- "Hey doc, I know this is a strange question,
"but can you get surgery for a different penis
"if you don't like yours?"
All of you have been tweeting me right and left
with the most interesting questions.
Fair warning, this could get a little weird.
All right, let's dive right in.
"Is it true that in boys, higher amounts of acne
"means higher amounts of testosterone?"
Testosterone causes an increased production of sebum.
So the more sebum you have, the higher chances you have
of it clogging your pores, thus causing acne.
So the biggest things you wanna make sure
is washing your skin,
because it's not just the sebum that gets clogged.
It's dead skin cells, it's dirt, it's debris,
all these different things.
If you're having a significant amount of acne,
please see your doctor or your healthcare provider.
They can actually help give guidance
and even medications to get you over the hump
of overproduction of sebum.
"Hey, this is pretty weird, but I chew a lot of foam.
"Every time I see foam, I just chew on it
"because it's satisfying for some reason,
"but there's one question.
"Can there be, like, an infection or side effect?"
Yes.
Foam, we should not eat.
It's not nutritious.
It can cause a bezoar in your abdomen,
which is this big ball
which then can cause bowel obstructions.
It could also decrease absorption of nutrients
of the food that you're actually eating.
We have sneakers, right?
The sneakers are made of foam.
If somebody actually gets stabbed
with a nail through their foot
and cause the breaking of the skin,
we actually cover these individuals with antibiotics
because there's a higher probability that pseudomonas,
a type of bacteria, actually lives in these type of foam.
Short answer, yes, you can get infections
and it's not good for you.
"Hi, so I have a cringe and embarrassing question.
"Is it bad that I have never experienced a true orgasm?"
There is a part of the population
that have never had an orgasm.
It typically has to do with underlying medical conditions,
such as diabetes or anything
that would decrease blood flow to certain areas.
It could deal with anxiety, depression,
or any mental health issues.
It could be dealing with nutrition, sleep, stress.
Obviously there are hormone levels
that need to be checked, different blood counts,
all just to make sure everything is fine,
to try to figure out
what the underlying condition is that causes it.
So, you're not alone out there,
but there are ways to figure out why,
and if there is a why and it's identifiable,
then you can treat it
and work on having your orgasms in the future.
"Hey doc.
"I know this is a strange question,
"but can you get surgery for a different penis
"if you don't like yours?"
Yes is the easy answer, (crowd cheers)
but maybe not because you just don't like yours.
Typically it's related to people
who have had traumatic injuries
or a post-cancer patient where they had to have surgery
and people who have severe micropenis.
These are some of the patients that are eligible
to have a penile transplant,
but then getting a donor is very hard as well
because it's not kind of one of the checklist items
on the DMV donor card of what organs you would donate,
so that becomes very difficult.
"Is it possible to go blind
"if you play video games too much?"
So there's actually something
called computer vision syndrome,
literally, because we have so many devices out there now.
All this strain has to do with lighting, not blinking,
having dry eyes, staring at something for a long time,
having the blue lights hit your eyes.
So you need to make sure that you stand up, walk away,
blink, take a break,
give your eyes different ability to look at different depths
and perceptions and making sure you don't get dry eyes.
Could you go blind?
Probably not quickly,
but you're gonna cause a lot of injuries and ailments
and discomfort to your eyes,
which over the long term if not addressed
could significantly impair your vision.
"Can I stick a rod up my silly rod
"to put semen back in it like a musket?"
Don't do that.
It is now exposed to the outside world.
Sperm only live for a certain period of time on surfaces,
as well as you're increasing
the risk of introducing infection.
It's not gonna go back to the right place.
You're gonna attempt to shove this in, which you won't,
and it'll go into your bladder
and then you increase your risk
of getting something called cystitis,
which is inflammation of the bladder and cause an infection,
and then your potentially can cause pyelonephritis,
which is infection of the kidneys
if it travels up the ureters.
Do not stick anything in that shouldn't go in.
"Hello doctor!
"I have one question.
"Here, I have red stripes on my belt due to obesity.
"Do I need to go to the hospital, or is it okay?"
Stretch marks are actually scar tissue.
This could happen for multiple different reasons,
not just in obesity,
but it has to do with rapid change in skin stretching.
During pregnancy, weightlifters can get it.
Once they occur, they're just like any other scar
and you can't really just make them go away,
but you can reduce how they look
by different medications, ointments, gels,
and actually sometimes there's plastic surgeons
that can do of a different type of surgery.
But the biggest thing to do is try not to get them
and try to reduce the amount of stretching
that we do of our skin in a quick period of time.
"Theoretical question.
"If Jesus turned all the water in someone's body to wine,
"how fast would they succumb to alcohol poisoning?"
All of a sudden, if you change
all the water in your body to alcohol,
you're gonna stop all of the normal processes,
the chemical reactions that are going on in your body,
because H2O, the hydrogen and the oxygen particles
that are in there have charges,
and so the charges are going to be different
than what with alcohol would be just relating to ethanol,
and it'll become quite toxic.
Typically alcohol poisoning takes time to occur,
hours to days, versus probably seconds to minutes
if all of a sudden I just became one big glass of wine.
If I absorb all that alcohol into my whole body,
it causes organ dysfunction,
which then it'll stop the other processes
and I won't be able to function.
The normal conductivity of my heart will stop
and I'll go into a weird arrhythmia and die.
"Hello, I wanted to ask you,
"does consumption of alcohol destroy muscle cells?
"And in general, does alcohol affect muscle growth,
"and is it bad when trying to build muscle?"
So what does alcohol do in your body?
It causes dehydration.
It inhibits protein synthesis.
So when you build muscle cells, you need protein to build,
so if you're inhibiting the synthesis of protein,
you're inhibiting the growth of muscles,
potentially mess with insulin resistance as well,
which has to do with growth of muscle.
And your body prioritizes the metabolism of alcohol
over the metabolism of your other macros,
including fats and carbohydrates,
so you're then actually probably
going to be adding more fat to your body.
"Why is one eye 144p while the other is 4k crystal clear?"
- [Doctor] To the left, right.
Whatever.
- It could be glaucoma,
it could be cataracts,
it could be a tumor in the eye.
These are just a few things that this could be
without understanding or knowing.
It might be that you just have one eye
that is not as good as the other,
but you need to investigate what it could be
before just saying, oh, I'm fine.
I just have a crappy one eye over the other.
Go see an ophthalmologist, go see an optometrist,
go see your primary care doctor
and get this taken care of ASAP.
"Do you know why my poop sometimes glows purple?"
If it's glowing, we need you and Homer
to get to the doctor, 'cause glowing shouldn't happen,
glowing radioactive.
Purple, most common is probably most benign
and some sort of food additive
or food dye that you've eaten.
I've been doing this long enough to know
that people actually don't describe colors well, either,
so purple could also be maroon.
Maroon would actually be probably blood,
so you can having some sort of hemorrhaging or bleeding
within your GI tract, in your intestines,
so you need to see your doctor and actually get that tested.
It's a super easy test
where you you just take a quick sample of your poop,
put it on card.
There's a dye, and it'll tell us
if there's something called occult blood.
Sometimes purple could also be a close color to black,
which again could be related to a medication that you took,
or it could be blood.
So great questions.
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