How Itching Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

It was only in the last few decades that science became aware that itches aren't just low-level pain. And in that time, the mystery of how we itch and why we scratch has gotten even more baffling.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.3	Welcome to StuffyShitNo from HouseofWorks.com.
0:41.6	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark.
0:43.8	There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry Rowland.
0:46.9	So this is StuffyShitNo scratching in the shot.
0:51.3	Yeah, this is one of many.
0:54.0	You remember when we did Yawning?
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:57.0	Well, that's the only one I can think of.
1:01.1	Where just researching something makes you do the thing you're researching?
1:05.5	This definitely happened with this one.
1:07.1	Yeah, well, we ran across Ed and Poison Ivy and Scabies for sure.
1:11.2	Oh, yeah.
1:12.2	And talked about some of this stuff, but I think itch, we had itch, we needed to scratch with
1:17.7	this particular topic.
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