Hormones | SciShow Tangents Podcast

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Oops, all science this episode! Erstwhile editorial assistant Deboki Chakravarti steps in for erstwhile everyman Sam Schultz as we parse through fundamental puzzles about humanity: what makes us, us, and if it is hormones, does that make us cocktails or cauldrons?
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Hormones
[Truth or Fail]
vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/...
[Trivia Question]
Hormone-injected Judas goats to kill invasive species in Project Isabella
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
modernfarmer.com/2013/09/kill...
[Fact Off]
Bones make osteocalcin, which might be a hormone involved in stress reactions
www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosgenetic...
journals.plos.org/plosgenetic...
Chrononutrition and breast milk hormones training babies’ circadian rhythms
[Ask the Science Couch]
Hormones (vs. neurotransmitters) and how they affect emotions
Serotonin
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Testosterone
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...
Estrogen
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...
Thyroid
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Puberty in general
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
journals.publishing.umich.edu...
[Butt One More Thing]
Golden spiny mice poop hormones show that they've evolved to be nocturnal (even though they can be diurnal)
journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
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[@lisanorwoodtreefarm]

Every time Hank says "we *try* to stay on topic" i feel a little bit lied to lol

[@Alex-js5lg]

I guess when the show is literally named Tangents, they get a lot of leeway with what's considered "on topic."

[@ragerequiem6323]

He doesn't say how hard they try

[@rdklkje13]

I feel like that weird feeling he expressed reading the StudyHall ad was more about how it forced him to stay on topic than anything else 😆

[@ocupersgmail]

it feels like ADHD 😂

[@wyattlewis4069]

I am very glad they don't; more content to stimulate my dopamine receptors.

[@oxoniumgirl]

As an intersex woman who has to take replacement hormones for the duration of my life I know very intimately well what it's like to be without (many) hormones, and I can say I felt far less like myself than I have since I got the right hormones in the right amounts. I am forever in love with and grateful for my hormones, without them I wouldn't fully be me.

[@jbrecken]

I like at around 16:30 where Ceri's cat hears them talking about cats and wakes up and comes out to see us.

[@rdklkje13]

Reading the comments now to see if someone else already mentioned that. So cute.

[@theunknownunknowns5168]

As a Kiwi I can confirm certified manuka honey is my favourite honey. Also manuka trees are known to be good for off grid septic evaporation fields as the trees kill pathogens in the soil, as does the honey that is also used in some bandages.

[@arthursamuel301]

The diamond study "fact" is so good and i was rooting so hard for it!

[@CatBarefield]

A whole new meaning to “i feel it in my bones” ahaha

[@darcieclements4880]

Chilled to the bone.

[@christianavance9124]

My favorite sauce is Sweet Chili Sauce. Not only does it work for nearly every ethnic based group of foods, but it's even an amazing salad dressing. And it doesn't activate my gerd as fast as other foods/sauces, so I can have much larger quantities of it before I have to medicate.

[@TheOnyxFlame]

@27:35 'Judas goats' honestly sounds so hardcore

[@VictoriaCaswell]

I feel like the cookies of mysterious flavour is a taskmaster challenge waiting to happen. (I think they have done crisps and ice cream mystery flavours before!)

[@abiomer415]

Haha I loved the X-men segment Sam, thank you !

[@maggiekelley259]

I had all the reproductive hormones taken out of my body and lost two months of my life. I had complete anterograde amnesia until supplemental hormones given. That was fun, especially since I'm being evaluated for early dementia five years later 😬

[@misslauren881]

Lao Gan Ma is pretty good. But I found a chilli crisp in my area that's my favourite. It's made at the Bankok Meat Balls Food Co. LTD. in Scarborough. It has garlic and MSG in and it's beautiful.

[@osmia]

Sam's notes for the win!

[@carollollol]

LOVED THIS! How odd that I like the SciShow and podcasts like this, but only got this recommender now. But im glad :).

[@_andrewvia]

Fruit Bars! - only carefully dried to be crunchy but not burnt. Pop Rocks in Oreos? Wow. Real food adventures.

[@IceMetalPunk]

For the Science Couch question, there's a perspective that a lot of people overlook which is important. We understand and accept that external factors can stimulate neural signals: light hitting our retinas triggers the optic nerve, vibrations hitting our cochlea trigger the auditory nerve, etc. We call these senses. But that sort of activity -- something outside the nervous system stimulating neurons -- isn't limited to just body-external stimuli. Our neurons have receptors for a ton of chemicals produced inside our own bodies, many of which are hormones produced outside the nervous system. For instance, cortisol receptors are all over the place in our brains. So the answer to "why do hormones affect our mood?" is, if we simplify, "for the same reason anything we see, hear, feel, etc. can affect our mood: our brains can sense them and react accordingly." Remember, emotions are just evolved heuristics to guide behavior: negative emotions train us to avoid things, positive ones train us to seek out things; the specific emotions each corresponding to a different category of thing to analyze/avoid/seek. So our emotional response to hormone levels is just our brain's evolved way of saying "I've sensed this change, and it's good to keep it up / bad and should be avoided."

[@shadebug]

Chrononutrition is surely like when people balk at you for having pasta and a coke for breakfast

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

i feel like the body is like a pannel with three giant red buttons but each button has a billion different inputs and living is just hitting them randomly and hoping for the best

[@adriannegentleman83]

there is a burger restraunt in Christchurch New Zealand, called Burger Burger, They serve a garlic aoli with thier fries that is the best sauce ever.

[@flyinfrogg]

I’m sad that study hall has no science courses 😢.

[@iSalameee]

Saw your ad video today (Feb 23rd) and I'm here for some support. Love what you do!

[@lutilda]

If Curry counts as a sauce instead of a soup, then curry is DEFINITELY my favorite sauce (literally every kind). ❤

[@markedis5902]

You guys really need to try Hendersons Relish.

[@briannaarnold6053]

The "Ones" like ase is for enzymes

[@SassySlayer69]

Love this podcast. I hope they don’t cancel it

[@BurningheartofSILVER]

2:21 As a Canadian who grew up in the US so isn’t really “Canadian”, I find it offensive that Seri called cheesy French Fries with some sauce “cheesy French Fries” instead of Poutine

[@stacyshirrell11]

When I was a kid I wanted to eat the pedals off the flowers all the time. I just loved the smells so much and just didn’t do it because I didn’t want to kill myself 😂

[@somethingorother9]

Ceri! Is the strawberry habenero sauce from The Friendly Toast?

[@michaelbondt8202]

I feel it in my bones

[@thactotum]

I can feel this video in my bones.

[@halfblood100]

I like ketchup, but it's the older recipes with garlic and spices that I like. My family misses the old ketchup taste so much that we plan on making some for one of my siblings' birthday this year. As a fun group activity, we are going to do a few different types as well.

[@therabbithat]

15:00 the example and the study don't describe the same thing. The study would be on anticipation, so dopamine, the example is surprise / getting the thing, so nothing to do with dopamine. Dopamine is anticipation of reward, it is not rewarding and does not feel very good Edit / spoiler: ah! So if I was a guest, that's how I would have known not to pick this one... But I would still have lost because I thought the ghrelin one sounded plausible

[@samanthanor332]

oh Cinnamin/chili pop rock topping. Add it before eating.

[@jimcappa6815]

That means "I'm scared down to my bones" is a literal statement!

[@yoanna5646]

the way I gasped to see and hear Deboki having only heard of the organising overlady, feels like a met a celebrity

[@jeanettegirard2802]

I'm am endocrinologist. We are still learning about hormones. I just listened to a lecture that demonstrated somehow the bone is involved in development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Like, we truly don't know so much. It's amazing how hormones are being studied and what's new. Ceri has it right, we don't know all the things that have a hormone functionality or even what all they control.

[@nottsork]

its interesting at 39:12 they talk about melatonin levels i wonder for mothers who exprress minlk for later does it screw with a babys ability to sleep at night if they get a morning dose of milk ????

[@athanatic]

Cory Doctorow-eque rant: US: Non-end-user-modifiable, cruft-encrusted, uncommented, spaghetti code is what we are left with at this end of the contra-entropic process we came from! I think there is lots left to learn in our biology and in general biology!

[@lexiibattwitch]

Being a cloud of chemicals in a meat suit that can think also bugs me. Also I said "I don't like that" about potentially not knowing all the hormones, at exactly the same time and in the same way and I cackled. Cats purrs do in fact have healing properties

[@briannaarnold6053]

We are nothing but ases, ones,and different bacteria and it all meshes together

[@DeRien8]

"LaoGanMa poprocks crisp" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Conus426]

Very interesting! Insane that hormones were discovered so late, since they seem to do so much in bodies

[@phantombagels2969]

WORCESTER MENTIONED

[@julescaru8591]

That was good fun ! Informative and entertaining = score ! All the best Jules 👍💕

[@hrolfthestrange]

I feel like the hormones vs emotion thing is kinda like wave vs particle for light in that they are two ways of thinking about the same thing. Specific hormones can get released due a cognitive recognition of some stimulus(maybe this is what we'd call emotions) and create the response(maybe this is what we'd call emotions. Lets say you encounter a bear in the woods, without some brain level cognition that the bear is dangerous your stress hormones wouldnt get released and those hormones being released informs your fight or flight response, to some degree recognizing a bear is dangerous would be an emotion even without the hormone release(people specific glands remove can still recognize a bear is dangerous and they need to leave) but also the effect of stress hormone release is also an emotion(people may feel the emotion of fear as if a bear is being encountered without having any such stimulus or cognition of danger), so emotion is simultaneously the chemical hormone release and the effects it has mentally and physically and also the mental cognition that causes the hormones.

[@adriannegentleman83]

Tis was obviously recorded before the project for awesome lol

[@DBoyFajardo]

Gary Smiley

[@ivytarablair]

"Sad horny goat slaughter" made me 😂😂😂😂

[@qlue7881]

Ding dong = candy Candy = sweeties Hence, Sam is a sweety

[@AmyDentata]

if it's any consolation, we're not just bags of water and chemicals. we're also full of billions upon billions of non-human microbes that are probably controlling our thoughts

[@ZedaZ80]

That first "sauce" really is pretty good. I wouldn't say the best, but I haven't had access to it in years and still regularly think about it. *edit:* the best sauces I've had are locally made and hit-or-miss, but when it's good, it's my favorite

[@EsquireR]

oh theres a video version

[@briannaarnold6053]

It's the last one

[@flyinfrogg]

Bone growth makes sense if you’re stressed, you want strong bones if you have to fight or run, and I imagine it’s easier to build bone before your fight/flight gets triggered 😏. Also, I’ve always found it interesting that some people break bones easier than other people. 🤔 I’ve had some pretty crazy falls and injuries before, but I’ve never broken a bone. I wonder if osteocalcin might have a role in the strength of my bones (I pretty much grew up living in the dorsal vagel state meaning basically my sympathetic system was always active).

[@kathrynmceachern9503]

Too much cortisol floating around in your bloodstream instead of being stored safely in your brain can actually cause your circulatory system damage. It (cortisol) also plays some major role in Cushing's disease.

[@acox132]

Did I miss it? I was sure someone would offer the classic poetic answer: *Hunger* is the best sauce....

[@philipwipernickle4780]

As a witch I support this message. XD

[@nathanjohnson9715]

doesn't pull his oreos apart before eating them? I always had a suspicion that Hank Green was a body snatcher... Now I'm positive of it.

[@conorbrennan303]

Yall are usually full of objective information... But the best sauce is actually Buffalo followed imperceptibly closely by Tzatziki.

[@briannaarnold6053]

👏

[@thedepthandbreadthofseth]

And i get here in the middle, just in time for an ad read.

[@violetleporid]

I would watch the f*ck out of SciShow Hot Ones

[@michaelbondt8202]

note: YT dropped my sub ... again

[@amandaweires]

But if I forget to take B12 during the day and I take it at night, it keeps me awake and I become a chaos monster.

[@markedis5902]

Duodenum is pronounced Joo-oh-Dee-nm Cat purrs have demonstrated the ability to reduce blood pressure and relieve stress. The ability to aid healing is probably due to these. Plus a happy cat is lovely! Vitamin D is closer to a hormone than a vitamin.

[@sparker_87]

🎉

[@melanieaveryeasthope3980]

Just heard that chili crisp is trying to be copyrighted by a chef. Now I found this. Weird

[@MareaRayneOleander]

Basil pesto is best sauce. I will not be taking questions.

[@annasfischer]

Now honey, you don't need to be afraid, the skeleton is just as scared of you as you are of it. ☠️

[@Neko_Void]

does anyone now what happened to the spotify version of this show? I mean, every episode it's still there, but they have SO MANY ADS and are placed so badly to the point of cutting hank mid sentence, it's honestly really annoying

[@coldd8790]

So the human body is just a bunch of domino chain reactions?

[@DeRien8]

As the Incubus song says, "I am...one big,...walking,...chemical reaction"

[@jadynkay5241]

As a trans person on hrt I'ma big fan of hormones lol

[@justforplaylists]

Is caffeine a hormone then?

[@briannaarnold6053]

Honey with Mcdonald chicken nuggets. I don't eat it often but when I do I go for that, though some places don't have honey

[@Carebearritual]

DONT EAT FLOWERS!!!!

[@halfatrex4555]

I am surprised about the goats like i guess it does depend on the size of the island but i feel like due to inbreeding due to only the three goats that eventually they would start having issues that would stunt population growth.

[@LaceNWhisky]

I absolutely thought the person on the Lao Gan Ma chili crisp jar was a guy.

[@briannaarnold6053]

It is, put a purring cat on your head ache!

[@melken9]

As someone who is coming to the show late I just want to ask why the podcast playlist is in reverse order? Seems counter-intuitive for those of us who want to catch up on the show. (and yes I understand i could just watch it in reverse order, but my brain will quite literally not allow me to do that) Anyway, love the show! But probably won't bother watching the past episodes as a result.

[@Mithrandir39]

I call them Horror-mones ever since my kids went through them

[@DexteroExplosion]

o/

[@briannaarnold6053]

I'm guessing like 3000 goats

[@chasindigo]

Teaching babies? Or just making them be that way because of hormones

[@rdklkje13]

Hank remains a great example of why ADHD does not belong in the DSM. As does Serena Williams, Owen Jones and tons of other people for that matter. Kinda like how homosexuality was a DSM diagnosis until 1974.