Planet of the Beavers

Published Mar 25, 2025, 7:00 PM

We explore a study which points towards a very odd health benefit purported to be derived from...

One more sign that my prediction of a planet of the beavers is accurate. It's one more thing, Jesus, I'm strong and getty. One more tels you, geez my brilliant theories, Sarah.

Before you get to that, I mentioned this yesterday on the air. I'm going to mention it here in case anybody didn't hear. I thought this was fascinating. I was listening to a physicists astra physicists something or other specialist guy from a fancy college talking about a life on other planets, and he made the point that we could have had a successful civilization on planet Earth one hundred million years ago that lasted thousands of years, that had computers and cars and whatever else, and if it had died out, there'd be no way of knowing there would be nothing left in that amount of time. So we can't even tell on our own planet whether or not we've had you know, previous life and civilizations and whatever, let alone on other planets.

Yeah, I'm sure he's right. But we do find dinosaur bones from you know, way back in the place to see and you know, similar eras.

Yeah, only so far back though you can't go further back than a certain amount and there's nothing right right, sure, yeah, yeah, I'm not denying it.

I'm just kind of noodling it through. Yeah, that's such an interesting thought. And then you go one hundred thousand light years away and factor in that delay and or worth. The theme is is there life elsewhere in the universe? And would we come across it even if it was teeming with life?

Right? So we could die out human species and then there'd be the planet to be run by the beavers.

You're thinking the POB. Yeah, yeah, planet of the beavers. We planet of the beaver's enthusiasts. We we just go with POB generally at our meetings. So here's what I'm talking about. Did not have this on my bingo car to study out, Chewing on wood for five minutes may improve your memory. According to study, chewing harder materials like wood significantly incluses glue taffione levels in the brain could be totally made up. I would never know glue tathyon. They made that up as they were writing this crap.

Is there something in wood that I need for this? It's got something to gonna do with wood? Or can I chew on anything?

Rocks?

Rocks seems like a bad idea, but a plastic Could I have a pain in my mouth I'm chewing on instead of a pencil? Is it the chewing or is it the wood?

It's yes, it is the chewing indeed, and not the wood per se. You're not ingesting it. I was going to you know what, I'll go ahead and skip to it now because it's too good, the inevitable.

Let's see uh.

Whereas as disclaimer, talk to your doctor first before heading out to the store for a package of tongue depressors to chew on, and be sure to ask about the potential risks involved, especially if you have sensitive teeth or other oral hygiene issues. And we'd suggest to be fully aware of pieces of wood breaking off in your mouth. The last thing anyone wants is a splinter in their throat.

Thank you for that.

If you have to be told that.

You got a mouth full of paste right now and you're picking your nose, second digit, second knuckle deep.

You're watching old VHS tapes of Mari Polvich right.

That you tape for posterity in case you know they disappeared. No, if you have to read that, you're not reading that and never will.

That's the irony here. Anyway.

Chewing harder materials like wood significantly incluses the blutethione levels in the brain. All softer materials like gum showed no significant effect.

Wow, harm doesn't work. Okay, that's interesting, right, Hey, Michael, I know we used to have clips as somebody was chewing rocks. Remember that bit we did that. There was some news story years ago somebody who had chewed rocks and we had them talking about it. It was ruining their teeth, but they couldn't.

Stop it relaxed them, Katie.

Yes, Yeah, I was trying to make up funny and now we know, I know people are actually doing that.

So there is practically no brand of crazy that you can invent that can't be matched to an actual human being.

Fall in love with the Volkswagen Ben done.

I can only get horned up if I'm chewing rocks.

There's somebody out there.

There's anyways, a show called Obsessed, and I remember a woman and she she couldn't stop eating toilet paper.

Oh legs, shout down.

It's actually had a roll of it in her purse and would just snack away. Anyway, that's my conversation.

So did she have to cleanse herself after pooing or did it take care of itself.

It's like a self filtration thing.

Right exactly. Yeah, wow, self washing. So a higher brain GGS H levels. This is the hormone I guess that we've never heard of before from wood chewing were directly correlated with better memory performance and healthy young adults. Incorporating foods that require more vigorous chewing might be a simple way to boost brain antioxidant defenses and potentially support cognitive health. That's interesting because I have a jaw clenching thing, especially when I sleep. You two, Katie, yep, I got to wear this mouthpiece thing e or I would grind my teeth down to nubs.

Yeah, that's my wife.

We have to get her a garden.

I've had a guard since I was in high school. And you know, my grandfather did it, my dad does it, and I do it.

I never I didn't do it in sleep, but I had a period of time where I was doing it during the day, clinched in my jaw and got the worst headaches so I've ever had in my life. Because there's some vein or nerve or something it pinches when you do that. Anyway, For me, it was just like once I became aware of it, I like, through the day, I keep my teeth apart a little bit always, so I'm not clenching.

I let my mouth hang over like that.

I got a couple of mouth breathers over here.

You know.

Ever since I was like seventeen years old, my best shape in my life skinny. My girlfriend called me chubby cheeks. I have like enormous jaw muscles, and it's it's not fat. I mean, Lord knows, I'm not thin anymore, but I could, like, I don't know, what do you need chewed?

If my teeth.

Being destructive, does you clench your whole A seven forty seven?

Well yeah, think about it.

I work out every night for seven hours, so it's like you're doing queezing my jaw.

It's like you're doing head crunches all day long.

Yeah.

Especially, yes, if I did curls and I sleep, I'd have massive bsex.

Wouldn't that be cool? He did curls?

So this is.

What do you need chewed? I mean, I'll chew the f out of it all right. Next time we're out to eat and I get a little piece of steak. It's a little tough. Could you chew this?

Give it here? Give it here, I'll take care of it. Hey, your baby bird.

You should offer your services to people exactly so this one, this starts so interesting.

It's South Korean's doing this SYS study. Your brain and jaw might have a closer relationship than you think. Well, I've never thought about it for a single second. Uh, while we've long suspected that chewing affects brain function. Wait a minute, who suspected that this is completely new to me?

New researches in cover South Koreans. First of all, won't you have some sex, get married, have a kid? You know, quit quit offing yourself because you did well poorly on some uh some exam. Find a cute girl. We get to smooch in and be happy, you know, land for a train because you didn't get a perfect on your SAT.

And this.

Nobody else is thinking about chewing to be smarter.

Yeah, chewing on hard materials for just five minutes can boost levels of glue tatty in the brain's primary antioxidant defense system.

That's really interesting.

Yeah, I always think everything's evolutionary in some way. I just wonder if we had to work so much harder to chew up food back in the day, and and you know it was something we needed exercise wise or whatever.

Yeah, they go into some brain chemistry that's probably a little in the weeds, But our brains are particularly vulnerable to oxidative damage. The human brain consumes proximately twenty percent of the body's total oxygen while containing high levels of fatty acids, they can easily be damaged. More Over, the brain emulates metals like iron, copper, and zinc that can promote the formation of harmful reactive oxygen species. Boys, talk about something I know nothing about and against this backdrop glue taffy one services the brain's primary defense system.

Jack, So should I get a container of Lincoln logs?

And the studies are preliminary, Jack, But yes, yes, clearly, yes, so chew them up, no matter what damage it does to your teeth or how many splinters you get in your throat.

Oh no, no, waight, I just saw this disclaimer. You're supposed to stop if you get slivers in your throat. Oh got many.

But when GSH levels fall, brain cells become more vulnerable to oxidative stretch, which has been linked to everything from normal aging to serious conditions like Alzheimer's disease. Don't I don't know where to go with.

What's your mouth specie? Where at night look like? Is it like like football.

Players where it's like I'm playing a hockey game? And do you have trouble sleeping in it?

Oh? Not in the least.

Now I do every now and then, yeah, is yours?

You know?

I don't know.

Actually I just geteeth.

Yeah, I think I need to get a new one made because I had braces and then I didn't wear my retainner and then my teeth moved and all sorts of stuff.

So do you uh, does it ever come out while you're asleep? You wake up in the middle of the night and it's laying there next year.

No, it fits too well.

I've taken it out, but now it doesn't just come out.

Yeah, it's funny. It doesn't bother me in the least.

My it's funny. My my son is supposed to be wearing something similar to that to see if he can handle have having braces because he's got some jacked up teeth. Unfortunately I had I've never had braces I had straight teeth, and my other son has straight teeth. But my youngest his teeth are pretty crooked. But with all his O C D stuff, he just I don't think he could handle having something in his mouth messing to just to just and so I had him make a thing that he could where to see if he could tolerate having braces, and I don't think he can. So I think I think he's just gonna have to have crooked.

Or that in vezzoline stuff.

The that they're actually more poky, Well.

I didn't know that.

Yeah, huh so uh to uh to to give you a takeaway instead of.

Chewing on wood.

Uh. Maybe wiser to consider the potential benefits from incorporating more texturally challenging texturally challenging foods into our diets. Think crunchy vegetables, nuts, tough hohole grains, and fibrous proteins. Your your tough steak. Start start buying the crappy steak at the grocery.

Good idea. I'll tell the kids it increases your brain function.

Steak on this. Just give mu strap a leather? Would that work?

Steak was a dollar and a half. It's good for you.

Cat steaks dog speaking of Oh I remember we're talking an Asian stuff.

It's just a fact.

Wow.

You took it there, Joe, Yeah, thank you.

I'm a scientist. I'm not gonna let ideology blind my inquiry into science.

When you first started this, I was wondering, has this got anything to do with I used to crunch on my pencil quite a bit in school.

Yeah, yeah, I'll bet it's related.

If my brain was like picked up on you know, you're doing a math test, you get your pencil in your mouth, you're chewing on it. It helps the brain function.

I would chew the crap out of pens.

Everybody, anybody ever asked you to borrow a pen and then they get it and they're like, oh.

God, yes, all right. Here it is.

After Joe's done with his radio career, he goes around this around the country. Is a state far attraction known as mister Chew. And we put him in front of a table and we put solid objects on the table and see you, so he.

Can chew and how fast mister chew?

Yeah, mister chew. Yeah. I like it.

Well, I guess that's it.

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