From pee tasting to blood meters - The intriguing history of diabetes testing

Dawnbandit

Can you do a video on synthesizing piperazine and explain how many pharmaceuticals use piperazine/have a piperazine ring?

i wonder how many you would need to put in series/parallel to get a usable power source.

Nile Red

I mean, using a solution of just glucose it might be possible to power something. I imagine that it would require A LOT of test strips though. The current that is produced isnt exactly strong.

I wonder if it would be possible to use the concept of the electronic blood testing strips as a way to make a generator powered by blood lol. Let me know what you think.

Nile Red

Ill read about hydroxyurea. I also wanted to do something like cis-platin at some point

Silviu T

Very nice, complete and accurate. Good job. One idea for a future video, in keeping with the drug/medical theme: synthesis of an anti-cancer medication. The easiest one to do (and which doesn't involve highly toxic compounds like nitrogen mustard) would be hydroxyurea.

The idea I had was based on your "edible" chemistry bits but I thought it might be too weird. I take a medicine in a class called SLGT2 inhibitors (Gliflozin class drugs). They inhibit that glucose reuptake in the urine and one can apparently spill up to 80g of glucose daily in urine on this medication. I think you can see where I'm going with this - isolate the glucose and use it to make something edible.

I was super pleasantly surprised to see this come in last night! I'm a recently diagnosed type 2 diabetic. I had an idea to propose to you for a diabetes related experiment and hadn't gotten around to it.

Nile Red

Interesting. I never heard of that before

Nile Red

Thanks!

Nile Red

hey, i looked it over and i totally agree with you. While i thought that section was interesting, it was out of place and off topic. Ive cut it out in the final cut and the intro in 1m shorter, which is good

Daniel Blake Shoemaker

Sugar levels can be controlled by exposure to other things like Radiation too. I mean it can effect the sugar concentrations in the blood.

jason black

While I appreciate the effort you put into the history of diabetes intro, people can look that up on their own if they want to. I think you could condense that part down a lot, and skip straight to the experiment.

Colin Ries

Really informative video, I love it! Keep up the great work man.

Nile Red

im glad you liked it!

Great job in presenting chemistry in context with the real world rather than showing a chemistry experiment in isolation. Don't get me wrong, I love those videos too, but this format really makes chemistry accessible to the general public. Having a mix of both types of videos is a clever way to grow your channel and keep your old viewers. Keep up the awesome work!

Nile Red

:)

Really good video !