Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine - Sawbones: Your Weird Questions, Our Weirder Answers

Episode Date: November 3, 2018

We've spotted a boatload of your weird medical questions on the horizon and we've pointed our knowledge cannons at it and we're ... sinking it? Listen, the metaphor got away from us. We're sorry. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

Saubones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion. It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil? We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth. You're worth it. that weird growth. You're worth it. Alright, time is about to books! One, two, one, two, three, four! I'm your co-host Justin Maccallroll. I'm your co-host Justin Maccallroll.

I'm your co-host Justin Maccallroll. I'm your co-host Justin Maccallroll. I'm your co-host Justin Maccallroll. I'm your co-host Justin Maccallroll. I'm your co-host Justin McElroy and I'm Sydney McElroy Sydney we have a Sort of unusual situation this week. We have a guest in the studio today a guest in the studio silent a silent guest Well, we'll see that remains to be seen yes as designed. She. A silent guest. Well, we'll see. That remains to be seen. Yes.

As designed, she is a silent guest who is watching WeirdVids on the iPhone. Normally she would be in school when her record's all bones, but she is not. So Charlie Gail McAroy is here with us today. She may have something to say at some point. Yeah, it's up to her. It's up to her.

But it would probably be, I don't like this WeirdVid. Give me a new how many fine cookies we'll see. Yeah. But now that that has has established you will understand why we say this is also a special episode of some bones because we're doing something a little more flexible. How's that? Well, we love we love to do episodes where you send us your weird medical questions, your wacky medical inquiries. You're zany. And we answer them. These are not, again, as always, this is not advice. This is just stuff that you want to know about that I may be able to help you find answers for. And you know, I learned something too, this time around.

Yeah. I learned something upsetting. I, that's like the first question. You've already given me a sneak preview of this. So I'm gonna, but we actually have a late first question, and this is the most important one that comes from Justin. It says, Sydney, why does Charlie get my nice

chair in the studio? And I get this terrible task chair that we all hate and we would throw away if any of us felt like looking it upstairs. That's the first question it says here. She's because she's being very patient. She has all her life to look for too. She's being very good right now. She's no reason but to be patient. So that mommy and daddy can record their pod. I'm in my twilight years. All I have is this chair and you've taken it from me and given it to her. She has youth, she has beauty, she has everything.

And she has your chair. She has my brains and my chair. Yeah, I guess so. This first question is from Lacey. It says, my fiance always yells at me after I go to the bathroom to close the lid of the toilet. She's also kicking me, closed the lid of the toilet before flushing.

She believes that if you flush the toilet while the lid is open, germs from your recently expelled waste will splash out of the toilet bowl and on and near my services making our bathrooms unclean and will in turn make us sick. In my correct in thinking, this isn't how gravity or germs work and how do I explain to her that leaving the lid open while flushing is perfectly fine? So, Lacey, I did a little digging to check this one out and I was very disturbed at the results.

So it turns out that in 1975 someone published a study on The effect of what they called toilet plume aerosols. Boy, that's rough. That's already rough. Yeah, when you now this is not true for if you have like one of those low flow You know toilets if you have a low flow toilet then it is not this extensive But back in 1975 not very many people. And so a regular powerful flush from your standard toilet can shoot a plume of aerosolized droplets into the air 15 feet high. It sucks. It sucks. It sucks. Like we don't have enough to worry about, honestly, really. Now in 1975, when they published a study, they made the point that your toilet bowl is almost certainly already colonized

by lots of different germs, bacteria and viruses, depending on what you've come in contact with and what's in your waste products. And if you are sick, and so they pose this theoretical risk, could you make yourself sick if you flushed with the toilet seat open?

Now in 2013, they did a review of this literature, and they found that while this is still true that the toilet bowl definitely has these germs in it, and you definitely do shoot them into the air when you flush with the toilet seat open, there has so far never been a documented case of someone actually becoming ill from this. So it is still just a theoretical risk. There is no proof. But at the end, there was the consideration, maybe just shut your toilet when you flush. And maybe if you store things near your toilet like toothbrushes,

like up on the counter, like ours, our toilet is right next to our sink where there are cups with toothbrushes, like maybe you might want to put those somewhere else in case you forget occasionally shut the lid or if somebody else does. Yeah. Now this shouldn't be a problem if it's number one, right? No, I mean, it's a problem if it's number one, right? No, I mean, it's a problem for anything, because like I said, the toilet bowl is colonized with whatever has been in there before. So.

Now, here's how I discovered this fun fact, beloved listener. I went into the bathroom last night to brush my daughter's teeth. We do chompers, it's a gimmelant media thing. It's a podcast, but it's also an Alexa skill. If we haven't tried it, do try it because it's fantastic. Just ask Alexa to open chompers and it's a two minute morning and night show about brushing your teeth. And it educates your kids. It's fun. You can hear a bunch of.

It's actually about all kinds of things. It's about all the kinds of things. It's for brushing your teeth, but it teaches you about all kinds of things. But every like 30 seconds, they tell you like, okay, now brush the right upper side of your teeth. Anyway, it's great. And keeps track of your streak. We like traveled around with our Alexa for a few months to get to 100, which is the highest you can go, but we did it anyway.

It's inspirational. So I went to do chomperous last night and the tooth, the toothbrushes were gone. And I was like, Sidney, we're showing a toothbrush. She said, oh, I read something today that horrified me. And this is a new thing. We're going to start putting them in the drawer. So I looked and yeah, Charlie's was in the drawer and Charlie's travel toothbrush was in the drawer and Sidney's toothbrush was in the drawer.

But there's one that was in the drawer. Just as has this weird electric toothbrush that actually charges itself in the cup that it sits in. So I knew if I took it out of the cup, it would no longer be charging. So I was gonna have a conversation with him about what he wanted to do about toilet plums. And I had not had it yet

because I didn't want to tell him until we recorded because he doesn't get to know these things until we record. You were talking about that. Maintain the integrity of the show above all else. tell him until we recorded because we don't, he doesn't get to know these things until we record. You were to, you were talking about the maintaining integrity of the show above all else. You were talking about the harrowing proximity of our toothbrush eye to the toilet. And which one would you say is perched precariously? Dark oil like above the toilet.

Here's the closest, mine is the closest. Yeah, cum. It has to be near the outlet because you have that weird cup. Anyway, here's the point, Lacey. No one's ever gotten sick from this. So you're, it's fair for you to say that it's probably not going to happen. But at the same time, I just go ahead and shut the toilet. I would, I would go ahead and give this battle up. I would, I would concede this one. It's probably a good habit to be in. How's that? Yeah, you're probably safe, but it's such a go ahead.

So small risk. That's what I'm gonna do. Yeah. I have one from Shell. It says so recently I've discovered I've got some pretty annoying caratosis Pilaris all over my arms and legs. The discovery of them being there is it new. I've had the pretty annoying, caratosis, pilaris all over my arms and legs. The discovery of them being there is it new, I've had them most of my life.

He's just recently learned there's a name besides chicken skin or crocodile skin with the old folks in my family who've always called them. Anyhow, I was just wondering how common these little bumps are. Google tells me it's pretty common, but I don't feel like I've really seen them on anyone else.

Sydney, I don't know what this is. This is really common. I thought that's why I thought it was worth answering this question is because a lot of our listeners may have this and just didn't know there was a name for it. Caratosis, Polaris, which is very commonly called chicken skin. It's like little bumps that you might have. They could be red or white.

They're little teeny bumps and they're most commonly up on like your outer upper arms, like up under your shoulders, like in that area, and your thighs. If you feel, as I'm saying this, you might want to reach up your arm and feel, you may have a few. All it is, it's a genetic disorder, it's totally benign, there's nothing scarier dangerous, it shouldn't cause you any discomfort or itching or anything like that. But it's basically where you produce too much keratin and it blocks off the hair follicle and you get a little bump there.

And that's it. It's totally benign again. It is present in between 50 and 80% of adolescents. Some people do grow out of it because by adulthood, we find it in about 40% of the population. So it's still incredibly common. So it really is. There are probably are lots of people

who might not know a name for it because they may just have never noticed. But a lot of people have this. Which is a common thing, huh? Totally common, totally benign. If it super bothers you. And I mean, and this would be from like a cosmetic standpoint. If you just don't like the way it looks or feels, sometimes you can like, there are creams,

there are medications you can get from your doctor, topical things that you apply on the outside. Pretty easy to treat, but it probably will come back. That's one thing to know. If it's genetic, it'll probably come back. You can help if you keep your skin from getting too dry. But if it doesn't bother you to just be there, you don't have to do anything about it. It's totally benign.

I don't want to worry you, but I was feeling for these bumps you're talking about. I actually feel these really big bumps underneath my skin on my arms. Like they're underneath my, like the top of my arm. There's just a huge bump right here. Oh, okay. Justin is now flexing his muscle and rubbing his muscle. He's now rubbing his biceps. It's like one huge bump right here. Move on to question three. Is it normal?

We've got a bunch of questions. It does seem to be a question number three. It does seem to be possible. Move on to question number three. It's especially relevant to you. From Damien says, despite your husband's better judgment, I got the nightmare king for Burger King. Oh, Damien, no.

I did however encourage people to do precisely. Oh, Damien, no. I did, however, encourage people to do precisely that and tell me about their dreams. Uh, can the deliciousness that is this burger really cause nightmares? So Justin, you referenced, um, on your other podcast, one of my other dozens of podcasts. You referenced this burger and the fact that there was a study that supposedly supported the claim that it can increase actual nightmares. If you eat it.

Yeah, hold on to it, can I move on? Yeah, I want a month. Squad. So, what's the podcast that a podcast and this time it's in a new show. It's called Sal Bones. And I have a hard time. I just want to tell what the burger is really quick. Okay. Really quick. One I was shocked that you didn't give me more trouble about it. I really quit. I was shocked that you didn't give me more trouble about it.

It is a burger patty with bacon and cheese and burger fixings and mayonnaise and a chicken press. Yes. That's the nightmare part of it. And that's what they're saying is good bound. Give me not much. And it's also green. It's also the bun is green.

It looks like a Charlie said, yeah. you know, you know, it looks like in person, you remember you can't do that on television. Remember the guy barf the chef on you can't do that on television, the stuff he made. Yes, that's what it looks like. So it looks like a garbage mail kid version of a hamburger. So they really did do a study of sorts, working to the study with paramount trials and Florida's sleep and neurodagnostic services. And basically 100 people ate the burger for 10 nights before they went to bed, and then they were observed while they slept. And they said, did they give you nightmares? And what they said is that the average on average, like 4% of the population has nightmares on any given night. And in this study, it increased by 3.5 times.

Now, the problem, the number one problem is there was no control group. That's the number one problem. With the entire situation, the number one problem is that they didn't have a control group? They talked to you about nightmares ahead of time, and they asked you questions about nightmares, and they asked you if you had any nightmares. There's a lot of bias. You needed to do that and then have people eat something that wasn't the nightmare burger. Believe me, friends, you would know if you had to eat the nightmare burger, there would

be no control group that you could establish for this sandwich. There has never been a proven link between what you eat in nightmares. So I thought I would address that. They've never found, no. They've never found that like eating certain foods are more likely to give you nightmares or not. Like they do in some studies to find like people who are really thirsty, like who hadn't had enough water

like sometimes dream of water. But like past that, like there's really no influence as to like what you eat. Like a whole bit, bit scrooge does about a bit of undigested beef or blob of mustard. A roll of potato. Yeah, none of that is. There's never been anything like that. So it, no, it can't give you nightmares. Amanda says, if I have more than one, maybe two, that is more than one alcoholic drinks in a night, No matter what kind of alcohol, I pretty much always wake up around two or three in the morning,

100% of the time. Then I have a hard time getting back to sleep. Surely some of that is due to anxiety, but I think it's the alcohol that wakes me up in the first place. Why? I suspect sugar has something to do with it. I kind of know this one a little bit.

Good for it. Alcohol helps you fall asleep, but is bad for your sleep overall. I know. That's true. That is very true. That's exactly right. Alcohol does reduce sleep latency, which is the time between when your head hits the pillow and when you fall asleep. So you fall asleep faster, which you, I mean, most people who have ever had a drink before bed could probably attest to that. But it messes up what we call your sleep architecture. And that's kind of the how you go in and out of deeper stages of sleep, as you, you know, throughout the night, I supposed to go in a regulated fashion. And alcohol

takes you into deeper stages of sleep faster, and you skip the REM sleep that you need. And then as you metabolize the alcohol and it's coming out of your system, you actually rebound into those lighter stages of sleep and probably have like micro-awakening that you don't even know you're having having. So your sleep is poor, you know, you're not you're not getting good sleep you need. And then actual awakenings that you are noticing. So it's the alcohol coming out of your system that is actually waking you up, which is why you wake up early, you know, in the middle of the night or early in the morning.

It also contributes to like, it messes with your pituitary hormones. So things like melatonin or a problem, prolactin, also neurotransmitters, chemicals in your brain that sends signals, things like GABA and adenosine, all these things are affected by alcohol. So, overall, alcohol is bad for sleep. You really shouldn't drink right before you go to bed to get good sleep.

I saw somebody make a point that like the key, the best time to drink throughout the day is happy hour. Yeah. That happy hour because you'll metabolize the alcohol before you go to bed. So, if you mess up your sleep, I don't know if I have a study to support that's true, but I will say if you drink right before you go to bed, it will mess up your sleep. And this is a problem because up to 20% of adults in the US use alcohol to help them sleep at times.

So, it's not short-term fix, but not a long time. No, overall, you're going to have disrupted sleep and fatigue if you use alcohol to help you sleep. So, don't do it. Dave says, during a minute, maybe a minute, so just an ask you a medical question, but we never got an answer.

When a person with a penis gains weight, does their penis also gain weight? Why or why not? I thought I could continue never answering this question forever. Nope. But here it is, no. Someone at a live show at our book signing actually asked you this follow up,

a young fan. Yes. Follow up. Yes. The young fan. Yes. So the people need to know and know the penis just doesn't, it just doesn't game weight. It's just not an area where a lot of adipose tissue is going to accumulate. That's where you gain weight.

Places where you're going to store a lot of fat tissue, adipose tissue, and you don't tend to do that in penis tissue. So the penis will not get bigger with weight gain. If anything actually just on a side note, if you gain more weight, your penis may actually start to look a little shorter. Because like a good amount of the penis is actually like the base is actually kind of inside the body. like the base is actually kind of inside the body. And the less adipose tissue there is in that area, the more of that you can see so the penis can look lengthier.

Okay. So weight gain might, it doesn't actually change the size of the penis in any way, but it actually might appear somewhat shorter if you gain weight. And if you lose weight, it might appear somewhat longer, but it's not actually changing.

Mo says I grew up in Australia and I common home remedy for an ulcer in the mouth is to put veg in my donut. I was assumed because it was rather salty so it's an alternative to washing your mouth with salt water. Are there any home remedies you grew up with and still use regardless of your medical knowledge? I had to really think about this one because since I know how many don't work, even the things that I used to use when I was a kid or like that mom still tells me to do sometimes, I won't, because I stubbornly, and like I know they don't work, so I won't do it.

I do employ the honey for a cough for kids over the age of one who have a cough cause there's really no good medicine. Like honestly, a lot of the over-the-counter cough on cold medicine, you just shouldn't use for kids. Outside of like time and all. I took out of the pharmacy and by the homeopathic, cold kids or anybody, it's just honey.

It's honey that's charging you four times as well. And you can give your kid a spoonful of honey as long as they're ever one. And that would be fine. The evidence for it isn't amazing, but there is some. So I use it because even if it's not helping a lot, it's harmless and it's honey. So I gave her a spoonful of honey. She likes that. So I do that, even though the there is evidence, but it's just not crazy robust. And then we have been known we do have a jar of Vicks Vapo rub Even though that really doesn't do anything

Use a friend Yeah, is that a home remedy? I mean it's not home remedy, but it doesn't yeah study say it doesn't work So these are I don't I don't really use a lot of home remedies the only thing I've ever really been guilty of is ginger and there's evidence For ginger again, it's not but you're not gonna find this, even the stuff that does work that's like herbal or like a home remedy kind of thing, like what we call folk medicine, even the stuff that probably does work to some degree,

you're never gonna find a lot of robust evidence for it. But no, no, my skepticism has driven me away from it. Since ruined a lot of them for me, I used to try like elderberry for cold and emergency. You use zycam and vitamin C and I'm gonna say nothing works. No medicine works, cities are in all of it for me. That's not true. Philip says, why do I always have to poop after I exercise?

Why do I always have to poop after I exercise? Philip didn't include the question twice, but I stumbled the first time and I felt like I'd just read it. Say it one more time because it was fun to say. We kind of talked about this before when we talked about runners trots, runners diarrhea, which has to do with just a lack of blood flow to your intestine. Rothers trots is just good old fashioned American diarrhea. It has to do with when you are exercising and using your muscles, you're diverting blood

flow there to like, you know, use them because that's where your blood needs to, you need oxygen when you're using your muscles. And so they divert it away, it diverts it away from your intestines and that can cause diarrhea later and dehydration can. There's also just with exercise in general, I didn't know if I'd ever mentioned this before. The mechanical like the jostling of your intestines

adds to that. Just shakes everything up. We've got some loose. It's one of the things we tell somebody like who's been in the hospital for a while, and as a result, can't poop, has it's constipated. They need plenty of fluids. Obviously, if they haven't been eating,

we gotta get a diet back on board. But the other thing is to get up and walk, if you can. Get up and walk the hallways. Movement can stimulate your bow, so it makes sense that all that jostling around can as well. Well folks, we got a bunch more great questions, but we are running long, so I am going to take control here and shuffle us quickly to the Billy department. Let's go. Caroline or Carolyn, what do you say? Caroline, let's go to Caroline. I'm a 19 year old girl in college over the summer. I

started the pill since then. I've been noticing some fluctuations in my sex drive. It seems like before I started taking the pill, I was just ready to go all the time 24-7. And now I'll go weeks where I'm just not feeling it at all. Then I'll be super horny out of the blue. Is it my birth control? Or am I just aging? I think this is a great question because the truth about birth control is that it was the need for reproductive freedom is so strong and so present even today that a lot of the real deal side effects and drawbacks to birth control as it was originally conceived were kind of overlooked because people who had uterus were so desperate for some way to control

that, to take control of that part of their sex life and that part of their future. And there are real side effects, for sure. And they're different for everybody, which is why there are a lot of different kinds of birth control. And you should, if you're not sure about the kind you're using, if you're having problems, you should always talk to your doctor, there may be a better option. All that being said, it's really unclear exactly how birth control tends to affect libido for most people.

Some have shown an increase in libido, others have shown a decrease in libido. Probably for most people on birth control, there isn't a significant change in libido, probably for most people on birth control, there isn't a significant change in libido one way or the other, but it definitely can have an effect for some patients. It can depend on the kind of birth control and just how it's interacting with you. I would say it's not aging because you're still in the grand scheme of things quite young. I do not mean that in a derogatory way. You're just, you're on the young side.

I would not expect your libido to be, to be affected yet based on your age. So it could be, I guess, is the answer. It's unlikely that birth control will decrease libido, but it is certainly possible. I would go talk to your doctor and see if there may be something else that, that wouldn't affect you that way, because it's possible. There's a question from Elspeth. It says, I've heard some people say it's okay if you don't have periods and some people say it's unhealthy if you don't have them, EG, on-birth control, etc. Because it's supposed to quote, clean out everything. Sydney, what's your take on this? It is no problem if you don't have a period as well as as you know, by the way, that you are not pregnant,

that would be the only thing I would say is that if you're not having a period and you could be pregnant and you haven't taken a pregnancy test, I would do that because it's important to know. But barring that specific scenario, if you are taking birth control and so you're not having periods, or if you just are very irregular and you don't have periods very frequently, that's okay. That's, I mean, if it's not bothering you, there's nothing inherently dangerous or bad for your system. As someone who has myself, I have PCOS and I have incredibly irregular periods,

I will go months and months. It's fine for me. It's just, me. It's nice not to have them personally, although it is a major hassle because you never know when they're coming. So that's kind of annoying. But if it's not bothering you and you know that you're not pregnant, I always want to reiterate that because you should find that out if you think that's possibility, barring that it's really okay for your body not to have a period. It's a question from Austin. Do women actually have more hormones than men? Or is that a somewhat sexist saying like being hysterical? I'm assuming this is in reference to the idea that

like the comment, oh, she's just being hormonal. I think that's probably what we're referencing here that would be a sexist thing to say. Yeah, I would say that it's still a sexist thing to say because we all have lots of hormones, all of us, and all of us have them in varying amounts. The hormones we typically think of as the, quote unquote, female hormone, like estrogen or male hormone, quote unquote male hormone like estrogen or male hormone, quote, quote, you know, quote, unquote male hormone like testosterone.

Those things are certainly present in different amounts. And a lot of that has to do with what kind of secondary sexual characteristics we develop. So does a person develop breasts or do they have a penis or vagina and all that? Obviously, those things are all under the influence of hormones, but we all have lots of hormones floating around in there that do all kinds of things and You don't have more based on your gender or based on the genitalia that you have you just have different ones So yeah, I would that would be my general advice to everybody is don't ever call anyone hormonal In reference to anything. Yeah, it's just like a wild thing to say about anybody in any context.

Yeah, I just wouldn't. And they fluctuate throughout our lives at different ages too. So we have different amounts of different ages. It's just, yeah, hormones do a lot of stuff and they have nothing to do with if you just don't like the way somebody's acting. I wouldn't, yeah.

Jared says, I've read there are more bacteria cells than human cells in our bodies. Is this true? If so, how much of our mass slash weight is actually bacteria? This is a myth that I had to bust on myself. I used to think that. I used to say this because I had heard this too that we are more bacteria than human. It's actually probably closer to one to one than the average human. In a mass, weight or number?

Number of cells. Number of cells, number of bacteria is probably around the same. I think the number was like, if you take like an average size human, which is like a 70 kilo human, I think it's like your standard size, you would have like 39 trillion cells and like 30 trillion bacteria. Okay, but like if we were, if you're gonna take all that bacteria out of us and just like put it in a bucket,

would it be like half our body weight? And it's like, what would it look like? It would just, it would look like a bunch of bacteria. I don't know, the gross. It would be so gross. I mean, they're microscopic. So like, also microscopic, it would be the two speaking, right? Yeah, but I mean, I guess if you have enough of them, I don't know.

It's wild. It's wild to think about. It's wild to think about. But the point is, the point, and it varies. Some people might have one-to-one bacteria to human. Some people might have one to one bacteria to human. Some people might be two to one in one direction or the other. But the only thing is to say,

you know, the other two to one bacteria to human. I think that's pretty obvious at this point. We used to think we were 10 to one bacteria to human and that is, we know that's not true. That most of us are pretty close to a dead heat between bacteria and human cells. Here's a question from Frank. Is it true that if you eat too many carrots, your skin starts to turn orange? Are there other foods this is true for?

Yes. You can. You have to eat a lot, but yes, your skin can get, start to get like a yellowish orangeish sheen. Yes, if you eat a lot of anything of beta-carotene in it is what it is. That's what's in carrots. It's most noticeable on the palms and soles. You can distinguish it, by the way, from jaundice.

You know, jaundice when your liver isn't working correctly because then the whites of your eyes will turn yellow and that won't happen if it's due to carrots. Yeah, there are other things that can do this. Eating too many tomatoes can make your skin kind of yellowish orange as well, and it's because of lycopene in the tomatoes that can accumulate. Any of these things that change your skin color like this from just eating too much of it, you can change back if you don't like it by eating less. You just avoid carrots for a while, avoid tomatoes for a while, whatever it is, and your skin will gradually, I mean, it takes a while, but over the course of months, it will go back to the way it looks.

You should do a detox, a special, special detox that I'm selling right now. It's most commonly seen in kids, which I guess is just because as we get older, we realize like, man, there's stuff that tastes better than carrots. Or when you're a kid, you're like, if your parents can figure out one vegetable that you like, it's just like, oh, thank God. That's probably what it is. I can sleep at night and feel like a decent parent. Here, eat 30 carrots. I bet you that's what it is,

because like our kids always loved carrots and sweet potatoes and squash and pumpkin. I'm surprised they didn't turn orange. Anna comes in with our last question. Okay, when my nipples are stimulated, I feel weirdly sad, specifically homesick. I looked it up and apparently this happens to a lot of people. What the heck is that all about? I sympathize with this because I have experienced it before.

It is so dysphoria that kind of sad feeling that can happen with nipple stimulation is really well known because it tends to happen a lot to people who breastfeed. They call it DMER dysphoric milk ejection reflex. And it is that that feeling of like sadness, longing, want, need, homesickness is a good way to describe it. There are a lot of different terms people use to describe it, but it happens a lot while people are breastfeeding as the milk lets down. So weird.

But these are weird, Sid. It's a weird feeling. I have experienced it myself. I used to describe it as thirst. You would get thirsty. I feel like I needed to go have a cold drink of water. I would feel like acutely dehydrated or something. I don't know. It's a weird feeling if you've ever experienced it, but it is common. We don't really have a great name for it happening outside of breastfeeding so

far because that was kind of where it was first described, but now we've realized that it can happen with any kind of nipple stimulation to some people, not to everybody, but to some people. The mechanism is not completely understood. We think it has something to do with prolactin and dopamine and like those things, prolactin specifically can be released either for breastfeeding or also just with any kind of like sexual stimulation or orgasm it can. So that's why nipple stimulation of any kind can do this. And has something to do with maybe a drop in dopamine, we think, but it's still poorly understood,

but it is a known entity. It's not just you, a lot of people experience it. And I really don't have a great way to tell you to combat it. It just happens. Bodies are so weird. Okay, this is actually the last one. It's from Nick.

I have two little boys, two and three years old. Sometimes they fill their mouths, two full of food, and it just kind of sits there for a bit and gets chewed up a little bit before they spit it out. I try to tell myself, they get a little nutrition out of this. Am I just fooling myself? You're not completely fooling yourself. It's just probably not the nutrition that you

want. The main thing that you can absorb through, because your mouth is lined with a mucous membrane, so you can absorb things through your mouth. That's why some medications, like we absorb under our tongue, you know? So like you can't absorb things through your mouth for sure. And there's stuff in your saliva, enzymes that can break things down. But most of what you can absorb through your mouth quickly is sugar. So like carbohydrates and sugars could be absorbed through your mouth in that way, possibly.

But like proteins and fats and a lot of vitamins and things. Most of the stuff you're wanting the kids to get is it really needs to make it to the small intestine to get it. So, um, a little, but you're not completely wrong, but a little. Uh, folks, that is going to do it for us this week. Thank you so much for listening to our program. Thanks to the taxpayers for the use of our medicines as the introduction of our program.

We have a book. It's called Sobbing's the Book. You can find it on Amazon or at find bookstore.. It's actually called the Salboins book. The Salboins book. So I say, he said Salboins the book. Salboins the book. It's the Salboins book. If you want to sign copy, you might be able to call the books a million in Charleston, at the doubly Farms Plaza, or the Huntington Mall, the books a million is there. We just sign a bunch of them and left them in stock. So if you call them, and they might ship you a sign one,

I don't know if that'll work or not, but it's worth trying it. Try and, real quick, we wanted to tell you, if we can just ask for your help with something, it's not, this is probably asking too much of you, but there is a billboard that just went up in Huntington that is trying to reinforce the that reinforce trying to espouse the dangers of vaccines trying to discourage people from Really from trusting their their medical professionals advice on vaccines and instead directing them to their website for advice about their own health

It's basically trying to it's capitalizing on the death of a child and trying to, trying to teach you a little bit. Vaccinating can kill. It's a, uh, eight, twenty five, how durable of art here in the honey to West Virginia. And the company that owns the billboard itself is called, uh, West Virginia outdoor advertising. Their phone number is 3043420932.

Since, uh, herd immunity affects all of us, I feel like this is an issue that everybody can get fired up about. And just, you know, kind of politely explain to this company that, yeah, even though they legally may have the right to put this billboard up, they're hurting their community. And it is dangerous and reckless to take money from groups like this. And maybe tell them how great vaccines are and how they're risking the lives of kids. Yeah. I have fun. Fun thing. We have tried. I have tried. I've called several times.

I've spoken and been promised calls back in response to my concerns and have never received any calls back. Never got any answers to my emails. Nothing. They're silent on it. And while again, there may not be a legal reason they have to take it down. If it were me, I would not want to be complicit in bringing harm to my community by discouraging families from getting vaccines.

So again, that number 304-342-0932, if you hate the phone, W Leslie at wvoutdoor.com is weighed Leslie. That's the president of the company. Just maybe let him know how you feel. Again, we're in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, As for us folks, thank you so much for your time. Thanks for being here with us. Anything else said? Just one thing I wanted to mention. If last week's episode, if you downloaded the original file that was in stereo, one that was in accident, a lot of people were like,

if you're gonna do this with your show, we're very upset. Understand, we're not gonna do that with the show. It was an accident. If you re-download it, it is no longer in stereo. So it will sound the way all of our episodes sound and we will continue to make them sound. And we are sorry for that inconvenience.

It was a complete accident. Not meant to be creepy. As I understand it, it was. That's what people said. It was very creepy. We did not mean for it to be creepy and I'm sorry. The folks that's going to do it for us this week. Thank you so much.

Until next time, my name is Justin McElroy. I'm Sidney McElroy. I always don't drill a hole in your head. Alright! Maximumfund.org Comedy and Culture Artistone Listener Supported