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Top 10 Weirdest Diseases

2010-03-22 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Health · curiosity idea

Hank welcomes US health-care reform as good news for people with pre-existing conditions like himself, then counts down ten weird diseases (lightning-strike complications to Ondine's curse) and opens the brothers' Top 10 Lists theme week.

What is said

00:00:00 — Good news from health-care reform for self-employed people with pre-existing conditions

  • ★★★ Hank calls health-care reform good news for self-employed people with chronic pre-existing conditions like him: insurers soon can't be biased against them. — 00:00:01
  • ★ Hank says he is self-employed and has chronic pre-existing conditions. — 00:00:01

00:00:12 — Weird diseases 1-4: lightning-strike complications, pica, Nintendinitis and jogger's nipple, blue skin from silver

  • ★★ Hank presents, in no particular order, the top 10 weirdest diseases he could find on the internet. — 00:00:12
  • ★★ Hank says lightning-strike survivors often have memory, balance and motor-control problems and are much more likely than average to commit suicide. — 00:00:19
  • ★★ Hank says being struck by lightning makes you much more likely to be struck again; Roy Sullivan was struck seven times. — 00:00:34
  • ★★ Hank says pica, common in children and pregnant women, makes people want to eat non-food: nails, dirt, coal, sand, even hair stolen from beauty salons. — 00:00:53
  • ★★ Hank says Nintendinitis is any repetitive stress injury caused by video gaming, and jogger's nipple is fissures from tight shirts rubbing joggers' nipples. — 00:01:09
  • ★★ Hank says some people's skin is blue or red; lots of silver in the diet, from water or silver-related pica, turns skin blue. — 00:01:31

00:01:50 — Weird diseases 5-10: toxoplasmosis, congenital analgesia, nutmeg psychosis, trimethylaminuria, Ondine's curse

  • ★★ Hank says toxoplasma is a parasite living in cat poop; women with toxoplasmosis are statistically happier, while men suffer more negative effects. — 00:01:50
  • ★★ Hank says people with congenital analgesia, who cannot feel pain, generally die young because they don't know when they are injured; children bite through lips or damage their eyes. — 00:02:10
  • ★★ Hank says nutmeg in large enough quantities causes nutmeg psychosis: paranoia, hallucinations and feelings of impending doom. — 00:02:32
  • ★★ Hank says people with trimethylaminuria lack the enzyme to break down trimethylamine, so their breath, sweat and pee smell like rotting fish. — 00:02:42
  • ★★ Hank says people with Ondine's curse, officially primary alveolar hypoventilation, literally die if they fall asleep; it is congenital or follows serious trauma. — 00:03:05
  • ★ Hank says the name comes from the myth of Ondine, in his telling a man in Greek mythology who cheated on a water nymph and was cursed to forget to breathe in sleep. — 00:03:28

00:03:43 — Top 10 Lists theme week; asks for viewers' diseases and feelings on the health-care law; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank tells John the theme for this week is Top 10 Lists, and this video was his. — 00:03:43
  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to tell him in the comments about bizarre diseases they have and how they feel about the new health-care legislation. — 00:03:43

Humor (significant)

  • After describing jogger's nipple, Hank draws his own lesson. — 00:01:26 > «Just one more reason why I love to sit.»
  • Toxoplasmosis makes infected women happier and men worse off, which Hank says has been posited as an explanation. — 00:02:02 > «there are so many crazy, old cat ladies, and not so many crazy, old cat men.»
  • Insensitivity to pain might sound like a pretty good thing. — 00:02:10 > «You're certainly not going to lose any fist fights.»
  • In Hank's version of the myth, Ondine cheated on a water nymph. — 00:03:28 > «which, let me tell you, is something you never want to do.»

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