Dr. Cliff Redford

Next time I got an infected wound on one of my patients that I can't get to heal, I'm going to go find myself a parrotfish.

Maybe I got to put one in an aquarium at my clinic.

Oh, I bet you, no, I bet you they can.

That's where most of our antibiotics come from.

They'll have like certain parasites and certain bacteria will produce slime, let's call it, will secrete things that will kill other bacteria.

So they use the defense mechanisms or the offense mechanisms of one bacteria to create an antibiotic against the other bacteria.

Yeah, that's exactly a homeboy.

It had nothing to do with the laboratory and Petri dishes and whatnot.

I did not know this until your producer sent me this article.

I've been a veterinarian, a real veterinarian for 28 years.

So I'm learning something here.

That's right.

Well, it's like that with really anything.

Trust me.

So there's this professor Masayo Miyazaki in the Iwata University in Japan.

And this is actually a really interesting study.

He basically... Everyone thought, oh, cats stop eating when they're full, which of course is not true because they get fat.

So they eat more than they need to.

But he wanted to know what stopped them from eating.

And he proposed that it was the odor that they were getting used to and bored with the scent of their food.