How to pronounce“tetrodotoxin”in English

Fugu contains a poison called tetrodotoxin, and even in the hands of chefs who know what they’re doing, it makes your lips go numb just to taste a bit.

Well, tetrodotoxin is really good at binding to those channels, messing up your nervous system, and killing you.

If the chef makes a mistake and you eat the wrong part of the fish, the tetrodotoxin will mess with your nervous system and cause paralysis, suffocation, maybe some death.

Because it’s so polar, and your body’s just one big aqueous solution, tetrodotoxin has free reign to just jump on every sodium pump you got.