- [Dr. Jordan Wagner] "Why is my left ball short?
My right ball is a bit long. LOL."
(laughs) Okay.
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Today, I'm answering medical questions
that you are afraid of
or maybe a little embarrassed to ask your doctor.
Yep, that's right.
You guys are always flooding my comment section
and sliding into my DMs,
asking me some really awesome questions.
Also, I'm not gonna lie.
Some of the questions can get a little bit, um,
curious, or strange, or interesting.
But before we get into it, I'm Dr. Jordan Wagner.
I'm an emergency room doctor who treats everything
from COVID to gunshot wounds, burns, you name it.
I created this video series
to help answer some of your medical questions
and the questions that I get from patients
each and every day.
If you find this video helpful,
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Let's get into some of your burning questions.
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Well, hopefully not burning.
Yikes.
"Just a question, what I was thinking;
is popping/cracking our bones healthy?
I'm cracking my neck, my back, and elbow so many times
and it just feels so good."
Cracking joints is typically okay.
There was actually a crazy cool study, really small,
by a doctor that spent, like, his whole lifetime
cracking one hand and then not cracking the other,
and they did X-rays to see if there was any damage,
and there was nothing that showed of that.
Sometimes we ask, like, what is the popping noise?
Sometimes in the joints,
like in the hands and your knuckles,
it could be a little bit of, like, a air pocket.
Like, a bubble of air within the joint, and it pops.
That's why it doesn't re-pop.
Typically, it doesn't happen in your
other, all of your joints and your neck,
and your elbows, and your back, that sort of stuff.
Those are okay, so sometimes we
can be a little misaligned,
and it's out and it feels good to get popped back in.
There are some dangers, if you're too aggressive
you can cause potential dislocations of the joint
and potentially ligamentis or tendon injury,
so just be careful.
"Hi Doctor, I am a big fan of your YouTube channel.
I just wanna know that if a 14 year old
does deadlifts, can it stunt my growth
if I do it in the correct position and technique?
Also keep up the amazing work."
Well, thanks, but this is pretty much a myth.
With adolescence, our growth plates are open.
So the concern is, could you injure or inhibit
your growth plates in any which way?
You don't, as long as you're using proper technique,
not going in any abnormal movements,
twisty motions, that sort of stuff.
Continue to lift, lift in proper form,
and if you have a passion for weight training
and weight lifting and power lifting, get after it.
"I got a question, I know that caffeine
is supposed to make you stay awake and somewhat productive.
But when I drink coffee I feel sleepy or tired
and so does my father. Is there a reason for this?"
Yes, there could be a reason for this.
So it all depends, one, if you're drinking coffee
with sugar, you could be having a sugar crash after,
so that's pretty simple.
What ends up happening is you're blocking your receptors
with adenosine, so you're more alert,
but what happens is your body
is still making that adenosine,
so when the caffeine wears off
and the receptors get opened again, fwoom,
you get a really big rush of adenosine,
which, then, makes you feel tired.
Also, caffeine and coffee basically
is like a diarrhetic, diarrhetic meaning
it makes you excrete water out of your body,
which, in turn, will cause dehydration,
and then dehydration can cause tiredness.
"Hey doc, I have a question.
Why is my left ball short?
My right ball is a bit long LOL"
(laughs)
Okay, alright, good question.
One testicle potentially will hang lower than the other
sometimes it's the right for people,
sometimes it's the left,
and they have their own nerve, blood supply,
spermatic cords, all these different things.
You can actually even have different size testicles.
It is normal for it to be asymmetric in how they hang
in your scrotum and it typically changes, right,
so when the temperature changes your scrotum,
it sucks the balls kind of tight inside
because it has to do with temperature regulation
and that the sperm basically want to live
in an environment and be made in an environment
that's a bit cooler than the 98.6 degrees
that our body is.
Make sure that if you have any pain, get it checked out.
If you feel any lumps, get it checked out.
"Weird question for you,
why do I sweat so much all the time?"
So, there's something called 'hyperhidrosis'
basic meaning you're sweating excessively
in a situation where you typically wouldn't be sweating.
About 5% of the population has this disorder.
But you actually can go see your doctor,
and there are different treatments that can be done.
This includes like topical medications, oral medications,
low electrical-type treatments
as well as different surgeries,
and then, again, changing things in your environment
and just making sure that there's no secondary cause
for these things.
Make sure that you see your doctor, get this diagnosis first
before you try to self-diagnose too much,
just to make sure
that you're not having anything more serious going on.
"My dads girlfriend says that she never farts.
But, she has the most impressive burping skills
that I've ever heard.
Does she actually not fart?"
Typically, people who say they don't fart,
are farting when they go to the bathroom.
When you go poop, you have gas built up as well.
When you relax your sphincter muscles,
everything kind of opens up
and whatever's in there comes out.
You can't avoid farting,
you can't just poop without farting.
Sometimes you're gonna have a build up of gas
and you let 'em out, so you just have a little bit less gas.
Make sure that you're passing gas;
burping, farting, let it out, better out than in.
"Hey Doc, I swallowed a bunch of pebbles and screws
as a child, will they hurt me in the future?"
Well, typically not, okay.
A pebble, a small screw,
the screws you gotta be careful with because they're sharp,
so you worry if they're gonna puncture something.
Non-sharp and smaller than a certain length,
typically we won't go in to go get 'em,
you'll just pass it through your digestive tract
and they'll come out of your body.
Now, if they're larger than a certain length
as well as concerned for perforation,
and they're still in your stomach,
a gastroenterologist will actually emergently
go down with with a EGD or or upper endoscopy,
and go in and retrieve it.
"Hey Doc, effective remedies for weight gain?"
The first thing you think of of wanting to put on weight
is eating more.
But you also want to eat more of the good stuff,
so you want to eat things that are nutrient-rich.
What I mean by that is, you don't want to eat
massive amounts of salads all day long
because the caloric content is really low.
Remember, even though this might be an old statement,
normal energy expenditure is 2,000 calories.
So if I eat 2,000 calories
but I'm burning 2,000 calories a day, I'm net neutral.
But if you have less calories, over a period of time
you're potentially going to start losing weight,
and then the flip side if you're having more calories
that you're ingesting in versus what you're burning,
you're potentially going to add potential fat
or even muscle.
That's a basic, simple way to think about it
but it is, obviously, more complex.
"Hey Dr. Wagner, are you friends with Dr. Mike?
I'd love to see you collab with him."
Okay, good question.
I've seen this come up in a lot of my comments
about Dr. Mike, so I checked it out.
So Dr. Mike is a family medicine doctor
who has a YouTube channel as well.
So, yeah, that would be totally awesome
to do a collab with another doctor,
even really interesting
because he's a family medicine doctor
and I'm an emergency medicine doctor,
so doing a collab, seeing different videos
and getting our different perspective
on our experiences, because we're different specialties,
we deal with a different type of patient population,
and we deal with different type of medical ailments
in a different kind of spectrum.
If Dr. Mike or any other doctor in this space
wants to do a collab with me,
that would be awesome, right?
It would be fun to watch, and of course,
it's all in the benefit of the viewer
to entertain you guys and to educate you as best we can
with the knowledge that we have.
Alright, that's been some thought-provoking questions
or maybe questions you didn't want to ask
with me, Dr. Wagner.
Let me know in the comments
if you have any other medical questions
or topics that you'd like me to answer.
Maybe I'll include them in the next video.
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