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Alison Wood Brooks

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Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

solely for their urine, just to produce the medication Premarin, which actually comes from pregnant mare urine, to treat symptoms of menopause.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

solely for their urine, just to produce the medication Premarin, which actually comes from pregnant mare urine, to treat symptoms of menopause.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

solely for their urine, just to produce the medication Premarin, which actually comes from pregnant mare urine, to treat symptoms of menopause.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

It's gone down now, you know, Premarin is not in its heyday. It was at one point in time one of the most prescribed medications in the country though. My favorite detail about that is that actually is one of those ones, you know, I gave a reading and a doctor came up afterwards and they said, you have to get Premarin in there.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

It's gone down now, you know, Premarin is not in its heyday. It was at one point in time one of the most prescribed medications in the country though. My favorite detail about that is that actually is one of those ones, you know, I gave a reading and a doctor came up afterwards and they said, you have to get Premarin in there.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

It's gone down now, you know, Premarin is not in its heyday. It was at one point in time one of the most prescribed medications in the country though. My favorite detail about that is that actually is one of those ones, you know, I gave a reading and a doctor came up afterwards and they said, you have to get Premarin in there.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

Hundreds of thousands of horses, their only reason to exist is just basically to pee in a cup and have it made into a pill.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

Hundreds of thousands of horses, their only reason to exist is just basically to pee in a cup and have it made into a pill.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

Hundreds of thousands of horses, their only reason to exist is just basically to pee in a cup and have it made into a pill.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

Yeah, yeah. So the important thing here, there are three kinds of tears, right? There are the kind of everyday tears, basal tears that your eyes just produce, trying to keep your eye lubricated and moving around. then there are reflex tears, right? You know, if something blows into your eye, if you get a bug in your eye, your eyes cry then.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

Yeah, yeah. So the important thing here, there are three kinds of tears, right? There are the kind of everyday tears, basal tears that your eyes just produce, trying to keep your eye lubricated and moving around. then there are reflex tears, right? You know, if something blows into your eye, if you get a bug in your eye, your eyes cry then.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

Yeah, yeah. So the important thing here, there are three kinds of tears, right? There are the kind of everyday tears, basal tears that your eyes just produce, trying to keep your eye lubricated and moving around. then there are reflex tears, right? You know, if something blows into your eye, if you get a bug in your eye, your eyes cry then.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

But, and this is one of the things that makes tears the most fascinating, humans, and only humans, have this third kind of tear, emotional tears, really, and we don't, we still don't have any idea why. They could also be used as a diagnostic tool, much like urine is, you know, if you were able to simply kind of harness the minute quantities there.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

But, and this is one of the things that makes tears the most fascinating, humans, and only humans, have this third kind of tear, emotional tears, really, and we don't, we still don't have any idea why. They could also be used as a diagnostic tool, much like urine is, you know, if you were able to simply kind of harness the minute quantities there.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

But, and this is one of the things that makes tears the most fascinating, humans, and only humans, have this third kind of tear, emotional tears, really, and we don't, we still don't have any idea why. They could also be used as a diagnostic tool, much like urine is, you know, if you were able to simply kind of harness the minute quantities there.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

And two, the thing I find most fascinating with tears is people are so afraid of them, right? Especially, you know, a lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea of crying, especially men. And I have a good friend, for instance, he's a lawyer, has never cried in his entire life. And when his first child was born, he was so overcome with emotion that he passed out.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

And two, the thing I find most fascinating with tears is people are so afraid of them, right? Especially, you know, a lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea of crying, especially men. And I have a good friend, for instance, he's a lawyer, has never cried in his entire life. And when his first child was born, he was so overcome with emotion that he passed out.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

And two, the thing I find most fascinating with tears is people are so afraid of them, right? Especially, you know, a lot of people are uncomfortable with the idea of crying, especially men. And I have a good friend, for instance, he's a lawyer, has never cried in his entire life. And when his first child was born, he was so overcome with emotion that he passed out.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

You know, he just lost consciousness because he didn't know how to deal with it.

Something You Should Know
How the LIKE Button Changed the World & Weird Things Your Body Does

You know, he just lost consciousness because he didn't know how to deal with it.