Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hey, and welcome to the short stuff, Josh, Chuck, Jerry, sitting in for Dave. So this is short stuff. Chuck, I have a question for you. Are you cracking your knuckles right now?
I am. Did you hear that?
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Chapter 2: What is the main topic of knuckle cracking?
There you go. Not your bones rubbing together. Okay. I want you to go to recess and tell your friends that is not your bones rubbing together.
Yeah. And then the cavitation you mentioned earlier, I think before we break, we should just clear that up. You said 20 to 30 minutes. That is how long it takes for that gas to re-dissolve into that joint fluid. And cavitation is possible again.
Yeah. Go watch me cavitate my knuckles.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh, I just did one again. Okay, I say we take a little break and come back and talk about how we know that cracking your knuckles doesn't give you arthritis.
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Chapter 3: Does cracking your knuckles cause arthritis?
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Chuck, I know we've talked about this guy before, Dr. Donald Unger. I think we did a video about him.
Yeah.
But he, you know what? I'll bet we talked about him in the Ignoble Prize episode because he won an Ignoble for this. But essentially, he conducted an experiment for 60 years because he wanted to prove his mother wrong. And he only cracked the knuckles on, I think, his left hand. Never cracked them on his right hand. That's crazy. And then after 60 years, he finally said, OK, it's time.
And he x-rayed his hands.
Yeah. If he didn't have the compulsion to crack his knuckles, I could see how this happened. But if you are a knuckle cracker, you're kind of you feel compelled to do it. So I can't imagine what it would have taken to not crack knuckles. the knuckles on one hand for that many years. It must've been really tough.
Yeah, sure.
That's my guess. So yeah, he did this over his lifetime. He x-rayed himself on the reg and eventually decades later came to the conclusion that he doesn't have any arthritic difference in his hands. Case closed.
He had NAD, no arthritic difference. That's right. That's not to say, though, that even if you don't get arthritis from cracking your knuckles, it's another thing you can tell your friends at recess. Do they even have recess anymore? I guess maybe hour-long screen time.
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Chapter 4: What is the science behind the popping sound when cracking knuckles?
So you're, you know, three for five.
Yeah, I don't manual labor, so we shouldn't count that one.
So there is some benefits to actually cracking your knuckles, though, too. We're not just hating on cracking your knuckles. There's something called the Golgi tendon organs, not the Golgi apparatus. That's a different episode altogether. The Golgi tendon organs sense muscle tension. And when you crack your knuckles, you're actually relieving some muscle tension.
So the muscles around the joints, when you crack them, get relaxed. So you can feel like, you know, your hands feel pretty mellow after cracking your knuckles. I saw it described as yoga for your knuckles.
Oh, interesting.
Yeah, I thought so too.
Is that like getting your back cracked or something?
Basically, yeah, but for your knuckles.
Yeah, we found one more thing, you know, like I'm at the age where, you know, if I kneel down to get something, you're going to hear a snap, crackle, and a pop maybe coming from some part of my body.
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