7 Ways Humans Change Color
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We're all used to our bodies being more or less the color they always are. But there are a few different medical reason you may be seeing rainbow in the mirror, from benign to medically concerning. Here's just some of the reasons that you might see yourself turn Technicolor!
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5:42 We said copper oxide is green, which isn't quite right. Copper oxide is black or brown and can react with CO2 to make copper carbonate, which is green.
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When I hit puberty, I started getting purple spots on my chest. For a year, doctors kept monitoring me to try and figure out what was causing my purple spots. After a year, they diagnosed me with purpura. Purpura means purple spots. I looked purpura up and found that the condition causes purples spots but does nothing else. In other words, it took doctors an entire year to determine that my purple spots were purple spots.
They had to rule out any other purple spot-causing conditions first lol
I once had a skin reaction around my mouth, got sent home with a paper that said acute stomatitis. Went in for very itchy mouth, left with a paper saying I had very itchy mouth, but in Greek.
" What they can't do these days! "
you are Polka Dot Man
Yeah that's not a diagnosis it's a symptom :/ It means you have capillaries that are leaking blood for some reason periodically. It typically happens from blood thinners, blood clotting disorders, and certain foods that are blood thinners like natto eaten in excess. Kind of weird that they just gave up figuring out what it was. Usually if it's nothing obvious that ends up being like food allergy related or something like that but weird.
Blue sclera can also be caused by addiction to the spice Melange.
I was waiting for “this one’s for you, fremen of arrakis”
@nunyabitnezz2802 thanks paul.
When my son was a toddler, he would only eat carrots. His pediatrician thought he would grow out of it and to allow him to eat carrots. The tip of his nose and his chin turned orange! My little Oompa loompa!
That's so sweet! 🧡
Same thing happened to me as a baby. I still much prefer orange veggies to green in general.
My grandmother went through a phase like that. She would literally eat four or five oranges a day every single day.
Eventually she gave it up when she realized that she was orange
A friend at uni ate lots of carrots. Her fingers were orange. That's a lot of carrots!!!
I remember in the 1970s, Susan Dey, who played the older sister on "The Partridge Family," developed anorexia. She ate so many carrots that her skin turned a rather vivid shade of orange.
She was subsequently treated for the disease, and by the 1980s, when she was on "L.A. Law," she was fine.
**Looks in mirror**
**Despite everything, it's still you.**
Undertale ref.
Nice.
Ouch
-- Life is worth it to live it through!
I once heard of a story about a little guy that lived in a blue world and all day and all night and everything he saw is just blue like him inside and outside.
What about his house? His window? His Corvette? Surely everything can't have been blue.
According to the story, yes, weirdly enough everything around was blue and the leading theory is that it was because he didn't got nobody to listen to.
@@fireazaNah. Everything is blue for himself and everybody around.
But he ain't got nobody to listen. 😢
@Glockenspheal since you are wise, perhaps youll know...I once saw a movie in the 60s while I had Asian flu, I dreamily watch a movie I think was called the boy with green hair. Was that a real movie or a fever dream?🤔
My cheeks turn pink when I get a SciShow notification
I'm gonna decide you mean your butt cheeks since you didn't specify. You're welcome.
Wow, seems like your partner is really excited about science news!
uwu
Does he make u wet too?
I hope this get pinned!
There was a video where Hank talked about different diseases and I asked if he'd talk about Ehler's Danlos. I was diagnosed with this terrible disease last year and to see coverage about it on my favorite sci show is incredibly validating. Thank you for taking the time to educate others about people like myself.
When my nephew was younger he had the carrot coloration. Went to doc worried he was having liver issues... Nope. Carrots. Kid loved em.
its a lot easier for kids to get a carrot overdose since they are smaller. As a child, I had it twice, eating around 5 carrots a day. Now I have around 7 carrots a day and I'm fine! (I have an eating disorder that makes my accepted foods limited)
When a friend of mine was being interviewed for a nanny job, I was with her (long story). We both noticed the toddler had an orange tinge. Apparently the previous nanny fed him only sweet potatoes.
Number 2 I remember from the MAgic school bus when Arnold turned orange.
Sea-Weedies or something lol
I'm thinking of the carrots&tomatoes guy from Scrubs too 😂
He shoulda stayed home
I have Raynaud's in my feet and when my feet change to a dark purple or blue it also will go up to my knees. It is followed by pins and needles for sure but that is when I'm warmed up and my feet are fire engine red. I don't walk, I'm in a wheelchair because of MS, but I was diagnosed with the Raynaud's after I was diagnosed with MS. This video really opens my eyes about a lot of things that I should have noticed a long time ago.
I would like to know the secret to avoiding stress. Just being awake and out of the house is stressful these days.
I ate 3-5 full sized carrots a day in college and often red and orange bell peppers. They were a good raw snack dipped in hummus (sometimes my entire lunch was an entire tub of hummus eaten on veggies) and also good cooked into a spaghetti sauce or thai curry. At a checkup, my doctor noticed pigment in my palms! He asked “do you eat a lot of yellow foods?” And i couldn’t think of anything, but when i thought if yellow bell peppers it reminded me of the other colors and of carrots and I said “yes, why?” And he said he could tell from the color of my skin
Also had reynauds when i moved to Canada and didn’t know how to properly choose shoes and socks in the winter. Its more than “a little uncomfortable.” I once had to miss class because I couldn’t walk there, it was only a few hundred feet away from my dorm, but I didn’t have a single pair of shoes I could walk in without pain. And i couldn’t go barefoot because there was snow on the ground
I have Reynaud's but very mild. By mild I mean if I am sitting here minding my own business suddenly my thumb turns blue but just one half. It is very painful! Like someone hit you with a sledgehammer.
Been there! A few years ago, it took an odd turn where a flare up meant the sensation didn't come back fully in the pad of one of my fingers for a few months. Just pins and needles for ages. The finger was otherwise fine. Then just as suddenly the sensation came back. Still don't know what happened.
I have loads of different birthmarks all over my body, including a few ones that make my torso look stripey like a zebra. I love my birthmarks!
Could you be a chimera?
I just concentrate and think BLUE, and I turn blue
Me? I go plaid. 😂
I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa
I hold my breath while I concentrate and it words really well 😂
@@wayneosborne2506 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Concentrate = Forgetting to breathe
😂😂
Camera did you dirty by showing the bald spot when you said “luscious brown locks”
Duh
My roommate and I were just talking yesterday about the house episode where the dude turns orange. Are you guys listening to our conversations? lol
Thought of the exact same thing when he got to that - it was a very funny reveal!
I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and blue sclera. Rarely see it mentioned so this was cool to see.
I managed to get cartonemia when I was little. My mom was scared I had jaundice.
as soon as i saw the thumbnail i was like 'blue sclera! that's me!' - i have EDS and my cousins have brittle bone. also have Raynaud's but thankfully mild and living in a warm climate and out of the freezer isle has kept me from turning too blue
The final product of bilirubin is called conjugated bilirubin and it's not colorless. It gets deposited into your bowels and is what makes your poop brown. If you have gall bladder stones, the channel from your liver to your bowels could get blocked and you can get conjugated bilirubin buildup in your blood which will also make you yellow. If this happens, your poop will turn light grey.
Quick addendum: If you notice your poop is grey, *SEE A DOCTOR ASAP*. Some of the conditions that cause it can be lethal.
I had no idea most people weren't getting red poos from beets. My whole family and spouse get this and we constantly forget and it scares us every time haha.
After I began taking blood thinners, I started getting Reynaud's. But only if I'm outside. So if it's very cold inside, it won't trigger. But if I'm going for a walk or a bike ride outside, I suspect it gets the blood flow pumping faster than when indoors, which causes it to trigger. It can be VERY painful. Like my fingers are being frozen from the inside out. Numb to touch so I can't feel where my fingers are in gloves or touch and grab things properly, but simultaneously, like I'm pitting frozen cherries barehanded. It only affects my fingers and toes.
Dressing warm doesn't help, but one thing that definitely did was buying heated gloves. My fingers tend to start faster than my toes, but with heated gloves, my fingers stay normal and my toes are much slower, or don't freeze up at all. Reynaud's also causes the front half of my finger nails on specific fingers to die if I get it too often, and the back of the nail grows under that, eventually popping the dead nail up like a car hood. It's still partially attached to the skin though.
Raynaud's can be painful if it gets too extreme, and is also (in many cases) a sign of autoimmune disease.
This connects to 3:
I am suspected to have a thing called Gilbert's Syndrome, which means Billirubin is produced slower than the norm. Which can be interesting...
yeah, I had a "imitation meat patty" back in the 90's/y2k's that had beets in it... I wasn't told that... 😅
Love the sneaky camera glances
6:35
SPICE MUST FLOW!!
Heh. I was expecting it to be a shout out to Arnold from The Magic Schoolbus.
My boyfriend has blue sclera in one eye since last year and the ophtalmologist told him it was harmless, but we didn't know what could cause it. Thanks !
I have Reynauds, it sucks! Especially my toes. It could be 100* f/c either way it could be HOT. The barest cold breeze brushes my toes or fingers and they will be freezing cold and refuse to warm back up for a long time.
Perfect amount of humour/shout outs.
Wohooo, Ehlers-Danlos mentioned, can confirm, I’m had blue scleras since birth.
Working outside, the sun bleaches my naturally blond hair to almost platinum, but it’s still soft, healthy, virgin hair that retains its moisture. This creates visible rainbows when it shines in sunlight, just like diamonds. Strangers can’t help touching it. My eyelashes do it too, so I can see rainbows everywhere, especially when they’re wet. 🌈 👀 🌈 🤭
You became a faery❤
A few weeks ago I thought I was developing reynauds or cyanosis because my fingers went blue a few times, but it turned out to just be a reaction to a cleaning spray I was using that would get on my fingers
life is a miracle. healthy life is a seeming impossibility, however, the earth is some heavenly nursery.
So my blue sclera isn’t from the high concentration of the spice Melange in the harvester where I work?!
I remember being terrified when my Dad was so angry at me that his face turned green.
Blue sclera in infants can accompany, and indicate, osteogenisis imperfecta which is very dangerous and important to diagnose.
I once went to the bathroom and noticed everything in the bowl was a bright green. I panicked until I remembered the day before was Saint Patrick's Day and I had bought a mint shake at McDonald's.
If it happens and you haven't had green food, look into blue, purple, or black food. Blue and purple are even more notorious for this than green because it seems to come out of nowhere.
One of my best friends in HS ate a massive bag of baby carrots *daily* for ~2yrs+; his skin was def more orange-ish-yellow, esp at his finger tips/toes. Was wild to see ngl lol
I heard heavy consumption of Spice causes eye blueness as well..
The references were perfect lol
Hm. No mention of overdosing on colloidal silver?
the blue sclera and being in the beets' ten percent made me question whether i might have an iron deficiency sometimes without noticing👀
.. because being orange/yellow like i come from springfield is just who i am during months when carrots are in season😸🌻
So THATS why hes orange! Just loves carrots
4:01 Does jaundice make you bite your fingernails?
When I was a baby, my mum took me to the doctor thinking I had jaundice. Turned out that I was going through a picky phase, and would only really eat sweet potatoes and maybe carrots.😅
What, no mention of colloidal silver and associated argyria?
Oh God he turned around and he destroyed my mental image of him having a full head of hair.
a friend of mine wrote the first paper on nipple raynaud's. it his claim to fame.
My mom had carotinemia. She was drinking a LOT of carrot juice.
A teacher thought that I had jaundice. The fact that I was given carrot juice to drink may have been related.
They forgot the most serious cause of blue sclera: spice melange.
I was born prematurely with jaundice and thanks to the use of a halogen lamp my yellow skin was cured and became a normal fleshy skin tone.
I expected an explanation why the Smurfs are blue.
Vitiligo
Another poop color thing is if you have too much artificial coloring, it comes out green, and for me, that's grape soda.
Is the red beet urine really that rare? My guess is the people who came up with that 1:10 statistic have never eaten a Russian beet salad.
I have jaundice yet never put together that's why my hands seem a bit yellowish. Also shout-out from scishow Les go.
When Im really cold my hands turn purple (no whiteness or tingling so not raynaud's)
when i was a kid, and i learned that if you eat enough carrots you could turn orange, i wanted to become orange just because i thought it'd be cool to change my color, but alas, i was a picky eater
Disappointed you didn't mention green turds. 😌 Also Raynauds ISN'T benign and not stressing is easier said than done. My buddy, an avid outdoorwoman, has it and it can be absolutely crippling for her quality of life, especially as she is also autistic.
I am black and recently my dark brown eyes turned BLUE.
I'll tell you when I'm done eating carrots tyvm
Looks in the mirror and states he has “luscious brown locks”, while has a receding hairline and a bald spot on the back of his head! 😅😂
Happy Pride month! Here's how to BE the rainbow.
If I where to change color I want my eyes to be BLOOD RED 😱
My 'summer eyes' are distinctly green, while my 'winter eyes' tend toward a pale blue/gray.
I always thought of my 'winter eyes' as a kind of protection from snow-glare.
I want to have a infrared skin or at least be ultraviolet, what shall I eat?
Here's looking at you Andorians 9:21 .
Wtf there is no iron in collagen, iron deficiency ugh 7:36
Why is boxxy in the thumbnail? O.o
I came to see if anyone else thought it was her!
@@Vsago you came
Fascinating and occasionally funny ❤
ayyyy Gilberts Syndrome peeps! 💛
Random, harmless jaundice. Great fun when you are trying to match foundation or have a blood test and get flagged as 'Urgent: Must Speak To Doctor'l
🙄
interesting how "jaundice" and "ikterus" are completely different words. Ikterus is jaundice in german
So why isn’t Bugs Bunny orange?
My best channel ❤
My mom had the worst reported case of Raynaud's disease ever back in the early 2000's she ended up dying from it. Lost both legs and most of her fingers so it can be pretty horrible.
ive recently gotten a diagnosis for Raynaud’s at 21 (i am male btw) but i’ve had pains since i was 14. i couldn’t feel my fingers for about 5-6 months this winter… it made me fail this year of college because i couldn’t do my calculus homeworks and lost my job because i kept fudging things up. i wasn’t taken seriously by doctors even after the diagnosis, i was just prescribed some exercices and a massage, and got a reference to see a physiotherapist (that i still haven’t seen…) i’m really worried about how bad it’ll get over the years :c
Not a personal experience, but there's a UA-camr who is a martial artist and has Raynaud's. He can't do martial arts or even really make videos during the colder months because even trying to stay warm it affects his hands and feet severely. When he shared his experience, you could see the tips of his fingers were black. So it can definitely be pretty serious even if you don't die from it.
It's good that people can recover from it and most who have it don't have serious issues. But even things that are usually minor can have severe versions or can lead to complications.
@@businesszeus6864 One of the weirdest, easiest things to do is to move someplace warmer if you have a chance. I have Reynauds but its usually not too serious of a problem because I live in Georgia. It might dip below freezing a few days out of the year, but 95% of the time it's warm enough even in winter that a good pair of gloves and thick wool socks keeps it from kicking in as long as I don't spend too much time outside.
.... the other thing I've found is a tiny amount of alcohol added to hot tea. Not enough to get tipsy off, just like half an ounce of rum, but enough to trigger the flush reaction. opens those constricted vessels right back up again and keeps my toes nice and toasty!
@@vampyresmiles713 Heh. I think I know who you’re talking about.
But yeah I agree they maybe should have mentioned in this video that every once in a while, risk of not having enough oxygen in the extremities for the survival of the cells becomes a real thing.
Honestly it kind of sucks when you have a severe case of something and then you hear all about how it’s “usually minor” and “totally managable no worries”. Makes me feel like I’ve done something wrong. 😂
I'm so sorry. May she rest in peace.
My mom: *has had raynaud's her whole life and is also a very paranoid person*
Stefan: "they can avoid it by keeping warm and avoiding stress"
Me: *looks over at my mom, who's cuddled in the giant blanket i made her for christmas* well... I guess she's doing one of those things 😂
😂
I started to wear fingerless gloves and solved my icy blue frozen painful hands problem.
Thanks Kankuro cosplay to let me experience those gloves.
@@AramatiPazfingerless gloves are amazing. Gloves in general, and pretty much all year long. Even the ac in my car turns my hands white
Never heard of it until now, wonder if my grandma has it? (The symptoms sound really similar to what she experiences in the winter, especially with the fingers and toes going white) hope your mom is good! 💜
The breakdown of bilirubin is actually why urine is yellow, too! A study was published earlier this year!
And I have blue sclera because I have EDS!
It's also why poop is brown lol
Heeyyy fellow zebra! our stretch marks are our stripes lmao
blue sclera kinda looks cool imo lol :3
Blue sclera as well, I never knew it was "strange" because my whole family has it
NO WAY!! they published a study THIS YEAR?!? unbelievable! i didnt know they still did that 😮
One time in 6th grade the whole table I was sitting at during lunch was held back because one girl laughed while she was drinking milk and made a mess. Then one teacher noticed I looked green and sent me to the nurse’s office. I was sent home for the day and my parents took me to our doctor, who basically just told me to sit outside and get some more vitamin D.
I was indignant through the entire ordeal because I was a library assistant and wanted to go to the library and reshelve the books and felt completely fine. It cleared up by the next day, and we never found out a specific cause for the green twelve year old
I mean, while doing nothing for finding the cause, sitting outside in the sun would make your skin more pink which would overlay the green and look brown until the problem went away. Also UV can break down some pigments.
I choose to believe the doctor learned you could photosynthesize like those leafy sea slugs and couldn't tell anyone to protect you, and just told you to get sun so you could get energy.
Stefan is out for every cartoon character’s blood and I love it
My parents both got carotenemia when I was a kid. They were trying to eat healthier when they were at work and had just been grazing on baby carrots all day every day.
Some bright red fruits cause the same effect! Red dragonfruit does this for basically everyone
Also takes forever to wash the pigment out of wooden or bamboo cutting boards
Which effect?
@@AvendesoraRed poo
At the store I work at, I have customer who is straight up BLUE on every square inch of visible skin. He said his coloration came from ingesting too much colloidal silver. So there's another way for it to happen and apparently it's permanent too.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Karason
I thought for sure colloidal silver would come up in this video!
I have a rare neuro disorder called CRPS. It causes affected limbs to turn colors- white, blue, purple, and red are all possible. We also get visible veins and our skin can become thin and shiny. My lower legs are permanently shiny and sometimes turn red with white polka dots. It’s trippy to watch happen!
Same! I have crps too, and it can look wild when each leg is a different colour. I also have reynauds: of the areola. Made breastfeeding my babies in winter a bit of a nightmare…
I worked with a person who was never seen far from a carrot. She had carrots for breakfast, carrots for lunch, carrots to snack on. It really did give her an orange skin color.
Probably still a healthier way of getting a "tan" 😂
@@HannahRainbow88 Orange is not tan. She looked like she was sick, or had a communicable disease, even though she did not act that way. She nearly got fired, as it is absolutely forbidden to be sick and then come in to work if you work in a healthcare situation - which we did.
My brown locks are starting to look luscious as well 😢
mine are gradually turning silver....
@@nariu7times328 aye better grey than gone!
I feel ya. My locks went 'luscious' 20 years ago.😂😥
You forgot about argyria, use of colloidal silver or ingestion of silver leading to purplish blue skin. Here's the fun part: silver atoms cannot be removed, so the change is permanent.
I wish I was purple like a Night elf, but ill have to settle for dying my hair bright pink for now.
I've been thinking of green for myself...
not to give you stupid ideas, but:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Karason
6:40 can also be caused by severe melange addiction.
I can't believe I had to scroll this far down just to find the first spice reference.
@@struckbyturtle3054 Yeah, there's some more now.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome mentioned!!!🗣️🦓
So glad this condition is becoming more widely known. I have blue sclera from eds :)
My dad has had Raynaud's for a long time, and I may have a mild version of it.
Although I thought Blue-skinned people happened when they were exposed to breathing in fumes from silver mines. So, I didn't realise there was also a genetic defect way of it happening.
I just want to shout out my appreciation for the scientific way this channel describes pigmentation in people without using the antiquated ideation of there being separate races. This simple change to language completely destroys the foundation of racism by expressing the fact that we are all one species and like every other animal our genes can combine in a multitude of ways and depending on which ones are inherited and expressed creates an individuals degree of pigmentation; and by the characteristics of mere probability certain genes including those related to pigmentation can be either more or less frequently inherited by a group based simply on location.
Thank you for explaining about the blue sclera. I noticed a child actor had that when I was watching a C-drama once and wondered what was going on.
I used to though it was just a glitch when they were fixing the color balance or the screen unbalance.
😂 Never expected to be real.
@AramatiPaz I wondered that too, but none of the other actors' eyes were blue like the kid's, so I figured it had to just be him.
When I was little I watched The Magic School Bus a lot and when I saw thr episode in which Arnold's skin turned orange I tried over the course of a month to turn my skin orange by eating a lot carrots every day. Unfortunately, what I thought of as a lot wasn't enough for the desired effectl hahah. 😂😂😂
Silver can also turn your skin blue.
Exactly. This condition is called argyria and I can't believe they didn't talk about it.
I have blue sclera. I have 2 resesive genes for osteogenisis imperfecta. And 2 other mutant genes for Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
When I was a kid, I once told a teacher about the carrot thing because it happened to my aunt one time. I was then told, "That's not a thing," and was ridiculed for being wrong and stupid. Thanks for the validation I guess lol
Aha! Reynaud's. I have Reynaud's, and in my youth my hands, from fingertip to mid-forearm, turned bright purple with orange flecks when I was outside in the colder months. Wasn't a problem until it made my hands stiff and sore, these days I look after it a lot better.