A Man Ate 2 Pounds Licorice Candy. This Is What Happened To His Organs.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Patient VP portrayed by John Posner
Based on N Engl J Med 2020; 383:1263-1275. Link below.
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Licorice candy has glycyrrhizin which increases cortisol (stress hormone) levels in the body. This causes hypokalemia. Hypo- low. Kal- kalium (potassium). emia- presence in blood. Potassium signals muscle relaxation. Low potassium, low relaxation. Heart can't relax, then it stops.
Real licorice candy is not easy to get in the United States. It's not at big chain grocery stores. Most of what you can buy from the big brands is licorice flavored, and won't do this.
These cases are patients who I, or my colleagues have seen. They are de-identified and many instances have been presented in more depth in an academic setting. These videos are not individual medical advice and are for general educational purposes only. I do not give medical advice over the internet.
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-emia meaning presence in blood
YES
I AGREE
I bet there’s gonna be a bot right bellow this comment
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Everybody gangsta till chubbyemu busts out the saltwater tube experiment
It's such a simple thing, yet such an important function.
That experiment explains why rivers flow into the sea for sure.
@@RealmsOfThePossible Gravity be like:-
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@@NotBroihon you joking, right?
I love how deeply you explained that you can't feed unconscious people hundreds of bananas
Now i understand why my grandmas hospital room was full of rotten bananas when i came back two days later. The dr told me she was low in potassium... I thought i was helping🤔
People are so stupid nowadays that i can see why he did that lol
Well... you can if you really put effort into it...
Now I know how to eat while sleeping
@HenryScored hypo meaning low
Glyc- referring to glucose
Emic meaning presence in blood.
Low glucose presence in blood
"A man ate 2 pounds of licorice candy"
Oh that's not the worst, it's a lot bu-
"Every day for 2 weeks"
he WHAT
For real. How do you even do that? I'd think you'd get sick of it by the 3rd pound. Also damn, imagine the caloric intake. Dude must have weight a healthy 600 lbs.
My mom gave me four pounds of Rockets once, and I just threw them out except for a couple of rolls for myself. Nobody needs that much crap!
Not the worst???? Thats 1 kg mate. I am dutch amd man we love licorice like no others but that is an insane amount...
@@kerimgueney IKR, I get sick of it just from the smell.
@@obi-wankenobi4056 And so do we swedes but we tend to prefer salty licorice but it is rare in other countries.
I'm very glad I'd seen this when my dad started drinking pure liquorice tea. He absolutely loves it, and because I'd seen this video, I told him he should be careful and limit his consumption to 2 maybe or 3 cups per day. He hasn't run into any issues at all. He drinks it almost every day, but never in large amounts because he knows it's a bad idea.
Update: he has had to stop drinking liquorice tea because it's given him high blood pressure. I guess the 3 cups a day was a bit too much. I suspect it'll go back to normal though, once the glycyrrhizin is out of his body and he can get rid of cortisol as normal!
@@rubyinferno7578 Wow!! I'm glad you saw this and let him know!!
@@rubyinferno7578if he really loves the taste, there's deglycyrrhyzinated versions of many licorice products :)
@@rubyinferno7578 we need another update, did it go away?
@@MrEduardo20001 yep his blood pressure has pretty much normalised now! I didn't realise this before, but he does have a history of high blood pressure on and off. He's being very careful now - he's eating healthier, drinking less coffee, exercising more, and eating a low sodium diet, I'm so glad 🥰
Dutch people: *start sweating*
Why
Because licorice is drop
@@jessicaastra5542 Because licorice is one of the most common candies here
He only eat candy, he didnt eat properly, that was the problem, like many Er situations.
Finnish people: *sweating while eating salmiakki*
What we’ve learned from this channel:
Don’t eat massive amounts of things.
& don't drink your lava lamp
And stay away from nutmeg. Seriously.
most importantly dont eat rotten cheap shits from the dumpster or dont eat shits that arent edible
Or gas station nachos
And stay the fuck away from gas station food
I'm actually crying over here. This poor guy got his life together, stopped using drugs and worked hard at his construction job, and his downfall was eating too much licorice. licorice!
I used to drink licorice tea. The weirdesr tasting sweetness ive ever had. I dont.know how people eat licorice. Its like a candy version of beer. Fucking strange taste.
@@rainbowodysseybyjonlion I absolutely hate licorice and every similar flavour, like fennel and anise. Don't know why. I like everything basically, but I stay tf away from those.
Moderation is key, too much of anything is a bad thing, as is injecting weird substances into your body via needles, though the patient didn't stop even when he had the suspicion that the needle was dirty, yet used it anyway thus infecting himself with Hepatitis C
@@danielacoelho9389 it tastes good stop bullying licorice 😔
Its sad that it was licorice that killed him and not the heroin. Just comes to show that we truly need to help addictions in general.
its horrific that he ultimately sustained permanent fatal brain damage, but the fact someones heart can stop for **30 minutes** and then they can still be revived in any sense is unreal to me
sounds like it was 30 minutes from collapse to the ER. but that CPR was being performed since they said his heart stopped several times on the way.. my guess is the initial cardiac arrest was probably 8 or 9 minutes which is enough still do do someone's brain in..
not an expert, but it does sound unreal, because if the heart is stopped for more than 5 minutes then the patient can be considered as good as dead because that's the time it takes for brain to starve of oxygen and get permanent damage
in some cases though people do recover, but it is never a full recovery and is mostly really unlikely
i think what happened was that the heart was stopping repeatedly on the way to the hospital and resuscitation was performed
@keneshindev
People actually can survive over 30 minutes of heart not beating if the body temperature is low enough. Anna Bågenholm fully recovered after falling under ice and spending 80 minutes in icy water (40 minutes of which was with heart not beating).
@@ЕгорКазейslows system down first....wonder if that in itself plays a part 🤔...
@@ЕгорКазейLowest ever recorded body temperature survived
"But he wasn't stressed, he was eating bags of candy" idk man I'd say a man eating 2lbs of candy a day is pretty stressed
But.. it’s comfort food 😮
i’d say he’s just having a good time
Sweets and carbs do not give a satiety signal. I am talking about being satiated, not about having eaten enough to feel discomfort. Eat 10 ounces of beef fat versus eating 10 ounces of candy.
@@maranscandy9350 I would feel satiated if I were to eat a pound of cake.
So I don't know what you're talking about.
@@maranscandy9350 Does Big Macs count as comfort food?
This channel’s theme is “everything in moderation”
Edit: Oh, and “emia means present in blood”
Weeeeell, everything except maybe like, tide pods and self prescribed drugs lol
Sodium is more formally Natrium, and Potassium is more formally Kalium, as seen from their symbols on the periodic table
so this channel's theme is moderationema?
Every video is either "People eat dumb stuff" or "People eat normal stuff at dumb amounts"
gotta consume plutonium in moderation
A friend of mine was hospitalized some years ago because his blood pressure went through the roof and his heartbeat was seriously irregular. He also used to eat a LOT of black licorice, but didn't think of mentioning it to the doctors, because he didn't know the possible health risks. Thankfully, when his wife talked to the doctors the next day, she told them he'd polished off a large box of black licorice the night before he was admitted, so they knew what was going on. (You can buy real black licorice pretty much everywhere here in Germany.) The doctors told him how dangerous his overconsumption of black licorice was, and afaik, he has not eaten any since. Now that I've watched this video, I get how serious this was!
licorice is not good for people with hypertension
@@yvonneholmes2990 I think he did not even have issues with hypertension *before*, but if you eat two pounds of licorice in one go, it messes with the blood pressure of even a healthy person.
Ididnt say "him" imeant people in general,, duh
@@yvonneholmes2990than why did you comment it here and not seperatly? Duh.. M.
“VP isn’t stressed. He’s eating several pounds of candy a day.”
Yeah totally doesn’t sound like stress eating to me.
Sounds like a normal American thing. A few pounds a day doesn’t sound that hard actually. He was eating that much fruit flavor gummies and was fine but the acid in licorice is what caused all the problems
@@chi7818 I don't know which of my countrymen you've been talking to but speaking for myself I would not eat multiple pounds of candy in one day. I'd get sick long before I could finish it all. (and that's assuming that i'd want to eat that much in the first place.)
XXStrong1 bro it’s easier than you think. All it takes is a quarter pound every few hours and you’re eating 2+ pounds easy.
I doubt the dude was just pounding 2 pounds of licorice in one sitting like the video, he probably had it as a snack and would just graze on it throughout the day.
A small bag of licorice candy is $2.99 and 10oz at target so eating 3 of those throughout the day would be cake.
Or it would be the equivalent of eating 2 monster energy drinks weight of licorice which again isn’t that much. Or 2 pints of ice cream. All this is doable to anyone with a sweet tooth especially if it’s a large man.
chi I stand corrected.
XXStrong1 yeah it’s scary how easy it is to eat large amounts of junk food. A few years ago I started working out and really paying attention to my diet and realized how bad it was without me noticing.
For example a large coke at McDonald’s is 30oz which is 2.5 cans of regular coke. You get one refill and you just drank 5 cans of coke in one meal. You would never say I drink 5 cans of coke for lunch but getting a large and a refill is normal.
"wherever IT is, water will flow towards it"
*Eyes widen* "is he about to?"
"In this small science experiment-"
"THE TUBE THE TUBE THE TUBE!"
With soy sauce☝️
@@JonahBj Lmao, I didn't realize it was soy souce.
Hail the tube
The salt saussage 😳
lmao
"Muscles were wasting away"
*_THINKS ABOUT THE GUY THAT DID 500 pushups_*
same
*500 squats intensifies*
stop it. please. i don't want to think about my muscles and how i'll look in a few months if I don't start exercising more often....
I eat Cereal with Water and I pour the Water first then, idk, exercise more often...?
nuggetnol 😂
This is an eye opener for me. I struggled with the same addiction, even contracted Hep-C, and successfully received treatment for both. Thankfully I been clean for 3 years. In the early stages of recovery, it's very common to develop an insatiable craving for candy, as it stimulates the same part of the brain that substances do. It's even worse for alcoholics fyi, because alcohol turns into sugar when ingested. Anyway in the beginning, I would find myself eating at least three theater-sized boxes of Dots a day, sometimes in one sitting. I already have terrible eating habits, but after replacing heroin with candy they became ten times worse. I HAVE cut the consumption in half, but I have much more to go.
Even though it's not licorice candy, it's still candy, and half of the additives that go into it I can't even pronounce. This is another much needed example of why my efforts must be doubled.🙏♥️
Keep up the hard work 👍 It will pay off. Best wishes!
@@lansvale28 Thank you, I plan to🤙
Well done on all of your self improvement!! ❤️
Look into gaba, tyrosine, and 5htp for addiction recovery.
you're doing awesome, proud of you for the progress you've made!
Emu: You wouldn’t eat gummy vitamins like regular candy either
Kid who dissolved his bones: Hold my Flintstones
The video actually had that pop up in the corner as a suggested video as he said that.
I got some on clearance and had to remember to keep the maximum at 4 (152% calcium). They have 5g of sugar a piece, so they're quite addicting. Overdosing on them would probably cause kidney stones. Never had kidney stones; never want them.
@@Sevness emu did that intentionally.
@@manictiger I have never had them either, but I remember once having a bag of old fashion real black licorice pieces, and yeah, I had trouble not eating the whole thing in one sitting with as much as I liked them, the only thing that kept me from doing it was knowing it wouldn't be healthy, and the fact the bag was old so the candies where stale so I had to take my time eating them so they would soften up.
say this for someone who smokes cannabis regulary...
Nurse: "How far gone is he?"
Doctor: "About a hundred bananas."
I should not have smiled
Well played that man. Lol bravo.
And were talking about a low estimate
Nah its 20 pineapple
Oh damn I'm on 10 bananas right now
Wu Tang don't endorse overdosing on glycyrrhizic acid (GZA)
I want to say that your Clinical Death video was so good!
Hi Dr Rohin!
@Medlife Crisis I know he’s your hero. In that same relation; you’re one of mine.
Hello doc!
Not even a Z in that
As someone who loves licorice, I’m glad I came across this video.
Almost one kilo per day for 3 weeks.... He was crazy. I once ate a pound of dark chocolat in 2 days... got the WORST migraine ever... Never did that again.
@@silverwater211 could have been from the caffeine
@@josephpapajr9936 Maybe, but never had problem with coffee though. I had been sick with a chocolate cake with ganache too. I think cacao triggers migraine for some people.
@@silverwater211 maybe too much theobromine.
@@silverwater211 my father can't eat chocolate bc it causes him migraines too
"Don't end up on Chubbyemu!" is a real thing in our house when keeping the kids from getting into things they shouldn't.
I love it
This is good parenting 😂
LOL!!!
My mom would threaten super nanny
Nice, gonna tell my kids that too
The moral of the story with MOST of Chubby Emu's stories is typically, "Moderation in all things".
Stay healthy my friends, and moderate what you put into your body.
Particularly heroin
Even ChubbyEmu's videos?
@@AzureFides Watching too many ChubbyEmu videos at once can cause anxietemia, anxiet meaning anxiety and emia meaning presence in blood
@@kyetes.866 Dude! You did great!!
Dude! You did great!!
I love how plainly you give information: "You dont give unconscious people food to eat, because they are unconscious"
Me, fact checking on UpToDate: hmm, it checks out.
We laugh, but some doctors definitely have been like, nature finds a way
He was repressing a smile when he said that.
Very logical
@@combatepistemologist they can give you iv fluid but that is not solid food
I found this extremely interesting as in my mid 20's i was diagnosed with a kidney disorder where my kidneys essentially just dump potassium way faster than they should. In my early teens i started waking up screaming in pain because my lower legs would seize up and the pain was unbearable and most of the time i couldnt even stand up to force the cramp out. My dad would run in and help fight the muscle til it let go.
Until we moved to a city where a doctor who could send me to a kidney specialist existed i was taking 4 giant potassium pills a day that i got via prescription from my dr. They knew the problem was my potassium levels would drop drastically on their own and just didnt know why.
Now i know why they do it, and thanks to this video, why potassium is so important and why it caused such horrific painful muscle cramps.
Thank you!
I had the same problem with waking up screaming form muscle cramps! Turns out I can’t have gluten, and my guts were so messed up I couldn’t absorb any micronutrients despite eating normally
Did your condition get resolved? After living in mold & contracting multiple tick diseases it was found that my kidneys dump potassium yet the other electrolytes stay fairly balanced which drs say is unusual since they work in tandem..
I take large amounts of prescription potassium daily for the last few years. I also deal with chronic dehydration which I’m sure is related to potassium deficiency and I have to go to clinic for IV fluids with electrolytes every week for the last 4 years..
Id love to learn how to help my body heal but so far am at a loss and so far drs haven’t had any good insights either..
"And you don't give unconscious people things to eat"
This changes everything
TIL
Lmaooooo
Unconscious people do not want tea.
@therachelsam that video is so funny
I feel like we've hacked the matrix now
"Urine can't be electrically charged" well damn that ruins my weekend plans
I laughed too hard at this 😆 🤣
Well, not on it’s own it can’t
It definitely can, it's electrolytic.
Tell that to the people and animals that tested the electric fence and got a little to close.
I seem to remember Ren & Stimpy telling me to not Wizz on the electric fence.
can we just talk about how "-emia meaning presence in blood" has been memed, "mitochondrium is the powerhouse of the cell" has been memed, but "a small science experiment where we show that wherever sodium is, water will folow" hasn't been memed yet?
True, he ALWAYS makes the sodium water sausage!
TIME TO START
。紙の神 dderea
Let’s not forget, “presenting to the emergency room where we are now”
@@Liusila SODIUM WATER SAUSAGE OMFG
”..So you shouldn’t eat licorice like candy, either”
_Sweating in Scandinavian_
I love this channel
“Urine can’t be electrically-charged”
me, about to pee in an outlet: observe
Lmao😂
SKGSSGKSGK HOW'D IT GO?
It’s been 2 weeks, are you still alive
Maybe you can get on the next video
Mirror of Society is a ⬛️ year old man, presenting to the emergency room with a burnt pp.
this channel is the definition of “everything is poison if you have enough”
no
Because thats how it is.
@@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 exactly
@@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062 Yep. You can OD on water if you cram enough into your system.
It's actually toxic rather than poisonous. Anything in excess can become toxic like drinking water or fruit.
A poison is something harmful or deadly even in very small quantities.
"You wouldn't eat gummy vitamins like candy."
Cut to:
"A BOY ATE 150 GUMMY VITAMINS FOR BREAKFAST. HERE'S WHAT HAPPENED."
*A S C E N S I O N*
I think one time I ate like 30 when I was a kid… that was dumb
I used to eat multiple doses of Flinstone vitamins when I was a kid. I knew that they were not candy, but I really liked them, so every once in a while, my mom would let me have a few, instead of just one. Not sure if any of my current issues are related.
Honestly, I'm not going to buy gummy vitamins because it's too easy to want to. Also, my grandmother learned the hard way she couldn't use laxative chocolates. (She went through the whole box in one day. And then, I rather expect it went through her.)
I was the 666th like, it made my day x)
Feels like an awesome doctor taking 15 mins of his time to politely explain things personally to you, cause thats who the information matters to
"you wouldn't eat gummy vitamins like candies"
Flashbacks to the kids who ate gummy vitamins like candies
misread that as 'you wouldn't eat gummy vitamins like *candles* '
flashback to when I had a taste for chewing on wax as a kid
edit: but hey. at least I wasn't the crazy guy who started a trend of eating paper (not sure how it caught on, but eh kids are stupid), then attempted to eat an a4 paper in one go while sitting in the paper bin.
ahh, the joys of being one in a class full of lunatics. 10/10 would recommend.
@@custard_paradox Did you present to the emergency room?
Lol right
Lmao yes 🤣😅
Yes
The lesson of the day: Do everything in moderation.
That's everyday's lesson
But I don't like moderation. Can I have it in moderation? And everything else excessively?
Lesson of the day: don't do anything. It's dangerous.
Not everything. Do healthy things properly and don't win any Darwin awards.
lmao
DONT COPY FROM THE TEXTBOOK:
The book: “he did drugs as a kid”
Me: “when he was a child, there were some recreational things that he liked to put in his veins with a needle”
Because TH-cam...
Put in recreational things to confuse the algorithm.
Lol
Gold.
This is quite creative.
Wow this was so informative. I have type 1 diabetes and when I was a teen I was put in ICU in diabetic ketoacidosis. The nurses also told me that I had the lowest potassium they had ever seen other than in cardiac arrest patients. I was never told the scientific term for this but now almost 20 years later, I learned it from this video!
Somewhere out there:
Dude with licorice habit switches to heroin.
Another Zelda Fan?
Dude😂
@David Daivdson bruh. Adaptation of opioid receptors to pleasure experience takes place in every dose, the person would have to take more and more to feel the same as he did in the first day. Not to mention the impurities in the street heroin will also mess up the body.
@iif That's not from the drug, itself.
The only real potential for damage is from overdose. Which, while admittedly bad, isn't necessarily a danger to all users.
And, if you live with family or roommates, you can lower that risk even more, by keeping a couple naloxone kits around the house, and educate fam & friends on when to use them.
Not recommending anyone start using opioids. Withdrawal is possibly the worst thing you could ever go through in your life.
What I love about this channel is how unjudgy the doctor is as he matter of factly explains bizarre unhealthy behavior. Real compassion in this man.
Not sure I would call it compassion, although it shows that hes a true professional and has high interest in the medical science
The misinformation in this comment is harmful and the only person that should rot in hell for it is you tbh. This fear mongering is damaging
@@yeetusfetus1537 I agree
@@fucku3460 bro why’d you make it about the vaccine? Nobody even mentioned it and you came outta nowhere being ignorant and idiotic. No I am not getting my Vaccine, but I don’t go around wishing people who get it/distribute it the worst. Come on dude, be better
@@fucku3460 Polio and Measles are eraficated due to vaccines. You and the others being stupid are causing them to come back.
"Ooo, a piece of candy!"
"Ooo, a piece of candy!"
"Ooo, a pie-" *collapses and ☝️ presents to the emergency room*
@@phatdonutbear7117 , um, I'm thinking about it and it seems like one of the better ways to go.
Classic.
Top people are looking at him...
I actually laughed so hard WOW
RIP James Woods
Same thing happened to me. I was drinking licorice root tea everyday by the gallons for almost a month before my system started to crash. My muscles were staying contracted, my heart had arrhythmias, headaches I never had before, my blood pressure was rising, and my left kidney was very painful. I did the research and stopped the tea and started drinking Potassium Chloride. Don't know if I have any damage but all those symptoms are gone. Lesson Learned!
Thank you Jesus
You wouldn't eat gummy vitamins like gummy candies would you?
Me: This sounds like something that happened on this channel before.
Yeah! That one kid who ate them like candy, had several hipervitaminosis, specially with vitamin A.
LMAO i thought the same
The link to the video popped up too lol
@@angiemrto , hey, at least that proves that they are actually putting the vitamins in those things and it's not a total scam, unlike some investigations have shown.
@@NickRoman Wait, wasn't the problem the fact that multivitamins are useless, not that they're a literal scam as in they don't contain multi-vitamins, but like still a scam because you don't really need them.
I also got intoxicated by licorice once. I remember I found licorice tea at the supermarket a couple years ago. I love the flavor of licorice so I bought it. For like 4 or 5 days I couldn’t stop drinking it. It was just so good. I would drink 6 to 8cups of tea a day.
One night I started to feel really bad. Had a really bad headache, i was dizzy and I also had really fast heart rate along with irregular palpitations. I felt like I was gonna have a heart attack.
I immediately linked it to drinking too much licorice tea so I looked up side effects of eating too much of it.
I was terrified to see how dangerous it actually is. Everywhere it said to take food rich in potassium so I ate a few bananas. I immediately started to feel much better.
Needless to say I haven’t drunk or eaten any licorice since then.
You can eat and drink it just fine, just not that much.
Usually it says on the pack or bag that too much is bad for you atleast where im from
Exactly! I dont understand that why do people in his videos dont get such hints from their bodies.
Same, but I take it for the health benefits. I also take potassium pills now too and I just use the recommended amount lol
That stuff is poison
A man got stung by a bee, this is how he was physically erased from the universe and was dragged down to the cruel underworld.
He liked Jazz...
The bees name was Buzz Buzz
Common, you could've called the man "BB"
A man got stung by a bee, this is how his life grew wings.
imagine evolving in such a way that losing your stinger meant death for you. why couldn't they just grow out like hair in bees so it stopped at a certain length?
Very popular candy in The Netherlands. I have been eating it all my life and I love it. It's not uncommon to devour an entire bag. Didn't know it could be this dangerous. Thanks for the info.
I've just looked up my fav guilty pleasure 'licorice' to see if I'd die from a whole bag, but it's salmiak and not zoethout. So I suppose I'll die in a different horrible way.
Though I may cut down on chewing raw licorice when I'm stressed xD
@@Roozyj If I understand correctly, since licorice promotes cortisol production, and cortisol is a stress hormone, it would be a bad idea to chow down on it while already stressed. It will only make you more "wired" and not because of the sugar.
@@YFZriderdude15 That makes sense. I like it because I clench my jaw when I'm stressed and licorice has a nice consistancy to bite on (plus a great taste)
Was thinking about how much liquorice is in the Netherlands throughout this video 😂
Same in Finland, we love our licorice.
So, I would like this on my tombstone:
"His heart relaxed forever."
Lmao. I want 'if you are reading this, I am dead.' plus, I want to be spread like ashes, but I don't want to be cremated..
@Matt Smith.. nice mate👌🏽
@Jamilah Toenailkilla I will put the 'fun' in 'funeral' xD
I want mine to be "my organs are sleeping thats all"
@@brownieboy8405 Just write after it "Be right back" to make it more interensting. I saw someone that had a tomb stone wried on it "Respawn in...3....2...1....Error"
VP: **eats two pound of licorice a day for weeks**
VP's Liver: **Windows shutdown noise**
that has me thinking of the windows shutdown sound over a man fainting in a roller coaster video 😂
“••You died•• meme plays”
“Super Mario brothers 1991 Marion death theme.”
@@litchtheshinigami8936 Is that man Hoseok? 🤣🤣🤣
@@taki1255 i don't know i randomly stumbled across it when i searched windows shutdown sound 😂 but basically everytime the coaster goes down and speeds he faints then he wakes up and it's another drop knocking him out again and again it killed me when i saw it
Saw the title, and was like: "Oh, this guy is gonna have some serious endocrine issues".
Unfortunately, I have Addison's disease and it took far too long to be diagnosed, so I got to experience all of these symptoms.
hope you're doing well!
@@chubbyemu Oh yeah, healthy, fit, and back up to 200lbs. I was 135lbs at diagnosis, down from 215lbs.
Nick Voelker rock on, man! you got this!
@@nickvoelker7180 You're not fooling anyone. Get on the cart.
I love how these stories all make e happy I lived through so much and am still alive. (I have lived through CKD, hyperparathyroidism, BP of 230/180 as a kid, 3 kidney transplants, Bell's Palsy, 3 abdominal abscesses, septic shock, respiratory distress, intubation for 3 days, pneumonia 9 times, and now Invasive Ductal Carcinoma which is breast cancer I have had 20 cycles of chemo for, a lumpectomy and almost done my 30 cycles of radiation. Man 30 hurts.). And I am just 50.
"You wouldn't eat gummy vitamins like gummy candy" Well, I'm pretty sure I heard a story about that.
It's kinda common sense too.
Gummy bears make gummy bones
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Gummy vitamin candy???
Me at my medicine exam : Q13: What is hypokalemia?
Me: VP is a 46 year old man...
Q: If this vessel contains this liquid at this temperature what's the pressure at this point of the loop?
Me: Have you heard of the tragedy of Darth Palegius The Wise..?
Harris is way older than 46.
Presenting to the emergency room ☝
@@San_Deep2501 that would be too long of a story 😂
Hypo meaning low; kal-el meaning superman... what!?
Can we take a moment to appreciate the increase in quality of enacting the scenarios by a real person?! Dude they even got construction workers' outfit!
Moreover, and I don't mean to be unkind, but he looks uncannily like an ex-junkie.
No way he could have worked in construction without the outfit to demonstrate!
Reminds me of a TV-style documentary.
Man this story reminded me so much of my cousin who passed back in May of 2016. I don't really know per se what the cause of her low potassium was but it was the main cause of her death. She had suffered from these attacks almost yearly but when she almost turned 40 it was her last attack. She was always scared of going to the hospital and when she did the first time her anxiety took over her and we had to go back home. We tried feeding her bananas, nebulizing her, all that stuff. Eventually it came to a point during the midnight that the people in our house saw her discolored toes and her really trying to breathe. Sadly she didn't make it. However, I'm glad that you were able to shine some light on how this happens and it was an interesting and sort of bittersweet video to watch. 💛💛💛
Something similar happened to Charlie Chaplin, when he was working on the film The Gold Rush. There’s a scene where he and another actor were supposed to be eating a shoe. This shoe was made of black liquorice, and it took 63 takes to get the shot he wanted, and the two had to be rushed to the hospital as well.
I love that scene, but I didn't know this. Interesting.
Not much could have been done for them back then if it was serious.
He went into insulin shock didn't he
Satwik G yes, both he and Mack Swain did.
In the book about the film it's only stated that it gave both actors "inconvenient laxative effects", where have you heard that they where rushed to hospital?
I'm waiting for the day patient "PP" will present to the emergency room
“...back in 1969, pp...”
On the 4/20/69, patient PP came in...
Lol
the most mature comment thread ive ever seen
@@SwizzleDrizzl correct
13:50
"you wouldn't eat gummy vitamins like gummy candy"
that kid who ate 150 gummy vitamins for breakfast: 👀👀
vp did..hahahahaha...RIP VP..:(
His mother couldn’t read English. That was a sad one.
I wouldn't even be able to eat gummy candy in such amount as he does!
Only flinstone vitamins for me good sir
There was a boy at my high school who had problems with accidentally trying to eat things that aren't food without really realizing he was doing it. He mentioned it to me freshman year, but said he'd gotten better at controlling it as he got older. My high school subjected students to extreme sleep deprivation due to the high homework loads, (usually 4-6 hours of sleep a night on average, with a lot of days operating on only one or two hours,) and we all started noticing that on days where that guy was really tired he would inevitably start trying to eat pencils, erasers, or paper until someone pointed it out and he realized what was happening. On one occasions during engineering class he almost drank wood glue. So basically everybody started trying to keep an eye on him so he didn't actually poison himself with something, but one day a friend of mine jokingly said he was surprised that he hadn't had to get his stomach pumped at the hospital at some point. The boy replied that he had actually gotten his stomach pumped when he was seven because he got a hold of vitamin gummies and apparently didn't notice he was eating more than he was supposed to. So. Keep vitamin gummies away from people that absentmindedly eat things
Eating 100 bananas would give you a hellish constipation, but you could eat 100 apples to counter it!
I get diarrhea just drinking half a liter apple juice everytime😂
But if you eat 100 apples no doctor could get within a thousand miles to save you
@@andyghkfilm2287 Ahhh, good point! lol
@@andyghkfilm2287 if an apple a day will keep the doctor away, will an onion a day keep every one away?
@@rogervincent8314 yes.
Does anyone else feel strangely comforted and cared for when he says "take care of yourself and be well"?
Nah
I don't, but when you said it I did
absolutely
Yes
I do, seeing good doctors who care about people always makes me feel good
This is actually really, really sad. This guy just wanted to work hard and provide for his family. Just goes to show, how fragile the human body really is, and how we never know what'll go wrong.
It's really not _that_ fragile. Dude had to eat a comically large amount of licorice for several days straight for this to happen.
@@demoniack81 it was funny to think that it was licorice that killed him, but I still do feel bad for this guy, he just didn't know that too much licorice is harmful
@@hekaterinedragon8776 I mean I'm not saying it's funny or he deserved it, at least he didn't purposefully grossly overdose on an actual medication like the benadryl idiots.
All I'm saying is that this case is an extreme outlier.
@@demoniack81 no no, I got what you said, it was just my personal thoughts on this
one simple rule to live by, just don't eat too much of anything. Eat meat, eat vegetables, eat carbs, eat proteins, it's all about balance.
“Urine can’t be electrically-charged”
No pee-kachu 😔⚡️
It has enough ions to make peeing on an electric fence rather dangerous up close, though.
Get out.
@@CTimmerman Did you find that out the hard way?
I want thor pee :(
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Chubbyemu's video are so good! He makes medical cases dramatic but not in a TV drama way, he makes the learning aspect as engaging as the story!
"You need to be carful and not eat a lot of licorice candy"
Me, a Swedish citizen, about to shove a handful of licorice in my month. "You can't stop me!!!"
Atleast you don't eat 2 pounds (about 1 kg) per day
This is actually the number 1 cause of death among dutch people no cap
@Hernando Malinche Apparently the kind of licorice that we eat in Sweden is salmiak aka ammonium chloride. Sooo not a herb but chemicals instead.
@@wiksten93 Salmiak(ki) and licorice are different things, salmiakki is often used to flavour licorice candy. We also consume copious amounts of that here in Finland, I feel you neighbor.
Wel RIP.
"he likes to insert things in his veins
Me: that's a weird hobby
*5 seconds later*
Me: oh wait
DEA OPEN UP
It’s not a dong
Loves to insert water through his veins
@@chamber_hiro256 I know that's a joke, but hear me out. Injecting water would cause the water to rush into your comparatively salty red blood cells and explode them. My point is, depending on context, water is more dangerous than heroine.
@@ChemoshKamos And depending on dosage, of course, as well. Half a milligram likely won't kill you but large amounts will definitely take you out.
"He liked to put things in his veins".
He made it sound like it was just a hobby or something
@@nesfan8 Well I mean it is technically a hobby.
"an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure."
Probably doesn’t want to get demonetized
me too buddy
😳😻
You sir, are a true hero. You're videos are not only compassionate for those that have issues, but you explain everything down to the "T". The fact that you don't judge people based on their past, makes you a true gentleman. Thank you for all of your amazing and informative videos!!
“Urine can’t be electrically charged”
You sure? Whenever I have a urine infection I feel like I’m pissing out lightning
bootleg zeus
You took one for the team
Doctor 1: Okay so we're almost done naming all the organs, what do you think we should name this one?
Doctor 2: Where is it located?
D1: Right above the kidney.
D2: How about "near kidney"?
D1: *stares blankly*
D2: Okay fine, make it Greek, "adrenal"
D1: Now you're talking.
And this is why medicine is a joke. Missed a perfectly good opportunity to call them "kidney hats".
Bruh
@@Ginjitzu BRUHHHH
@@Ginjitzu Bruh
Isn't that latin tho?
a man bingewatched Chubbyemu. this is how is brain melted.
"This is how his brain became wiser..."
not if your a hypercondriac lmao.
This is how his brain expanded*
- Emia means presence in blood
- Presented to the emergency room
- Water sausage
- MItochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
he managed to quit H only to die from coping with candy.. he survived H and died to fucking candy.. i feel so bad for him
*A week or so ago*
“Lindsay, look at this news article”
“Hmm. …I know what’s going to be on my subscriptions in a few days”
this case is also mentioned in the liquorice Wikipedia article already.
"...While he was eating his lunch"
*A large bag of soft liquorice
Candy/sugar is a typical diet of heroin users. Most likely was still using drugs; especially being a construction worker
@@secret222 Yeah, I've heard that opioid users tends to eat more candies because somehow it makes you crave sugar, and because of that they become severely constipated (which is already a side effect for the drug in it's own) and would shit out painful bricks.
As a person with ADHD, I really appreciate your clarity, focus, consistency, and precision. I find it easy to process these videos and learn from them.
noOooO you just have no brain worken. Get a bran. Get one. Get one free. Geg onr
@@qwertyuioplkmjnhbgvfcdxsza rip to this dude, who donated their brain to help w OP’s adhd 😔🤧
I agree. I find it difficult to watch videos longer than 2 minutes but he presents the information and keeps focus in a way that lets me finish video after video without even checking the time stamp.
Me too!
Another thing, I think is important, is how quickly he still manages to present the events and details of the story. Even when he is breaking those details down to an understandable degree.
honestly the actors you bring on for these videos they do so well!
"Can i have some licorice?"
"Only a spoonful"
* *Pulls out comically large spoon* *
god damn it xD
😆
You are dead no big suprise.
No suprise there ya weeb
@@steve00alt70 huh
So this is the real reason they banned Lakkupiippu in Finland!
underrated comment
How does this only have 1 comment
@@anabsolutemess8850 I think you're mistaken...
@@mistorWhiskers I meant before I replied
@@anabsolutemess8850 I know ; )
A classic case of Hyperlicoricecandyemia:
- Hyper, meaning high
- licorice candy, meaning licorice candy
-emia, meaning presence in blood.
_high licorice candy presence in blood_
Probably hyperglycemia too lol
You guys freaking killed me LMFAO
Probably the best one after browniemia from: The Grandma Episode. *Correction: Hyperbrowniemia.
Permanent condition for me. I am Dutch, no one takes my liquorice away! Can't remember anyone dying from it either. They just put warning labels on the packages of liquorice tea and the liquorice candy that they can raise your bloodpressure.
Spoiler alert: he died from the very first bite due to how disgusting licorice is
I’m glad to see you gain the recognition you deserve over these past few years ❤️
Is it just me or does that sound salty?
@@birbin2443 it's just you
How can you say this when your entire channel is clickbaiting little kids?
@@birbin2443 it’s not just you
Also, AlexTFG. I looked at your thumbnails and I have to say this.
I looked at click bait. This is how my organs shut down
"Something was wrong with his brain."
You think? Dude was eating 2lbs of licorice a day.
his brain was already messed up from the heroin addiction
Adhd probs
I eat a ridiculous amount of fruit snacks and I like black licorice. Never been a junkie but I was a drunk for a few years a long time ago.
It's easy to mock but, however clever the brain often is, it will let it destroy itself quite easily with simple things. This guy didn't start eating that much to destroy himself, but his brain nor his body signalled him he was doing it either. And hindsight is a dumb thing.
@@hkr667 I don't think you should need hindsight to know not to eat 2lb of lollies a day, balanced diets have been engrained into education, media and news for long enough that everyone should know. Plus he was having muscle pains so his body was signaling a problem
I love how I just learned that the adrenal gland is literally called “the gland next to the kidney”
I believe it is the gland on top of the kidneys
Scientific latin is pretty lazy when you get down to it
medical Latin is very literal
Please never stop making videos, they're absolutely amazing!
Chubbyemu makes me scared to eat anything without any of my organs failing.
You can eat anything. Just don't eat or drink A LOT of anything. No matter what it is, it'll kill you. Even water!
Or get licked by the dog or who knows what. Just have to accept that death could come tomorrow.
Everything in moderation
Move to Africa, they’ll take your food, hell they’ll be begging for that scary food lmao.
A man was scared to eat anything after watching Chubbyemu videos about people's organs failing after eating something. This is what happened to his organs.
*He's about to say it*
"-Emia meaning presence in blood."
*HE FREAKING SAID IT. ROLL CREDITS.*
*Say the thing!*
Ding!
Me: 2 pounds of candy doesn't sound too bad
First line: A man ate 2 pounds of candy every day for 3 weeks
Me: Ok that makes a lot more sense
eating 2 pounds of candy is not good m8. Doesnt matter which candy.
Its not food. Its candy.
Yes but eating two pounds of candy once seems far less strange than eating two pounds of candy _every day_ for weeks!
@@StofStuiver true but being hospitalized from eating 2 pounds of candy is far fetched
@@Masterdeath16 actually it isnt.
Since candy is mostly sugar, eating 2 pounds of suger will definately trigger a number of processes in your body that can easily go crazy with such amounts.
I dunno, I'm amazed his stomach didn't start acting up at any point before things got worse. 2 pounds is like one KG (1000 g). 200-250 grams is a full meal, 300-400 is an XL fast food meal that makes you feel bloated after eating. So this guy ate like 2 and half XL McDonalds meals worth of candy every single day.
Imagine being the only human being on Earth that loves licorice so much that it kills
This is reverse clickbait, he didn’t eat “2 lbs of licorice” he ate 2 lbs for 3 weeks, like 40 something damn.
probably forgot to include "per day" in the title
Phew. I was worried about the 2 pounds of licorice i ate today.
How do you know he ate 2lb in 3weeks . The Dr said he ate 2lbs everyday .
He ate 2lbs everyday for weeks before he got hospitalized
@@rlh9373 yeah the title just said 2 lbs not 2 lbs EVERYDAY
Emu: "Doesnt this molecule look familiar?"
Me, a slack jawed cretin: *Nods aggressively alone*
I feel like organic chemistry is like a game of Tetris
SAME LMFAO
This would make an AWESOME educational game.
“We don’t give unconscious people food”
What a shocking revelation.
You say that but it would surprise you how many people think it's a good idea to put something in the mouth of someone having a seizure.
@@eliastalks7411 Is that not... to help them not bite their tongue...?
I know you don't do it for *dogs* since they are "unable to bite their tongue" (never experienced a grand mal seizure in either animal so I have no idea-).
@@LeafyGreenDA Biting their tongue poses less risk than choking, so that's why it's not advised to put anything in their mouth as during a seizure esp a generalised tonic clonic they are at high risk of choking which could be very harmful. Biting the tongue might cause an injury or a scar but it won't kill them.
Wait we don't?
Those poor peeps in my basement thats why they aren't moving
Watch "Consent is like tea" or whatever it was called. It sums this up pretty good.
I swear to god, I love how you explain the wording behind the medical terms. It really opens up my understanding as to how these things work.
I really wished they'd taught it in school rather than just filled your head full of useless information that was designed to just help you pass a test and nothing else.
"an interesting thing about sodium-"
*THE TUBE THE TUBE THE TUBE*
Ah yes the salt tube
"You wouldn't eat gummy vitamins like gummy candy" Ha, yeah, who would do such a thing
*looks nervously at empty Flintstone vitamin bottles*
I overate vitamin candy once that contains selenium. I actually estimated the dose I ingested and realised it was at toxic level. So I made myself vomit
@@feelingoffbalance Yeah but did you learn or are you still doing dumb shit?
did you see the video on the kid who ate too many gummy vitamins because he thought they were candy? it's also a chubbyemu video
@@manfromponyupdaddyinfomerc9550 Literally watched it right after this one. I don't have to worry though, my true vice is fiber gummies.
I mean you should probably call the poison control center. After all, making yourself throw up in some situations can make it worse.
John Posner (the actor playing VP) deserves at least 10 oscars for this performance!
I thought this said Mike Posner (the singer) and I was like👁👄👁
Clicked because I can definitely eat 2 pounds of licorice candy, stayed because this is interesting af. Well delivered and educating!
I really appreciated your conversion of the potassium to number of bananas he'd have to eat. It's staggering how many vials of the concentrated potassium he would have needed but seems even more staggering when you convert it to bananas!
Banana for scale works every time!
I like how he mentioned you can't feed things to unconscious people, like the 100 banana feast was an otherwise acceptable treatment.
You could say...that's bananas!
A man sees a new chubbyemu video notification after a long day at work. This is how his day suddenly got better.
The kidneys r the cutest organs in the body. They're like little twins wearing funny little caps.
Concerning but ok
Purple sus ngl
lolol tru
I agree to the fullest
Interesting view lol
This channel is so good. I can rewatch all these. I feel so smart after I watch these videos ☺️
My mom has a rare form of muscular dystrophy called Anderson twail syndrome. This genetic disorder makes her body unable to produce and process potassium correctly. My mom has to take a higher amount of potassium than the normal person would because a drop to an average person’s potassium levels send her into paralysis. The opposite is also true however, where if she has too much potassium in her system than needed she goes into paralysis. This video helped me understand why mom says if she eats licorice it could actually kill her, her body wouldn’t be able to filter it correctly I guess.
make sure you gont feed her bananas if she passes out, as an unconsosus person cannot chew and thus will choke on them
Thank you. God bless your mom.
@@bragiodinsen4604 This cannot be stressed enough! Maybe she need this text on a wristband or something! 😂
😮
As long as it's licorice flavoured and not the real thing.
"2 pounds of licorice candy"
In one sitting? Whoof, that sounds like it could be bad-
"every day for 3 weeks"
HOW ARE YOU ALIVE???
Well.. he isn't
usually in a chubbyemu vid the patient survives this is probably one of the times where they didnt
@@jocelynuy2922 I was hoping he would survive but then after hearing how badly sick he was I was thinking he might not make it. It’s a sad story. Maybe eating lots of candy was his way of staying drug free.
I ate a bag a day growing up and nothing ever happened. Don’t think this video is accurate
@@Alice-kq8eo lol chubbyemu did mention that most of the licorice candy you find is just licorice-flavoured, and doesn't actually contain the real licorice in it, which then won't have all these effects
“salty water”
That’s one thing you can call soy sauce, I guess...
Actually soy sauce is amazingly complex. Look up a video on how they make it. My local Japanese markets will have a dozen or more different kinds.
@@alexcarter8807 I understand this, but in his original clip of the sodium experiment he states that he uses soy sauce in the tube. I just thought it was humorous that he chose to call it salty water in this case, as opposed to the soy sauce that we all know it is.
@@rachelk.6313 think he did it for clarity.
Imagine watching an episode of this everyday in high-school. We would have all been ready for the future.