- Do your patients call you Dr. Mike?
- They mix it up, Dr. Varsharvski,
Dr. Mike.
- What's your last name?
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- Wait, what were you about to say?
- No I want to answer questions.
- Wait am I supposed to,
am I supposed to get them?
Wait, I wanted to ask you,
why do I sweat so much more than normal people?
This seat right now
- [Dr. Mike] Okay.
- is a swamp.
No literally, I've been sitting on this paper towel
and look how wet it is? - (Dr. Mike laughing)
I don't care that you're sweating
but do you want another paper towel?
- No it's okay.
It's very wet, though. (laughing)
- No but,
so the reason why people sweat is again,
usually for thermoregulation purposes
- Okay. - but I'll tell you why
you're probably sweating more now then usual.
- Because I'll do ten jumping jacks,
- This right here.
This right here.
- What?
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Well I do drink coffee everyday
but like everybody drinks coffee.
- No you can but I'm just saying
after a cup of coffee your going to
sweat a little bit more in than moment.
Things that could possibly be going on,
you have a different metabolism than others
so you run at a slightly different temperature.
You like to be a little bit cooler
so as soon as you heat up a little bit
your body wants to sweat and cool down.
Could there be something medically wrong?
It could be possible,
but you would have other symptoms.
- How come some day,
okay wait, where do I want to start here?
Some days I'll wake up,
- On Sundays or some days?
- Some days.
No I don't want to start there.
Let's talk about vitamins.
- Vitamins or supplements?
- I guess I don't know the difference.
- Well vitamins exist in our body
and they exist in nutrients that we eat food
and are very important to our survival.
We can't live without nutrients.
- Okay.
- Supplements is what you see in GNC and Vitamin Shoppe.
- Those.
- Yeah, those are supplements.
Those are vitamin supplements.
- Okay.
- So you're talking about vitamin supplements.
- Yeah, people say that
there is no research that they work
and then they say the amounts in them are so bonkers.
Should I be eating vitamins everyday?
- Okay, you taking a multivitamin?
- I take magnesium, biotin,
for my hair, skin and nails,
(whimsical bell ring)
D3.
I was taking Sunflower,
what was it?
Something for bloating, it was like Sunflower something.
Dandelion root, that's what it was not Sunflowers.
- Sure.
- Is that bad?
- No, no, that's not bad.
Why are you taking them?
- The magnesium is because someone told me to take it
because my muscles were sore.
- Okay.
The biotin was because hair, skin and nails.
(whimsical bell ring)
- Did you have a medical reason for taking any of these?
- My trainer told me to take them
but he doesn't sell them so
it's not like, - No.
- he was like take these. - No.
I'm not saying anything,
not knocking your trainer,
most of the claims made by vitamin companies
and propagate vitamin use, have never truly been tested.
- Okay word.
- We'll take multivitamins,
because that is probably the most
popular one that people take,
do they extend your life?
Absolutely not.
Do they improve your quality of life?
Absolutely not.
All supplements are not regulated by
the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA.
If right now, you and I,
wanted to start a supplement line called
Gabby and Mike's Vitamin C Magic Potion
to help you lose weight.
We can put whatever powder we want on this table,
put it into capsules, put it in a bottle
and take it to the store and sell it.
There is no rule against that.
- Okay, I have another question.
Are manicures dangerous, with like the UV lights?
- I wouldn't use the UV lights,
I would just use the air dryer.
Because there is something called
- Dr. Mike you can't air dry a gel manicure.
- Duh.
- There is something known as
subungual squamous cell carcinoma
and it's basically a cancer on your nail.
And like people will see pictures, if you google online,
a big dark line going down your nail.
What's dangerous about that is
sometimes that cancer can appear there,
no big deal but then if it spreads
to another part of your body it could be deadly.
When I see a patient for the first time,
when I'm doing the physical,
one of the things I look at is people's nails.
- Wow, I wish I didn't have gels on my nail right now
so that you could look at them.
- You want me to diagnose them, yeah.
- Because I'm scared now.
(Dr. Mike laughing)
Okay, I'm Middle Eastern.
- Okay.
- So, I tan very easily.
- Okay.
- And I lay out a lot.
- Okay.
- I always tell myself (laughing)
that because my skin is naturally
- Olive, yeah. - tan.
I am less likely to get melanoma.
- Statistically, you're right.
You are less likely but - but it's still bad.
- you're still increasing your risk.
- But I love being tan soo much.
- I'll tell you this,
so do you ever get burned?
- Maybe like the first time,
like the first time your out in the summer.
- Give me a rough estimate of
how many sunburns you've had in your life.
- When I was younger, I would get sunburnt
- Very often?
- Like relatively a lot.
- So you're at a very high risk already.
- But like now, I literally don't burn at all.
- Nope you're a very high risk now.
That's it.
- I'm so much happier tan,
I literally think it does
- [Dr. Mike] I get it.
- something to my brain.
Why am I so at more risk
because I tanned when I was younger?
- Because you burned.
- Because I was burnt. - Yup
- Why don't I burn now?
- Maybe you stay out less.
- Definitely not.
- Maybe you wear some sunscreen?
- Zero.
- Again, you are going to be less likely to burn
than someone who is fair skinned.
That's why people who are fair skin
and have x number of moles on their body,
you know people who have a lot of freckles.
- I have so many moles.
- Okay.
- I'm scared.
(uncomfortable laughter)
- Because you have a lot of moles,
and it goes by a number, it's like
if you have 50 or more moles you have "x" risk
and if you have less than that you have "x" risk.
- Wait more moles is more risk?
- Yeah.
- I have so, my entire body is moles.
- So you have two major risk factors.
One, the fact that you burned in your life.
The fact that you have many moles,
that puts you at a risk.
So, all I'm saying is,
wear sunblock and number two,
make sure that when you talk to your doctor
you get a full skin exam to make sure
all those moles are okay.
- I've had this mole looked at so many times,
this does not look normal but that is cancerous, possibly.
- How do you know?
- Look at it.
- Did you ever get it biopsied?
- No they won't but they always
- Why?
- just look at it and they say it's fine.
And I'm like look at it.
And I went to three different doctors
- Were they dermatologists?
- Yes.
- Okay then so you're fine, why are you worried?
- There is no way,
because it has everything that they say,
(laughing) look at him laughing back there.
Do you think you should care about doctors ratings on Yelp?
- Yeah you should, you should read 'em.
You should be educated consumer.
- So I have a story.
I called an ENT because I had three different problems
- Do you have a primary care doctor?
- (whispering) No.
- Okay, you should have a primary care doctor.
- I just like, why would I ever go there?
What do they do?
- So I'm a primary care doctor.
- Right.
Wait there was something else I wanted
to ask you too and I was like getting so revved up
and excited about it.
- Something about your mole again?
- No, it's not about my mole.
I need to move on from the mole.
I've had moles where
doctors have tole me I have a deviated septum.
And then I went to a nose doctor
and I was hoping
- Ear, Nose and Troat doctor, ENT?
- Oh, I remember what I was going to ask you about.
Yes, I went to an ENT.
When I laid down, I literally can't breathe.
Like, it's game over,
I'm like mouth breather full out.
So I was like okay, deviated septum.
- Do you snore when you sleep?
- Like a mother (beep sound).
Like I'm a dinosaur. - (laughing)
But when I go like this,
- I use rhinosaurus as the example of the snore.
- That's a better one.
This is like crack to me,
you hear the difference
(inhaling)
(deep inhalation)
So I go to a doctor and I'm like hey, fix this,
and he said it's not deviated.
My septum is just so large that I can't breathe.
I'm like okay, did I just pay $150 copay
for you to tell me I have a big ass nose?
I know that.
But he said, it's possible to shave down the septum
but he doesn't recommend it because it's just like
a really intense surgery.
Like, it's not just straightening,
it's like you literally have to shave down the bones.
- Have you ever had a sleep study done?
- Uh uh.
- See if you had a primary care doctor,
- (laughing)
- you think about snoring, right?
Do you know what I worry about?
- What do you worry about?
- Heart disease.
- What the (bleep)?
You can't talk to me like that.
- Well no, good.
- That was so neurotic.
- I think in terms of prevention,
- Okay.
- not just cures.
Like you're thinking about this problem
directly in front of you and what I hear is
you're having snoring issues,
you're needing to drink coffee multiple times
through out the day, at least once a day,
because your energy levels are low.
Do you love napping?
- I can't nap, I have really crazy nightmares.
- Have you heard of sleep apnea?
- I have sleep apnea I think because I keep not breathing.
- So do you know what the issue of sleep apnea is?
- I'm like actually (bleep) stressed right now.
- Long term risk of sleep apnea
is developing high blood pressure which then
affects the shape of your heart and
it's ability to pump blood.
- I can't handle this today.
- This is about empowerment,
this is about getting you to make
the right decisions for your health.
- (laughing) I didn't know I had
a heart risk and now I'm sad.
Do doctors actually read the charts
because I say hard no.
- What do you mean do we read the charts?
- Like they make me fill out all that paperwork
and then I come in,
- Hundred percent, we read the charts.
- None of my doctors read that (bleep),
because then they ask me
the exact same stuff that's on the chart.
I'm like read the damn chart.
Also have you ever heard the term flank,
in terms of medicine?
- Yeah, that's your side right there.
- I had a doctor tell me that
I had a lot of fat in my flank.
Anyways, I just wanted to know if you knew
what a flank was (laughing).
- Classically, if someone has a kidney stone
or an infection in their kidney,
which is in the back portion over here,
and they have pain in this area, we call it flank pain.
- That's the grosses word I've ever heard in my life
- [Dr. Mike] Why?
- for a body part.
- Well you've heard of flank steak, that's from a cow.
- Well yeah, cause it's like an animal
but when someone grabs,
literally grabs your side and says
you have a lot of fat in your flank
- [Dr. Mike] Well that's messed up
- very offensive.
Oh I remember, how do you feel about fillers?
- Facial fillers?
- Yes.
- Okay.
- Generally, do you think that they're unsafe?
- Do you feel light is generally unsafe,
like it can be and it can be that.
- Light, what do you mean light?
Is light ever bad for you?
- Yeah.
- (laughing) I'm so stressed.
- Yeah.
- What do you mean?
- Blue wavelength light hurts your sleep hormone.
- Oh yeah.
- Blue wavelength light causes macular degeneration.
- I have those glasses.
- Are you a surgeon?
- Yeah, like my medical license says physician and surgeon
but I don't perform surgeries on a regular basis.
- Have you ever?
- Yeah.
- How long has it been since you had a surgery?
- A really long time.
- what was it? - C-section
in medical and in residency.
- We were tweeting about this.
- Who?
- Me and you.
- About c-sections?
- Yes.
- Really?
- Okay.
- Mind blown right now. (laughing)
- When you get a surgery or a c-section,
they take your organs out.
- Oh you said that, what holds your organs up, fascia.
- But then they put the organs back
and they're not like rebuilding the fascia, right?
- When we cut through the fascia
we sew the fascia back up, absolutely.
- I think, I just don't have a very good
understanding of what fascia is.
- Well, you just need to go to a cadaver lab one day.
- Never. (sound of record scratching)
- Maybe that's a good YouTube video?
- There is - No, come on,
all forge this video get her, - No.
- put a comment in the thing
and if it gets a hundred thousand likes, will you do it?
- You can get a hundred million likes
(laughing)
and I'm not gonna do it.
Can you generally, get pregnant everyday of the month?
- Yes.
- Okay.
That's all.
- We don't have a hundred percent accurate science
to know where exactly in your cycle that you are.
- Yeah okay, - So because we don't
- so say your someone who's super regular.
- It doesn't matter, it's still not perfect.
- Why is my body so crooked?
Real talk, triple D, double D.
Nine and half, eight and a half.
You guys are seeing, I'm doing this as evenly as possible.
My right hand is so much freaking
- Really, it doesn't look that much bigger?
- You don't think that looks so much bigger, look at this?
Shoes are annoying, bras are annoying,
like if I'm wearing a swimsuit,
this boob is soo much bigger.
Oh my god, I just remembered something
that has been haunting me my whole life
and I have to ask you.
(cross talking)
Each persons heart is born with
a certain amount of beats essentially,
like you can only have so many beats in your life
and that's why people who are over weight
and their heart is beating faster or
unhealthy in some way, that's why they die sooner.
So then I would get really scared to work out
because I'm like, oh my god my heart's beating faster
and I'm running out of beats.
- Yeah, I would say that is totally inaccurate.
- Okay cool.
- It sounds like broscience.
- That's like a weight off.
- The reason why I would say is
because people that exercise and get their heart rates up
they generally live long healthy lives.
- Her come back to that
- I know what it is.
- was that your heart beats slower resting.
- Let's use an example like Lance Armstrong,
whose heart rate is incredibly high,
his resting heart rate is high and
he is a really high performing athlete
and you can't say he's gonna live a short life
because his heart beats high.
What we've seen is a trend that
people who have lower resting heart rates
are generally in better shape so they live longer,
but it's not because of the low heart rate
that they live longer.
It's cause their exercising, you see what I'm saying?
- That has caused me so much anxiety for a decade.
- Well, I am glad that we can control your anxiety
just a little bit - Me too.
(high five slap)
That's out of my brain (laughing).
All right guys I hope you learned something.
We talked about literally everything under the sun.
So I hope you guys enjoyed this.
If you have any questions for Gabby,
please drop them down below in the comments.
Please check out her channel,
I'm going to be linking it everywhere.
She's in the process of learning
- I just realized I was like staring
at you so weird the entire time, I was like this.
- Good, good.
Watch how weird - (laughing)
- she stares at me and judge her for it.
- And sorry to who ever has to edit this, jesus.
- What about Jesus?
- Wait, Jesus is editing this?
- Who's Jesus?
Dan is editing this, thank you Dan.
Sorry Dan (laughing).
Alrighty guys,
(hands clapping)
thanks for watching.
As always, you have to do this too,
come on let's do it.
As always, stay happy and healthy.
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What do you think BO is?
- I don't know.
- It's bacteria farts.
- Yum.
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- Generally, when people are running in the gym
they don't smell bad but when you're stressed
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- [Man Offscreen] Sorry.
- You're fired
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- Kids are taking cocoa powder
that they buy from amazon and they snort it to get high.
- Why are they getting online,
why don't they just go to Ralph's.
- I don't know what Ralph's is but
- We're in the east coast.
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Before we go can you tell me what blood pressure is?
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