Amy Nicholson

And here to help us understand these things is Cutter Wood, who has explored and researched this topic and has written a book called Earthly Materials, Journeys Through Our Bodies, Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations. And I promise, I promise this is not a gross conversation at all, so please stay with me. Hey Cutter, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi Mike, thanks for having me.

And here to help us understand these things is Cutter Wood, who has explored and researched this topic and has written a book called Earthly Materials, Journeys Through Our Bodies, Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations. And I promise, I promise this is not a gross conversation at all, so please stay with me. Hey Cutter, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi Mike, thanks for having me.

And here to help us understand these things is Cutter Wood, who has explored and researched this topic and has written a book called Earthly Materials, Journeys Through Our Bodies, Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations. And I promise, I promise this is not a gross conversation at all, so please stay with me. Hey Cutter, welcome to Something You Should Know. Hi Mike, thanks for having me.

Let's start with breathing. We all breathe all the time. Most of us don't think much about it or talk about it, but if you stop breathing, that's pretty much the end of you. Breathing is pretty important.

Let's start with breathing. We all breathe all the time. Most of us don't think much about it or talk about it, but if you stop breathing, that's pretty much the end of you. Breathing is pretty important.

Let's start with breathing. We all breathe all the time. Most of us don't think much about it or talk about it, but if you stop breathing, that's pretty much the end of you. Breathing is pretty important.

Which is why I suspect the idea of slow, deep breaths is a big part of meditation and mindfulness, that it is a way to calm your brain down, to calm your thoughts down. So let's talk about hair and how hair grows and why it's different colors and all that. Because people spend a lot of time and money on their hair and how they make it look without thinking so much about the biology of it all.

Which is why I suspect the idea of slow, deep breaths is a big part of meditation and mindfulness, that it is a way to calm your brain down, to calm your thoughts down. So let's talk about hair and how hair grows and why it's different colors and all that. Because people spend a lot of time and money on their hair and how they make it look without thinking so much about the biology of it all.

Which is why I suspect the idea of slow, deep breaths is a big part of meditation and mindfulness, that it is a way to calm your brain down, to calm your thoughts down. So let's talk about hair and how hair grows and why it's different colors and all that. Because people spend a lot of time and money on their hair and how they make it look without thinking so much about the biology of it all.

So dive in there.

So dive in there.

So dive in there.

When you say people with red hair process pain differently, what does that mean? That it feels different or what?

When you say people with red hair process pain differently, what does that mean? That it feels different or what?

When you say people with red hair process pain differently, what does that mean? That it feels different or what?

Well, that's weird. It's pretty wild, right? Well, the other thing about hair that I find interesting, well, there's a lot of things about hair that you find interesting, but Like a lot of people, I was one of these people that, you know, when I was very young, I had very blonde hair, but that didn't last very long. It got brown and it stayed brown for the rest of my life.

Well, that's weird. It's pretty wild, right? Well, the other thing about hair that I find interesting, well, there's a lot of things about hair that you find interesting, but Like a lot of people, I was one of these people that, you know, when I was very young, I had very blonde hair, but that didn't last very long. It got brown and it stayed brown for the rest of my life.

Well, that's weird. It's pretty wild, right? Well, the other thing about hair that I find interesting, well, there's a lot of things about hair that you find interesting, but Like a lot of people, I was one of these people that, you know, when I was very young, I had very blonde hair, but that didn't last very long. It got brown and it stayed brown for the rest of my life.

But why does mucus tend to be more prominent and there's more of it when you're sick? Your nose gets runny. Why?

But why does mucus tend to be more prominent and there's more of it when you're sick? Your nose gets runny. Why?