The Invention of Vitamin C

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“The cell is a wonderfully complex and precise little mechanism, and a disease is but disorder in this mechanism. The aim of medicine is to prevent or repair such disorders. It is impossible to repair a machine without knowing how it works.”
-Albert Szent-Györgyi, 1970
** SOURCES AND LINKS **
BOOKS
Scurvy: How A Surgeon, A Mariner And A Gentlemen Solved The Greatest Medical Mystery Of The Age Of Sail by Stephen R. Bown
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The Crazy Ape by Albert Szent-Györgyi
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ARTICLES
Scott And Scurvy by Idle Words
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Scurvy Is A Serious Public Health Problem by Karen D. Brown
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Vitamin C Sources
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Ascorbic Acid And The Formation Of Collagen
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Goat Vitamin C Production
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The Inuit Paradox
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Age Of Sail
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The East India Company And The Control Of Scurvy
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Scurvy: A Disease Almost Forgotten
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The Science Behind Historic Uses Of Urine by Mohi Kumar
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The Discovery Of Vitamin C
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Szent-Györgyi Quote
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The Natural History Of Ascorbic Acid In The Evolution Of Mammals
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Captain Cook’s Beer
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Vitamins’ Old, Old Edge by Carl Zimmer
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Blood Flow In The Human Body by Courtney Harrington
• Blood Flow in the Huma...
James Lind Painting By Robert A Thom
The Black Pirate (1926)
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Captain Kidd (1945)
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James Lind’s Treatise Of The Scurvy
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Experimental Essays On The Following Subjects by David Macbride
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Catull Sirmiofe by Schorle
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Albert Szent-Györgyi’s Discovery Of Vitamin C
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Bioenergetics by Albert Szent-Györgyi
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Scurvy Is Still Present In Developed Countries
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VIDEO CREDITS
Written, Produced, Edited and Hosted by Kevin Lieber
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Twitter: / kevinlieber
Website: kevinlieber.com
Contributing Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media
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VFX by Eric Langlay
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Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi
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Special Thanks Paula Lieber
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Select Music by Jake Chudnow
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Vsauce2 Links
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Facebook: / vsaucetwo
Website: www.Vsauce.com
The Curiosity Box
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[@nathantron]

You just wanted a reason to get in a kiddie pool as an adult.

[@meestery_9685]

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[@markloveless7715]

If that's why, then that's a super smart way of doing it

[@NoirRaven]

One needs a reason?

[@Carl_Wheezy]

its the cage m8 0.0

[@sakusight649]

I congratulate you on your GREAT soul eater icon ny best wishes from maka

[@mouwersor]

A guy at my university got scurvy because he lived on bread and cheese for months....

[@FrostNightVideoProductions]

He's a poor college student, lol

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

+Matei Anghel parents money mate

[@user-by1kw1ix4p]

you could buy a bottle of orange juice for a few dollar

[@Celicaw8]

You are so funny

[@catscats4427]

he should've taken a multivitamin tablet everyday too

[@aoifejanemurphy9785]

When life gives you lemons... treat scurvy

[@williamsledge3151]

Aoife Jane Murphy wow that was good

[@entercherpfhalckhontralyty6155]

This must be used!

[@Rex-golf_player810]

when life gives you lemons, you better take that vitamin c

[@user-rf5qo6rw5b]

Don't make lemonade, take the lemons back!

[@looneygoon1543]

Such a trash joke from a woman but so many likes

[@zara3840]

Imagine is thousands of years, people would look back at us and say look at them they suffered from cancer for hundreds of years.

[@024dogtop]

Cancer likely dates back to our origin.

[@meowtherainbowx4163]

Hopefully, we’re still using the right methods to find cures. Then we should be respectable, much like Lind was for his clinical trial.

[@masudkhanartist8009]

they would also say, "huh,AIDS. such an easy to treat disease . they didnt find a cure for so many years . plague and ebola , you can cure that by eating chocolate . HAHAHAH

[@ivanalvarado7852]

plantbased diet is the solution

[@Thomanski]

Your implying that humanity will survive another thousand years

[@besmart]

This is one of my favorite stories of weird medical history. It's pretty much exactly the same reason that people today refuse vaccines… we've gotten too comfortable with not having diseases, so we're forgetting the cure.

[@alexrobinson9138]

I love you

[@cavenedge4844]

Notice me senpai

[@notanniex565]

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[@notanniex565]

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[@Vsauce2]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching, Joe!!!!

[@technic1285]

Scurvy was caused by LACK of Vitamin Sea?

[@malialiah2571]

Vanover pls

[@roberto-gy6nj]

heh

[@monkeydetonation]

Sea water contains too much vitamin sea, so if you drunk it you died. Therefore they had to use other things to provide vitamin sea.

[@whatdacurl94]

Vitamin C....

[@sw8228]

I think you missed the joke

[@chadchaggsen8420]

I dedicate every cup of lemonade I drink to the Guinea Pig lives lost in the Scurvy Wars.

[@remyboyzz399]

dude. why did you change the name? “the cure we forgot” was dope af.

[@akshaytiwari1480]

I need an answer

[@VercilJuan]

@@akshaytiwari1480 i think he did it for the video to fit better to the "the invention of" series

[@daveslow84]

FOUR humors? Having grown up in Germany I haven't even got one... :/

[@HowManySmall]

hehe

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

honestly... that was some nice sarcasm

[@VerdaTal]

Glad to see you picked one up along the way!

[@LuckyFlesh]

I guess that makes you a sour Kraut.

[@pcfreak1992]

witzig.

[@mrr_edits_]

The Vsauce channels really helped me learn better than my school did

[@WarlordM]

+Mr. Beets Wikipedia for me

[@xXspiellionXx]

Its because Vsauce tells you alot about life and likes to talk about theories. In school youre just told to learn the stuff thats written in the book.

[@nobodyknowsanything3906]

That's because school exists to teach you to be a complacent rule-follower, not to give you knowledge.

[@moussetehdoggoeswoof5896]

Meh, not if you have dedicated teachers that keep their students interested. It really should be made more difficult to become a teacher.

[@Zamolxes77]

Dedicated teachers that keep their students interested ? On what planet do you live? I went to school into '80 and '90, and barely 10-20% of all my teachers could be put into that category. And our education system was miles ahead of american one, I don't even want to guess how many actual good teachers you have. While most teachers should be proud of teaching the young generation, what I observed more commonly, is they get jealous for brightness of their pupils and in most cases unconsciously, squash that in their students.

[@IMindiffernt]

How does a video like this get downvoted? Is that just the natural reaction some people have when they don't understand something?

[@Shlungoidwungus]

You asked and answered your own question in the same comment. Why even.

[@IMindiffernt]

I asked two questions m8. Do u even read?

[@ethang.8238]

He asked 2 questions and had a theory

[@williamsledge3151]

Hi julius. You said call you ceaser

[@Lucaccino17]

Anti vaxxers heard "a shot in the arm" and lost their minds

[@Vouax]

Kid: "I don't wanna eat my veggies!" Parents: *Shows kids this video* Kids: *Scarvs down the veggies*

[@ligmacito4329]

I think he would be scarred for life

[@Friendly_Gamer_Mom]

I don't have to show my kids the video, ...I have to hide my fresh produce because they already scarf it down.

[@nickjolly5773]

Kids: THROWS UP FROM EATING SO MUCH VEGGIES

[@epicstimulus282]

LOL XD

[@Rex-golf_player810]

*CHUGS ORANGE JUICE AND TOMATO SAUCE* PLS NO SCURVY

[@Vsauce2]

P.S. - Those are fruit trees behind the kiddie pool. ;)

[@hyldebrymm7971]

dude your pretty cool. Sometimes i feel like people do not love knowledge enough and me as well, but this is a great way to learn and stay informed. Thanks man

[@onafehts]

When I see your face I expect you to say "Yeah Science, bitch!"

[@XiBMCiX]

amazing video as always, keep up the good work Kevin :)

[@glacialWind]

make more videos

[@katrinabeaumont988]

I always feel that I've viewed something i will remember for a long time with a VSauce production, great stuff 😉

[@xinic5]

Salt Beef, Salt Pork, Biscuits and Beer? *Count me in!*

[@arda9437]

really , !!! i'm in too

[@swagmaster8673]

Screw the biscuits, we have beer!

[@tomlxyz]

Godess Leg Mom The Sandwich maker You think it's good beer?

[@Castodas]

Damnit, you forgot SPAM!

[@swagmaster8673]

+Charles D Is there anything actually good? Sailers probably had a hard time sailing.

[@nattapongkaewthanom4591]

Very beautiful... I once overlooked Vsauce2 and Vsauce3's channels because how awesome Michael can explain stuff about my favorite topics. You modernized my mind, and unlocked my cage, Kevin.

[@aezrithferova6928]

Nattapong Kaewthanom He simply moved it.

[@ZentaBon]

@@aezrithferova6928 ahah very nice. It requires quite a lot of mental gymnastics to unlock a cage

[@AstroLizard]

This was sooo good. I can't even explain. The zeitgeist cage idea hit me like a brick. Most importantly, the idea that the cage has not expanded, but moved.

[@SilentAttackTV]

And everyone thinks they're not in a cage, but somebody else.

[@Cup_70]

My friend got scurvy when he only ate ramen for over a month.

[@Ayzev]

So that's what happens when you watch too much Naruto.

[@Borednesss]

I ate nothing but PB&J and coffee for two months straight once. I was waiting to develop some kind of deficiency but never did or never noticed

[@azmanabdula]

The bread and jelly probably had enough vitamin C I know they put vitamins in refined breads so?

[@unfortunatelyrob2635]

probably because jam has vitamin c.

[@Cup_70]

entropy50607 That's his nickname now,

[@macwas5900]

Hey gurl, it looks like you have a defficiency of... Vitamin *me*

[@matthewmf3514]

Get out.

[@pacobalthazar3138]

have mercy and kill me

[@ObamaAyanami]

*insert "this is why i bomb people" meme*

[@TheChaoticLoser]

That was so bad it turned good again.

[@HalendleofLoc]

Hey gurl, it looks like you need some of my... Vitamin *D*

[@PlasticBaggot]

I like how the gross teeth triggered so many people that they had to blur it out.

[@kiritoyagami32]

This is my favorite Vsauce video out of all three channels. I normally like Micheal Stevens more, but something about the way Kevin explains things, and probably this topic, just make this video the most interesting video I think I’ve ever watched. Watched it way too many times, and I really wish Kevin would do more of these types of videos.

[@Goabnb94]

A man at a local university became an urban legend when his diet consisted of raman noodles, handed out free at orientation, and beer. He went to the doctor and was the first scurvy diagnosis in over 50 years.

[@redfreckle2044]

That's why I added strong cider to my diet.

[@KorbenDallas]

He was the lucky one, must cases of scurvy go undiagnosed because most doctors today only get an hour or so of training on nutrition in medical school.

[@NK-xd4fu]

I clicked this video so it would stop popping up in my recommended because the picture creeps me out. Love you Kevin

[@MrFrostyIsCool]

same

[@josephlondon8188]

same

[@drofxersolimrof5139]

same

[@TheRockonist]

Same

[@Kori114]

Same

[@Half_Finis]

The video has had 3 different pictures for me now, it was first not censored at all, then there was a black box over the teeth now it's like a pixelated blur?!

[@cassandranoorman7154]

yeah!

[@JThePilot]

A pirate's life is not for me

[@theCodyReeder]

Could we fix the genetic defect using crisper?

[@wolframe5050]

Love your videos!

[@fezzes304]

I think we could.. but better question would be why? Gene editing is very dangerous and complicated thing, so by editing this one gene to permanently cure scurvy we could afflict the edited humans with other much more life threatening flaws/diseases.. I admit that when we progress in genetics we could learn what to edit and which other genes we must edit to circumvent the potential downsides of the treatment. It could be impossible to fix some genetic flaws because the fixes for the fixes would cause all the time more to fix and in the end we would be writing over most of the humans genome and still there could be flaws. So maybe we should still treat scurvy with healthy diet for now and remember robots don't need vitamins, there's always that : P

[@theCodyReeder]

We do have guinea pigs to try it out on first ;)

[@fezzes304]

***** This still does not answer the problem. Although we have literal pigs to test this stuff on still even small difference of one gene can put all the work back on the drawing board. It might be just too big of a problem to even solve.. Kind of like quagmire, only solvable by cutting it apart on fundamental level.. I believe that many of these genetic flaws are only solvable by enhancing or replacing body parts / body with something else e.g. robotics. But these are things only work and research funds can tell.

[@mikedang3613]

Hey Cody!

[@robertpoole9707]

Thanks for that thumbnail Kevin I really wanted that on my sub feed

[@beerainee]

same

[@theoosullivan1635]

ikr

[@idontcare4425]

Same

[@balloonedraccoon2503]

Agreed, completely unnecessary to have this image on my sub feed.

[@sunofslavia]

Need a tissue?

[@MyLittleMagneton]

Thanks for fixing the thumbnail, it has been following and haunting me for the past few days. I'm not even subscribed to this channel.

[@ScarletxP]

same, it was painful.

[@ninjaJesse9]

your a triggered feminist

[@ScarletxP]

ninjaJesse9 You're* *triggered*

[@MyLittleMagneton]

ninjaJesse9 what?

[@ninjaJesse9]

+NewBelieve you're proving my point nazifeminist

[@ConorThacker]

haha he wet his pants

[@ConorThacker]

Great video Kevin, enjoyed it.

[@datboi1553]

Bro U 7?

[@weirdo6821]

Dat Boi no he’s 9

[@DTMiae]

Is there gonna be a comment each year? Count us as 2020. Aka worst year ever, notify me future 2021 person

[@zidani.s6712]

@@DTMiae 2021 person here, hi! p.s: It's still bad

[@darkwoodmovies]

It's pretty amazing that most people today know so much more about medicine than the experts a few hundred years ago. If we lived in that time, we could all literally be world-famous doctors.

[@darkwoodmovies]

WatsonAndDaughter Well, someone can test that in a study. Modern medicine is based partially on science and mostly on corporate greed. We just have to funnel more into the science part.

[@rafiqputera]

he's right, it's like Back to the future when doc said there would be cars in the future to people in the past, they thought he was crazy

[@simmerway]

+WatsonAndDaughter this is not true. They've been seen to have some level of anti cancer properties but no where near as effective as the medicine that is prescribed. Don't spread things that are untrue

[@eby6114]

+simmerway Really? chemo is 3 percent effective. Which is less than just taking a sugar pill

[@eby6114]

+darkwoodmovies Sure sorry about that www.mercola.com/article/cancer/cancer_options.htm Does that help?

[@dominicha5092]

I'm addicted to mandarin oranges. I can't support my family because of my addiction...

[@_Dolofonia]

(monotone voice in AA meeting) "Hi Dominic..."

[@aicapitan3279]

thankyou for sharing dominic

[@tinklvsme]

Hahaha

[@TheKalikalam]

well, give them a few oranges veryday

[@_raymond418]

I like Valencia better.

[@teemodo]

Only 90s kids will remember when the thumbnail actually had the teeth in it

[@fortepiano4491]

11:58 Talk about Vsauce Throwback I haven't seen that outro in a long time.

[@epicstimulus282]

Yeah

[@christran6681]

Forte Piano iiii

[@FlipYard]

Am I the only one that was hoping to see Kevin fall of the edge of the pool...?

[@Shriggins1]

i didn't want him to fall but i did think the pool was going to spill on the left at the start

[@dragonlie]

Dat face though at the end when he sat down on the edge. Heh

[@theodorbutters141]

*gene pool

[@Zadamanim]

shots fired

[@hung9839]

I saw how close the water was to spilling but it didn't XD

[@gabeepstein4587]

Who needs 7 bookshelves installed in your Lamborghini Hollywood Hills, when you have vsauce. These videos give me knowledge!

[@JoshuanKnode]

you probably still want to read books. Its a slower but more complete way of getting knowledge

[@yebboshwamuel]

+Joshua Knode I don't think you got the joke.

[@andrewsilver2611]

+Joshua Knode No, it's just a different way of getting certain knowledge. Any knowledgeable person would know that.. Don't create your own biases or misinform because you like doing certain things above others. If a read a kids book I'd learn nothing. If I watched a vsause video, I'd learn certain individual things. If I watched an hour long video about the history of something and how it functions, I'd learn just as much as reading a book explaining that same process. No certain way of obtaining information is inherently more significant than others..

[@bowlcut7214]

whats more important than earthly possession?

[@gabeepstein4587]

Bowl Cut Knowledge?

[@nickelassault]

Vsauce2 is underrated

[@RustyDust101]

And then there were the Hanse, the northern German and Netherland trading houses located on the coast of the North and the Baltic Sea during the 14th and 15th century. Their sailors rarely if ever suffered from scurvy. Because they carried along a (at that time) very prevalent and traditional food stock: Sauerkraut. Thanks to the fermentation this long lasting and storable vegetable had large amounts of vitamin C and kept their sailors healthy. Healthy if not happy.

[@gabeallen4869]

Once he put his feet in the water got pissed off because I knew he had wet socks.

[@Crudecoronet]

Same

[@decryptthestory861]

I relate to this comment on a spiritual level.

[@Tandreada]

I'm pretty sure he did that on purpose--to change our zeitgeist about how terrible putting fully-clothed feet into water. And then he upped it by breaking open the enclosed water, opening the water from its cage, the pool.

[@artisticbuilding6852]

My heart started racing

[@jasonmnosaj]

wanna get things done? gotta get your feet wet bro. thing is do you want to spend time taking off those shoes and doing things by the book? or do you want to just go for it and be the first one to brake down the wall? history is made by those that get there first, not the ones that played by the rules. even by today's standards the ones getting ahead in life and living simply by doing things they want to do (making youtube videos) they don't play by a conforming rule. they don't strive to get a job, get a car, get a house, a wife, children. they live there life in a way that would make most of today's society think there lazy and all of it just comes to them. but there out there getting there feet wet. and braking down the walls of social conformity. sadly simple people like you and me wont be able to live this life. we have to get our feet wet some other way. the pool of youtube is dried up...... whoa did I just ramble? sorry, I'm getting old...

[@sonicusr]

jesus pls no shock factor thumbnails

[@Liowen]

Triggered....

[@wokeil]

+pseudo “dumb guy” intellectual Nice troll

[@generic_brandmoments7565]

+pseudo “dumb guy” intellectual triggered....

[@Liowen]

nimbuzz That was a troll? Hmmm to me it seems more like bullying and harassment that thankfully KZbin has new policies against that :D.

[@sunofslavia]

It's about scurvy, dumbass. Or would you rather prefer an image with a pirate letting out black blood from his swollen gums?

[@kathrynerickson8525]

this is the reason people would suck on limes. There is a genetic disease that is the equivalent of scurvy as well. It is called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. If you read about explorers, it also tells of men tieing the soles of their feet and wrapping them to keep the soles from completely falling off. Unfortunately, this still occurs. I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and have blue rings in the whites of my eyes. It destroys the autonomic nervous system, so the stomach doesn't empty causing vomiting everything up. Until a gastric pacemaker is put in or a feeding tube, you starve to death......because it takes forever for docs to realize you aren't bulimic because they suck at listening, they allow scurvy to develop. To the extent that you start losing your teeth because your gums fall away from your teeth.

[@self-crownedroyalty6712]

I hope your feeling better mang. Ive heard that there's an outbreak of chronic lyme disease in cities close to the oceans. For some reason doctors don't think it exists anymore even though there are people dying from it.

[@leavemealone3427]

holy shiet i didnt think id ever find another person who has ehlers danlos syndrome i have a different type though, and mine was diagnosed when i was 11 but it was already too late for me, im in a wheelchair atm because my knees hurt too much for me to be able to walk

[@nbultman_art]

Rose hip ? Wtf is that and why does it have so much vitamin c

[@HollywoodF1]

When a flower is feritilzed, it forms a fruit. When a rose is fertilized, it forms a fruit known as a rose hip. It looks a little like a small cherry tomato. Roses are in the same family (roseceae) as apples, pears, quinces, medlars, loquats, almonds, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries. (fruit list provided by Wikipedia) One of the puropses of a fruit is to protect the genetic information it contains in its seeds. Antioxidants, such as vitamin C, serve this purpose.

[@eliseweusthuis]

A friend's friend actually got mild scurvy at some point because she was such a picky eater she refused to eat any fruits or vegetables

[@thecoder7188]

give her hydro-chloric acid + water , she'll be fine trust me

[@Lazypackmule]

Vitamin C is not something exclusive to fruits and vegetables

[@eliseweusthuis]

Lazypackmule no but I think she was pretty much just eating fastfood or something not sure

[@tomdunphy6865]

My younger brother hated fruits and vegtables, so we scared him by saying he would get scurvy

[@eliseweusthuis]

andrew T I dunno all I really know is that she was a really picky eater and if she was too picky for fruit she's probably be too picky for livers too. I think she's probably ok by now tho I don't personally know her

[@lostastros3039]

is this where i get spit facts 2?

[@artis123red]

i think so

[@rico4101]

Digestion begins in the mouth

[@adyog6698]

Hey, you want some spit facts?

[@Metalguitar200000]

Hey. That's pretty good!

[@KomicMaster42]

+M A C I N T O S H P L U S *breaks bottle* No get away from us.

[@milanfarkas2343]

"Gördzsi" 🤣 i dont blame you for saying it that way

[@romkoppel5302]

I keep coming back to this video... It's a masterpiece and my favorite video of yours thus far.

[@strahinjanikolic4559]

People in 2200 ":How da hek did people in 2016 not know that using ________ can solve cancer!!!"

[@el.mitines3064]

hahahhaa

[@kerrt8439]

Makes me sad to think of everything I'm going to miss out on in the future.

[@ninezerotwo1778]

There's a big difference between scurvy and cancers. Scurvy was something completely unknown to the people at the time, while known carcinogens, such as flouride, chloroform, pesticides, etc. are knowingly placed into the food and water that supply the public. Cancer is caused on purpose, these ancient illnesses were not. Regardless, there is already a cure for cancer (www.sott.net/article/228583-Scientists-cure-cancer-but-no-one-takes-notice), so you're mistaken anyway. Have a good day.

[@haloded]

+DERRG I know right! I wish I could see whats ahead of us.

[@shadenox8164]

I wouldn't really call a link to a crackpot site which fundamentally misunderstands the results of an actual study sciency personally.

[@cristian0523]

This video resembles Vsauce1 a lot more than usual.

[@The44kGaming]

Vsauce1 should make videos like this, which are really entertaining and informative, on weekly basis....

[@BigPlanetful]

or 3

[@importedsausage5593]

Especially the ending stare, lol

[@jasondads9509]

+Mattzuu4400 on a weekly basis is insane, high quality such videos such as this are hard.

[@The44kGaming]

+jason dads weekly, maybe 2 weeks at least once a month...

[@MajesticMV]

This channel has such a high quality content, thank you so much for your work, I love it.

[@alyangelallstar]

Damn, that kiddie pool talk got pretty deep.

[@Arkalius80]

The reliance of many sailors on limes is also the origin of the term "limey" to refer to a sailor.

[@nekocekoBiHMK]

It's actually a term referring to British people (in general), not just any sailor. Because British sailors were the first to drink lime, Americans started calling British sailors limeys. And overtime it became a term referring to all British people. Not all sailors, but all British people (mostly English).

[@Zuriki09]

+nekocekoBiH Blimey. I'd never have thought.

[@Zuriki09]

+nekocekoBiH Blimey. I'd never have thought.

[@KokoroKatsura]

A N I M E

[@vileguile4]

What about oh blimey!?

[@VipKamaro]

Although interesting, i am watching this only so that youtube would stop bugging me!

[@dooplon5083]

+KZbin Foxx Then eat an orange.

[@EnricosUtLP]

me too.

[@cthuluallhail3161]

Did you learn anything?

[@cthuluallhail3161]

***** It's pretty educational, unlike the drama channels and the disease known as buzzfeed.

[@mirrorsedging]

You can click the "Not Interested" Button if you're on a mobile device ;)

[@DonalKavanagh1963]

The best channel on KZbin by far. Love it!

[@hakanbilbasar2642]

For me this was epic, I learnt so much, thank you.

[@baleydee]

Beautiful videos I missed vsauce I'm not smart or important but I like to learn :)

[@YaBoiKeith]

You are smart and important to us. Keep on learning.

[@BrianFakhoury]

Everyone is important

[@ZachBrannigan]

Importance is derived from perspective, Brian. Are you important to your family? Hopefully yes. Are you important to the advancement of humanity's technology and the shifting of its cage? Probably not.

[@greensky01]

Everyone is smart. It just depends where you put your focus at.

[@emmacloud4739]

Yessss I love your profile picture

[@kikuhonda64]

Who else cringed when he stepped into the water with his shoes on and everything

[@JackSilver1410]

When he sat on the edge and got doused.. Hope he didn't have his wallet on him...

[@empath69]

...or his phone. (I *think* he'd take precautions, but...)

[@SecretAgentMan00]

how many takes you think Kevin did? haha

[@shadowpod13]

and no flinching whatsoever.

[@AmazingtristanMagic]

I thought I was wasting time getting stuck in a youtube loop, but your ending was amazing. You inspired me. Thanks!

[@jetstreamjackie3437]

Every single video you've made since you started doing full-length episodes has been thought-provoking and meaningful. You're pretty awesome, Kevin :)

[@C134B]

eh, Hey! Im a Biochemistry student, and i learnt from a pHd that went to our national career congress that reduced ascorbic acid goes into neurochemical spaces to give a signal to the neurone to stop its glycolisis, getting its energy from lactic acid instead of sugar. the C vitamin is the signal used and now being under research to try cure the huntington's desease. Hope you understood that Kevin! Greetings!

[@C134B]

For more information look on "Maite Castro: Interacción neurona-Glia en el metabolismo energético cerebral; Bases celulares, moleculares y bioquímicas de la enfermedad de Huntington y otras neurodegenerativas; Tráfico, función y regulación de transporte de nutrientes&quot".Man, i love being a scientist.

[@C134B]

ikr

[@22222Sandman22222]

Damn! I start biochemistry in a couple of days and that info was interesting

[@C134B]

my pleasure ;D really, look into her investigation

[@22222Sandman22222]

+Sebastián Manríquez I will 👌

[@xinic5]

Because of the thumbnail, I thought it was going to be Brushing your teeth. Because so many of us...err I mean other people, always forget to do it.

[@xinic5]

.

[@cameroncalzone8860]

uh i brush my teeth twice a day

[@xinic5]

Cameron Butler You want a cookie? A nice teeth rotting sugar one? People all have their problems, and for some having a routine life is one of them. Some things like brushing your teeth excape your mind until you're down the road on the way to work, or after your already comfortable in bed.

[@cameroncalzone8860]

I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me, but I can't help it that I'm popular.

[@xinic5]

Cameron Butler That completely has nothing to do with anything. Go away. I'm not jealous of popular people. I'm a misanthrope, the last thing I'd want is to be popular.

[@TheZoeBig]

I love this series so much

[@brightworld999]

Kinda proud when I hear about something hungarian related while watching my fav channels :) Keep up, greetings from Hungary!

[@mygameclips189]

I could watch Vsauce for the rest of my life

[@25maxman]

booooooi😏

[@jackm2081]

Same

[@H4PPYx337]

+Augustin Lescornifleur no they're not they've just moved to a big studio

[@CompufreakVultureX]

I'm tired of seeing this disgusting preview in my recommended videos list

[@cleo7867]

It's not a preview it's a thumbnail

[@dotanon]

I felt the exact same way and came to see if others were complaining. It puts me off and its on every god damn video I watch

[@cleo7867]

Ben Samuel no reason to block someone over one video. if you're on mobile you can hold and remove it from your recommended

[@zannettos]

me too, that's why i clicked on the video, so that it will stop appearing . xD

[@KoalaProductions]

It is okay, he censored it now.

[@hananas2]

I love how he just sat down in the water

[@mastertuff]

Love his presentation!!!

[@kakyoukuzuki]

Hesitated to click this due to it's inviting thumbnail

[@quackistan]

more like, learn to pick up on sarcasm

[@noahrichard130]

+MistR Pretty sure he actually made a typo

[@quackistan]

+Noah Richard Same message either way

[@iGThomas]

why da hell is this in my recommended videos...

[@zinqtable1092]

Koko you really know nothing about the algorithms do you? lol

[@riddarhyttan]

You know that those algorithms are badly flawed, susceptible to dishonest tagging and frequently overridden by _other_ algorithms trying to expand overall viewer base and clickthrough rates, right? Nothing very wrong with this vid - apart from the stomach-churning thumbnail - but it has no place whatever in my recommended videos either.

[@zinqtable1092]

riddarhyttan >badly flawed double negative much? idk

[@Internet_Guy99]

i think he was trying to make a joke

[@SA3D.505]

maybe they're promoting lemons these days.

[@PogieJoe]

This was incredibly interesting. You killed it, Kevin. I would have never thought this topic would be so fascinating. Beautiful closing thoughts too.

[@thunderchild1083]

These videos are awesome I always learn something new, keep up the good work

[@icouldnotthinkofaname2856]

It kinda makes you want to eat some lemon juice.

[@YourHomieJC]

eat

[@pure_zed]

I just rubbed a lemon in my eyes. I needed to clean them after looking at that thumbnail.

[@FUCKINMETALROCKS]

eat

[@theshadow3438]

It kinda makes you wanna drink some bleach.

[@efisgpr]

+Private Account ...freeze then chew & swallow

[@sinephase]

that's why conformity is death

[@MellowWater]

True

[@tomlxyz]

Unfortunately non-conformity is also death.

[@tomlxyz]

David Daivdson You seem to be in a very small cage.

[@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.-]

Like everything, you need to maintain a healthy balance: not too much, not too little.

[@12togo34]

honestly, everything is death. death via old age haunts over us all, none can escape from it (until scientists possibly prevent it, idk.)

[@oceanwidjaja8846]

Thx this helped me in my report. Great work

[@AveryMilieu]

Beautifully done!

[@robertpoole9707]

Hey, which Vitamin can improve eyesight? Vitamin _"See"_

[@DoctorZAVABNA]

Nice try

[@josephd8129]

Ummm vitamin E is the correct answer sir. (it's just a prank bro)

[@oskariponkala1508]

accually its Vitamin A

[@FUCKINMETALROCKS]

vitamin carrots

[@don-ut2190]

+FUCKINMETALROCKS Betacarotene doesn't improve eye sight but night vision.

[@MiguelNavarroPhDGuitarist]

I came here to see deseased sailors and actually learned some epistemology! Cool VSause2!

[@tropicaljupiter]

That's always the turn Vsauce takes and it's perfect to have that torch carried onto Vsauce2

[@lillymasie5646]

Cool

[@ImDemonAlchemist]

I came here to read smart comments and I actually learned a new word! Seriously, I don't think I've ever heard epistemology before.

[@MiguelNavarroPhDGuitarist]

Sorry yeah I meant diseased, English is not my first language sorry.

[@TheN9n]

Excellent narrative. Great job Kevin.

[@KarenTaylor4kids]

I enjoyed the simplistic way you tell your history. My eight year old granddaughter learns a great deal from your video's. Thank you.

[@stellarytc1629]

Woah an upload

[@KaliTakumi]

right?

[@seanbcbc]

if you want something good, you gotta wait lol.

[@ricardoespinoza5821]

quantity

[@Andrew-bb7ci]

+Ricardo Espinoza true but this was only okay for such a long wait I was expecting the new age cure for cancer with this wait

[@ricardoespinoza5821]

+Squad Reacts I found it very interesting, I guess that's just subjective.

[@ItsAbieArt]

#BringBackBiDiPi

[@FuadShaqiri]

Yesss

[@shpongloidia]

#bringbackregularvsaucecontent.

[@nahshonmarkil4893]

#bringbackweirdosofthemonth

[@hairyballbastic8943]

#BringBackIMG!

[@darktrooperdalek7991]

+Mama mike's spicy memes 🖕

[@mrmonte51jm]

This was an AMAZING episode Kevin !!! Thank you !!

[@MrFmiller]

The quote by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi is the is the most important take away from this video for me. I review a lot of research and will be referencing it.

[@ChloeTGAP]

I can't believe you stood in the water with your shoes on

[@ZombiePorn_]

I cringed hard when he did that!

[@tomato_tom]

Why does it matter lol.

[@nileboy5055]

That's not cringe worthy this is cringe worthy Example of a cringe worthy individual: A fedora-wearing misanthrope who also happens to enjoy My Little Pony and always complains about being "forever alone". Sometimes, he carries fake swords and attaches fake furry tails to his pants and walks around in public pretending he is not human. Please use the word appropriately.

[@robertorios5303]

dude same!! no one likes wet socks

[@leekleek1]

means their "cage" is small

[@Brutik5]

Thumbmail got censored. :D Edit: Great video Vsauce :) I guess that some ppl just did not like those teeth. :)

[@christianingmarkjlsvik7872]

I didn't even find it disturbing

[@Ra11y]

yeah I dont know why XD it was the full pic yesterday.

[@l1z4rdbr34th90]

Saw it, KZbin is becoming too much of a prude.

[@killax1000]

But was it YT or Vsauce?

[@Scyxurz]

I don't think it was censored, I think he added that bar to make it more clickbaity.

[@behzadmahagmail]

Excellent narration and very good speaker. Thank you.

[@B24Fox]

Much knowledge! Such Passion!

[@DocumentaryHub]

And still many religious people are in a cage from the past, and doing it willingly....

[@xvi2322]

Just food for thought, perhaps they see you the same way. Though i do agree.

[@UltraJinjo]

Right?

[@YourHumanContact]

that's edgy, got anything else you learned from richard dawkins?

[@DocumentaryHub]

Im Human After All I think of that all of my own. Sorry it offends you. I guess you're religious ha?

[@OverClover]

Goodness can we not bring religious arguments into non religion based videos

[@canguar]

Holy shit was this ever a high quality video. well done! entertaining and informative to the max donate everyone, we have to honor this sort of content! The ending is a bit cheesy though :D but keep it coming!

[@canguar]

one can't donate it turns out

[@nobody6317]

That was an emotional ending

[@Raicandy]

The conclusions at the end of the videos just blow my mind, every single time. Thank you for making this videos.

[@55876058]

Ooooooh! So that's why Nami has orange trees aboard the Sunny. n_n.

[@m.e.y.5790]

LOL i dont think oda thought THAT far xD...

[@PrOxAnto.]

Oh damn, now that you mention it :D

[@johnsjohnson]

+MO VDB its one of the reasons she does

[@johnsjohnson]

tangerines not oranges

[@CBDToTheRescue]

And gangplank

[@lefterismagkoutas4430]

I see crispr as the golden ticket that is just outside the cage ready for someone to grab it...

[@lefterismagkoutas4430]

What is that? lol

[@samurai641]

Agreed. In a few hundred years (or hopefully less) we'll see things like in the novel Neuromancer, where you'll be able to go to the clinic down the street and pay them to give you insane martial arts skills. Not to mention curing cancer, AIDS, and other currently-incurable diseases. Maybe even aging. Anyone who doesn't know what CRISPR is, go watch the Kurzgesagt video on it. The times we live in are absolutely incredible.

[@robertmills5262]

Catching Red Iguanas Saves People Regularly

[@lefterismagkoutas4430]

Tanner Rodriguez hoho we got a pessimist over here...

[@lefterismagkoutas4430]

Let's just hope that scientists will find a way to harness the power of such a groundbreaking tool...

[@4thopinion792]

I see that you have been taking over Vsauce 1's mojo. Thank you. Ever since youtube red took over I've been without these kinds of inspired videos. Thank you.

[@heizrohre7346]

You were really close to say "Zeitgeist" right. As a German, I am proud of you.

[@twentytwo_22]

love how the boats drifts at 0:17 and then later at 0:49 you used the rope of the boat to prevent that... So subtle :D edit: i changed it, thank you!

[@typhoonzebra]

do you mean subtle? XD I think you mean subtle.

[@i3e5l4]

let's cubtle

[@Primalxbeast]

You're a bad person. I just felt you should know that.

[@JavierOcampo]

hope I get to see the cage moved in my life time.

[@spodermen7266]

But you see, Javier, the "cage" isn't moved in a single moment; society gradually evolves into each of its cages.

[@fabianchitay745]

+Spodermen deep

[@MolotovBg]

If you saw the rise of the internet - there you go, a cage moved!

[@nil_fx]

and the internet will help accelerate the moving cage.. or get stuck on pokemon go? lol

[@motto25]

but is the rate of evolution constant, and if not I think he means he hopes to be around in a time where that rate is fast enough to notice.

[@xavierg.112]

Thank you for the knowledge in all your videos.

[@tylerstevens1904]

This is your best effort. Good job.

[@aidanteall7186]

That cage statement: sooo... researching technologies in Civ

[@danhjnny]

The only food I trust to get my daily recommendation of vitamin C from Is delicious lamb brains of course.

[@danhjnny]

DELET THIS

[@Jack-nq1rk]

+danhjnny delete it then why bother yelling at yourself

[@darkmortuus9769]

NEVER.

[@ultra5232]

They're actually good. Not even joking.

[@yoyoyojoe619]

I prefer fresh human milk

[@voidnull4282]

am i the only one who remembers that one eppisode of spongebob where pink sang a song about scurvy?

[@nevermindnirvana4208]

Random Fandom omg yes i remember this 😂

[@anthonyphillips111]

You make a great point and I love this message. The music is a great passive-serious transformation. I ef-ing love it