CHILI PEPPERS too hot for Paramecium

Capsaicin is the substance that tastes hot. It works as a disinfectant. In this video I show you the reaction of Paramecium to this substance. Depending on the concentration, the Paramecia either stop moving or they start spinning around. [Video 220]
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[@bigjoeangel]

The same thing happens when I eat too much chili, I start to rotate around my axis and then I run around the room.

[@jameshunt2905]

Mmm..... “run around” looking for relief or a discharge site recepticle...... mmmmhmmmm, yessssiree!

[@tEqUiko]

🏃 2 da 🚻

[@hellos3487]

🙂

[@nastynutzz4381]

Brother 🤣

[@ddbabybella58]

That call 🎉🔥💩🔥

[@jimzielinski946]

I've found the "tea" made by boiling tobacco can completely stop small copepods when viewing them under the microscope. Some people spray such a tea over their house plants, using it as a biodegradable pesticide. I don't know if a small amount of nicotine can be used in the same way to examine microorganisms.

[@manudehanoi]

this type of experiment is much more interesting than juste samples under the mic. Please keep on (you can try other disinfectant like onion or garlic)

[@zeus1141]

Garlic is a good idea. I'll try it myself. Luckily I have a microscope

[@14xx07]

@@zeus1141 Do update us! :D

[@tobe3940]

Their motion is so strange ... they look like well-rendered digital 3D models that are created for video games that are rotating in the game studio software. Interesting that even they have their own mechanism that makes them try to take shelter from the deadly liquid around them. Well done!

[@ArchangelExile]

Paramecia goes into high concentration of capsaicin: Hot! Hot! Hot!!! That, or they're drunk.

[@bobbetts4735]

Definitely got to try this. You certainly are one of the best teachers around with a genuine passion for the subject.

[@petventures]

Very interesting. Hope you can continue this experiment with different substances. Other plant compounds. It seems to me that flowers (where permethrin comes from) and roots (ginger, turmeric, beets, etc.) of plants contain powerful anti-microbial properties. Curious to see what vegetable glycerin does. Thanks for showing us the hidden world.

[@janellemedveckyulickey]

TY for your time doing these videos. I do enjoy them and this was my dream job when I was younger.

[@jdrmanmusiqking]

Been looking for something like this for a long time! Thanks!

[@RPostVideos]

This is what I get for searching Red Hot Chili Peppers' music! 🤣 It is pretty cool and I'm learning something new! 😁

[@classicmicroscopy9398]

Fascinating! Looking forward to trying this for myself.

[@jkoenig2677]

3:30 I am banging my desk laughing at this your content is the best man thank you!

[@shaileshkris]

Glad to see you again

[@hellos3487]

Love you posts. Thank you for sharing with us.❤️

[@Trapezius8oblique]

This is great keep them coming thanks

[@halinakozlowska2672]

Again fantastic idea.

[@ronmartin7253]

this is a good example of just how much we currently do not know about simple nature let alone medicine and what science we are given. someday, it will be taught that this age was the truest dark age - where the most knowledgeable had been taught so much that wasn't even true when the teachers before them memorized it

[@noktelfa]

Fascinating! It makes sense. At that level, organisms are little more than complex chemical reactions. It makes sense that introducing chemicals like that could affect things like how the cilia work. Capsaicin is also used in topical creams to relieve arthritis pain and muscle pain. I wonder if it has a similar action, deadening some parts of the actions of pain nerves. It seems strange that something that causes a chemical burn on mucus membranes would alleviate internal pain when applied to the skin.

[@JM-md6vt]

PETA will definitely have a field day with this 😄 I always wanted to rig up a slide with a controllable -55 to -30 millivolt charge to see the effect on the cell wall.

[@Microbehunter]

I am already planning to observe the effect of electricity on microorganisms. You can make the electrodes by gluing aluminum foil on the slide and connecting wires to it using clips.

[@subotnai1]

​@@Microbehunter i would watch the hell out of that

[@silentwatcher1455]

Very interesting, educational and informative.

[@hastaharidwar8502]

Super intéressant !

[@thecoolcarhd4402]

such high quality microscope footage!

[@mikeexits]

I'd be incredibly curious to see what kind of effect a Kratom extract or tea would have on microorganisms like this. At least 3 million people in the US use it as a supplement and it's said to be both anti-microbial and immune-boosting. Check the laws of where you live first though. I'd suggest Cannabis as well, but that is typically even harder to get legally. I would try myself but I don't currently own a microscope. One day I wish to get both a microscope and cymascope. That reminds me, I wonder if you could mix cymatics and microscopy somehow? Maybe by putting a slide on a (very small and weak so the vibrations don't disrupt your ability to observe with stability) speaker playing certain tones and harmonics, you could see the movement of the microbes change in a similar and/or analagous way that liquid mediums tend to show unique patterns for different frequencies. I don't know though, maybe this isn't possible, or at least highly inconvenient. Maybe it's possible to use something similar to a gimbal to keep the slide stable. I'll let you be the judge since you know much more about this stuff than I do. It could also be cool to see Kombucha cultures under a microscope. Just make sure that if you use store-bought kombucha instead of cultivating it yourself, that you let it warm up to room temperature and stay like that for a while so that the dormant microbes can "wake back up." There is a video someone made attempting to do this observation, but the microbes had very little to no visible activity, so I suspect that they didn't follow this step and the microbes didn't have enough time in warm temperatures to become active again.

[@bigpapaplantman5126]

I love Kratom. It has sooo many benefits for me personally. It has been life changing

[@skywalkerneoblade]

Super interesting. I wonder if you could combine the chilly with a small amount of salt on the edge to really concentrate them into a small area!

[@cyclingnerddelux698]

Very interesting!

[@JB-ol4vz]

Thank you for a great tip, now I might have a chanse to abserv these little critters. I really enjoy your films and your entusiasm. Cheers from Sweden.

[@raptoress6131]

Interesting!

[@edithaviland8461]

amazing...

[@claudioguiso43]

I've ordered the swift sw380t and I can't wait to see this world... Coming from astrophotography I feel like we're the small stuff looking at the cosmos looking at smaller stuff ... awesome :)

[@Trylobyte]

Great discovery re slowing the paramecia down to view them more easily -I wonder if it happens with all protozoa? Maybe try some THC next..

[@Chi_SLBU]

It's nice idea, maybe I'll try another experiment like this later. I think Chili is worse than Paracetamol for them. I had an experiment about adding Paracetamol 650mg in some water then keep it for 2 weeks.

[@duderguy1571]

I'm curious of what the ph difference between the two liquids is.

[@SynthAddict]

hey @Microbehunter interesting tests here - looking forward to more your footage is so great can you quickly comment on this setup? scope make and model, Plan optics(?), camera type and settings, etc. I'm currently planning to buy a decent compound scope this week, not from the big 4 - I love Nikon scopes but can't afford them, used them a ton in college I watched most of your gear videos already and I did a lot of this stuff in college 20+ years ago, have a bio degree, but the playing field has changed - the Plan optics sound great but will cost me at east another $400-500 or more and I wanted to use that extra money to get a micro cam too - what do you think? I don't have a good DSLR now so the micro cam is important for now the AmScope with the Phase Contrast wheel/optics seems like the best bang for my buck but the Plan option is vexing me - nice to have but more money and more wait - I will be doing lots of photos and vids thanks for all the great info and content :-)

[@charlesdarwin9303]

Helllo oliver can u make a video on how to identify the diffferent types of protist plsssss like how to knoe that it is a paramecium busaria or paramecium cadumtum or similar looking protist plzzz oliver by the way love ur videos and this one of best video of all plzzz make more of this kind 👍👍👍❤️

[@SlavTiger]

paramecia are one of my favorite protists

[@PratikChandrani]

Can you please make a video of alkaline water and it's effect on various microbes? Now a days alkaline water is marketed as miracle water by many companies. I am curious to learn what impact it could have on microbes?

[@binwaelle1138]

Black seed and black pepper

[@tubepkn]

Did you also try it on other critters? Like Rotifers? Hmmm. Maybe I should try this myself ...🤔

[@megri3441]

Can you try garlic and onion?

[@MYNAMACHEF]

0:21 Seeing the bacterium spin like that honestly answered so many questions I had. I initially thought these lifeforms were flat

[@TooTRUEtoBeG00D]

Can you make functional computer using various concentrations of capsaicin in the solution and movements and speeds of Paramecium?

[@doeeyeddevil4896]

“IT BURNS, IT BURNS….. AAAHHHHHH!!!!”😅

[@learrus]

They obviously feel some how since they respond with distress to the chilli oil

[@xhivo97]

would they still spin under the glass?

[@AliBuba1980]

can you do this test on mursa

[@rahulkurmudharrylb1734]

Hi can you make a video of seeing cell organism like rotifer ,cilliat, amoeba and other with a toy or student microscope or the junior scope

[@vanhetgoor]

"They don't have a nervous system and they don't feel any pain", where have I heard this before? It is something like what they say about fish, they are cold blooded and they don't feel any pain, the little hook in their mouths is hardly noticed by the animal. When those cute little Paramecia bump into each-other they turn around, so they must notice something! Their noses get crickled up, therefore they turn around. Do they have GPS instead? Do they warn each other by shouting? Hola hermano, estas sentado con tu nariz contra mi nariz, tienes que dar la vuelta y volver. Asqueroso Paramecium, estás ahí, debes regresar. Mi nariz va primero. I have no idea why Paracenia speak Espagñol together! Is it because of the Spanish Pepper?

[@lotharmayring6063]

there a many substances which paralyse ciliates. the simplest way to do this is diluted ethanol

[@erikdeleon]

can you try Philippine chili for this?

[@riderinsanjose337]

Would this behavior possibly indicate some type of rudimentary nervous system ? Or is the capsaicin interfering with the Proton driven cilia 'motor' ? Idonkno

[@14xx07]

Does wasabi do the same? :)

[@narayananr8650]

Hello sir , I have a really cheap but aa really good binocular microscope , Please review it

[@runesmom1]

You should be playing some Red Hot Chili Pepper music in the background while it shows them spinning around on their axis.

[@Branusko123]

interesting

[@tazmaniandiva7762]

Curious to see what borax does to these little buggers.

[@snake_eagle]

The cure is Mexican Chilli 🌶

[@____.__._.._]

Absolutely cool! Btw, I observed that paramecia likes to "race" near algae and generally near corners of huge stuff. Is there any explanation of that?

[@nickcosimano5028]

They like oxygen, so algae produces it and the edges of the slide have a greater concentration of it.

[@airtonrodriguesdeoliveira9447]

Todas ficaram embriagadas.

[@vuejs1]

Can It kill other bacteria? do the experement it would be awesome

[@CKILBY-zu7fq]

Thanks brother. I was told to get into biology because of my skill sets. But. Just watching your videos says alot. I watch because I'm interested. Also. As an inventor. I must have experience with any subject to understan how to turn it into a useful device. My skills. Anyway. Thanks. Keep up the good work. Peace.

[@amiralozse1781]

you should publish a paper about your findings

[@amiralozse1781]

title 'how to drug parametium'

[@vamsijannavarapu]

You might want to test turmeric. It is supposed to be equivalent to penicillin

[@mushroom4051]

Try garlic,ginger or turmeric

[@Yash-Gaikwad]

Should have used pure capsaicin. Now we don't know what causes this behaviour because chili has thousands of molecules.

[@jerrylloel6331]

Peeps so stoopid , omg yur Killin em !?! FYI everytime you wash your hands yur Killin em !!! 😏

[@saeedbokaei3696]

What Magnification is that? You write 20x (you mean 20 x 10 ?) And what camera did you use?

[@Microbehunter]

The 10x, 20x refer to the objective. There is no optics in front of the camera, so there is no additional multiplication factor. The magnification on screen is not the same as the magnification as when looking through, as the total magnification on screen also depends on the size of the monitor, or the size at which the video is displayed. For this reason I do not write "total magnification 200x", because this would be misleading.

[@SimonSozzi7258]

It kind of demonstrates that their movements aren't very "intelligent" and responsive to external stimuli. If they were, you would expect them to flinch or move away as soon as they came into contact with the solution but they swim right in and out of it at random.

[@richard.6681]

That's hot .

[@theresam1963]

If they have no nervous system why are they rolling around in pain

[@yonetmen]

Do you have Oxytricha culture? I would like to see a video of Oxytricha!

[@thenaturekid3739]

If paramecium don't feel pain, then why do they avoid the chili juice?

[@phillipsmiley5930]

some didnt

[@oughtington1628]

So cool!!!! Omfg

[@burakcevher9841]

Hello, it's me again :) I asked you a question about a week ago. But there must be a translation error, you misunderstood my question. That's my question: I want to get the swift 380B microscope. But the product is more expensive on Amazon internationally. So I want to buy it from another seller (not a Swift Offical seller). Swift's German or European seller). But this seller writes the model extension of the same product as ef13011. It normally writes as bf13011 in all places (sites without German sellers). So are the products the same? And I have a favor to ask you. I'm not American or English. And I love your videos, but I don't understand anything.😂When will translation support be active? For example, I am a Turkish citizen who is 13 years old and a fan of yours. In other words, Turkish language support can be added. Or Russian, French... Please answer both my questions. Thank you very much for your attention... ❤️

[@Microbehunter]

About the 380B: it could be (but I am not sure) that the different number of the microscope is because of the different power in the different countries (the voltage), so you have to take care that you get it for the correct voltage for your country. Otherwise the microscope is the same, but this is the only difference that I can think of. About the translations, this is what youtube has to do automatically. I have found automatic turkish translation. you have to click on the icon in the video on the lower right (the wheel) and then subtitles/cc to select the language.

[@burakcevher9841]

@@Microbehunter thanks

[@kavyadevaraj9264]

How about paramecium and salt ( Nacl) together , with and without heat?

[@____.__._.._]

Heat changes the solubility of NaCl, but generally in normal temp. it doesnt make any difference. Since there is a difference in ion concentration, water will flow frow paramecium to environement, thus killing them. You will have the exact reverse when you put them in distilled water

[@Microbehunter]

I also tried salt. This will cause them to lose water, and some also start to speed off into one direction.

[@amiralozse1781]

'parametium liberation front' to the rescue!!

[@mahmoodrafiq4405]

Can you try garlic 🧄

[@nickcosimano5028]

So I have a Carolina reaper plant, so . . .

[@graealex]

AfterEffects, Premiere, Resolve and OBS all have the option of "Color Spill Reduction", which after creating the mask, desaturate remaining green parts in the video.

[@Softdattel]

Animal Protection?

[@metiusabt2581]

Ege interesa, Oliver. Eble ajlo estus alia substanco por observi kio okazus al la paramecioj

[@Microbehunter]

Kaj tion mi esploros en la venonta filmo!

[@metiusabt2581]

@@Microbehunter Tre bone, mi antauxgxojas

[@boppernostopper8598]

maybe it can be used as a step to sterilize water?

[@nickcosimano5028]

It may kill microbes, but not chemicals and minerals, so I wouldn’t use this to purify it. But could help in sterilizing things you aren’t eating from.

[@boppernostopper8598]

@@nickcosimano5028 people use UV-C to kill microbes and it does neither of what you mention either

[@suzanne5971]

Maybe they spin to shake off the toxic bath they find themselves in.

[@srujana6105]

The paramecia be like 🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧

[@airplanegeorge]

that's a spicy meat ball

[@edghe119]

Try salt next time

[@JonSpink]

F

[@peace-lm8nl]

please don't kill anything :(

[@delta-r1395]

you kill more germs than the paramecium when you wash your hands

[@gigaOMEGA]

In theory, spicy food helps you get rid of illness?

[@Microbehunter]

Not necessarily. But it can help to preserve food and reduce chance of spoilage because some spices prevent growth of bacteria.

[@caoinismyname]

Not theory but in practice. Ancient people use spices as medicine long before we even had microscopes. They continue to do so until today because it's effective.

[@amilom007]

try garlic next time

[@skipgeel]

Paramecium in pain.

[@katentropy]

Kinda mean.

[@Earthium]

No Paramecium were harmed in the making of this video. Because they have no nervous system to feel pain.

[@akashamedia671]

Ha h@ no nervous system they won’t feel a thing therefore it’s ok to kill them 😂😂😂great justification

[@ClubMayview]

Thats why you eat the peppers in foreign countrys

[@kowalityjesus]

HOW CAN YOU JUST KILL THEM LIKE THAT?? HEARTLESS.

[@28th_St_Air]

Correct, paramecium do not have hearts. You kill more organisms just washing your hands than he did in his entire video.

[@kowalityjesus]

@@28th_St_Air I was joking but you are funny

[@28th_St_Air]

@@kowalityjesus i figured you were joking but he was saying that he gets a lot of critical comments from people who aren’t. oh geez

[@QueerCripple]

I wanna hunt microbes 😍 I am currently dealing with some sort of skin mite over infestation and I want to do a scraping and examination sooooooo bad! I won't have as good an opportunity after we fix my skin issues haha

[@bluerabbit7245]

Take plenty of scrapings before you start any bleach baths or antibiotics 😁 Would be really interesting to study and document how your skin mites react to any treatment. Good luck getting better, but do some mite hunting first!

[@artsymamanana]

Borax and alfalfa bath, yes, the rabbit food.

[@thomasschwarz1973]

@paramecium do not have nervous systems@, oliver, can you please breafly explain what a nervous system is, and how you know that paramecium do not have them? They obviously have brains, I can see that becuase they think of something to do/eat, etc.... then they do it. How do you do that without a brain? If not a brain, what do you think that they have? A computer chip?

[@thecoolcarhd4402]

Paramecium are tiny little animals that do not have eyes, ears, hearts or brains. Despite their size and shape, this single-cell organism can do almost anything other organisms can do.

[@thomasschwarz1973]

@@thecoolcarhd4402 "In biology, the classical doctrine of the nervous system determines that it is a highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its actions and sensory information by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body." ...so you really think that Paramecium do not have nervous systems? Again, what are you thinking, paramecium have computer chips? How does this "cell" work? or is it some great sigularity, "the cell" that is not divisable and simple does what it does?

[@machanifs]

They may not have a nervous system as found in other so called higher life forms. But they definitely have a much more complex sensory mechanism which we are yet to completely understand. Also they have emotions, group behaviour, ego and all psychological traits. Only difference is that these are beyond human comprehension.

[@blaith1482]

@@machanifs do you have sources that i can read? This is my first time hearing this and im really interested

[@vanallen3350]

@@machanifs I think you summed it up very well.Its beyond our understanding .

[@maxishere3831]

Its a massacre !

[@sajadtroll9186]

if they don't have nervous system, then why behave like this ???????????

[@Microbehunter]

Plants also respond to stimuli (grow towards the sun, roots growing towards the ground, sunflower turning towards sun etc) even though they have no nervous system. Complex behavior is not always linked to a nervous system.

[@otiliaczego8182]

Have you ever thought of becoming a comedian?:)