to say this, nice to see someone else aware of this!
@@huebdoo bone full of calcium and phosphorous. Carbon must come from coal . And the only two elements that make steel brittle is sulfur and phosphorous.
Go talk to your high school chemistry teacher.
Discovered your Channel due to the shade balls
Stayed due to scientific vulgarisation and overall very good quality
Keep it up man
I'm so glad your making more clickbaity titles/thumbnails, but still having the video live up to them
Im a simple man,
Veritasium uploads something nice: I like :)
Wow. This video is very well made. It's neat, well narrated, concise, nicely edited.
Thank you for sharing.
Vsauce: Mind Field
Veritasium: Vitamania
Pedantic correction: at 7:39 there is (from my estimation) an error in this video when Vitamin A is claimed to be the first vitamin to be discovered. That honor goes to thiamine (vitamin B1) which occurred through the reserach on Beri Beri and rice polishings rather than cod liver oil. I believe retinol acid (vitamin A) came soon after.
Congrats on 10 milly binging all your old vids :)
A spoonful of Møllers Tran a day keeps the rickets away :)
@Rational Viking Gotta keep it refrigerated and use it while it's fresh. Old tran tastes like heck, fresh tran is fine IMO.
A slice of Stabburet leverpostei gives you vitamin D i en fei
Nice title change, mr.beast taught you well
Ike S what was it before?
Did cod save the Vikings.
Many people like me don't know what the heck is cod so yeah it was good title change.
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There was a fish shown in the thumbnail.
You would have to be an idiot to not put 2+2 together and figure out what cod is.
@@philistine3260 simpler is better. Even if it is 2+2.
@@StevenSmith68828
No, now this title sounds like there was that one brave, heroic fish that single finnedly came to rescue the Vikings.
Your videos are highly educational and I have learned a lot from your channel. Thanks for putting all the hard work and changing our way of thinking. Much love from Nepal!! 💕
*Title change*
Definitely said “How Cod Saved The Vikings”
While I was at work
I want my award
I've noticed tis a bunch of times with Dirk's videos recently.
On small screens, it looked like, “How God Saved the Vikings”, which is not the subject of the video... Maybe.
Doesn't it still say that?
My understanding is that when the video comes out, a number of titles and thumbnails are tried out, until it stabilize when the most successful are determined.
I see. Bigger channels can A/B test stuff I think. I think its a beta feature but not sure
This TH-cam algorithm is hiding a lot of your content. Now have to turn the notification bell on.
This is the most perfect video i have ever seen. Perfectly summarized :)
When she was a child, before Vitamin D milk, my mother had to drink cod liver oil every day.
This video wasn't sent to my sub box or notifications. I just checked your channel and it was there uploaded 4 minutes ago.
Production quality is extremely high---great video!
Wow the new skyrim game looks amazing
I think it's a god of war dlc
That's just a Skellige from Witcher 3 with max graphics.
Nah, Its Minecraft with RTX.
@@rootbeer2k Please just stfu.
6:04 I never knew that you can see stars and sun at the same time in the sky!
That's not the sun. That's the moon. The time lapse exposure level was high and each frame looks like it was exposed for approximately twenty seconds.
you can actually see stars, the moon and the sun all at once.