How Much of the Periodic Table is in YOU?

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Ай бұрын

About 99.9% of your typical human body is made of just 11 elements from the periodic table. But hiding in that remaining 0.1% are some elements that do some very important jobs to keep you alive and healthy. Including some elements you may have completely forgotten about.
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@westrim Ай бұрын

"Water, 35 liters; carbon, 20 kilograms; ammonia, 4 liters; lime, 1.5 kilograms; phosphorus, 800 grams; salt, 250 grams; saltpeter, 100 grams; sulfur, 80 grams; fluorine, 7.5; iron, 5; silicon, 3 grams; and trace amounts of 15 other elements."

@williamcarrillo4120 Ай бұрын

I see you are a man of culture

@windzer Ай бұрын

fullmetal

@EddyA1337 Ай бұрын

But what could be equivalent to a human soul?

@logank444 Ай бұрын

@@EddyA13373 milligrams of DMT

@beaudavis3808 Ай бұрын

You so pull a Fullmetal Alchemist reference, didn't you? 😅😅

@ODISeth Ай бұрын

Well, I just ate a paper print out of the periodic table, so probably all of it

@Napoleonic_S 29 күн бұрын

Please tell us what is left from that supplement that gets excreted from your body.

@ozozznozzy 29 күн бұрын

Nice, you made it into the post for the video lol

@lococomrade3488 29 күн бұрын

Legend.

@QuadeAlex 28 күн бұрын

Great blotter paper

@melvinshine9841 Ай бұрын

Pretty sure the last guy who looked too deeply into this lost an arm, a leg, and his brother's physical body. He got a sweet pocket watch and paycheck out of it, though.

@00dredd Ай бұрын

Full metal alchemist for the win! Love the reference!

@Appletank8 Ай бұрын

Skill issue

@strider_hiryu850 Ай бұрын

@@Appletank8 kinda yeah. i mean, it was his first ever time trying Alchemy, so....

@JamesSpatt Ай бұрын

@@Appletank8you sound like a helldiber

@ObadiahtheSlim 29 күн бұрын

As long as you're not trying to find the equivalent exchange for a human soul, you're safe.

@sathivv950 Ай бұрын

My first time seeing Niba as a host. She is excellent, please have her do more episodes.

@rolfs2165 29 күн бұрын

She's been in about a dozen videos so far, and I just love her energy - and her style in clothing (yes, I'm somewhat superficial, so?).

@dominiquelaflamme7804 27 күн бұрын

Very hot

@OGPigInASuit Ай бұрын

I've been watching SciShow for nearly a decade. My favorite thing about this show is silly. It's the fact that the intro tune hasn't changed. Every week I'd hear that tune a few times and it still brings such a wave of joy. Never change SciShow.

@CritterKeeper01 Ай бұрын

Agreed! I love that SciShow still plays at least some of the intro every time, and I wish they'd do the full thing, at least on longer videos!

@kevinmbrooks Ай бұрын

We're mostly made of schnapps?

@2smoothz Ай бұрын

lol 💤

@marilynlucero9363 Ай бұрын

This makes me happy.

@Jus10Ed Ай бұрын

I know I am.

@nathanandsugar5252 Ай бұрын

The elements in schnapps, yes. But a diet of schnapps will not provide the nutrients you need. Paired with greens, grains and meat? Definitely.

@bones642 Ай бұрын

anxiety pickle

@RoxaneJ14 Ай бұрын

I really love Niba's vibe!

@smart_ledtv 29 күн бұрын

Me too. I love her expressionism in showing how various elements are "useful to us" and "molecules that we know and love". @0:51-0:56 It requires a decent amount of talent and a close relation with a camera or two, or even three of them ('cos why not!). 🤤 By the way, did you know that *hydrogen* in your body isn't from super novas nor collisions of neutron stars, but simply(?) from the _Big Bang_ when primordial soup of quarks and gluons started to condensate into the 3 lightest elements in just first ca. 20 picoseconds. 💥

@amon_69 Ай бұрын

everytime she sais CHNOPS my German brain understands Schnapps. cheers.

@JamesDavy2009 Ай бұрын

The word "chthonic" comes to my mind.

@thesciencefurry 24 күн бұрын

Same for me xD

@winterx2348 Ай бұрын

question asked by a scientist 2 seconds away from an uncomfortable meeting with the ethics board

@rundown132 Ай бұрын

in me?

@winterx2348 Ай бұрын

I hate it when they change the title of the video so my funny joke no longer makes any sense

@CritterKeeper01 Ай бұрын

@@winterx2348What was the original?

@winterx2348 Ай бұрын

@@CritterKeeper01 something like "If you atomize a human, what elements would you get?"

@computerzero2681 Ай бұрын

🤣

@Nmethyltransferase Ай бұрын

9:39 Lead acetate paint chips might taste sweet. But just say no to wall candy, kids!

@Skoldpadden Ай бұрын

@@stevexracer4309 A link between what? ingesting lead and brain damage? The studies are there

@Fomites Ай бұрын

@@stevexracer4309It's proven way beyond doubt. I have personally seen the results of this under the microscope in a child in Sydney in the Eighties. The child did not recover and is permanently disabled. The child had been literally eating lead paint from the wall next to his cot in an old house. His initial blood film looked like a war zone.

@JamesDavy2009 Ай бұрын

@@Fomites The kid must have got Mees lines. You can also get lead poisoning from eating a lot of chocolate over a long period of time.

@savagesarethebest7251 Ай бұрын

@Fomites that is terrifying

@date_vape 29 күн бұрын

@@stevexracer4309no one has proven that literally eating led compounds results in led in your body... Huh?!?

@Doctor-vn8es Ай бұрын

This enthusiastic engaging presenter fits in really well with the rest of the top rate SciShow peeps.😁

@smart_ledtv 29 күн бұрын

I love her expressionism in showing how various elements are "useful to us" and "molecules that we know and love". @0:51-0:56 It requires a decent amount of talent and a close relation with a camera or two, or even three of them ('cos why not!). 🤤

@MrDarktempest64 Ай бұрын

*Asking for an alchemist friend

@Conus426 Ай бұрын

wow, love the 'human body safari' concept in this video... i understand so much more about what we're made of now!

@M_Alexander Ай бұрын

Waiting for the Fullmetal Alchemist fans

@lateksipumppu Ай бұрын

And Breaking Bad

@theoriginalpandanon Ай бұрын

Glad I wasn’t the only person’s who first thought was Edward Elric listing the elements that make up the human body 😁

@ralsharp6013 29 күн бұрын

"Hello," by Tommy SpaSe and rhe Alchemists😂 Great tune and now i have to go listen to it! 😂

@neil2796 Ай бұрын

“These are the Things that Make a Man Iron enough to make a nail, Lime enough to paint a wall, Water enough to drown a dog, Sulphur enough to stop the fleas, Potash enough to wash a shirt, Gold enough to buy a bean, Silver enough to coat a pin, Lead enough to ballast a bird, Phosphor enough to light the town, Poison enough to kill a cow, Strength enough to build a home, Time enough to hold a child, Love enough to break a heart.” ― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

@magnoliaweathershield443 29 күн бұрын

yes! I checked the comments to see if someone would quote this. Hooray!

@donhoverson6348 20 күн бұрын

If you have drowned the dog in the water I'm thinking that the fleas will no longer be an issue.

@heronimousbrapson863 Ай бұрын

Did you hear about the young bacillus who was afraid to go trick-or-treating on Halloween? He was afraid the hemoglobins would get him..

@markstyles1246 Ай бұрын

"No, Alanis. ... We've been over this." :-D

@ninamo3523 Ай бұрын

This is beautiful and excellent science communication. Bravo!

@danielscott3178 Ай бұрын

I feel so smart for immediately saying "WILSON'S" when you mentioned impaired copper metabolism 😂

@travisinthetrunk Ай бұрын

Fellow Dr. House fan?

@danielscott3178 Ай бұрын

@@travisinthetrunk and pre-med

@awaredeshmukh3202 Ай бұрын

@@travisinthetrunk I got that from House... and the NYT Diagnosis column on medical mysteries!

@TheAverageNooob Ай бұрын

All this complexity and variety of elements in the body makes me understand why some animals just lick rocks. Like hmm I am feeling low on trace elements, I lick of it should help.

@JamesDavy2009 Ай бұрын

Some rocks are rich in sodium.

@Liriq Ай бұрын

Deer lick stuff with salt in them. Licking things is their primary way of getting sodium.

@DrunkenMalkavian 29 күн бұрын

@@Liriq Must be nice.

@DarthJarJar10 Ай бұрын

Awesome refresher on Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" for those of us who read that but didn't take bio beyond middle school.

@user-xj6hw2wo7i 24 күн бұрын

Useful information as always and very well presented.

@edrozenrozen9600 Ай бұрын

In YOU... Yttrium, Oxygen, and Uranium!

@chrischaplin3126 Ай бұрын

"We're going to pull a Magic School Bus". Miss Frizzle! Where's Miss Frizzle? I've been lied to and possibility bamboozled. 😢

@JamesDavy2009 Ай бұрын

Last I heard, Valorie Frizzle became a professor after earning a PhD. Fiona Frizzle on the other hand…

@yurineri2227 23 күн бұрын

Super creative video format, I loved it😊

@PurpleNoir Ай бұрын

Great and informative like always! 👍

@RomanNardone Ай бұрын

I'm always fascinated with what the most rare elements that we need in our bodies to survive. In larger quantities it's probably phosphorus. The most rare is probably iodine. It makes me think about all of the super novas and star formation that was required just so my body could exist.

@anthonypacillas4830 Ай бұрын

Boron? It's quite useful in testosterone production last I know.

@smart_ledtv 29 күн бұрын

Just imagine that *hydrogen* in your body isn't from super novas nor collisions of neutron stars, but simply(?) from the _Big Bang_ when primordial soup of quarks and gluons started to condensate into the 3 lightest elements in just first ca. 20 picoseconds.

@kimakimakima Ай бұрын

Well done video. More, more!

@JosephsDesign 28 күн бұрын

This is a question I have always had, thanks for answering!

@bananatassium7009 Ай бұрын

great video, this was super interesting!

@heavenkey7754 Ай бұрын

I love this show, keep it up guys🎉

@ananyasahoo5161 Ай бұрын

Amazing animation and narration

@jurkoot Ай бұрын

What a fun, engaging presentation!

@adamwishneusky Ай бұрын

Great episode!!

@davetoms1 Ай бұрын

_"Iron helps us play!"_ *~ The Flanders* And you only need 5 grams!

@jamesgrover2005 Ай бұрын

Very informative, thanks :)

@spoookley Ай бұрын

i’ve noticed that when i see the same video but with a different thumbnail, i tend to get a better grasp of what the video is about by the second one, regardless of my order of preference for them. i liked the thumbnail where niba was on the front better cuz ya know, human faces tend to catch your eyes, but i ended up watching the video when i saw the wider variety of elements that was discussed in the video, cuz the first one had more of a click-baity vibe given that it also had uranium on it (arguably the most clickbait prone element) good video tho! i always like it when the human body is treated like the complex ecosystem it is, & the visuals added to it a lot :)

@PunkHerr 29 күн бұрын

Can't wait for chapter of this topic!

@tawnyamitchell9277 Ай бұрын

I will be honest, I started keeping track of my daily iron intake. After a couple of days I felt significantly less tired and way more energetic than I usually do. I consider iron one of the more essential elements, my body wasnt getting what it needed. -Iron is used in 500 different proteins, that is crazy! I really didnt know this, I am not anemic BTW at all. As a people I feel like we need to be more aware of the percentage of what we need from our food, along with taking the multi vitamin supplements. If we do this i feel like we would be more productive as a society.

@nagyesszep Ай бұрын

oh wow new format? I like it!

@DANGJOS 28 күн бұрын

I didn't even realize this was SciShow. I'm used to seeing her on a different channel. She did a great job!

@briangman3 24 күн бұрын

Great presenter , you go girl!

@ChroniclogicalJeff 29 күн бұрын

I'm ready. Let's do this Miss Frizzle.

@FloozieOne 29 күн бұрын

That was a very interesting video. At one point in my life I was severely malnourished due to massive drug use. I had moments of disassociation, tremors and general weakness. A friend gave me some B-12 vitamins and it all went away. Now I know why, Thanks SciShow. P.S. It has been 36 years since I took any unlawful drugs - yeah, I'm an old person but I still take a multivitamin every day.

@cgautz 29 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@HellOnWheel Ай бұрын

I like the new format

@robertreed7767 Ай бұрын

Yeah you should have definitely named this episode “Did Full Metal Alchemist Get It Right?”

@raythegardener Ай бұрын

Hydrogen, Uranium Manganese = HUMn

@_mortiam Ай бұрын

I want to hear about all those other elements inside our body! So interesting!

@williamwilkins8037 Ай бұрын

I have to say I loved The Magic School Bus and this episode was hilarious in the best of ways 😆

@Atilla_the_Fun Ай бұрын

Last time I heard someone talking about this he became a meth producer.

@lindaseel9986 29 күн бұрын

😮😮😮😮

@osamaqtaitat 29 күн бұрын

Nice

@XboxModer702 Ай бұрын

Good video

@randallgraves8166 Ай бұрын

I'm loving the new style for the show!

@beastamer1990s 27 күн бұрын

YT notifs really did me dirty on this upload, came here from the community post 👀

@Moulton_Lava 24 күн бұрын

Pull a magic school bus, love it

@kowalityjesus 27 күн бұрын

this host is awesome

@fredmacvenn8525 Ай бұрын

I can't take my eyes off her hands, nice hand speech.

@smart_ledtv 29 күн бұрын

@Em4gdn1m Ай бұрын

Depends on how much I had to drink that night.

@jackson_craft_gamingscates9324 27 күн бұрын

all of it is inside of me! with some extras we havent identified as of yet!

@zbpossible Ай бұрын

Back to chemistry.

@therongjr Ай бұрын

My understanding is that most of the waste carbon dioxide in the blood is carried in the plasma, not the red blood cells.

@approaching404 Ай бұрын

I'm in love

@Rivarya 15 күн бұрын

Ive actually wondered this exact question. I love this channel i wanna be friends with the writers😂

@RCSVirginia Ай бұрын

One would want to reserve some of the elements to enrich the Soylent Green.

@terrancestapleton3859 19 күн бұрын

The one I wonder about is selenium I heard it was for something and I no longer hear people mention it except for when you might have a deficiency

@joshp6061 29 күн бұрын

Well you _mentioned_ selenium, magnesium, and potassium, but what do they do? And what about titanium? And manganese?

@b1oh1 29 күн бұрын

Great video as always scishow! P.s. I love the effervescence of this host. I think I might have a new favorite. Sorry Hank.

@brandon8900 Ай бұрын

I love the periodic table inside me. Ohhhh yeahh.

@gabor6259 Ай бұрын

This host is _really_ good.

@IronFairy Ай бұрын

I am SO sad it's not called CHONPS instead of CHNOPS

@h.dawson8212 Ай бұрын

As long as you don’t care about the relative importance of the elements, SPONCH also works.

@smart_ledtv 29 күн бұрын

How about CNOPSH? By the way, did you know that *hydrogen* in your body isn't from super novas nor collisions of neutron stars, but simply(?) from the _Big Bang_ when primordial soup of quarks and gluons started to condensate into the 3 lightest elements in just first ca. 20 picoseconds.

@chumbucketjones9761 Ай бұрын

If my memories are part of me then the entire periodic table is in me. Except lithium, that would be crazy.

@Darxide23 29 күн бұрын

Can you believe she tried to tell me to stop eating pennies?

@SameAsAnyOtherStranger Ай бұрын

Now that I've seen this video, my old chemistry set doesn't look so appetizing any more.

@flyingark173 Ай бұрын

Just for the record, I was planning on watching this video before the name change, so discount me from those results

@PyotrFrikadelle69 29 күн бұрын

Woah, maybe the Periodic Table buys me a drink first?

@aamirrazak3467 Ай бұрын

Amazing to think that just 6 elements are so vital to our existence

@spathr Ай бұрын

Reviewing with my AP Bio kids!

@LeoAngora 29 күн бұрын

You teased Uranium but not mentioned it later... I remain intrigued.

@karlkutac1800 29 күн бұрын

Niba is an excellent host. I could wish they provided a comfortable chair for her (and Reed, etc)

@qazedctgb19 Ай бұрын

There will be a part 2 right?

@seanparsons8987 Ай бұрын

Jazz hands!

@Vininn126 Ай бұрын

I appreciate the puns and asides; Niba is a fantastic host, I just think a different style of casualness suits her better? I love that scishow is constantly experimenting, however, and the puns definitely work with some hosts!

@00dredd Ай бұрын

She's both good to listen to and to look at... And I'm learning.. a win all around.

@Vininn126 Ай бұрын

@@00dredd No comment there! Definitely a great host.

@caydennormanton9682 Ай бұрын

@@Vininn126 She seems nervous or like she's trying a touch too hard - I think this will improve with time, but if I could offer her one suggestion, it would be to relax a little :)

@smart_ledtv 29 күн бұрын

@catatonicbug7522 28 күн бұрын

Chromium just makes you shiny and helps prevent rust from all that iron.

@asjad1814 Ай бұрын

9:56 😂😂😂

@tysonkay6081 Ай бұрын

I too am mostly made of Schnapps

@CaughtThatCoffee Ай бұрын

pretty cool

@DANGJOS 28 күн бұрын

She is beautiful!

@bettyswallocks6411 22 күн бұрын

I believe I may well bake a cake decorated with the the periodic table. Just to see if I _could_ get the whole thing inside of me. 🍰

@kowalityjesus 27 күн бұрын

I take a trace mineral supplement, which is essentially seawater with 99.9% of the sodium chloride removed. Hopefully my body can figure out what it needs and discard what it doesn't.

@The-One-and-Only100 Ай бұрын

Forgets that uranium is great for bulking because it has millions of calories

@kyuofcosmic Ай бұрын

Makes a killer yellow cake too!

@oriontigley5089 25 күн бұрын

"How much of the periodic table is inside of you?" **me wondering the woods looking for shiny rocks to use as butt plugs**

@friskydingo5370 Ай бұрын

If you atmoize the human body, you would have an explosive mixture H2o into H H O Since we are mostly water 💧 😊 . I think hemoglobin has a lot of extra o2 as well.

@Shinx990 29 күн бұрын

Aww I wanted to include Rutherfordium and Nihonium into my diet! Spoilsport.

@fauxvier8519 26 күн бұрын

The anination featured is cute and nice to look at!

@FeeshUnofficial Ай бұрын

I'm actually 40% boron

@jogennotsuki 29 күн бұрын

Maybe the real periodic table was the friends we made along the way.

@pauljackson3491 Ай бұрын

For percentage, is that is mass or number of atoms? Don't quote me but I think water substitutes for oxygen in hemaglobin(sp). I thought CO2 goes in carbonate form. Does berylium(sp) have any use? For spelling, I am lazy and don't want to check correct ways.