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Doctor Reacts To &quot;Doctors of Reddit&quot; Thread | Wednesday Checkup

I'm a little late to the reddit game but we just created the subreddit dr. Mike spelled out please someone instantly shared with me in a private message that there is a thread with the question posed to the doctors of Reddit what is something that you wish everyone knew about their body has 16,000 responses I'm about to weigh in on this react to what people are saying are you ready I'm ready bear are you ready [Music] what do I want people to know about there but you need 7 to 9 hours of sleep as an adult I don't want to hear people say that they think they function better on five hours because it's just not statistically or scientifically true Superman Wonder Woman you still need 7 to 9 hours as an adult to be healthy on average antibiotics only work against bacteria they're not some kind of Wonder potion that cures anything they shouldn't always be given I'm sick right now I know that statistically 90% 80% of time this is viral the fact that I'm getting better slowly my fever is going away it's not bacterial if all of a sudden my fever spikes then I'm gonna go and get some antibiotics because I know I'm getting a bacterial super infection most of these are viruses and if your doctor gives you a once-over does a proper history and physical and tells you you don't eat antibiotics don't force their hand you're only doing it to service to yourself tell us what drugs and alcohol you're on we aren't gonna tell the cops we aren't going to lecture you but it might change that anesthesia I give you some stuff I give you my kill you if you drink a 30-pack a day tell me okay this goes into the whole idea of patient confidentiality so first of all if you tell your doctor something no one else in the world is gonna know about it unless you give us the rights to share that with that person there is a lot of drug drug interactions that we want to avoid very commonly at least in my line of work what's happened is a patient I can sense or I know they have a history of cocaine use and if you give a medication as a beta blocker which you give to slow the rhythm of the heart improve circulation to the heart after a heart attack you don't want to give these two medications together so when patients come in I asked them tell me what drugs you've taken tell me what you've been taking most recently they get all nervous thinking I'm going to call the police that's not what we're asking for we're asking for to make sure to give you the best possible care when we ask you your last drink of alcohol it's that so we can avoid a condition known as delirium tremors it's very dangerous condition that can lead to seizures and even death trust us we're looking after your health nothing else there's a wide range of normal don't be embarrassed by your body having said that if you're concerned about anything ask your doctor we generally have heard it all before and trust me we have nearly always seen it all maybe you have something that has been bothering you for ages but you were too scared or embarrassed to ask about it so just ask it might be nothing and you have been stressing about it for no reason and if not then you're at least one step closer to getting it fixed no one can help if they don't know there are no stupid questions to ask away I think this is a really good point when patients asked me the very simple question of when should I go see my doctor the answer is if something is bothering you or if it's giving you anxiety the longer you wait two things happen you build up more anxiety about the issue or two you can actually make the condition become worse worse and progress to the point where treatment may not work as effectively some people seem to think that if you act healthy for a bit it'll make up for being a wreck there's a lot wrong with this one example antioxidants are like gas for your car you can store up a certain amount of vitamins but your tank can only hold so much if you binge it overfill your tank it doesn't do anything except excreted as waste and you can't expect to go the next several months without gas just because you're bringing in extra materials that we know you need to maintain a healthy liver bones brain function whatever it is it doesn't mean that you're actually gonna get better bones if you have more materials the same way that if you're building a building and all of a sudden I say well you know what instead of giving you the materials you need for this month I'm just gonna dump all the materials you need for the next year and now does the building get built faster it doesn't it would help if more patients knew their family history prevention is becoming more and more important in medicine and treating a disease in its early stages is a lot better than catching it late that's very true I think that in general we as a society are not very good at keeping track of our medical history many of my patients come in and can be taking ten medications not know what they are outside of the color size and shape of the pill they don't know what medical diagnosis they have which ones have resolved and they don't no longer suffer with that illness and then the family history is obviously in addition to that the more we can stay on top of that and be leaders for our own health the better outcomes we're gonna have I beat my meats okay not the greatest name don't do DIY surgery or hold off on reporting things that are obvious warning signs don't be the guy who tried to remove his skin cancer with duh yeah please don't do your own surgery I have seen some videos online of people like popping their cysts stop that stop that just because you watch some pimple popping videos on YouTube doesn't mean that you're qualified to do that it looks simple but there's a lot of things that can go wrong there could be a blood vessel there that you pop and all of a sudden you can't control the bleeding what are you gonna do then what happens is whatever cysts you came out you took out actually turns out to be cancerous now you'll never know cuz you didn't send this to pathology good point Pete my meat you need some kind of exercise doesn't matter how you feel right now sitting for 12 to 16 hours a day will have negative consequences 100% true in fact before doing this video I contemplated doing a video on the dangers of city that may sound funny but it's so true city is like the new smoking is a slogan that's been used by media companies and some people saying oh it's overblown sort of the amount of risk is overblown but the fact that sitting for too long affects your mental health your physical health your cancer risk muscle aches and pains stop sitting for 14 hours at a time playing video games Netflix YouTube all this stuff take a break stand up go for a walk get a puppy go on a date get some water go pee whatever your Excuse is walk around and be happy enough your kidneys and liver cheerfully do all the toxin elimination you'll ever need I love that term cheerfully cleanses and other detoxifying products RBS woo and a waste of money the people who sell them are predators who only care about your money becoming theirs that's a hundred percent true as I said in my TED talk I K experts are interested in one thing and one thing only and it's not slimming your waistline it's slimming your wallet that administering CPR compressions as soon as possible is one of the greatest indicators of successful outcomes you are right and that's why we say chest compressions chest compressions chest compressions instead of saying hands only CPR I like saying chest compressions chest compressions chest compressions because that's the first thing you should do if you feel no pulse and someone's non-responsive you'll not only save a life but you'll be proud you too has some medical knowledge can improve this world some things just don't belong in your rectum I would go ahead and say most things don't belong in your rectum I think some is not is an understatement there you often will feel normal even with high blood pressure it's found incidentally so don't wait until it gives you symptoms you don't want to go through very good point here too many of my patients think that because they feel fine that there's nothing wrong with their blood pressure it's not something you feel it's something intrinsically happening that your heart has to battle against therefore you increase your possibility of developing heart disease and as we know that's not good and also strokes even worse not only should you be listening to your doctor and taking the medications or treatment that the doctor prescribed to you you should be taking it regularly and consistently I'm a vet but I'm sure doctors will have come across this to amputated limbs do not grow back I've had too many people asking me how long it will take for their pets amputated limb to grow back so I'm assuming a few doctors out there will have patients asking the same of their own missing limbs yeah limbs don't grow back if you reattach them the right way they can heal but they don't regrow Oh Kofi Coe your mental health is just as important as your physical health how did I not give that one to you guys in the beginning I'm so passionate about that if you are not healthy mentally it will reflect in your physical health give you a simple example if you're very stressed or depressed that can affect your blood pressure when your blood pressure is high it causes increased rates of heart disease and stroke if you're depressed and your cortisol levels are high which are your stress hormones it constantly keeps your body in a high sympathetic state basically a fight-or-flight state it doesn't heal well it doesn't digest well you don't get food nutrients from food very well you could see how a worse mental state will give you a worse physical state outcome believe it this isn't woo just because a part of your body hurts does not mean that part of your body is damaged or out of alignment or needs to be repaired you can have tissue damage without pain or you can have no tissue damage with a lot of pain absolutely correct absolutely agree and the reason why I actually discourage my patients from rushing to get MRIs here's what happens if you take a hundred people who have no back pain you scan their backs meaning their spines with an MRI you'll find that 70 to 80 percent of them will have some sort of finding on that MRI what that finding means is pretty much nothing because clinically they are pain free they can function well now if you take someone who has back pain and then you find one of those findings then you might be able to say well they have this herniated disc they have back pain it's probably because of that 90% of sports meta injuries like back pain do resolve with conservative treatment like physical therapy so one of my first and foremost treatments that I give to my patients outside of like the home exercise program osteopathic manipulation that I do is physical therapy do not rush for unnecessary surgery or even worse unproven treatments which there are a ton of please if you want some more videos of me and the bear pup to see how he's doing like maybe a day-in-the-life bear video definitely drop it down below in the comments and check out this video I've actually seven reasons of white maybe you shouldn't be getting a dog even though I love there as always stay happy and healthy [Music]

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