8 Survival Myths That Will Definitely Make Things Worse

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You might think you know how to survive if you end up stranded in the wild, but those tips you read on the internet might just make things worse!Some tips seem too good to be true, and they are. Others are ingrained enough to be common knowledge, except they’re wrong.Hosted by: Hank GreenHead to https://scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe! ----------Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow----------Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Jerry Perez, Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali. Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz----------Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishowTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishowTumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.comInstagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow----------Sources:https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/desert-cloudscape-gm482377760-69992289https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/snowy-empty-driving-road-in-the-winter-iceland-gm657042568-119691245Eating snowhttp://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1619 https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/23/463959512/so-you-want-to-eat-snow-is-it-safe-we-asked-scientistshttps://www.istockphoto.com/photo/winter-scene-thaw-gm628875450-111753311Cactus juicehttps://www.britannica.com/story/can-you-drink-water-from-a-cactushttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC148931/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jsfa.2740350410 https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/a?dbs+hsdb:@term+@DOCNO+1202https://www.khanacademy.org/science/biology/photosynthesis-in-plants/photorespiration--c3-c4-cam-plants/a/c3-c4-and-cam-plants-agriculturehttps://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/calcium-oxalate-stone https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferocactus_wislizeni_(6541006057).jpghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prickly_Pear_Closeup.jpghttps://www.istockphoto.com/photo/field-of-cactus-gm145997810-6138805Urine and bloodhttp://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2008/05/the_yellow_liquid_diet.htmlhttps://www.livescience.com/15899-drinking-blood-safe.htmlhttps://www.hemochromatosis.org/#overview https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/beer-with-forth-gm183243456-14730136https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blood-dripping-gm157509239-10684671Mosshttp://mentalfloss.com/article/56243/does-moss-really-only-grow-north-side-treeshttp://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=2975http://projects.ncsu.edu/project/bio181de/Lab/plant_phylogeny/non-vascular.html https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/strong-roots-of-old-tree-covered-with-green-moss-close-up-gm866600452-144131965https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/the-gree-hell-mossy-roots-and-trunks-in-deep-forest-gm912425688-251189812Alcoholhttp://mentalfloss.com/article/32256/does-drinking-alcohol-really-keep-you-warm-when-its-cold-outhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2318781https://www.princeton.edu/~oa/safety/hypocold.shtml https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/close-up-view-of-the-bottle-in-ice-gm133897014-18274727https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/young-woman-drinking-a-tea-on-the-city-gm628664428-111676911Frostbitehttps://emedicine.medscape.com/article/926249-overview#a3 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hypothermia/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20352688 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/man-with-a-tan-beanie-and-red-scarf-trying-to-warm-up-gm142527503-17874723Snakebitehttp://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra013477https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/pathophysiological-and-pharmacological-effects-of-snake-venom-components-molecular-targets-2161-0495.1000-190.php?aid=25709 http://www.umich.edu/~elements/fogler&gurmen/html/web_mod/cobra/avenom.htm https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/venomous-snake-bites-mans-finger-gm939901378-256963981https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/isolated-diamondback-rattlesnake-gm91032724-5881298Jellyfishhttps://www.britannica.com/science/nematocyst#ref1013437http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/9/3/105/htm?xid=PS_smithsonianhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-fix-jellyfish-sting-180963582/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/whats-behind-that-jellyfish-sting-2844876/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728541/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/health/14real.htmlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3773479/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Moon_jellyfish_at_Gota_Sagher.JPGhttps://www.istockphoto.com/photo/stingers-gm172300393-3544362Thumbnail:https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/caveman-gm157533887-11308958