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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Borax

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

Medical History, Health & Fitness, History, Medicine, Comedy, Sawbones

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

You'll never believe what people are doing on TikTok now. Borax is a salt you might have in your home: it's an active ingredient in many contact solutions, so it doesn't sound especially good to eat. Dr. Sydnee talks about the different reasons people on the internet are drinking it, the history of borax, and the actual science behind it. But the bottom line is: please do not drink borax. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

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0:00.0

Saw bones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.

0:07.0

It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?

0:14.0

We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.

0:22.0

You're worth it.

0:25.0

Alright, time is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.

0:33.0

Two big big came across a pharmacy with a door and that's blasted out.

0:52.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Saw Bones, a marital tour of Miss Gatted Medicine. I'm Carol

1:10.0

who's Justin McAroy. And I'm Sydney McAroy. And I'm wearing a ball cap today. That's a new

1:15.2

energy for me. And I feel like as I heard my intro in the sort of Fulxy ease with which I was delivering it. I feel like the hat is, I don't know, it's it's give me a different sort of vibe.

1:28.2

I mean, it is King's Island hat. You know, worried it might be disconcerting to the listener. I'm not disconcerting, but you know, I want them to know what's happening.

1:36.2

I don't want to get a bunch of emails with Justin. We're worried about you. You sound like wearing a hat. I am. Yeah. I think it's too hot for hats. It's really hot today.

1:43.2

Too hot for hats. Yeah. Like now the top of your head is hot. Isn't it? As I say that, are you imagining how hot the top of your head is and sweaty? It's getting under there. No, no, it's perfectly comfortable. See the top of my head is hot.

1:56.2

I realized I actually didn't realize you could physically get hot. I didn't realize that was a tool you had. I felt I feel like cold is the only sort of thing that I hear from you in terms of your current

2:08.2

temperature. When we get in bed at night and I press my ice cold hands against you. Sometimes my nose is that cold. Charlie hugged me yesterday and then she went, what is wrong with your nose?

2:21.2

It's cold. It's fine. I've always called. I'm fine. I'm really fine. I just tend to run cold. You run hot. That's it. Offsets attract. Don't get weird. Right. In a fiction. All right. Do you want to be MCS?

2:36.2

Yes. If that is what it takes to get you to begin the episode, I will be your MCS cat cat. Justin, you all believe what they're doing on TikTok now. I always a little depressing. I mean, it's fun. It's funny, but not really funny. It's depressing. It's a little sad. More depressing. For sure.

2:53.2

But also, I'm not depressed by it because I'm not doing it. And you have to assume this is what I try to remind myself. Okay. My ignorance of something did not impact me the moment before I learned about it.

3:06.2

So this was happening just fine without me doing anything. The universe did not ask for me to consult on this. It's just happening. But I was fine before it. So I try to be just fine after I learn about it.

3:18.2

I try to remember this is the context in which I try to present this information because if I should be able, even though I would never do this thing, I should be able to learn something from this. I feel. I feel and I feel like many of our listeners probably would never do this. But many of our listeners would never do this. Yes. Many. Most. I mean, I think I don't know some of some of you all might still be able to get a while out there.

3:47.2

I feel I worry that there might be some people who are just dirty dogs that use this as like a discovery engine like just to get the weirdest stuff surface to them so they can give it a whirl.

3:56.2

Every once in a while, you know, I get some sort of social media interaction or email that I is surprisingly.

4:05.2

I'm a vitriolic and I'm like, you're still here. We know we're all with our with our thoughts and feelings yet. No, okay. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Maybe this was the one. No, I try to remember that when I see people on TikTok or whatever, whatever social media somewhere on the internet, we're in the real world doing things that are not helpful for their health that are misguided and that are possibly harmful.

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