A Woman Put Mercury Skin Cream On Her Face. This Is What Happened To Her Brain.

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  • @gamelikar
    @gamelikar 14 дней назад +9812

    May none of us be the main character in a chubbeymu video

  • @Toe_Merchant
    @Toe_Merchant 14 дней назад +4863

    A full recovery: 😀
    A recovery: 😕
    At autopsy😞
    Could not make a recovery: 😭

    • @merriquelynn866
      @merriquelynn866 14 дней назад +578

      Not being able to make a recovery to means you never get better but your pain never ends either.

    • @BrettonFerguson
      @BrettonFerguson 14 дней назад

      Autopsy doesn't fit in any order. It could fit anywhere. A person could make a full recovery, or a partial recovery and they could find mercury or whatever at the autopsy decades later. Or the person could not make a recovery and they would find things at autopsy.

    • @christyrodrigue6628
      @christyrodrigue6628 14 дней назад +43

      Yeah.... 😶

    • @michaelcoletta4547
      @michaelcoletta4547 14 дней назад +51

      Does that mean she may still have died, but simply didn't have an autopsy performed on her body (perhaps because the cause of her problems/eventual demise, and the effects of mercury poisoning are rather well documented) ??

    • @lifeloverNorris
      @lifeloverNorris 14 дней назад +196

      @@merriquelynn866 Never get better and also pain never ends. The ultimate bad ending.

  • @tapioca8574
    @tapioca8574 13 дней назад +217

    you ever just be doing something that might not be the healthiest choice and then the chubbyemu intro just starts playing in your head?

    • @sunstripe85
      @sunstripe85 10 дней назад +15

      Lol the number of leftovers I now hesitate to eat if there's even the tiniest doubt in my mind.....

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano 9 дней назад

      Nope, usually either Taps plays or the theme from F-Troop, both quickly confirming the bad idea and I desist. Likely, why I'm still alive today.
      Despite my worst efforts to the contrary. ;)

    • @idioticfetus
      @idioticfetus 7 дней назад

      when that happens you know you're either about to die or about to have terrible lifelong effects

    • @E.Pierro.Artist
      @E.Pierro.Artist 6 дней назад +1

      Every time I clock in at work.

    • @AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet
      @AlexeyFilippenkoPlummet 6 дней назад

      Imagine doing construction work in China and then suddenly WikiLeaks logo appear in the air

  • @Minotaur-ey2lg
    @Minotaur-ey2lg 14 дней назад +457

    When working as a plumber’s apprentice I was under a very old house. Put my hand in a puddle that didn’t feel right. Looked at it and knew exactly what it was. Backed out immediately and told my boss and he didn’t believe me. Told him to take a look. Needless to say he popped out, told the owners to leave, then we all went to the hospital. Turned out it was used as a Civil War hospital back in the day. Scary stuff.

    • @jfaustin1742
      @jfaustin1742 13 дней назад +25

      Omg then what happened?? Did they clean the property? Are you ok?

    • @Minotaur-ey2lg
      @Minotaur-ey2lg 13 дней назад +1

      @@jfaustin1742 Yeah, my boss and I were fine. We had to visit the doctor occasionally for a few weeks before they gave us the ok. The home owners were ok too, but they had a longer series of doctors visits. Fortunately the contractors who renovated the house had sealed the floor well, so exposure in the house was minimum. Don’t know about the contractors condition.

    • @vincent67239
      @vincent67239 13 дней назад +78

      @@jfaustin1742 He died

    • @fairyprincess911
      @fairyprincess911 12 дней назад +29

      @@vincent67239That's not funny

    • @vincent67239
      @vincent67239 12 дней назад +14

      @@fairyprincess911 😔

  • @OwlRTA
    @OwlRTA 14 дней назад +6444

    hearing that BD "could not make a recovery" but not hearing "at autopsy" is somehow more terrifying than hearing "at autopsy".

    • @rickygamingproductions
      @rickygamingproductions 14 дней назад +960

      Yeah, probably meaning she's still alive, but essentially is like Braindead, where you can literally do nothing for yourself.
      That's terrifying, meaning while she isn't dead, she can't recover from the damage caused by the Mercury
      She can't move, talk, or eat on her own

    • @Echolocatingcheese
      @Echolocatingcheese 14 дней назад +402

      ​@@rickygamingproductionsthat's not what braindead means. Shes still conscious.

    • @rickygamingproductions
      @rickygamingproductions 14 дней назад +129

      @@Echolocatingcheese my bad, I couldn't exactly find the word

    • @sba8710
      @sba8710 14 дней назад +63

      @@Echolocatingcheeseis she aware of her surroundings at all?

    • @yarost12
      @yarost12 14 дней назад +119

      Locked in then?

  • @kim98677
    @kim98677 14 дней назад +2526

    "i feel so ugly"
    "Don't worry, I have this cream that'll make you too braindamaged to even care"

    • @Gladys954
      @Gladys954 14 дней назад +122

      I'm going to hell for laughing bro

    • @Mereologist
      @Mereologist 14 дней назад +85

      It's funny because it's true, but it's also sad because it's true.

    • @citlalli-in-yt
      @citlalli-in-yt 14 дней назад +17

      Maybe YTs algorithm does not allow chubbyemu to say the cream was a total scam... Or maybe he does not want to say that since there is not enough evidence...

    • @JoeBLOWFHB
      @JoeBLOWFHB 14 дней назад +7

      Dr. My BrAiN hUrTz!

    • @goodnightmyprince6734
      @goodnightmyprince6734 14 дней назад +10

      Tofu-Dreg cream

  • @MoreishMike
    @MoreishMike 14 дней назад +298

    That transition from a black and white hand in a pool of mercury to a blood vessel hand was a beautiful edit.

    • @saadzahem
      @saadzahem 11 дней назад +5

      It was the cleanest transition

    • @FireStick-nu4pn
      @FireStick-nu4pn 11 дней назад +2

      I noticed that too

    • @slwrabbits
      @slwrabbits 10 дней назад +2

      I really want to know how that was done.

    • @krysal1489
      @krysal1489 8 дней назад +1

      I read your comment just as I got to that part lol

  • @YuckyMama
    @YuckyMama 14 дней назад +287

    As a professional chemist, working with organomercury was always stressful & a high alert day. You cannot mess around with that stuff. 😮

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano 9 дней назад +4

      Dr Karen Wetterhahn taught us well, complacency kills, assuming protective measures are effective without testing kills.

    • @BreakTheCode115
      @BreakTheCode115 8 дней назад +1

      Is that the one where you can’t even get it on a latex glove because it just goes straight through?

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano 8 дней назад +4

      @@BreakTheCode115 that isn't a one, it's an entire class of compounds of mercury that integrate carbon, hence organic.
      In the case you're speaking of, I mentioned Doctor above. She was the case that died from methylmercury drops on a latex glove. She was pretty much the world's leading expert in mercury compounds.

    • @lorenamcgovern
      @lorenamcgovern 3 дня назад +2

      My advice: never go near it

  • @KaraTheGirlie
    @KaraTheGirlie 14 дней назад +969

    Imagine being thay friend and your mlm scheme got your friend legitimately braindead.

    • @thaloblue
      @thaloblue 14 дней назад +150

      Not unheard of. Some MLMs have outright killed people.

    • @KaraTheGirlie
      @KaraTheGirlie 13 дней назад +20

      @@thaloblue oh I know

    • @Tree-House69
      @Tree-House69 13 дней назад +81

      Who wants to bet she somehow blamed her friend who got poisoned, or just treated it like an oopsie while carrying on with her MLM scheme?

    • @daviddavidson2357
      @daviddavidson2357 13 дней назад +67

      Not braindead, worse, much worse.
      Persistent vegetative state, part of her will be partially conscious.

    • @mary-janereallynotsarah684
      @mary-janereallynotsarah684 13 дней назад +47

      MLM people probably don't even care. People who succeed at that are not generally good people.

  • @cursedgamer2778
    @cursedgamer2778 14 дней назад +1867

    thats a deep form of horror. no recovery, no autopsy.

    • @chickenlover657
      @chickenlover657 14 дней назад +55

      The autopsy will come, just give it time.

    • @pumkin610
      @pumkin610 14 дней назад +14

      The brain is 60% fat :(

    • @kerrynicholls6683
      @kerrynicholls6683 14 дней назад +7

      There was an autopsy. No recovery, but an autopsy would have had to be done to find the cause of death. Without it they wouldn’t know how they died, unless they found out beforehand. Everyone has a cause of death. Also he mentioned an autopsy.

    • @krozareq
      @krozareq 14 дней назад +79

      @@kerrynicholls6683 Not for the subject of this video. She's still "alive." He was talking about one of the poisoned girls in Japan.

    • @imoutocompalex
      @imoutocompalex 14 дней назад +69

      @@kerrynicholls6683 BD is still alive. Just permanently hospitalized and cannot function while needing to be fed through a tube. That other autopsy he mentioned was the girl from Japan decades ago.

  • @amethyst_nyx2768
    @amethyst_nyx2768 13 дней назад +92

    I'm working on my PhD in chemistry, and I've heard all the stories, including Karen Wetterhahn. The instant I heard him say "methylmercury" I knew this patient was royally screwed. Organic mercury compounds are so wildly dangerous. Especially since they can diffuse so easily into skin, blood, and organs. So irresponsible of that company.

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano 9 дней назад

      Not irresponsible, that would suggest a potential error, this is far more likely to be criminal in nature. To name names, a lot of Chinese products that are illicitly brought into the US are notorious for lead, methylmercury and more. Kids toys routinely get recalled due to lead paint, despite the PRC passing laws prohibiting that being used. Then, there was the melamine in the milk scandal, killed thousands, tens of thousands with badly damaged kidneys, the PRC finally checking when the body count got noticed globally and only then did they find the managers responsible for the fraud and executed them.

    • @jannepeltonen2036
      @jannepeltonen2036 8 дней назад +3

      Yeah. That was dimethyl mercury though, not a methylmercury salt.

    • @toxxicx
      @toxxicx 4 дня назад +3

      The various types of mercury are confusing. You can touch the kind in a thermostat, but you touch dimethylmercury and it's over.

  • @YuBeace
    @YuBeace 9 дней назад +20

    The fact they didn’t just send her home as “stressed” after nothing showed on the first tests is a miracle.

  • @LuccaRPG
    @LuccaRPG 14 дней назад +1957

    I remember the scientist that died from two drops of mercury on her hand. Mercury scares the living daylights outta me.

    • @Jabarri74
      @Jabarri74 14 дней назад +165

      At school I broke an old mercury thermometer and got told to just sweep it up with a dust pan and brush. Not sure how safe that was looking back

    • @jancoley9051
      @jancoley9051 14 дней назад +158

      Its gas that is frightening to me. Not gasoline, but gas that you can't see but it has to be contained. They had to add a bad smell to propane just so you know it's there. I refuse to have gas appliances because maybe a gas leak or explosion.

    • @sujimayne
      @sujimayne 14 дней назад +92

      ​@@Jabarri74Watch the video then. It's safe.

    • @sujimayne
      @sujimayne 14 дней назад +387

      Organic mercury*
      And she had two sets of gloves. She ended up dying months later. Extremely scary.

    • @GoroAkechi_Real
      @GoroAkechi_Real 14 дней назад +43

      As soon as I saw this video I knew how it would end based on that one. This is that but worse.

  • @diyeana
    @diyeana 14 дней назад +2438

    "Is there a part of the body that has more fat than others?" _reaches for belly_ "The brain ..." _"Ohhhhhh"_ 😂

    • @whateverppl1229
      @whateverppl1229 14 дней назад +161

      *looks down and cant see my feet* I don't know if the brain has more...

    • @corvidking468
      @corvidking468 14 дней назад +34

      ​@@whateverppl1229the brain is made almost entirely out of fats

    • @ShinAgro
      @ShinAgro 14 дней назад +145

      @@corvidking468 So is my belly

    • @mkjirak
      @mkjirak 14 дней назад +109

      My reaction was *looks at boobs*.

    • @Jabarri74
      @Jabarri74 14 дней назад

      @@mkjirak I believe it also accumulates in mens balls so we don't get a free pass either

  • @PG-wz7by
    @PG-wz7by 14 дней назад +178

    California issues a consumer warning to avoid all creams without labels as well as creams made in homes w/o ingredients. Even 'natural and organic' skin products have ingredients listed. They also advised to not buy any creams from bodegas that looked homemade and especially skin lightening products. I didn't realize this was likely about mercury and not lead.

    • @vincent67239
      @vincent67239 13 дней назад +17

      Yeah, Prop 65 has conditioned me to assume that there are trace amounts of lead in everything

    • @Ocato92
      @Ocato92 12 дней назад +27

      "Organic" is a word you especially don't want to hear, when describing a mercury.

  • @CoryWipke
    @CoryWipke 14 дней назад +52

    If I don't see ingredients on something like that, I'm immediately suspicious.

  • @sylrextidakeye7549
    @sylrextidakeye7549 14 дней назад +2537

    Ah yes, Mercury. Don't let Gwyneth Paltrow learn about this magical metal that is liquid at room temperature

    • @itsdokko2990
      @itsdokko2990 14 дней назад +72

      ngl, i'm tempted to do a little widespread trolling

    • @budwhite9591
      @budwhite9591 14 дней назад +28

      Or should she😉👍🏻

    • @gabor6259
      @gabor6259 14 дней назад +95

      Goop is poop. Peewoop!

    • @johannderjager4146
      @johannderjager4146 14 дней назад

      Honestly, I think she should. It'd give natural-selection the helping-hands it needs.

    • @Sphinx077
      @Sphinx077 14 дней назад +4

      🤣

  • @jdlech
    @jdlech 14 дней назад +925

    We should name such medical conditions after the company responsible for it. Because we should never forget what companies are willing to do to us for a cheap buck if given even half a chance.

    • @jancoley9051
      @jancoley9051 14 дней назад

      People renamed covid to the Fauci disease. It fits.

    • @mkjirak
      @mkjirak 14 дней назад +28

      AMEN!

    • @imeakdo7
      @imeakdo7 14 дней назад +40

      They could just change their business and legal names then

    • @SigEpBlue
      @SigEpBlue 14 дней назад +74

      Maybe we could change "PFAS contamination" to "3M Disease".

    • @sown-laughter4351
      @sown-laughter4351 14 дней назад +8

      despite she decided to go off grid to get face cream where its not fda related... the simple answer is stick with in store items.. she reaped what she sowed.

  • @DustyTheDog
    @DustyTheDog 14 дней назад +139

    Fun Fact: Methylmercury is the form that we absorb from fish. It's why you should limit your intake of particularly mercury-laden species, typically predatory species. They eat other fish which contain mercury, and it builds up faster that way, than it would being absorbed from the environment.

    • @sebibence02
      @sebibence02 12 дней назад +19

      Fun fact check: true (not fun)

    • @kimicalin
      @kimicalin 12 дней назад +23

      My husband used to eat like 6 cans of Tuna a day and he wouldn't stop until I made him get a heavy metals blood test. Sure enough, he had elevated mercury levels.

    • @Aliandrin
      @Aliandrin 12 дней назад +6

      @@kimicalin Men think that protein is all. Predatory fish have the most protein, of any meat I think.

    • @MACTEP_CHOB
      @MACTEP_CHOB 11 дней назад +5

      Good thing fish cost a lot here lol. But you can eat small fish, they have a shorter lifespan not enough to accumulate this nasty substance@@kimicalin

    • @jezamoonspell221
      @jezamoonspell221 10 дней назад +1

      I don't eat any fish at all or shellfish... they will have some traces.

  • @dracomaster4
    @dracomaster4 14 дней назад +83

    Mercury is such an interesting element. The pure metal is relatively safe if given the proper precautions, but the organometallic compounds are some of the most deadly.

    • @therabbithat
      @therabbithat 12 дней назад +11

      Sodium chloride is necessary for life, yet free chlorine molecules are deadly

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano 9 дней назад +3

      @@therabbithat sodium metal isn't exactly fun to juggle either. ;)
      Interestingly, it wasn't all that long ago that mercurochrome and merthiolate tincture could be found inside of household medicine cabinets. Of course, those largely went away around when leaded gasoline and paint went away. Although, one can still get leaded gasoline for aircraft, as an equal or superior substitute hasn't quite been found.*
      *Note that I said gasoline, as in aviation gasoline, totally different beast than kerosene that's jet fuel.

    • @calyodelphi124
      @calyodelphi124 7 дней назад

      @@spvillano An equal/superior substitute actually does exist! It's produced by Gami and it's G100UL. They've already produced most if not all of the paperwork the FAA has demanded to prove that it can be a drop-in substitute for 100LL and they've been putting pressure on the regulator to approve it, but the FAA has been dragging its feet on it all. There's also Swift UL94 which is essentially a 100LL formulation without the TEL, but it's not universally approved by piston engine manufacturers.

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano 6 дней назад +1

      @@calyodelphi124 glad that you mentioned that. Notably, the FAA isn't the global approval authority, each nation has their own and none have mandated those replacements for the same reason we haven't - price.
      I believe that the UL94 was blessed by all, but as you said, not universally approved by piston engine manufacturers and in some instances, recommended against for performance reasons.

  • @Iog
    @Iog 14 дней назад +707

    It is wild to me that there are people out there selling toxic products like these, completely unregulated. Utterly unethical.

    • @TakenTook
      @TakenTook 14 дней назад +49

      You can blame both the Internet and the DHSEA of 1994. Unfortunately not everything sold in the United States is actually tested for safety.

    • @FiredAndIced
      @FiredAndIced 14 дней назад

      Capitalism under America means consumer protection is secondary to someone getting rich from other people’s miseries.
      It’s a miracle that the country hasn’t imploded from all the ills that comes with unregulated capitalism. Statism, personal freedom of rights (to be stupid) and “sovereign citizenry” are some of the terms “useful idiots” try and spin around critically important social issues. I bet that some of these idiots will maintain that “people should be allowed to import whatever they like because that’s how free market works!”
      Anyway hope that people who champion unregulated capitalism gets diethyl mercury in their skincare and food products.

    • @marenjones6665
      @marenjones6665 14 дней назад +60

      Heavy metal in skin cream is a tragedy millenia old. From Rome to China, Egypt to England, this is an old, old story.

    • @PG-wz7by
      @PG-wz7by 14 дней назад +47

      I was wondering about her 'friend' that connected her up to an 'expert' who imported the cream. I guess her 'friend' didn't use the same cream.

    • @snikrepak
      @snikrepak 14 дней назад

      Sounds like the ones before care not of which the new ones apply on face. ​@@marenjones6665

  • @StavDev
    @StavDev 14 дней назад +1674

    Chubbyemu posted, neuron activated

    • @mattplays3824
      @mattplays3824 14 дней назад +127

      not with this case

    • @Menaceblue3
      @Menaceblue3 14 дней назад +56

      Mercury compounds in skin care products?
      *[Neurons_deactivated.mp3]*

    • @darianbarber3763
      @darianbarber3763 14 дней назад +33

      *Neuron have failed to make a full recovery* ☠☠

    • @par6749
      @par6749 14 дней назад +9

      Emergency, both remaining neurons are fighting for 3rd place

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp 14 дней назад +8

      Mercury compound, 4:38 oh no, its not elemental mercury, then it must be organo-mercury, she's so done, its over. can't do anything.

  • @sofiaal-shayeb1207
    @sofiaal-shayeb1207 13 дней назад +45

    I work in an environmental lab doing mercury testing, mainly on soils, water and waste samples, however, we got a ton of skin whitening products in the day this video came out. I didn't really realize that these products were known to have mercuric salts in them, prior to running them on the instrument, so this video tied in really nicely with something I had been experiencing at work! A neat coincidence.

    • @mumbles215
      @mumbles215 День назад

      No such thing as a coincidence my friend. Best of luck at your work. Keep us safe!! Cheers

  • @3rdalbum
    @3rdalbum 14 дней назад +64

    Thanks. My wife just bought some creams from Indonesia that are sold through MLM. I'm going straight upstairs to check what's in them, and if there's anything Mercury I'm showing her your video.
    Edit: Ingredients list seems all okay and they are made in Korea, as well as being sold openly in the EU, so I'm guessing all is fine. None of them advertise a whitening function either.

    • @harunmusa8693
      @harunmusa8693 11 дней назад +2

      Don't touch that stuff man... 👀

    • @sunstripe85
      @sunstripe85 10 дней назад +7

      I would still show her this video

    • @yorisa6185
      @yorisa6185 8 дней назад

      what's the name of this cream btw? i'm from indo so i can look it up if you want to

    • @despacito377
      @despacito377 3 дня назад

      No reply after 10 days …wonder if he’s ok 👀

  • @uniquehandle1234
    @uniquehandle1234 14 дней назад +694

    Well at least the mercury was ethically sourced.

    • @jaerik99
      @jaerik99 14 дней назад +190

      Organic, even!

    • @miltonbates6425
      @miltonbates6425 14 дней назад +91

      Yeah, I love it when my poisons are ethically-sourced. Really makes feel like I'm making a difference, y'know...

    • @itsdokko2990
      @itsdokko2990 14 дней назад +44

      yeah, i mean, people love their organic foods, right? so what's wrong with some organic mercury? for a #GMOFreeLife, amirite?

    • @paulkita
      @paulkita 14 дней назад +43

      Only buy free-range mercury

    • @emmapeel8163
      @emmapeel8163 14 дней назад +23

      @@paulkita.. grass fed, free range mercury 😆

  • @AmShibes
    @AmShibes 14 дней назад +510

    Mercury straight to the face. It's terrible knowing an outcome before you even watch the video.

    • @PG-wz7by
      @PG-wz7by 14 дней назад +18

      This was an especially nightmarish episode.

    • @astraeanova4280
      @astraeanova4280 14 дней назад

      I've been using a moisturizer from Japan for a year, I wonder where I can get it tested.

    • @PG-wz7by
      @PG-wz7by 14 дней назад

      @@astraeanova4280 Japan is very aware of mercury poisoning as well as having high quality control. You're probably good as long as the ingredients are listed.

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 13 дней назад +16

      ​@astraeanova4280 your profile picture scares me

    • @titiajidagba8014
      @titiajidagba8014 13 дней назад

      ​@@astraeanova4280 what's the name? it's probably legit

  • @The-Silliest-Billy
    @The-Silliest-Billy 12 дней назад +38

    My dad just ate beets that expired 10 years ago. They were brown/black. Currently following him around with a camera for your next episode

    • @Mytommyj22
      @Mytommyj22 10 дней назад

      😂😂😂😂

    • @Stratos1988
      @Stratos1988 7 дней назад +2

      "what'a doin' kiddo ?"
      "Documenting a case"

  • @suchartboontid2560
    @suchartboontid2560 14 дней назад +14

    Damn, with a friend like this who introduced her to the face cream, who needs enemies? I hope at least they sued the living shit out of someone responsible.

  • @andrewhawkins6754
    @andrewhawkins6754 14 дней назад +419

    If methylmecrury is bad, dimethylmercury is even more insane. The story of the researcher who got a few drops on her gloves and died from it is absolutely crazy.

    • @elkemist
      @elkemist 14 дней назад +51

      he has literally already done a video on that researcher

    • @elkemist
      @elkemist 14 дней назад +14

      if you already knew sorry for the comment !!

    • @jamesw2831
      @jamesw2831 14 дней назад +26

      It was this case that led me to believe she was not going to be making a recovery

    • @OArchivesX
      @OArchivesX 13 дней назад +13

      That was way more concentrated, and yea the glove did nothing

    • @iankrasnow5383
      @iankrasnow5383 13 дней назад +4

      Methylmercury is a functional group and Dimethylmercury is a full compound which contains methylmercury. So it could be dimethylmercury. All we know is it is some organic contaminant that contains mercury. It's a very general term that could apply to tons of chemical compounds.

  • @kumabear3529
    @kumabear3529 14 дней назад +197

    ORGANIC MERCURY? 😳😱☠️. And she had been rubbing it on her face? For YEARS? That poor woman

    • @mariamaria2751
      @mariamaria2751 12 дней назад +7

      Used to be in face cream in the 20s or something.

    • @bian7744
      @bian7744 11 дней назад

      😳😱☠️

    • @MACTEP_CHOB
      @MACTEP_CHOB 11 дней назад

      This is something medieval actually@@mariamaria2751

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano 9 дней назад

      @@mariamaria2751 well, that and lead were both common in cosmetic products. We didn't regulate foods or drugs at all until a rather wealthy young woman was poisoned with thorium water. Then, there suddenly was an interest in regulating foods and drugs.
      And alas, I'm actually not joking.

    • @charlesclements9672
      @charlesclements9672 9 дней назад

      YOU SPOILED ME!!

  • @MACTEP_CHOB
    @MACTEP_CHOB 11 дней назад +11

    That `friend` should be investigated

    • @mumbles215
      @mumbles215 День назад

      Whats with hot girls and nose rings? Why? Such a turn off almost like blue hair. Look at me I’m diff, I have a nose ring

  • @benphish
    @benphish 12 дней назад +13

    I came really close to getting exposed to mercury at an environmental lab i used to work at. My boss wanted us to rush some total solids testing on soils we had just gotten earlier that day from some gov contract. The soils were clearly from a marsh of some sort and had a very noticeable metal tint to them similar what youd expect from an oil spill. I refused to do a total solids test until we got results back from our metals lab, which was standard. My boss was pissed, he's not a chemist and ran the lab about as well as you'd expect from a business man. Sure enough when the results came back they were extremely high in a variety heavy metals including mercury. Our TS test was just drying soils in our oven which would have likely caused my and my coworkers to get exposed to mercury and whatever else some corp decided to dump into the earth to save a buck.

    • @humpheryflaubert8172
      @humpheryflaubert8172 10 дней назад +3

      You've got love higher ups. Profits before people. I'm glad to hear you didn't buckle under pressure.

    • @EldonJohansen
      @EldonJohansen 6 дней назад

      Those oven should be vented

  • @laratheplanespotter
    @laratheplanespotter 14 дней назад +769

    Here comes the guy who inspired me to become a forensic toxicologist!! Yay!! Thanks Dr. B!

    • @flymousechiu
      @flymousechiu 14 дней назад +4

      what % of cases you have been in are related to drug od tho?

    • @kittenbouquet
      @kittenbouquet 14 дней назад +14

      That must be a really interesting job!

    • @laratheplanespotter
      @laratheplanespotter 14 дней назад +35

      @@flymousechiu only just qualified!

    • @laratheplanespotter
      @laratheplanespotter 14 дней назад +37

      @@kittenbouquet it is! I wanted to be a pathologist but that would mean going out to crime scenes and I don’t like them!

    • @chickenlover657
      @chickenlover657 14 дней назад

      @@laratheplanespotter So now you just gonna take samples from corpses in the comfort of your mortuary?

  • @HenryZhoupokemon
    @HenryZhoupokemon 14 дней назад +1043

    Qin Shi Huang was super close to inventing human immortality, he just had to find a way around the mercury poisoning

    • @Silent_Valor
      @Silent_Valor 14 дней назад +10

      W

    • @Tormekia
      @Tormekia 14 дней назад

      It does cure old age!
      Dead people don't get older.

    • @user-vw1ss4yf8l
      @user-vw1ss4yf8l 14 дней назад +33

      And all other part of periodic table which happens to be in his mixture

    • @artyjnrii
      @artyjnrii 14 дней назад

      If you eat 100g of Mercury with breakfast every day, it's basically impossible to die of old age.

    • @georgeofhamilton
      @georgeofhamilton 14 дней назад +70

      Imagine if the key to immortality were actually something poisonous. Like, it keeps you from dying to any other cause, but it also kills you itself.

  • @tivaspotato
    @tivaspotato 11 дней назад +7

    i live in indonesia and it's actually crazy how widespread and easily accessible mercury skin cream is. brain damage so just you can get instant smooth and light skin.

  • @wombat.6652
    @wombat.6652 13 дней назад +15

    Thank you!! It helps me accept the way my skin is. Thank you!! Being ugly might be saving my life.

  • @EEsmalls
    @EEsmalls 14 дней назад +353

    I did not expect to learn why burning hair smells so bad from this video

  • @epicspacetroll1399
    @epicspacetroll1399 14 дней назад +488

    Heavy metal poisoning? This isn't gonna go well.

    • @bonafidehomicide5742
      @bonafidehomicide5742 14 дней назад +94

      I've been poisoned by heavy metal! It's not too bad, my taste in music improved, but I can't stop headbanging...

    • @romusz
      @romusz 14 дней назад +10

      Mustve been from a Scorpion.

    • @jefflebowski918
      @jefflebowski918 14 дней назад +8

      Listening to Freddie Mercury.

    • @ajornadareal
      @ajornadareal 14 дней назад +2

      @@romusz HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

    • @LilWeed69
      @LilWeed69 13 дней назад

      when are w gonna have Nu Metal poisoning? 🥺

  • @LegguSo
    @LegguSo 13 дней назад +4

    My question is, what happened to that “friend” that was also supposedly using that cream? 🤔

  • @Hamsteak
    @Hamsteak 14 дней назад +14

    I accidentally broke a Mercury thermometer when I was a kid and touched it, and I always worried that I got Mercury poisoning. But at least this video is kind of put me at ease

    • @MACTEP_CHOB
      @MACTEP_CHOB 11 дней назад

      I even played with it ) You can even eat it, but sniffing is a bad idea.

    • @lagrangiankid378
      @lagrangiankid378 17 часов назад

      ​@@MACTEP_CHOBDon't eat it though as it's likely far from pure and some more easily absorbed mercury compounds might be in it.

    • @MACTEP_CHOB
      @MACTEP_CHOB 13 часов назад

      @@lagrangiankid378 I saw a guy drinking it lol. I believe they treated constipation with it back in the day.

    • @lagrangiankid378
      @lagrangiankid378 11 часов назад

      @@MACTEP_CHOB yes, this is true, but it's not reccomended. It's still mercury after all...

  • @Ol_Maude
    @Ol_Maude 14 дней назад +212

    Rule for life: Avoid being in a Chubbyemu video. That’s all.

    • @michah7214
      @michah7214 14 дней назад +6

      Or being in storms reported by Jim Cantore...

    • @freestonew
      @freestonew 14 дней назад

      @@michah7214 Or even in storms where he would have been there if he could get there in time!
      Tallahassee, Florida May 10th. TWO tornadoes in city and both intersected to become one tornado.
      The art district was Homoginized! Hundreds of trees down on one golf course. A tree-covered development might as well now have a sign reading, welcome to ..xxx...*certified* tree free!

    • @Irish_Georgia_Girl
      @Irish_Georgia_Girl 14 дней назад +3

      Definitely! Or a Mr. Ballen video

    • @BlackSeranna
      @BlackSeranna 14 дней назад +3

      Or a Brew video.

    • @alyssarains6637
      @alyssarains6637 12 дней назад

      I hope that we never are in any medical case RUclipsr's report. Cause I'd like to have my medial problems be hidden from the internet. I'm already paranoid over my health dont need to be paranoid about this.

  • @nickc4336
    @nickc4336 14 дней назад +445

    Karen Wetterhahn (previously covered on this channel) was doomed by 2 drops of organic mercury on her glove. So repeated exposure with a methylmercury cream over several years? The dosage must have been really low and BD was unluckily lucky to have survived. Heartbreaking
    Edit: Thanks for the corrections

    • @bonafidehomicide5742
      @bonafidehomicide5742 14 дней назад +11

      Years

    • @bloemen34
      @bloemen34 14 дней назад +37

      It was 7 years

    • @antoniusbaswara8477
      @antoniusbaswara8477 14 дней назад +28

      KW's case was published in 1998 and DB's case was in 2019 (see video's description). Surely a lot of doctors already aware about organic mercury poisoning by now.

    • @BoloH.
      @BoloH. 14 дней назад +43

      It was also dimethyl mercury in Karen's case

    • @FDL_1401
      @FDL_1401 14 дней назад +37

      That was dimethyl mercury, maybe its more toxic than methylmercury? Also yeah, its reasonable to expect that a chemist might work with things way more concentrated than what's commercially available for consumers

  • @halg3625
    @halg3625 12 дней назад +7

    I found an old, glass container of liquid mercury in my grandfather's garage. It wasn't completely sealed, and there's a bit of orange, rusty stuff, at the bottom. I found out, that's from decades of exposure to moisture. I was shocked by how heavy it is. There's a little less than 10 lbs of it. Papa refused to tell us where he hid it, because he knew we'd want to turn it over to the proper organization, for disposal. I found it, on my own, and I showed it to my son, and we watched plenty of videos about the different types of mercury poisoning, so now he's terrified of going near it. We're all afraid of the vapors. I can't find any place, nearby, that will come pick it up. My car is still broken down. But it's too dangerous to keep. I'll find a way to get it to the proper people.

    • @techheck3358
      @techheck3358 11 дней назад +1

      If you live near an educational institution, you could give their chemistry departament a call to see if they would be interested in it. Or you could call a hospital or fire department (non-emergency line), they usually have hazardous materials training

  • @immiTFS
    @immiTFS 14 дней назад +7

    *sees mercury in the title:*
    “Ah, sh!t, here we go again “ 😢

  • @SWISS-1337
    @SWISS-1337 14 дней назад +148

    Mercury poisoning is terrifying. Slowly building up and only becoming obvious when it's too late. Same as rabies and a few other diseases/conditions. Our already massively limited time on this earth is like rolling a number of dice each day, with a chance of 1 landing on death.

    • @FunSizeSpamberguesa
      @FunSizeSpamberguesa 14 дней назад +8

      Man, I never would have thought to compare it to rabies, but you are so right.

    • @RNAxRibose
      @RNAxRibose 14 дней назад +17

      Rabies Prions Heavy Metal Poisonibg are all nightmares.

  • @MGlBlaze
    @MGlBlaze 14 дней назад +61

    It's been many years since the Karen Wetterhahn video, and mercury poisoning has come back around as the cause and subject once again.
    And there's something chilling about this being the first video (to my recollection) where the final summary was "Could not make a recovery." No "At autopsy" either, meaning she was technically still alive but in that state which could scarcely be called 'living.'

    • @annepjulien5328
      @annepjulien5328 12 дней назад +4

      That last line was the most terrifying bit of all. 😞

  • @yippee8570
    @yippee8570 13 дней назад +4

    This is horrific because why would she remotely suspect that a cream would contain mercury

  • @Shuker8964
    @Shuker8964 13 дней назад +4

    Don’t name diseases after location. Name it after the company or the perpetrator

  • @stevennicgorski1657
    @stevennicgorski1657 14 дней назад +33

    Wow. We got hit with the "could NOT make a recovery"

  • @organicvids
    @organicvids 14 дней назад +265

    Any company puting any form of murcury in products should have their corporate staff thrown in jail.

    • @Rwdphotos
      @Rwdphotos 14 дней назад

      Vaccinations may have a compound that incorporates mercury, but it doesn’t absorb into the body. Not all organic compounds that contain mercury are equal.

    • @Jabarri74
      @Jabarri74 14 дней назад +21

      Probably some guy on a farm in Uzbekistan, she had no clue where it came from

    • @eightcoins4401
      @eightcoins4401 14 дней назад +58

      With the story of how she got the cream, i dont think this is realistic.
      Those shady MLM type "miracle" products tend to come from third world countries where laws against these sort of things arent enforced.

    • @Jabarri74
      @Jabarri74 14 дней назад

      @@eightcoins4401 Probably to avoid a slander lawsuit I'd change a few details too, even if it was justified

    • @PaulSteMarie
      @PaulSteMarie 14 дней назад

      Most likely India, which has a lot of "traditional remedies" full of lead and mercury.
      Someone says "traditional remedy", I'm outta there. European, Indian, Chinese: they all are 98% hokum. There are some non-bs remedies in the lot, but they are few and far between.

  • @LikaLaruku
    @LikaLaruku 11 дней назад +2

    To think that before the 1920s, lead, mercury, & arsenic were commonly sold in skin creams.

  • @fatimahzm754
    @fatimahzm754 13 дней назад +4

    The sad thing is a lot of beauty products containing mercury still available in my country. Even some people proudly promoting the products :(

  • @feynstein1004
    @feynstein1004 14 дней назад +147

    I always thought the worst thing I could hear in a Chubbyemu video was "at autopsy". But being turned into a vegetable is far worse 😨

    • @LoveClassicMusic0205
      @LoveClassicMusic0205 14 дней назад +16

      It's probably even worse than that. She might be fully conscious but unable to move or communicate with others.

    • @neo.3
      @neo.3 13 дней назад +10

      it's definitely worse because amidst the eternal anguish she's still alive

    • @MrNicoJac
      @MrNicoJac 13 дней назад +1

      ​@@LoveClassicMusic0205
      I _strongly_ doubt her mind is still intact and _only_ her motor control regions got affected.
      The fat in the brain is not concentrated in one area, is it?
      The motor neurons are not chemically different from those that lead to consciousness or our personality, right?
      So she probably is as good at thinking/forming thoughts as she is at saying them or taking action on them.
      A horrible fate.

    • @lebby1688
      @lebby1688 13 дней назад +4

      Yeah if that ever happens to me I want the Old Yeller treatment.

  • @carylgibbs6094
    @carylgibbs6094 14 дней назад +357

    Anything to do with the brain terrifies me! I’m currently recovering (slowly!!!!) from concussion. I don’t take my brain for granted anymore.
    Even scarier: I remember playing with mercury as a child in the 70s. More than once. We thought it was so cool.

    • @thor1829
      @thor1829 14 дней назад +49

      Mercury as a metal in its liquid form isn't too bad, it's the vapours that are quite bad, but even so, the amount of exposure you had probably isn't something that would cause long-term problems. Now, the organomercury compounds like what BD is exposed to, oh boy, those are absolutely terrifying. In fact, methylmercury is one of the worst organomercury compounds in existence.

    • @bjs301
      @bjs301 14 дней назад +14

      I grew up inn the 60s, and we definitely played with mercury. My RN mother freaked out every time she found us with it. I wish you the best in your TBI recovery.

    • @bvillebikelady3651
      @bvillebikelady3651 14 дней назад +9

      We also used Mercurachrome for cuts and scrapes. Stung like the dickens!

    • @adrenalinestairz5068
      @adrenalinestairz5068 14 дней назад +9

      I've suffered from three severe concussions in the past so I can relate. It felt like water in a plastic bag that was full with a hat on my head. I didn't feel pain or get a headache. The reason it felt like that is because of cerebral fluid leaking or something. I didn't lose conscience and I still remember them happening. I was skiing on ice and lost my balance and fell hard on my forehead at a fast speed.(my skull caused the ice to crack 😂 and fall down the mountain lol) The Dr who treated me told me that he was shocked that I didn't crack my skull nor lose conscience. That was one time. I'm lucky to still be alive and I'm also hard headed. After having my concussions I had dreams that my computer was being fixed I was fixing it myself.I was trying to delete some files but they were unable to be deleted. I knew what that dream meant. The other two were due to accidents because I wasn't thinking about what I was doing.

    • @jamesshepherd5805
      @jamesshepherd5805 14 дней назад

      ​@@adrenalinestairz5068bruh

  • @MissMarvel_
    @MissMarvel_ 13 дней назад +4

    Every time I'm about to consume something questionable, I think about my future as a Chubbyemu video, and I'm suddenly inspired to be smarter.

  • @Naev0w0
    @Naev0w0 13 дней назад +5

    This is why I love learning about medicine. Even if I'm not educated enough to diagnose, I'm at least educated enough to know how to notice very scary symptoms. Your videos, and the knowledge you provide has actually saved lives. Thank you.

    • @BaygelsOrSomething
      @BaygelsOrSomething 6 дней назад

      9th niko pfp spotted since ive played oneshot

    • @Naev0w0
      @Naev0w0 6 дней назад

      @@BaygelsOrSomething niko!

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 14 дней назад +74

    Fun Fact did you know that the character of the Mad Hatter from Lewis Caroll's Alice In Wonderland his madness comes from mercury posioning as mercury was key in making hats by making the felt go stiff to mold the shape of the hat.

    • @MonolithicCyanTsunami
      @MonolithicCyanTsunami 13 дней назад +2

      Cool, I never knew about that

    • @nicolab2075
      @nicolab2075 13 дней назад +6

      ​@@MonolithicCyanTsunami Hence the phrase 'as mad as a hatter'

    • @judithkimmerling770
      @judithkimmerling770 13 дней назад +5

      Yep, I knew that and it’s because I had a “tailor’s bunion”. Most people have bunions on their great toe. Mine was below my little toe on the edge of my foot. They call it a “tailor’s bunion” because tailors sat cross-legged when they sewed, causing a foot deformity. P.S. I got my foot fixed and made…a FULL recovery. 😉

  • @Boodoo4You
    @Boodoo4You 14 дней назад +378

    A man received a notification from his RUclips app. This is what happened to his dopamine levels!

    • @Eysc
      @Eysc 14 дней назад +2

      funny

    • @dougradtke
      @dougradtke 14 дней назад +6

      Muscle spasms and involuntary eye movements with profuse drooling he presents to the emergency room with minimal brain activity where we are now

    • @neo.3
      @neo.3 13 дней назад

      a notification from Chubbyemu specifically*

    • @Eyyyy.416
      @Eyyyy.416 13 дней назад +2

      Hyperchubbyemuemia
      Hyper meaning high, chubbyemu referring to a RUclips channel covering medical cases. emia, presence in blood. High presence of chubbyemu videos in blood.

  • @rahabintemotiul7418
    @rahabintemotiul7418 13 дней назад +3

    At least the cream had ORGANIC ingredients

  • @whydowehavehandlesnow
    @whydowehavehandlesnow 13 дней назад +3

    remember everyone: age is a gift. Age and beauty are not mutually exclusive. The only reason signs of aging are marketed as "ugly" is because they happen to everyone, and thus "solutions" to things that were never problems can be sold to anyone.

  • @miltonbates6425
    @miltonbates6425 14 дней назад +81

    I love it when my poisons are ethically-sourced. Really makes feel like I'm making a difference, y'know...

  • @nitawynn9538
    @nitawynn9538 14 дней назад +51

    This is frightening. That poor woman. And I wonder how her friend felt, whether she had problems.

    • @bonafidehomicide5742
      @bonafidehomicide5742 14 дней назад +40

      Lol her "friend" didn't use it, she just sold it to her. Probably MLM style.

    • @vaiapatta8313
      @vaiapatta8313 13 дней назад +2

      @@bonafidehomicide5742 we don't know that. Maybe she just wasn't using it very often, so she was taking longer to show symptoms.

  • @SJR4815
    @SJR4815 12 дней назад

    Hey Doc! I just wanted to say I just signed up to nebula because of you. I *LOVE* your content and I'm so excited to see more of it. That platform looks well worth it as well. Thank you for all you do. ⚕

  • @mimisezlol
    @mimisezlol 14 дней назад +4

    It's so interesting to see the similarities to the organic mercury case
    Edit: oh that's because it IS organic mercury related

  • @Chlorate299
    @Chlorate299 14 дней назад +24

    Organomercury compounds are absolutely terrifying, and she was unwittingly rubbing it on her face *twice daily*. Yikes.

  • @carolann811
    @carolann811 14 дней назад +30

    I played with broken thermometers a few times as a kid. Glad to know I'm not suffering from mercury poisoning.

    • @user-hr3tx6uu9o
      @user-hr3tx6uu9o 11 дней назад +3

      I did too. Played with a silver ball of mercury from a broken thermometer as a kid

    • @Stratos1988
      @Stratos1988 7 дней назад

      You are on youtube, I'd say that's close to a symptom

    • @gamejunk1e
      @gamejunk1e 7 дней назад +1

      ​@@Stratos1988you are on RUclips as well, does that mean you have mercury poisoning?

    • @Stratos1988
      @Stratos1988 7 дней назад +2

      @@gamejunk1e Bruv, I had brain glioma when 8. Think it also counts as F'ed up head

  • @TheOfficialOk1
    @TheOfficialOk1 10 дней назад +4

    A kid watched skibidi toilet, this is how he got fanum taxed

  • @SirGarthur
    @SirGarthur 13 дней назад +1

    My brother, this is the best video you've done yet. Great job, I love it!

  • @SuperTheTheresa
    @SuperTheTheresa 14 дней назад +61

    the product advertising does not lie. it is certainly anti-aging. it just does not stress that it means you will not live enough to be old.

    • @apothic0n
      @apothic0n 13 дней назад

      Nah she will still live to be old, just after like 40 years of being unable to move, eat, or talk

  • @smoorej
    @smoorej 14 дней назад +166

    My guess is her inability to “make a recovery” means severe lifelong physical and cognitive impairment or death.

    • @anerdygoldenagesoprano
      @anerdygoldenagesoprano 14 дней назад +50

      She didn't die. He would have said "at autopsy" I think. She just can't speak or feed herself :(

    • @banellie
      @banellie 14 дней назад +20

      @@anerdygoldenagesoprano "just"

    • @lefase4608
      @lefase4608 14 дней назад +23

      ​​@@anerdygoldenagesoprano not necessarily. If her illness was well documented, and nothing else is evident for any other contributing factor (trauma, other illness not found that sped up death, etc), it might have been enough to not need an autopsy (if anyone knows better, feel free to correct me on the above).
      I also didn't read the case report he linked. For all I know, she did continue living, but severely disabled. I'm just saying, not everyone who dies is autopsied.
      *EDIT: I did read the report he's talking about. She didn't die, but was left unable to verbalize or care for herself, so she was left severely disabled.

    • @anerdygoldenagesoprano
      @anerdygoldenagesoprano 14 дней назад +11

      @@banellie I wasn't trying to downplay with "just". I find it incredibly sad and unfortunate. It's a specifier similar to only, followed by a list of qualifiers. Speaking and eating were the abilities taken away by the poisoning. Apologies if my tone seems rude or cold. I'm autistic

    • @anerdygoldenagesoprano
      @anerdygoldenagesoprano 14 дней назад +1

      @@lefase4608 hence the "I think". I simply noticed ChubbyEmu usually says this if the patient died

  • @cibion7123
    @cibion7123 14 дней назад +14

    I was expecting "Why was the mercury in the cream? it turns out the friends magical supplier is what drs refer to as
    TellaEtha MoraniUm
    T.E.M.U for short"

  • @deborahaumiller7391
    @deborahaumiller7391 14 дней назад

    Thank you, my favorite chubby emu!! My friend from work and i were just today discussing methods to alleviate age spots. I hope to see her again soon and tell her about this short.

  • @chianne_away_
    @chianne_away_ 14 дней назад +29

    Did anyone else’s insides churn when the person was GLIDING THEIR HAND THROUGH THE MERCURY 😱

    • @pokemongo-py6yq
      @pokemongo-py6yq 14 дней назад +5

      Yeah i wondered how well it would absorb through a paper cut or abrasion.

    • @nerfherder4284
      @nerfherder4284 14 дней назад +4

      Learn some stuff please. Elemental mercury isn't as dangerous as organic mercury Vapor or the form used in the cream.

    • @Sashazur
      @Sashazur 14 дней назад

      @@nerfherder4284not just “isn’t as dangerous” but really way way less dangerous. You can even eat elemental mercury and it will come out the other end so fast it won’t do harm (just don’t make a habit of it).

    • @chianne_away_
      @chianne_away_ 14 дней назад +3

      @@nerfherder4284 I’m not a chemist or in medicine. I’m only going off basic knowledge of what I was taught “mercury = bad to touch, eat or breathe”. Which I feel like will keep me alive and not in a chubbyemu video, Thank you 👍🏼

    • @altrag
      @altrag 13 дней назад +3

      I'm pretty sure that clip was from an old (1950s or 1960s) science education video. Unlike radiation, the dangers of mercury would have been well-known by the time that one was made and the participant almost certainly would have taken the necessary precautions (ie: wearing a mask to prevent inhalation of any fumes it released, thorough hand-washing after the recording session completed, etc. Hopefully would have thought to also wash the tools and basin but who knows on that front).

  • @leolita2001
    @leolita2001 14 дней назад +50

    I have used and still sometimes use anti-wrinkle and skin lightening creams, particularly Retin-A and Triluma, but who would use a product recommended by a friend with no label, nothing? That's insane.

    • @eightcoins4401
      @eightcoins4401 14 дней назад +21

      These sort of things exist as a scheme because enough people fall for them for it to be lucrative.
      Besides, MLMs use that route since even intelligent people can be manipulated socially.

    • @leolita2001
      @leolita2001 14 дней назад

      @@eightcoins4401 I don’t know, to me it’s common sense that you don’t put something on your skin if you don’t at least know what it contains

    • @Irish_Georgia_Girl
      @Irish_Georgia_Girl 14 дней назад +6

      If a friend recommends it a lot of people will fall for it.

    • @leolita2001
      @leolita2001 14 дней назад +7

      @@Irish_Georgia_Girl If a friend recommends a commercial product to me, I can fall for it, but this is like a black box, no label, nothing online, no brand? In the age of the internet? No way :)

    • @Mammel248
      @Mammel248 13 дней назад +5

      Well there are still plenty of people who believe evolution isn't real and that the earth is flat so honestly not very surprising :P

  • @cindybubbles
    @cindybubbles 13 дней назад +2

    This is the first time I've heard Chubbyemu say that a patient didn't make a recovery without dying.

  • @zoegardner7829
    @zoegardner7829 13 дней назад +3

    I have been having a headache, vertigo and neurological problems for a year now. My mai is normal. I did a hair porosity test which showed high levels of mercury. This video said that may not be accurate but I'm terrified hearing she didn't make a recovery, I have no idea how to get better and it's taking over my life.

  • @Knb1901
    @Knb1901 14 дней назад +115

    >chubbyemu uploaded
    >mercury in title
    >brain in the same title
    >>Dr. Karen Wetterhahn case study flashbacks.

  • @ItsSorata
    @ItsSorata 14 дней назад +121

    Wow not even A recovery this time. Horrific consequences from something seemingly insignificant

    • @zenithperigee7442
      @zenithperigee7442 14 дней назад +2

      @cesarburgos3055, I'm trying to understand how she was applying this stuff for 7 years and I'm just wondering did it take that long to build up to that or was a particular batch contaminated/overly-concentrated....

    • @PG-wz7by
      @PG-wz7by 14 дней назад

      @@zenithperigee7442 I wonder about that, too, because no one buys seven years worth of face cream. That would be a long term contamination of the supply and effect many people.

    • @middleagebrotips3454
      @middleagebrotips3454 14 дней назад

      Mercury in the brain causes permanent damage

    • @EldestZelot
      @EldestZelot 13 дней назад

      ​@@zenithperigee7442She was taking lightening creams for 7 years she took that one for 3 weeks, Chubbyemu said so in the video.

    • @thomasneal9291
      @thomasneal9291 13 дней назад +6

      @@zenithperigee7442 because it is about saturation levels. think of a glass you are slowly filling with water: you can fill it and fill it and fill it, and absolutely nothing is wrong right up until the point where it spills over the edge. takes a long time to get significant levels of mercury poisoning at low concentrations.

  • @astarte66
    @astarte66 4 дня назад +1

    This was one of the moat educational and intriguing stories to date. Also, best nebula subscription advert Ive ever watched at the end.

  • @keilet
    @keilet 14 дней назад +2

    I figured this would be mercury, but I'm honestly surprised it was organic mercury exposure for 7 years. I'm recalling the chemist that accidently spilled some on her gloved hand and just that small, acute exposure was enough to cause rapid deterioration. I suppose I was unaware that there were different forms of organic mercury.

  • @jdlech
    @jdlech 14 дней назад +47

    I would still like to see a video on the 1973 PBB poisoning of nearly the entire state of Michigan, and what it does to the body and brain. Most especially is the fact that it can be passed from mother to child via breast feeding. At one time, all mothers in Michigan were not supposed to breast feed. But nobody wanted to talk about the whole sordid affair, and that warning was never widely announced. This resulted in roughly 95% of Michiganders still having trace amounts of polybrominated biphenyl in their system, even those born decades after the incident.

    • @Jabarri74
      @Jabarri74 14 дней назад +5

      I was intrigued and discovered a documentary by '13 on your side' on yt. I'm off to watch it as I was completely unaware of this, ty for the information

    • @jdlech
      @jdlech 14 дней назад +7

      @@Jabarri74 I was a 6yo heavy milk drinker at the time. I got a big dose of it. Have had troubles ever since.

    • @LoveClassicMusic0205
      @LoveClassicMusic0205 14 дней назад

      I'm from Michigan, born in 1969, and don't have any health related issues from PBB. I don't know anyone else who does either. I think they made a bigger deal of it than necessary. I'm not saying it was a good thing, but people aren't dropping dead from it either.

    • @Jabarri74
      @Jabarri74 14 дней назад +4

      @@LoveClassicMusic0205 I think its more insidious than that, watch the documentary I linked, I just finished it

    • @Jabarri74
      @Jabarri74 14 дней назад

      @@jdlech After looking at the poor cattle it was fed to and what it did to them I'm not surprised

  • @soulubilityofficial6635
    @soulubilityofficial6635 14 дней назад +32

    Chubbyemu titles are always something along the lines of “ a man accidentally gave himself a paper cut. This is what happened to his skeleton“

    • @jamesthesurgeon
      @jamesthesurgeon 13 дней назад +2

      "DE, a thirty two year old man, has broke all his bones from falling down the stairs, it seems he went blind in both his eyes when he happened to walk into a stack of paper on a shelf. he was able to make, *A* recovery"

  • @seraphale
    @seraphale 12 дней назад

    There's a lot of cool/interesting info here! Thank you for doing these videos!

  • @sanoraa8531
    @sanoraa8531 13 дней назад

    Very interesting channel, I like all the biochemical details. Learning new things every day!

  • @legendarygigolo823
    @legendarygigolo823 14 дней назад +94

    All she was trying to do was take care of herself and to look her best, how heartbreaking 😢

    • @negart7744
      @negart7744 14 дней назад +1

      😢

    • @Em-ih5du
      @Em-ih5du 14 дней назад +7

      Heartbreaking, yes. Taking care of herself? Ehhhhh. Blemishes are harmless. We all grow older. It's vanity that make us want to look 20 forever.

    • @tonysmith9905
      @tonysmith9905 13 дней назад +7

      @@Em-ih5du Wanting to look good isn't necessarily "vanity". Vanity itself is an extreme case where you develop negative behaviors associated with your looks or maintaining them. Wanting to get rid of blemishes isn't necessarily vanity my friend.

    • @MrNicoJac
      @MrNicoJac 13 дней назад +1

      ​@@tonysmith9905
      Poisoning yourself with mercury to get rid of blemishes _is_ vanity.
      She could have gone with anything that _was_ sold legally, or FDA approved.
      She _chose_ to heed her MLM friend's recommendation 😢
      (note: I still wouldn't say that this is what she deserved - but I am putting this lesson in my folder of Preventable Bad Life Choices)

  • @seanbrazell7095
    @seanbrazell7095 14 дней назад +17

    My love of these videos rises and falls in direct proportion to the number of aches and pains I have at any given time.

  • @bugeatbugs
    @bugeatbugs 14 дней назад +1

    Love all your vids. every single one of them. youre an amazing and beloved creator

  • @Bio2Baby
    @Bio2Baby 14 дней назад +1

    I'm scheduling a DMSA check now!
    Thank you emu!!!

  • @Lamentable5
    @Lamentable5 14 дней назад +8

    poor girl 😢shame on those criminals selling mercury and other contaminated things on the internets.

  • @mhuschie
    @mhuschie 14 дней назад +25

    "She had trouble speaking because her family couldn't understand what she was saying"??
    Wouldn't that be the other way around?

    • @GrammarSplaining
      @GrammarSplaining 13 дней назад +1

      I noticed that, too!

    • @wolfzmusic9706
      @wolfzmusic9706 13 дней назад +1

      Not necessarily. Maybe part of it initially was she couldn't be bothered to speak since nobody could understand her, but then it turned into actually not being able to speak

  • @e-tone312
    @e-tone312 14 дней назад +5

    Yooooo that switch from normal hand to the nerves at 6:42 is sick

    • @E.Pierro.Artist
      @E.Pierro.Artist 6 дней назад

      It's from the newest Tool music video.

    • @e-tone312
      @e-tone312 6 дней назад

      @@E.Pierro.Artist I wish there was a new Tool mv 😭

  • @nikkithaller3006
    @nikkithaller3006 14 дней назад +1

    Definitely signing up for Nebula next paycheck!!

  • @oleratomokoka7955
    @oleratomokoka7955 14 дней назад +75

    Presenting to the emergency room☝️

    • @tranquilrabies
      @tranquilrabies 14 дней назад +1

      PRESENTING!!! in the emergency room-type place...

  • @user-ts4mz3jy9i
    @user-ts4mz3jy9i 14 дней назад +36

    Your videos are both public health information and fascinating insights into the science of these awful conditions. You should be proud of your work because this is one of the best channels on youtube. Thanks for another great video.

  • @morejoy5188
    @morejoy5188 14 дней назад +3

    This is a fantastic way to learn biochemistry!

  • @Semystic
    @Semystic 14 дней назад +55

    "...as she could not make A recovery." Damn, I cant tell if that's worse than "at autopsy" or not.

    • @Irish_Georgia_Girl
      @Irish_Georgia_Girl 14 дней назад +6

      YES... she's locked in her body

    • @aoelp
      @aoelp 14 дней назад

      It is, unless she has somehow prepared her peers for such a scenario.

    • @BrianHartman
      @BrianHartman 14 дней назад +3

      It's hard to tell. I think the only thing that could mitigate it (maybe) is if she's lost her mental faculties to the point where she's unaware of what's happening to her. That's awful to think about, obviously, but it would spare her from conscious suffering.

  • @ajd8558
    @ajd8558 14 дней назад +78

    Anyone else point their finger when he says "preSENting to the emergency room"?

    • @Jabarri74
      @Jabarri74 14 дней назад +4

      But where was mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell? Did I miss it?

    • @FireCracker3240
      @FireCracker3240 14 дней назад +2

      👆👆

    • @ouwebrood497
      @ouwebrood497 14 дней назад +3

      All the time. Also mumbling 'where we are now'.

    • @neo.3
      @neo.3 13 дней назад +1

      dr: ... "unconscious"
      me: *raises eyebrows* "unconscious"

  • @Aliciapaige777
    @Aliciapaige777 13 дней назад

    Oh my Lord. What a truly shocking and horrific thing to happen. I feel so sad for her and her family. Thankyou for your informative channel. I believe you are providing an amazing service, to help protect people in the future. I truly love your channel. 🌟🌟🌟

  • @sigma_six
    @sigma_six 14 дней назад

    You're so dedicated Chubbyemu... and always educational... you must have teaching in your blood!

  • @kaytieanddreambreen4554
    @kaytieanddreambreen4554 14 дней назад +37

    A girl got chubbyemu new video notification in the middle of the night. This is what happened to her hypothalamus