April 28, 2024

Doctor Reacts To Absurd Facebook Health Posts Ep. 2



Published June 27, 2023, 6:20 p.m. by Violet Harris


Last summer I reacted to some bizarre health posts I’d found on Facebook. I logged back in to see if I could fact-check any more posts that seemed to be spreading like wildfire. Well wouldn’t you know it didn’t take me long to find some dangerously misleading or downright ridiculous health “tips”. I had to fact check things like using onions to cure the cold, baking soda to remove grease from your hair, drinking cow’s urine to fight COVID-19, putting cabbage in your bra to battle mastitis, using toothpaste as a skin cream, and the proper way to hold your phone, drive, and wear your backpack to school.

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- In honor of the new set and the new sign,

let's fact check some Facebook health posts, pee-wup.

Reasons not to hold in a fart.

I'm not gonna judge this one,

because maybe there are reasons not to hold in a fart.

I have to think about this one.

Puts immense pressure on your lower abdomen.

Immense pressure.

Can you imagine the human body, so eloquently designed,

can go sky diving, scuba diving,

can even sometimes survive a sky diving accident,

but if you hold in a fart, immense pressure builds up?

The gas might get reabsorbed into your body

and released into breath.

Do they not know there's a lower GI system

and an upper GI system?

Can you imagine if farts can travel their way back up

through the entire GI system,

like how problematic that would be?

That would mean just contents are just floating everywhere.

The buildup of gas might result in

an uncontrollable, possibly smelly fart.

That is the only one that I might get with.

Yeah, holding in a fart might make it more smelly

the longer hangs out there, okay.

We fart several times a day, on average.

In fact, if you eat a lot of vegetables,

you're more likely to fart,

'cause beans are good for your heart but they make you fart.

This is why you should put a slice of onion

on the sole of your foot before going to bed.

I can't even begin to guess what this claim is gonna be.

The unusual method will literally heal you in your sleep.

Do you know that like sleeping is healing, say it's onion.

This method will work wonders overnight.

Gimme the claims, hit me with them.

It will clean your blood.

Onions contain phosphoric acid

which is absorbed into the foot,

and has a cleansing effect on the blood.

God, why am I so angry?

Have you ever smelled a sweaty onion?

Don't try it at home, kids.

It might sound strange,

but your feet will actually smell better.

The onion slice draws all of the chemicals and poisons

out of your foot and even cleans the air around you.

Who knew that when I have a piece of onion sitting

on my kitchen counter, it smells like onions,

but if I put it on my foot, it's a deodorant?

Why don't we just put onions in deodorant?

Share this trick for cleansing the body

in 100% natural way, without actually having to do anything.

You can cleanse the body 100%,

without having to do anything.

You don't even need to shower no more,

just rub onions on you.

Did you know, putting a, puttin, puttin?

They didn't even get the G in there.

Puttin a cabbage leaf on the breasts,

take a frozen cabbage leaf

and stuff it into your bra over the infection.

What infection?

These things don't even specify.

They're just like, "Do you have an infection?

Is it in your lungs? Put it on your breast."

This will do wonders in treating mastitis.

Okay, now we'll at least localized infection,

that's an infection of the nipple area.

This cold cabbage leaf does the work of a cold compress

on the inflamed breast and provides relief.

This remedy is not just good for the relieving

the tenderness in the breast, but also in the unclogging

of the milk duct and flushing out the infection.

We have medical treatments.

I don't understand, the medical treatments are not poison.

And why cabbage?

Do they go through the vegetables an be like,

"Which one looks like it's most compatible with a breast?"

And then they were like, "Cabbage."

And the real reason this upsets me

is because they said this remedy is not only good

for relieving the tenderness in the breast,

but also in unclogging the milk duct.

That's not true.

If you want something to drain and become unclogged,

you actually have to bring warmth to the area.

So circulation comes there and then you can have drainage.

Maybe this could relieve some tenderness

cause it's a cold object,

doesn't matter that it's cabbage.

You could put this headset in the freezer and then put it

on your breast and it will achieve the same goal.

I'm not recommending you do this,

I'm just saying it's the cold that's helping,

not the cabbage.

Leave the cabbage alone.

After eating soaked, raisins, drinking lukewarm milk on it,

increases the sperm and removes weakness.

The pain.

I just don't know any person

that's walking around that's like,

"God, I have decreased sperm, without checking it,

ah, so weak, need some raisins with milk."

Crystal tip for knee injury or stiffness.

Apache tear and smoky quartz work well

for issues with the knees,

hold these crystals to the knee for relief.

Oh, I thought it was put the crystals

into the knee for the relief.

Do you want to diagnose why the knee hurts

before giving the treatment?

Like can you imagine a patient came into my office

and they're like, "Doctor, this hurts",

I'm like "crystal."

"But doctor, I actually had a gunshot wound to that knee."

"Apache crystal."

Don't wear it too low, tighten the strap for good support.

Actually, I very much agree with this.

Not only about not wearing it too low,

but not wearing it on one side.

Like students in general come in,

and a lot of them suffer with scoliosis

because their desks are only one-sided

so they're constantly leaning like this.

They wear their book bags on one side,

so their shoulders are slumped.

People wear handbags and they're slumped on that side.

So really try and disperse the weight evenly

and keep the load higher off,

that actually distributes the weight better

across your spine, allows you to be more steady.

Driving, don't stoop over while driving, sit erect.

This is true.

Not only for back pain, neck pain,

but also for safety with the airbag.

You wanna maintain a good distance away

from the steering wheel in case the airbag comes out.

Obviously you have your seatbelt on,

but you also wanna have the air bag,

like the steering wheel,

facing your upper chest so that if it comes out,

it kind of comes out to your face and chest.

'Cause if you have it too high up,

it can go in like a weird direction.

Oh, using your phone, lift your phone.

Okay, this is really true.

Not only lift your phone up, I mean I do this,

I have a horrible habit of doing this

so I can't even call anyone out on this

'cause I need to be called out.

Not only do you not want to keep it here,

you also don't want to keep it too close.

On average, people are holding phones way closer

than they do with like written reading material,

and as a result, it's affecting their eyes.

You literally hurt your eyes, you strain your eyes

by keeping everything so close all the time.

Scientists find sniffing rosemary

can increase memory by 75%.

If only I knew this during med school.

I would be a better doctor today

if I just had some rosebury by my side.

I said rosebury.

Use of Colgate and Vaseline

to get rid of dark spots on skin.

No.

In general, before you get rid of dark spots,

please have your doctor investigate them

and make sure they're not a dangerous form of skin cancer,

because we can act upon that,

not just camouflage it with toothpaste and petroleum jelly.

Mix bananas, honey and water,

cough and bronchitis will disappear.

My God, I talk to you about green tea

and honey all the time because I love it,

it actually helps control a nighttime cough,

but to say that it's gonna make bronchitis disappear.

If you have bacteria, serious bacteria causing a bronchitis,

like an acute bacterial bronchitis,

do you think a little banana and honey and water

are gonna just make it go away?

Do you think it's that simple?

Why have the crazy claim? It's unnecessary.

How bout this.

Eating one grape fruit, capitalized, a day for nine months

can clear all plaque in one's arteries.

This is a hidden truth which big pharma

doesn't want you to know.

It's also why it says heart medication, quotes,

"don't eat grapefruit, everything you need is in nature."

Do you know why on some heart medication

it says don't eat grapefruit?

Because there are certain enzymes that actually interact

with grapefruit and grapefruit juice, and as a result,

you can have way more medication in your bloodstream

or actually way less medication in your bloodstream,

depending on which enzyme we're talking about.

Eczema, that is a very fake version of eczema.

One cup milk, are they're making cereal?

Oh, it's two cups oats,

Are they gonna put blueberries on it?

Oh no, they're just gonna put a little oat thing,

and look the eczema's gone.

Do you know why it's gone in this thing?

Because the eczema at the beginning was fake,

it was like dried foam.

Ooh, smelly foot, okay.

A little alcohol,

rub your foot in alcohol.

Do you realize a bottle of isopropyl alcohol

is like a dollar?

Why would you clean your feet

with the expensive bottle of alcohol when you could do

the same with rubbing alcohol for a dollar.

Crazy suggestion, wash your foot.

Do you know why your foot smells or your armpits smell?

Because of bacteria farts.

The bacteria literally feed on little things of your skin,

the oils and the discharges and all that,

and then they release farts.

So if you rub in alcohol enough,

you'll kill all the bacteria there by decreasing the scent.

But guess what? Soap accomplishes that same goal.

Greasy hair, baking soda.

Remember when I said you're not a chicken

so don't go in a pot?

You are not a chicken in a pie.

You are not a baking object, do not bake soda on your head.

I have a very bizarre hack for that one.

Go in the shower, you wet your hair,

and you get some shampoo

and you make this weird motion like this.

You can sing, la-la-la-la-la,

then you rinse off, no longer greasy.

Try it, yo it's cray, share this with everyone.

Drink cow urine to fight virus,

Bengal BJP Chief.

Urine, stool, those are things you should not be consuming.

Why? 'Cause your body got rid of them.

It got rid of them because you didn't need them.

- [Sam] That guy is the president

of a particular region of India,

and BJP is the name of his political party.

And he said drinking cow's urine was a cure for coronavirus.

- Wow, do you think he did

a randomized controlled study of that?

You think he did a study on it at all?

You think he tried it?

How do you do it?

That's all I wanna know.

Buzzfeed medical advice is even more crazy,

click this one to check it out and other Buzzfeed videos.

As always, stay happy and healthy.

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