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50 lists in parts of videos about health (a written list: in videos about it), oldest first. All topics · Overview

2010

  • 2010-03-22 · Top 10 Weirdest Diseases · Hank, 10 named — Weird diseases 1-4: lightning-strike complications, pica, Nintendinitis and jogger's nipple, blue skin from silver (00:00:22)
    1 lightning injury · 2 pica · 3 Nintendinitis “Nintendonitis” · 4 jogger's nipple · 5 argyria “odd skin coloration” · 6 toxoplasmosis · 7 congenital insensitivity to pain · 8 nutmeg psychosis · 9 trimethylaminuria · 10 Ondine's curse

2012

  • 2012-07-24 · The Treadmill Desk! Fitness for Nerds · John, 3 named — John says reclining counts as sitting, and sitting too much increases the risk of heart attack, diabetes and certain cancers. (00:01:48)
    1 myocardial infarction “heart attack” · 2 diabetes · 3 cancer

2014

2015

  • 2015-11-20 · On Mental Illness (and the end of Pizzamas) · John, 2 named — Following Hank's personal video, John says he has obsessive-compulsive disorder, which is often associated with anxiety and depression. (00:01:03)
    1 anxiety disorder · 2 depression

  • 2015-11-20 · On Mental Illness (and the end of Pizzamas) · John, 3 named — John's theory: humans dislike imagining lives as random and need narratives, so when no cause is found we invent one (depression from weakness, diabetes from diet, heart failure from not exercising), which is inaccurate or oversimplified. (00:01:52)
    1 depression · 2 diabetes · 3 Heart failure

2017

  • 2017-05-09 · Your Neighborhood, Your Life Expectancy · John, 2 named — John says low life expectancy communities have less healthy food, more uninsured people and more diabetes and hypertension, while the healthiest tend to be rich with excellent health care. (00:02:06)
    1 diabetes · 2 hypertension

  • 2017-07-21 · On Condom Failure · Hank, 2 named — Implants and IUDs, where they suit the person, have had a really substantial impact on unwanted pregnancies worldwide and in America. (00:03:07)
    1 contraceptive implant “implants” · 2 intrauterine device “IUDs”

  • 2017-08-22 · The Causes of Cholera · John, 2 named — John says that when he thinks of advances in medicine he thinks of medicines and medical devices, but he should be thinking of something else too. (00:00:00)
    1 Antibiotic · 2 vaccine

  • 2017-09-15 · My Butt Has Some Complaints About Australia · Hank, 3 named — Hank says many people have butt problems, such as hemorrhoids, anal fissures and IBD, and they should not be ashamed of them. (00:01:34)
    1 Hemorrhoids · 2 Anal fissure · 3 Inflammatory bowel disease “IBD”

  • 2017-12-01 · Let's Talk About Stress! · Hank, 2 named — Hank says flight is reading about linguistics or going on Twitter or Facebook, and asks what fighting is, since he can't punch his email inbox. (00:02:10)
    1 Twitter · 2 Facebook

2018

  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? · John, 4 named — John says globally heart disease is by far the most common cause of death, stroke is also very common, and diarrhea causes about as many deaths as lung cancer. (00:00:00)
    1 Coronary artery disease · 2 Stroke · 3 diarrhea · 4 Lung cancer

  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? · John, 2 named — John says measured in DALYs, malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia become much more prominent because they disproportionately affect younger people. (00:00:58)
    1 malaria · 2 pneumonia

  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? · John, 3 named — John says in Brazil mental illness causes more lost DALYs than any other single cause, including heart disease, and the same is true in France and the UK. (00:01:27)
    1 Brazil · 2 France · 3 United Kingdom “UK”

  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? · John, 2 named — John says in China depression and anxiety rob people of more years than liver cancer or diabetes. (00:01:27)
    1 depression · 2 anxiety disorder

  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? · John, 2 named — John says in China depression and anxiety rob people of more years than liver cancer or diabetes. (00:01:27)
    1 Liver cancer · 2 diabetes

2020

  • 2020-03-13 · The Anxious Scroll · video description, 2 named — The description says we know more testing is needed and that handwashing, social distancing and ending large events slow spread, protecting the vulnerable and the healthcare system, but much is unknown.
    1 hand washing · 2 social distancing

  • 2020-11-20 · Would I Take a COVID Vaccine? · Hank, 3 named — Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and others have had really promising results in their phase three COVID vaccine trials. (00:00:00)
    1 Pfizer · 2 Moderna · 3 AstraZeneca

2021

  • 2021-02-02 · I Predicted the Pandemic (over and over and over again) · John, 2 named — From the Great Dying in the Americas to the Black Death in Eurasia, infectious disease has long been a central force in human history, and not only ancient history. (00:00:29)
    1 Great Dying of the Americas · 2 Black Death

  • 2021-02-02 · I Predicted the Pandemic (over and over and over again) · John, 2 named — The letter's call to take pandemic preparedness as seriously as war made John note that history centres war and teaches much less about disease, even when tied to war, as with the 1918 Spanish flu or cholera in Yemen. (00:03:12)
    1 Spanish flu · 2 Yemen cholera outbreak

  • 2021-07-13 · The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make · John, 2 named — A few years ago John wrote a video on how a symptom of both panic attacks and heart attacks is a 'sense of impending doom', and how hard it is to know how to respond to that feeling. (00:00:58)
    1 panic attack · 2 myocardial infarction “heart attacks”

  • 2021-08-10 · My Physicalmental Illness · John, 4 named — Illnesses that are poorly understood or lack effective treatments tend to be heavily stigmatized, such as endometriosis, irritable bowel syndrome, many pain disorders and leprosy. (00:01:11)
    1 endometriosis · 2 irritable bowel syndrome · 3 pain · 4 leprosy

2022

  • 2022-06-21 · On Disease · John, 3 named — John lists the itises he has or has had: orbital cellulitis, eosinophilic esophagitis and viral meningitis, besides ordinary ones like sinusitis and gastritis. (00:00:29)
    1 orbital cellulitis · 2 eosinophilic esophagitis · 3 meningitis

  • 2022-12-16 · What I Would Have Tweeted · Hank, 4 named — Hank explains you can't always tell where you got food poisoning, since pathogens with the same symptoms have very different onset times: E. coli and Campylobacter two to five days, staph maybe 15 minutes. (00:00:00)
    1 Escherichia coli · 2 Campylobacter · 3 Staphylococcus aureus · 4 Salmonella

2023

  • 2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer · Hank, 2 named — Hank explains that for solid tumors such as lung or prostate cancer, living elsewhere in the body means the cells have evolved new survival strategies, which is why metastasis is a big deal. (00:03:02)
    1 Lung cancer · 2 prostate cancer

  • 2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer · Hank, 2 named — Hank has several lymphoma risk factors (medications, an autoimmune disease, mono as a kid), so he had been watching for it and is glad it was taken seriously. (00:03:56)
    1 autoimmune disease · 2 infectious mononucleosis

  • 2023-06-13 · touched by a king · video description, 2 named — John's comment says the Awesome Socks Club has reopened and urges viewers to get Awesome Coffee Club coffee, whose profits all fight maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone.
    1 maternal death · 2 child mortality

  • 2023-06-13 · touched by a king · video description, 4 named — Answering a viewer in the comments, John says TB kills more people every year than malaria, typhoid, homicide and war combined.
    1 malaria · 2 typhoid fever · 3 homicide · 4 war

  • 2023-07-28 · Let's Try Radiation Therapy! · Hank, 3 named — Hank lists side effects of treatment that can kill: heart failure needing a transplant, secondary cancers more dangerous than his current one, pulmonary embolism and stroke. (00:03:54)
    1 Heart failure · 2 Pulmonary embolism · 3 Stroke

  • 2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History · Hank, 2 named — Hank says a couple of years ago he would probably have guessed malaria, then AIDS, as the deadliest infectious disease, and needed a hint to reach tuberculosis. (00:00:04)
    1 malaria · 2 HIV/AIDS

  • 2023-09-15 · The Worst Disease in Human History · Hank, 3 named — Hank says tuberculosis has been the deadliest infectious disease for like 99% of the last 10,000 years, overtaken only every once in a while by the Spanish flu, the Black Death or, very briefly, COVID. (00:00:21)
    1 Spanish flu · 2 Black Death · 3 COVID-19 pandemic

  • 2023-12-08 · Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life? · Hank, 3 named — Three of his four chemo drugs come from nature (periwinkle, soil microbes) and were tested exhaustively (00:00:29)
    1 vinblastine · 2 doxorubicin · 3 bleomycin

  • 2023-12-08 · Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life? · Hank, 3 named — Hank took fish oil, vitamin D and magnesium; he thinks the magnesium especially helped, as his muscle cramps cleared up. (00:04:01)
    1 fish oil · 2 vitamin D · 3 magnesium

  • 2023-12-08 · Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life? · Hank, 3 named — Hank says those people don't die for lack of coffee enemas, cannabis oil or apricot pits, but for lack of chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and screening. (00:04:59)
    1 coffee enema · 2 cannabis · 3 apricot kernel

  • 2023-12-08 · Did Natural Cancer Treatments Save My Life? · Hank, 4 named — Hank says those people don't die for lack of coffee enemas, cannabis oil or apricot pits, but for lack of chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and screening. (00:05:04)
    1 chemotherapy · 2 Radiation therapy · 3 surgery · 4 preventive healthcare “screening”

2025

  • 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS · John, 2 named — John says weakened immunity from diabetes, HIV or malnutrition raises the risk of active TB; of 10 million who fell sick in 2023, over 5 million were malnourished. (00:08:14)
    1 diabetes · 2 malnutrition

  • 2025-02-28 · We Will Eradicate Measles · Hank, 3 named — Hank says beyond the information battle we are losing the ability to help children elsewhere survive measles, malaria, tuberculosis and other preventable diseases, with no clear reason why. (00:00:00)
    1 measles · 2 malaria · 3 tuberculosis

  • 2025-03-07 · How Social Security Fraud Actually Works · Hank, 4 named — Hank explains that Blue Zones are areas where government records show people much more likely to live very long: Okinawa, Sardinia, parts of Costa Rica and Greece; researchers studied their diet and activity. (00:00:29)
    1 Okinawa Prefecture · 2 Sardinia · 3 Costa Rica · 4 Greece

  • 2025-05-16 · No One Knows When They Don't Die · Hank, 4 named — Hank says the hundreds of thousands who were spared heart attacks, strokes, asthma attacks or lung cancer never knew they were in danger; no one knows who they are, and there is no party or parade. (00:01:27)
    1 myocardial infarction “a heart attack” · 2 Stroke · 3 Asthma · 4 Lung cancer

  • 2025-05-16 · No One Knows When They Don't Die · Hank, 5 named — Prevention works invisibly: Clean Air Act, smoke detectors, lead bans, road safety, building codes, food safety (00:01:27)
    1 smoke detector · 2 lead poisoning · 3 road traffic safety “Guardrails, rumble strips, and roundabouts” · 4 building code · 5 food safety

  • 2025-08-12 · On Balance · John, 2 named — John says balance is a sense, or part of one: the idea of only five senses is an oversimplification, as there are also nociception and proprioception, of which balance is part. (00:00:00)
    1 nociception · 2 proprioception

  • 2025-08-12 · On Balance · John, 2 named — John says he notices the balance of his brain chemicals only when they are imbalanced and cause his OCD or depression. (00:02:55)
    1 obsessive-compulsive disorder “OCD” · 2 depression

  • 2025-09-23 · Why Can't I Take My Meds? · John, 2 named — John says he is supposed to take three pills a day, one for cholesterol and two for OCD and depression; they are good pills, yet many days taking them feels like climbing a mountain. (00:00:00)
    1 obsessive-compulsive disorder “OCD” · 2 depression

  • 2025-09-23 · Why Can't I Take My Meds? · John, 2 named — John says so-called patient non-compliance contributes to over 125,000 deaths a year in the United States alone, about as many as die from murder and diabetes combined. (00:00:58)
    1 homicide “murder” · 2 diabetes

  • 2025-09-23 · Why Can't I Take My Meds? · John, 4 named — John says it is natural for about half of children to die before five, and for people to die of polio and smallpox or catch bovine tuberculosis from raw cow milk. (00:04:22)
    1 child mortality “half of children to die before the age of five” · 2 polio · 3 smallpox · 4 bovine tuberculosis

2026

  • 2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis · John, 4 named — John says mountain goats, pigs, sharks, cows and many more animals can get tuberculosis. (00:00:58)
    1 Mountain goat “goats” · 2 Pig · 3 shark · 4 Cattle “cows”

  • 2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong · John, 2 named — Dr. Pasricha calls the gut its own brain: it has 500 million neurons and produces most of the body's serotonin and dopamine. (00:04:56)
    1 Serotonin · 2 dopamine

  • 2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease · John, 3 named — Today HIV can be prevented with a lenacapavir shot, TB with prophylactic antibiotics and cholera with sewage systems, while mumps, whooping cough, measles and diphtheria are vaccine-preventable. (00:00:29)
    1 HIV/AIDS · 2 tuberculosis · 3 cholera

  • 2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease · John, 4 named — Today HIV can be prevented with a lenacapavir shot, TB with prophylactic antibiotics and cholera with sewage systems, while mumps, whooping cough, measles and diphtheria are vaccine-preventable. (00:00:29)
    1 Mumps · 2 Whooping cough · 3 measles · 4 diphtheria

  • 2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease · John, 3 named — John lists reasons: survivorship bias, recency bias, misinformation, the politicization of the pandemic, and a fractured media landscape that makes public health campaigns almost impossible. (00:04:23)
    1 Survivorship bias · 2 recency bias · 3 misinformation