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Cyanide Seeds, Workout When?, Covid But Ghosts

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Today, you’ll learn about whether the cyanide in apple seeds could do you any real harm, how working out in the morning and at night are both beneficial but in different ways, and how researchers have found evidence that patients with long Covid may often have fragments of the virus lingering in their gut.

Snow White wasn’t far off with the poisonous apple.

What time should I work out?

“Is It Better to Exercise in the Morning or Evening?" by Gretchen Reynolds

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/well/exercise-timing.html

“This is the Best Time of Day to Work Out, According to Science" by Jamie Ducharme

https://time.com/5533388/best-time-to-exercise/

An even scarier kind of ghost?

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0:00.0

Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.

0:09.0

Time flies when you're learning super cool stuff.

0:11.0

I'm Nate.

0:12.0

And I'm Callie. If you're dropping in for the first time, welcome to curiosity where we aim to blow your mind by helping you to grow your mind.

0:18.0

If you're a loyal listener, welcome back.

0:20.0

Today you'll learn about whether the cyanide in apple seeds could do you any real harm,

0:24.8

how working out in the morning and at night are both beneficial, but in different ways,

0:29.0

and how researchers have found evidence that patients with long COVID may often have fragments of the virus

0:34.0

lingering in their gut. Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.

0:38.3

Hey Callie, have you ever heard of how apple seeds can be poisonous? Of course and not the

0:44.3

Snow White evil witch kind of poisonous either. My mom used to warn me about

0:47.5

eating apple cores, apple seeds, they contain cyanides so you've really got to be

0:51.5

careful. Okay so that there is the thing

0:54.0

I'm talking about, apple seeds and cyanide, but the truth isn't exactly how you

0:58.2

were told. Apple seeds and many other fruit seeds contain a molecule called

1:02.1

Amigdalene and like your parents may have

1:04.3

warned you about that can release cyanide if ingested.

1:07.6

So sounds like you're saying my mom's right.

1:09.6

So the cyanide's not in the apple, but this amigdalene becomes it if ingested? Seems like you two are saying the same thing.

1:15.0

Well, absolutely yes, but she's still may be overreacting.

1:19.0

While the existence of the cyanide in the apple seeds is not an old wives tale it would take a lot of work for you to actually

1:25.5

feel the negative impacts of eating them.

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