to The Lab, where we take your questions and turn them into experiments every Sunday. My

name's Mitch and I'm Greg and today we're going to be getting drunk in the name of science.

So study's actually show that it's really hard when you're drinking to predict how drunk

you actually are, so we're gonna play with that a little bit. We're going to be doing

something else. Oh yeah, we're gonna actually also be seeing if can trick a breathalyzer

into thinking we're not drunk after we've already had quite a bit to drink. And we're

gonna test some scientific theories about whether or not you can sober up really quickly.

So we're essentially going to have a really fast party. Test #1. To start, we want to

say that obviously we are here trying to have a talk about alcohol as a chemical that enters

your body and is a poison and is something that can be very addictive. So, we're not

condoning alcohol, but we're trying to, you know, scientifically look at what it does

to our bodies as something that many people in our society do it's a really strong custom

and part of our culture. On that note, cheers! So, an interesting thing about beer that relates

to science is that Niels Bohr, who was a Danish scientist, after receiving the Nobel Prize,

Karlsberg, a very famous Danish--Danish famish--brewery actually opened a line of beer right directly

to his house on tap so that Niels Bohr after receiving his Nobel Prize got to have beer

whenever he wanted. I feel like more people who try to get Nobel Prizes if they knew that

was the reward. Mmm! Ah! Did you know that a "butt" is a Medieval measurement--like B,

U, T, T, like my butt--is 126 gallons of wine? Yeah, uh, did not know that. Oh, the oaky

texture is divine. Oh, it smells like a $4 wine, doesn't it? *burping* So, next up, we

have a Canadian delicacy known as the caesar. Mmm! Tastes like Zoodles. It is like spicy.

Tastes like Zoodles. I'm feeling kind of tipsy. Studies actually show that when you think

that you're the most drunk, your actual peak drunkenness is 25 minutes after you actually

think that it is. So, I'm feeling very drunk right now and so I'm worried about myself

in 25 minutes. Over here we've got sober, feeling good, this is you know, where you

can and can't drive, and so we are going to take our little action pieces and decide and

estimate where we are. Here's 0.09 because I think that I couldn't drive. I think if

a cop stopped me right now, I'd be like, I'm sorry, here's my jail time.Ithink I'll put

mine a little lower, like probably right on 0.08. *blowing into breathalyzer* 0.02! So

I actually was overestimating. That's how careful I am. *blowing into breathalyzer*

0.03! Okay, so I'm at the feeling good section. Yeah, do you feel good? I feel good. That's

true. But I mean, I would probably feel good here too. I feel like if I was the government

of Canada, I would be like, lower that to like 0.03. According to science, drinking

diet drinks with your alcohol will get you drunk faster. And it does make sense and it

is true because what happens is the sugar acts as a meal so it holds the alcohol in

your stomach for longer and your stomach actually absorbs alcohol much slower than your small

intestine. So when you drink diet cokes, the alcohol makes its way to your small intestine

faster, therefore where it is absorbed more, so if you really, for whatever reason, want

to get drunk very fast, you do use diet cola. Okay--this is too much to go on the internet.

I am so ashamed. Wait, everyone keeps talking about the internet. What's the internet? I

like don't know what it is. Everyone's always like, what's it like to have a job on the

internet and I'm like "what?" Did you know that the British Navy actually found that

rum would stop their scurvy when they're at sea? Did you know that? Do you believe that?

No. It was an interesting finding until they realized it was actually the lime that they

were putting in their rum that was helping to fight off the scurvy but they for the longest

time thought that the rum itself had some magical ingredient. Oh, the British. *does

bad Cockney accent* Oh, that alcohol will save you. Rum innite? This is one of my favourite

drink. Yeah, rum and coke. This is Mitch's poison. Ohhh, Ah!!! *laughs* We're going to

do some vodka and coke, also known as a "voke". OOOOH, that's university! One weird thing

about vodka is that it actually goes bad and you're not supposed to keep it for more than

12 months. Really? Why do we feel this way? We're obviously intoxicated at this point.

What is alcohol doing to us? Actually, alcohol is slowing down our brain and our neuron's

responses... There are two different types of neurons. Some are excitatory and some are

inhibitory. And so alcohol actually slows down the excitatory neurons and stimulates

the inhibitory neurons. Now, normally those inhibitory neurons help to guide your thoughts,

so that your brain isn't just being stimulated crazily. But alcohol actually stimulates those

more, so you shut down a lot of the process in your brain. You stop paying attention to

those external sources or noises around you that your brain is really good at picking

up. You think a lot about nothing. Picture this: Magic School Bus. Coming to Netflix.

And then like a weird live-action lizard running up Julianne Moore's arm and it's like, "Get

in the bus." And it's like 2017. I would be like *breathes heavily*. I have to pee pretty

bad. Are you at that point? I can explain this. So, in our kidneys, it's really important

that you have your anti-dieuretic hormone which re-absorbs water back into your body,

because you don't want to just get rid of water, because water is what makes you live.

And so, alcohol binds to that anti-dieuretic hormone and so when it binds to it, therefore

you don't re-absorb water back into your body, you just piss it all out. That's why when

you go out to bars and you drink lots of beer, you just pee all the time and therefore you

become dehydrated and therefore you become hungover and therefore you have to pee really

bad right now, because alcohol's binding to your anti-dieuretic hormone and that's why

you have to pee. Also, the most important thing in the world is science. Girl, I'm gonna

whip out some diet--straight to the brain. Straight to the small intestine. True. So

are you near blurred vision and speech, or are you close to sad? I think that I'm probably

at 0.10 and I have zero idea what's going on. Your turn! I think I'm probably 0.13.

You're drunker than me! *laughing* We should pose with it like our baby. Tharr she blows!

*breathes in loudly* 0.08! If any cop were to pull me over right now and was like "you

can go sir!" I'd be like "no, no, no, no! You're protecting the people. Don't let me

go." Lower it Canada! I'm 0.08 as well. Consider that in most places, 0.05 is the limit, so

we're actually over it. You can't really predict. We've been so bad at not only predicting it.

I kind of thought we'd be like "oh, we're always feeling good," but we're more drunk.

I honestly thought that we'd be like more drunk but actually down here. So, one myth

I've come across on the internet is that peanut butter can actually stop or hide the fact

that you're drunk. And another theory is that if you suck on a penny, you can actually do

a breathalyzer test and the results will be a lot lower than you think that they are.

Allegedly, the sodium in the peanut butter binds to the ethanol in the alcohol and somehow

stops the breathalyzer from picking it up. I think that the science for the penny...

It's just a rumour. Mmm, I love peanut butter. Ew. I can't believe I'm doing this. How's

the penny? I'm sucking on the Queen right now. This is so gross. I went down .01! Wow!

It went down! So mine may have gone down a little bit, but it's still above the legal

limit. This did not make any drastic change to what I was doing. I think a 0.01 change

is negligable enough that it doesn't necessarily mean it could have been anything. It definitely

is not just from sucking on a penny. I would still be in trouble and have a DUI--I would

be over the limit. Okay, so scientists have shown that potentially honey could be the

cure for your drunkenness. And what they did, is that actually got mice intoxicated. They

found out that when they gave mice honey and certain ones not, the ones that got honey

were actually better able to perform specific climbing tests better and were able to have

their dexterity be heightened. And so essentially they were like "okay, honey maybe has done

some stuff to these mice", but they don't know exactly why. So we are going to be the

first human subjects who clearly right now are drunk. This is not okay though because

like mine's gone down by zero. It's like SO, SO intensely full of glucose and sugar that

I actually think my body's like. Maybe these mice were just like shocked. *gagging* I don't

think this is a reasonable way to sober up, because you just feel sick. In the study,

the scientists argue that it increases otonomic activity, kind of as if we were just saying,

like if a cop shows up at a party, and all of a sudden you think, I know exactly what

to do. I'm only .01 down below of where I was before and I feel like that would be a

natural progression from the wait. Mine stayed the same. In this case it did not work. In

the meantime, it's time for THIS WEEK IN SCIENCE TALK! So this week, we're hungover. A one-year-old

girl with leukemia has receieved modified immune cells from a healthy donor, which has

put her cancer into remission. This type of therapy has actually already been done on

an HIV patient in the past, where they took healthy t-cells from another subject and put

them inside of him. This gene-editing technology could be a glimpse into the future of medical

care. Soon scientists will be intimately studying how 10,000 New Yorkers live their lives, where

they go, what they eat, how they grow, etc. This will help to gain new bio-medical and

sociological information to help inspire new groundbreaking studies. *singing* THIS DATA

WILL INSPIRE YOU. Swedish scientists have discovered that high-intensity-interval-training,

or working out really hard for short periods of time, offers the same endurance benefits

as longer, more time consuming exercizes that are less intense. This really intense training

creates free radicals that break down calcium levels, ultimately increasing the power of

muscle cells. Less gym time means more Zelda time. Thanks again for watching another episode

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you next week. Peace.