How Exactly Is Your Body Held Together?

Connective tissue does a lot more than just keep you in one piece. In this episode, Patrick breaks down the varied role it plays in your body and how one tissue type can encompass so many different types of cells.
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Our bodies have four tissue types: nervous, muscle, epithelial, and connective. And while all play an important role in our bodies, in this Human we will be focusing specifically on connective tissue.
While, connective tissue does make sure your body doesn’t, well, fall apart, connective tissue wears many hats in our bodies. Connective tissue is difficult to define because it encompasses lots of different cell types, from cartilage in your nose and ears to the liquid blood in your veins.
Our connective tissue can take form as blood and lymph or as ligaments.
But there are some commonalities across all connective tissue, and that’s what Patrick is going to break down in this episode of Human.
#cartilage #humanbody #tissue #piercing #humanseries #seeker #physiology #science
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“Connective tissues perform many functions in the body, but most importantly, they support and connect other tissues; from the connective tissue sheath that surrounds muscle cells, to the tendons that attach muscles to bones, and to the skeleton that supports the positions of the body.”
Tissue Engineering to Improve the Most Common Orthopaedic Surgery
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“Torn menisci are so common and so severe that the surgery required to repair the injury is the most common orthopedic procedure, and cases are on the rise. However, meniscus surgery may not be fully effective, since it involves removing only the torn part of a meniscus, leaving behind less of it to bear the same load of body weight as before. Researchers at Penn are working to uncover ways to encourage the cells in and around the meniscus to repair themselves, hopefully leading to less invasive procedures.”
What are ligaments?
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“Our bones, muscles and joints work together in a coordinated way to move our body and give it stability. Tendons and ligaments play an important role here, too: Tendons connect muscles to bones, allowing us to move, and ligaments help to hold things in place.”
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[@eddierich6179]

I've got Ehlers-Danlos Syndrom, and his video helped me to better understand the way my body feels and the things doctors say to me.

[@VariantAEC]

I don't have EDS but have some other undefined problem especially effecting my spine knees and finger joints that is similar to RA (enough to be considered by different specialists in the same field to say I do and don't have RA). I'm starting to consider the possibility of Multiple connective tissue disorders, but being diagnosed isn't straight forward. My joints sound very crunchy and to me even fine motor movements of the neck sound like pieces of wood or plastic grinding into each other most of the noise is transmitted to my ears through sonic conduction. However this kind of unwanted feedback is also audible outside of my own body by others in a space with very little ambient noise. I sound like a poorly maintenanced machine. Unintended joint locking is also possible, but it's not documented in cases of convective tissue disorders that I have researched thus far. More rigid tissues seem to be perfectly fine while skin bleeds without warning and I have gastrointestinal problems every now and again which might fall more inline with rarer presentations of EDS. This had me looking for rare or newly discovered forms of EDS or conditions like EDS. So my skin literally slowly dissolves in water, my brain is spilling out of my skull, other tissue is verifiable disordered as well and my joints seem to be gunked up with something causing beyond chronic grinding, popping, discomfort and even pain. To make matters worse my blood chemistry is borderline acidic always showing signs of infection and low hydration regardless of what I'm doing or when I am tested for years now which may make me a breeding ground for certain types of bacteria, viruses and fungi. High seasonal body temperatures might keep these things at bay or they might help keep some foreign invaders living inside me alive during the cold months. One particular fungus Candida Albicans which is commonly found on certain locations outside of the body can wreak havoc on human tissue of it gets inside you causing many of my symptoms only in very very rare cases... That is right before it destroys vital organs causing sudden death. The problem with Candidiasis is that it doesn't typically take too long to kill a person. I've been like this for well over five years, but 5 years is basically the longest I've ever heard anyone survive with chronic systemic candidiasis. So it's back to the drawing board? I've read that EDS isn't just hypermobile joints, but literally every medical source lists it as a critical symptom a staple or hallmark of the disease. I don't know? I thought I had Crohn's disease years ago or a thyroid problem. My mother thinks I might have MS and the doctors are confused as all h•••. The only things the doctors have to go on that prove I might not be insane are the diagnostic images which unequivocally prove internal deformities do indeed exist. None of which they can explain and all of them don't typically effect people as young as myself when they were found. With special antibody tests showing false positives based on further testing, reflexology and other neurological examinations showing progressive limb spasticity with very few other deficits... It's a mess and if my connective tissue is disordered it might explain a lot from my swollen finger joints to the creaking of my neck and various lesions in organ tissue to cochlear migraines which cause temporary deafness. This video may have helped push me to reevaluate the complexity of load bearing joints like tge spine and knees which might help in some way to focus attention on one of the least debilitating and most annoying symptoms I have.

[@eddierich6179]

VariantAEC Im not a doctor so Im not sure exactly what you want me to say to all this. But if you don't have hypermobile joints, you do not have EDS for sure. Every type of EDS has hypermobile joints, and then additional symptoms. But without hypermobile joints, it must be another disorder.

[@anatine_banana_69]

VariantAEC oh my god! Is there possibly any cure, given the doctors pinpoint exactly what is is?

[@VariantAEC]

@@anatine_banana_69 Gotta find out what it is first. It's likely a rare presentation of something already known hopefully not novel disorder.

[@1MinuteFlipDoc]

Peace and blessings to you!

[@ImplodedAtom]

Morpheus: Nobody can be told what the Matrix is. Seeker: Hold my collagen!

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Our bodies are fascinating, the fact that some of the collagen proteins can resist breaking down for tens of millions of years is impressive.

[@thefirstsin]

Wow that is impressive

[@chiranjeevsahoo4960]

But if you twist your ankle it will never be the same

[@tony9622]

Yes simply cool i guess

[@larrypult6869]

why dont bacteria want to eat them?

[@aperson2730]

@@chiranjeevsahoo4960 Or if you tear your peroneal tendon. I know. It heals but it's not quite the same. 😞

[@Sciencerely]

I'm just working on the origins and evolution of cancer cells and it is fascinating how much research is currently focusing on the so-called tumour microenvironment. During the formation of a tumor, cancerous cells shape the extracellular matrix. For example, we find a high amount of (leaky) blood vessels which provide tumor cells with more oxygen and a higher density of "normal" cells which sometimes protect tumor cells from anti-cancer drugs (I'm planning a video about that soon). By studying the extracellular matrix around tumour cells, scientists hope to find new ways to treat cancer!

[@anjaligupta6489]

Wow that’s really fascinating! Cancer cells are basically selfish to get all the materials for themselves. But, can you please elaborate on what you mean by “cancerous cells SHAPE the extracellular matrix”? Do they create a special matrix for themselves?

[@armaniwebb8132]

Research angiogenesis. It is the study of the formation and destruction of blood vessels, it is believed this plays a massive role in metastasis and tumor spread and growth. Dr william li is doing massive research in this area and is making big breakthroughs

[@anjaligupta6489]

Armani Webb Wow this is so cool! I’ve never heard of this before. Thanks for letting me know about this! Definitely looking forward to what we can achieve with this new research.

[@andreasuslar7412]

I love the voice of Patrick Kelly and how he looks at the camera

[@jacksonpercy8044]

I like how he clearly understands what he's talking about.

[@lakshyagoel9661]

God asked me the same question after watching my sleeping shedule

[@smoke4131]

Short answer : MEAT.

[@sciencethatblowsmind7169]

My body is held together due to the interactions between the atoms of just 11 elements(mainly): Oxygen, Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sulfur, Sodium, Chlorine, and Magnesium. 🙂🙂

[@BoffinGrusky]

I'm old, so there is a lot of duct tape in use.

[@KenTheAdventurer]

i recommend staples

[@BoffinGrusky]

@@KenTheAdventurer I like the idea, but I want to see some infection statistics. I went to the Swingline website but found nothing.

[@sdfkjgh]

Tendons and ligaments: "I like to move it move it, you like to move it move it, we like to move it move it, you like to...MOVE IT!"

[@MikkaPower]

Love the chill retrowave in the background! 😍 More please

[@DeathValleyDazed]

Well done, I get the connection here!

[@yusefendure]

Outstanding episode! I learned tons. Keep it up!

[@NateCrownwell]

wow I learned a lot, thank you Patrick

[@fundemort]

Im still laughing on yesterday's Uranus video.

[@lost3834]

Something more to add to Uranus: Today I read that Uranus has 65 moons,I haven't stopped laughing since then!😂

[@anatine_banana_69]

One day, I’ll be mature enough to not laugh at this. But not today

[@CosmicErrata]

Anyone else feeling really careful with moving their body while listening to this?...

[@campkira]

atomic level we all are stardusk...

[@DizzyChi21]

No cause I'm stronk ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

[@ellalaszlo7002]

Thank you. Showing this video to my family helped me explaine whye ehlers danlos syndrome effects more than just hypermobility and disslokated joints.

[@jacksonpercy8044]

The thing I really like about Patrick is that you can tell he actually knows what he's talking about. So I wasn't the least bit surprised to discover he writes the scripts for the episodes that he hosts.

[@rachaelcahill3035]

It's Ehlers Danlos Syndrome awareness month, for your next episode of Sick can you please talk about the Ehlers Danlos Syndromes and other genetic connective tissue disorders like Marfans Syndrome

[@alessiapisano6042]

It is held together with dank memes

[@greyscale8137]

ok

[@Hygix_]

Lol

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ok

[@APAstronaut333]

Git great

[@lakshyagoel9661]

Dark**

[@nmallory42]

You need to do a collaboration with Tom Myers with anatomy trains. Its amazing to know connective tissue from your neck spirals your body all the way to your feet with no disconnections.

[@Dudleymiddleton]

I did have my left ear lobe pierced a couple of times in my early 20's but grew out of it pretty quick.(Now in my 50's and can still feel the cores) Seems to have become an obsession with everybody else these days as well as tattoos.

[@dl1129]

My body is held together by wood glue.

[@tvsnorlex1482]

dᴉlℲ black tar :/

[@ThehollyJesus041]

It’s glued together

[@perfectdiversion]

I didn't want to say it. I would prefer you all to find out on your own but the real answer is zip ties

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Seeker bucks? What happened to my D-News dollars?

[@jacksonpercy8044]

They lost their value when the channel name changed.

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Seeker is the best doctor I've ever had.

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[@SaturnTheEpicNoob]

ok

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I uh.. don’t want to be that guy, but I have 31 seeker bucks saved up. Could I cash 30 in to get a.. uh. A favorite from seeker? There’s not a whole lot I can buy here lol. But thanks for the videos and effort put into them. Keeps me sane in this quarantine

[@subhajitpaul3026]

Can you please make a video on our olfactory system?

[@abhilashtu3653]

I love you guys

[@BizarreWords]

"Badly", seeker. My body is held together quite badly; thanks for bringing it up-

[@the_hanged_clown]

ok boomer

[@allsmiles3666]

K

[@kallah4999]

@@the_hanged_clown OK groomer

[@lordpochinki2112]

My body is held together by flex tape.

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Does seeker have a podcast?

[@numanh8391]

The solar system is held together by UrAnUs

[@tyrikcarter5615]

👉🏿👈🏿

[@thefirstsin]

Wrong

[@AlexLopez-vm7uq]

That's a good one (;D)!

[@carlosdavidmonica4435]

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[@aibeksamakov]

what happens to the ear cartilage when one gets a cauliflower ear?

[@sdfkjgh]

1:18 When *I* think of connective tissue, I think of crunching on gristle, or chewing on tendons and ligaments like they're bubblegum. Yummy.

[@darkmatter8650]

DO YOUR NEXT VIDEOS ON NERVOUS SYSTEM /NERVE RELATED -SPECIALLY ADVANCED TREATMENT OF LUMBER myelomeningocele.And treating lumber region bed sore at home .

[@Josh-wb2us]

Anyone else finding their audio kinda weak? I dont know if there's something to my hearing but I can listen to other videos just fine without earphones but damn here ughck

[@anastasiacarvalho401]

Simple. Flex seal

[@RJspeaking]

Wowwwwww

[@sdfkjgh]

8:07 How much larger of an animal to you need to get beyond cow?

[@anatine_banana_69]

A bigger cow. Then probably Joe

[@sdfkjgh]

@@anatine_banana_69: Now you've done it! We're in a huge-ass cow size arms race! AND you've scared off King Arthur and all his Knights! "Run away!"

[@lekiscool]

Not very well sometimes.

[@guitarmaniaxx]

What larger animals than cows would you try this treatment on?

[@lulo0044]

Holy crap, I'm rich now, i have 10 big fat SECRET bucks, omg i feel like i can hold the worldz faith in my hand, hehehe

[@kagannasuhbeyoglu]

👍

[@willardSpirit]

The answer is love.

[@clarissaelisa2196]

Head, toes, knees and bones...lol

[@3800S1]

This video is making me feel all kuksy.

[@dcphillips1991]

I broke my nose and the cartilige deformed to the side, I had to have a Rhinoseptoplasty to fix it.

[@mhakoyMD]

Neat... some review in histology and biochem but not in detail. 😅

[@deadlycucumber9020]

I’m connected by flex tape. You?

[@vanderj8]

This presentation would really have been better without the music trying to hold it together.

[@milchani]

I just realized ligament and tendon are the same word in my native language. Weird.

[@karanarora1468]

ok

[@adinameissner2271]

Handsome chubby guy is great.

[@OSKESIS]

Has trace been fired? 😇🤣🤣 i feel so good now lolz

[@brentdalling4699]

Pretty sure he left a while ago. He started his own channel now.

[@PerceptionVsReality333]

He left Seeker a long time ago & started making videos on his channel.

[@ankitrai1595]

My body is connected by glue.

[@Pher0cious]

"How Exactly Is Your Body Held Together?" By God's Will

[@Pher0cious]

@@FreedomAnderson It's a joke dude. Don't be so tense.

[@PieZuri]

Freedom Anderson r/wooosh

[@sdfkjgh]

@@Pher0cious: Now, now, you don't know him from Adam. He could be compressed.

[@carlosdavidmonica4435]

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[@anatine_banana_69]

Ok, now I’m curious. What did Anderson say?

[@FreedomAnderson]

My body is held together by a metal rod.

[@niemerow1953]

Excuse me, but you forgot to mention fascia. Slight oversight.

[@UKSkateboarding]

Except I have two 11mm tunnels on my helix lol

[@chandramoulisarkar2935]

It's held together by Spiderman.....

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

6:30 Does that child actually have a beard?

[@Metallix_YT]

Pieter-Bas Hoogsteen wtf

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

Xelocity Metallix why that? I mean look at the kid. Can you explain what that darker hairy looking bit at the bottom of his face is if it isn’t a beard?

[@Metallix_YT]

Pieter-Bas Hoogsteen yea i’m saying wtf that kids got a beard

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

Xelocity Metallix btw if you don’t know when it appears, start watching from 6:30 or 6:32, the you’ll see it.

[@Metallix_YT]

Pieter-Bas Hoogsteen no i saw it

[@sergioin3D]

I asked my mom for the whole sum to the house she has in Mexico when she sells it because she circumsiced me and she hasn’t replied to me.

[@Morya58]

Tried the new meniscus treatment on cows then says they need to try it out on late animals. And what by chance is a cow

[@x1000plusx]

Flex tape

[@SaturnTheEpicNoob]

ok

[@cuddles8842]

Potato kk

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

Yes, sawed my finger in Half and with flextape it functions just as usual.

[@ardekakka]

hatred, with pure hatred

[@ahmeddaboi5732]

And pure Malice

[@rickjames5998]

I heard if u collect 69 seeker bucks maren will give u hug with no clothes on.

[@mr.personhumanson6871]

With egg wash

[@joshisnot11]

This dude clearly hasn't seen a conch punched at 1/2 inch lmao Hell, I have friends who've stretched their septum to nearly half inch. Really good info though. I truly hope research into this will lead to treatments for those like my mother who suffer horribly from autoimmune connective tissue diseases.

[@pauliw8212]

Currently, I'm being held together by several streaming platforms, food delivery services, and a daily state-approved walk. Take any of them and i'm falling apart like Roman empire in 476 CE

[@Dysputant]

Sugar... i can only drink Coke and Pepsi. Anything with less sugar could melt my insides.

[@rottenpoet6675]

whats with these spam comments??

[@rottenpoet6675]

lol :D not really

[@Conz49]

Not trynna flex but I got 100 seeker bucks🤑

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

Jeff Bezos knows and he’s already jealous of your wealth. You go in peace, you good sir.

[@Hi-jw6mv]

It is held together with bones

[@greyscale8137]

Hi yes indeed humans have exoskeletons yes biology

[@StarryNabz]

Yeah this is big brain time

[@maemilev]

*Bring back youtube comments!*

[@Ponlets]

his nose is slanted to the left (camera right)

[@minsawmg2322]

ငါဘောလုံးကန်နှစ်ရက်သုံးရက်မအိပ်လဲဘာမှမဖြစ်ဘူး

[@Abdul_1]

God created human starting with Adam

[@FreedomAnderson]

God is a fictional being and is irrelevant to science.

[@KillerBill1953]

Gluons?

[@sdfkjgh]

0:25 Huh. She looks a lot like www.imdb.com/name/nm2047780/?ref_=tt_cl_t5

[@SaturnTheEpicNoob]

By tape! It’s obvious.

[@SaturnTheEpicNoob]

ok

[@cesarzayas4307]

A cow is a large animal

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

Thank you, I wouldn’t know what to do without this info...

[@cesarzayas4307]

@@pieter-bashoogsteen2283 he said in the end of the video that they still need to do the knee procedure in large animals, but they had just done it on cows.

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

Cesar Zayas yes, sorry sounded more rude than intended.

[@cesarzayas4307]

@@pieter-bashoogsteen2283 ah nah no rudeness just kinda funny lol

[@pieter-bashoogsteen2283]

Cesar Zayas guess I commented to soon.

[@HShango]

piercing your body that is disgusting 🤢

[@SaturnTheEpicNoob]

Your opinion.

[@greyscale8137]

Moses Jonson ok

[@jonathandevries2828]

the meniscus looks like a bikini top

[@Kabodanki]

I got bored at 3min

[@InfoUrduchannel]

😯😯1st comment

[@SaturnTheEpicNoob]

No you are not, unfortunately, @Hi is.

[@RichMitch]

Loosely

[@max-qv5dq]

First

[@adikguar1995]

First!

[@SaturnTheEpicNoob]

Uh, no you aren’t, @Hi actually is.

[@adikguar1995]

@@SaturnTheEpicNoob aw man

[@fokjohnpainkiller]

Piercings are degeneracy

[@antojosefernandez]

Thats your opinion. Elsewhere your opinion maybe considered a sign of degeneracy. Human behaviour of body piercing is older than all religions and their moralities. Stereotyping people who have piercings is just as degenerate behavior.

[@prank-pulse]

4th

[@greyscale8137]

Djz Gamer ok

[@SaturnTheEpicNoob]

ok

[@minsawmg2322]

သင်တို့ဘယ်ခါပြောရမလဲငါ့စိတ်ငါမပိုင်ဘူး

[@fearthehoneybadger]

Is this a language?

[@meta8671]

anyone else watching this while eating meat? lol

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

My girlfriends body is held together with semen

[@BIGJATPSU]

Duct tape, enough said.

[@estudiordl]

Duct tape. Mostly. 🧐

[@dp0004]

10 00 01 11 11 01 00 10, etc. This is your money. I can sell you a sheep 🐑. What can I buy it for. 5 chickens.

[@minsawmg2322]

သူများကိုထိခိုက်စေတယ်

[@minsawmg2322]

ငါကိုယ်ဘာလိုတယ်မသိဘူးလား