Intriguing theory. If anything comes of this direction of research, then there at least might be some hope for patients of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.
The research articles mentioned in the video:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07936 (open access)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1571064522000197 (open access).
Again I get what you’re saying, but it’s a visual medium. You expect him to put a barcode scanner up there or some shit? The video itself makes some of the same points you do. And yeah YouTube is full of clickait, but if you’re gonna be on YouTube, do as the YouTubers do.
Edit: also, he usually does astronomy stuff. The nebula is just his normal background