- Not really personal, but is it true
if you masturbate too much,
could you run out of semen?
Answering your juiciest medical questions from Discord.
Basically, it's like an online community
or social club where you can hang
and chat about whatever topic you want.
Yep, let's dive right in.
All right, Discord question number one.
Hey doc, does tattooing on our body pollutes our blood?
Well, actually really good question.
So we think about going to or if somebody wants a tattoo,
they go to a tattoo parlor
that's like the cleanliness, the most sterile,
but the bigger question is the ink itself.
Well, what's in it?
They actually found in studies
where people actually have pollutants
and issues relating to lymph nodes
near where the tattoo was.
The ink that they're using can have metals in it.
And so the body kind of absorbs them over time.
The ink should be pretty inert as long as it's staying
within the right tissue of the body.
Adding anything to our body,
your body might have some sort of reaction to it.
So then the other component,
what I just touched upon before, was dirty needles
or non-steroidal needles or dirty environments.
This could pollute your blood
in the sense that you can become septic
or get an infection and get a blood infection,
which we call bacteremia.
Related to the fact that you're actually microneedling
bacteria into your skin,
which then can get absorbed into your bloodstream,
and then you get super sick
and may end up at the hospitals.
But do you guys have any tats?
Let me know in the comments below.
All right, next question number two.
Is it true that masturbation causes muscle imbalance?
It depends is the answer.
So it could cause muscle imbalance.
If you don't balance how you're doing it.
So if you are somebody that uses only one side
of your body the whole time,
then yes, there's going to be some sort of muscle imbalance.
If you're a switch hitter and you can go righty
and you can go lefty,
then you're gonna have more of a balance.
But is it a bad thing?
Are you going to get a massively
really large arm versus a smaller one?
Probably unlikely.
You probably don't have to worry
about significant muscle imbalances.
Hey, all right, question number three.
I was binging your videos, thank you very much,
and I got a question it's kind of weird,
but what does a human brain smell like?
Interesting question.
So in ER, traumatic situation
where you're going to see brain,
you're also gonna have a lot of blood around
and the blood is typically what smells
and it has a metallicy type smell to it.
You have iron in your system, right?
That's how you have red blood cells there.
And it's related to oxygen-carrying capacity
and all that jazz that we learn in science class.
Question number four.
What to do if you have poop stuck inside your ass hair?
- [Lawyer] Did I read that right?
- You certainly did, yes, sir.
- You can cut it out.
You can shave the hair, that sort of thing.
You can potentially try to pull it out, which will hurt.
You can try to soak it, wash it,
take shower, use warm compress.
But at the end of the day, most of the time,
it's probably easiest just to cut it out
with maybe some scissors, I wouldn't shave down there.
That'd probably make a mistake and slip and cut yourself.
Also, try to avoid ripping it out.
'Cause when you rip it out,
you open up those hair follicles,
increase the risk of infection down there.
And I promise you, you don't wanna get something
called perianal or perirectal abscess,
because it could potentially lead to surgery.
All right, next question.
Does sleeping with a full stomach give you nightmares?
- I'm your best nightmare.
I'm your worst nightmare.
- Yes, it potentially actually could.
Even though you're asleep,
a lot of different functions are going on.
So it's increasing your brainwaves,
which then, as you increase brainwaves,
you potentially can increase having dreams,
nightmares, that sort of thing.
So there's some studies out there
that actually name some specific foods
that tend to give people nightmares,
like chocolate, apples, sugar, spicy foods.
Also, consider medications too.
So some medications over others
might increase the amount of dreams
or how vivid your dreams
are that to where you might remember 'em.
All right, next question.
Is alcohol, like a single of 80 proof,
a viable treatment for mild food poisoning,
or is it just a placebo of mine?
I would advice staying away from alcohol
if you have food poisoning.
- Look away.
- Megan, no.
- So alcohol will actually irritate the stomach lining,
which potentially could increase your risk
of having nausea and vomiting.
So it actually could potentially make it worse,
cause more irritation.
They have done some studies
that if you do have some alcohol with dinner,
it potentially could prevent food poisoning.
All right, next question.
Don't know if this is embarrassing
but if something gently touches
or brushes my left hand and tickles it,
then I feel the same tickle in my mouth.
What's up with that?
Interesting, they've actually done studies
where literally they're touching somebody's hand
and you could feel it.
And then they put a fake hand there
and they were doing tests back and forth between the two,
and eventually they were touching the fake hand
because they visually saw it.
They thought even though they were touching
the prosthetic or the fake hand,
they could feel it in their brain
without being able to identify it,
that there could be the fact that your brain
is actually just playing a trick on you.
All right, next question.
How long can you hold on your urine?
My first advice is don't do that.
- Stop, we're going to the bathroom.
- Just go, man.
- I've seen people come to the emergency department
who have urinary retention.
That is the word we use when the bladder is so full
but you can't get it out.
It's extremely painful.
It hurts, it could hurt your kidney.
It can cause kidney failure.
If you hold onto it too long,
it can also cause bacterial infections.
Next question, not really personal,
but is it true if you masturbate too much,
could you run out of semen?
Good question, actually.
So you have semen and you have sperm, right?
So semen is kind of the fluid
that's a sperm living as it ejaculated out.
You don't run outta sperm.
We're making 2000 sperm every few seconds.
The semen made from your seminal vesicles
could potentially run out.
Next question, should you pick or forcefully rip
a blister off of yourself?
I did, and it feels like it burns sometimes.
I would advise not to.
Typically we get blisters from excess friction.
You can get blister from a sun burn as well.
So blister, fluid-filled pocket,
that fluid is actually sterile.
It's actually protecting the underlying tissue.
Sometimes it gets huge and big
and it's kind of in the way.
It will typically rupture and pop on its own.
And then the skin over top of it
will actually kind of just die off on its own as well.
The reason why it burns and is uncomfortable
on the underside is now it's exposed skin.
So it's just like an open wound.
So that's why I typically burn.
All right, great questions.
I love getting medical questions.
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