1:50:32 In fact, that's the only fridge whose name I'll remember now. It's great! The joke is of course it's called Hot Point. So there you have your fire starter. We got an interesting email in historical reference from producer Colin ITM Gents just downloaded today's episode, that was a 9 or 4 or 0 and will listen but wanted to share page of history from the French Revolution which appears relevant in light of recent discussions of PTSD and how it can affect the brain. There was an entire group during the French Revolution known as Les Enragés I think is how you pronounce it
1:51:15 Quite literally meaning, the enraged ones. They were members of leftist elite circles who deliberately took advantage of latent anger within the Parisian mob by stoking it and then directing it at the government, church whatever or whoever got in their way. Makes you think about Madonna and all the various other rabble-rousers out there on the left and right Thank you for your courage Colin Cunningham And so there's a wiki entry for this, Les Enragés Yeah, I've heard of them. I hadn't heard of them and it makes a lot of sense Certainly when you take into account this clip that I have from dr Jordan Peterson He is the guy from the Candanavian University who says I'm not gonna use those damn made-up pronouns This is from one of his lectures And if I think the lecture was on On YouTube so I would advise going to watch about religion. Thank let me see if I have it here
1:52:16 I can't find it right off there, but it was something about the he was relating today to the Bible etc. And he came up with a story of the lobster which takes a minute just To get into the lobster story But it's very relevant as he finishes up how we are you okay? Yeah Oh no, they made a weird sound not like you keeled over He's gonna keel over to you Because you're taking forever to get through this story Oh, sorry. Sorry. I'll keep going anyways back in the lobby to make that snide remark what's not remark that I was way I killed over because I was bored to see the end it sounded like and I've heard that before when the mic fell over I'm sorry this is that excited bounce my mouse
1:53:10 I'm so sorry. I bore you with my setups really sorry no, no, you don't know they're fascinating Sorry really really? Sorry, so anyways back to the lobsters So these creatures engage in dominance disputes, and I think dominance is the right way to think about it because lobsters aren't very empathic and they're not very social. And so it really is the toughest lobster that wins. What's so cool about the lobster is that when a lobster wins he flexes and gets bigger – so he looks bigger! Because he's a winner. It's like, he's advertising that and the biological... The neurochemical system that makes him flex is serotonergic And you think well who cares? What the hell does that mean? Well I'll tell you what it means! It's the same chemical that's affected by antidepressants in human beings So if your depressed your defeated lobster You're like this, i'm small things are dangerous I don't want to fight
1:54:04 You give someone an antidepressant, it's like up they stretch and then they're ready to take on the world again. Well if you give lobsters who just got defeated in a fight serotonin... Then they stretch out and they'll fight again. And that's like we separated from those creatures on the evolutionary time scale somewhere between 350 and 600 million years ago, and the damn neurochemistry is the same! It was funny because I revealed this finding... You know, I didn't discover this, I read about it but I talked to my graduate students about it. I used to take them out for breakfast you know? They were very contentious snappy bunch And they were always trying to one-up each other, and they were quite witty. For like six months until it got very annoying every time one of them went up the other they'd stretch themselves out and snap their hands like... So that was very funny! It was really very funny. You see this in lobsters so that's pretty amazing
1:54:56 And one of the other things that's really cool about lobsters is that, let's say you've been like top lobster for a long time but you're getting kind of old and some young lobster just wails the hell out of you. So you're all depressed but thing is your brain is dominant But you don't have much of a brain because you are a lobster so now what are going to do? Because you just lost! The answer is well your brain will dissolve and then you'll grow as subordinate brain Yeah, and so that's worth thinking about too right here for a couple of reasons. First of all if any of you have ever been seriously defeated in life You know what? That's like
1:55:32 It's like it's a death, a descent, a dissolution. And if you're lucky, a regrowth and maybe not as the same person that's what happens to people with post-traumatic stress disorder right their brains undergo permanent neurological transformation and then they then inhabit a world that is much more dangerous than the world that they inhabited to begin with but we also know too if you have post traumatic stress disorder or depression that your hippocampus shrinks It dies and shrinks, and you can sometimes get it to grow back. Your hippocampus shrinks and your amygdala grows, and the amygdala increases emotional sensitivity, and the hippocampus inhibits emotional sensitivity. And so if you've been badly defeated, the hippocampus shrinks and the amygdala grows. Now if you recover, the hippocampus will regrow, and antidepressants actually seem to help that but the damn amygdala never shrinks again. Permanent damage bitches! Wow where'd you get that clip?
1:56:26 From I'll tell you exactly one of our producers sent it to me in that great. Well, I eat it's a fantastic clip Um, I'll give you a borderline for it just make you feel better It's a I didn't know the amygdala got big and stayed that way. I thought it varied up and down. No, you're done! You're toast! Wow... That means most of the people in Dimension B that haven't been saved by now are probably doomed? Yes well you can apparently
1:57:07 with serotonin, get your hippocampus back up a little bit. Yeah but then you get the serotonin issue which is... Right You know we have people on our that listen to our show that warn against anybody playing around with serotonin it's like you can't stop doing it I mean you're stuck you're screwed It's uh..it's a medical condition We need brain...we need fMRIs for everybody You could be, you know...you could actually become unhinged in this condition. We need a name for it! We need to name for it for this condition