7 Ways Humans Change Color

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We're all used to our bodies being more or less the color they always are. But there are a few different medical reason you may be seeing rainbow in the mirror, from benign to medically concerning. Here's just some of the reasons that you might see yourself turn Technicolor!
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[@theunintelligentlydesigned4931]

When I hit puberty, I started getting purple spots on my chest. For a year, doctors kept monitoring me to try and figure out what was causing my purple spots. After a year, they diagnosed me with purpura. Purpura means purple spots. I looked purpura up and found that the condition causes purples spots but does nothing else. In other words, it took doctors an entire year to determine that my purple spots were purple spots.

[@kashiichan]

They had to rule out any other purple spot-causing conditions first lol

[@sarshrimp1476]

I once had a skin reaction around my mouth, got sent home with a paper that said acute stomatitis. Went in for very itchy mouth, left with a paper saying I had very itchy mouth, but in Greek.

[@lindaseel9986]

" What they can't do these days! "

[@protocetid]

you are Polka Dot Man

[@darcieclements4880]

Yeah that's not a diagnosis it's a symptom :/ It means you have capillaries that are leaking blood for some reason periodically. It typically happens from blood thinners, blood clotting disorders, and certain foods that are blood thinners like natto eaten in excess. Kind of weird that they just gave up figuring out what it was. Usually if it's nothing obvious that ends up being like food allergy related or something like that but weird.

[@johnnydarling8021]

**Looks in mirror** **Despite everything, it's still you.**

[@DocWyldeCard]

Undertale ref. Nice.

[@merrickhurst4150]

Ouch

[@gjk-arts5855]

-- Life is worth it to live it through!

[@wisecoconut5]

When my son was a toddler, he would only eat carrots. His pediatrician thought he would grow out of it and to allow him to eat carrots. The tip of his nose and his chin turned orange! My little Oompa loompa!

[@Braham_the_Terror]

That's so sweet! 🧡

[@jpkotta]

Same thing happened to me as a baby. I still much prefer orange veggies to green in general.

[@gavinriley5232]

My grandmother went through a phase like that. She would literally eat four or five oranges a day every single day. Eventually she gave it up when she realized that she was orange

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

A friend at uni ate lots of carrots. Her fingers were orange. That's a lot of carrots!!!

[@vlmellody51]

I remember in the 1970s, Susan Dey, who played the older sister on "The Partridge Family," developed anorexia. She ate so many carrots that her skin turned a rather vivid shade of orange. She was subsequently treated for the disease, and by the 1980s, when she was on "L.A. Law," she was fine.

[@nunyabitnezz2802]

Blue sclera can also be caused by addiction to the spice Melange.

[@AnkhAnanku]

I was waiting for “this one’s for you, fremen of arrakis”

[@sladewilson6584]

It is known

[@limalicious]

The breakdown of bilirubin is actually why urine is yellow, too! A study was published earlier this year! And I have blue sclera because I have EDS!

[@mikacakes]

It's also why poop is brown lol

[@tinybullfrog1955]

Heeyyy fellow zebra! our stretch marks are our stripes lmao

[@ashlyn-6614]

blue sclera kinda looks cool imo lol :3

[@astralb.2647]

Blue sclera as well, I never knew it was "strange" because my whole family has it

[@beegman27]

NO WAY!! they published a study THIS YEAR?!? unbelievable! i didnt know they still did that 😮

[@tappingthevein1]

My mom had the worst reported case of Raynaud's disease ever back in the early 2000's she ended up dying from it. Lost both legs and most of her fingers so it can be pretty horrible.

[@businesszeus6864]

ive recently gotten a diagnosis for Raynaud’s at 21 (i am male btw) but i’ve had pains since i was 14. i couldn’t feel my fingers for about 5-6 months this winter… it made me fail this year of college because i couldn’t do my calculus homeworks and lost my job because i kept fudging things up. i wasn’t taken seriously by doctors even after the diagnosis, i was just prescribed some exercices and a massage, and got a reference to see a physiotherapist (that i still haven’t seen…) i’m really worried about how bad it’ll get over the years :c

[@vampyresmiles713]

Not a personal experience, but there's a KZbinr who is a martial artist and has Raynaud's. He can't do martial arts or even really make videos during the colder months because even trying to stay warm it affects his hands and feet severely. When he shared his experience, you could see the tips of his fingers were black. So it can definitely be pretty serious even if you don't die from it. It's good that people can recover from it and most who have it don't have serious issues. But even things that are usually minor can have severe versions or can lead to complications.

[@katarh]

@@businesszeus6864 One of the weirdest, easiest things to do is to move someplace warmer if you have a chance. I have Reynauds but its usually not too serious of a problem because I live in Georgia. It might dip below freezing a few days out of the year, but 95% of the time it's warm enough even in winter that a good pair of gloves and thick wool socks keeps it from kicking in as long as I don't spend too much time outside. .... the other thing I've found is a tiny amount of alcohol added to hot tea. Not enough to get tipsy off, just like half an ounce of rum, but enough to trigger the flush reaction. opens those constricted vessels right back up again and keeps my toes nice and toasty!

[@YuBeace]

@@vampyresmiles713 Heh. I think I know who you’re talking about. But yeah I agree they maybe should have mentioned in this video that every once in a while, risk of not having enough oxygen in the extremities for the survival of the cells becomes a real thing. Honestly it kind of sucks when you have a severe case of something and then you hear all about how it’s “usually minor” and “totally managable no worries”. Makes me feel like I’ve done something wrong. 😂

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

I'm so sorry. May she rest in peace.

[@wolfnerd4984]

One time in 6th grade the whole table I was sitting at during lunch was held back because one girl laughed while she was drinking milk and made a mess. Then one teacher noticed I looked green and sent me to the nurse’s office. I was sent home for the day and my parents took me to our doctor, who basically just told me to sit outside and get some more vitamin D. I was indignant through the entire ordeal because I was a library assistant and wanted to go to the library and reshelve the books and felt completely fine. It cleared up by the next day, and we never found out a specific cause for the green twelve year old

[@samarnadra]

I mean, while doing nothing for finding the cause, sitting outside in the sun would make your skin more pink which would overlay the green and look brown until the problem went away. Also UV can break down some pigments. I choose to believe the doctor learned you could photosynthesize like those leafy sea slugs and couldn't tell anyone to protect you, and just told you to get sun so you could get energy.

[@Glockenspheal]

I once heard of a story about a little guy that lived in a blue world and all day and all night and everything he saw is just blue like him inside and outside.

[@fireaza]

What about his house? His window? His Corvette? Surely everything can't have been blue.

[@Glockenspheal]

According to the story, yes, weirdly enough everything around was blue and the leading theory is that it was because he didn't got nobody to listen to.

[@andrewvirtue5048]

​@@fireazaNah. Everything is blue for himself and everybody around.

[@spainlm]

But he ain't got nobody to listen. 😢

[@nuckyducky]

There was a video where Hank talked about different diseases and I asked if he'd talk about Ehler's Danlos. I was diagnosed with this terrible disease last year and to see coverage about it on my favorite sci show is incredibly validating. Thank you for taking the time to educate others about people like myself.

[@TheBraecki]

My cheeks turn pink when I get a SciShow notification

[@MuscarV2]

I'm gonna decide you mean your butt cheeks since you didn't specify. You're welcome.

[@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis]

Wow, seems like your partner is really excited about science news!

[@ajchapeliere]

uwu

[@Christian-wu3mp]

Does he make u wet too?

[@marlearust1368]

I hope this get pinned!

[@w.mccutcheon5783]

My parents both got carotenemia when I was a kid. They were trying to eat healthier when they were at work and had just been grazing on baby carrots all day every day.

[@kotadawndragon]

At the store I work at, I have customer who is straight up BLUE on every square inch of visible skin. He said his coloration came from ingesting too much colloidal silver. So there's another way for it to happen and apparently it's permanent too.

[@TheScarvig]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Karason

[@naurekk]

I thought for sure colloidal silver would come up in this video!

[@ashleyltm]

I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and blue sclera. Rarely see it mentioned so this was cool to see.

[@MarianahsTrenchGal1]

My mom: has had raynaud's her whole life and is also a very paranoid person Stefan: "they can avoid it by keeping warm and avoiding stress" Me: *looks over at my mom, who's cuddled in the giant blanket i made her for christmas* well... I guess she's doing one of those things 😂

[@AramatiPaz]

😂 I started to wear fingerless gloves and solved my icy blue frozen painful hands problem. Thanks Kankuro cosplay to let me experience those gloves.

[@seattlegrrlie]

​@@AramatiPazfingerless gloves are amazing. Gloves in general, and pretty much all year long. Even the ac in my car turns my hands white

[@dumbbirdwayne]

Never heard of it until now, wonder if my grandma has it? (The symptoms sound really similar to what she experiences in the winter, especially with the fingers and toes going white) hope your mom is good! 💜

[@abbyb6958]

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome mentioned!!!🗣️🦓 So glad this condition is becoming more widely known. I have blue sclera from eds :)

[@AdkAqua]

When my nephew was younger he had the carrot coloration. Went to doc worried he was having liver issues... Nope. Carrots. Kid loved em.

[@ireneqq2300]

its a lot easier for kids to get a carrot overdose since they are smaller. As a child, I had it twice, eating around 5 carrots a day. Now I have around 7 carrots a day and I'm fine! (I have an eating disorder that makes my accepted foods limited)

[@chickadeeacres3864]

When a friend of mine was being interviewed for a nanny job, I was with her (long story). We both noticed the toddler had an orange tinge. Apparently the previous nanny fed him only sweet potatoes.

[@thecraftycyborg9024]

I have a rare neuro disorder called CRPS. It causes affected limbs to turn colors- white, blue, purple, and red are all possible. We also get visible veins and our skin can become thin and shiny. My lower legs are permanently shiny and sometimes turn red with white polka dots. It’s trippy to watch happen!

[@spiralpython1989]

Same! I have crps too, and it can look wild when each leg is a different colour. I also have reynauds: of the areola. Made breastfeeding my babies in winter a bit of a nightmare…

[@mecha417]

You forgot about argyria, use of colloidal silver or ingestion of silver leading to purplish blue skin. Here's the fun part: silver atoms cannot be removed, so the change is permanent.

[@Reverend_Josh]

There is some studies that showed that laser treatments (similar to what is used in tattoo removal) can (depending on severity) compleatly or near compleatly clear the pigmentation

[@klz_9710]

I have Raynaud's in my feet and when my feet change to a dark purple or blue it also will go up to my knees. It is followed by pins and needles for sure but that is when I'm warmed up and my feet are fire engine red. I don't walk, I'm in a wheelchair because of MS, but I was diagnosed with the Raynaud's after I was diagnosed with MS. This video really opens my eyes about a lot of things that I should have noticed a long time ago.

[@timothylee8494]

Some bright red fruits cause the same effect! Red dragonfruit does this for basically everyone Also takes forever to wash the pigment out of wooden or bamboo cutting boards

[@Avendesora]

Which effect?

[@ashley8321]

​@@AvendesoraRed poo

[@MarsJenkar]

I wanna say that historically beets were at least partly grown for making dye, and I wouldn't be surprised if that was still true today (at least to some extent).

[@mr.b3168]

Number 2 I remember from the MAgic school bus when Arnold turned orange.

[@canaanval]

Sea-Weedies or something lol

[@HannahRainbow88]

I'm thinking of the carrots&tomatoes guy from Scrubs too 😂

[@vermiform]

He shoulda stayed home

[@CTP909]

I just want to shout out my appreciation for the scientific way this channel describes pigmentation in people without using the antiquated ideation of there being separate races. This simple change to language completely destroys the foundation of racism by expressing the fact that we are all one species and like every other animal our genes can combine in a multitude of ways and depending on which ones are inherited and expressed creates an individuals degree of pigmentation; and by the characteristics of mere probability certain genes including those related to pigmentation can be either more or less frequently inherited by a group based simply on location.

[@shinjiwolf]

Aha! Reynaud's. I have Reynaud's, and in my youth my hands, from fingertip to mid-forearm, turned bright purple with orange flecks when I was outside in the colder months. Wasn't a problem until it made my hands stiff and sore, these days I look after it a lot better.

[@100GTAGUY]

Way back when my dad used to put cayenne pepper on darn near everything he'd start sweating redall the time, not sure if it was dye additives or just the natural pigment but man that was wild to see as a child. Ever since his pallete outgrew the love of hot peppers it has since subsided and never happened again.

[@DynamixWarePro]

I had Jaundice when I was a new-born and had to be put in an incubator. I have Raynaud's and it causes my hands and feet to feel cold and my fingers can turn white and my toes can turn a bit purple. It mostly happens when I am in colder temperatures, not so much in the summer or I am in a warm location. When it does flare up, I could put my feet in hot water and not really feel much heat from it. I wear gloves when my hands feel cold and that helps. I also have eczema and it flares up in the cold putting cream on my hands and then gloves also helps that while I am keeping my hands warmer. I sometimes wear opaque tights under my trousers when it is colder and that helps keeps my legs and feet warmer. My Raynaud's it is probably related to me having Scleroderma where my skin feels tighter on my hands and can make them a bit tight, stiffer and I get a slight tingling burning sensation when that happens.

[@Sharonmxg]

I would like to know the secret to avoiding stress. Just being awake and out of the house is stressful these days.

[@dancerchick3434]

as soon as i saw the thumbnail i was like 'blue sclera! that's me!' - i have EDS and my cousins have brittle bone. also have Raynaud's but thankfully mild and living in a warm climate and out of the freezer isle has kept me from turning too blue

[@simonederobert1612]

I worked with a person who was never seen far from a carrot. She had carrots for breakfast, carrots for lunch, carrots to snack on. It really did give her an orange skin color.

[@HannahRainbow88]

Probably still a healthier way of getting a "tan" 😂

[@simonederobert1612]

@@HannahRainbow88 Orange is not tan. She looked like she was sick, or had a communicable disease, even though she did not act that way. She nearly got fired, as it is absolutely forbidden to be sick and then come in to work if you work in a healthcare situation - which we did.

[@spangelicious837]

Thank you for explaining about the blue sclera. I noticed a child actor had that when I was watching a C-drama once and wondered what was going on.

[@AramatiPaz]

I used to though it was just a glitch when they were fixing the color balance or the screen unbalance. 😂 Never expected to be real.

[@spangelicious837]

@AramatiPaz I wondered that too, but none of the other actors' eyes were blue like the kid's, so I figured it had to just be him.

[@clairefuzipeg1983]

Nice to find out that my EDS has caused another of the mysteries of my body. Having blue eyes and bright blue sclera made me look like I had huge irises as a baby. It's no where near as noticeable now, but I looked like a little red-haired almost fully blue-eyed alien as a baby.

[@Evelyn_2401]

I have blue sclera due to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome! Thanks for mentioning it 😊

[@jmarshal]

Zebras when EDS is mentioned: 😍😍🥹🥹👏👏👏🙌🙌🙏🙏

[@levigrouls5665]

I for some reason sometimes have blue sweet. My girlfriend and I noticed it for the first time when we went to sleep in a hotel after a camping trip. In the morning the white pillow had blue spots. Once we started paying attention, we noticed it happens once in a while and most often after I had some intense physical activities. Turns out it is some harmless, but rare condition

[@silmarian]

One of my more memorable moments as a young parent came about twelve hours after feeding my son beets. I figured out what was going on after a moment, but my heart stopped for a moment there.

[@_maxgray]

Raynaud's is sometimes an early sign of autoimmune diseases, so if someone thinks they might have it, worth talking to a doctor about! Some cases of Raynaud's can also lead to things like skin ulcers, which can need medications like calcium channel blockers to prevent if lifestyle changes aren't enough.

[@srwapo]

Heh, I seem to have not filly digested some beets a few weeks ago and was worried about the red poop. First time that happened (though I don't get beets very often). Didn't happen last week when I had some again. Definitely looked at my poop for a couple of days to make sure it wasn't something worse.

[@naurekk]

I had no idea most people weren't getting red poos from beets. My whole family and spouse get this and we constantly forget and it scares us every time haha.

[@swolpertinger5004]

After I began taking blood thinners, I started getting Reynaud's. But only if I'm outside. So if it's very cold inside, it won't trigger. But if I'm going for a walk or a bike ride outside, I suspect it gets the blood flow pumping faster than when indoors, which causes it to trigger. It can be VERY painful. Like my fingers are being frozen from the inside out. Numb to touch so I can't feel where my fingers are in gloves or touch and grab things properly, but simultaneously, like I'm pitting frozen cherries barehanded. It only affects my fingers and toes. Dressing warm doesn't help, but one thing that definitely did was buying heated gloves. My fingers tend to start faster than my toes, but with heated gloves, my fingers stay normal and my toes are much slower, or don't freeze up at all. Reynaud's also causes the front half of my finger nails on specific fingers to die if I get it too often, and the back of the nail grows under that, eventually popping the dead nail up like a car hood. It's still partially attached to the skin though.

[@aviendha1154]

My eyes never really settled into a solid hazel colour. They most definitely change. And it’s not just outfit related, I can wear the same black hoodie for a month and my eyes will not be the same for that month.

[@Revs_87]

I love how you went in spectrum order!

[@DTLamia]

I remember a rumor on tumblr going around ages ago about a mutation called "Alexandria's Genesis" which turns your eyes purple While yes, that was made up by an edgy 12 year old there are people with purple eyes People with albinism or vitiligo's irisis are so pale that the are almost transparent this usually makes the iris look red as it's reflecting the back of the eye but sometimes these people might have a more bluish tint. This mix of light blue and red makes it look light purple! :)

[@Bomba388]

I have a beeturia type issue with red food dyes found in drinks and candies. Worst is red Gatorade, but maybe thats because i drink like 2 or 3 bottles a day while working

[@erinclarke2715]

I ate 3-5 full sized carrots a day in college and often red and orange bell peppers. They were a good raw snack dipped in hummus (sometimes my entire lunch was an entire tub of hummus eaten on veggies) and also good cooked into a spaghetti sauce or thai curry. At a checkup, my doctor noticed pigment in my palms! He asked “do you eat a lot of yellow foods?” And i couldn’t think of anything, but when i thought if yellow bell peppers it reminded me of the other colors and of carrots and I said “yes, why?” And he said he could tell from the color of my skin

[@erinclarke2715]

Also had reynauds when i moved to Canada and didn’t know how to properly choose shoes and socks in the winter. Its more than “a little uncomfortable.” I once had to miss class because I couldn’t walk there, it was only a few hundred feet away from my dorm, but I didn’t have a single pair of shoes I could walk in without pain. And i couldn’t go barefoot because there was snow on the ground

[@computer1up]

I mean, one thing changes color on pretty much anybody sometime during their life. And when that happens, you’ll find yourself looking in the mirror, perhaps thinking “Ugh, I’m getting old”. I have brown hair but used to be blonde as a small child. Lately I’ve been very confused whether my brown hair also has a blonde sheen to it when looking at it from certain angles in certain lighting conditions, or if it’s just turning gray…

[@AbstractQueer]

Btw, the reason so many generations of the Blue Fugates had MetHb despite it being recessive was because they lived in a really isolated area and married each other. Isolated gene pool & inbreeding -> higher occurrence of recessive traits. Medical treatment helped those that were born with MetHb, but they really stopped being blue because more people moved to the area, and the introduction of new genes prevented the recessive gene from being expressed in new generations.

[@codename495]

I have Reynauds, it sucks! Especially my toes. It could be 100* f/c either way it could be HOT. The barest cold breeze brushes my toes or fingers and they will be freezing cold and refuse to warm back up for a long time.

[@ZimDuhAlien]

Another fact about bilirubin: as stated, things like hepatitis, liver disease, and the like can lead to the excess of bilirubin. There is also a genetic condition, called Gilbert's Syndrome, which I found out I have back in 2012 when I was 15, that makes it harder for the liver to process the bilirubin, causing jaundice and some other side affects(which are almost all attributed to the excess bilirubin) like the yellowing of eyes and skin, excessive lethargy, and a few other benine symptoms.

[@Josh_Freeman]

Have it too, as well as my siblings. They used to reject people who had it from giving blood because it could be mistaken for hepatitis but tests nowadays can tell the difference. One positive side effect is fewer cardiovascular problems. Bilirubin acts as an antioxidant, reduces cholesterol and platelet activity (although that last one can cause issues with bleeding). My last blood test showed my platelet count very low but still in the green. And I've always had low cholesterol.

[@majorastudios5821]

the way I just started immediately chanting jaundice as soon as the video started

[@triviszla1536]

Love the sneaky camera glances

[@kayleyanna3164]

When I was a kid, I once told a teacher about the carrot thing because it happened to my aunt one time. I was then told, "That's not a thing," and was ridiculed for being wrong and stupid. Thanks for the validation I guess lol

[@Peleski]

I had carrotonemia once. A juicer will do it. You can eat a lot of carrots that way. It gives you a golden orange glow that people often desire.

[@jnolen74]

I was working in the lab at the outpatient express care. A patient came in concerned that she had blood in her stool…but her occult blood card was negative for blood. Turns out, she was doing a “beet fast”; drinking nothing but beet juice.

[@AramatiPaz]

Ok, when I started this video I didn't expected to be featured here. I have Raynold's. Not only it get purple easily but sometimes it gets black. No, seriously, in winter I I take my clothes off and turn on the shower the fastest possible because sometimes my hands goes from very purple to definitely black in few seconds. SO far no harm but it's scary and worrisome. I was today years old finding out it can be triggered by stress. As someone with many mental conditions only treated recently now I understand why I need my warms gloves less lately. It's not only disconfort, it also hurts. And causes those partes to be pretty cold most of the time.

[@route2070]

With color of poop. One morning i has carrots and blueberries for breakfast, and went to the hospital later that day. While at the hospital the doctor asked for a stool sample so i provided one. The doctor was horrified thinking it was black when it was purple, so i had to explain what I ate that day, since black stool can be a sign of medical issues.

[@GratefulPrimate]

I just concentrate and think BLUE, and I turn blue

[@carnitagroves7758]

Me? I go plaid. 😂

[@doot-doot-JJM]

I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa

[@wayneosborne2506]

I hold my breath while I concentrate and it words really well 😂

[@carnitagroves7758]

@@wayneosborne2506 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@xpndblhero5170]

Concentrate = Forgetting to breathe 😂😂

[@charliesgotaguitar]

Does anyone remember the Magic school bus episode when the kid turned orange from some carrot snacks?

[@fireflower51]

My sister has raynauds and every winter she gets "Zombie hands". They turn purple with orang spots. Kinda freeky but harmless.

[@gorilladisco9108]

"Your pee can have red color after eating some beet." I get new method to prank my brother. Thx. 😅

[@stax6092]

My dad has had Raynaud's for a long time, and I may have a mild version of it. Although I thought Blue-skinned people happened when they were exposed to breathing in fumes from silver mines. So, I didn't realise there was also a genetic defect way of it happening.

[@jangschoen1019]

6:40 can also be caused by severe melange addiction.

[@struckbyturtle3054]

I can't believe I had to scroll this far down just to find the first spice reference.

[@jangschoen1019]

@@struckbyturtle3054 Yeah, there's some more now.

[@lady_draguliana784]

yeah, I had a "imitation meat patty" back in the 90's/y2k's that had beets in it... I wasn't told that... 😅

[@YuBeace]

Antacids increase beeturia. Which is a fun fact I found out from personal experience. Honestly it doesn’t actually look that much like blood. Beeturia leans more towards pink and even magenta-like hues. Sometimes the combination of the beets and urine will make it more of a peachy orange, but still not quite on the same side of the colour spectrum as blood colours. 👍🏻 Thank you Sci-Show for giving me an excuse to be TMI in the KZbin comments! PS, even after many times of this happening, I still forget about it sometimes and startle myself for just a split second in the bathroom.

[@cheese135...9]

When I was little, I was a carrot enthusiast, it was one of the few veggies I'd eat and ate a bunch of them. I was looking through the photos of when I was young a few days ago when I stumbled across a picture of me with an orange nose. And since I had pale skin and platinum hair I resembled Olaf. I still laugh internally when i think of it.

[@PerryGarack]

Camera did you dirty by showing the bald spot when you said “luscious brown locks”

[@Peleski]

Duh

[@jenniferburns2530]

Raynaud's can be painful if it gets too extreme, and is also (in many cases) a sign of autoimmune disease.

[@michaelccopelandsr7120]

You forgot those with green, blue and silver hazel eyes. Depending on your mood the eyes change between the three colors.

[@magnaziggy7523]

Can't believe you didn't go for the Dune joke

[@foolishlyfoolhardy6004]

Oh yeah. My sclera turned blue a little while ago. I just looked in the mirror and thought, "That's weird." I should go get them checked out eventually, I guess. Under my fingernails are also often blue, but I don't have any circulation issues, they're just that colour.

[@dg-hughes]

I have Reynaud's but very mild. By mild I mean if I am sitting here minding my own business suddenly my thumb turns blue but just one half. It is very painful! Like someone hit you with a sledgehammer.

[@talideon]

Been there! A few years ago, it took an odd turn where a flare up meant the sensation didn't come back fully in the pad of one of my fingers for a few months. Just pins and needles for ages. The finger was otherwise fine. Then just as suddenly the sensation came back. Still don't know what happened.

[@colinmanson6716]

Perfect amount of humour/shout outs.

[@nicklindberg90]

My brown locks are starting to look luscious as well 😢

[@nariu7times328]

mine are gradually turning silver....

[@nicklindberg90]

@@nariu7times328 aye better grey than gone!

[@acerimmer8338]

I feel ya. My locks went 'luscious' 20 years ago.😂😥

[@dimitraBlissDk]

I have blue sclera. I have 2 resesive genes for osteogenisis imperfecta. And 2 other mutant genes for Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.

[@CymruLlewes]

Heh. I was expecting it to be a shout out to Arnold from The Magic Schoolbus.

[@wonky_shoebox7514]

I have loads of different birthmarks all over my body, including a few ones that make my torso look stripey like a zebra. I love my birthmarks!

[@ashleynoble2880]

Could you be a chimera?

[@michaelkelleypoetry]

When I was little I watched The Magic School Bus a lot and when I saw thr episode in which Arnold's skin turned orange I tried over the course of a month to turn my skin orange by eating a lot carrots every day. Unfortunately, what I thought of as a lot wasn't enough for the desired effectl hahah. 😂😂😂

[@uplink-on-yt]

"How can people change colour?" "Beets me..."

[@DestinyCove1527]

YES THANK YOU I've had people constantly ask why my feet are always red/purple (even in summer heat). My fingers also turn bright red sometimes, and they become very white in the cold. I thought it was issues with blood pressure or circulation but I think I can for sure say it's Raynaud's! As described in the video, for me, it basically is just an inconvenience. Sometimes I can't feel my fingers or toes like they're cold or numb, but for me it never lasts more than an hour or so

[@syntheticsylvie]

I wish I was purple like a Night elf, but ill have to settle for dying my hair bright pink for now.

[@redelfshotthefood8213]

I've been thinking of green for myself...

[@TheScarvig]

not to give you stupid ideas, but: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Karason

[@diceman199]

I had a bad accident once, lot's of internal bleeding. 2 weeks later I was very, very yellow as it got broken down....looked like the worst case of jaundice you can imagine

[@JeffBilkins]

There is also vitiligo, a condition where patches of skin (and hair) loose pigmentation.

[@dmann1982]

This connects to 3: I am suspected to have a thing called Gilbert's Syndrome, which means Billirubin is produced slower than the norm. Which can be interesting...

[@paigemalloy4276]

Those character shout outs were delightful ❤

[@agranero6]

Sometimes is an illusion too. I have green eyes and when I was to enlist in the military when I was 18 (it is mandatory here), the woman at the counter asked my eye color and it didn't match my ID, she looked at me and said it was really green as I said not brown as the ID said. How it was possible I thought. My mother said my eyes changed color frequently, and so my girlfriend at the time. I never heard about that and took me a time to realize. My iris was mostly green in the outside part and brown on the inside, at very illuminated places my eyes were green and on less illuminated places the pupils opened and the brown part got more prominent.

[@BytebroUK]

Can't believe you didn't call the "Sunny Delight" scandal in the UK. Many of those kids drinking that stuff actually turned orange.

[@lafcursiax]

6:40 This one's for you, Muad'Dib

[@marcochimio]

The day after I go to Starbucks, I usually get an acute case of Mangodragonfruituria. Note, this may require a differential diagnosis to distinguish from Beeturia.

[@dumbbirdwayne]

I wonder if there’s something like Beeturia but in animals, only some of my birds get pink-purple poop when having certain fruits, but not all of them, and some of them are the same species (for context, I have 9 birds) or sometimes it’s just the poop part (bird poop is made up of two sections, urine and faeces) that changes, again, not due to health issues, just some of them get it with fruit like cherries and raspberries!

[@AbstractAustin]

When i was in my junior year of college, one of my professors let us eat in class as long as it didnt disrupt class. Long stoey short i had eaten 3 large bags of baby carrots in 2-3 days. A few days later i thought i had gotten a tan but soon realized I'd been eating a lot of carrots, and now I know I had carotenemia lol. Went back to normal within a week though

[@jonathanwheeler5237]

My roommate and I were just talking yesterday about the house episode where the dude turns orange. Are you guys listening to our conversations? lol

[@RachelRhiarti]

Thought of the exact same thing when he got to that - it was a very funny reveal!

[@jekentmenietje]

The final product of bilirubin is called conjugated bilirubin and it's not colorless. It gets deposited into your bowels and is what makes your poop brown. If you have gall bladder stones, the channel from your liver to your bowels could get blocked and you can get conjugated bilirubin buildup in your blood which will also make you yellow. If this happens, your poop will turn light grey.

[@takatacheroki2624]

Quick addendum: If you notice your poop is grey, *SEE A DOCTOR ASAP*. Some of the conditions that cause it can be lethal.

[@Jynxedlove]

I managed to get cartonemia when I was little. My mom was scared I had jaundice.

[@ihor_zinchenko]

There is also a condition named Argyria, when one is exposed to too much silver. It's quite creepy tbh.

[@AramatiPaz]

Like that man with blue skin, right? I'm surprised they didn't mention him.

[@animeartist888]

Yeah I was waiting for that to be mentioned, and I'm quite surprised they didn't go over it.

[@spiralpython1989]

Specifically, colloidal silver, which many people use as a wellness tonic.

[@joedellinger9437]

Yup, saw a bright blue man at the airport once! He wore a thin T-shirt, shorts, and flip flops, the better to show off his bright blue skin. I wondered about it until I learned ingesting too much colloidal silver could do it. Yup, perfect match. Why would someone do that? Well, if he went to India people might think he was an avatar?!

[@iamjustkiwi]

Ditto on them not mentioning argyria since it's irreversible too, just another reason why colloidal silver is not the miracle lots of people want to think it is.

[@procrastinator99]

6:35 SPICE MUST FLOW!!

[@MarianahsTrenchGal1]

Not me clicking on this video thinking I would get a better answer as to why I went from having golden blonde hair and blue eyes as a young child to having dirty-blonde/brownish hair and green-blue eyes later on (I /was/ told by a high-school science teacher that it had to do with genetics and hormones, but I kinda wish I got a more in-depth answer)

[@samarnadra]

Well, I can tell you that blonde hair darkening with age is normal, and I encounter it more than I encounter people who stayed the same shade of blonde from birth into middle age. Mine went very light strawberry blonde to strawberry blonde to dirty blonde, but it gets lighter in summer and darker in winter (it is a running joke with the MA at my doctor see below). Basically your follicles are adding more melanin to your hair and eyes as you age. Blue eyes have the least melanin (except for like red/pink, purple, etc), then blue-green, then green, then hazel, then brown, then black. Afaik babies are typically born with blue eyes. *Story from above about the running joke with the MA at the doctor about my hair changing color seasonally: in summer I get lighter hair and darker skin, and winter i get lighter skin and darker hair; but in summer she gets slightly darker hair and lighter skin, and in winter she gets slightly lighter hair and darker skin, she's Hispanic with brown-black hair and medium-brown skin, while I am blonde with light skin. She always comments that we "switched" and how strange it is that the sun has opposite effects on us. I also agree it is quite amusing, but I think it comes down to she likely doesn't wear sunscreen in winter (we have mild winters and hot summers) but does in summer, and I wear it year-round as best as I can remember to, but I burn/tan easily so just stepping outside for a moment now and then in summer means my skin will darken compared to winter when the UV index is much lower and I wear long sleeves. Her hair isn't bleached by the sun (and swimming when I can) like mine is so the additional sun protection (likely also in her hair care products) keeps her hair dark. That is just my hypothesis though. It fits what happens when I travel where I can't always bring sunscreen or I forget it and go to a cooler cloudier place and come back with a slight tan and confuse everyone (when I was in college in Washington people were really confused because I would come back lighter than I left because I wore sunscreen and stayed inside during the hottest part of the day all break, but at college I was out and about during the day and while it wasn't very sunny, my skin tans easily enough that I had to start explaining the UV index to random people so they would stop wondering why I did vacation backwards. No, I am not deliberately tanning in Arizona, unless it is spray tan or rub on gradual sunless tanner, because I like not having suspicious moles. Most of the school year I was in long sleeves, so I was still pretty protected from the sun regardless (and I wore sunscreen if I planned to be outside, I just had poor planning). So that is basically it - melanin hijinks.

[@MarianahsTrenchGal1]

@@samarnadra thank you so much for the explanation! That's so cool 😄

[@jmarshal]

I started out with near white blonde hair as a child and it steadily got darker and darker to almost black now at 40.

[@turquoisewitch.wild-owl]

As for orange skin from too many carrots, it can happen much more easily in people who don't eat grains or potatoes. I lived in a food plan like this for many years due to being addicted to high carbs. It was much easier to turn orange from carrots, winter squash, red and orange peppers, while living on this food plan. No study has been done that I know of; but it made me wonder if it was the lack of high carb food that made this possible. I was among others who also was on the same food plan who noticed this, too.

[@bettyswallocks6411]

4:01 Does jaundice make you bite your fingernails?

[@jamescanada3712]

FUN FACT: Mel Blanc tried every vegetable that he could find to substitute the sound of crunching carrots as Bugs Bunny. Why would he do that, you ask... He couldn't stand the taste of carrots. After munching on them, he would sip them out afterwards

[@dragonflies6793]

I have EDS, I didn't know that could cause blue sclera!

[@caseyleichter2309]

A relative has Reynaud's, and hates it. It makes her feel cold almost all the time, and she's doesn't like the cold at all.

[@jorgegonzales3116]

A few weeks ago I thought I was developing reynauds or cyanosis because my fingers went blue a few times, but it turned out to just be a reaction to a cleaning spray I was using that would get on my fingers

[@yellowcatmonkey]

the blue sclera and being in the beets' ten percent made me question whether i might have an iron deficiency sometimes without noticing👀

[@yellowcatmonkey]

.. because being orange/yellow like i come from springfield is just who i am during months when carrots are in season😸🌻