Why Asthma Gets Worse at Night, Earth’s Largest Living Thing
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Learn about a heroic experiment that helps explain asthma getting worse at night; and the largest living thing on earth.
A heroic experiment has shed light on the centuries-old mystery of why asthma gets worse at night by Grant Currin
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| 0:00.0 | The famous five are away on a splendid weekend adventure. |
| 0:03.5 | Do we have to go home today? |
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| 0:08.0 | Even Timmy looks sad. |
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| 0:30.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity |
| 0:38.0 | com. I'm Cody Goff. |
| 0:39.6 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:40.8 | Today you learn about a heroic experiment that helps solve a long-standing mystery |
| 0:44.8 | about asthma and why the largest living thing on earth is not the blue whale. |
| 0:49.7 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:51.7 | If you've got asthma there Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:57.0 | If you've got asthma, there's a good chance that it gets worse at night. Doctors have known this is a thing for centuries, |
| 1:00.0 | but they couldn't say why. |
| 1:02.0 | Researchers finally have some evidence. But they couldn't say why. |
| 1:03.0 | Researchers finally have some evidence that points to an answer. |
| 1:07.0 | The nighttime rise in asthma attacks may have the internal body clock to blame. |
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