- In past videos, I've talked about being sort of nervous
around needles, but I think I'm getting over that fear.
What- oh, ah!
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Now let's poke our butts for the acupuncture video.
- Hi, my name's Robert Youngs, I'm a acupuncturist
and I'm an herbalist.
I've been doing this for about eight years now.
So the basis of eastern medicine in general,
there's acupuncture, there's cupping,
there's moxa, all of these have to do
with getting the energy in the body moving again.
If there's something wrong in the body,
if there's disease, it's a result of stagnation of energy.
- So it's basically, my energy is constipated.
- Exactly.
- I'm not constipated, but my energy is constipated.
- You could also be constipated.
- My dad's a doctor, my grandpa's a doctor,
so I kind of grew up being a little skeptical
of alternative medicine.
- What are some of the things that acupuncture can treat?
- Headaches, constipation, chronic pain,
menstrual issues, digestive issues, memory issues,
skin issues, acne, hormonal acne.
- What can't it do?
- Issues that are gonna need surgery.
- Like a broken bone.
- Yeah.
- Is it something that requires multiple sessions,
or should we expect to feel better
after just one treatment?
- Depends on how long you've had the illness
or disease or whatever it is that you've had,
if it's acute, if it's chronic.
- If it's with us, you know that pain's gonna be a cute.
Ay!
- Oh, nice.
I get it now.
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- Has anyone in this video talked
about how handsome you are yet?
- No.
- Well, I don't know how we got this far.
I thought that's the elephant
in the room the whole interview.
- Thank you very much, and I'll have you know
that I just celebrated my 50th birthday on Saturday.
- You are kidding me.
- Oh yeah, Saturday.
- Well you look great.
- Thank you.
- You seem like you got great health.
- Thank you.
- I have bad joints already and I'm 31.
- We're gonna fix that.
Where acupuncture really fits in
with Chinese medicine is in a preventative stance.
We'll pretty much always be quoted
as saying 95% of all illness is caused by stress.
- I have a newborn baby,
so I don't get a ton of sleep always.
I'm pretty stressed.
- What level of stress would you say you're at these days
on a scale of one to 10?
- 50000.
- Boom. - Yeah.
- Where does stress reside in your body?
Maybe you know, maybe you don't.
We'll keep asking a bunch of questions to find out.
Where do you feel like you hold stress in your body?
- Oh I think I hold a lot of it here.
Maybe in my stomach as well.
- So I have ankylosing spondylitis.
The main places I feel it are my neck,
my shoulders, and then with all the rain we've been having,
my lower back, like by the sacrum.
- I've had four knee surgeries on my knee.
So I'll get pain, it's still not strong
as much as I'd like it to be.
- It's not in the form of things like headaches
or anything like that.
For me, it's more, it comes up in like insomnia.
- All right, so active mind is what you think is the cause.
We do other things, like there's some diagnostic techniques
with the tongue that are actually really interesting,
like the tongue is an organ you can see.
- You look at our tongue?
- [Doctor] Yeah.
- What are you looking for?
- Yeah, what are you seeing?
- Yeah, so it'll be the color, it'll be the shape.
It'll be cracks in that area,
it'll be the thickness of the coat.
- A little tongue show.
- Yeah it all starts with a tongue show.
You're gonna open it wide, I'll show you one, right?
You kinda go.
So most people they kinda thrust a little too far,
so they're gonna kinda go, eh.
Too thrusty, changes the shape, changes the color.
- You want just the right amount of thrust.
- Just the right amount of thrust, exactly.
- Ahhh.
- Oh my goodness.
All right, so put that back in for just a second.
- I just wanna make it really good for you.
- Thank you.
Ah, pale tongue with teeth marks and a little bit
of a stomach crack.
You got a lot of heat in that tongue,
so it's very red, it's almost a touch scarlet.
- What if your tongue is always cracked all the way?
- Well, there are people who have geographic tongues.
- Yeah.
- You know, some people, that could
be a result of hereditary, and then it was like,
which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Is it that I had this massive craving for fried chicken
because my tongue is this way?
- How do you know that?
- With hat do you mean?
- He loves fried chicken.
- Oh.
- You just knew that about me, right?
- Wow.
- Did you watch our video or did you just guess that?
- [Doctor] No, I guessed that.
- Are you serious?
- I'm just using an example.
- That's a huge part of who I am.
- Your tongue or your fried chicken?
- Both! - Both!
(laughing)
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- Okay.
- Yeah, how you feeling?
- I'm feeling good.
I'm not too needle squeamish, so.
- Okay, you have not had this done before, right?
- I've never, my mom has been trying
to get me to do this for so long.
Did you just poke me already?
- You got two already.
- Shut the fuck up.
- You ever wanted to get it?
- Um, I've always been curious.
Did you just put two needles in me?
- I did.
- Wow, that was like nothing.
- It's about the size of a hair.
- Where are the needles gonna go?
- Depending on what you tell me
will determine where they're gonna go.
Kidney six, lung seven are often a good combination
for sleep issues, so lets pop the other.
So we've got a scarlet color, we've got geographic in nature
and a big, stomach-y, almost lung crack.
- I do a series where I eat everything
from a fast food restaurant.
It's been a rough week.
- How rough?
- Mostly constipated and uh,
when I do poop, sometimes they're hilariously pathetic,
and sometimes they're chaos.
- So because we've got some digestive stuff going on,
that stomach 36 point is an important one for you.
Adjusted point.
- Oh, there's a constipation point right there.
Classic constipation point.
- Classic constipation point.
Your tongue, little bit of spleen issue.
Spleen six is one that's a few different meridian pathways
combined, liver, kidney, spleen, all crossed right
through there, and it's just also a point
that doesn't hurt so much.
For you, I would say in terms of preventative medicine,
we want to start clearing some of that heat,
making sure that it doesn't take hold
and reside in some part of the body.
This is a really great, oh, there it goes.
I felt a little pulse right there.
This is a good heat-clearing point.
I think from an eastern standpoint,
there's this real belief that the body can heal itself,
and western acknowledges this, but they think
the only thing that's gonna work in this situation is
to throw a drug at it.
- I think there's a misconception
that you kinda have to choose one or the other,
but I think a lot of health practices are moving
towards trying to see a marriage between both.
- Yeah.
- So you've been exercising for the last six months,
and that's when the joint pain started?
- It sort of slowly crept up through that process.
It's like the whole knee got really stiff
when I over exerted it once or twice.
- [Doctor] Okay.
Feel that one?
- [Keith] Are you in my ankle?
- That was on your shin.
Did you feel it down into the ankle?
- I feel it in my ankle, it was very bizarre.
- Yeah, so that mean's the qi's really started moving
for you there, good.
- It felt like you were stabbing my ankle.
- Yeah, oo, that's a little deep, you feel that?
I felt that.
- Yeah, I felt that.
Whoa, what the fuck?
- Yeah, stress point.
- It's not painful, it just feels like
electricity went through all the muscle.
- So the energy, the qi, in the body
flows through the body.
Some people it's really surface level,
some people it's more deep.
Little bit of a calm the mind.
- Oh, that went on my face.
Oh, that one's,
that's in my skull tab point.
- Third eye.
- Third eye, it's been opened.
- [Doctor] Oo.
- Whoa!
- [Doctor] Felt that move.
- Whoa, what the fuck.
- He's got a lot of energy moving,
and he's also, he seems to be just a bit
more tapped into his own energy.
- Oh my god.
- Top of the head.
- There's a needle in my head.
- Ah, mother of China, what the hell?
- If you were actually congested right now,
we could also do a couple points here
that thread up towards the eye.
- I'm always a little congested.
- [Doctor] All right, so we're gonna
go from here we're gonna--
- Gonna go, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're gonna do what?
- [Doctor] Mhmm.
- Okay.
- Oh wow, you just like, your fingers
know exactly where to go.
I know you're doing it,
but it's really totally pleasant and fine.
- It's not, it's all right.
I feel pretty calm.
- [Doctor] Yeah?
- So how do the needles alleviate that?
- So there's these pathways in the body called meridians
that's just an energetic flow, energetic pathway,
and they correspond to pathways
of the organs and their corresponding emotions
as well as different areas of the body.
I'm gonna give you a count.
One two three.
A little bit of a pinch there, yeah.
I'm gonna pull the sinuses just a touch
as we thread just up through there and oh boom,
look how far that needle's gone up in there.
- I didn't feel, I barely felt the beginning of that
and felt nothing after it.
- [Doctor] Good.
- I feel little release and relief,
but in terms of pain, minimal to none.
- [Doctor] Yeah.
That's exactly how it should be.
- Oh, Jesus mother and soul in Korea.
Ah!
Tokyo.
- [Doctor] Two, three, and breathe, oh yeah, there we go.
- Oo, what the hell?
- [Crew] Oh my god.
(yelling)
- This one's one where we usually hold a lot of tension,
so let's just tap one in there.
Go in just a little.
Wow that was tight on you.
- Yeah?
- I had to really force it to get the tip in.
- Wow, well thank you so much.
- Oo.
Oh fuck, what the fuck?
- Oh.
- [Doctor] Holy moly, you are a roped up,
cabled, muscly man.
- Wow, when you put it like that, Rob
I mean, poke me again, my goodness.
- I feel like my blood is a plasma
and it's leaving through a spout at the top of my head.
- What's your favorite place to put a needle?
- Stomach 36.
- What is his face?
- What is stomach 36?
- Such a good point.
- Stomach 36 is one of those points
where they talk about how you can treat every disease
in the body using like four points,
and stomach 36 is just one of those.
It's located right here in this nook in the shin.
You feel a little, deep ache at all in that one?
- Yeah, it's kinda radiating a little bit.
- Yeah, good.
Felt that, huh?
That's the spot, isn't it?
- That was crazy.
- I just felt like an energy pulse around it.
- And if you've got all that energy flowing up
through the top of your head, maybe even out,
I mean maybe we should do kidney one.
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- Where is kidney one?
Is that on my penis?
Are you talking about my penis?
- No, no that would be bad.
- My eyeball?
- That would be ren one as in the taint.
We don't really ever do that.
- I've done a lot of taint stuff.
- I'll bet you have.
- On camera.
(laughing)
On camera.
- [Doctor] On camera. - Yeah.
- If the bottom of the foot is here,
it's like right about there.
- Oh.
- Which is, it's, I mean, if we're gonna be honest,
it's a little bit of a sensitive spot in the body,
but it's nice, it's nice.
I've had it done, I get it done a lot,
but I also like the painful needles point.
- I mean, if no one else did it, I'll do it.
- It might not be as painful as what we hope
is more that it's gonna be an energy flow down,
it's gonna root you and ground you.
- Yeah.
- So do you want the distraction technique
or do you want to just give it a go?
- I mean, let's just give it a go.
- Let's just give it a go.
And then we just go one two three, boom.
(yelling)
- Fuck!
That hurts too much.
Okay.
The entry was not great, but the current situation's okay.
- That's what she said.
- Yeah.
Well first I felt a needle going through my foot,
and now I feel sort of
like it connected to the other needles in my body.
I feel the pressure points connecting to each other.
- That means we're tapped into the qi
and the flow of the energy.
Are you okay with a little
pulling your shorts down a little bit?
- Am I gonna be upset if you show butt crack?
- [Doctor] Yeah.
- You haven't watched our channel have you?
- [Doctor] I only watched the knitting one so far.
- Well, if you go a little further here,
you'll see a smiley face.
(laughing)
- Look at that.
- I feel like I'm being electrocuted.
Like there's a generator and all the needles
are generator points, I feel every needle in my body.
- You wanna put a needle in the face?
- [Doctor] Oh, we're definitely gonna put a needle in there.
- [Zach] Yeah.
- I feel a little loopy.
- Do you feel present?
- Yeah.
But I also feel like I'm floating.
- I feel a little weird.
- The one thing I feared coming in is that it was just
gonna hurt like pinches again and again and again.
I almost feel nothing.
For people who don't know if they're
gonna benefit from this,
you really got nothing to lose,
'cause in the best case scenario,
it heals something that is hurting you,
worst case scenario, it's just super relaxing.
- Take a breath in through your nose.
Let out a sigh through your mouth.
Now scan the body from the feet
slowly up through the calves.
- Am I allowed to look at where the needles are?
Oh dear god they're everywhere.
Oh god, oh no.
I'm just gonna go back to that calm place.
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- Whoa.
- It was like a blood orgasm.
- [Keith] A blood orgasm?
- Oh my god.
You know like when you like exit a really good massage
or like you get out of the sauna
and you're just like whoa, what the fuck year is it?
What happened?
Yeah.
- I wouldn't expect lying down and getting poked
with needles to have such a calming effect, but it did.
- I don't know, I kinda wanna do it again,
just so I can get more of an experience.
Maybe a few months just to see if like I saw
real progress in my body.
- If anyone tells you acupuncture is fake,
show them this video.
The amount of energy that flowed through me
on multiple spots was insane.
I've never felt that before.
- I do kinda feel like I have to poop,
so that's exciting.
(upbeat music)
- Oh my god.
- [Doctor] How good is that?
- That feels amazing.
- It's so deep in there.
- [Doctor] So deep.
- That feels, honestly deeper.