CONCENTRATING LEMON OIL LEADS TO A VISIT TO THE HOSPITAL!

Kevlar gloves make great stocking stuffers! I wasn’t surprised he put off potentially going to the ER for a few hours, but a bandaid would have seemed like a better choice at that point. “I ain’t got time to bleed!” - Jesse Ventura, in PREDATOR - - also apparently the name of his book!

Kevin Bauer

Ooof. At first I thought you had inhaled the stuff. I got some on my skin while making a tincture of it and it felt like I had an allergic rash. (an aside: found a study suggestion that distilled water maximizes yield over alcohols) Inhaling an alcohol concentrate (TRPV1) with D-Limonene (TRPA1 action) would also possibly cause a hospital visit so I was worried. This may explain why it hurts so much to get lemon in a wound since the acidity activates TRPV1 on top of the D-limonene's action on TRPA1. If you wanna study how terpenes like D-Limonene interact with the body, you can look up stuff which explores it's action against TRPA1, and further dig into TRPA1's role in allergic reaction responses. Quickly leads to learning about and it's role in pain. I've been exploring how this activates pain because I wanna figure out my mom's chronic pain disorder and my own bowel problems (which seem related). All of these TRP pathways seem to make "Substance P" release, which is sensed by the nerves and the brain. The guy who discovered TRP receptors just won a Nobel prize! It's fascinating rabbit hole that is tied to a lot of alcohol production chemistry and herbal medicinals. My interest in this space is actually why I am following your channel! Some relevant studies: DOI: 10.1002/ejp.840 DOI: 10.1186/s13223-015-0074-0 DOI: 10.1096/fj.13-229948 DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3048-18.2019 DOI: 10.1080/14728222.2020.1815191 DOI: 10.1007/s00011-016-1015-1

UltimApe

I noticed you mentioned this with booze, New England, and extremely cold. My first plaintiff was from New Hampshire, and I got to see the Mainiacs, Good Experiment. Looks fun.

Smellers. Hah. Brought back a BAD memory. Some years ago ate at the molecular cuisine restaurant Schwa in Chicago. One dish was served on a plate with a little hanger over it with some pieces dangling from it. Aromatic. OK. Ate the unknown stuff on the plate, then started gnawing on the hangy things on the small rack. Uh, NOT a good ideer. Smellers. Should've come with directions. But I survived.

William Domb

Holy moly. All those lemons just yielded, what, 30 cc of oil? 100cc? Ouch!

William Domb

Ooof. Hope your assistant is on the mend, and glad he didn't (appear to) pass out or go into shock. My spouse did that once upon a time, and _did_ go into shock... upshot to that incident, no ER trip required, but having to call the EMTs after the subsequent collapse was much more worrisome.

Travis Snoozy

Could you use argon instead of nitrogen?

Mike Maxwell