Why is Puberty so Weird?
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
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There is no phase of a human’s lifetime that is as strange and disgus....er....magical as the transition from childhood into adulthood - that handful of years that we call . . . PUBERTY. Why does it happen? How does it work? Why is it so weird? Join Joe in this whirlwind tour of the endocrine system to find the answers.
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So are you more of an awkward caterpillar or a beautiful butterfly?
Im a bee
no
@@Ahsanws1 crazy
An awkward caterpillar ;-;
@@fella9921 ikr
"Ah, who am I kidding, your brain stays a mess, kids - you just get better at dealing with it" - The most profoundly true statement of the whole video :)
Wow I'm 15 an that already rings true
@@ultranovva lmao u still in puberty
@@DreamItCraftIt and yet you're the one using childish taunts with incomplete sentences
@@cob571 Which goes to show that, indeed, the brain stays a mess. What differs is our ability to cope with it.
Totally
"your brain stays a mess. You just get better at dealing with it" is the most truthful quote I've heard in awhile.
Joe always had that ability to interject real down to earth commentary in the middle of a purely science video.
Speaking of the endocrine system, diabetics would love you (not that we don't already) if you did 11 minutes about diabetes. I knew nothing about it when I was diagnosed, and that seems to be the case for most people, so there's a lot of explaining to do when a problem comes up.
Good idea!
Seconding this for sure!! The INSANE amount that science has learned about diabetes over the last 50 years alone is great, but I'd love to know the history of our study of diabetes AND more about just what the heck it's doing to me - stated in plain American, which Joe does so well!
I second this motion.
For type 2 it's pretty simple... Your cells start to ignore the hormone messages when it's receiving them all the time. It's the same reason why a lot of disorders happen. Too much of something is always bad.
@@Beryllahawk Yeah sure, an INSANE amount of info that science has gathered over the last 50 years... only, one key fact is left out. Cigarettes and animal products are not banned, because they make so much money, yet, they're the biggest causes of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, erectile dysfunction 🤢🥴🙄
Again, they don't emphasise that enough to the public, instead they remove all association, because they have EVERYTHING to lose if people got wise... 🥴🙄
3:30 Johnny isn't emotionally unstable. His mother is a sociopath who intentionally spilled soup on him, and he handled it with aplomb.
This reminds me of the story of a women who due to an head injury/surgery did not age physically beyond 12 years and never entered puberty. Despite being now 26 years old. They removed part of the system that is being mentioned in this video.
they removed her hormones?
pituitary gland?
@@MrPaxio some sort of gland that produces the hormone
As a nonbinary AFAB person, I now wish I'd had this elective brain surgery in my tweens, thank you! :o
Is she really a woman at that point though? The definition of woman is an adult female human being. If you never reach adulthood, are you an adult?
"It's Okay to be Smart" is a reassuring statement
"Be Smart" is a command
Someone finally noticed. I was shooketh to the core when I noticed he changed it to 'be smart'.
@@mysticvitriol Why did they change the name anyways? I was confused when I first saw the recommendations and that I was already subscribed.
@@jimmym3352 no clue. Probably because it is simpler to search?
@@mysticvitriol i like to think he was just got cynical and was hoping maybe if he commands the masses to be smart they finally will be lol
@@jimmym3352 perhaps It is less exclusionary?
It's Okay to be Smart implies that you have to be smart to enjoy the content. If you don't think you are, then you might think it is beyond your ability.
While 'Be Smart' could be interpreted as more educational and more likely to entice you in and not make you feel stupid.
The most likely, the truth is something else entirely :)
I liked the name it's okay to be smart.
Me too
Yeah
The old title must have worked pretty well, since we’re all smart enough to have noticed the truncated new title. :)
Same
@@CarletonTorpin I believe it's been changed for a while, the first time I noticed it I was kind of annoyed.
During puberty, in the summer I grew SEVEN INCHES!!!
My parents and I traveled every summer. And she had heard about boys growing fast if they travel during puberty. But she had no idea that it was even true, let alone just how much I would grow.
The growing pains that I had in my legs were so bad, I can remember the pain today.
@@GuiltySpark-uj8en Well, since he said "legs" I guess both.
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw That's strange, because I don't remember having growing pains in my chest. Or maybe the leg pain was so much I didn't notice the chest pain.
It's crazy how it's been decades, and I can still clearly remember my leg growing pains.
@@TheTechAdmin stop smoking your meds bro its rotting your brain.
A "good story" doesn't make it a true story neither does correlation equal causation.
Your comment is the most asinine comment I've ever seen.
wait what 😳
@@TheTechAdmin what your age when his happen with you
I only had one noticeably weird teen moment. I was already out of the house, working, driving, getting tattoos, then had one last growth spurt at 19 and racked my head on a truck rearview. I had grown another inch and a half out of nowhere 🤣
The body is not finished developing till a about 25 yo, and then some.
I did not have acne problems until I was 19.
At 9:30 when he talks about frogs and rabbits being used for pregnancy tests, that made me think of a “dad joke” for Joe: “curiosity killed the cat, and an awful lot of rabbits.”
Here's one: "the wages of sin are birth."
I honestly think the messiness of puberty proves that trans people aren't faking it/just confused. No one else would CHOOSE to practically through it twice
I agree nobody chooses to have a mental illness
"So many secretions" So true. On a daily basis, I release sweat and... Sweat...
... and what does that sweat do? Zits.
The fact this drops the same day as Ze's amoeba video is one of those zeitgeist coincidence things that's kinda neat and funny
Haha that’s amazing!
@@besmart Can you guys cover Worker-Rights? Ya know, this THING thats under Attack?
Unions are important and you literally improve Society and Lifes by shouting-out
great Worker-Struggle-Coverage like the one 'Some More News' and 'Second Thought' get much
praise for.
@@besmart Can you guys cover Worker-Rights? Ya know, this THING thats under Attack?
Unions are important and you literally improve Society and Lifes by shouting-out
great Worker-Struggle-Coverage like the one 'Some More News' and 'Second Thought' get much
praise for.
I mean, it would literally change Lifs if you did, but no pressure.
@@besmartbring back the old channel name please
something I once read/heard...
when it all comes down to the basics
humans are really just
different coherent slime molds
that have grouped together for...
some reason
ps: I have passed andropause and let me tell you,
it is such a relief to not have those hormones raging.
things are just sooooo much simpler now
Don't you feel exhausted?
Question: if a hormone (melatonin) controls sleep, how does that work in cetaceans where only 1/2 of the brain sleeps at a time? Do they have a mechanism to block the hormone from 1/2 of their brain at a time? Do they use 2 different hormones? This could be very complicated.
My *hypothesis*without any reasearch is that the nervous system plays a bigger role in that. They release melatonin in the body which tell them it's sleep time and then the nervous system controls which portion sleeps.
Idk for sure I will search about it later
It controls sleep in humans doesn't mean it does the same thing in other species. It was clearly noted in the video that the different species respond differently to the same hormones. It's very possible that the 1/2 brain sleep ability is a nervous control (I'm thinking partial paralysis of stroke victims) instead of hormonal. I'll now KIV this very interesting question to read up later.
In the freely accessible research paper "The Singularity of Cetacea Behavior Parallels the Complete Inactivation of Melatonin Gene Modules" by Mónica Lopes-Marques et al. in the paper Genes (Basel). 2019. They found that cetaceans have the melatonin secreting gland lost and the melatonin genes dysfunctional
@@ingoseiler Makes sense since most cetaceans probably don't see day vs night as a significant part of their lifestyle to determine when to sleep or not due to living in the water.
This is the type of question I would ask if my dad said-
'' U need to grow up and ask the REAL questions''
Right now I can't afford to be a patron, but I have an original "Dad Joke" I came up with weeks ago, maybe you can share it with your friends. "When does a joke become a 'Dad Joke'?'" "When it becomes 'A-pparent it is not funny. '" Hope this brings someone a smile.
"Who am I kidding. Your brain stays a mess kids, you just get better at dealing with it"
That.. is some of the most authentic advice I've heard
I swear that he's better than my all-the-time-angry science teacher
Edit: mom look i'm famous
well when his salary is 4x a teachers, he better be 4x as good
now that I think of it, I've had 0 science teachers who weren't always enthusiastic and nice to students. Gotta agree that this guy is pretty good though
He's definatley better than my science teacher who is a literal worm
Mine was mean too, and condescending. Which was weird becuase i was an A student.
It feels like im learning more when i watch him than my science teacher teaching me 🤣🤣
Procrastination is a scary and powerful behavior. Through these videos themselves aren't half bad either! But seriously, I am often finding myself doing tasks I normally wouldn't do purely to 'forget' about some other chore I was doing.
The only good thing about puberty is that it passes.
I took some seriously sh***y decisions during those years and I'm still paying for them.
I truly love your video keep up the great work teaching the world stay safe out there much love ❤️
I've changed dominate hormone a few times, and it makes a difference. Scientifically, we are not doing much better than the humors when it comes to looking at the brain. Here's to the brave human volunteers willing to talk about the embarrassing experience of existing to discover that.
Human adolescence is longer than most species who go through just one or two molts between neotinic and adulthood.
I would really like to see a video that explains how they came up with that rabbit pregnancy test. Is there a whole video in the history of pregnancy tests?
puberty's even weirder with dysphoria
I was just doing research on hormones for a project and this was a helpful coincidence
Imagine going through that twice, couldn't be me
The second time was less horrific at least 😅
How?
@@Noam_.Menashe trans people exist
@@Noam_.Menashe they are non-binary (I assume). Some non-binary people take hormone replacement therapy, which is much like a second puberty.
nice pfp
Due to hormone replacement therapy, I'm going through round 2 of puberty right now! It's a wonderful thing...at least it's the right version this time. Still could do without all the pimples.
Me too! And so far I have to say testosterone is the best sking care product I've ever used.
@@HeyNonyNonymous I'm having fun tracking all the changes I'm going through. Seriously, I did not expect my voice to drop that quick. Feels weird, man.
Yay second puberty! I hope this one goes better for all of us!
@@ashtentheplatypus Let's go!
been going through puberty 2 for a couple years now!!
i got lucky and didn't get acne either time 😌
Gotta love the team up between creators. Zefrank and Joe releasing videos with the same slime mold at once.
I just came from zefrank's video and i was wtf how. What a coincidence lmao
@@nankinink Yeah, same here, I had to pause this one for a few seconds to get my bearings.
who's dustin?
@@robinsparrow1618 Never mind my confused ass. I wasn't paying attention and confused channels. This is "Be Smart", not "Smarter Every Day". lol
@@nankinink very cute picture 🥰
At one time, an announcement of pregnancy was: "The rabbit died!"
Hello, Joe. I love your videos and I learned a lot from your video. I love your puns, too.
Hey, thanks!
I like those puns 😊
@@besmart your welcome 😊
@@besmart I like science ☺️
@@besmart I like your videos
This fascinates me, especially as a woman with PCOS. I know my hormones are all screwy.
“It’s ok to be smart” is an opinion
“Be Smart” is a command
I loved puberty. Every day was like Christmas.
I fckn hate it because of my social anxiety and emotional changes, but also love it because I'm that much closer to a fully adult and my body is much bigger and stronger.
Honestly except for body odor I didn't really feel it that much. I could see effects, but physically I felt the same.
@@Noam_.Menashe Also hair in strange places is just strange and painful
@@usm1le I hate puberty I have ASD
@@ultranovva it shouldn't be painful. Go check a doctor
WOW! Zfrank uploaded a slime mold video today!
Mongols? I was almost ready to hear "Except if... you're the Mongols!"
Leptin doesn't tell us when we're hungry, Ghrelin does. Leptin tells us when we're full :) leptin is anorexigenic and ghrelin is orexigenic :)
Bump. Thank you for the extra clarification.
I feel sick with 37 Celsius, I need about a degree less😂
I'm sitting here, just listening for background noise, when all of a sudden, I figured out why I and my totally different friend both get cold faster. Freakin estrogen!
Love when closed captioning describes stuff like: in the last second of this video there is a gem "Joe clucks loudly;" delightful.
7:03 we appreciate the honesty.
Puberty cannot be separated from the social changes that occur. In the USA, at around 10-12 kids are just beginning middle school, a social transition where teachers try to exercise more control, and kids reorganize themselves into groups for protection. We also see kids being made to wake up earlier for school. Girls and some underrepresented racial/ethnic minorities are more likely to experience adverse childhood experiences, which release cortisol and can cause biological changes.
Puberty is a time for biological change, yes, but it's also a time of psychological and social changes that all interact. The horrors of puberty are not inevitable. A strong support system, mental health care, later school start times, and adequate nutrition and physical activity can help with quite a bit of problems commonly associated with being a teenager.
First puberty sucked so I gave it a second go and much better.
saaaaaaame
If at first you don’t succeed, try again :D
@@kaitlyn__L I got my first puberty ☝️
Puberty makes for a strong right arm.
His attempt at keeping a straight face during that frog piece was great. Wonder how many takes that took before they settled on that lol
When I first saw the video thumbnail I was 10 feet from my TV screen. I didn't notice that the two pictures were different ages so I was quite confused as to what it meant.
As a teenager once said you are weird.
Please upload videos a little more often
Love your videos ❤️
2:23 that clip looks familiar. Oh, wait I just watched true facts about the self-sacrificing amoeba.
This guy sure isn't a Joe Schmoe, he's the best Joe I know
0:07 Because is Morphing time BABY
The second one is a lot better, though.
I mean like why do we even bother with the first when the second rocks so much?
What second one?
@@Noam_.Menashe When people medically transition
Great talk Joe!
10:50 would you say you did that for...no clucking reason?
Already know schools around the globe are gonna play this video 😂
This video got me thinking on the other big human hormonal change time in life.... Would you please do a video exploring if Andropause is real and why do only 5 animals go through the Menopause? Do those same 5 also experience some form of Andropause, if it truly exists? As I am in perimenopause, I'm very curious about this...
Puberty also comes at a really wierd age. Like OK if its meant to be in line with the animal kingdom it should be around 6 years old. If its meant to be around the time your brain is developed enough to handle it then it should be around 16 years old. Why does it start at the least convenient age, take years and for some people start at a seemingly random age
For me, I just became different coloured caterpillars. Pink/bright color when young, earth-colored caterpillar during teenage years and now just black-yellow caterpillar.
Maybe one day I would become black and white caterpillar
Love your videos ❤️
It's no longer ok to be smart guys
7:00 had me actually laughing out loud 😆
I didn't think I'd hear the words 'the roosters and their testes' today but here we are.
i had a really easy puberty idk why people act like it was really uncomfortable, for me it was like seeing the bud of a flower, i dont like the things i liked then but they led me into what and who i am today
same, i just kinda went in a direct smooth like from child to adult, IMO it was 100% a straight up improvement.
It's interesting because i can distinctly remember how mental tasks became way easier as my brain matured, things that were previously hard to wrap my head around became easy!
I would like to point something out, I am not trying to insult you, I am just trying to add constructively to your perpective;
You yourself may have had an easy puberty, but that does not mean everyone who had a painful, uncomfortable, or emotionally intense puberty is "acting." I genuinely ask why is it that you consider your experience universal? Every aspect of humanity exists on a spectrum of differences; you are on a part of the spectrum that granted an easy puberty, where others are on parts of the spectrum that are much more difficult to have experienced.
Does that make sense?
puberty was easy for me too. The biggest thing to deal with is how to deal with those se...l urges. And I grew up in the 80's, I didn't know about doing certain things since it was never talked about back then. But other than that, I didn't have emotional swings, I think that's mostly for girls. Emotionally I was as stable as can be, even more so than I am now unfortunately.
You were lucky. Try going through puberty only to find out you’re gay (back before it was even remotely “socially acceptable”.)
yeah obviously i dont think that others that had a hard puberty were acting i was just pointing out my different experience
you look like Sebastian Caine from the hollow man a bit
but thank you your content is indeed lovely!
so we can safely say endocrine system is like signals and nervous system is a medium to propagate signal from one place to another. And, feedback loops like reply of signal.
Both endocrine and nervous system make up a natural communication system.
Showing my kids this tonight.
hey quick question, if the brain was in our central area or lower abdomen would we have faster reflexes by our legs (at least by like 0.5 seconds)
Some hormones are produced also in the gut system, not only in the brain...
Ok.. did not expect this vid to start with Kublai Khan....
Great work 🥳🥳🥳 Thank you 💜💜💜
Me, a half-mongal transmasc person on HRT, re-experiencing puberty: OMG
Binary transfemme here, and …same! Almost a year on HRT now, and puberty actually feels right this time around 😊
Rip old channel name
7:00 - young Pennywise)))
Question about 6:23 is dopamine a hormone? I know for sure that dopamine work in the brain as neurotransmitter, and they cannot pass through the blood-brain-barrier so that cannot go to the blood stream. Hormones are chemicals work and transport via the blood stream. Some hormones like melatonin, testosterone can pass through the blood-brain-barrier and work as neurotransmitter when they are inside the brain. But for dopamine, I quickly checked on the internet, and could not find a reliable source(those pages contained some wrong information). So I am curious about this part.
the golf balls have me cracking up
A Very Interesting Explanation of Puberty
Thank you very much.
Love your videos!
You could have been on a pack of Kinder chocolate.
Excellent video. Thanks 🙂
i would say that the weird part of adolescnce would be the cocoon, most wanna hide their less atractive features 😅 but everyone rises at the end as a beautifull butterfly
Zefrank1 made a video the same day about those single cell mold things. Crazy
Second video about slime mold congregating posted in the same day. Funny.
Didnt expect that!!
Awesome as always
So long puberty , here I come adolescent
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G !!! tks a lot for the teacher here!!!!!!
What did crows do before crowbars were invented?
Use to drink at home haha
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I loved your "indoor fins" joke!!
5:03 damn bro!!
cheers to all the beautiful butterflies in making who happened to need the second one!
Hey. I recognize that video of slime mold. Zefranks video is way different though 😂
ok when did we rebrand to be smart? I thought it was "its ok to be smart" I've been watching this channel for 3 years how did I not realize this-
I'm just now noticing it as well what the heck. My best guess is that maybe, the name was too long to type into search boxes so people weren't coming back to the channel? Sad change but a necessary one.
Great explainer - thanks.
Currently going through second puberty smh (ftm)
good luck friend, currently making my way the other direction
@@tempest_dawn
same
GARY BUSEY VOICE: "I'M GOING TO PULL YOUR ENTIRE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM OUTSIDE OF YOUR BODY "
Ah, puberty as a male, when the gentlest of wind blows the flag never stays down. 🙃 😂.
0:55 ut-oh, guys I think Joe's lost it
Can’t help but to make the analogy to the ‘body politic’. With new communication pathways and signals going every which way, and so much stress… we are in a really bad social puberty phase. Does that make billionaires with rocket ships the slime mold?
When do I ever get out of puberty?🙂 I'm in my 40's and I still get acne.
That's not puberty related
There are ways to check if you're sensitive to something like dairy, gluten or soy. Or too much sugar. I suspect if you live in a city there are professionals in alternative medicine that can help but don't have personal experience with this
I'm over 50 and still get acne.
Chocolate does it for me, but I'm just far too old to care. Why let a few pimples bother me? 😊
I think it is hormonal but depends how sensitive you are even when hormonal variations are small, I am also over 40 and at times I develop pimples when I’m more sexually active
@@walterpayton2120 yeah maybe 😒
That's not a Joey... @06:59 THAT"s a Joey! 🤗
Hi I'm 26 and 4 ft 8. I have absolutely no facial or body hair. In fact, I haven't even hit puberty yet. Plus, everybody says my voice sounds super squeaky and annoying. At least I'm not some weirdo who went through puberty.
Puberty is great. Every day is like Christmas.
Hypogonadism?
@@courtheath5138 tmi lol
@@macfady2181 not yet. My doctor said I will hit puberty in about 9 years, given that I'm 26 months old.
@@macfady2181 world's tallest 2 year old.