Hack Your Short-Term Memory, The Wild Origins of Gallbladder Surgery, and Does Chocolate Cause Acne Breakouts?
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn about whether chocolate actually causes acne breakouts; how to get around Miller’s law, which describes the limits of your short-term memory; and why one of the first gallbladder surgeries happened on a kitchen table.
Does chocolate actually cause breakouts? by Andrea Michelson
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Your Short-Term Memory Can Only Hold 7 Items (But You Can Use This Trick) by Ashley Hamer
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One of the first gallbladder surgeries happened on a kitchen table by Cameron Duke
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Cody Goff. |
| 0:07.4 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.4 | Today you learn about whether chocolate actually causes breakouts, the limits of your short-term memory, and how to get around them, |
| 0:15.0 | and why one of the first gall-ladder surgeries happened on a kitchen table. |
| 0:20.0 | But satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:22.0 | Calling all chocolics, it's time to set the record straight on whether chocolate really causes acne. |
| 0:29.0 | Okay, so I did not know this was a thing. |
| 0:31.0 | I mean, maybe it's just because I'm a lady but I've heard tons of people say |
| 0:37.1 | that eating chocolate makes you break out. Yeah maybe it's a guy thing I have no |
| 0:42.1 | idea but well I'm glad we're going to address this myth. |
| 0:45.0 | Yeah. So you may have heard that chocolate is bad for your skin or even noticed a pimple pop up after eating a candy bar or several. But it turns out that there's no scientific evidence |
| 0:56.2 | specifically connecting chocolate to the development of acne. The cacao bean itself is harmless in terms of skin health. |
| 1:04.0 | And in general, dermatologists won't point to any specific food that will definitely make you break out. |
| 1:10.0 | However, food containing sugar and dairy may trigger inflammation and oil production, especially in people who are predisposed to acne. |
| 1:19.0 | Eating sugary food causes a spike in insulin, which in turn increases the production of an oily |
| 1:24.7 | substance called sebumm. These secretions won't necessarily bring on a breakout, but they can |
| 1:30.6 | worsen existing acne. |
| 1:33.3 | The science behind why and how dairy might affect your skin |
| 1:36.5 | is less clear, but if there is a connection, |
| 1:39.5 | experts think it has to do with hormones. Cows milk and many other dairy products contain proteins called casing and whey. |
| 1:47.0 | The breakdown of these proteins is thought to raise levels of a hormone similar to insulin |
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