A Woman Put Mercury Skin Cream On Her Face. This Is What Happened To Her Brain.
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May none of us be the main character in a chubbeymu video
Amen!
Amen brother.
Fr
🙋 I'll second that
it is not too bad for the 14 yr old girl with who ate her dad's gummy edibles. I would not want to be her dad talking to her mom though
hearing that BD "could not make a recovery" but not hearing "at autopsy" is somehow more terrifying than hearing "at autopsy".
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
@@rickygamingproductionsthat's not what braindead means. Shes still conscious.
@@Echolocatingcheese my bad, I couldn't exactly find the word
@@Echolocatingcheeseis she aware of her surroundings at all?
Locked in then?
you ever just be doing something that might not be the healthiest choice and then the chubbyemu intro just starts playing in your head?
Lol the number of leftovers I now hesitate to eat if there's even the tiniest doubt in my mind.....
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. ;)
when that happens you know you're either about to die or about to have terrible lifelong effects
Every time I clock in at work.
Imagine doing construction work in China and then suddenly WikiLeaks logo appear in the air
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.
Omg then what happened?? Did they clean the property? Are you ok?
@@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.
@@jfaustin1742 He died
@@vincent67239That's not funny
@@fairyprincess911 😔
A full recovery: 😀
A recovery: 😕
At autopsy😞
Could not make a recovery: 😭
Not being able to make a recovery to means you never get better but your pain never ends either.
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.
Yeah.... 😶
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) ??
@@merriquelynn866 Never get better and also pain never ends. The ultimate bad ending.
"i feel so ugly"
"Don't worry, I have this cream that'll make you too braindamaged to even care"
I'm going to hell for laughing bro
It's funny because it's true, but it's also sad because it's true.
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...
Dr. My BrAiN hUrTz!
Tofu-Dreg cream
As a professional chemist, working with organomercury was always stressful & a high alert day. You cannot mess around with that stuff. 😮
Dr Karen Wetterhahn taught us well, complacency kills, assuming protective measures are effective without testing kills.
Is that the one where you can’t even get it on a latex glove because it just goes straight through?
@@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.
My advice: never go near it
Honestly, the first minute of the video just sounded like a woman buying into harmful snake oil medicine. Sucks people are so gullible :(
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.
Yeah, Prop 65 has conditioned me to assume that there are trace amounts of lead in everything
"Organic" is a word you especially don't want to hear, when describing a mercury.
I remember the scientist that died from two drops of mercury on her hand. Mercury scares the living daylights outta me.
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
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.
@@Jabarri74Watch the video then. It's safe.
Organic mercury*
And she had two sets of gloves. She ended up dying months later. Extremely scary.
As soon as I saw this video I knew how it would end based on that one. This is that but worse.
Imagine being thay friend and your mlm scheme got your friend legitimately braindead.
Not unheard of. Some MLMs have outright killed people.
@@thaloblue oh I know
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?
Not braindead, worse, much worse.
Persistent vegetative state, part of her will be partially conscious.
MLM people probably don't even care. People who succeed at that are not generally good people.
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.
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.
Yeah. That was dimethyl mercury though, not a methylmercury salt.
The various types of mercury are confusing. You can touch the kind in a thermostat, but you touch dimethylmercury and it's over.
Chubbyemu has a video about her too! That's how I also knew instantly that you fiddle with mercury (to me, any type is yikes), you aren't getting out unscathed
@@Auritilienthat's simply not true. you could (but absolutely shouldn't!) drink several milliliters of liquid metal mercury, and while it will give you diarrhoea, it won't end you and it will come out the other side the same as it went in. it isn't as dangerous as you think. organic mercury is entirely different.
The fact they didn’t just send her home as “stressed” after nothing showed on the first tests is a miracle.
thats a deep form of horror. no recovery, no autopsy.
The autopsy will come, just give it time.
The brain is 60% fat :(
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.
@@kerrynicholls6683 Not for the subject of this video. She's still "alive." He was talking about one of the poisoned girls in Japan.
@@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.
Ah yes, Mercury. Don't let Gwyneth Paltrow learn about this magical metal that is liquid at room temperature
ngl, i'm tempted to do a little widespread trolling
Or should she😉👍🏻
Goop is poop. Peewoop!
Honestly, I think she should. It'd give natural-selection the helping-hands it needs.
🤣
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.
Fun fact check: true (not fun)
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.
@@kimicalin Men think that protein is all. Predatory fish have the most protein, of any meat I think.
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
I don't eat any fish at all or shellfish... they will have some traces.
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.
Sodium chloride is necessary for life, yet free chlorine molecules are deadly
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
It is wild to me that there are people out there selling toxic products like these, completely unregulated. Utterly unethical.
You can blame both the Internet and the DHSEA of 1994. Unfortunately not everything sold in the United States is actually tested for safety.
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.
Heavy metal in skin cream is a tragedy millenia old. From Rome to China, Egypt to England, this is an old, old story.
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.
Sounds like the ones before care not of which the new ones apply on face. @@marenjones6665
"Is there a part of the body that has more fat than others?" _reaches for belly_ "The brain ..." _"Ohhhhhh"_ 😂
*looks down and cant see my feet* I don't know if the brain has more...
@@whateverppl1229the brain is made almost entirely out of fats
@@corvidking468 So is my belly
My reaction was *looks at boobs*.
@@mkjirak I believe it also accumulates in mens balls so we don't get a free pass either
If I don't see ingredients on something like that, I'm immediately suspicious.
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
😂😂😂😂
"what'a doin' kiddo ?"
"Documenting a case"
how is he doing 😮 I'm surprised they've not completely rotted away after 10 years
@projectjupiter5523 well nothing's wrong with him that wasn't already there lol, they were canned. It looked like sewage
😂
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.
People renamed covid to the Fauci disease. It fits.
AMEN!
They could just change their business and legal names then
Maybe we could change "PFAS contamination" to "3M Disease".
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.
I did not expect to learn why burning hair smells so bad from this video
I momentarily spaced out until that part 😅 that was too much chemistry for me that I don’t understand
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.
No such thing as a coincidence my friend. Best of luck at your work. Keep us safe!! Cheers
That `friend` should be investigated
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
Qin Shi Huang was super close to inventing human immortality, he just had to find a way around the mercury poisoning
W
It does cure old age!
Dead people don't get older.
And all other part of periodic table which happens to be in his mixture
If you eat 100g of Mercury with breakfast every day, it's basically impossible to die of old age.
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.
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.
he has literally already done a video on that researcher
if you already knew sorry for the comment !!
It was this case that led me to believe she was not going to be making a recovery
That was way more concentrated, and yea the glove did nothing
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.
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.
You've got love higher ups. Profits before people. I'm glad to hear you didn't buckle under pressure.
Those oven should be vented
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.
Don't touch that stuff man... 👀
I would still show her this video
what's the name of this cream btw? i'm from indo so i can look it up if you want to
No reply after 10 days …wonder if he’s ok 👀
@@despacito377that’s dark 👀
That transition from a black and white hand in a pool of mercury to a blood vessel hand was a beautiful edit.
It was the cleanest transition
I noticed that too
I really want to know how that was done.
I read your comment just as I got to that part lol
As a video editor… I noticed and appreciated deeply
ORGANIC MERCURY? 😳😱☠️. And she had been rubbing it on her face? For YEARS? That poor woman
Used to be in face cream in the 20s or something.
😳😱☠️
This is something medieval actually@@mariamaria2751
@@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.
YOU SPOILED ME!!
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.
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.
I saw a documentary in the Philippines where there’s so much cheap skin lighting creams. And even “skin lighting IVs” or some shit like that. Where a nurse gives you treatments at your house,
Mercury straight to the face. It's terrible knowing an outcome before you even watch the video.
This was an especially nightmarish episode.
I've been using a moisturizer from Japan for a year, I wonder where I can get it tested.
@@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.
@astraeanova4280 your profile picture scares me
@@astraeanova4280 what's the name? it's probably legit
Heavy metal poisoning? This isn't gonna go well.
I've been poisoned by heavy metal! It's not too bad, my taste in music improved, but I can't stop headbanging...
Mustve been from a Scorpion.
Listening to Freddie Mercury.
@@romusz HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
when are w gonna have Nu Metal poisoning? 🥺
Thank you!! It helps me accept the way my skin is. Thank you!! Being ugly might be saving my life.
I’ve been using skin care stuff since I was like 18 and I’m almost 28 now and Idk if they even worked 😂 My skin isn’t that great anymore. But it’s most likely stress and diet that’s the Main issue rn
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.
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
Here comes the guy who inspired me to become a forensic toxicologist!! Yay!! Thanks Dr. B!
what % of cases you have been in are related to drug od tho?
That must be a really interesting job!
@@flymousechiu only just qualified!
@@kittenbouquet it is! I wanted to be a pathologist but that would mean going out to crime scenes and I don’t like them!
@@laratheplanespotter So now you just gonna take samples from corpses in the comfort of your mortuary?
Chubbyemu posted, neuron activated
not with this case
Mercury compounds in skin care products?
*[Neurons_deactivated.mp3]*
*Neuron have failed to make a full recovery* ☠☠
Emergency, both remaining neurons are fighting for 3rd place
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.
This is horrific because why would she remotely suspect that a cream would contain mercury
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
I even played with it ) You can even eat it, but sniffing is a bad idea.
@@MACTEP_CHOBDon't eat it though as it's likely far from pure and some more easily absorbed mercury compounds might be in it.
@@lagrangiankid378 I saw a guy drinking it lol. I believe they treated constipation with it back in the day.
@@MACTEP_CHOB yes, this is true, but it's not reccomended. It's still mercury after all...
@@lagrangiankid378 Ofc, I`m just sayin. They used to treat running nose with coke, does not mean we should do the same now.
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
Years
It was 7 years
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.
It was also dimethyl mercury in Karen's case
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
Well at least the mercury was ethically sourced.
Organic, even!
Yeah, I love it when my poisons are ethically-sourced. Really makes feel like I'm making a difference, y'know...
yeah, i mean, people love their organic foods, right? so what's wrong with some organic mercury? for a #GMOFreeLife, amirite?
Only buy free-range mercury
@@paulkita.. grass fed, free range mercury 😆
My question is, what happened to that “friend” that was also supposedly using that cream? 🤔
To think that before the 1920s, lead, mercury, & arsenic were commonly sold in skin creams.
Rule for life: Avoid being in a Chubbyemu video. That’s all.
Or being in storms reported by Jim Cantore...
@@michah321 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!
Definitely! Or a Mr. Ballen video
Or a Brew video.
I hope that we never are in any medical case CZcamsr'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.
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.
Man, I never would have thought to compare it to rabies, but you are so right.
Rabies Prions Heavy Metal Poisonibg are all nightmares.
Don’t name diseases after location. Name it after the company or the perpetrator
*sees mercury in the title:*
“Ah, sh!t, here we go again “ 😢
Any company puting any form of murcury in products should have their corporate staff thrown in jail.
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.
Probably some guy on a farm in Uzbekistan, she had no clue where it came from
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.
@@eightcoins4401 Probably to avoid a slander lawsuit I'd change a few details too, even if it was justified
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.
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.
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.
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.
We also used Mercurachrome for cuts and scrapes. Stung like the dickens!
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.
@@adrenalinestairz5068bruh
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.
9th niko pfp spotted since ive played oneshot
@@BaygelsOrSomething niko!
The sad thing is a lot of beauty products containing mercury still available in my country. Even some people proudly promoting the products :(
Wow. We got hit with the "could NOT make a recovery"
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 😨
It's probably even worse than that. She might be fully conscious but unable to move or communicate with others.
it's definitely worse because amidst the eternal anguish she's still alive
@@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.
Yeah if that ever happens to me I want the Old Yeller treatment.
It's so interesting to see the similarities to the organic mercury case
Edit: oh that's because it IS organic mercury related
This is the first time I've heard Chubbyemu say that a patient didn't make a recovery without dying.
A man received a notification from his CZcams app. This is what happened to his dopamine levels!
funny
Muscle spasms and involuntary eye movements with profuse drooling he presents to the emergency room with minimal brain activity where we are now
a notification from Chubbyemu specifically*
Hyperchubbyemuemia
Hyper meaning high, chubbyemu referring to a CZcams channel covering medical cases. emia, presence in blood. High presence of chubbyemu videos in blood.
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.
Cool, I never knew about that
@@MonolithicCyanTsunami Hence the phrase 'as mad as a hatter'
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. 😉
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.
Yooooo that switch from normal hand to the nerves at 6:42 is sick
It's from the newest Tool music video.
@@E.Pierro.Artist I wish there was a new Tool mv 😭
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.'
That last line was the most terrifying bit of all. 😞
I love it when my poisons are ethically-sourced. Really makes feel like I'm making a difference, y'know...
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.
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.
My guess is her inability to “make a recovery” means severe lifelong physical and cognitive impairment or death.
She didn't die. He would have said "at autopsy" I think. She just can't speak or feed herself :(
@@anerdygoldenagesoprano "just"
@@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.
@@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
@@lefase4608 hence the "I think". I simply noticed ChubbyEmu usually says this if the patient died
Organomercury compounds are absolutely terrifying, and she was unwittingly rubbing it on her face *twice daily*. Yikes.
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.
"My chem buddy nile" how cool this is, i was just thinking about Nile while watching this video.
I played with broken thermometers a few times as a kid. Glad to know I'm not suffering from mercury poisoning.
I did too. Played with a silver ball of mercury from a broken thermometer as a kid
You are on youtube, I'd say that's close to a symptom
@@Stratos1988you are on CZcams as well, does that mean you have mercury poisoning?
@@gamejunk1e Bruv, I had brain glioma when 8. Think it also counts as F'ed up head
Wow not even A recovery this time. Horrific consequences from something seemingly insignificant
@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....
@@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.
Mercury in the brain causes permanent damage
@@zenithperigee7442She was taking lightening creams for 7 years she took that one for 3 weeks, Chubbyemu said so in the video.
@@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.
My brother, this is the best video you've done yet. Great job, I love it!
This is a fantastic way to learn biochemistry!
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.
Nah she will still live to be old, just after like 40 years of being unable to move, eat, or talk
That because of the treatment, otherwise it would go to the grave @@apothic0n
All she was trying to do was take care of herself and to look her best, how heartbreaking 😢
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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.
@@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.
@@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)
At least the cream had ORGANIC ingredients
Hard to really feel bad for me, since buying mystery creams has always been a bad idea, but in this case it's for skincare, which has plenty of legitimate creams you could buy instead. This was done for something that didn't even need treatment, let alone treatment from dubious sourves..
This is frightening. That poor woman. And I wonder how her friend felt, whether she had problems.
Lol her "friend" didn't use it, she just sold it to her. Probably MLM style.
@@bonafidehomicide5742 we don't know that. Maybe she just wasn't using it very often, so she was taking longer to show symptoms.
Did anyone else’s insides churn when the person was GLIDING THEIR HAND THROUGH THE MERCURY 😱
Yeah i wondered how well it would absorb through a paper cut or abrasion.
Learn some stuff please. Elemental mercury isn't as dangerous as organic mercury Vapor or the form used in the cream.
@@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).
@@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 👍🏼
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).
I got chills when he said “she was not able to make A recovery.”
Chills. Literal chills.
Everytime I think about eating or using something sketchy, the Chubbyemu music starts playing in my head and I change my mind
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.
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.
@@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
If a friend recommends it a lot of people will fall for it.
@@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 :)
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
Anyone else point their finger when he says "preSENting to the emergency room"?
But where was mitochondria, the powerhouse of the cell? Did I miss it?
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All the time. Also mumbling 'where we are now'.
dr: ... "unconscious"
me: *raises eyebrows* "unconscious"
I take it, she hadn't watched the various youtube documentaries warning of the dangers of skin lightening creams.
Here I go checking my skin creams.
As a kid, in the '80's someone brought some of that thermometer mercury one day and we all fought to play with it. No one got sick, but it's terrifying how many toxins we meet without even being aware. It pisses me off.
>chubbyemu uploaded
>mercury in title
>brain in the same title
>>Dr. Karen Wetterhahn case study flashbacks.
That's what came to me
"She had trouble speaking because her family couldn't understand what she was saying"??
Wouldn't that be the other way around?
I noticed that, too!
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
Mercury poisoning was the video that youtube suggested and let me find this amazing channel, its good to see the topic revisited so many years later
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. ⚕
"...as she could not make A recovery." Damn, I cant tell if that's worse than "at autopsy" or not.
YES... she's locked in her body
It is, unless she has somehow prepared her peers for such a scenario.
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.
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.
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
@@Jabarri74 I was a 6yo heavy milk drinker at the time. I got a big dose of it. Have had troubles ever since.
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.
@@LoveClassicMusic0205 I think its more insidious than that, watch the documentary I linked, I just finished it
@@jdlech After looking at the poor cattle it was fed to and what it did to them I'm not surprised
Thank you for filling the Mystery Diagnosis shaped hole in my heart.
Ironic that I got an ad for an anti-aging skin cream while watching this video.
My love of these videos rises and falls in direct proportion to the number of aches and pains I have at any given time.
Chubbyemu titles are always something along the lines of “ a man accidentally gave himself a paper cut. This is what happened to his skeleton“
"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"
This was one of the moat educational and intriguing stories to date. Also, best nebula subscription advert Ive ever watched at the end.
I'm scheduling a DMSA check now!
Thank you emu!!!
It should always be a red flag when the item is "sourced from ethically sources".
With no ingredient label, from someone who "knows a guy." Horrific.
If it is to help climate change, that's a red flag that it's not for helping people. All a scam on an international level - calling for depopulation.
@@TheDragonSeer I would even say this is horrifically horrific
I would be better dead than demented
And dementia from mercury poisoning is no fun
I know what was the "mad hat-maker disease" & "mirror maker disease" in Middle Ages...
@@TheDragonSeer Which usally is a sign its a shady product from a shady chinese company that isnt trackable advertised via MLMs.
If youre lacky youre *only* being scammed.
Ethical sourcing isn't the big red flag: the big red flag is that it came from a guy who "knew a guy" & that it didn't have the legally required ingredient label.
poor girl 😢shame on those criminals selling mercury and other contaminated things on the internets.
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.
I am not in the medical field but I do like your videos. I especially like how you breakdown the medical terminology and what it means in layman’s terms. I find your videos informative, interesting, and educational. Please continue sharing them on CZcams.