(no music) Wierd Health Trends Trivia Tuesday LMBYTS #1524 Jason Newland 30th December 2025

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name's Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes. And this is trivia.

Tuesday. Tuesday. Tuesday.

What would you choose? I'd choose Tuesday. The only day of the week that you actually choose. I'll stop.

I'll stop with that silliness. And yeah, it's just trivia. Trivia Tuesday.

Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name's Jason Newland. And this basically, if you've not listened before, it's just a boring recording.

You can let yourself relax. I just talk nonsense for about an hour. Then you can, if you choose, drift off to sleep.

Or you can come back when you've finished. We can listen, maybe drift off and just relax basically. Let go, feel calm, peaceful.

So I think at the very least, you should be feeling more relaxed at the end of this recording. And also, you know, in the same way that a radio show can be company. Kind of that as well.

A familiar, friendly voice. Daily. Generally daily.

Quite often daily. Oh yes. So the last few days, I have been making videos as well as recording the podcasts.

And I'm not, I still don't think I'm going to continue with the videos. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. And here's my thinking around it.

It is, well, hmm, I think it's the time, the time it takes. Time it takes. Just, I know there's a setting up that takes a bit of time, but the processing, the editing, just it's hours and hours and hours it takes to, you know, do a video.

Audio is much easier. And, yeah, I'm just, it's just easier. It's not about being easy, but I can do more.

So for example, I just did a stop extreme nail biting recording for Beck. And I don't know quite the correct name to put down, but it was a request on YouTube. Could you make another hypnosis for extreme nail biting? Question mark.

And it's at Beck 630. That's the name of the person on YouTube. So I thought, yeah, I will do that.

So it's an hour and 32 minutes, 39 seconds. But I made it, so I recorded the podcast at the same time as videoing it, and also streaming live on TikTok. And I'll be honest, it's a little bit too much for me.

It's too much, too much like going on all at the same time for me to focus on what I'm doing. I don't really think I need to be, yeah, doing that much. I think just the audio is enough.

And also, as I'm thinking about it, doing lots of different versions of the same recording, it means things get lost. So, hmm, I prefer to just do a recording. And hopefully, it's long enough to do the job, if that makes sense.

I don't know, we'll see. So with that one, I've just done one. I've not done six different versions, I've just done one.

And it should do the trick, it should hopefully be enough. Because ultimately, I'm just creating so much stuff, so much, all different versions, and it just gets, it gets a little bit, not for me, but I think for the audience, things get lost. So I'll make a recording.

And then I won't. You might, yeah, it's just kind of the next six will come, then the next six will come and it will be they'll be pushed down and people that maybe would have benefited from that particular recording won't have done. So yeah, it's kind of where I am at the moment with that.

So I'm also uploading the like the shorter version onto TikTok and Instagram. So I'm getting quite a few views on there as well. So yeah, I just I'm just thinking about the year ahead.

What do I want to accomplish next year? And I think what I'd like to accomplish is more recordings but not lots of the same recordings. So I kind of know what I mean when I say that. But at the same time, I'm not sure.

I'm tired. It is three minutes past seven. So it's a little bit late in the day.

Although I didn't wake up till 12 hours ago, I think I woke up. So I had a later night. It seems to happen the last few days, I'll be going to bed a little bit later.

I used to go to bed at 10. Like a good boy. But lately, it's been slightly, you know, 11 then 1130 then I think it was like one o'clock or 1230 last night.

So here's the topic of today's Trivia Tuesday. Weirdest health trends throughout history. So I've asked for facts only to chat GPT.

So don't don't base your future medical I don't know your met your future medical treatment upon what I'm about to tell you. Because they might be health trends, but it doesn't mean they're necessarily good for people. And if you look at belief systems, not necessarily everything that we read in books or taught at school.

Not everything's useful, is it? So let's have a look. So bloodletting was used for over 2000 years to treat almost every illness. 2000 years to I suppose it made sense then.

But yeah, it's not used anymore. I don't think I mean, I imagine the idea if someone's got blood poisoning, just get some of that blood out. You know.

But yeah. I don't think that I really really appreciate quite how lucky I am, having been born. Now, I say now, you know, within the last century, compared to 500 years ago, maybe 500 years ago.

Where would I be living on the streets at best, probably. And yeah, a very different life. 1000 years ago, probably be a slave.

Slave to the Vikings. Or was that 2000 years ago, I lose track. Doctors believed removing blood balanced.

Okay, that's one sentence. Doctors believed that removing blood balanced the body's four humours. And so that's really more about the bloodletting.

Leeches were widely used in medicine during the 18th and 19th century. 18th and 19th century. leeches have been used, they're still used some places.

I'm sure boxers used to have leeches put on their ears or something. Or didn't they use leeches to clean wounds? Yeah, I think that is. Oh, no, I'm thinking of maggots.

Sorry. So leeches anyway. Bloodletting was still practiced in parts of Europe into the late 1800s.

Okay, mercury was prescribed for constipation, syphilis and skin diseases. What is lovely, isn't it? I didn't expect to be saying constipation, syphilis and skin diseases. During this recording, what I have now just shows you anything's possible.

Mercury was also an ingredient in teething powders for babies. Yeah. This next one is kind of interesting.

I wonder if you can guess what the first word is in this sentence. Okay. So the first word and then was consumed in small doses as a health tonic in Victorian Europe.

Any guesses? Tick tock, tick tock. No. Arsenic.

Arsenic was consumed in small doses as a health tonic in Victorian Europe. It's a kill or cure, I guess. Some people believed arsenic improved complexion and strength.

I don't know enough about arsenic to really, you know, have a hugely informed opinion. But it won't stop me. No, I don't know.

But I just thought it was poison. That's all I know about it. See in movies, you know, people have it and they break it and stuff and then they go.

Mummy powder. No. Ground human remains was used as medicine in Europe.

It was for it was it was thought to cure headaches, bleeding and epilepsy. I'll be honest with you, if I had a headache. If you had a headache and your parents said, okay, we'll go and get the mummy powder.

And you knew it was ground human remains, you'd be like, that's fine. My headache's gone now. I'm okay.

Thanks anyway. The thing is these. Back in those days, I mean, we've we've come from survival of the fittest, haven't we? Not so much the last, I don't know, generation or two, my generation, maybe.

But before that, it was survival of the fittest. You know, people that weren't physically able to look after themselves, generally weren't maybe people old age and when they're born, but people that weren't physically able to be strong and, you know, self caring or whatever, didn't just kind of kind of left, got left behind, didn't they? You know, hundreds and thousands of years ago. So some of these things like, they must have had something in it, must be something in it for it to continue for hundreds of thousands of years.

It's like people that lived off the land, they knew which mushrooms they could eat, and which ones they needed to avoid. And that was tried and tested, I'm pretty sure. And then that information got passed on generation to generation, don't touch the ones, those ones, because they'll cause you to feel ill or whatever.

Tobacco smoke, enemas were used to do tobacco smoke. This is a weird I know I said like, I thought medical trends I thought would be something like flotation tanks and stuff like that. I didn't think it'd be this weird.

So tobacco smoke enemas were used to revive drowning victims. Is that weird? I can't even I can't really get my head around that one. So blowing smoke up someone's bum.

It's bad enough that you've gone through, you know, the process of not being able to swim and being stuck in this and you get you get you're rescued. And you know, you've got lungs are full of water and you're trying to get it out. And, you know, you just, you know, that's enough to take on, I think.

And suddenly, like, what's going on down there? What the heck are they doing? I mean, I can understand why the person would like choke up all the water, because they'd be so shocked about what was going on. They'd have no choice, would they? And they probably never got to find out why the person did it. Because if someone did that to you, just run and keep running.

You'd never turn back. So people just kept doing it. Does it work? Don't know.

Well, sure. Didn't you ask the person if it worked? No, they won't. They just get up and they run.

We never see them again. Did it save their life? Did they recover fully? I don't know. They just just left.

Left in a pile of smoke. A cloud of smoke. Cocaine.

Oh, look, smoke was believed. The reason it's okay is given reasons for this smoke was believed to warm and stimulate the body internally. And yeah, I mean, it was something if you breathe in something warm, it's gonna warm your body internally, isn't it? So but why an enema though? Why is that the first opening? Why is that the first place they kind of went for? I mean, I tried the nose first or the ears.

If the mouthful, you know, just. Yeah. Cocaine was used as a medical anaesthetic and tonic in the 19th century.

Yeah, I knew that. It was an ingredient in early cough syrups and toothache drops. Yep, makes sense.

This is probably gonna sound bad, but I wish it still was for toothache drop. Well, I tell you what, that's Vinnie's hassling me. I don't know what he wants.

His dinner's there, he's not eating it. He knows he's got T R E E E E T S in the kitchen. But he's not having any more because I finally managed to get him to eat his dinner by withholding the other stuff.

Now today's gone back, gone backwards. So cocaine has an ingredient, was an ingredient in earlier cough syrups, toothache drops. You know, there was a time, well it is a long time ago, but it's not that long ago when you consider the history of, you know, humankind, where you could just walk into a chemist, pharmacy, chemist, whatever you want to call it, corner shop, and just dispensary, I don't know what the correct terms were back then.

And you could just buy what you wanted when it came to narcotics. It was like buying chewing gum. So yeah, those days are gone.

But yeah, it was, it still amazes me that after all these years, there's nothing, they haven't created anything that's any good for toothache. Not really, not that I've kind of come over. I keep hearing like little cracks and stuff.

Pretty much just be the winds blowing stuff in. The temperature dropped this morning. Wow, it was cold.

Okay, there's another one, I'm not going to read it out because it's just more serious than the other one. But it was wow. It begins with H anyway, was marketed as a non addictive cough suppressant.

Unbelievable, isn't it? Doctors prescribed that stuff for no way. Doctors described H for children's coughs in the early 1900s. I imagine it'd be a big long, doctor surgery would be full, wouldn't it be absolutely full.

Doctor, he just, it seems to be his coughs not going. It just keeps coming back, keeps coming back and back and back. Big long queue, people just coughing or pretending to cough.

That's ridiculous. Wow. Tapeworm pills were sold for weight loss.

Why? Do tapeworm pills make you do poo-poos? No, that actually had tapeworms in them. People intentionally infected themselves to stay thin. Sorry, it's ridiculous.

Radioactive water was sold as a health drink in the 1920s. Oh, my God. Some products claimed radiation boosted energy and vitality.

I think I've literally heard everything now. I thought all the other stuff was ridiculous, but that. Radium was used in cosmetics, toothpaste and health tonics.

It's just adding here long term radiation exposure causes. Yeah, I think we all know that it's dangerous. I'm guessing radioactive water wasn't much more healthy either.

Is it just, is it? I mean, there's a very famous story. And then what's her name? So Mary, Mary Curie. Mary Curie.

And there's an actual charity around, isn't it, for her? Won two Nobel Prizes. I don't think that's who I'm thinking of. I think it's a different person.

But. Yeah, her long it basically her illness was caught, believed to be in a having had long contact with exposure to radiation. And causing damage to a bone marrow.

So even though she, I guess, changed the world. At what cost for herself? There's also another. The people who invented the x-ray.

Inventor of. Inventor. I like stuff like this.

I don't know why. I don't like, you know, some of this stuff. But I quite like the.

OK. Right. Wilhelm.

Wrong. Wrong. Rocked.

Right. This might not be a. So I just want to see if this anyway, I know that some people kept x-ray in their hands, so wanted to test it out. And.

Right. It's. I don't know where it was, but there was there was a couple of people that kept x-raying themselves and ended up getting ill from it, not knowing that it caused.

Illness. And it's such an amazing machine to be able to see inside a body. I mean, wow.

The only person before that could do that was Superman, wasn't it? So it's because people do jokes that they say, why have I come out here having an x-ray in this machine and you're standing behind that glass protected? It's because they're in that room all day long. You're only in there for five minutes. Is it? You know, it's a big difference.

So they're doing that all day, every day for years and years and years. It's potentially very dangerous. Electric belts were worn to cure impotence and fatigue.

I don't know about impotence, but I imagine fatigue definitely have an effect on it. You know, electric shock is definitely. You're going to have a feel, you're going to feel different, you can have a different state quite quickly.

It's been a long time since I was electrocuted. But you might I don't mean in a bad way. Electric shock, rather, I shouldn't say electrocute electric shock.

When I was growing up, electric shocks were regular. Like you touch a plug, and you get electric shock sometimes, because the electrics weren't. I guess they weren't grounded in the same way they are now.

We were very self safety conscious in this country now. But back then, I mean, I got a few electric shocks and I didn't like it. I'll be honest.

It's such a weird experience. It's a kind of felt a bit like having my funny bone bashed, but all the way down my arm. I probably had about five or 10 electric shocks growing up.

But just obviously like very small ones, but still. So definitely, if I was feeling a bit fatigued, a little bit tired before that I was definitely energized, not in a good way. The belts were delivered, they delivered mild electric shocks to the body.

I mean, don't people use those to try and I'm sure my friend used to wear a belt on his abdomen in order to stimulate the stomach muscles. He didn't have an ounce of fat on him. But he was doing this thing.

And it was like, he was shaking. I was like, what are you doing that for? I mean, I didn't fancy him, but he had a really good body. He was a manual worker.

So he was like he's a builder. So he was constantly physically active. And I said no, no, I didn't study his body.

I'm not saying like I didn't take photographs when he was in the shower. That's weird. Why did I go there? But yeah, he, I don't know why.

I mean, I was really slim at the time as well, actually. But I thought, why are you electrocuting your tum-tum? I didn't understand it. Magnetic bracelets were promoted to improve circulation.

Now I remember magnetic bracelets. That's not such a long time ago. Apparently magnetic therapy dates back thousands of years.

I mean, hypnosis kind of came from magnetic, kind of idea of magnetism. Snake oil was sold as a cure-all medicine. I've been called a snake oil salesman.

Yep, many times over the years, because that's what I'm doing. I'm selling, well, first of all, I'm not selling anything am I? And but yeah, snake oil, because it's a cure-all and it doesn't work. And it's just there, there, there, there, there.

Amazing. Some of the things I've been called, and not on like TikTok or those places where it's just, there's people just being rude for the sake of it. I'm talking, you know, like, in groups that are supposed to be almost professional.

Some snake oil products contained no snake oil at all. Drinking urine was believed to cure illness in several ancient cultures. I know people have drunk urine, like, you know, in the last 30 years, I've known people have done that.

And it is supposed to be good for you. I remember kept telling me I said no. I said besides, if I was going to do it, I'd drink my own.

Urine therapy appeared in Roman, Indian, and medieval European practices. Put the glass down. I told you I don't want any.

Animal dung was applied to wounds and skin conditions. So wounds. I can't imagine something more likely to cause infection than dung, animal dung, poo, basically, isn't it? Putting poo on an open wound, surely that wouldn't be good.

Skin conditions, maybe it would be good. I don't know. Because I'm in a cow pat.

Isn't that kind of where the mud bath or the mud, the mud mask kind of came from, isn't it? Like a mud pat. A cow pat. So it dries and then you take it off and it, maybe it soaks away or draws out the toxins or something.

I don't know. Never tried it. I haven't, honest.

Not during the day, not when there's anyone watching. Crocodile dung was used in ancient Egyptian medicine. I, okay.

Trepanation. Oh my goodness. Involved drilling holes in a certain part to release evil spirits.

Evidence of trepanation dates back over 7,000 years. And isn't it weird that things like that, we now look upon as being ridiculous. But other things that are also thousands of years ago, we look upon as being factual.

Is this like, you choose which one you want to be factual, which one you want to be ridiculous. I like to have an open mind, but please don't drill holes in my head, please. If you don't mind, I'll give it a miss today.

In fact, if I have to choose, I'll have that glass of urine. Thanks. Evidence.

Okay. Some patients survived the procedure. I mean, you release the evil spirits, but you don't, I mean, what's the point in doing that if you don't survive it? Is it a whole like the witches, you know, if they drown, then they're not a witch.

If they don't drown, then they're a witch. I mean, it can't win either way. Vibrating devices were prescribed to treat hysteria.

Wow. Okay. Early medical vibrators were used in doctors offices.

And it must have been okay, I'll be very careful with my word in here. Being a doctor back then, according to all of these lists of things must have been quite interesting. And you'd go home at the end of the day, wouldn't you? And you're maybe you've got a partner and how was your day, dear? Do you want to talk about it? No, no one wants to talk about it.

Honestly, I should write a book. Fasting cures involved consuming only water for weeks. Some fasting clinics opened in the 20th century.

People still fast though, don't they? It's weird that it's called fast when if you go without food for any amount of time, time goes exactly the opposite way. It goes slowly. The longer you go without eating, the slower time goes.

The hunger you get, the longer that hour lasts. And then the next half an hour lasts twice as long as the last hour. So it's a way to distort time.

I mean, some religions fast, don't they? For like a whole month. But there's different types of fasting. I mean, there's fasting like that only drinking water.

But then there's fasting during daylight hours, as in some religious practices. Yeah, I've heard lots of different versions of the fasting. Goat gland transplants were used to restore youth and virility.

It is how it sounds. Animal glands were surgically implanted into humans. Lovely.

How relaxing. Milk only diets were prescribed for chronic illness. Patients consumed nothing but milk for months.

Okay, I don't know enough about that. Cold water plunges were believed to cure mental illness. Ice baths were common in early psychiatric treatment.

And they're still going now. There's actually really, really famous, really famous ice water plunger. Plunger.

Wolf, Wolf will. What was his name? It's very famous. Not famous enough for me to remember his name.

But I think he wrote a book and everything. Ice water plunge. Why is it hiding from me? Wilf? Will? Sure it starts like a W I L. Will.

Willy Wonka. It's not gonna be Willy Wonka is it? Why would they come up with stuff like that? Plunger. Ice water bath.

Will. Okay. Wim Hof.

Wim Hof. Okay. So he promoted getting in and out of the ice, the ice bath.

As a YouTuber, I'm probably thinking of someone else. And what he did is I think he's from Norway or something like that. And it would be walking around getting in and out of ice baths and drinking vodka.

And he did this like regularly making videos and then he he passed away. I think he I think he caught pneumonia or something. Just having a look.

I can't remember his name. Right. He's I can't remember his name.

But he he really I used to watch him. Ice bath. The only time I've ever been in an ice bath was when I was at the it was 2004, January.

And it was at like a health thing, spa place. And I was at the evolution shop. And it was like the Christmas gathering.

Because we couldn't do it before Christmas because we were so busy. So January, we went out there one evening. And we were in this.

Yeah, there was a sauna and then an ice bath. So if you go from the sauna straight to the ice bath, you don't even feel it. I mean, it's like, it's kind of weird.

Very strange. I can't find the bloke. YouTuber.

Right. Famous YouTube 2021. So as a famous YouTuber, and famous Norwegian in Norwegian influencer.

Yeah, he was always used to drink vodka. I think he'd had an accident. And he posted a video the week before.

Wow, yeah. I still I've seen so I didn't realize it. It was him.

I didn't realize it was so long ago that it happened. So I've seen these videos and I've discovered like, recently that he was not here anymore. But he he was getting in and out of the ice bath and lakes and stuff in Norway.

And then drinking, I think, out of a bottle of vodka saying shawl, or something like that. And then his hobby of getting in and out of ice lakes was that's what kind of ended his his time. The thing is, ice water.

I imagine it's one of those things you have to build yourself up to tolerance wise. But at the same time also have someone with you. You know, someone to look after you just to keep care.

Just in case you, you know, cramp or something to have someone to, to come and help you if you need help, rather than being in the middle of nowhere on your own. I don't know. So I think.

But then I suppose if you want to be in nature on your own, then you might not want someone to be in there with you. Reminds me a bit of the there was a faint, well, quite a famous documentary about the bear man, I think they called him. And he was obsessed with bears, black bears in, I think, Canada or somewhere like that.

Absolutely obsessed. And he went and visited them every year. And it's for months.

And he'd, he felt that he knew some of the bears and he'd get really close to them, really close to them. And he had his wife with him on the last trip, the last trip for a reason. And yeah, I watched this a long time ago, I watched this.

And he was so passionate about these bears. And he loved them with all his heart. Absolutely loved them.

But in the process, he forgot that they were bears. You know, he completely he, he trusted, because he, he loved them so much. And he forgot that bears get hungry.

Cornflakes, going from bears to cornflakes, cornflakes were invented to reduce sexual desire. To reduce, why would you want to reduce it? I can't remember even having any and I'm sure I did at one point. Not cornflakes.

And the diet was part of a moral health movement arc. There was periods in our history where everyone was moral, wasn't it? It's like, oh, nope. It put us back a long way in history, didn't it? Just can't do that.

Because that's, that's scientific. No, that's not moral. Now, I'm not an expert on anything.

But you know, the, what's it called? What's that medical process that could actually transform our lives? stem cell technology. It could actually change, could just just gonna ask a couple of questions on it, just out of interest. Because they replace damaged cells.

And they can change the immune system. And it's, it's phenomenal. But it's, it's kind of against what it's not, it's not even allowed in some countries.

Yeah, it could be the cure for so many things. I mean, I kind of understand a nominal, what can be done. And I'm getting interested in stem cell therapy now.

So yeah, it was, that wasn't on the list, was it? Was on the list? Why did I talk about stem cell? All right, yeah. Chewing food excessively was promoted as a health cure. Some advocates insisted food be chewed hundreds of times.

Chewing food. Did I say chewing gum, chewing food? My stepmum's mother said you should chew every bit of food 100 times. I'm sure it might have been 50 times or something.

She said that over dinner, we're having lunch. We're still there. We're still, she's still eating now.

The, I remember I was a kid, like 13 or something, she told me this. And I said Nan, step Nan. She said, yeah.

I said, can I be excused from the table, please? She said, why? She said, I said, well, I'm getting tired. I need to, I need to retire. She said, do you need to go to bed? I said, no, no, I'm literally getting up to retirement age.

Because she was there for so long. Because she was chewing her food so many times, every mouthful or every bit, you know, a little bit of food. She was chewing like a hundred times.

And it took quite a while for each mouthful of food to be chewed enough in order to be swallowed. And then the next bit of food would like be put in there and there'd be gaps where she'd be talking. And that was kind of where I was going with that is a normal normal meal took a long time to eat.

If you literally chew every single bit up 100 times. I mean, I was exaggerating. You know, just just for effect, I guess.

And if I was going to do it again, I probably wouldn't say I need to retire. Because that doesn't really make sense. Because where would I need to go to retire? That kind of happens automatically, doesn't it? I think maybe if I because I'd already said I was 13, maybe if I said, I need to go to work, or I need to go and get married, I'm going to miss my marriage or my wedding, because then that's like suggesting that I'm much older at that point, gone from 13 to maybe early 20s or 30s.

Because she was chewing so much, like, you know, 100 times, it might be 50 times, pretty sure it's 100 times. I mean, can you imagine chewing each bit of food? Because you wouldn't be able to put a whole mouthful in, would you if you're going to chew? Because you only really chew with like the back teeth, don't we? Generally, I would say. Since I would argue, I wouldn't argue it, I wouldn't get into a heated argument about which, which teeth are used for chewing, because it could be different for everyone.

But not everyone has those teeth. So they might have to kind of move around a little bit. So eat a bit like a cow eating grass, you know, from side to side.

Or horse, they today, the horses eat grass side to side, something like that, don't they? Like move their jaw side to side. Was it donkeys? But it's okay, whatever it is, anyway. But the main point is that it would take a long time, wouldn't it? If you did that, it would take a long time to eat one meal.

Which is kind of why I kind of, you know, I was trying to express it in a in exaggerated way. Where I mean, maybe I overdid it a little bit. Maybe, you know, you know, moving all the way to retired was a little bit silly from 13 to like 67 or whatever.

Although when I left school, retirement age was 65. I think it's going to be 67 or 68 for me. So I still got 12, 13 years, my goodness.

I can't believe I'm moving towards retirement age. So that that was probably too far of an exaggeration. As far as how long it took her to eat a meal.

I mean, to be fair, I was actually implying that she was still eating, hadn't even finished. I mean, in reality, if I had been sitting there for all those years, what would I have done? Because I'd have had to eat, wouldn't I? Besides, if the meal really did last that long, the food wouldn't last, would it? It'd go mouldy and it just like dry up. And so yeah, that wouldn't work.

It's not actually a very workable scenario. I was just just trying to be mildly humorous, just, you know, I thought, you know, because we've been talking about some weird things in this recording, not realising that I'd be talking about medical conditions and stuff like that. And I thought maybe make light of it, you know, I mean, maybe just kind of steer the conversation into a little bit of absurdity.

Finny's hassling me for something. I know exactly what it is, but he's not eating his dinner what she needs to eat. I mean, I don't know how long it did take her to eat a dinner.

I mean, how long, how many times do you chew your food before you swallow? What? One, three, two, one, two. It's going to depend on what you're eating, isn't it? If it's chunky, something chunky, that's going to have to take a bit of chewing, then I suppose it is going to take a lot more chews than something like baked beans, which you could potentially just swallow as they are.

But I would probably give them at least one chew.

But then I don't normally eat baked beans on their own. Usually it's like with toast, or with something else. So if I've got eaten something else, I'll have the beans with it.

It's almost like a topping or like a companion, a nice, a nice savoury companion. And I usually would maybe put some of that on the fork as well. Some beans and maybe a sausage and some mashed potato all on the same fork.

So really, if you're going to chew 100 times, you wouldn't chew 100 times really, would you? But you'd have to work out, because you wouldn't really need to do much chewing for the mashed potato, generally. Depends how lumpy it is. I mean, some people like to have, you know, have a bit of nice lumpy mashed potato.

Some people like it to be almost whisked. And the sausages, let's say, they take more chewing, wouldn't they? But then that could depend on whether or not it's, how cooked they are. And some people like really, really, really burnt, burnt, burnt, burnt sausages.

And other people like them, you know, cooked, but not, not burnt. Don't want to burn, thanks. No, I want my money back.

I don't want to eat burnt. But other people like, yeah, give it to me burnt, baby. So you got three different, three different textures to chew.

I know it's not really about like the texture. That wasn't really the point of the probably what's saying about chewing the food excessively promotes health, like a health cure. But it does kind of make sense in a way, if you're eating a carrot, you're kind of creating your own carrot juice on you by crunching it and just chew, chew, chew, chew, chew.

And there's supposed to be quite a lot of goodness in carrot juice. And other like vegetable juices, leeks, carrots. And I can't think of anything else.

Cabbage, maybe, I don't know. I used to, I used to drink juices. But I didn't chew them, because you don't have to chew juice, do you? So maybe the chewing is actually good for getting the vitamins out.

It helps to release the vitamins from the food. I don't know. I mean, I imagine it is going to go down much easier if it's definitely mushed up.

I can't really be judgmental towards her because she did live to be nearly 100 or just over 100 years old. And my stepman, so she must have known something to, you know, she'd. However, ridiculous chewing 100 times might sound like a lot.

But if you're going to live to be over 100, you kind of got the time and you I think it's hard to argue with someone that gets to 100 about anything. Maybe political views. And you don't have to agree with everything.

I mean, you know, if they're an arsonist, you could say no, I don't, we're not really into that. Congratulations on getting to 100. But I'm not really into your fascist views.

Not that she was a fascist. She's just a slow eater. Not all slow eaters are fascists.

And not all fascists are slow eaters. The two are not connected. I don't even know why it's been mentioned.

I don't know, though, if it was a good use of time chewing that much. It seemed a little bit overkill. I don't know how much use it is.

I mean, if you're going to build a skill in life, is chewing like being the best chewer in the world? I mean, it must be nice to be the best at something. I've never been the best at anything, I never will. But being the best at chewing, I think I'd probably give it a miss.

There's nothing I've got nothing against chewing. It's useful, isn't it? But I mean, if I'd been chewing everything I've eaten since I was a baby, or since I was a little kid, everything was a hundred times each. I mean, would I have any teeth left? They'd just be worn down, wouldn't they? I mean, technically, you'd eat less, wouldn't you? But on the other side, you'd be eating all the time.

Because you'd be finishing your dinner, and the next plate comes along for the next meal. And you'd be finishing your evening meal. By the time you finish that, breakfast is ready.

So it's like 24 hours eating. But I had questions. First of all, why are you telling me this? Secondly, how long do you leave between chews? Because you know, you could do 100 chews really quickly.

Like a piranha. A piranha in a pie eating contest. I mean, it could be like or I don't want to do that too much.

But yeah, just like one. Maybe leave it for a minute. Then the next one.

Next chew. That really would be a long, long meal wouldn't it I had a friend years ago and I still got really well with him at the Buddhist Center and he said we should hang out sometime he was probably about 80 I said no you're right I said you're old nothing I really really loved it like I liked him a lot and he said so we should meet up for coffee I said yeah okay and I said well what could I meet you between I meet you at 12 and I have to

finish I have to leave at 1 he said leave at 1 when I meet for coffee it's all afternoon it's at least four hours we never did have that coffee I wonder if he chewed a lot maybe that's why maybe he chewed a hundred times because I imagine not everybody that chews a lot excessively chews on purpose tells everybody that they do it there might just be someone that you you're eating with them you're thinking why are we still here the restaurants been closed for three hours the seasons have changed

why are the police out looking for me you know you see what I mean it's like perhaps it's not shared information maybe it needs to be raw meat diets really keeps barking raw meat diets were believed to increase strength and vitality and doctors prescribed raw beef juice to invalids on TikTok I saw this man and he eats raw food like raw meat every day on TikTok and I don't mean to be rude but I swear he looks iller every day and he's just filming himself eating this stuff for health reasons

but he's not eating small amounts he was eating huge amounts like eggs just mind you the eggs looked cooked that's not raw is it if it's cooked that's a cooked egg it's not raw egg is it oh but I don't know if he looks well I might be wrong and lead was used in cosmetics and medicine lead poisoning was common but poorly understood I mean I guess just the way people learn in it as a society oil pulling swishing oil in the mouth dates back thousands of years it was believed

to remove toxins from the body oil pulling I've never heard that before mind you I never was much good at pulling anything well generally sun staring was promoted as a way to absorb energy and then it puts it here like prolonged sun gazing causes eye damage really we've only got a look at the Sun once to realize that it's probably not good for your eyes I think most kids learn that at a very early age you know it's like you tell a kid don't look at the Sun they look the

first thing to do is look at the Sun and go ow and they're very unlikely to do it again because it is painful hydrogen peroxide drinking was marketed as oxygen therapy internal use causes injury Wow and lastly animal blood drinking was believed to transfer strength and vitality and again that sounds like Viking kind of the net hunting and stuff like that Wow I mean I'm not judging her for chewing that much it's not no more judging it's just I just found it interesting because I'd never really heard anyone else never

heard anyone else mention it until this list since I was a teenager like having that conversation with her and just brought it back I mean if it worked for her it worked for her didn't it that's the bottom line I think in anything if it's something if it's a nice bath if it's as long as it's not like you know harmful whatever is if it works and it's useful then cool so that kind of brings me to the end of the of the recording what I would do is probably edit

this in the morning and I need to get myself some food oh yes I believe it's the 30th of December 2025 tomorrow's New Year's Eve can you believe it no so I'd like to say thank you for listening remember to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be happy and be gentle with yourself you deserve to feel safe and also remember that you're already enough and you're gonna be okay lots of love bye I'm not saying that I would never chew a hundred times ever it's like it would never

happen I just I don't it seems a bit excessive I mean I've eaten some rough food in the past where maybe a bit more chewing is necessary than normal a hundred times seems a lot it just seems a lot that's all I'm saying okay so thanks take care maybe it wasn't a hundred times maybe it was ten times I've just got that me you know when you got a memory and it's like I don't know if I'd be surprised for someone to say make sure you chew ten times because ten

times doesn't seem like a lot a hundred times seems like a lot ten above average it seems like okay a bit of excessive but not enough for me to be to remember it forever anyway Vinnie's Vinnie's been hassling me throughout the whole recording so I'm gonna go and give him a bit of attention I think I know what he wants so thanks again take care bye I just don't want you to think that I'm judging her I mean she was my step-nan so she was like she was my nan you

know for 12 year 11 years or whatever it's just it just I don't know it just reminded me of that that's all there's a lot more to her than just you know chewing excessively chewing more than humanly is natural I mean I don't mean she's unnatural but yeah yeah so it's yeah it's cool everything good good so I'm gonna go in bye bye bye bye I just feel that I feel I can't explain myself laugh I've been rude about but I haven't been rude about you it's just I don't I

think a hundred times is just too much that's that's all I mean I'd be surprised if I chew a hundred times in a whole meal never mind like her bite if we all did that restaurants would make no money you know just there'd be no time for operations there'd be nothing everyone be too busy eating all the time in fact the population would just reduce down to nothing no more babies yeah so it was it's okay for some people just wasn't this I just don't think it'd be necessarily the right

way to go for everybody that's all I'm saying I'm not saying no judgment well I did find it a bit silly to be honest so I suppose it's a little judgy isn't it I did just like a hundred times are you sure I mean there's stuff on telly to watch I mean what I mean did she have to walk around like a was it like a horse of a like what do they call it a pouch attached to their mouth so they could just eat all day long but then you

know it's not very practical is it what do they call it a mouth bag or whatever so I don't I just don't think it would work I mean even if you were down to like 65 times chewing I don't I'm not even sure if that would really would that take the edge off with that I mean it's nearly half the amount isn't that really but I kind of get the feeling that if I reduce the chews I would just chew slower so the more chews I had the faster I'd chew the less chews I would slow just chew slower so it'd make you wouldn't save any time we also used to watch telly together as well obviously at the dinner table bye