I had about an hour free so I went with something I know and as such you might've heard this one before but it's such fun it's worth telling again. Sorry about the occasional weird audio click, I think it was interference from the MRI scanner which I only noticed later on. The search for a quiet place to film goes on...
I didnt hear clicking... Say can you do one on Super Vent Tachycardia? Its a great way to get 8 hot firefighters to stand around you being entertained while you tell jokes between being shocked (with heart stopping bolus)....
The problem with evolution is that there's no eraser, or at least there's none that won't kill you. Once something is established to help you live you simply can't mutate to undo it and try something better, evolution's too slow to do that without putting you at high risk of death, so you're stuck like that until the feature becomes completely useless and even then you have to wait for it start actively killing people who still have it in their genes, but thanks to modern medicine that's gonna happen even slower now
@@owenkegg5608, tried to file a complaint to the devs. Got a reply saying that they could only work with what they got. Once the coding process started, there was no going back. And unfortunately, they didn’t have much funding to support the “game.” At least they had one year of glory before 9/11 changed the plans of their next 2 future “games.”
so you actually believe one day a fish wasnt birthed with gills but had lungs which evolved through mutation without any intelligent force driving the process? literally somehow mutates into what can still today be considered a marvel, doctors cant create biological parts or customisation for new lifeforms. and yet people believe a non intelligent mutation can actually POOF into existence a set of working lungs. lmao evolutionists dumb
@@jay-rs7gj evolution didn’t just make fish “poof” lungs into existence, it took hundreds of thousands or millions of years to reach that point. Also, scientists have succeeded in growing parts like ears and gene editing allows us to customize lifeforms as you say.
Lucian469 im talking about evolving a current species. If you had read what i put correctly. Ok explain to me how the millions of uears changes the process. Im all ears lmao
@@mo1240 fact? We ARE animal life, tell me ¿Who are we specifically different? And, your point can be right and no, thats because when an animal is from different species with another just means that the original animal mutated so much that can be considered a different being, but yeah, in some sense, we are all the same animal with different extreme changes xD
The recurrent nerve is, indeed, goofy. My left recurrent nerve was damaged just below my jawline and I couldn't talk above a whisper for nearly a year. It took a prosthetic implant to support my vocal cords to fix things. If anyone is wondering, having a camera jammed up your nose and down your throat so the otolaryngologist can see what's going on in there? Super uncomfortable, even after the anesthetic (which tastes terrible.) But it's worth it to be able to talk at normal volumes again.
@@TheReal_GigaChad unfortunately, we weren't able to determine a specific cause. The official diagnosis included "idiopathic" which is medical speak for "dunno why." The otolaryngologist said it could have been a number of different things ranging from physical trauma to damage from a viral infection. Thankfully, since the surgery to implant the prosthesis (thyroplasty) I haven't had any problems.
I'm glad to hear things worked out well for you! I can't tell if Google actually knows about my left vocal fold paralysis, or just knows I'm studying anatomy in school currently, but I'm getting an MRI done on my brain tomorrow to try and figure out the cause of the paralysis. Already did the camera (worse than a covid test imo), took an antiviral, got chest and neck CT scans, so hopefully getting answers or solutions soon!
I can confirm that the method of testing and verifying said length before a date involves ripping out that annoying spine in a potential date so that you can fit a tape measure into the cavity thus formed and measure the longest thing in there.
When i was setting up my wired internet connection i chose my longest cable and circled it around the room and then plugged it into the computer which was just half a meter away from the router proving i have achieved godlike intelligence
@@aabbccddeeffgg1234 I am unwilling to like this comment, so as to not ruin its 69 likes. So please take this comment instead as a note, that I would have liked, if I had had the chance to. :D
@@MedlifeCrisis What the hell? I would think that a hospital's first priority would be to keep it's doctors happy so they can work their inhuman shifts and treat people with the care they need. This sounds terrible, hope it gets better for you soon!
@@norgepalm7315 Imagine working all day for 2 months for no money while people expect the best from you. I doubt many people would honestly do that. It's an admirable thing, for sure.
@Madara Uchiwa What functional advantage? Well for example not getting this particular nerve damaged if you get injured near your clavicle and not losing your voice as a result.
At least we say something when we like something - more than for Netflix, where an algorithm should read rapidly toggling the like dislike button ending on like as this is the BEST.
To be fair, the doctors I know are all fairly rubbish at paperwork and their handwriting is worse - not the person who you want managing your intake paperwork! 😉
I love how engineers are under no pressure to use specific vernacular to describe poor design, leading to me having to scribble out words like "jank", "wack", and "fucky" from important documents.
Makes sense of you have gills. Close the throat for a bit, keep you from swallowing bad stuff, still let's you get oxygen since the gills come before the throat. In mammals where split to the lungs is slightly behind the beginning of the throat.... yeah, terrible idea.
Man the immune system is so amazing and so incredibly dumb sometimes. The fact thta the body for any reason can think a substance is harmful when it does nothing actively is so dumb. It's dumber still when the immune system things parts of the body itself are bad, like with MS and attacks your needed living matter. The body is definitely not perfect. The whole reason Corona is so damn dangerous if you are unlucky or in a risk group is because of how it tricks the immune system to go nuclear, using up all it's resources and leaving you open to secondary infection. The reason diseases and cancer suck so much is because the body either gets tricked or doesn't recognize the invader or rogue cells as dangerous. Viruses hijack the immune system. A great example nearly everyone has is the herpes simplex that causes cold sores. It imbeds itself and hides in an area the immune system can't see and won't readily attack. Then it goes dormant so that it's even more less likely to be identified. When it "wakes up" it causes a cold sore, though some immune systems are really good at seeing it early and attack it immediately, but the coldsore part is just a copy of the original, still hiding in your body somewhere behind your ear.
@@vixxcelacea2778 I keep getting told by well meaning people that I need to stenghten my immune system..... The same system that is trying to kill me.... because I am bad for my own body????? Also, Covid has been extra fun in a household I share with someone on immunosuppressionts....
My vestibular artery got damaged because I lifted 80 50lb bags of cat litter. I slept wrong and the clot dislodged and went to my cerebellum and voila stroke at 30 years old. I was at a teaching hospital and as the youngest patient on the stroke ward heard neuro students mutter in the hallway "the cat litter patient" when studying their laptops. I ain't even mad. The human neck is stupid.
@@goldntea8714 yeah I am a vet tech at a cat shelter so obviously we need a lot of litter. The delivery dude with the litter just noped out when it started snowing and left the pallet of litter out not even close to the shed we store it in. We couldn't afford for it to get wet and are primarily female staff so we just did what had to be done. The stack of bags inside goes above my chest so I guess that was when I strained my neck and tore that vessel.
Same, I have no honest to goodness idea why this was in my recs, I do watch one(1) other doctor on TH-cam but it's completely different content... Glad I'm here though so it's fine. Subbed
The crazy route of the recurrent laryngeal nerve saved my life. True story: in my 20s, I (barely) survived a squamous cell carcinoma growing rapidly near the base of my trachea (very rare location for a non-smoker in their 20s). If it had been detected just a few weeks later, I might not have made it. The reason I got checked out a couple of weeks before the severe dyspnea began (by which time I would have been in even deeper trouble) was that the neoplasm compressed my recurrent laryngeal nerve, paralysing one vocal chord and causing me to lose my voice overnight. Without this odd symptom, I doubt I would have sought medical help soon enough.
@@hemiedwards217 except that by the time your brain has realised that what you were about to say was stupid it's too late and the words already in the post. maybe one day we will evolve a new nerve to abort messages in the first before they come out
Yeah but it's far from the perfect thing some claim it to be, and it could be a lot better, and it certainly seems to not have been crafted with love if it was crafted
@@Dilapidated_Dilo who knows, maybe there's more intelligent entities hiding in the great beyond because they know we can't access it and they don't wanna expose their existence to our betraying and destroying ass.
@@rowbot5555 That's again why evolution is a thing. It isn't always perfect but is far from retarded like many seem to think. Guess everyone forgot about Larmarck when they started worshipping Darwin like a god...
@@ratedr7845 no, making things better and making things less bad are two different things Making things better is like medicine, it actually helps Making things less bad is moreso akin to downgrading from getting a shotgun gauge to the side, to a more standard bullet to that same side
"To borrow an engineering technical term here..." Every muscle in my poor little engineer's body clenches as I prepare for a favourite term to be butchered. "...Wack." No, yeah, fair enough mate.
Doctor asking: why does the Recurrent laryngeal nerve needs to loop around a vessel ? Evolution replying: if it doesn't kill you before sexual maturity and doesn't affect reproduction... So its fine😎
Yeah, evolution doesn't really give a damn about "optimal" if it doesn't affect you fucking. That which ensures the survival of the species is not necessarily that which ensures your OWN survival. Your genes are selfish, selfish bastards.
Evolution: If the wheel is still attached, I don't care about the squeaking. I'd like to point out though that reaching sexual maturity and reproduction are also not on evolutions priority list. People seem to think that that's the "one biological drive", but no, it's just a means to ensure survival. There are animals that out-survive and thrive animals that fuck WAY harder. A good example? Human beings. When it comes to litter size, humans are in the absolute bottom percentile, and human children take among the longest of almost any animal to reach sexual maturity. Most of the other animals that do so are critically endangered, ironically, _because_ of humans, despite the apparent even playing field where reproduction is concerned. Meanwhile, compare the rabbit, which is an excellent example of how specialized reproduction is a tool, not the end goal: Despite the fact that they're virtually harmless and prey to almost any predator in their ecosystem, even predators that they outweigh (the stoat often prey on rabbits, despite being around half the weight), they have very few defensive adaptations, yet survive purely because of their specialized reproduction cycles. They can increase their population size exponentially in a tiny amount of time, and they have such a high level of genetic disruption between generations that they actually solve the issue of inbreeding _by_ _inbreeding_ _more_ As a result, they're an extremely successful species that can survive in almost as many climates as humans and succeed in environments with lots of predators. However, this wasn't some kind of push towards sexual reproduction, this was just evolution refining a specific trait that gave it's species a survival advantage, the same as leaf katydids and armadillos. At the end of the day, if there are still members of the species left, for whatever reason, evolution is basically saying "Good enough"
My doctor friend says that this is why you always do a chest X-ray on a smoker who complains of a persistently hoarse voice. The recurrent laryngeal nerve can be affected by a mediastinal tumour!
Absolutely right! Classic medical student question - causes of a hoarse voice: enlarged heart (left atrium), lung cancer, aortic or subclavian artery aneurysms, thyroid mass, oesophageal mass, lymph nodes in the chest...all of which are well below the larynx.
I got surgery for thyroid cancer, and my recurrent laryngeal decided to stop working for two months, despite the fact that it hadn't been touched. Can confirm, this nerve is very stupid.
If there is no DESIGNER then wait for another billion years to correct its self. If you really need to know, why are you created ? Read a book called THE QURAN .
"here is the tongue here is the pharynx open it up and here is the larynx here is a nerve that allows you to speak the evidence for a designer is incredibly weak"
1:20 I'm not sure what you're talking about. I'm a programmer, and wack design like this is considered best practice under the idea of 'if it isn't broken, please don't touch it ever again since looking at the code could cause irreparable damage to it.'.
Exactly....i once built a small program that did all the statistical calculations you'd need in a medical investigation for you. When i built it, i couldnt explain it, but it worked ... so lets say only God and I knew how it worked.... I found it a year later and against my best judgement i decided i could make it more efficient.... lets say at that point only God knew how it worked, so i calmly closed it, clicked on "do not save" and went on with my day
^^^ I'm not really a programmer but well during a robotics tournament I ended up having to do the autonomous and I didn't know the first thing about programming somehow I managed to make it work and like when people like did so much as move the mouse around over the lines of code I nudged them away from the computer, this hapend because friggen Bjorn ditched us mid year to join the highschool robotics and no one was a programmer.
Yeah, programmer here too...Too much shit talking by this so-called dr....Thinking there's no purpose simply because you're limited in understanding is pretty sophomoric crap...You'd think an educated person could see this in himself.
As a programmer I often find myself saying the following to myself. "This code I am writing is getting messy, I will clean it up later, right now I just need to make it work" haha, sure you will.
I always found it incredibly stupid how we eat, drink, AND breathe through the same tube, at least before it splits - which makes it possible to choke and die. Surely, if we were indeed "created" by some ultra-intelligent extradimensional being, choking would not be possible; that food and drink would go down one pipe, and air through a completely separate pipe. No solids or liquids entering the wrong one, and if food were to block the food pipe we'd still be able to breathe and communicate the issue!
@@ChangedNames Well, for one choking on water (and other liquids) is something that's happened countless times, that could've killed or harmed me. Not to mention, and as I said before, food clogging our throats is very deadly. That makes sense evolutionarily, but so many people claim that some "God" decided to create us "in his image" or similar, to "rule over all the other creatures" and the planet. If we were designed, then why did a supposedly-benevolent "God" make it possible for us to choke to death? For liquids to enter our lungs so easily? That's not even mentioning the ludicrous number of bones in the foot, or how the spine definitely _is not_ designed for constant bipedal locomotion, leading to pain later in life. Or how risky childbirth is for the mother, without modern medical advances, or how men are more prone to genetic diseases and conditions than women, due to the Y chromosome being shorter than the X (meaning something detrimental on the X cannot be cancelled out by the Y, whereas women's two Xs allow for such cancellation). Basically, only an idiot or a sadist would "create" us humans in this way.
@@PokeMaster22222 I'm sorry you feel this way, but truth be told, we only have ourselves to blame for that. We humans are a stupid bunch, rebelling time and time again, we are living in sin, so of course there's going to be inadequacies in the body, without the constant sinning of man all of the problems would cease to be, yet alas- we still sin away
@@zartexkrontaculys1097 So what you're saying is that sin is directly responsible for genetic deficiencies caused by evolution? Pray tell, how exactly do you draw this conclusion?
@@tandemdwarf745 you're calling evolution sinful? Weird but- ok, yes sin is a direct causator for genetic deficiencies- not evolution, as that would imply both are real and I'm not intending on that I came upon this by my reading and understanding of the Bible- why do you ask?
Another great thing about the recurrent laryngeal nerve: it can easily be damaged during thyroid removal surgery and result in permanent voice loss or hoarseness and pain. Gotta love evolution.
Imagine being so mildly peeved about an engineering defect of the human anatomy that you decide to dedicate years of your life to writing an entire research paper about said engineering defect. Boy, that must have "struck a nerve", huh?
It's simple. The nerve is longer to give to time to think before you say something stupid. Lot's of idiots need an even longer nerve there, especially politicians.
JK 15 Likely editing the video! It must take ages to cut the quick witty clips into a high-density funny yet informative video, plus any animations and photo material.
I dunno if it helps... I get super-weird when I'm tired in a way that doesn't really happen when I'm more awake... So it could go either way here... XD
@@KuraIthys everyone is funnier when they're tired, due to something along the lines of the brain not filtering thoughts properly/fully. OP just doesn't know what they're talking about, lool
another weirdness of the human body: a sewage outlet in a recreation area! any student of urban planning would get a clear fail for a blooper like this.
@@and7barton nuh, you´d always have to take your shoes off for a widdle. to be able to condenswe it to a paste like consistencey, then pull it up like snot and spit it out, that would be convenient!
Wrong! That nerve evolved to loop under the aorta and enabled humans to *literally* speak from their hearts! Just like "I love you darling, now go make me a sandwich"!
it would be a longer amount of time between your brain commanding your larynx and it moving, not between thinking and commanding, thats all in the brain
Probably not. Unless evolution is a God by another name. Otherwise, it doesn't say or do anything...it's just a process - it's what happens, nothing more.
I think the Vagus is a pretty fair contender - "Alrighty we've got a bunch of sensory and motor stuff, and that's important so we put it in this leathery meninges in body armor - excellent!" _"Sir... what about basic life functions... like breathing and stuff?"_ ".... .... uhh.. f it! that's not important, just use a cranial nerve for it!" _"... One nerve?"_ "One!... and only one."
PS The phrenic nerve (which innervates the diaphragm) is not a cranial nerve, and actually has multiple roots and branches ("3, 4, 5 keep the diaphragm alive").
@@Vasharan Not only the two of you commenting on how the miserably the human body is made. I know this is tongue in cheek, but is there some deeper reason why we like to think of our bodies as cleverly built? Evolution, is whatever goes, is good enough, but is there a remnant of the biblical reverence of the human body? I think there is a culture of the perfect body in health and sports and in culture in general. This is not simply a pragmatic wish to live long and be able to tie your own shoelaces or increase your attractiveness. Being healthy is an ideology and tied to this, is the notion that the human body is perfect from nature?? So have people just internalized the notion of "Gods creation", and cling on to it as an individual religion, because if my body is perfect, it has to be defined to some standard and if such a standard exists, it is. a sign that there is a purpose with it being perfect? Maybe, it is nonsensical to even consider a human as an entity, despite being self conscious, we are really just a hodgepodge of mindless cells working together in symbiosis with foreign DNA from other micro organisms, picked up on the way through the eons, without plan or direction. Add to that the bacteria living in our guts, and you realize that a "human" is really just one big collective of microorganisms, that have ganged up to make life easier. The way the end result appears and think of itself, is really just a side effect. So if nerves are routed haphazardly, nobody should really care about it. Oh, and sorry for busting into your old comments, they just made me think. Cheers.
@@Tore_Lund You didn't mention the virus DNA that has replaced ours over the millennia; the numbers vary depending on how you like to measure it, but no matter what, it's a spectacular percentage.
@@simmyabis7330 It's called an "ERV" or "endogenus retrovirus" and our DNA is littered with scraps of them that make up something like 5-8%. A virus is really a strand of DNA or RNA encased in a protein / lipid shell. It reproduces by latching onto a host cell, injecting it's genetic payload into the cell and making the cell manufacture copies of it. These copies burst out to infect other cells and so on. But some act in a slightly different way. Instead of hijacking it, it instead splices it's DNA directly into the cell. This is called a retrovirus. The end result is basically the same. The hijacked cell treats this new DNA as it's on and goes about manufacturing more copies. But, in rare cases, these retroviruses infect the gametes or sex cells. And since there's no mechanism in them to create new copies, the viral DNA is now part of it's genome. If that gamete then is the one that comes together with the opposite gamete and creates a zygote then the being that comes from that union will carry with it the viral DNA as part of it's genome forever and will pass it along to it's offspring. Some of these exist in all of humanity. Some only exist in certain family groups. And some we share with chimps and gorillas meaning that some of them have been with us for literally millions of years.
5:20 Those glasses are not radiation proof because they are see through. Light is radiation, so if you can see through it, it is transparent to some bands of EM radiation.
@@davidmaxwaterman Scientific testing only eliminates that which is not true. "Probably" is all you have in science. There is no such thing as certainty, only varies degrees of "probably." Granted, some things are nearly certain, but nothing is 100% certain. The only certainty there is in science is certainty in what is not true. Certainty in what is true only exists in religion. Even then, you have to have faith. In other words, you just pretend to be certain.
@@erictaylor5462 huh, but if I have all of the information regarding a motion occurring with an object, I can certainly predict its position along the length of time right?
@@crouchingcape6930 Assuming it does not change velocity. I put a rocket motor on the thing, and because you can't predict the delta V you prediction goes out the window.
I think it's dumb that our teeth have SUCH sensitive nerves. Why are they like that? The purpose of pain is to tell you something is wrong and keep us from causing injuries, but most of the time teeth are broken without advance warning from our nerves anyway. Until fairly recently, we didn't have extensive dentistry, so if something was wrong, all we could do is pull it, or do nothing. And until we had local anesthesia, fixing teeth was too painful for many people to tolerate. All those ultra sensitive teeth nerves don't do anything beneficial.
There's a special kind of humor that KILLS in a sleep deprived and high-stress setting. Work longer hours in healthcare and you will get it.. Necks level stuff fo sho
Evolution Works! The animals with shorter larynx nerve spoke too soon; and ended up dead. The dinosaurs spoke to slow; and couldn't warn about the meteorite coming. I think we're at a sweet ballance. Maybe a bit longer though...
Apparently, the fish that is most like our fishy ancestors, the coelacanth, tastes terrible. Before scientists knew about it, it was known to fishermen in the Indian Ocean as that disgusting fish that they couldn't sell.
That’s crazy. I think taking some time off includes laying down and doing nothing but absorb content. This dude saves people’s lives for a spot of relaxation.
Totally identifying with a doctor on night shift getting more rest than the parent responsible for a child under the age of about 6; persevere, it gets better! And naps, even 15-20 minute naps, are your friend! ❤
You know what's funny? Having a discussion with a creationist. If you come around the corner with the fact about this nerve they will instantly either ignore you or the fact you just gave them and say "Ok, but let's move on..."
@@florichi i have no religious bone whatsoever. but i like to believe on the existence of some higher power. i guess your definition of religious fanatics is creationist.
Considering the Swedish practiced eugenics within living memory you might have wanted to pick a different country. never trust a Nordic person talking about evolution it's kind of like asking any 15th century Italian Friar about books and Fire
Let's see, this guy is 1. a great Dad, 2. a brilliant doc, 3. probably an excellent husband, 4. incredibly generous (shares awesome medical info at NO CHARGE), 5. has retained his humanity and sense of humor through med school, 6. can improvise poetic humor on-the-fly, etc. So....... he's basically making the lower 99% of us males look really, really bad. Thanks TH-cam.
@@MedlifeCrisis Evidence? hmmmm...... I "extrapolated" based on this one video, and would bet my car that I'm right on all counts! Awesome videos- THANKS!
Every nerve in my body is the stupidest nerve in my body. These sort of things are great examples of evolution because it shows you how badly conceived we really are. For example, I read that humans get more nose infections because our nose don't fully clear alone since we no longer walk on 4 limbs. Also loved the Dr. Seuss intro!
That is one of many messed up human body evolution. I mean who in their right minds puts the feeding tube in the same path as the breathing one? And what about the pleasures bits right next to the "#2 exit". As the character Darald quipped in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, "Let me just say that if God was a city planner he would not put a playground next to a sewage system."
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I had about an hour free so I went with something I know and as such you might've heard this one before but it's such fun it's worth telling again. Sorry about the occasional weird audio click, I think it was interference from the MRI scanner which I only noticed later on. The search for a quiet place to film goes on...
I didnt hear clicking...
Say can you do one on Super Vent Tachycardia? Its a great way to get 8 hot firefighters to stand around you being entertained while you tell jokes between being shocked (with heart stopping bolus)....
You should pin your own comment
@@tezer2d you should mind ur own business
@@tezer2d oops thanks, forgot to
Is the morgue not quiet?
Knocked it out the park again. Thanks for keeping us all informed and entertained!
As my genetics professor put it: Evolution doesn't fix mistakes it just finds ways to work around them
Evolution has a lot in common with AAA game development then.
The problem with evolution is that there's no eraser, or at least there's none that won't kill you. Once something is established to help you live you simply can't mutate to undo it and try something better, evolution's too slow to do that without putting you at high risk of death, so you're stuck like that until the feature becomes completely useless and even then you have to wait for it start actively killing people who still have it in their genes, but thanks to modern medicine that's gonna happen even slower now
@@owenkegg5608, tried to file a complaint to the devs.
Got a reply saying that they could only work with what they got.
Once the coding process started, there was no going back. And unfortunately, they didn’t have much funding to support the “game.”
At least they had one year of glory before 9/11 changed the plans of their next 2 future “games.”
I thinks that something similar with ice in school
Same thing with programmers with bugs. Maybe good was Programmer? XD
Evolution is the embodiment of the phrase "Fuck it, that'll do."
Quite literally in fact.
If you get a mutation that will kill you you're fucked. Natural selection be like.
It's a combo of 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' and 'if I put this thing here will anything happen?'
so you actually believe one day a fish wasnt birthed with gills but had lungs which evolved through mutation without any intelligent force driving the process? literally somehow mutates into what can still today be considered a marvel, doctors cant create biological parts or customisation for new lifeforms. and yet people believe a non intelligent mutation can actually POOF into existence a set of working lungs. lmao evolutionists dumb
@@jay-rs7gj evolution didn’t just make fish “poof” lungs into existence, it took hundreds of thousands or millions of years to reach that point. Also, scientists have succeeded in growing parts like ears and gene editing allows us to customize lifeforms as you say.
Lucian469 im talking about evolving a current species. If you had read what i put correctly. Ok explain to me how the millions of uears changes the process. Im all ears lmao
Evolution is like: "you live long enough to have kids? Good enough for me"
shes got low standards
entertaining, but man was created specifically different from animal life - no species ever evolved into another species, fact
@@mo1240 fact? We ARE animal life, tell me ¿Who are we specifically different? And, your point can be right and no, thats because when an animal is from different species with another just means that the original animal mutated so much that can be considered a different being, but yeah, in some sense, we are all the same animal with different extreme changes xD
@@mo1240 Thankfully, due to the relatively responsible choices I make in consuming media, that will be the dumbest thing I'll read all day.
That's pretty much it.
The recurrent nerve is, indeed, goofy. My left recurrent nerve was damaged just below my jawline and I couldn't talk above a whisper for nearly a year. It took a prosthetic implant to support my vocal cords to fix things.
If anyone is wondering, having a camera jammed up your nose and down your throat so the otolaryngologist can see what's going on in there? Super uncomfortable, even after the anesthetic (which tastes terrible.) But it's worth it to be able to talk at normal volumes again.
How did it get damaged and by what and how so I can avoid it for the left of my life 🙃
@@TheReal_GigaChad unfortunately, we weren't able to determine a specific cause. The official diagnosis included "idiopathic" which is medical speak for "dunno why." The otolaryngologist said it could have been a number of different things ranging from physical trauma to damage from a viral infection. Thankfully, since the surgery to implant the prosthesis (thyroplasty) I haven't had any problems.
@@BoundingBeast oh nice, now I know that this could just "happen" 😀🔫
@@TheReal_GigaChad I get why you would be concerned, but also do you ever just think of how easy would be to lose your eyes or ears?
I'm glad to hear things worked out well for you! I can't tell if Google actually knows about my left vocal fold paralysis, or just knows I'm studying anatomy in school currently, but I'm getting an MRI done on my brain tomorrow to try and figure out the cause of the paralysis. Already did the camera (worse than a covid test imo), took an antiviral, got chest and neck CT scans, so hopefully getting answers or solutions soon!
Idk what you’re talking about. Laryngeal nerve length is among my top five most important characteristics when choosing who to date.
A tinder profile that claims to pack 15 inches would be fairly intimidating
I can confirm that the method of testing and verifying said length before a date involves ripping out that annoying spine in a potential date so that you can fit a tape measure into the cavity thus formed and measure the longest thing in there.
Increased laryngeal nerve length tends increase one's chance of getting some action, or Action Potential.
@Mortimer Stroodle That joke is so bad I'm considering stealing it
Mortimer Stroodle Omg that’s fantastic. I’m stealing it first.
When i was setting up my wired internet connection i chose my longest cable and circled it around the room and then plugged it into the computer which was just half a meter away from the router proving i have achieved godlike intelligence
okay?
@@mr.funkyright yes
@@aabbccddeeffgg1234 I am unwilling to like this comment, so as to not ruin its 69 likes.
So please take this comment instead as a note, that I would have liked, if I had had the chance to. :D
@@yama123numbercauseytdemand4 shut up redditor
@@fenn_fren What's with the toxicity?
*Volunteering* for the night shift.
Absolute mad lad.
I'm not actually kidding. I haven't been paid since mid January!
@@MedlifeCrisis What the hell? I would think that a hospital's first priority would be to keep it's doctors happy so they can work their inhuman shifts and treat people with the care they need. This sounds terrible, hope it gets better for you soon!
@@alexk.7064 mans likely living cold and hungry every night
@@norgepalm7315 Imagine working all day for 2 months for no money while people expect the best from you. I doubt many people would honestly do that. It's an admirable thing, for sure.
@@MedlifeCrisis Please tell me what you meant is that your Feb payday got delayed.
The dumbest thing I find is that the brain, arguably the most important organ, does not have any redundancies in case of asphyxiation.
Uh… come again?
Wait, maybe a dictionary would help.
Sorry! I still lack a good sense of the English language.
@@displaynockker9822
Basically, there isn't any backup systems for us if we suddenly start to asphyxiate, or simply, unable to breathe.
@@displaynockker9822 It’s equivalent to having a computer that doesn’t reboot itself if it ever crashes.
@@Aius- oh, ok. Thanks.
@@justanormalinvestigator2640 gotcha.
Can confirm, totally wack.
I love how all these awesome channels know each other somehow.
Necks level that real engineering watches him.
@Madara Uchiwa umm... 10^15?
@Madara Uchiwa i was sure *one* was enough to spread the mutation...
@Madara Uchiwa What functional advantage? Well for example not getting this particular nerve damaged if you get injured near your clavicle and not losing your voice as a result.
>necks level
suscribed, then unsuscribed, reported the video then liked, then suscribed again.
I NEED MORE ACTIONS YOUTOUBE
Lol
At least we say something when we like something - more than for Netflix, where an algorithm should read rapidly toggling the like dislike button ending on like as this is the BEST.
that's instant sub 4 me
liked, replied, then deleted comment, disliked, then left another comment and liked again
"You're idiotic!"
Never have I been insulted by something so true
You must be a liberal than, to be offended by truth...
Yeah
@@creativemofoo gtfo with your politics
@@creativemofoo you must be a human failure to bring politics into a discussion that wasn't even remotely about it
@UCTeoH2uBcGFtNOhb0uz03NQ with no due respect, fuck off
As an engineer in training I can confirm that we use the term “wack” on a regular basis.
I need a sentry here
Erecting a dispenser
Y O U R E Q U I R E A D D I T I O N A L P Y L O N S
Damn dude, that's wack.
teleporter goin' up
So this is what doctors are doing while im the only one in the waiting room for 6 hours....
To be fair, the doctors I know are all fairly rubbish at paperwork and their handwriting is worse - not the person who you want managing your intake paperwork! 😉
@@M4TCH3SM4L0N3 to be fair they write a lot, work many hours so they get bad writing that way.
just unwait bro
this is a perfect example of how evolution works. It's just like "that's good enough" and it moves on.
If evolution were a concept it'd be "Fuck it, that'll do.."
@@Hard-Boiled-Bollock so... Evolution is an engineer 😹
I mean, if that don't makes you more likely to die it will stay
Its more like, going with what you get given and only make very small changes.
I have some strong opinions about the position and constitution of my testicles.
“Viva las vagus” I’m actually dying of laughter rn that’s hilarious
Congratulations @medlife crisis your videos are killing people.
High IQ meme
This is my first time here and I subbed for that joke! I laughed so hard
@@puddincakes1005 not funny didn't laugh
@@iForix Okay cool. I tried really hard though. 🤷🏻♀️
The nerve of this guy
Hoop Woop doop.
@@Nick-wi3kd lol the translation on your comment!
@@stjeep "Hope woop baptism"
@@forsagebone I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed lol
@@forsagebone for some reason i cant see it anymore... does the translation button still show up for you?
"Here is the human body... Isn't amazing? No. It's idiotic. You're idiotic."
From body positivity to body reality 😂
Hahahah yeah! Gotta get real
How is our body lame?
Wait i read this exactly the time he said it?
Body positivity is stupid.
@@juanreza6308 in many ways.
I love how engineers are under no pressure to use specific vernacular to describe poor design, leading to me having to scribble out words like "jank", "wack", and "fucky" from important documents.
...and my favorite, fucky-sucky.
I could never decide between the two.
I work on a train maintenance depot. On one bit of official paperwork, one of our engineers wrote "Engine's f***ed [sic]"
@@dylantowers9367 why is this so damn funny
Another wonderfull body function:
When your body prevents you from eating "presumably" bad food by choking you to dead...(anaphylaxis)
Makes sense of you have gills. Close the throat for a bit, keep you from swallowing bad stuff, still let's you get oxygen since the gills come before the throat.
In mammals where split to the lungs is slightly behind the beginning of the throat.... yeah, terrible idea.
Man the immune system is so amazing and so incredibly dumb sometimes. The fact thta the body for any reason can think a substance is harmful when it does nothing actively is so dumb. It's dumber still when the immune system things parts of the body itself are bad, like with MS and attacks your needed living matter.
The body is definitely not perfect.
The whole reason Corona is so damn dangerous if you are unlucky or in a risk group is because of how it tricks the immune system to go nuclear, using up all it's resources and leaving you open to secondary infection.
The reason diseases and cancer suck so much is because the body either gets tricked or doesn't recognize the invader or rogue cells as dangerous.
Viruses hijack the immune system. A great example nearly everyone has is the herpes simplex that causes cold sores. It imbeds itself and hides in an area the immune system can't see and won't readily attack. Then it goes dormant so that it's even more less likely to be identified. When it "wakes up" it causes a cold sore, though some immune systems are really good at seeing it early and attack it immediately, but the coldsore part is just a copy of the original, still hiding in your body somewhere behind your ear.
@@1985ThePedro someone should tell our body that we aren't fish anymore ;)
and here i was, thinking those appendices and tailbones are largely harmless spare parts.
@@vixxcelacea2778 I keep getting told by well meaning people that I need to stenghten my immune system..... The same system that is trying to kill me.... because I am bad for my own body?????
Also, Covid has been extra fun in a household I share with someone on immunosuppressionts....
My vestibular artery got damaged because I lifted 80 50lb bags of cat litter. I slept wrong and the clot dislodged and went to my cerebellum and voila stroke at 30 years old. I was at a teaching hospital and as the youngest patient on the stroke ward heard neuro students mutter in the hallway "the cat litter patient" when studying their laptops. I ain't even mad.
The human neck is stupid.
Why’d you be lifting that much? Was it like ur job?
@@goldntea8714 yeah I am a vet tech at a cat shelter so obviously we need a lot of litter. The delivery dude with the litter just noped out when it started snowing and left the pallet of litter out not even close to the shed we store it in. We couldn't afford for it to get wet and are primarily female staff so we just did what had to be done. The stack of bags inside goes above my chest so I guess that was when I strained my neck and tore that vessel.
@@Flufferz626 damn bro who covered your medical bills?
Great! Now I am afraid to damage my neck by sleeping wrong after a day of lifting something too heavy or after a hit on the neck
@@MrSponge56 the cats
I bet you’re a great dad, because those were high quality dad jokes.
nba camel... a giraffe
Thats necks level
Knew there was something fishy about you
Oh my gawd, no! He is a handsome fellow. Mr. Bean is disgusting.
No he would not have children. Children are against evolution they have no use.
*I don’t know why the TH-cam algorithm recommended this video for me, but you’re sassy and I like it. Here to say, my larynx and I are here to stay.*
Same, I have no honest to goodness idea why this was in my recs, I do watch one(1) other doctor on TH-cam but it's completely different content... Glad I'm here though so it's fine. Subbed
The guy deserves a tv series great sass, and comedic timing, also, wow cassandra those are incredible eyes you have are those even legal ?
Cassandra Bankson I'm not sure if you realize this, but you've just volunteered your oral cavity to be used for some very un-scientific studying
Omg love ur vids woah didnt except u here
Larynx? What?
"The survival of the good enough"
-Joe, It's okay to be smart.
The human body is like Skyrim, a bunch of bugs on a trench coat that somehow managed to get into the cinema
what
Sounds like a skyrim mod
OWAH XD
Aaaand skyrim is one of the most successful games of all time. Hey as long as it works
@@dingus6076 hmm
The crazy route of the recurrent laryngeal nerve saved my life.
True story: in my 20s, I (barely) survived a squamous cell carcinoma growing rapidly near the base of my trachea (very rare location for a non-smoker in their 20s). If it had been detected just a few weeks later, I might not have made it. The reason I got checked out a couple of weeks before the severe dyspnea began (by which time I would have been in even deeper trouble) was that the neoplasm compressed my recurrent laryngeal nerve, paralysing one vocal chord and causing me to lose my voice overnight. Without this odd symptom, I doubt I would have sought medical help soon enough.
Strange how stupid evolution had a practical use for once!
Maybe it’s that long because you’re supposed to think before you speak 😂😂😂
Well you're not wrong
@Gurnaj Virk
Wrong woosh
Great in theory lol
@@hemiedwards217 except that by the time your brain has realised that what you were about to say was stupid it's too late and the words already in the post. maybe one day we will evolve a new nerve to abort messages in the first before they come out
@@drspastic That's called editing your message
The body is so infinitely complicated and amazing. The fact that we can LIVE in itself is extremely complicated
Yeah but it's far from the perfect thing some claim it to be, and it could be a lot better, and it certainly seems to not have been crafted with love if it was crafted
@@rowbot5555 there is no such thing as the perfect organism
@@Dilapidated_Dilo solo el más adaptado
@@Dilapidated_Dilo who knows, maybe there's more intelligent entities hiding in the great beyond because they know we can't access it and they don't wanna expose their existence to our betraying and destroying ass.
@@rowbot5555 That's again why evolution is a thing. It isn't always perfect but is far from retarded like many seem to think. Guess everyone forgot about Larmarck when they started worshipping Darwin like a god...
The amount of puns that you're making with that mess of a nerve is gilling me.
I love this guy
Bruh im finished
I wanted to become a doctor but now I want to be a doctor like him.
Don't do it!!!
@@MedlifeCrisis i am a virgin
ushasuresh kumawat you’ll never get sleep
@@magsec5Sleep is for the weak !
"Giraffes are just NBA camels."
Is all I've taken away from this video.
I love it.
"Is all I've taken away from this video."
Are you sure about that?
You’re so frustrated while talking about this nerve. One could say it’s struck a nerve with you.
Comments like this really get on my neurons
Ba dum tss
lol
ha
Evolution's tagline: We don't make things better! We make things less bad!
Which is making things better
@@ratedr7845 no, making things better and making things less bad are two different things
Making things better is like medicine, it actually helps
Making things less bad is moreso akin to downgrading from getting a shotgun gauge to the side, to a more standard bullet to that same side
@@OtoZone
But it is making the situation better than the original, yes?
@@kdas5854 no, it is decreasing the rate of bad. Still bad, but not as bad as the alternativetive.
@@fuy1648
True, but, by proxy if you decrease the rate of bad wouldn't it be better?
As a Less bad is more good, yes?
"To borrow an engineering technical term here..." Every muscle in my poor little engineer's body clenches as I prepare for a favourite term to be butchered. "...Wack."
No, yeah, fair enough mate.
It's a legacy design ...
@@w0ttheh3ll No no!! w0ttheh3II....It's a *neckacy design...
@@klyvemurray NO STOP FUCK NO NO NO NO AAAAAAAAAAHHH
w a c k
'Kludge' is way better though. And yeah, I was cringing in anticipation too.
Doctor asking: why does the Recurrent laryngeal nerve needs to loop around a vessel ?
Evolution replying: if it doesn't kill you before sexual maturity and doesn't affect reproduction... So its fine😎
Yeah, evolution doesn't really give a damn about "optimal" if it doesn't affect you fucking. That which ensures the survival of the species is not necessarily that which ensures your OWN survival. Your genes are selfish, selfish bastards.
Evolution: If the wheel is still attached, I don't care about the squeaking.
I'd like to point out though that reaching sexual maturity and reproduction are also not on evolutions priority list. People seem to think that that's the "one biological drive", but no, it's just a means to ensure survival. There are animals that out-survive and thrive animals that fuck WAY harder. A good example? Human beings. When it comes to litter size, humans are in the absolute bottom percentile, and human children take among the longest of almost any animal to reach sexual maturity. Most of the other animals that do so are critically endangered, ironically, _because_ of humans, despite the apparent even playing field where reproduction is concerned.
Meanwhile, compare the rabbit, which is an excellent example of how specialized reproduction is a tool, not the end goal: Despite the fact that they're virtually harmless and prey to almost any predator in their ecosystem, even predators that they outweigh (the stoat often prey on rabbits, despite being around half the weight), they have very few defensive adaptations, yet survive purely because of their specialized reproduction cycles. They can increase their population size exponentially in a tiny amount of time, and they have such a high level of genetic disruption between generations that they actually solve the issue of inbreeding _by_ _inbreeding_ _more_
As a result, they're an extremely successful species that can survive in almost as many climates as humans and succeed in environments with lots of predators. However, this wasn't some kind of push towards sexual reproduction, this was just evolution refining a specific trait that gave it's species a survival advantage, the same as leaf katydids and armadillos.
At the end of the day, if there are still members of the species left, for whatever reason, evolution is basically saying "Good enough"
That's why Cancer exists. Fucking nature :P
Having a tail wouldn't kill me and would have been pretty fucking useful, yet that's gone apparently...
@@TheSergio1021 But a tail waste energy from our ancestors on their niche.
My doctor friend says that this is why you always do a chest X-ray on a smoker who complains of a persistently hoarse voice. The recurrent laryngeal nerve can be affected by a mediastinal tumour!
Absolutely right! Classic medical student question - causes of a hoarse voice: enlarged heart (left atrium), lung cancer, aortic or subclavian artery aneurysms, thyroid mass, oesophageal mass, lymph nodes in the chest...all of which are well below the larynx.
@@MedlifeCrisis so in an era of modern medicine, it's almost become a nifty little diagnostic tool.
@@MedlifeCrisis almost as if its not as useless as you explained in the video..
I got surgery for thyroid cancer, and my recurrent laryngeal decided to stop working for two months, despite the fact that it hadn't been touched. Can confirm, this nerve is very stupid.
“About 28 meters in length”
.... Jesus Christ
OMG looks like he actually missed a good one
literally hahah
I so totally wanted to write that, but I'm late to the party.
Kenny Phillips sorry 😂
And he was designed by a 1st century committee and tinkered with for 2000 years..
Well, at least now we know what the Christ the Redeemer statue was measuring.
It reminded me of John Oliver's joke about the statue: "About yay big."
KHANUBIS HELLO
I always thought it was "I love you thiiiiiiiiis much!"
the extent of all the bullshit that's contained in the bible, maybe?
@@sinephase probably.
You have the nerve to call my nerve useless? That makes me nervous
"it's battier than a backwards retina"
The most British expression I've ever heard.
If there is no DESIGNER then wait for another billion years to correct its self. If you really need to know, why are you created ? Read a book called THE QURAN .
This retina claims are considered stupid and pseudo science in 2020 dude. Nowadays we fully understand why the eye desgine is reversed.
@@ibraheemhaji4732 yikes
@@ibraheemhaji4732 hahahaha would you read the Bible or Torah and etc?
Didn't think so, so *s t f u *
"Bonkers" is a good one.
"here is the tongue here is the pharynx
open it up and here is the larynx
here is a nerve that allows you to speak
the evidence for a designer is incredibly weak"
I scrolled and scrolled in disbelieve that no one else had noticed this piece of lyric.
I loved the play on 'here is the chapel, here is the steeple....' He is the most entertaining educator :)
The 'designer'-quip _definitely_ made my day! . . . 😆
If you find a blatant workaround isn't evidence...
bars
1:20 I'm not sure what you're talking about. I'm a programmer, and wack design like this is considered best practice under the idea of 'if it isn't broken, please don't touch it ever again since looking at the code could cause irreparable damage to it.'.
Exactly....i once built a small program that did all the statistical calculations you'd need in a medical investigation for you.
When i built it, i couldnt explain it, but it worked ... so lets say only God and I knew how it worked....
I found it a year later and against my best judgement i decided i could make it more efficient.... lets say at that point only God knew how it worked, so i calmly closed it, clicked on "do not save" and went on with my day
^^^ I'm not really a programmer but well during a robotics tournament I ended up having to do the autonomous and I didn't know the first thing about programming somehow I managed to make it work and like when people like did so much as move the mouse around over the lines of code I nudged them away from the computer, this hapend because friggen Bjorn ditched us mid year to join the highschool robotics and no one was a programmer.
Yeah, programmer here too...Too much shit talking by this so-called dr....Thinking there's no purpose simply because you're limited in understanding is pretty sophomoric crap...You'd think an educated person could see this in himself.
As a programmer I often find myself saying the following to myself. "This code I am writing is getting messy, I will clean it up later, right now I just need to make it work" haha, sure you will.
Wait... Are you comparing yourself to god?
Are you saying part of god's creation was unintended?
I always found it incredibly stupid how we eat, drink, AND breathe through the same tube, at least before it splits - which makes it possible to choke and die.
Surely, if we were indeed "created" by some ultra-intelligent extradimensional being, choking would not be possible; that food and drink would go down one pipe, and air through a completely separate pipe. No solids or liquids entering the wrong one, and if food were to block the food pipe we'd still be able to breathe and communicate the issue!
But arent you currently alive? Able to breath and eat and drink however many times you want? So what's the problem
@@ChangedNames Well, for one choking on water (and other liquids) is something that's happened countless times, that could've killed or harmed me. Not to mention, and as I said before, food clogging our throats is very deadly.
That makes sense evolutionarily, but so many people claim that some "God" decided to create us "in his image" or similar, to "rule over all the other creatures" and the planet.
If we were designed, then why did a supposedly-benevolent "God" make it possible for us to choke to death? For liquids to enter our lungs so easily?
That's not even mentioning the ludicrous number of bones in the foot, or how the spine definitely _is not_ designed for constant bipedal locomotion, leading to pain later in life. Or how risky childbirth is for the mother, without modern medical advances, or how men are more prone to genetic diseases and conditions than women, due to the Y chromosome being shorter than the X (meaning something detrimental on the X cannot be cancelled out by the Y, whereas women's two Xs allow for such cancellation).
Basically, only an idiot or a sadist would "create" us humans in this way.
@@PokeMaster22222 I'm sorry you feel this way, but truth be told, we only have ourselves to blame for that.
We humans are a stupid bunch, rebelling time and time again, we are living in sin, so of course there's going to be inadequacies in the body, without the constant sinning of man all of the problems would cease to be, yet alas- we still sin away
@@zartexkrontaculys1097 So what you're saying is that sin is directly responsible for genetic deficiencies caused by evolution? Pray tell, how exactly do you draw this conclusion?
@@tandemdwarf745 you're calling evolution sinful? Weird but- ok, yes sin is a direct causator for genetic deficiencies- not evolution, as that would imply both are real and I'm not intending on that
I came upon this by my reading and understanding of the Bible- why do you ask?
*Giraffes = NBA Camels*
😂😂😂
Orca = Pandafish
Camelous Yao Min-ous
Another great thing about the recurrent laryngeal nerve: it can easily be damaged during thyroid removal surgery and result in permanent voice loss or hoarseness and pain. Gotta love evolution.
Imagine being so mildly peeved about an engineering defect of the human anatomy that you decide to dedicate years of your life to writing an entire research paper about said engineering defect. Boy, that must have "struck a nerve", huh?
It's simple. The nerve is longer to give to time to think before you say something stupid. Lot's of idiots need an even longer nerve there, especially politicians.
If this guy is super funny at 4 am I wanna see him properly awake😂
JK 15 Likely editing the video! It must take ages to cut the quick witty clips into a high-density funny yet informative video, plus any animations and photo material.
I dunno if it helps...
I get super-weird when I'm tired in a way that doesn't really happen when I'm more awake...
So it could go either way here... XD
@@KuraIthys everyone is funnier when they're tired, due to something along the lines of the brain not filtering thoughts properly/fully. OP just doesn't know what they're talking about, lool
Rumour has it that doctors are never properly awake, they exist in between fatigue and death
"necks level" you slay me.
another weirdness of the human body: a sewage outlet in a recreation area!
any student of urban planning would get a clear fail for a blooper like this.
I think our primitive sponge ancestry is responsible for this. It would be pretty convenient if you could urinate through the soles of your feet.
@@and7barton nuh, you´d always have to take your shoes off for a widdle. to be able to condenswe it to a paste like consistencey, then pull it up like snot and spit it out, that would be convenient!
Evolution is a process. Perhaps the process is not over yet. Also, there's nothing to say that a sub-optimal arrangement just happens for some reason.
But people managed to have fun with the sewage outlet.
@@and7barton I'd rather vomit my stomach out as a p̶a̶r̶t̶y̶ ̶t̶r̶i̶c̶k̶ defense mechanism
Spaghetti code. It's in our DNA
what if the cell just saw an old ex it was trying to avoid?
Didn't realise you were here too O.o
Wrong! That nerve evolved to loop under the aorta and enabled humans to *literally* speak from their hearts! Just like "I love you darling, now go make me a sandwich"!
Poof. You're a sandwich!!
Just use "sudo make me a sandwitch", much easier to say.
@@Nozomu564 don't forget "sudo update" first to ensure a fresh sandwich
@@scikick that's so rude
😂😂😂
I find videos about evolutionary "junk" to be absolutely fascinating! It pretty much the history of life as we know it, but exploring the silly bits.
The dumbest nerve is obviously the brain
If we all had longer recurrent laryngeal nerves, the extra time between thinking and speaking might be a bonus for humanity.
it would be a longer amount of time between your brain commanding your larynx and it moving, not between thinking and commanding, thats all in the brain
Ariel S. Why did ya have to ruin the joke
We would just stumble over our words a bunch because we wouldn't be in sync with our own voices
@@thegaminghobo4693
I mean, we all can't differentiate a person joking and an actual idiot in the internet nowadays.
Instantly subbed. The intelligent, witty humor and pace of the video had me hooked from the start. Looking forward to more good stuff like this.
He said "...battier than a backwards retina." and I thought, why does that make so much sense? Subscribing is a good idea, thanks for it!
my exact thought from the beginning of this video, great content!
Nba camels though omg send help 😂
Think about the sauropods
COBRA back
The human body is like one of those bosses that have stupidly obvious weak points just for the sake of being defeatable
"Well, I'm not done yet!" - Evolution, probably.
@ Even if I disagreed I can't fathom a counter argument.
Probably not. Unless evolution is a God by another name. Otherwise, it doesn't say or do anything...it's just a process - it's what happens, nothing more.
I think the Vagus is a pretty fair contender - "Alrighty we've got a bunch of sensory and motor stuff, and that's important so we put it in this leathery meninges in body armor - excellent!" _"Sir... what about basic life functions... like breathing and stuff?"_ ".... .... uhh.. f it! that's not important, just use a cranial nerve for it!" _"... One nerve?"_ "One!... and only one."
PS The phrenic nerve (which innervates the diaphragm) is not a cranial nerve, and actually has multiple roots and branches ("3, 4, 5 keep the diaphragm alive").
@@Vasharan Not only the two of you commenting on how the miserably the human body is made. I know this is tongue in cheek, but is there some deeper reason why we like to think of our bodies as cleverly built? Evolution, is whatever goes, is good enough, but is there a remnant of the biblical reverence of the human body? I think there is a culture of the perfect body in health and sports and in culture in general. This is not simply a pragmatic wish to live long and be able to tie your own shoelaces or increase your attractiveness. Being healthy is an ideology and tied to this, is the notion that the human body is perfect from nature?? So have people just internalized the notion of "Gods creation", and cling on to it as an individual religion, because if my body is perfect, it has to be defined to some standard and if such a standard exists, it is. a sign that there is a purpose with it being perfect? Maybe, it is nonsensical to even consider a human as an entity, despite being self conscious, we are really just a hodgepodge of mindless cells working together in symbiosis with foreign DNA from other micro organisms, picked up on the way through the eons, without plan or direction. Add to that the bacteria living in our guts, and you realize that a "human" is really just one big collective of microorganisms, that have ganged up to make life easier. The way the end result appears and think of itself, is really just a side effect. So if nerves are routed haphazardly, nobody should really care about it. Oh, and sorry for busting into your old comments, they just made me think. Cheers.
@@Tore_Lund You didn't mention the virus DNA that has replaced ours over the millennia; the numbers vary depending on how you like to measure it, but no matter what, it's a spectacular percentage.
@@UncleKennysPlace wtf you mean dna of a virus that has substituted ours? How does that work?
@@simmyabis7330 It's called an "ERV" or "endogenus retrovirus" and our DNA is littered with scraps of them that make up something like 5-8%. A virus is really a strand of DNA or RNA encased in a protein / lipid shell. It reproduces by latching onto a host cell, injecting it's genetic payload into the cell and making the cell manufacture copies of it. These copies burst out to infect other cells and so on. But some act in a slightly different way. Instead of hijacking it, it instead splices it's DNA directly into the cell. This is called a retrovirus. The end result is basically the same. The hijacked cell treats this new DNA as it's on and goes about manufacturing more copies.
But, in rare cases, these retroviruses infect the gametes or sex cells. And since there's no mechanism in them to create new copies, the viral DNA is now part of it's genome. If that gamete then is the one that comes together with the opposite gamete and creates a zygote then the being that comes from that union will carry with it the viral DNA as part of it's genome forever and will pass it along to it's offspring.
Some of these exist in all of humanity. Some only exist in certain family groups. And some we share with chimps and gorillas meaning that some of them have been with us for literally millions of years.
*Darwin has joined the chat*
Gregor Mendel has joined the chat
Lamarck has left the chat
Josef Mengele has joined the chat (And did some bad things to it)
God: leaves
Me: fuckin finaly
@@thelegacyshow4248 Atheist joined the chat
Evolution: Not survival of the fittest, but survival of the fit enough.
4:25 Jesus Christ that’s long!
Jesus Christ: "...that long!"
5:20 Those glasses are not radiation proof because they are see through. Light is radiation, so if you can see through it, it is transparent to some bands of EM radiation.
@ If you can see through it, it is probably not blocking x-rays
@@erictaylor5462 "probably" - not so useful in science. The next step is to reduce that 'probability' to either '0' or '1', by scientific testing.
@@davidmaxwaterman Scientific testing only eliminates that which is not true.
"Probably" is all you have in science.
There is no such thing as certainty, only varies degrees of "probably."
Granted, some things are nearly certain, but nothing is 100% certain.
The only certainty there is in science is certainty in what is not true.
Certainty in what is true only exists in religion. Even then, you have to have faith. In other words, you just pretend to be certain.
@@erictaylor5462 huh, but if I have all of the information regarding a motion occurring with an object, I can certainly predict its position along the length of time right?
@@crouchingcape6930 Assuming it does not change velocity. I put a rocket motor on the thing, and because you can't predict the delta V you prediction goes out the window.
also... gives new meaning to "speak from the heart"
I think it's dumb that our teeth have SUCH sensitive nerves. Why are they like that? The purpose of pain is to tell you something is wrong and keep us from causing injuries, but most of the time teeth are broken without advance warning from our nerves anyway. Until fairly recently, we didn't have extensive dentistry, so if something was wrong, all we could do is pull it, or do nothing. And until we had local anesthesia, fixing teeth was too painful for many people to tolerate. All those ultra sensitive teeth nerves don't do anything beneficial.
You're very good at this. You make it look like you've been doing this for a long time.
This is the last nerve that everyone says I’m getting on
There's a special kind of humor that KILLS in a sleep deprived and high-stress setting. Work longer hours in healthcare and you will get it..
Necks level stuff fo sho
Imagine this, but with paperwork, and you can trace how a bureaucracy evolves.
" sorry we couldn't get to the crash call on time. _he was filming another video about the recurrent laryngeal_ "
worth it. *great video*
I was laughing till I saw your username and now I'm scared
@@MedlifeCrisis 😂 it incites hope in prospective medical students and incites fear in doctors. it's so perfect
Not only your videos are amazing but your subscribers are hilarious too!! I'm here reading the comments and you guys are really funny!!
Maria2803 Thx I’m glad someone noticed the effort.
Well, this all make sense when you consider the main point of evolution is not being the best but being good enough. 🧐
"That's a lot of fun facts, but what exactly makes this nerve so useless?"
"The larynx has no use."
"Oh... I don't know what I expected."
"Nurse...I think I need a new doctor, this ones puns are causing me physical pain."
Evolution Works!
The animals with shorter larynx nerve spoke too soon; and ended up dead. The dinosaurs spoke to slow; and couldn't warn about the meteorite coming.
I think we're at a sweet ballance.
Maybe a bit longer though...
You might be onto something
3:04 we should've stopped here, this is very clearly the peak of our evolution and I'm frankly embarrassed that I don't look like this.
amen
My body explaining why it needed me to cramp all my muscles in my calf because I sat up the wrong way
That rhyme at 1:11 though 😂😂
Apparently, the fish that is most like our fishy ancestors, the coelacanth, tastes terrible. Before scientists knew about it, it was known to fishermen in the Indian Ocean as that disgusting fish that they couldn't sell.
I guess 'living fossil' really doesn't sound that appetising
@@MedlifeCrisis Also, chips hadn't evolved yet, so no big loss.
@@Xandros999 Or batter for that matter.
Maaaaybe it tastes terrible to us because a deeply rooted evolutionary instinct says "no, that's cannibalism!"
This guy called me idiotic. Five minutes later I subscribed to him.
That’s crazy. I think taking some time off includes laying down and doing nothing but absorb content. This dude saves people’s lives for a spot of relaxation.
Another fantastic job!
Thanks Eric!
Your content blows me away, always so amazing with great humor!
I'm burning that midnight oil too... Love from New Zealand
Commenting so that the engagement boosts the video
Liking and commenting on your comment to boost the video. 👍🏻
@@LisaBowers One-upmanship!
Liking both comments & adding one of my own.
Let's boost it until it goes viral & needs to see a doctor.
Evolution follows the “good enough” rule
Out breathing tube is the same as our eating tube. But it’s good enough.
Totally identifying with a doctor on night shift getting more rest than the parent responsible for a child under the age of about 6; persevere, it gets better! And naps, even 15-20 minute naps, are your friend! ❤
Who the heck is this evolution guy??? What has he done to my body???? I need answers!!!
1:06 I use a microscope to look in my jeans, sadly
The body just has bad cable managment
I genuinely laugh with your videos, you deserve way more subs! Keep it up!
You know what's funny? Having a discussion with a creationist. If you come around the corner with the fact about this nerve they will instantly either ignore you or the fact you just gave them and say "Ok, but let's move on..."
so you mean every non-atheist is stupid?
@@ryezheld no, i said creationists. You can be religios and not believe that we were made by god.
@@florichi i have no religious bone whatsoever. but i like to believe on the existence of some higher power. i guess your definition of religious fanatics is creationist.
Wait the larynx evolved from gills??? That is amazing, I never knew that!
In fact, there are some theories that hiccoughs are a remnant of amphibian breathing with gills
@Mark Park your comment does nothing except stir shit up. You could have at least said why you think that
@@redrobsanthem9206 it doesn't even stir up shit, it's just saying "nuh uh" like a dubass child
The Chad Mark Park vs screaming 'I fucking love science' nerds
"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" .
And we will never see "extraordinary evidence" for gills mutating to larynx.
The stupidest nerve in the human body: the nerve of some people
"It's evolving just backward"
-swedish guy
unfunny swedish guy*
Considering the Swedish practiced eugenics within living memory you might have wanted to pick a different country. never trust a Nordic person talking about evolution it's kind of like asking any 15th century Italian Friar about books and Fire
Let's see, this guy is 1. a great Dad, 2. a brilliant doc, 3. probably an excellent husband, 4. incredibly generous (shares awesome medical info at NO CHARGE), 5. has retained his humanity and sense of humor through med school, 6. can improvise poetic humor on-the-fly, etc. So....... he's basically making the lower 99% of us males look really, really bad. Thanks TH-cam.
What a nice comment, thank you. I'm not sure there's much evidence for most of those claims but I'll take them.
I'm careful to never let my girl see these videos.
@@gasdive good plan, gasdive. LOL
@@MedlifeCrisis Evidence? hmmmm...... I "extrapolated" based on this one video, and would bet my car that I'm right on all counts! Awesome videos- THANKS!
Every nerve in my body is the stupidest nerve in my body.
These sort of things are great examples of evolution because it shows you how badly conceived we really are. For example, I read that humans get more nose infections because our nose don't fully clear alone since we no longer walk on 4 limbs.
Also loved the Dr. Seuss intro!
Correct - our sinuses drain from towards the top. Dogs just don't really catch colds.
@@MedlifeCrisis God damn it humans!
Literally! *shakes fist at sky*
That is one of many messed up human body evolution.
I mean who in their right minds puts the feeding tube in the same path as the breathing one?
And what about the pleasures bits right next to the "#2 exit".
As the character Darald quipped in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, "Let me just say that if God was a city planner he would not put a playground next to a sewage system."
@@ThisisBarris 🤔
I can see mother nature smiling down just saying "mad?"