ER nurse here. Just want to say everything Dr. Mike says is highly appropriate and found myself saying the same things and have seen similar things in my profession. Good job Dr. Mike
@@LautaroQ2812 emergency medicine is a specialty and he practices primary care medicine. Not all primary care MD’s have a good knowledge of emergency medical treatment. There’s many other specialities in medicine too.
They contact the survivalists with their emergency radios with a click twice a day and they have to click back to show they are okay. If they don’t respond then they go check on them. They also visit them every few days to check them medically but they aren’t really supposed to speak to them.
This is true. I am a Wilderness Skills and Bushcraft instructor. Two friends have been on Alone and I was asked to do it but could not commit to the time. I spend time every year living entirely off the land.
@@evilsharkey8954 No. its all on SD cards they have a sat phone they can use with an emergency button and if dropped in an area with bears or wolves they get bearspray or airhorns other than that they're pretty much fucked lmao
@evilsharkey8954 they do have devices on them that they have to take everywhere so the crew can track them incase of an emergency. The contestants are also are restricted (within reason) to a base location that they can't stray more than so many miles from for safety and also to stop them wondering into other contestants 😂😊
This video really showcases the sheer strength and resilience of humans when pushed to their limits. It's amazing how you all manage to survive in such harsh environments, it's a testament to determination and willpower.
It's honestly interesting seeing which people make it and which don't. It wasn't usually the people you expected who would win. One of the winners was a fairly overweight guy who spent most of his time building a shelter and really didn't seem to be prioritising food, yet he outlasted everyone because he had a bit of fat stored on his body and was able to conserve energy in a much more insulated structure.
It's the absolute opposite. Spending 80+ days out in the wild and barely having shelter and still being dependent on your daily catch, that's just straight up idiocy. It'll make it so that even the smallest setback instantly turns into a mortal danger. Pretty much every single person they showed here had no clue how to really survive on their own. Survival is about lasting long enough until you no longer need to be in survival mode. You build shelter and storages, you gather as many resources as you can as soon as you can, all so you get into a situation where you're no longer surviving, but living out there. Perpetually remaining in a survival state is unnecessary and dangerous.
Yep people forget that ancient humans who lived in the wild lived in bands and were trained from birth to survive there. Dropping a modern person alone in a forest is like dropping a fish on a beach
1:36 once in Germany there was an accident of a man getting trapped in a farming machine. The firefighters couldn't cut him out but were able to cut some sort of path way. They called surgeons in who then performed surgery(amputation) ON THAT FIELD while the guy was stuck in the machine eventually freeing him
We had to watch farm equipment safety videos in school ag class, like the drivers ed stuff they make you watch. This guy could make a great segment in those videos
stabbed my hand some years ago. doctor who examined me sucked. didn’t properly examine me or anything. asked me to move my thumb and when it didn’t move he asked me to do it again. “im trying” i said and he just responded with “it must be the swelling” stitched me up and went to get my discharge papers. only then did i see the hole on the other side where the knife exited. long story short, it wasn’t the swelling. i cut my tendon in half. still have like 80% use of my thumb still too
The girl with the hook in her hand went back another season and did very well! But there was one woman with MS in remission, in great shape, so positive and ready. As soon as she got out there, wouldn't you know her Multiple Sclerosis came out of remission and she had to leave. Broke my heart for her. Great show! ❤
That first guy was very smart and responsible. He didn't want to be disqualified for an injury, and it's hard to accept something that small is a real emergency, but he bit the bullet and did the right thing. Mad props. Respect.
Ooh and then that girl who was at **86 days** and tapped out-- ngl I would have tried to tolerate the hook in my hand for two weeks and probably lost the whole damn arm. These people are true champs for recognizing their limits and making the tough but smart call.
@@minetrulyHonestly, with the fish hook, if she had removed it correctly the first day she got it in she probably would have been fine. But, she completely botched the removal, causing more damage and exposing her to serious infection.
I remember watching a season where there was this father/son team, and a few hours after the son was dropped off the chopper, he was hiking and fell hard. I don't think he was seriously injured but the reality must have hit him harder and he had to tap out after a couple hours.
Another season one of the contestants heard an animal moving and noped out of there instantly. It was hilarious because they showed him getting ready to leave and he was telling his brother that the bears and wolves better watch out
@@akoiya6300no I think he actually like dislocated his knee or something. He did hurt himself EDIT: the father/son duo went home because they weren't mentally prepared but there was a brothers team that went home within a few hours because one of the brothers dislocated an ankle in the fall
Hey Dr. Mike, you indirectly prevented a medical emergency on an airplane flight! i was watching videos in my seat and had a vasovagal response to the needles on the screen, realized i was gonna faint so i strapped myself in and tried to non-verbally alert my seatmate, then i promptly fainted in my chair and (apparently) beaned my unfortunate seatmate with my head.. he thought i died lol, but thanks to me watching your videos, i was able to coherently tell the airplane staff that i had a vasovagal syncopal and NOT a heart attack, and the plane ride continued as normal! (save for a 2-hour panic attack over needles, but that's besides the point :') )
I'm sorry abt your issues with needles D: (i'm the same with fat removal surgeries for some reason), but I'm glad his videos could help you out!! Watching medical content can be a slippery slope when certain common things strike a nerve like that...
@@chromium_ink Exposure therapy! It's working, too! i had to get a shot in my gums last week, but i remembered that Dr. Mike makes it less scary, and i felt a lot braver! ^^
The best advice I can give to anyone who has to survive out in the wilderness is *take your time* when doing errands or chores. Unless a situation requires a great amount of speed or energy, you're literally killing yourself when you waste calories or harm yourself due to being clumsy and not in control of your actions. The best precaution you can do right now is cultivate some skills in regards to survival now while you are able to; learning shit from scratch is not a great idea under stressful circumstances and you'll probably die miserably.
exactly, always add double or triple the time you think you need. For Some situations we can be prepared, for some others without proper equipment and shelter there is not much we can do. Prehistoric humans (same as animals) lived in caves for a reason, some weather conditions we couldn't survive in open. Its being fullish if we would try doing that.
This advice right here. I broke my leg walking my dog, I was able to call for help, and an ambulatory was there in minutes, and my son was there to help me. Can’t imagine doing that in the wilderness away from help! (I slipped down a wet hill)
I grew up hearing stories from my grandfather who served in WW2, and one of the biggest dangers of getting wounded in the wild, and particularly warm jungle type areas, it won't close. They had guys die because the moisture in the air wouldn't allow the wound to scab over.
14:38 i think they were trying to make her feel better about tapping out, especially so close to the 100 day mark. Trying to point out she couldn't have gotten that out herself so she made the right call to leave the competition and get it removed.
One technique to avoid what happened in the last one, is if you have a small log that needs splitting, but it's too small to chop, you can ether use a stick to keep it in place while keeping your hand out of the way, or you can instead do the chopping in reverse; Embed the axe blade just a tiny bit into the log, (a tap or two with another log or rock will do it), then flip the axe over and swing the blunt end against something hard. The log imbedded in the blade will then split itself on the blade due to the gforce.
i was thinking you hold the log upright against the ground with the axe blade, use a rock or something to tap it into the log enough that it sticks, then grab the axe by the handle and swing towards the ground. same basic concept, using the inertia to push the axe blade through the log, keeps all your body parts out of the way, but a bit easier to visualize and more intuitive. how someone managed to end up on a survival show not knowing the basics of "don't swing sharp objects towards your body" i will never understand.
The wood she was splitting was so small really she could have split it parallel to the axe keeping both hands low on the axe and wood keeping her hands out of striking range. Embed the axe into the wood and twist left or right to finish the split.
You can also embed it then tap on the back of the axe head with the thing in the air, that's how you seat an age head, you put it on the flip it upside down and tap on the back of the axe handle and it pushes it in far better than if you'd tried to push the axe in by hammering it down. The same can work for splitting certain logs. You can also seat the axe into the wood with a few taps and then hold the wood and the axe and swing them down together with the axe on top and it keeps it stable so you can't miss but still quickly splits it. Great for something like splitting a stick into very small bits as an intermediate between tinder and the kindling.
At Virginia Beach as a child, I threw a clump of seaweed into the ocean. It was tangled up in some fishing line, and I got a fishhook buried in my right index finger. The paramedics on the scene were unable to push the barb out (yeah, they tried it right there with me sitting on the back bumper of their ambulance). The doctors tried and failed to do the same at the hospital! they reasoned that the hook was so rusty and my finger so swollen it was preventing the hook from moving. So, they cut down through my finger and just pulled the hook up and out that way. That was 45+ years ago, and I still have a rather distinct long scar on my fingertip.
Yeah, hooks have barbs that make it impossible if it's gone in deep enough to take it out the same way it went in without doing massive damage, if you can't push it through the rest of the way and clip it then you have to cut it out. If it's in shallowly then you can use the opposite tension technique.
I did a Tough Mudder in 2019. Went to jump and mantle over a log, and my patella tendon on my right knee ruptured. it was surgery and about a year of PT.
@Kwildcat13 believe it or not, the actual injury doesn't hurt. But trying to move the leg absolutely does hah. But once I had a splint/brace I could walk no problem. Surgery was a couple weeks after the injury so.
Did you make a full recovery? Are there any lasting effects? What was the purpose of the PT after the surgery? Was it to regain strength, range of motion, or both? Do you know why it snapped when you tried to jump? Aka, if you could time travel with perfect hindsight, could you have prevented it? Sorry for my barrage of questions, lol I feel for you, especially having such a long recovery track - and I hope you're well today :)
I did a mud hero and within the first 10 minutes had a huge yellow jacket sting on my ankle because no one thought to make sure the course was clear. They were living underground or in the tall grass, but when we all went running by, they were NOT HAPPY. I finished, barely. Last place I think, was lucky enough to have a friend who stuck by me even when I wanted to lay down and die lol. Did about ¾ of the obstacles. Glad I did one when I did though, my hEDS has gotten bad over the past few years, and I don't think I could do it again. Mostly pissed off about having really bad genetics, because there's so much I wanted to do with my life.
When I was a kid, I was ice skating, and my feet got frozen, not to the point they turned black, but they were very white. I couldn't feel them at all but when they started to warm up boy did they hurt. My friend's father put my feet into cold water and gradually added warm water. My feet warmed up and I got the feeling back in my feet and went home. I had some aching in my feet for years afterward but it finally went away. Never had any treatment. I don't think I even told my parents it happened. I was lucky.
Sherlock Holmes once said that he didn't fear the city, because there were always clues left behind. Witnesses and marks to lead one to the truth. It was the country he feared. The solitary nature of it. You could get killed without anyone ever knowing you were there to begin with.
Spoken like someone with little experience of the country - there are clues all over the place.... if you know how to read them. For example I was out in the field and could see evidence of the deer that were there that morning, the badger that had followed his usual trail, that my neighbour had fed the foxes again that night. I could tell the fox was eating well even apart from the food he was putting down. I could also tell that the farmer had been out the day before and that the ewes with lamb would be in the field soon. So many clues...
I remember that, he says it while en route to a remote house. Even if I had billions, this would be the main reason I would live at the end of a street a few yards away from the neighbour rather than in a forest or miles away.
Yeah i pulled a good hand gash like that last one with a bow saw trying to trim a few inches of our xmas tree years ago....luckily was not in the middle of the woods, and just immediately told my wife "i need to go to the hospital, like right now!"
My neighbor has diabetes and peripheral neuropathy. Aka, he can't feel his hands and feet. He went out in -40 weather to help a friend with a problem with his heating fuel supply. He lost part of almost all of his fingers. The only reason he didn't completely lose all of them was the fact he was given an experimental treatment that restored circulation to parts of them in time to prevent tissue death. Exposing your body parts to extreme cold is no less dangerous than dunking them into boiling oil. It just takes a little bit longer for the damage to occur.
leeches, it is leeches..antiinflammatory substances together with thinning the blood and dissolving blood clumps does safe limbs from dying off. this is why they are still used today...and one of the reasons why some species are close to extinction because people just collected them from the wild. nowadays they try to breed them but the need for them is too big to be supplied by farms for now, to they still are taken from the wild.
Dr. That was so on spot. I have torn my miniskus 10 years ago at my 18 and when it got inflammated now one doctor told me surgery the other told me anti inflamatories and therapy. Now I am pain free and running without a problem
I love this show. If I were younger I would apply for this show. They did one where two people dropped off in two different locations and one had to hike to the other. My dad and I would have loved to do this together. He taught me so much about nature and the outdoors. We loved hiking and camping. We both (on two separate occasions) went to Philmont and did 50-mile treks in the Rocky Mountains carrying everything we needed for 10 days on our backs.
For the guy that ate the squirrel: I’ve been told when eating wild animals you’re not too sure of, cook them all the way through, and do not eat the innards. Maybe him eating the liver caused the problem?
You should do an episode on Smoker's Flue/Quitter's Flue. I recently quit after almost 50 years (age 13 to 62) of 1.5 pks a day (carton/wk) and I was a 'hard smoker' (had to always get those last drags). I randomly quit a couple months ago which was a lot easier than I thought it would be at first, but in a few days I became deathly ill, and it lasted for weeks. When I say 'deathly ill' I'd rather have Covid, the real flue, whatever than the long relentless chills, endless stomach and gut issues, and inability to focus.
Fun facts about little rodents and rabies. They don't transmit rabies because they are so small and nervous that they die before it become contagious. But they still can transmit lot of bacteria under their claws, so wash any scratches they can do to you.
I already knew about that factoid about rodents rarely carrying rabies, thanks to my severe fear of the disease. Opossums are also mostly immune to the disease.
@14:56 That made me instantly relive a quite traumatic memory. As a kid, maybe 7 years old, I went on a cave expedition. When we got back to the cottage, after a long day, the guide started making a fire. He decided to use a knife to split logs. He also decided to use his hand instead of another log to strike the knife. The egg of the knife was facing away from the log. He split his hand open real good.
I'd say not - unless he knows how to procure and purify water and make warm shelter. Medical help is terrific if the worst comes to the worst but surviving until then takes a whole different skillset.
@@timsbird1971If you can make fire, and you have something in which you can boil water, you can purify it. There are a few other ways to purify water as well. You don't need your medical expert to know that if _somebody_ knows that.
oh yeah he definantly is. alot of people think "oh we need a big strong guy who knows how to make fire", forgetting that without someone with medical knowledge, they'll probaly die from like 20 other things before fire is even an issue😭😭
12:39 this happened to me last once me and my friend was tryna saw a hook in half and it jumped in my finger. Had to go to the ERwere they used the same thing everything was fine after.
15:21 another thing is that the axe has been used to chop untreated wood and there'll be wood shrapnel in there with all sorts of unseen fungal spores as well
I love this series. Carleigh actually got a second chance in the clip you featured (as they brought back some previous contestants) ... and I always feel so awful for her bad luck. She wasn't even there that long and was so determined to really do her best.
I love that show and sometimes I think “I want to try to survive like them too”…but then I remember all of their wounds, health risks and other disgusting things and I’m like “Nahhh, I rather stay on my couch”
I'm also from Vancouver Island! I don't live there now but I sure miss it! I had no idea that they filmed this there. I guess I should watch the show. Do you know what part of the Island they use for filming?
I have two friends that have done it (I'm a trained Wilderness Skills and Bushcraft Instructor). I spend a lot of time each year living off the land and the worst part over that long time is always isolation. We're not designed to be apart from other people.
Thank you for drawing attention to physical therapy. My mother and her mother were/are learning disability physiotherapists and they get overlooked so much.
As a person with intestinal issues, that poor girl broke my heart. I know the absolutely debilitating pain that can come from that and to be entirely alone while in that much pain would be terrifying.
I’m early for the first time . Doctor Mike, if you read this I just want to say : You’ve inspired me to become a doctor when I’m older. My doctor even told me he would let me be his medical student when I’m old enough. I love your channel and I hope I can meet you someday . Have a good day/night .
About the fish hook, i can also tell you that regular wire cutters aren't going to easily go through a hook of any real size after you push it all the way through and will definitely bend and abrade the sides of the hook so it's going to make lots more little cuts inside the wound coming out.
Doctor Mike! You've inspired me to become a doctor in the future. Thank you! If it wasn't for you and if I didn't change school I wouldn't've even considered it
Probably not especially if you are alone because what if something goes wrong with the cauterization or the fire in general I just don’t think it would be worth the risk, plus you could probably just keep the wound safe and do all you can to avoid it getting infected.
Does anyone else get this strange feeling in their stomach combined with a fear for their own life/safety? My brain can't handle watching bad injuries, it feels like i'm a part of it!!
12:50 Honestly, as someone who has fished my whole life, you pull out a fish hook the most intuitive way. You push down to get the barb into the opening made by the hook, and then pull it out the way it came in. Never try to push it through. The first approach he detailed is what I'm saying but you don't need a string.
I had a similar injury to my hand, knife slipped and hit my knuckle, severed my tendons nearly totally. ER doc stitched it and had me see a hand surgeon, he wasn't messing with it. Was told I'd lose most of my mobility in that finger but luckily PT worked and I have 100% mobility back, but DAMN that scene gave me PTSD
I have a rare allergy called aquagenic urticaria, I can’t drink straight up water it has be deleted in something like tea, soda, etc. if I drink water straight up my heart rate shoots up into the 300s, my blood pressure drops, I go into seizures, and more and when water touches my skin I get PAINFUL burn like blisters
4:18 Doctor Mike I got a question, and I'm hoping you or anyone else has an answer. My mother does not have heart problems, nor is she ever dehydrated (anymore). My mother also has EXTREMELY WAY lower then normal average (I forget what her blood pressure is and how low it was) blood pressure. When she gets up she gets head rushes, or what I think is head rushes, where when you get up and your vision gets blurry and you feel like falling over (in a way feel dizzy)?? If thats what head rushes are and I get them as well, my question is, could me and her getting them be due to genetics???
4:48 It’s usually a check in system. (If they don’t check in each hour, they will get extracted immediately. At least in my countries version of this show.)
Oof, that last one hurt to watch! You NEVER chop while holding the wood! She's lucky she only cut herself and didn't just lop off her fingers! Place the wood on a stable surface. Pin it in place with the hatchet in one hand. Then strike the back of the hatchet with another limb/log (not a rock - it might shatter or the axe head may chip and cause serious injuries too).
For that hook I would have tried the old medieval method of removing barbed arrows. You use some kind of small hollow tube (traditionally a feather quill), which you slide in to the wound next to the shaft of the hook and get the hollow end over the barb. Then it will slide out easily.
I've been binging your videos the last few days and your little, "bee-wop!" after your intro, reminds me of Bingo from Bluey yelling, "be-yoop!" while she's doing a silly walk 😂
Whenever possible,I watched this show.👌this show truly tested human endurance to the max.I don't think I would be able to do such a thing,and I do alot of things solo,but that's toooo alone😊
ya i saw some of this show once. didnt see any real injuries like this. one guy quit immediately bcs he couldnt climb a hill. he had no idea what he was doing. another guy got horrible diarrhea. there was one guy eating like one mouse per day. the winner lived in a huge tree trunk and had a great time
Lol, the first minute made me realize that Doctor Mike is gonna be a great Dad. He's seen all the injuries possible and he knows how to prevent them :>
Hi Dr. Mike! Just wanted to comment that studies on the diarrhetic effects of caffeine suggest that you need a LOT of it to actually impact your hydration. Coffee/tea is unlikely to be an issue since.. mostly water! Caffeine = dehydration seems to be more of an urban legend than real science!
That last one with the axe was like a car crash in slow motion. You could see the danger of it a million miles away. I hope that woman was delerious from hunger or something because there's no excuse.
Will come across as judgy, but alot of these people give me the feeling of never having grown up camping in a tent, not an RV with hookups and all that. Some of the things that we never left without were a kettle and old pot for boiling water, old kitchen towels and coffee filters, the family multi-tool-pocket-knife, hand axe, and compact sewing kit. As soon as I saw that one prop the wood with her hand, made me wanna reach through the screen and yank that axe away. No one taught her how to chop wood for the fire while camping, very obviously. And the rough way that other one was preparing the squirrel, would make my grandpa stand up and say "give it here". I am glad that all of them in this video made it out safe, and a few lasted a while. But the premise of shows like this is so strange. Surviving off the land was done in communities, not alone.
@NaeniaNightingale Myself, the perspective is that everyone I know growing up learned how to use those items. Camping itself, again in the perspective of me and everyone I know, was a means to enjoy nature without access to utilities. I don't enjoy shows like this that purposefully aim to make entertainment out of people suffering alone in the woods. My opinion is that on a wide scale it encourages audiences to think of being deep in the woods away from modern life as a horror. One either to be avoided at all costs, or to be treated as a challenge/sport. Which can be tied to being problematic as far as views towards the homeless are concerned, inspiring a mindset of it not being that difficult if the person on the show is able to do it. The viewer ppssibly missing the point that in actuality the people on the show are close to never being in fatal danger. They have emt teams and camera men just around the corner at all times, daily check ins to make sure they don't die on screen. The homeless do not have that luxury at all. And for me, it was repeated constantly to me when I was young not to ever go anywhere alone while camping, even when I started aging into a teen. Because as far out as we went, there were no landlines, if a person happened to have an accident and they were alone it was more than likely death. People just died alot, even more so before cellphones in the early 90s when I was growing up. Saying all this not because it will change your mind, it seems you value this type of show as entertainment. But to offer you and who ever is reading this a different viewpoint on the matter.
When the doctor is saying "I can't even look at that" you know you're fooked
You know you're "beeeewoop!"
The worst part was they used the clip of her showing her hand to the camera in the opening credits for every episode! I had to look away every time.
I’m sorry but, “fooked”????
@@Lavender_Lane im guessing they dont wanna curse
@@daniellebrown99 Me too. I can't even look when they take my blood.
ER nurse here. Just want to say everything Dr. Mike says is highly appropriate and found myself saying the same things and have seen similar things in my profession. Good job Dr. Mike
Wow, really? Almost as if he was like a doctor or something. Incredible!
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@@LautaroQ2812 emergency medicine is a specialty and he practices primary care medicine. Not all primary care MD’s have a good knowledge of emergency medical treatment. There’s many other specialities in medicine too.
@@thestifler1Good job Dr. Mike
He doesn’t need the good job lol
Not everything - he called a knife a weapon when it is more often used as a tool. He also made too much out of eating roadside plants.
They contact the survivalists with their emergency radios with a click twice a day and they have to click back to show they are okay. If they don’t respond then they go check on them. They also visit them every few days to check them medically but they aren’t really supposed to speak to them.
That’s a relief!!
This is true. I am a Wilderness Skills and Bushcraft instructor. Two friends have been on Alone and I was asked to do it but could not commit to the time. I spend time every year living entirely off the land.
Does their camera transmit to satellites or something so if they’re attacked by a wild animal or have a bad fall, they can get help very quickly?
@@evilsharkey8954 No. its all on SD cards they have a sat phone they can use with an emergency button and if dropped in an area with bears or wolves they get bearspray or airhorns other than that they're pretty much fucked lmao
@evilsharkey8954 they do have devices on them that they have to take everywhere so the crew can track them incase of an emergency. The contestants are also are restricted (within reason) to a base location that they can't stray more than so many miles from for safety and also to stop them wondering into other contestants 😂😊
This video really showcases the sheer strength and resilience of humans when pushed to their limits. It's amazing how you all manage to survive in such harsh environments, it's a testament to determination and willpower.
The exact opposite. It shows why tryhards rush and die
I think this video shows how quickly people can die from a little scratch or a sip of river water. No matter how fit and strong-minded they are.
It's honestly interesting seeing which people make it and which don't. It wasn't usually the people you expected who would win. One of the winners was a fairly overweight guy who spent most of his time building a shelter and really didn't seem to be prioritising food, yet he outlasted everyone because he had a bit of fat stored on his body and was able to conserve energy in a much more insulated structure.
and also BEYOND unnecessary
It's the absolute opposite.
Spending 80+ days out in the wild and barely having shelter and still being dependent on your daily catch, that's just straight up idiocy.
It'll make it so that even the smallest setback instantly turns into a mortal danger.
Pretty much every single person they showed here had no clue how to really survive on their own.
Survival is about lasting long enough until you no longer need to be in survival mode.
You build shelter and storages, you gather as many resources as you can as soon as you can, all so you get into a situation where you're no longer surviving, but living out there.
Perpetually remaining in a survival state is unnecessary and dangerous.
And this is why humans live in groups and spend years teaching their young how to survive.
Yep people forget that ancient humans who lived in the wild lived in bands and were trained from birth to survive there. Dropping a modern person alone in a forest is like dropping a fish on a beach
@user-bw3yg5di3l yes Jesus loves you but if you blindly love if back without having any other knowledge he won't love you back
And this is why humans live in groups and used to spend years teaching their young how to survive.
@user-bw3yg5di3lshut the hell up fanatic
Yesrs? How about a lifetime?
1:36 once in Germany there was an accident of a man getting trapped in a farming machine.
The firefighters couldn't cut him out but were able to cut some sort of path way.
They called surgeons in who then performed surgery(amputation) ON THAT FIELD while the guy was stuck in the machine eventually freeing him
We had to watch farm equipment safety videos in school ag class, like the drivers ed stuff they make you watch. This guy could make a great segment in those videos
stabbed my hand some years ago. doctor who examined me sucked. didn’t properly examine me or anything. asked me to move my thumb and when it didn’t move he asked me to do it again. “im trying” i said and he just responded with “it must be the swelling” stitched me up and went to get my discharge papers. only then did i see the hole on the other side where the knife exited. long story short, it wasn’t the swelling. i cut my tendon in half. still have like 80% use of my thumb still too
The girl with the hook in her hand went back another season and did very well!
But there was one woman with MS in remission, in great shape, so positive and ready. As soon as she got out there, wouldn't you know her Multiple Sclerosis came out of remission and she had to leave. Broke my heart for her. Great show! ❤
that's so unfortunate. she must have been super bummed
Poor woman :( I know stress can cause relapse, which being alone in the wild absolutely has to be. So sad for her.
Her and the woman who almost split her hand with the ax ouch
Most likely the stress of “what’s gonna happen” is what triggered it. MS is no joke. Poor woman. Maybe she will come back and try again
I didn't know they were able to go out and try again in a different season! That's cool!
My wife screams " chest compressions! Chest compressions"" in the living room,
And I know what she's watching .
Thank you. Music to my ears doc.
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i scream that every day too 🤣
That first guy was very smart and responsible. He didn't want to be disqualified for an injury, and it's hard to accept something that small is a real emergency, but he bit the bullet and did the right thing. Mad props. Respect.
Ooh and then that girl who was at **86 days** and tapped out-- ngl I would have tried to tolerate the hook in my hand for two weeks and probably lost the whole damn arm. These people are true champs for recognizing their limits and making the tough but smart call.
@@minetrulyHonestly, with the fish hook, if she had removed it correctly the first day she got it in she probably would have been fine. But, she completely botched the removal, causing more damage and exposing her to serious infection.
Smart, except for running around a wet forest with an ax and a knife out
@@zachary4670I wonder when was the first time the advice of not running with sharp objects given. Like we talkin caveman days?
@@zachary4670 well ... yes.
This show is WILD. some people on it are incredibly impressive. It’s really a testament to their mental strength too.
If I tried going on alone I would set a world record for the fastest person to go home.
I remember watching a season where there was this father/son team, and a few hours after the son was dropped off the chopper, he was hiking and fell hard. I don't think he was seriously injured but the reality must have hit him harder and he had to tap out after a couple hours.
Another season one of the contestants heard an animal moving and noped out of there instantly. It was hilarious because they showed him getting ready to leave and he was telling his brother that the bears and wolves better watch out
Remember that guy from Arizona who left within hours?
@@akoiya6300no I think he actually like dislocated his knee or something. He did hurt himself
EDIT: the father/son duo went home because they weren't mentally prepared but there was a brothers team that went home within a few hours because one of the brothers dislocated an ankle in the fall
yup, I'll probably not even make it to land, like I'll trip and fall out of the boat and break my hand or somethin
Hey Dr. Mike, you indirectly prevented a medical emergency on an airplane flight! i was watching videos in my seat and had a vasovagal response to the needles on the screen, realized i was gonna faint so i strapped myself in and tried to non-verbally alert my seatmate, then i promptly fainted in my chair and (apparently) beaned my unfortunate seatmate with my head.. he thought i died lol, but thanks to me watching your videos, i was able to coherently tell the airplane staff that i had a vasovagal syncopal and NOT a heart attack, and the plane ride continued as normal! (save for a 2-hour panic attack over needles, but that's besides the point :') )
I'm sorry abt your issues with needles D: (i'm the same with fat removal surgeries for some reason), but I'm glad his videos could help you out!! Watching medical content can be a slippery slope when certain common things strike a nerve like that...
@@problemsfan4132 🫂
Why’d you watch videos like this if you know about your issues?
@@chromium_ink Exposure therapy! It's working, too! i had to get a shot in my gums last week, but i remembered that Dr. Mike makes it less scary, and i felt a lot braver! ^^
@@Discord-K-O Yeah but on a PLANE? I'd argue that there wee better places to do so where you fainting won't cause half a mass panic.
The best advice I can give to anyone who has to survive out in the wilderness is *take your time* when doing errands or chores. Unless a situation requires a great amount of speed or energy, you're literally killing yourself when you waste calories or harm yourself due to being clumsy and not in control of your actions. The best precaution you can do right now is cultivate some skills in regards to survival now while you are able to; learning shit from scratch is not a great idea under stressful circumstances and you'll probably die miserably.
exactly, always add double or triple the time you think you need. For Some situations we can be prepared, for some others without proper equipment and shelter there is not much we can do. Prehistoric humans (same as animals) lived in caves for a reason, some weather conditions we couldn't survive in open. Its being fullish if we would try doing that.
This advice right here. I broke my leg walking my dog, I was able to call for help, and an ambulatory was there in minutes, and my son was there to help me. Can’t imagine doing that in the wilderness away from help! (I slipped down a wet hill)
The best advice is "don't go".
@@ErebosGR Bad advice.
As soon as he said "dehydration" I started mass drinking water. No, I'm not scared I'll get a headrush. He just reminded me to drink water😁
“LISTEN TO MY TECHNIQUE” 😱😂😂😂
Me when watching a horror movie and the protagonist decides to go investigate instead of leaving
Like she can hear you, months after it was filmed!
@@itssteph263same 😂
😂😂😂
Like she can hear him through the screen 😅
More of this please. A professional opinion is so important to learn from for survivalists.
I grew up hearing stories from my grandfather who served in WW2, and one of the biggest dangers of getting wounded in the wild, and particularly warm jungle type areas, it won't close. They had guys die because the moisture in the air wouldn't allow the wound to scab over.
My grandpa served in WW2 as well
@@apersonnamedalex998 this was in WW2
And some guys did live and had to deal with the humidity
Even worse
This comments will leave me with nightmares🫠🫠🫠🫠
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14:38 i think they were trying to make her feel better about tapping out, especially so close to the 100 day mark. Trying to point out she couldn't have gotten that out herself so she made the right call to leave the competition and get it removed.
“Oh no, he fell!” “LISTEN TO MY TECHNIQUE!!” Idk why but that was so cute and adorable!! 😂
i think this was the best reacting to injuries so far, would love to see more of these
One technique to avoid what happened in the last one, is if you have a small log that needs splitting, but it's too small to chop, you can ether use a stick to keep it in place while keeping your hand out of the way, or you can instead do the chopping in reverse; Embed the axe blade just a tiny bit into the log, (a tap or two with another log or rock will do it), then flip the axe over and swing the blunt end against something hard. The log imbedded in the blade will then split itself on the blade due to the gforce.
that's counterintuitive and makes a lot of sense at the same time
i was thinking you hold the log upright against the ground with the axe blade, use a rock or something to tap it into the log enough that it sticks, then grab the axe by the handle and swing towards the ground. same basic concept, using the inertia to push the axe blade through the log, keeps all your body parts out of the way, but a bit easier to visualize and more intuitive. how someone managed to end up on a survival show not knowing the basics of "don't swing sharp objects towards your body" i will never understand.
The wood she was splitting was so small really she could have split it parallel to the axe keeping both hands low on the axe and wood keeping her hands out of striking range. Embed the axe into the wood and twist left or right to finish the split.
You can also embed it then tap on the back of the axe head with the thing in the air, that's how you seat an age head, you put it on the flip it upside down and tap on the back of the axe handle and it pushes it in far better than if you'd tried to push the axe in by hammering it down.
The same can work for splitting certain logs. You can also seat the axe into the wood with a few taps and then hold the wood and the axe and swing them down together with the axe on top and it keeps it stable so you can't miss but still quickly splits it. Great for something like splitting a stick into very small bits as an intermediate between tinder and the kindling.
@@Moriibund419 My thought was that it was just too small to split anyway just throw it on the fire.
12:52 I’ve never heard Doctor Mike make noises like that before 😆
At Virginia Beach as a child, I threw a clump of seaweed into the ocean. It was tangled up in some fishing line, and I got a fishhook buried in my right index finger. The paramedics on the scene were unable to push the barb out (yeah, they tried it right there with me sitting on the back bumper of their ambulance). The doctors tried and failed to do the same at the hospital! they reasoned that the hook was so rusty and my finger so swollen it was preventing the hook from moving. So, they cut down through my finger and just pulled the hook up and out that way. That was 45+ years ago, and I still have a rather distinct long scar on my fingertip.
Yeah, hooks have barbs that make it impossible if it's gone in deep enough to take it out the same way it went in without doing massive damage, if you can't push it through the rest of the way and clip it then you have to cut it out. If it's in shallowly then you can use the opposite tension technique.
sounds like it hurt so much you might still remember the pain😅
Love this show, for me feels like the most legit survival reality show out there. Would love to see a part two.
I did a Tough Mudder in 2019. Went to jump and mantle over a log, and my patella tendon on my right knee ruptured. it was surgery and about a year of PT.
Do you mean it fractured? Usually soft tissue ruptures unless I’m missing smth here
@@luke_zxy sorry I'll edit it but I meant my patella tendon.
@Kwildcat13 believe it or not, the actual injury doesn't hurt. But trying to move the leg absolutely does hah. But once I had a splint/brace I could walk no problem. Surgery was a couple weeks after the injury so.
Did you make a full recovery?
Are there any lasting effects?
What was the purpose of the PT after the surgery?
Was it to regain strength, range of motion, or both?
Do you know why it snapped when you tried to jump?
Aka, if you could time travel with perfect hindsight, could you have prevented it?
Sorry for my barrage of questions, lol
I feel for you, especially having such a long recovery track - and I hope you're well today :)
I did a mud hero and within the first 10 minutes had a huge yellow jacket sting on my ankle because no one thought to make sure the course was clear. They were living underground or in the tall grass, but when we all went running by, they were NOT HAPPY. I finished, barely. Last place I think, was lucky enough to have a friend who stuck by me even when I wanted to lay down and die lol. Did about ¾ of the obstacles.
Glad I did one when I did though, my hEDS has gotten bad over the past few years, and I don't think I could do it again. Mostly pissed off about having really bad genetics, because there's so much I wanted to do with my life.
When I was a kid, I was ice skating, and my feet got frozen, not to the point they turned black, but they were very white. I couldn't feel them at all but when they started to warm up boy did they hurt. My friend's father put my feet into cold water and gradually added warm water. My feet warmed up and I got the feeling back in my feet and went home. I had some aching in my feet for years afterward but it finally went away. Never had any treatment. I don't think I even told my parents it happened. I was lucky.
Sherlock Holmes once said that he didn't fear the city, because there were always clues left behind. Witnesses and marks to lead one to the truth. It was the country he feared. The solitary nature of it. You could get killed without anyone ever knowing you were there to begin with.
Spoken like someone with little experience of the country - there are clues all over the place.... if you know how to read them. For example I was out in the field and could see evidence of the deer that were there that morning, the badger that had followed his usual trail, that my neighbour had fed the foxes again that night. I could tell the fox was eating well even apart from the food he was putting down. I could also tell that the farmer had been out the day before and that the ewes with lamb would be in the field soon. So many clues...
I remember that, he says it while en route to a remote house. Even if I had billions, this would be the main reason I would live at the end of a street a few yards away from the neighbour rather than in a forest or miles away.
Yesssiiirr!!
Yeah i pulled a good hand gash like that last one with a bow saw trying to trim a few inches of our xmas tree years ago....luckily was not in the middle of the woods, and just immediately told my wife "i need to go to the hospital, like right now!"
My neighbor has diabetes and peripheral neuropathy. Aka, he can't feel his hands and feet. He went out in -40 weather to help a friend with a problem with his heating fuel supply. He lost part of almost all of his fingers. The only reason he didn't completely lose all of them was the fact he was given an experimental treatment that restored circulation to parts of them in time to prevent tissue death. Exposing your body parts to extreme cold is no less dangerous than dunking them into boiling oil. It just takes a little bit longer for the damage to occur.
leeches, it is leeches..antiinflammatory substances together with thinning the blood and dissolving blood clumps does safe limbs from dying off. this is why they are still used today...and one of the reasons why some species are close to extinction because people just collected them from the wild. nowadays they try to breed them but the need for them is too big to be supplied by farms for now, to they still are taken from the wild.
Damn. That friend owes him. Like for a lifetime.
Dr. That was so on spot. I have torn my miniskus 10 years ago at my 18 and when it got inflammated now one doctor told me surgery the other told me anti inflamatories and therapy. Now I am pain free and running without a problem
I wish I could get to that point. Therapy isn't helping for the constant pain but surgery would make it worse
I love this show. If I were younger I would apply for this show. They did one where two people dropped off in two different locations and one had to hike to the other. My dad and I would have loved to do this together. He taught me so much about nature and the outdoors. We loved hiking and camping. We both (on two separate occasions) went to Philmont and did 50-mile treks in the Rocky Mountains carrying everything we needed for 10 days on our backs.
For the guy that ate the squirrel:
I’ve been told when eating wild animals you’re not too sure of, cook them all the way through, and do not eat the innards. Maybe him eating the liver caused the problem?
You should do an episode on Smoker's Flue/Quitter's Flue. I recently quit after almost 50 years (age 13 to 62) of 1.5 pks a day (carton/wk) and I was a 'hard smoker' (had to always get those last drags). I randomly quit a couple months ago which was a lot easier than I thought it would be at first, but in a few days I became deathly ill, and it lasted for weeks. When I say 'deathly ill' I'd rather have Covid, the real flue, whatever than the long relentless chills, endless stomach and gut issues, and inability to focus.
Congratulations!
That’s amazing! Well done!
Congratulations!!
Nicotine withdrawals?
@@surestar74 Yes, it was brutal. Its called 'smoker's flue' or 'quitter's flue'.
glad to see some physicians in this world appreciate the role of PT's! makes me excited to get into the field
Fun facts about little rodents and rabies. They don't transmit rabies because they are so small and nervous that they die before it become contagious.
But they still can transmit lot of bacteria under their claws, so wash any scratches they can do to you.
I'm still going to a doctor lmao.
@@vibrantgleam definantly. rodents can pass on alot more than just rabies
My family and I love the show Alone! We get super excited whenever a new season comes out.
I already knew about that factoid about rodents rarely carrying rabies, thanks to my severe fear of the disease. Opossums are also mostly immune to the disease.
Opossums are marsupials tho. V diff reason they're p immune to things- they don't have a high enough body temp for em.
They’re immune to Lyme disease too and they eat ticks. Opossums are awesome
@14:56 That made me instantly relive a quite traumatic memory. As a kid, maybe 7 years old, I went on a cave expedition. When we got back to the cottage, after a long day, the guide started making a fire. He decided to use a knife to split logs. He also decided to use his hand instead of another log to strike the knife. The egg of the knife was facing away from the log. He split his hand open real good.
I feel that doctor mike is the one dude in a survival group u need
I'd say not - unless he knows how to procure and purify water and make warm shelter. Medical help is terrific if the worst comes to the worst but surviving until then takes a whole different skillset.
@@timsbird1971 but since we are in a group each member would have their own skill set right
@@timsbird1971If you can make fire, and you have something in which you can boil water, you can purify it. There are a few other ways to purify water as well. You don't need your medical expert to know that if _somebody_ knows that.
oh yeah he definantly is. alot of people think "oh we need a big strong guy who knows how to make fire", forgetting that without someone with medical knowledge, they'll probaly die from like 20 other things before fire is even an issue😭😭
12:39 this happened to me last once me and my friend was tryna saw a hook in half and it jumped in my finger. Had to go to the ERwere they used the same thing everything was fine after.
15:21 another thing is that the axe has been used to chop untreated wood and there'll be wood shrapnel in there with all sorts of unseen fungal spores as well
I love this series. Carleigh actually got a second chance in the clip you featured (as they brought back some previous contestants) ... and I always feel so awful for her bad luck. She wasn't even there that long and was so determined to really do her best.
I love that show and sometimes I think “I want to try to survive like them too”…but then I remember all of their wounds, health risks and other disgusting things and I’m like “Nahhh, I rather stay on my couch”
Truth
i wanna try just bc some of these are just them being reckless and i think i could do better
me, i just remember the fact that i hate being outdoors lol
The guy eating things out of the woods is asking to get sick
You gotta study the things in the woods and what is edible and can be lethal
Amen,sister, amen!!
I used to watch this show a lot. Most of the Seasons were filmed on Vancouver Island which is where I'm from. Thanks for covering it, Dr. Mike!
I'm also from Vancouver Island! I don't live there now but I sure miss it! I had no idea that they filmed this there. I guess I should watch the show. Do you know what part of the Island they use for filming?
This show can be intense. Happy to see mike watch and break down episodes.
I can believe anyone would use a axe that way. Seems like these people forget that you should keep the sharp part away from the skin
I have two friends that have done it (I'm a trained Wilderness Skills and Bushcraft Instructor). I spend a lot of time each year living off the land and the worst part over that long time is always isolation. We're not designed to be apart from other people.
I love this show! Glad you finally decided to watch it. I would love to see more Dr. Mike!
Tradings supers famous beauty datings friends.
I’ve waited so long to see you react to Alone injuries, thank you. There’s some other injuries not covered so potential for a 2nd video
Your videos are very helpful....mostly reaction videos...there's so much knowledge in these "Reaction to TV Shows and Movies"... Thank you so much ❤
Thank you for drawing attention to physical therapy. My mother and her mother were/are learning disability physiotherapists and they get overlooked so much.
As a person with intestinal issues, that poor girl broke my heart. I know the absolutely debilitating pain that can come from that and to be entirely alone while in that much pain would be terrifying.
I’m early for the first time .
Doctor Mike, if you read this I just want to say : You’ve inspired me to become a doctor when I’m older. My doctor even told me he would let me be his medical student when I’m old enough. I love your channel and I hope I can meet you someday .
Have a good day/night .
About the fish hook, i can also tell you that regular wire cutters aren't going to easily go through a hook of any real size after you push it all the way through and will definitely bend and abrade the sides of the hook so it's going to make lots more little cuts inside the wound coming out.
Doctor Mike! You've inspired me to become a doctor in the future. Thank you! If it wasn't for you and if I didn't change school I wouldn't've even considered it
Hell yeah John! you got this
15:30 Would it have been wise after that to heat the blade of the axe and used it to cauterize the injury? Assuming the EMTs weren't available.
Probably not especially if you are alone because what if something goes wrong with the cauterization or the fire in general I just don’t think it would be worth the risk, plus you could probably just keep the wound safe and do all you can to avoid it getting infected.
Doctor Mike never disappoints
Does anyone else get this strange feeling in their stomach combined with a fear for their own life/safety? My brain can't handle watching bad injuries, it feels like i'm a part of it!!
Tradings supers famous beauty datings friends.
Love the effort and editing that you put into your videos! Keep it up! ❤
12:50 Honestly, as someone who has fished my whole life, you pull out a fish hook the most intuitive way. You push down to get the barb into the opening made by the hook, and then pull it out the way it came in. Never try to push it through. The first approach he detailed is what I'm saying but you don't need a string.
I had a similar injury to my hand, knife slipped and hit my knuckle, severed my tendons nearly totally. ER doc stitched it and had me see a hand surgeon, he wasn't messing with it. Was told I'd lose most of my mobility in that finger but luckily PT worked and I have 100% mobility back, but DAMN that scene gave me PTSD
I have a rare allergy called aquagenic urticaria, I can’t drink straight up water it has be deleted in something like tea, soda, etc. if I drink water straight up my heart rate shoots up into the 300s, my blood pressure drops, I go into seizures, and more and when water touches my skin I get PAINFUL burn like blisters
Oh my goodness, may God bless you ❤❤❤
I love the show Alone! I have watched every season, every episode.. Glad you reviewed these!!
4:18 Doctor Mike I got a question, and I'm hoping you or anyone else has an answer. My mother does not have heart problems, nor is she ever dehydrated (anymore). My mother also has EXTREMELY WAY lower then normal average (I forget what her blood pressure is and how low it was) blood pressure. When she gets up she gets head rushes, or what I think is head rushes, where when you get up and your vision gets blurry and you feel like falling over (in a way feel dizzy)?? If thats what head rushes are and I get them as well, my question is, could me and her getting them be due to genetics???
I also get head rushes when I pop my back
and also FYI i didn't watch the entire vid then comment so some of this is answered but the last one isn't
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen Dr Mike so stressed in a single episode 😂😂😂😂😂
I have a question, why isn’t any kind of numbing used when an IUD is inserted? I think they don’t use any when they take it out either
lack of research on the female body and high rates of symptom & pain dismissal towards female patients
This is the best reality show ever. Especially the arctic locations. Obsessed.
Finally, I know I am not alone! I love this show, too.
One of the only shows i think is worth watching. The survivalists are so knowledgeable and have such interesting personalities.
4:48 It’s usually a check in system. (If they don’t check in each hour, they will get extracted immediately. At least in my countries version of this show.)
Well, then, how are they supposed to sleep?
He should check out survivor man. He did videos where he tries to teach what to do if you ever get lost in places like the woods.
He's posted all his videos to his TH-cam channel now if you want to go back and watch them! He's does director's commentary on them too 😊
Dude I love your explanations of things. It just helps me understand what maybe should be obvious but I can’t articulate
Oof, that last one hurt to watch! You NEVER chop while holding the wood!
She's lucky she only cut herself and didn't just lop off her fingers!
Place the wood on a stable surface. Pin it in place with the hatchet in one hand. Then strike the back of the hatchet with another limb/log (not a rock - it might shatter or the axe head may chip and cause serious injuries too).
If I remember right, she actually severed the tendon. She had long term issues with her hand because of that injury.
For that hook I would have tried the old medieval method of removing barbed arrows. You use some kind of small hollow tube (traditionally a feather quill), which you slide in to the wound next to the shaft of the hook and get the hollow end over the barb. Then it will slide out easily.
Doctor Mike is very sympathetic man! I wish more people would be like him.
Have a beautiful day everybody!
Nice video. Kind of neat to learn about health issues that were more prevalent 100 years ago
I've been binging your videos the last few days and your little, "bee-wop!" after your intro, reminds me of Bingo from Bluey yelling, "be-yoop!" while she's doing a silly walk 😂
I have watched this show and it is a true survival show, hard to find a good one like this.
6:29 it's popliteal cyst Mike! Not polpiteal 😂😂. Couldn't resist dude, love the vid either way
8:55 tell that to the New York government employees that just euthanized peanut “to check for rabies.” What a pathetic excuse of a human they are.
Your reaction is so cute!
Thanks a lot for sharing, really great job! 👍🥰👏
13:07 the girl with a knife almost amputated her hand as if nothing is happening, it cuts to her crying in the emergency room.
"OMG that's deep. I'm not even squeamish and I can't look"
Immediately proceed to show it in slow motion.... Yeah, thanks for that.
PT Tape is great. I use it for shoulder stability. Especially holding my muscles in the correct position
Very good information on the bakers cyst! I'm currently dealing with this now!
9:00 Someone needs to let the NY Department of Environmental Conservation know about this… RIP Peanut 🐿️
hah, soon as I hit that part I immediately sorted the comments and was going to say something similar
Best series ever 👌🏻
From what ive read urine is supposed to be slightly yellow. Clear means youre over hydrated, unless other factors are involved
Great video Doctor Mike! My mom and and I love that show lol
My two favorite shows teamed up 🎉 Dr. Mike + ALONE = GOLD
Whenever possible,I watched this show.👌this show truly tested human endurance to the max.I don't think I would be able to do such a thing,and I do alot of things solo,but that's toooo alone😊
ya i saw some of this show once. didnt see any real injuries like this. one guy quit immediately bcs he couldnt climb a hill. he had no idea what he was doing. another guy got horrible diarrhea. there was one guy eating like one mouse per day. the winner lived in a huge tree trunk and had a great time
Lol, the first minute made me realize that Doctor Mike is gonna be a great Dad. He's seen all the injuries possible and he knows how to prevent them :>
Hey Dr. Mike can you explain to us about Princess Katherine's cancer and King Charles cancer?
I wish I could watch Dr. Mike all day instead of doing school (I mean we are learning things)
The last one, as I saw she's going to split the log, I know exactly what's gonna happen and avert my eyes 😭 the fishing girl was a cham tho
I love your channel and I wanted to ask if you could make a video reacting to pink panther or woody woodpecker medical scenes❤
Hi Dr. Mike! Just wanted to comment that studies on the diarrhetic effects of caffeine suggest that you need a LOT of it to actually impact your hydration. Coffee/tea is unlikely to be an issue since.. mostly water! Caffeine = dehydration seems to be more of an urban legend than real science!
Do naked and afraid next!!!
Not allowed on YT, obviously
@@NaeniaNightingale Discovery Channel blurred everything obviously
That last one with the axe was like a car crash in slow motion. You could see the danger of it a million miles away. I hope that woman was delerious from hunger or something because there's no excuse.
Will come across as judgy, but alot of these people give me the feeling of never having grown up camping in a tent, not an RV with hookups and all that. Some of the things that we never left without were a kettle and old pot for boiling water, old kitchen towels and coffee filters, the family multi-tool-pocket-knife, hand axe, and compact sewing kit.
As soon as I saw that one prop the wood with her hand, made me wanna reach through the screen and yank that axe away. No one taught her how to chop wood for the fire while camping, very obviously. And the rough way that other one was preparing the squirrel, would make my grandpa stand up and say "give it here".
I am glad that all of them in this video made it out safe, and a few lasted a while. But the premise of shows like this is so strange. Surviving off the land was done in communities, not alone.
They probably were only allowed to bring one item with them and not a whole camping kit. Getting a camping kit is not surviving, it’s…. camping.
@NaeniaNightingale Myself, the perspective is that everyone I know growing up learned how to use those items. Camping itself, again in the perspective of me and everyone I know, was a means to enjoy nature without access to utilities. I don't enjoy shows like this that purposefully aim to make entertainment out of people suffering alone in the woods. My opinion is that on a wide scale it encourages audiences to think of being deep in the woods away from modern life as a horror. One either to be avoided at all costs, or to be treated as a challenge/sport. Which can be tied to being problematic as far as views towards the homeless are concerned, inspiring a mindset of it not being that difficult if the person on the show is able to do it. The viewer ppssibly missing the point that in actuality the people on the show are close to never being in fatal danger. They have emt teams and camera men just around the corner at all times, daily check ins to make sure they don't die on screen. The homeless do not have that luxury at all. And for me, it was repeated constantly to me when I was young not to ever go anywhere alone while camping, even when I started aging into a teen. Because as far out as we went, there were no landlines, if a person happened to have an accident and they were alone it was more than likely death. People just died alot, even more so before cellphones in the early 90s when I was growing up.
Saying all this not because it will change your mind, it seems you value this type of show as entertainment. But to offer you and who ever is reading this a different viewpoint on the matter.
This vid is gold want more this types of videos with yr reactions to them...
I love your channel so much Dr. Mike. Do you think you can react to medical scenes in Star Trek🖖
Damn. This was a intense one Dr. Mike, good job.