Dr. Cliff Redford

Maybe that's why they get their beauty sleep and they look so pretty because they use this protective slime all over their body.

I mean, they would.

I mean, the reality is most people that are diving in the Caribbean are doing it in the daytime.

It's much more pretty.

Yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah, night diving's got to have a light.

Not as enjoyable.

But yeah, they would get it all over themselves, but then it would protect them from blood-sucking parasites and bacteria, so...

There you go.

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, I bet you they can.

Um, that's where most of our antibiotics come from.

Um, they'll have like, they'll have like certain, certain parasites and certain bacteria will produce slime.

Let's call it.

We'll, we'll 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.

Um,

That's exactly a homeboy that had nothing to do with the laboratory and Petri dishes and whatnot.

The neighbors know how to get rid of the neighbors.