The latest Tik Tok challenge is
known as the dry scoop challenge.
And essentially what it is, is you
take a scoop of protein powder or I
should say like pre-workout powder.
And you just attempt to consume
it without mixing it with water,
which is dangerous, you could choke
and you can literally die.
Now unfortunately,
one Tik Toker participated in this
challenge and suffers some pretty
serious health consequences.
Her name is Briantney Portillo, and
she explains a little bit of what
she did in this video.
Let's take a quick look.
She talks about how
she took this pre workout powder as
part of this dry scoop challenge.
And as she did it she then later
went and decided to work out.
And she started noticing that she
was suffering some weird symptoms,
right?
Like her chest was tight.
She says I ignored it because I
assumed it was anxiety or a panic
attack and continued my workout.
I went home and felt nauseous and
I had a headache, she says.
I took a shower but
still felt nauseous with a headache
and couldn't eat dinner.
I still decided to go to work, but
at work the symptoms of heavy chest
and chest pain came back, but
more intense.
So then she goes to the doctor,
the doctor conducts a CT scan and
they find out that she literally,
she's 20 years old.
She suffered a heart attack.
>> Yeah, I mean, you're talking
about weird symptoms.
I mean, we're burning the lead look
at her eyes and mouth.
[LAUGH] >> She's okay.
[LAUGH] >> She's fine now.
[LAUGH] Okay, anyways these kids,
what are they going to do?
Well, what is this?
Okay, this is more disturbing me,
your heart attack.
No, I'm kidding, she's fine.
Anyways, look
guys I got young kids now.
Yeah, fine,
call me a boomer whatever, right?
Am also a Tick Tocker, hello?
>> No you're actually part of
Gen X, which somehow miraculously
escaped any negative attention.
>> I know Gen X like X does
not mark the spot.
We're just invisible,
nobody ever talks about Gen X.
>> You guys are invisible no one
ever talks about Gen X.
>> Yeah, I wish I kind of like.
All right.
So I got young kids now [INAUDIBLE]
out of the room, Okay,
don't do any challenges online.
Okay [LAUGH] >> Yeah.
>> No but seriously had
this conversation with them about
a month ago.
And now because they're watching
YouTube and they before was just
YouTube kids but now they're
getting into YouTube proper, right?
And so, now I go there
was a challenge I was no,
don't do the challenge, whatever
the challenge is sight unseen.
Do not do it.
Because they don't do challenges of
like, how much water can you drink
in two minutes.
>> How healthy can you eat right?
>> How much Broccoli can you eat?
[LAUGH]. >> Of course not,
I get it.
You're going to do a challenge of
something that's challenging.
>> Yeah, like eating tide pods,
which was a literal challenge on
YouTube not too long ago.
>> That's right, and
hence if it's challenging,
some of them are dangerous.
And so should you eat that protein
cell without the water not knowing
what the house it could do to
your body?
Of course you shouldn't do that,
of course.
Anyway, look, don't listen to me.
She literally had a heart attack.
>> She did, Okay, so there is
a little bit of a caveat, right?
So >> Of course, and
not everybody doing it is going to
have a heart attack.
We know that.
We're not trying to fear monger,
but he could affect you in
a weird way as it did for her.
>> It did. She didn't know that she
had a sensitivity to caffeine and
the pre-workout Dry scoop that she
consumed prior to her workout,
clearly has a high caffeine content
in it ,right?
So, she was predisposed to having
a heart attack that was triggered
by caffeine but,
a dry scoop of powder is something
you can easily choke on and
you could potentially die from as
a result of choking.
So like just be smart, but
that's the thing, I mean, I feel so
lucky that I grew up,
I went through school, before
social media was a thing, right?
And now social media is a thing
which I think makes parenting a lot
more difficult, right?
Because there are so
many pressures that go along with
being on social media, being a kid.
If you're not doing the latest
challenge on social media,
they might feel they're not cool
enough or whatever it is.
So Jake, I love you and
yes you can talk to your kids but
you're their dad.
And right now they think you're
cool, but eventually they're
not going to think you're cool and
that's okay.
That's normal, right?
And then what do you do?
They're not going to listen to you.
What do you do?
>> That's what God made basements
for you time.
>> Exactly.
[LAUGH].
>> Exactly.
And that's the problem,
millennials can't afford basements.
>> Yeah.
>> [LAUGH]. What do they do with
their [INAUDIBLE].
>> Yeah. [LAUGH].
>> So look.
[LAUGH].
>> No, so I'm going to say
this only because I know my
kids aren't watching.
How do I know they're not watching?
Yeah, my daughter is eight years
old and she's like baba your show
is boring.
And I was like, why?
She's like politics, politics,
politics.
>> [LAUGH]. Right?
I get it though.
[LAUGH] >> I get it, I get it,
don't show this video.
[LAUGH] Okay, but
she did smash the subscribe button.
All they say, so she's like Baba,
Baba I did it on the TV and then
I did it on my iPad and I did it
over there, and I'm like all right
good luck trying to help God bless.
Anyways when it's not like we
didn't do it either, right?
When I was a kid yeah we didn't
have a YouTube challenges.
We didn't have YouTube,
it's because we're actually
the first YouTube Partner ever at
TYT not a big deal.
Anyways, [LAUGH] So,
we did we kind of invent the medium
kind of anyway, but
we would do other stupid challenges
and I remember I, how many steps
could you jump off of, right?
And in our house, we were pretty
big staircase, right?
And I wanted to jump in from
the very top.
And it's like a minor miracle I
didn't break both ankles.
And so we did other dumb stuff so
I get it.
I'm just saying, try to minimize
how dumb it is, because if you're
swallowing tide pauses,
that could actually kill you.
And in this case, I'm sure that
there are other dangerous too but
if especially if you're sensitive
to caffeine or
you don't know whether you're
sensitive to caffeine, be really
careful with this challenge.
>> Yeah, absolutely, and
pay attention to the chest pains
that you might be experiencing.
It could be something far
more serious than what you think.