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10 Natural Remedies That Actually Work

guess what there are some natural remedies that actually work and we utilize them all the time in the hospital today i'm going to give you 10 natural cures that absolutely have evidence behind honey not only is it absolutely delicious but it actually has true medical uses now i'm a little biased here because i absolutely love my manuka honey with green tea but the american academy of pediatrics actually recommends honey for a nighttime cough for children over the age of one when they compared it in scientific research to over-the-counter cough suppressants it actually performed as well or even better than some of these cough suppresses but we have to make sure that it's given to children over the age of one because of the clostridium bacteria that can be found in honey which is potentially lethal for children under the age of one i really want to hammer that home melatonin supplements and i know you're probably like whoa dr mike's talking positively on a supplement there are certain uses for supplements especially when it comes to the hormone melatonin which is naturally secreted by the pineal gland inside your brain this hormone actually induces a state of drowsiness sleepiness and it's released late at night when your circadian rhythm begins to drop in fact that's why i tell you to not use devices before bedtime because when they release blue light you actually have a decrease of melatonin secreted naturally inside your brain thereby making it more difficult to fall asleep now melatonin supplements can work in several conditions and i use them regularly with my patients for jet lag when traveling to a new country and you want to reset your circadian rhythm supplements great way to do that second in delayed sleep wake face syndrome where you have an individual who constantly cannot fall asleep before two to four a.m and then they're waking up really late in the day melatonin supplements can play a role here now i'm not suggesting that you start self-medicating in all these instances but it's definitely a good idea to bring up melatonin with your doctor if you're suffering from one of these two conditions saline nasal sprays also known as good old salt water and i can't believe some of these companies are charging what they charge for a little bottle of water granted they buffer it so it's not as irritating to the nasal passageways and it's in a great delivery system so i won't hate too much that being said nasal saline is an absolute godsend whether we're talking about sinus infections colds allergies it does a great job at washing out your nasal passageways thereby clearing your nasal passageways so that you can breathe i wish we could all just swim in the ocean and clear our sinuses and passageways like that but not all of us have an ocean near us so for those who don't nasal saline spray sugar sugar sugar i bet you did not think i would say sugar has a medical utility because it does cause a lot of medical problems i'm gonna be honest well the overeating of sugar let's not villainize a single ingredient it's like added sugar to something that's already sweet or doesn't need to be sweet where sugar becomes a problem in this case sugar for hiccups actually works and there's no like definitive scientific research as to how it works but there is a theory if you let the sugar sit on your tongue dissolve on your tongue it will stimulate the vagus nerve one of the main nerves of the parasympathetic nervous system the rest and digest nervous system that also goes to the diaphragm the spasming of the diaphragm is what causes the hiccup and now with the sugar relaxing the vagus nerve thereby relaxing the diaphragm cure yourself of hiccups a little spoonful of sugar you know makes the medicine go down helps the medicine go down oatmeal another one that's also delicious and a medical remedy specifically for eczema but we have to make sure that we're using colloidal oatmeal which is when you take the oat grain and you grind it down into a fine powder then that powder can actually be used as a skin protectant because it prevents the loss of fluid from your skin aloe vera it has actually a lot of uses for skin but one that gets me most excited is for burns specifically sunburns man to those hurt and the office of nccih actually has shown this to be true putting aloe vera on birds speeds up their healing and decreases pain the reason all this happens is because aloe vera contains chemical compounds known as anthraquinones which decrease pain speed up healing and is a natural way to do so if you have an aloe vera plant just cut it and apply also be sure if you had multiple sunburns throughout your life even as a kid it does increase your risk for skin cancer and you should be getting yearly skin checks with your dermatologist or family medicine doctor prunes for those who never had them prudes can actually aid in the treatment of constipation what's wrong you were like looking at me i think you said prudes instead of prunes really prunes work in two specific ways not only do they contain fiber which helps you go but they also contain sorbitol which is a sugar alcohol that your body doesn't digest that actually hangs around in your intestines and through osmosis sucks water in therefore having a laxative effect helping you go there's some studies that actually show that prunes work better than cilia which is one of the ingredients found in a lot of anti-constipation medications just be careful if you have ibs prunes can sometimes make your symptoms worse that's why i think it's always smart to discuss first with your doctor calamine lotion it actually works on burns itches and irritations a prime example of a natural ingredient that once was labeled useless by the fda and now has found to be scientifically proven to work on minor skin irritations specifically in cases of poison ivy probiotics this one is a little bit of a controversial one if you walk into a supplement store and you read some of the labels on the supplements it looks like probiotics fix everything and anything inside your body and that's just simply not true the evidence we have for probiotics comes from antibiotic-associated diarrhea and basically what happens is when you take oral antibiotics for a skin wound for an infection in your upper airway it actually acts everywhere inside your body including your gut thereby killing the good bacteria the probiotics in fact that's what probiotics actually means because inside of our bodies and on the outside we have a ton of bacteria living on us and this bacteria lives in symbiosis with us it actually helps us live sometimes getting nutrients out of certain foods ones that we can't digest on our own so it's usually a healthy relationship but now when we take antibiotics to fight off the bad bacteria we incidentally kill the good bacteria as well so by taking probiotics you can actually help prevent antibiotic associated diarrhea as more evidence evolves we're gonna find out more and more about the bacteria that's living in our gut yummy duct tape and i'm not talking about fixing something in your home i'm talking about warts warts that are caused by a virus known as the human papilloma virus you covered in duct tape every six days you change it and it potentially can help speed up the healing of that wart this method actually has a scientific name called the tape occlusion method and they found that the stickier your tape the more likely it is to stay on for that six day period the more likely that your ward is to go away now there are other methods of treating warts like salicylic acid and cryotherapy but those sometimes can be uncomfortable and painful especially for children tea bags and i'm not talking about drinking the tea well i'm talking about drinking the tea because it's delicious but once you're done drinking the tea you could take the warm tea back make sure it's warm and not hot and use it as a warm compress on your eye if you have a stye what do you know about those rhymes a stye is actually a blocked gland in your eye that causes a buildup of bacteria potentially a mild infection and when you put a warm compress on you help open that gland up and facilitate drainage the natural remedy that i think has done the biggest disservice to our society is soda people say you have an upset stomach have some ginger ale have some coca-cola in fact that's how some of my friends when they were kids got hooked on coca-cola and it's not that you shouldn't drink soda ever evidence is there that children drinking gallons and gallons of soda a week maybe a month actually have higher rates of obesity later in life because the cholesterol plaques that cause heart attacks start forming in your early teens we're actually propagating two problems not fixing the upset stomach and two increasing rates of obesity to me that's a big big no-no there's been research that actually tested these theories of drinking soda to help replenish electrolytes or hydrate sick kids and it doesn't work in fact ginger ale was thought to work because ginger has some anti-nausea properties helping relax the digestive system but you're much better off drinking a true ginger tea than you are a ginger soda because the traditional ginger sodas have barely any natural ginger in them i get frustrated when those natural remedies try and trick you here's some natural remedies that are absolutely absurd from facebook health posts click here to check that out and as always stay happy and healthy [Music]

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