How To Survive Poison

It’s not just how much you take in; it’s how fast your body can purge it.

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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
Poison: A substance that is capable of causing illness or death when introduced or absorbed.
Overdose: A dangerously large dose of a substance.
Biotransformation: The process by which foreign chemicals are transformed by the body into less toxic substances.
Polydipsia: The medical term for feelings of extreme thirst that can lead to hyponatremia.
Hyponatremia: Abnormally low sodium in the blood often caused by excessive water consumption.
Lethal Concentration - The concentration a substance needs to be in the bloodstream to kill 50% of subjects.
Metabolism - the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
Toxicity - the quality of being toxic or poisonous.
Excretion - the process of eliminating or expelling waste matter.

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[SmallBeanImperialist]

Surprised they never mentioned vomiting, as it's a natural response to consumption of any poison or substance in big amounts. In bath analogy, it could be a valve placed near the edge of a bathtub, being used as a last resort.

[boumbh]

Fun fact: 87 double espresso is about 6 litters of water, so you may die from cafein and water at the same time.

[DeathlyTired]

Good PSA. I was just about to make my 85th double espresso of the day!

[illiacvie]

0:17 - top left, so basically Dracula have very small bathtub for garlic?

[mAfUn]

How Paracelsus said: "The dose makes the poison"

[tsuribachi]

"Groan-inducing pun"
I'm here for all that.

[Hauketal]

There is also that poisonous fish in Japan, fugu. The bathtub is very small, but it kills mostly your heart. With a heart-lung-machine your liver can continue to metabolize the poison until the heart can restart. Not recommended.

[connorconnor]

previous title: _Why Poison Sometimes Doesn't Kill You_

[Jay-qbgi]

Ah so it leaves you on half a heart like Minecraft sometimes. The more potent poison is like the withering effect.

[antivanti]

For regular coffee you usually reach LD50 for water before LD50 for caffeine so you are likely to die from water poisoning if you drink to much coffee.
Also water drinking challenges can definitely be lethal and are not a good idea.

[IHateUniqueUsernames]

I love and appreciate the example with water. It really helps enforce the topic to allow a much stronger grasp of the content - everything is, or can be, toxic - it is all about how much and how fast.

[Jokstr]

This didn’t actually teach me how to survive poison, but it was very entertaining!

[stuartnolan]

Amusingly, I snorted while drinking espresso at “Draining the main vein”

[DriantX]

1:03 - Found how I can treat my B12 deficiency, thanks MinuteEarth!

[ShadesOfMisery]

The "cyanide is converted into b12" bit is an example of "so simplified, it's wrong". Cyanide is converted into thiocyanate. It can complex with b12 (as is the case with hospital treatment of cyanide poisoning), but it eventually ends up as thiocyanate and excreted in the urine.

[MattRoszak]

I thought "draining the main vein" meant slashing your arteries and bleeding out.

[militaryavr]

1:45 LOL! 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 That is without a doubt the best transition from creator content to sponsor ad that I’ve seen EVER seen. So smooth and corny at the same time. And it didn’t come off as cheesy in the least bit. Great video too!

[estivalbloom]

My guess at the answer to the title before starting to watch the video is that your body really doesn't want to die

[dragontiger]

Another analogy is a lake. The "lake" remains empty until the 'river' of the substance flows in. Some lakes can have a minimum and limit like for the vitamins 'lake' and too little acts as a drought. The 'drains' in the bathtub analogy can be turned into streams and river running out of the lake.
For the effects when the 'lake get larger' like the jitters from double expressos can be like when the surrounding areas are affect when the lakes nearly overfill. And for overfilling the 'tub', is over filling the 'lake'

[neonbunnies]

0:03 "Drinking 87 lattes can kill you"
Godot: *You underestimate my power*