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There is a lot of misinformation and curious medical content on TikTok, so today I dove in head first to set the record straight. Today we talk about shins, human pyramids, concussions, neck spasms, testicular injuries, spiders, Daniel Thrasher, dizziness, garlic, antibiotics, natural cures, cinnamon, yogurt, alzheimer's, strokes, helmets, drinking urine, caffeine, salt, worms, cleanses, parasites, clean skin, massages, eye strain, Manon Mathews, alarm fatigue, Adin Ross, subconjunctival hemorrhage, neck rollers, pitting edema, hyperextension, blisters, ayuverdic medicine, and mouth taping. Tag me in more TikToks that you'd like to see my reaction to!
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I knew a girl who'd eat raw garlic in the morning and I once asked her, "you know you can chop that up and throw it in an omelet right?" She was flabbergasted.
OH MY GOSH U USED FLABBERGASTED!!! ur amazing
Roast garlic is my family's favorite snack 😂 I don't know how much a person can eat, sometimes they ask me to cook more
@@NessieNice Roast garlic is definitely a top tier snack. Im more of a sautéed zucchini kinda guy tho
Raw is better. Best with Ssamjang.
@@bobtheduck you guys be eating raw garlic?
Honestly respect to this man for fighting misinformation with such enthusiasm and persistence.
Not when he also pushes misinformation. Cheers
@@SonOfMuta oh grow up.
@@GeologicalNerd You grow up
@@SonOfMutawhat misinformation
@@SonOfMuta when? please provide an instance where he does this if you want me to believe you.
That tape over the mouth things scares me. My mom snores horrifically, whenever my family is on a vacation or something and I can hear her snoring it's like all I want is for it to stop, but the second it does I sit up in a panic and have to check if she is still breathing.
i’m pretty sure thats sleep apnea
Definitely have your mom go to the doctor and see if she has sleep apena. Undiagnosed sleep apena will shorten her life by YEARS!
@@TChalla616What? How
@@stannisthemannis4199 People with sleep apena have a much higher rate of cardiovascular diseases, and stroke. It also causes daytime sleepiness which could contribute to a higher rate of motor vehicle accidents. In other words sleep apena wreaks havoc on your heart, and over time stresses it out to the point of early failure.
That could be sleep apnea itll shorten her life span and can be quite serious. Get her checked tf out
@7:05 When my mom was in for cancer treatments, her room was right next to the nurses station. I decided to stay the night with her because she didn't want to be alone. She said she kept getting woken up through out the night so I felt if she had some company she would be ok. Through out the entire night I stayed, we were both constantly woken up by the nurses station having their personal phones alerting them to new TikTok videos, having loud gossip fests, and this lasted from 11pm until 8am and now my mom and I both have a permanent fear of phone noises. True alert fatigue at it's finest.
i had to stay in the hospital bc i broke my back(its not bad just a small crack i can still walk) at about 5am i would hear nurses making coffee and talking with each other in the other room, sometimes watching tiktoks on their phones or just other background noise at about 4-6am they would check my temperature then it starts to become hard to sleep bc the room barely had any blinds so i covered my eyes with my blanket sometimes my back would hurt a lot making it even harder to sleep also hows your mom now? my mom also had cancer treatment in 2019 she survived it cancer is gone
One night of dealing with noise has given you a "permanent fear of phone noise"? Sounds like you need to touch grass..
@SamIAm10262 Being deprived of sleep in an unfamiliar environment in a prolonged high-stress situation? I can't stand alarm noises that I've used for too long, so this sounds pretty reasonable to me. I think that perhaps the judgy contrarian among us should touch grass instead.
@@SamIAm10262 phonophobia is the fear of all sudden noises or loud noises. Research before you wreck the comments
I would have complained to the nurse supervisor about that. Your only job as a patient while in the hospital is to rest and focus on healing. Sleep is incredibly important for that process. If they can't keep their personal phones quiet then they need to ban them from the area.
"We don't fix patients. Patients fix themselves" This is why I like Dr. Mike
Exactly! "Patients fix themselves!" I don't get why he is so mad over the placebo treatments like the potato.
Alexander the potato is not real. Wth are you saying??? edit: DANNGGGGGGGG I GOT 24 LIKES ALREADY?? TYYYYY I CANT TYPE.
Ccc
@@dani_ed1ts It's more real than homeopathy. I mean you can make vodka from it. Or memes. Or vodka memes...
Or I didn't know.
"We don't fix patients they fix themselves" most honest thing I ever heard out of a medical professionals mouth.
As a pharmacist Intern I agree. It's like the saying "You can bring a horse to water but you can't force it to drink.". Getting help and following the directions given by the health care professional is ultimately the patients choice.
"I grow fruit and vegetables." "No you don't."
Doctors are the rythm correctors to our blood circulation. The heart does the work well, and cuz the heart might have issues, the rythm corrector shocks it back into correct beat when abnormal.
@@PhantomFilmAustralia Yeah, they force them to.
I'm an EFL teacher, and that's kind of true of language teachers, too. The students that will learn the language the best are the ones that speak it with their friends, watch TV and movies in that language, and regularly use it outside of class. I seriously doubt if there's a single person on Earth who learned a language exclusively through what was taught in the classroom.
7:00 - 7:25 "Alarm fatigue" almost got me killed once. I used to live in a fairly seedy neighborhood, I was in college and broke and it was all I could afford, and I didn’t have a car so I walked everywhere. All summer long it was 90°+ so I wore shorts/skirts, and all summer long people were constantly honking their horns and catcalling me. Eventually I ended up learning to tune out the sound of car horns and yelling from cars. One day I was walking and someone started honking and yelling, and ofc I ignored it thinking it was just another catcall, but it turned out they were trying to warn me a drunk driver had jumped the curb and was driving very fast up the sidewalk behind me. The only reason I didn't get hit was because they hit a light pole before they could hit me. It was very scary and very eye-opening, and it's one of the major reasons why I yell at people so ferociously for honking and catcalling now
Man, I never thought about the possibility of something like this happening... I never really go outside alone so I've only been catcalled once. I'm sorry that you've had to deal with that and I'm glad you're okay!
imagine the confusion on a robber's face when they break into your home and see that you taped your own mouth shut. like, I know there are other concerns in that moment. But can you just...imagine?
Omg lol
My dad could not breathe through his nose for a prolonged period of time. Luckily, his friend is an ENT and had him come in for an exam. He had a cancerous tumor that was blocking his nasal passage. Luckily he listened to doctors instead of TikTokers and got it checked out.
at first i was puzzled and thought your dad's friend was an Ent as in them tree creatures in Tolkien's LoTR
@@votre_il8802They're taking her dad to Isengard!
@@avynlie 😂
@@avynlie *father It sounds better, because "father" has the same amount of syllables as "hobbits".
Nice
What I learned today: -- the stomach is in your cheeks -- potatoes are bad -- garlic is good -- avocadoes should go on your feet Thanks doctor Mike! ☺
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
@@francisdoyle6199 Relax , He’s just joking
What I learned was people shouldn't quite there day job😊
garlic tastes good tho
@@padma0007 I know
"You immediately know whats wrong with you when you drink your own pee in the morning" He aint wrong there.
"If the little finger can move freely, the brain is healthy" Me with multiple sclerosis: "I'M CURED!"
You know he's a good, reliable doctor by how stressed he gets about silly things. That's passion.
Yea
I love how passionate Dr. Mike gets about his patients with insomnia. As someone with awful insomnia, it's so nice to hear a doctor say that it's not something you can just fix with a life hack or two
It took me into my mid 30s to learn that I'm just _extremely_ photosensitive, so investing in proper blackout curtains & moving everything with a glow or even single diode (like the modem + router) out of my bedroom cured the insomnia episodes & constant shallow+poor-quality sleep rhythms I'd struggled with since I was a small child. Sometimes it's that simple, but often it's not. Ppl who swear their life hack will solve someone's sleep-condition cheese me right off. It's so dismissive.
Yep. Not all about the pills or zzz studies.
I truly feel for those that have trouble sleeping. I was diagnosed with Idiopathic Hypersomnia with long sleep cycles, so the complete opposite problem. I wouldn't wish either hypersomnia nor insomnia on anyone. My husband suffers from insomnia and he tells me all the time, "I wish I could just fall asleep like you do." I keep trying to tell him that no, he does not, because falling asleep at a red light or while working [just a couple examples] is not a good thing.
same!! I have chronic insomnia due to my PTSD and the only way I can get any restful sleep is taking THC edibles before bed. "just tape your mouth" is such bullshit.
@@MsAubrey I also get that response a lot as someone else with Idiopathic Hypersomnia, so I completely understand. It's nowhere near as nice as some people think it is.
4:37, that's my friend Prescott!!! It's awesome every time we find a KZhead or Tik Tok clip of it!!!!! I think it's been 5-8 years and we're still finding them. For the questions that always come after: yes, he still has the helmet for sentimental value; no, he did not suffer long-term damage from the fall; yes, he does wear a helmet EVERY SINGLE competition, but not always for basic road, yes always for ramps, bowls, tricks etc..; yes he still skates religiously today. Other videos you can find of him are fun skate and hand slide videos, pretty roads and steep hills type; so, sorry, but no there aren't a bunch of Steve-o style videos of trying to hurt himself 😆 Really cool dude and is the first to tell people not to be an idiot, and wear your helmet so you can keep skating longer.
Garlic as an antibiotic immediately followed by a probiotic is also unintentionally hilarious
Dr. Mike, thank you for shedding light on the crazy quackery that is unfortunately everywhere. When I was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma my neighbor tried very hard to talk me out of doing chemotherapy and try some weird concoction using apricot seeds. She was adamant that I was likely going to die if I went with conventional western medicine. I didn't listen to her and I'm happy to say 13 years later I'm here cancer free.
Congratulations on being cancer-free for 13 years! My uncle had a similar situation to this. He was feeling sick recently and his neighbor gave him a concoction that she said worked for her father when he had the same symptoms. Turns out he was having a problem with his gaul bladder and her concoction was making it worse, so he eventually had to get it removed. Some people are just insane.
Congratulations :)
I'm glad you are still with us! I know some people just totally loose balance, wester medicine has hurt a lot of families, but it has also saved a lot of families, nothing is one size fits all. Here is to many more years for you!
I was diagnosed follicula non hodgkin's lymphoma 11yrs ago no treatment still here, I won't be having TREATMENT NO CURE,GOD BLESS YOU HOPE YOU STAY HEALTHY.
That's so dangerous! I'm glad you didn't listen.
I LOVE how passionate Mike is about medicine, science and facts. We need more doctors like this.
but do you LOVE HELMETS?
@@hoomantay i LOVE HELMETS.
And I like how he is funny at the same time
I also love how passionate he is about partying on a boat during c0vid 19
I had dangue fever and i was in the ICU and there were so many beeps and alarm tones just going off I had low platelet and gum bleed and as soon as I finally slept i choked on a small amount of blood and the doctors came rushing pulled the curtains and looked at the moniter and they were asking me questions and if i was awake Scariest night of my life
I have that neck roller thing and it feels really good. My skin doesn't get pinched, but sometimes my hair gets caught. You just have to make sure your hair is completely out of the way. It's definitely worth a try.
thanks. came to the comments to find this one. looking it up now.
I just did the exact same thing lmao- its a necessity @@maryellen9503
but does it work for your neck tho? I know this sounds dumb but there is a difference when somethings feels good and when it actually works
@@youngcollector4212doesn’t sound dumb.. for me, it works when my neck is really sore after I’ve been sitting looking down for too long. I have some craft hobbies that require me to look down and really concentrate and I’m terrible about making sure I take breaks and stretch. So afterwards, I’ll use this to message the soreness and stiffness away. It definitely helps in that way. I wouldn’t expect it to help much if I had an injury or some kind of chronic issue.
@@twentyonethirteen oh well that's good for you then. (ps. no sarcasm)
the video at 9:04 is likely someone getting a scleral/gas-permeable rigid contact removed. Since they're hard like glass/plastic, they need a special suction tool to remove and sometimes the suction can be so set that trying to remove the lense pulls on your actual eye. In this case, you're supposed to take the plunger and angle it at the bottom of the contact so you can break the seal against your eye. Source: I have Keratoconus and use scleral contacts to see.
Mike's fashion aesthetic getting progressively darker and darker from when he was wearing just plain, light blue scrubs to now in all black has me thinking the misinformed internet is forcing him to start his villain origin story.
I love this comment!!! Best one so far!!! He really is on the verge🤪
@@lenaokubajo9685 Every outburst he has, I hold my breath a little and wait for the villain to emerge. 💀
Now he just needs sunglasses and a bad German accent
Omg yesss this 😂❤
dr. mike villain era but he just breaks into these people's houses and steals their router so they have a much harder time posting misinformation
4:38 This man is a legend. Rather than whining about his fall, he was just super glad he had a helmet haha. That was a super hard fall too, that helmet did a lot of work.
When youve fall like that you know the helmet saved your life -experience in falling on my face
so true, really wholesome to see tbh
I love the fact that the most replayed section of the video is exactly the timestamp you put because people reading the comments always click it and go there, lol
@@Asdfboy_ I didnt even realize this comment blew up lol
I knew someone that cracked his bicycle helmet in half before. Twice actually. Definitely saved his life.
the amount of enthusiasm mike has when correcting misinformation is amazing, also his yelling is hilarious
3:49 I’be on board with this except when I was diagnosed with Crohn’s, the doctor prescribed me Lialda and said “this really won’t do anything for Crohn’s” That’s when I became disillusioned with the medical system. She KNEW it didn’t work and felt no need to ask herself the question of why she was prescribing it.
8:25 My mom used this one time and it not only gave her neck pain, but irritated the skin so bad she had to see a doctor. What a amazing product 🤩
"What a amazing product 🤩" is (hopefully) the exact opposite of your genuine opinion.
@@mara_moon13 your response is so confusing i genuinely don't know if you are being sarcastic towards sarcasm or if it's just plain stupidity.
@@mara_moon13 it's obv that they're opinion on the product is the opposite of what they wrote lol. It's sarcasm
@@mara_moon13 It’s... it’s sarcasm- 😶🌫
oh my days no way you're real@@mara_moon13
I love your comment “We don’t fix patients. They fix themselves.” I went to the doctor six moths ago and found out I had very high blood pressure and was at risk for heart attack or stroke. I started actually paying attention to what I ate, started eating 1,500 mg of sodium a day and only 25 grams of added sugar a day, started eating healthier and stopped eating out, started walking daily and going to the gym three days a week. Now I’ve lost 45 pounds and my blood pressure is excellent. Without the doctor though I wouldn’t have known there was an issue.
Exactly! Doctors are wonderful and the work they do is fantastic, but at the end of the day they find the problem and it’s up to us to listen to their advice and use that advice to allow our bodies to do what it needs to do to get healthy. Even after surgeries the biggest part of that is to let your body rest so that it can begin healing itself as efficiently as possible!
😊😊 please a and
I was on a similar road. Morbid obesity, terrible eating habits, no exercise. Nearly stroked out at 34. Huge wake-up call. I still struggle with weight, but I haven't had fast food since 2017, cut WAY back on sodas and alcohol, started walking more (thanks Pokémon GO), and now I beat Diabetes II and have a resting heart rate under 70 bpm.
1,500mg of sodium? Is that a typo? 1,500 is a still a lot. I assume you meant 500mg?
@@vanessagoddess1 "The American Heart Association recommends no more than 2,300 milligrams (mg) a day and moving toward an ideal limit of no more than 1,500 mg per day for most adults." 1500 mg = 150 cg = 15 dg = 1.5 g
Lmao I love when he freaks out on the detox/parasite cleanse routines 😂 I legitimately have a giardia parasite infection right now and my response was “meh…it’ll resolve on its own eventually” 😂😂😂
That aggressive sassy clapping in the beginning... LOVE LOVE IT.
5:35 I love how she included DEPRESSION as a PARASITE or a symptom thereof. Thank you tiktok lady, I had no idea 80% of people have depression caused by parasites. Turns out, I've probably been taking the wrong medication, and taking therapy for no reason since the problem is that I have parasites.
IDK, parasites that cause fatigue (like hookworm) could def be considered to have depression as a symptom. It's hard not to be depressed when you have no energy to take care of yourself, esp if you don't know why you are suffering. And with the gut/brain connection only just being understood there's plenty of room to consider how parasites might effect mood. But that doesn't mean they can say that everyone who has depression can be *assumed* to also have parasites, that's totally *backwards*... Esp now that most people live in conditions sanitary enough to prevent issues like hookworm I wouldn't imagine most medical professionals are going to jump to parasites for a patient who is presenting with depression and isn't, you know, using an outhouse barefoot or eating raw game or any other obvious environmental risk factors.
Human parasites in your life can cause depression.
Better get on those papaya seeds!!!
Day 33 of hitting my ankles with a scooter on purpose-until I cry😂 I no longer feel pain
3:33 I just use mr clean on my skin also butter and olive oil salt nice clean look at the end 😂 👌👌🧑🏻🦲
It's so crazy to me how much information and names are stored in medical staffs brains. It's so impressive
I mean after 4-10 years of learning I’d know so much
Its less about remembering names, its more about understanding the root words of those names. You can guess many medical terms if you just happen to have learned a few and the prefixes, suffixes, etc.
@@zeallust8542 yep. That's the main "secret" (I got CNA in 2002)
@@JenniferFuchek Yeah, at the end of the day its just latin (and a lil Greek)
it’s because the years of trauma of sleepless nights😂
I had blisters that size on both of my feet once. On the bottoms. 🤕 I had worn new boots to the first day of school, but by the end of the day my feet were raw, bleeding, and swollen. I couldn't reach anyone by phone for a ride (this was pre-cellphones) and couldn't wear the shoes, so I had to walk home barefoot on hot cement and asphalt well over 100°F. Not something I ever want to repeat!
I’ve seen bullous pemphigoid isolated to the foot only! Probably what that was unless it was a gnarly partial thickness burn. Also your videos are awesome! The pure reaction to ridiculous claims is amazing and appreciated!
As an asthmatic the advice to tape my mouth shut while I sleep almost qualifies as attempted murder 😂
My nose plugs up so bad at night that it would also kill me haha
Same! If I was ever kidnapped and had my mouth taped I don’t think I’d make it 😂😂
My thoughts exactly
@@brieoshiro omg same
The guy with the big finger where he said my bone is moving Thats a fake thumb and thats his finger moving in there
About a year ago my grandmother (who lives in a state far away from us; we are all in India) told us that she could feel a lump in her breast. True to much of Indians of that generation she chose to go to a homeopathic doctor. Not only did the doctor not order any tests beyond a physical exam, he prescribed bullshit medicines and gaslit her and my aunt into agreeing with him that the size was reducing. Fortunately I met her about a month after this "treatment" and immediately upon looking and feeling it myself; booked an appointment with a gynaecologist. It turned out to be stage 2 cancer with three negatives. Complex case but after a lumpectomy, many rounds of chemo and radiation, she is all clear and healthy now. It honestly frustrates me that there is quite a possibility that the treatment could have been less severe for her had she gone to a proper doctor a month before, but nevertheless, she is good now.
Respect to u for being able to write such a long story
@@mushroomgal5871So you don’t care that he’s grandmother got stage two cancer
My mom feeled a lump in her breast too. Guess what it waaaas? Stage 3 cancer. Mhm, but she's doing good now. Bad thing is, she cant be on direct sunlight at day too much and stay away from hot temperature stuff etc etc yeah im bad at english.
wish men had a custom doctor for our genitals...... sucks having to go to a standard MD for questions about prostate/testicular cancer. that aside, glad you guys went to the right person and your grandma is safe.
@@Chip-Chapley urologists specialize in that
Just found this channel and am laughing so hard hearing you debunk the sort of nonsense I can only froth and rant about myself.
I did a home sleep study, sleep apnea wasn't diagnosed, because it was inconclusive. I have a deviated septum, and my heart burn gets bad enough to where it effects my nose, thus making me "stuffy." I have to breathe through my mouth when sleeping.
I just love how this guy is not afraid to admit that hes not perfect and even if he makes mistakes, he doesnt cry over it or try to hide it, he embraces his imperfection and learns from them, and thats what i love!
Oh my goodness. Thank you for saying patients need rest to recover. 5 years ago I spent 30 hours in intense, traumatic labor and the staff wouldn't let me sleep afterwards. I was constantly being harassed with nurses giving meds, taking vitals, hospital management, etc. I even had people come in to ask about payment methods. I wanted to scream and cry by the end of it. And it went on for 4 days because of complications. The trauma of that experience was horrific.
Similar thing happened to me in the icu after a very severe car accident. I told all of my nurses and doctors, if I don't ring the bell, let me rest. After a few days of me being a constant prick they finally got the picture and I was able to rest whenever I felt I could.
The vitals and meds are important too
Fellow DO here. Love your videos and emphasis of evidence based medicine. Curious to hear your take of cranio-sacral therapy or Chapman points given your medical training background.
but seriously- for almost all of the tiktoks im literally wide eyed and shocked yet mike remains clam about everything
The fact that one lady said that the stomach is in your cheeks.. goes to show how truly important it is to take your kids to school
I agree
You just single handedly destroyed her in one single sentence
She probably did. Don’t forget….men can be women. Stomach cheek doesn’t sound so bizarre now, does it?
@@debbylou5729 let's not do this Debby, at least not now
It kinda reminds me of the acne mapping so maybe that’s what she was talking about? Like I’ve had people say oh if you have acne on your cheeks you have issues with blah blah and I’m like…no they just have bacteria and oil in their skin
My grandma used supplements for *everything* to the point of causing her BP to spike resulting in a ton of ER visits and the mini strokes that eventually killed her 15yrs into her health kick. Before her death she was a dementia patient with a lot of physical problems to go with it all because she mixed 5 paper grocery bags of supplement bottles with her 6 medications. Yes, I said 5 grocery bags of supplements and no, I'm not exaggerating.
I'm so sorry for your loss
Holy shit - was that fixation caused by dementia
These people basically have a mental disorder, it's not far off someone with an eating disorder. But with supplements.. My mom would drink Colloidal silver and I had to convince her that it's dangerous but she barely listened to me, because her sister had convinced her it's good to flush out viruses and decrease your chances of COVID. I was so upset with my aunt
Damn that’s scary!!!
@@Quzga those are very different Eating disorders can be stuff like you think your fat and will even see yourself as fat in the mirror when your not Or for some reason you are completely incapable of resisting the urge to eat, etc These people simply think that it makes them healthier and the problem is that you dont get to see the effects of most supplements visually Part of why its so easy to be tricked is also because it sounds convenient
I haven’t watched your videos in a long time and I don’t know why. They are genuinely hilarious. Good job man.
Working in the OR as an ST, i learned to tune out any beeping/alarm that was not my responsibility. Anesthesia makes ALOT of noise. Lol
Him screaming “80% of people have parasites” took me off guard and I laughed so hard 😂
Me too lol
If the tiktoker meant spouses and children she may have a point.
@@briansullivan5908 no
@@daisiesonme1 😁
@@briansullivan5908 hah! 💀 😂
I love how his passive aggressiveness is slowly changing into real aggressiveness 😂 here for it!
When the world keeps getting more and more insane around you, the rational response is to flip your fricking wig.
been watching your vids for quite a bit now, and this is the funniest one I came across thus far! 😂😂
Mike I love you! Honestly! I love the way you express yourself and it looks like you have an amazing bedside manner. But the reality is I work for EMS and I have lost faith in our health system. Is really sad but the majority of the people who work there are burn out and have become numb and careless. We need more doctors like you! Honestly! God bless you and give you a very long and healthy life! Keep up the good work brother!
Dr. Mike literally saved my life. I had C Diff and the only reason I went in was because Dr. Mike had said in one if his videos having the runs and throwing up at the same time is never good.
That's crazy I got cdiff last year. It took almost a month to get diagnosed and it took three rounds of antibiotics to heal
there’s this book that mentions c diff - called turtles all the way down. Totally random but you should read it
C diff is really painful. My mom had it twice. I hope you’re feeling better now.
@@thedoremegirlit’s crazy how different peoples bodies can be. you cleared your c.diff my taking antibiotics. i got c.diff bc i was taking TOO MUCH antibiotics from years of chronic sinus infections. i had to get an injection to clear it and i get it every time i take antibiotics for more than a couple of days.
Um, I only really throw up when both ends are spasming. My body is kinda held together with the medical equivalent of duct tape and hope(titanium screws and optimism?). I'm a bit of a freak that can't die in spite of how many times my body has tried to shut down.
What dr mike said about the alarm was exactly what happened to me. I would set an alarm when I really didn’t need to get up and would constantly snooze. Then I’d sleep threw my alarm regularly.
I work security in a hospital, and our outside panic buttons always have big spiders and webs in them. It is a design flaw.
"How are we still alive after thousands of years without 'detoxing our bodies'" To hear a doctor this sarcastic gives me hope for the future of medicine.
When I first started watching Doctor Mike I thought his suffering was funny. Now I suffer with him.
This!!
me too 🤣🤣
I agree!
Lol exactly 🤣🤣
1:15 I basically watched that video, so many long words like pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, and theres an ad from the TV called "Acetaminelefrenocinnamon" and "Acetaminebrefintlefrenocinnamon"
Don't forget "vitameatavegimen" that Lucy pimped.
Good to see at least a few people on social media still believe in telling the truth.
I love how insistent Dr. Mike is about facts and science, bc he's so worried somebody could come to harm. He's such lovely guy
i love watching doctor mike rage about the stupid thing people say. your cheeks are connected to your stomach. XD
@@user-vn1yo3gy4c Of course they are; why wouldn't they be? 😁
because dry ice is tasty. i know from experience. @@Cheap-Gaming
I think you should take a blood pressure reading before and after because Dr Mike gets so wound up 😂
lol attach him to one of those heart monitors and we can see the angry spikes
oh ur so right about patients needing quiet time in hospitals at night. but do we get it? nope! just had surgery last year and being woken up every hour for vitals is a nightmare. I'M NOT DYING NURSE TRICIA IT WAS ROUTINE MINOR SURGERY AND I'VE HAD ANESTHESIA BEFORE LET ME SLEEP. grrr.
The second tiktok is a tradition from Catalunya (a region in Spain), they are called "castellers" which translates to castle builders. They create different structures, such as the ones in the video, and they are street performances that happen during important dates. There are also competitions of these, where different town's castellers will meet in a major square. There, the goal is to create a structure like the one in the video, have the "enxaneta" (which is the person that goes on top, a child with a helmet) climb to the top, raise their hand in the air, and take the figure down without falling. The team that creates the most difficult structure wins.
I love the Alzheimers/stroke/brain problems one because I have frontal lobe seizures and cerebellar dysplasia (meaning my brain is absolutely NOT healthy) but I can do that little trick lmao
BUT you don't have Alzheimer's xD
As a person who suffered from huge polyps since basically 6 years old, and only figured it out at 21, and suffer from allergies daily, AND insomnia. I appreciate you so much for debunking so many health frauds on TikTok, only If I could meet you sooner in life maybe I could take care of myself better since my parents couldn't. ♥
My mom has a severe deviation to her septum. Has her whole life and always breathes from her mouth. She ended up getting a rhinoplasty to ‘’try ‘’ and fix and widen , well that ended up not working and the surgeon did more damage to it and ended up developing sleep apnea from the damage. Had to get another Dr to check her out and he saw the damage that was done and it wasn’t worth going back in to repair it and he said because of this it caused the sleep apnea. It sucks as she’s now been on a cpap for over 20 plus years now all because she was told the surgery will fix her nose and make her breathe easily and from her nose.
@@brandiehammond I'm sorry your Mum went through that. That surgeon was clearly not the caliber of doctor that Dr. Mike is because he made false promises.
@@brandiehammond That is very sad, because sometimes a rhinoplasty can fix a deviated septum and help.
I just got to say, I appreciate his editors. When dr. mike it explains what's happening. They show you. I just love that.
3:50 - Mike I LOVE YOU!!! From an upcoming nurse 😊 I learn so much and I used to be such a “health freak” and then I just realize some of it is just nonsense.
Mike said he won't use black scrubs again and there he is using it, lmao.
He's a savage🤣
It was probably recorded before he found the study
@@MarbleClouds most likely.
Fr lol
Lol
I love how he speaks legit facts instead of saying inaccurate information. I like how he’s not like these other “doctors” on social media that are saying random, incorrect things and how he calls them out for it.
That says more about the other “doctors” than Dr Mike, as he is doing the right thing. It should be the default.
And that he's open about saying he doesn't know about something and willing to do research about it.
my mum is an acupuncturist and recently (2-3 months ago) she had this patient and my mum was so sure that there was something wrong with her and kept telling her to go to the doctor about and eventually she went to a+e with her daughter and found out she had cancer but it was too late (rest in peace)
I think the lady with the under eye circles is referring to acupuncture /acupressure Pathways. I used to work for a doctor that performed acupuncture. He took a medical course through Harvard and was board certified in Emergency Medicine. When properly utilized, acupuncture can be a great addition to traditional medical care.
13:20 *me who's nostrils get horribly clogged at night* *tapes mouth shut at night so I can't breathe* *dies*
*YES YES YES YES*
Relatable
11:46 and her confidence just makes everything a billion times funnier LOL
There should be a gif or meme of that 😂
I have Virtigo and you have no idea how many times people have told me to do things that trigger it. As a young adult who has it it makes a lot of things difficult
I want to thank you for saying that hospitals should set aside time for patients to actually rest. My mom has ended up in the hospital a few times, and at one they kept waking her up every few hours, she wasn't getting any sleep, and when she complained, they actually told her hospitals weren't places for getting sleep. Isn't sleep deprivation counterintuitive for healing?
Usually patients have to be rotated every 2-3 hours so they won’t get bed sores. That could have been the reason for all the disruption.
That's only if a patient is immobile. I work in a nursing home and the only times we go into rooms at night is for checking vitals, changing incontinent residents and repositioning when/if needed. When your in a hospital vitals have to be checked constantly. They also need to monitor you pain levels. They are required to do many checks. I was so frustrated when I was in the hospital for 6 days and barely slept but also just understood its just them doing their jobs. I too don't fully understand why because all it did was stress me out more and you'd think sleep would be more beneficial to the healing process.
@@BambiBryant Well every 5 seconds they keep waking patients up. My mom was overly tired when she came home from the hospital.
This! When I was in the hospital for 10 days due to preeclampsia that resulted in a c-section! Was so tired!🙄
Sleep deprivation is a form of torture.
12:17 ‘Your lungs are the lower part of your face’ Dr mike- ‘NO YOUR LUNGS ARE HERE IN YOUR CHEST CAVITY’ ‘and your stomach is the upper cheek’ Dr mike- ‘NO YOUR STOMACH IS ALSO IN YOUR ABDOMIN!, it has nothing to do with your cheek’ ‘And your temple area *creepily points to temple area* it’s connected directly to your liver’ Dr mike- ‘NO. ITS. NOT’ Honestly respect for this man correcting all the misinformation in this one video
I’m just concerned on how she didn’t know where her stomach, lungs and liver were-
I share your frustration Dr Mike 😱 All the self-assigned “Experts” make me yell at my phone 😩
10:04 I had a tropical fungus on my feet when young from wearing sandals outside, was itchy small blisters at first then turned into spotted blisters covering my big toes and others infected. Was gold by a military doctor that was deployed in tropical areas not to rupture them unless the fluid was sucked out by a syringe because it would cause the fungus to spread.
His frustration is adorable. I'm at home recovering from surgery and have been binging these videos. I also work in the medical field. Diagnosis: Major crush on Dr. Mike!
What kind
Yet another video proving that Caroline the editor needs a raise. She adds *so much* quality to Doctor Mike's videos.
Doctor Mike replied in another comment “Thanks to Caroline for editing this video.”
Dan didn’t edit this video.
@@doctorcorgi3134 thank you for the correction, and thank you for not being a jerk about it. I corrected myself.
@@get_handled yep, i corrected myself.
@@estrobart6785 ok no worries, not trying to be rude or anything but I don’t think Caroline is a ‘he’
Hey Doc🙋♀️ big fan..🥰 love your videos🫶 just curious to know are the colour of your eyelids smokey brown or have you applied eyeshadow..??🤔
I love that Dr Mike is asking why but doing the ASL for “more more more more more more” 😂
I've suffered a lifetime of insomnia that occasionally keeps me up for days on end and as of late it's gotten so bad it's scary, so I really appreciate him talking about these awful promises to magically cure genuine disabilities like mine. It really hurts when people tell me something will make me sleep 'cause for just a fraction of a second I get a little wisp of hope that maybe it really could help me, but it won't, and I know it won't, so then I just have to remind myself that there really isn't a guaranteed cure for one of my hardest and most painful struggles.
You are strong. Keep that.
Take three xanac
My spouse struggles with insomnia and neurological apnea. So CPAP machines make them sick 😣 just wish there was something else to help them. ❤ stay strong.
@@krotchlickmeugh627 No. What a stupid comment.
I have an idea you might try, it helped me. I suffered from insomnia for around 2 years. Not sure if yours is more severe, but you could try this. Get a couple of those wifi lights that can change color using an app on your phone, then schedule those lights to change color to reddish orange about an hour or two before going to bed, then off an hour after you go to bed or whenever. This was absolutely critical for getting myself into sleep mode. It probably costs 30 bucks for a couple lights, just replace the ones in your bedroom. I also have them set to turn on automatically with yellow light in the morning to simulate sunlight, but also try to get outside and look in the direction of the sun in the morning, even if it's cloudy. Beyond that, here's some other things. 1. No caffiene 8 hours before bedtime. Seriously, look up the half-life of caffiene. It lasts way longer than you think. I don't drink coffee or sodas anymore. If I do it's always early in the day and never past noon. If I want a soda in the afternoon I'll pick one without caffiene like root beer. If I want a pick me up in the morning, it's usually either green or black tea. 2. Write your thoughts down. Get them out of your head. Insomnia is caused by little bits of adrenaline released, usually due to stress. You can't sleep, so you begin to stress about tomorrow's lack of sleep, which makes you stress more, which makes you not able to sleep. It's a vicious cycle. 3. Stop TRYING to go to sleep. It seems counterintuitive, but if you're constantly worried about whether you will fall sleep, you will dread it when the time comes. You will think "well, I guess we'll see if I sleep" which means you're going to bed with stress. Just relax and if you can't sleep right away, tell yourself that's ok. Get up, have a little bite to eat, try to stay away from bright lights, although sometimes tv can relax you, and try not to beat yourself up over it. Let yourself become naturally tired. The key to falling asleep is to not stress over it. Love yourself and forgive yourself. You're only human. 4. Check the temperature in the room. It might just be too warm. Heat raises our cortisol, which wakes us up. So keep the room cool. If you find you like the room to be warm before you go to bed, then open a window before you get into bed so it's warm when you get in, and cool during night. Also, if you find yourself always cold, it might be due to a high carbohydrate diet. I was always cold when I was keeping my calories low to lose weight, but on a high carb diet. It slows your metabolism and you end up cold, which makes you reach for heat, which keeps you up. 5. Don't be too hungry or too full. Try not to gorge, especially on sugary foods before going to bed. A light snack is better. Hope this helps, friend.
I was in the hospital for 4 days after my stroke... I didn't get more than 2 hours of sleep a night because if an alarm wasn't going off, a nurse was waking me up to bother me about something that could've waited. 🙃
I hate when they wake you up to give you a shot to help you sleep
Oh man, those middle of the night alarms in the hospital, like 10 people push their call buttons at once plus IV machines and whatever else beeps non-stop and like 1 night nurse slowly not actually getting anything done. If I wasn't dosed up on all the good stuff like percs and more (car accident) I never would have slept a wink.
If your a diabetic they take blood EVERY four hours!! 😩
@@Fauxknight how many percs did you get? What other narcotics?
@@caelum2185 I don't remember the quantity or dosage, just getting some every like 6ish hours. They let me sleep pretty good, but made me sweaty and itchy. Also had gapapentin, high dosages of ibuprofen and who knows what else unless I pull out the line item charges. The physical rehab place was oxy instead of percs as well as lidocaine patches.
the second I first saw this video was when I discoverd this chanel and i love it!
I love rewatching your videos man
the neck massager works really well. it helps relieve my tension in my neck better than anything else i’ve tried (excluding getting a massage from a person)
What kind is it?
Skin doesn't get caught either
Purchase link pls?
As a nephew of a nurse, I react exactly like Mike. As a person with common f€%king sense, I also react like Mike. Ignorant people sharing fake facts pisses me off😂
These vids are awesome, im a nursing student, becoming a RN and i love getting these bits of interesting information on things!! Possibly adding to my knowledge bank for the future 😂❤
7:14 This part literally gave me anxiety with all those alarms going off like that was horrible pff
I'd really love to get a thorough breakdown of why you get dark circles under your eyes when you don't get enough sleep.
I believe it’s actually just from rubbing your eyes when you’re tired. The skin around your eyes is really thin and your eyes get dry when you’re tired so you rub them more so, especially if you haven’t been getting enough sleep for multiple nights, it can cause some bruising basically which you can see through the under eye skin because it is so thin.
@@crabbii4365 that, and lack of sleep contributes to paler skin under the eyes which cause blood vessels to appear more prominently
@@heatherrose9709 Also, genetics. From early childhood on I always had those circles.
My son gets dark circles when his iron is low. Yes, this was confirmed by his pediatrician.
Yessssss!!!
Sam laugh in background and Mike getting pissed on stupid stuff is highlight of my day🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My mom and I have both used the blue masaugger and it slightly pinched the skin but for the most part it feels really nice and helps with the sore muscles! (:
Thank you Mike, after watching that video I feel really happy and grateful that I'm healthy, some of those conditions looked nasty!
As someone with insomnia, I really appreciate you talking about how harmful "best sleep you've ever had" hacks are.
I'm a Licensed Massage Therapist and I have several of those neck massagers. They are AMAZING.
Link or name? 😊
Hi! Former massage therapist here ( retired due to rheumatoid arthritis) I have never used a massage tool that worked as well as hands.
I used to live in Dubai. There is a spice market there, and every store sells saffron with claims that say “Saffron increases your sexual potential” and “saffron decreases your risk of heart disease and cancer by 50%”. I need Dr Mike to react to this.
5:28 something i have in common someway is that I was talking about a book series near my iPad which I watch KZhead on and it came up on my KZhead home page and I hadn’t even searched it
I learned about the history of medicine in England in school and the idea of transferring illness to a vegetable was literally from the renaissance period (c1500-1700) when they believed that if you rubbed a wart with an onion the wart would transfer to the onion. My class couldn't believe that this was a widely held belief, but I guess it was actually thing since people are still doing something similar today. 😭😫
Modern medicine is nothing more than a business to sell pharmaceutical drugs and injections. They very rarely cure anything that doesn't require antibiotics.
There will always be a subset of the population that will see any sort of random phenomenon and come up with their own explanation just to fill in the gaps and convince themselves that it is the unequivocal truth. That's just what happens when intelligence exists on a bell curve.
And my old folks swore that cubing a potato, stringing the cubes together and putting it around your neck like a necklace would reduce fever.
Some things are absolutely crazy. Some things do work though. Don't know the rhyme, reason or science behind it. Drops of peppermint oil in so much water. Dipping cloths in it and putting them on your pressure points like your forehead and neck helps reduce fevers. It sounds odd and I don't know the science behind it but it works. My mom did it for my brother when he was a baby before because medicine wasn't breaking it. Like I said, not sure how it works but it has. Something my family has done for many years.
@@Private-yg9tt placebo effect might play big role here
10:36 That captured my reaction perfectly. It sums up all my feelings perfectly into one meme
I came here just to watch Dr. Mike freak out. Was not disappointed 👏
Love this video. Especially part about detoxing and supplements
My physiology teacher in college was a GP. I hardly use any medicine anymore for head aches and fever because I learned not to fight fever. Eating well and rest helps me much more than paracetamol. I find often that GPs have a better insight then specialist because they are dealing with the small day to day things that get in the way of people's lives. Congratulations Dr Mike to try to give a little common sense to people ❤
But headaches hurt and make functioning nearly impossible
I love how he gets so stressed over all of this.
I think he gets so stressed because if people actually beleive all of these things they can get seriously hurt or lose a lot of money on bs 'detox' clenses