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The Truth About Peeing In The Shower | RTC

my patients ask me some pretty interesting questions hard questions but you really challenge me in the comments and sometimes ask really weird ones as well so I'm about to answer some of your comments huge thanks to gramarly for sponsoring this episode let's get started PE beep beep I'm a sheep I like that name beep beep I'm a sheep I want a dog so badly but I'm allergic is there anything I can do to get rid of that or any other allergy there are some treatments that exist where you can actually slowly work your way out of an allergy and there are shots there are tablets sublingual tablets that you can do I'm not an expert in it but I know it does exist it's like a form of immunotherapy I drew YouTube where does a memory go when it's forgotten left pinky toe and if you want to get it back you have to only think about the left pinky I'm not sure where does the memory go it just the the the connections aren't there to remember it but I will say the best way to remember something that you've forgotten is to not think about it cuz forcing yourself to think about it sometimes the worst thing you can do that's why taking time off sometimes yields the best boost to productivity and creativity and by the way this is the one thing that in terms of like harmful effects of Tik Tok that people talk about before we used to have a lot of free time so we're waiting for the bus we'd sit with our thoughts and we'd be introspective we think about stuff we'd remember memories but now we're never alone we're always looking at something we're always being controlled by whatever it is we're watching so that we don't have that free time anymore and I worry about that if someone has a fever that we're trying to cool down and you only have one ice pack where is the best place to put it I probably wouldn't want to cool someone's fever with an ice pack I can't even imagine okay I'm going to remove the term fever if I'm just trying to cool someone down because they're having a cute hypothermia or something I would put under the armpit the most surface area that you're going to get contact with the skin and it's the most surface area with an important blood vessel the brachial artery it's right there so you're getting a lot of blood circulation moving past that area I guess you could also do it in your groin as well but like same principle why do we have boogers uh boogers are mucus mucus traps unwanted substances it acts as a barrier it's really good we like mucus unless we have too much and then it becomes a problem so that's when we try and clean it out by using nasal saling sprays why don't little kids get sore from physical activities even teenagers get more sore than little kids the beauty of being young everything is so ready to heal so much circulation also it's smaller so less distance for nutrients and blood flow to travel but the the regenerative capacity of not just a young child but like a baby is incredible when babies are sick the time for them to recover sometimes is like this meaning like on day four sometimes they'll look very sick and then day five they'll look like nothing ever happened to them it's it's incredible if a woman gets into an accident or Falls really hard could her eggs break like if you dropped a chicken's egg on the floor no these are not the same types of eggs humans have different eggs they're called eggs cuz they're part of the reproduction cycle very different eggs no shell on the human egg I don't have a 4.0 grade point average can I still be a doctor yes in fact getting perfect grades doesn't correlate with a better physician I will say there are doctors who just get by and finish last in their class and those doctors are also called doctors I have a sore inside my mouth and it's taking forever to heal I can't exactly put a Band-Aid on the inside of my cheek so would you recommend anything to help it heal faster look in general to help sores heal faster you want to prevent irritation and irritation can be both chemical and physical it could be other things but those are the two main ones that I see happen in my practice physical meaning you know you're chewing on your cheek or you keep biting the same spot of your cheek or your braces are rubbing on your cheek chemical could be like you ate something very spicy or you burned your mouth uh that's like more of a thermal one than chemical but let's say it was a burn and then you were eating spicy foods and citrusy foods that can create longer lasting inflammation irritation but then if you have a wound or sore that's not healing on the face or mouth it absolutely needs to be examined because there are Cancers of the mouth there are Cancers of the face that happen when you have a non-healing wound in fact on the sun exposed areas of the face if you have a nonhealing wound it's almost to the level of skin cancer until proven otherwise and mucous membranes by the way are some of the fastest healing parts of our bodies there's so much circulation there that it actually heals up quite fast what's actually happening when your foot falls asleep either you have suppressed the nerve's ability to fire so it feels really numb you cut off circulation to the limb by putting pressure uh on a blood vessel cuz remember if you put enough pressure on a blood vessel you can choke it so that the part further away from where you're choking stops getting circulation and if it stops getting circulation for a long period of time those muscles are like yeah we ain't working those nerves are like we ain't working we're taking a break until you fill us up and that's when you fill the pins and needles and all that good stuff that mechanism is actually a good mechanism because it's in place to warn you that hey you're choking off your foot you should you should change position and get up off the toilet CU not only are you choking off the foot you're probably raising your risk of getting a hemor which is why I tell people not to Tik Tok on the toilet back to the questions in just a second but first I want to talk to you about grammarly the AI writing partner that helps professionals write better and faster sometimes I make YouTube videos like these where I see your questions for the very first time and answer right off the cuff just like I do with my patients other times though I like to write out my videos like in this animated project where I told stories of mysterious deaths that doctors still can't explain spooky writing a video like that not only took a lot lot of research but a ton of creative effort to get the words on the page in a way you can truly enjoy and understand fortunately my writing process has been made so much more efficient thanks to grammarly but it's not a tool to help me write more it helps me write faster and not just on big creative projects either I can use grammarly to help me craft emails between my hospital or messages to my animating team its AI features help my writing feel more compelling 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pick up some pathogens across the way when it exits your body you could pick up some pathogens so there are some potential sources a bacteria that being said there's bacteria all around us inside of us that's not the end of the world but if you have a urinary tract infection and you pee and you step in it you have a cut could you get an infection yes pretty low risk there are also instances of issues of almost conditioning yourself to pee every time you hear running water like when you're in the shower so the next time you hear that you're going to want to pee and it's going to be uncomfortable there's also instances of like people saying oh I should just pee just in case especially in females where they say I want to pee just in case before I leave and maybe we should pee in between classes so that I never have to go to the bathroom if you do that too often you can get into the situation where you train your bladder to send signals for you to want to pee very early you could also cause some pelvic floor dysfunction if you're doing it every now and then and you don't make it a routine thing I think the risk is pretty low pee away I don't know it's it's a weird question Dr Mike do you agree with me that your celebrity doppelganger is Zachary Levy I don't know who that is Levi who's that do you think that is I always thought it was ke Reeves Matrix would it be healthier to go barefoot all the time like cavemen no when you go barefoot all the time you open up yourself to Cuts scrapes infections Bone bruises like there's all sorts of issues that happen from that so no protect your foots do I need to wash my armpits if I always wear deodorant absolutely you want to wash off the deodorant and deodorant is just scent and a little bit of alcohol to kill some of that bacteria so it doesn't actually solve the problem and it could build up in your armpits and then cause blockages and irritations and ingrown hairs and all these problems so please wash your armpits in fact the most important places to wash groin and armpits and the genitals I guess that is involved in the groin if you feel cold coming on is there actually anything you can proactively do to shorten how long you'll be sick there's so many cold pills and supplements in hacks and I wonder if anything makes a difference the hard answer on this is outside of the basics I'm talking about staying well hydrated adequate rest eating your fruits and vegetables and proteins lean proteins there is no magic supplement thing on in the pharmacy that's going to do this for you I say this as someone who lives that by example when I'm sick I desperately want to get better but I don't go to the pharmacy and pick up giant mega doses of Vitamin C I don't go pick up the zinc tablets that promise miracle cures like it just it's not going to help if you're not getting adequate rest maybe you want to take an over- the counter medication to lower your fever or your aches and pains because that will allow you to rest maybe you want to take a medication over the counter that can make you sleepy so that you get out of aate rest maybe maybe maybe in some cases that works but in general I try to follow the Mantra of less intervention unless it's absolutely proven to help or I'm willing to trade off the negatives or if I'm just giving myself something to ease my physical discomfort there I kind of open it up to Grandma's cures chicken noodle soup a little cloth pad on the scalp a little back rub whatever whatever you want to do you want to drink ginger tea if it's not causing you harm and the risk of it not working is still Zero by all means go why is my girlfriend always cold it seems like girls are always colder than boys hard to make that DEC distinction having lower muscle mass lower body mass in general can make you more cold having anemia can predispose you to being cold thyroid dysfunction so there are certain things but hard to make that generalization stick what would happen if you never got rid of a Splinter would a live in your body forever you can become best friends no it can like your body can create a little capsule around it almost like an abscess cuz the body does a good job at Walling off from foreign substances ideally you don't want that to happen because that could become problematic so you want to get rid of them see Medical Professional I don't advise people doing it themselves unless it's like fully out there and easy to reach even then if it starts getting red and spreading the redness starts spreading you could be at risk for cellulitis Kayla YouTube have you ever wanted to quit YouTube there have been times where I came close to quitting YouTube one of those times happened to be when the company that helped me start my YouTube channel they kind of gave me my initial funding and um some resources to start the channel actually saw us after 1 year and I thought we were doing pretty decently we picked up 300,000 subscribers they said no Dr Mike we view you as a failure you turned down some of the sponsorships that we wanted you to take some BS vitamin stuff and some clothing brands that I didn't really like I didn't want to lie to my audience they were so mad at me that they fired us and they labeled us a failure and in those moments you kind of look at it and you say look I'm a doctor I really want to focus on medicine is this the right path and ultimately I wanted to help as many people as possible using the knowledge that I've picked up over the course of my career and I thought if I could do this on a scale such as big as YouTube I would be a better doctor I thought I'm a family medicine doctor when our patients were in emergency rooms we went there when our patients were in the offices we went there they couldn't leave their homes we do a home visit now my patients not literally my patients lawyers don't come after me are on social media so it's time that we as family medicine doctors take the call to action and I came back and we proved them wrong and went viral time and time again and now have almost 12 million subscribers thanks to you is cracking knuckles problematic click here to get that answer more responding to comments and as always stay happy and healthy [Music]

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