Dr. Ashley Alker

also, there's often not carbon monoxide detectors in hotel rooms or if you're at an Airbnb.

But this is something fairly easy.

They're $20 off of, you know, wherever you want to buy it.

And so my point being is, you know, you asked if I had changed any of my the things that I do based on what I know.

And I carry carbon monoxide detectors when I go on vacation, certain places just plug it into the wall and make sure there's no issue because that's something that is deadly, but is very preventable.

There's a saying, it's when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.

And that saying in medicine is to tell us, think of the most common cause of these pathologies, because that's probably what's going on, especially the most common cause in your environment.

Don't think of the most outrageous possible cause of these things.

But every once in a while, you will see these outrageous diseases.

There are some that I have seen, and there are some that my colleagues have seen that are just very interesting.

One is, I've never seen this personally, but one that I find really interesting is Chiguitera, which is a fish-borne disease, and it basically affects sodium channels.

But initially, it presents like a food poisoning.

But then after that, the symptoms get very bizarre.

Everything from hot and cold reverse to

Like when you touch hot, it'll feel cold.

And then you will, some patients will feel like their teeth are falling out.

So it's just very odd, like the things that these diseases, kind of the capacity for these diseases to create different pathologies in humans.

There's another type of fish poisoning that creates

by attacking the hippocampus.

And it's actually, you know, this disease was first discovered on Prince Edward Island where all these people ate these mussels containing, you know, the toxin.