(keyboard keys clicking) - "Why butt crack
sometimes feel wet or slimy?"
(keyboard keys clicking)
Strings where they shouldn't be,
the science behind why boobs float
and unconventional pathways to better sleep.
What?
Today we're back at it,
breaking down and answering
all of your most intriguing Discord medical questions.
Fair warning, this may get a little in-depth and detailed.
All right, let's dive right in.
(keyboard keys clicking) "Hey, Doc,
is it true that you should starve yourself
if you have the flu,
but eat a lot if you have a cold?"
(keyboard keys clicking) Make sure you stay hydrated,
drink as much fluids as you can
without feeling nauseous and vomiting,
eat food as best you can,
sometimes just broths, soups,
banana, rice, apples, toast.
These sorts of things are, you know, gentle in the body,
but anything that you can tolerate,
get in your body for nutrients,
is good when you're fighting an infection.
(keyboard keys clicking) "Does masturbating
actually help you sleep?"
(keyboard keys clicking) After somebody masturbates,
it actually can help you relax and calm down,
and it has to do with oxytocin and endorphins.
So it's not necessarily the fact that it's
like a sedative per se, (buzzer buzzing)
but it actually calms you down.
And so if you're having trouble with anxiety
or you can't just like turn off the thoughts of your brain,
this could be the mechanism
of why you're able to sleep better afterwards,
just because everything has calmed down.
- Calm down, Doctor. (dramatic music)
(keyboard keys clicking) - "Is it a myth or truth
that bigger ears mean better hearing?"
Hearing definitely has to do with, basically,
apparatus within the ear itself down into the canal.
If you go to an audiologist,
they actually put headphones on,
pushing the sound in to test your hearing.
So it's not worried about how the sound is getting in;
it's actually testing your hearing apparatus,
which is inside.
So it doesn't have anything to do with
the outer aspect of your ear.
(keyboard keys clicking) "How can my feet smell
if they do not have a nose?"
(bell ringing) Ha ha, funny.
Well, how can your nose run if it has no feet?
(percussion music)
Right back at you.
But let's talk about this.
Why do your feet smell so bad?
Our feet smell, potentially,
because, one, there's a ton of sweat glands,
which anytime there's a lot of sweat glands,
it increases your risk of lots of bacteria.
And we put our feet in shoes.
- [Morgan Freeman] How often
do you really look at a man's shoes?
- And we don't let them air out,
and it could be an area of a lot of moisture
and it allows things to grow a little bit more.
Really important to make sure that you keep your feet dry,
to clean your shoes,
to dry your shoes if they get wet.
Make sure you're using socks
that help with keeping your feet dry.
Lots of different things.
(keyboard keys clicking) "Dude, I'm 30.
Why does my voice still crack?"
(keyboard keys clicking) I am in my forties.
My voice still cracks as well.
Quite normal.
- No more jam?
- When we are going through puberty, our voice changes,
but as we get older, it can crack anytime,
and it just has to do with how the sound
vibrates across our vocal cords
and the different air movement.
So there could be moments
where it's a little abnormal, disturbed,
or just, you know, a different amount of space
to where the air is flowing through it and it could crack.
If you're having consistent issues or pain,
maybe get seen by an ear, nose and throat doctor
where they can stick a quick camera down
and look at your vocal cords
to make sure that they're functioning
the way that they should
and there's no abnormal growths.
(keyboard keys clicking) "Why butt crack
sometimes feel wet or slimy?"
(keyboard keys clicking) It is an area
where tissue is sitting right next to each other
and if, say, you don't dry it really well
or you do sweat a lot,
it can actually just sit there and not evaporate well.
Sometimes if you don't clean yourself well enough
after going to the bathroom or a shower,
there can be residual leftover.
Sometimes if you have an abscess
or an infection of the skin,
you can have some pre, like, discharge, that can occur
and that can cause some wetness.
What you can do is do your best
to dry yourself as much as possible.
But again, if this becomes an issue,
you have to get it checked out.
(keyboard keys clicking) "I found a string
inside my feces.
Should I be worried?"
(keyboard keys clicking) If it's truly a string,
it's probably something you accidentally ingested
and it was basically benign,
so the body just let it pass through.
There was no nutrients to absorb
and the body couldn't break it down.
Now if you have the string and it's moving,
it's probably a worm,
'cause worms that are inside of our bodies are quite white.
So if you do see this,
please make sure that you show it to a healthcare provider,
even take a photo of it (shutter shutting)
or a video so we can actually see it.
Treatment for it is probably quite easy.
Since it's a type of parasite,
there are medications that we can give,
but there are long term effects of having worms in our body,
and typically relating to malnutrition and, you know,
structural changes within different organs.
So please definitely get this checked out.
(keyboard keys clicking) "Why does my eyelid
keep randomly twitching?"
(keyboard keys clicking) Your eyelid is made up of
a couple different muscles,
and it's innervated by different nerves,
so most of the time it's a muscle spasm
that usually people feel when the eyelid's a little bit open
and it kind of, like, flickers.
One of the simple things that you can do is close your eyes
and actually contract it really tightly and then relax it.
Contract it and relax it.
Make sure you stay hydrated and then obviously, you know,
make sure that you're ingesting the appropriate nutrients,
make sure that there's no electrolyte abnormality
because muscle spasms occur for multiple different reasons.
(keyboard keys clicking) "I noticed that
ever since I started lifting,
my right arm is bigger than the other.
Is this some I should be worried about?
Should I focus more time on my left arm than my right
until they're the same?"
(keyboard keys clicking) Majority of people
are dominant on one side or the other,
and typically the dominant side is a little bit stronger
and a little bit bigger.
Could you focus a little bit more energy
on the opposite side?
Sure, (bell ringing)
but I wouldn't solely focus on just developing
that other side (buzzer buzzing)
because then you will start losing muscular strength
on the other.
Just focus on the contractions
and make sure that you're contracting hard
on the less dominant side, the weaker side,
and over time it'll build muscle.
It takes a long time to build muscle,
so you just wanna continue to increase your strength.
Now if it is a significant difference,
you might need to see a neurologist,
you might need to see a specialist relating to strength
and they may need to do biopsies of the muscle on that side
to make sure that they are appropriate and can grow.
(keyboard keys clicking) "Why can't you just
squeeze the balls to make the cum come out?"
(keyboard keys clicking)
Everything has to be in the right time
because you have sperm in the testes,
but it needs to be a part of the ejaculate,
which is the semen that needs to be mixed in together.
It needs to also have propulsion,
so it has to get out of the body,
and that's why we have
these different types of muscle spasms and contractions
that occur with erectile tissue to get it out,
to put it in the appropriate place to make a baby.
(keyboard keys clicking) "Why do boobs float?"
(keyboard keys clicking) Adipose tissue,
which is the fancy word for fat tissue,
actually floats in water
and that's because the specific gravity of water is 1.0
and the specific gravity of fat is actually less.
The specific gravity of bone and muscle are higher than one,
thus, if you have a higher density of that
you potentially will sink a little bit more.
(keyboard keys clicking) "When a girl gets her period,
can't she just donate the blood to people that need it?
Like, it comes out anyway, why waste it?"
(keyboard keys clicking) I will give the answer
to why that wouldn't work well.
There is natural bacteria within the female's vagina
that protect it,
so when the blood comes out,
you're getting some of that bacteria,
which you don't want in blood, okay?
You don't wanna then give that into somebody intravenously.
Also, the blood starts clotting,
which means that clotting factors are being released
and as well as cellular breakdown, which you do not want
because you don't want the cell walls
to break down the different electrolytes
that could be shifting,
and it wouldn't be appropriate to give somebody else.
And you can't pretty much, like, undo those clots
and then the cells are broken.
Very good questions, always thought-provoking
always keeping me on my toes
to come up with the answer just, like, right away.
This is literally what happens to me
at the hospital when I see a patient.
Somebody will ask me a random question I wasn't ready for
and I gotta come up with it off the top of my head.
But I really enjoy this.
Please make sure
that you continue to send me these questions.
I will happily answer them.
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