Aaron Boster

And if they saw like the Mongol hordes, they would light the bonfire.

And then miles away, a guy would see the bonfire and he would light his bonfire.

And you could communicate up and down the Great Wall of China wicked fast.

That's the way like a wire works when it's not damaged.

That's the way the neuron works when it's not damaged.

When it's damaged and you have to put in all these sodium channels, now you can't propagate a message really quickly.

And so if I use the Great Wall of China, the bonfire is out.

There's no bonfire.

So what the guy does, he jumps on a horse and as fast as he can, he rides down the Great Wall, which is way the heck slower.

And it still gets the message there, but it doesn't work as fast.

Now, let's go back to the neuron, the wire.

That system is extremely heat sensitive.

Those ion channels are extremely heat sensitive.

So if you heat the human body up, you leach the ions out, and again, you have conduction block.

And when the body cools back down, it works again.

Now, this drives people with MS crazy because they'll be fine in the beginning of a walk.

And as they walk and their body gets hotter and hotter, they short circuit.

And sometimes, you know, people they're with will say, what the heck?

You were fine, you know, just earlier today.

But it's because of this heat sensitivity phenomenon.