About the sugar thing: My Mom used to give me a glass of sugar water whenever I could not sleep, and I fell asleep a short while afterwards. I still use that today, if I absolutely cannot sleep and it has never let me down. (Thanks Mom.)
@RokuAni I'm also not a medical professional, so I can only tell you what I experience and that's that sugar, on me as a person with no diabetes, only gives you a short "high" on energy, and energy levels will drop kinda fast afterwards, which can help getting some sleep, if you've been up for the day. (On the other hand, whenever I collapse during the day, a bit of a sugary drink while resting with my legs up often helps me get my energy back faster for a moment, so I can help myself during that sugar "energy high".) Only water with a bit of sugar also does not contain as much stuff in general as for example an energy drink, which I would at least personally not recommend in the evening, since those drinks are at least made to give you energy for at least a bit of a longer period than sugar alone.
@@harrysvanberg5047 well, water with a bit of sugar should not be your "every evening"-drink. Visiting your dentist regularly and making sure you brush your teeth twice a day(according to my dentist) is always a good choice. 😉
My grandma is a retired nurse. She retired about 4 yrs ago, when she had a stroke. She worked with kids a lot, and can almost always accurately diagnose diseases. Mostly simple ones, but when my mom had cancer and didn't know it, she was the one who felt it might be cancer and made her go to the hospital. And she was right, it was cancer. My mom would be dead if it weren't for my grandma.
Lemon-lime sodas like 7up do not contain caffeine. Sprite(Coca-Cola product) and Sierra Mist (PepsiCo product) are 2 additional products that fall in line with 7up.
Also, speaking of the bubbles, my mom used to give me 7-up when I was sick but only after stirring it with a whisk till it was flat, so I guess she had heard it was good for an upset stomach but only without the carbonation. lol
I miss GB so much. I lost my grandparents when I was in my teens, and GB reminds me so much of them. It was so wonderful to have grandmotherly wisdom in my life ❤ she was a true gem and made the world better by existing!
My Nana's medical advice when I broke my foot was "Be glad if you have to wait in A&E (ER) because that means you're not dying. If they see you straight away, worry"
My buddy Gabe is a surgeon and lost his first patient after 12 years a few years ago from a cardiac embolism, where the superior vena cava burst killing the patient during surgery in seconds, he HATES using AED but obviously that wouldn't have worked... But he had to tell the family he lost their child during surgery, they forgave him but he developed minor ptsd and almost quit... He's still saving lives but nowadays his nose will bleed whenever his patient goes into cardiac arrest... His rule is don't use AED unless the person really is dead... It stresses him out because he knows AED is usually a last resort...
@@TheDuncanStudios2000 well your buddy Gabe at least tried his best to save the person’s life, that is all that matters 💗 he is still a hero even if he has PTSD. :)
@@batrachology I understand what you're saying, I'm saying that all that matters is he tried... As in I agree with you, he usually avoids AEDs (that's his trigger)
The “raw meat” on a bruise thing came from when freezers, if people had them, we’re not common. If you had a piece of cold meat that had been cold from the butcher, it substituted for ice. It was always a steak or some solid, cold piece of meat. Not hamburger.
@@Markle2k are you paying attention? I’m not making a discussion about stuff you can put on a bruise, I’m sharing where the saying or myth originated… 🤦🏼♀️
It could be helpful if applied to a tension headache. If you ease the pain with medicine, it'll help the muscles relax which will relieve your headache faster.
The “carrots are good for your eyes” myth is from WW2! The British military didn’t want anyone to know about their fancy new tool called RADAR, but needed to come up with an excuse for why they were suddenly finding more enemy planes and such. So they said “ah yes, our soldiers are eating carrots and it’s making their eyes good. Yep yep nothing to see here”
Fun Fact: My brother used to LOVE carrots. So, when he was around 6 he ate so many carrots that he turned a very light orange tone. My mom didn't know what was happening so she brought him to our local pediatrician, and when we went into the doctor's office, the first thing he said when he saw my brother was "boy, somebody likes carrots." Idk. I heard the carrot thing and I thought of this when you said you can turn orange from eating too many. :)
About the soda helping your stomach thing - there is actually a bit of truth to it! As someone with chronic GI problems, nothing has helped more than soda for soothing nausea (besides medicine ofc lol). I think the theory behind it is the fizzy bubbles can apparently encourage motility in the GI tract - and can make you burp more lmao, which could help if gas is part of what's causing your problem. Another thing is that nausea/stomach issues and a sore throat often go hand-in-hand, and lots of people can't get down water because it's too hard on the throat. Clearer drinks, like 7-up/sprite among other things that aren't soda, can be more tolerable and help you rehydrate, and hydration can help soothe your stomach/symptoms of an illness! Obviously drinks with electrolytes and less sugar are preferable, but I for example can't tolerate tea as it's harsh on my throat like water is, and thicker drinks like milk can cause extra mucus which isn't great if you're sick. If it works, it works lol
As much as I'd hate to say I disagree with Dr Mike, I agree with you! As a kid I often had nausea accompany the flu, and the only thing that felt good on my sore throat AND calmed my upset stomach, was some type of ginger ale. I know ginger is good for stomach upsets, but I had other sodas/pops too, with the same soothing effects.
The 7up is for the carbonation, it’s to help induce burping, when I had a stomach bacterial infection, though I was throwing most things up, ginger ale and 7up helped more than water because it would relieve gas build up through burps instead of throwing up bile.
When I have a tummy bug, I drink lemonade (which in Australia is basically Sprite, we don’t really do fizzless lemonade that’s actually yellow and made from lemons so much). But I really dislike fizzy drinks (they hurt my throat), so I shake it to make it flat. I drink it because it gives me sugar, on days when I can’t eat anything except a little Vegemite toast. Now, I know Americans know very little about Vegemite. You get toast, spread butter on it, and a very, very thin scraping of Vegemite. It’s not Nutella. You also can’t judge it by eating a spoonful. That’s like swigging soy sauce from the bottle and then refusing to ever use it on anything ever again because it’s gross. You’re just not supposed to have it like that. That’s not how it works. But spread thinly on toast with a bit of butter? So good. It’s umami, much like soy sauce. So the bread provides carbs, the vegemite provides salt, and the flat lemonade provides sugar. Keeps you going when you’re feeling crook.
Exactly! It’s not meant to be a cure, it’s meant to help you feel more comfortable. Also, when you’re that sick, having something with a little sugar can help you keep your energy up. You aren’t gonna be eating meals that day or even for a couple days if you’re really unwell, and drinking soda is better than not taking in any food or liquids at all. I was sick once with a bad stomach bug, and I didn’t eat or drink for many hours because I didn’t feel like it. I passed out in the shower later that night. I couldn’t see or hear. I wish I would’ve had a glass of 7-Up haha.
Ok, I think I've figured out the raw meat one. I'm betting that goes back to when cubed ice wasn't readily available in most homes like it is now. I'm betting the meat was dense and stayed colder longer and served the same purpose as an ice pack.
Pretty much. Also, that myth started in the early part of the 20th century, so I'm betting it was a treatment used primarily with boys, to make the seem more macho. Finally, it was a good way to have steak for dinner. It was already out and getting warm. No sense letting good meat go to waste. Keep that 9n your eye for another hour and then your mother will cook it up for dinner.
Ding! Ding! Ding! You're *both* right! Additionally, while people did keep fresh meat "on ice," it wasn't frozen. (Home freezers weren't even invented until the 1940s.) It really was flexible enough to work as an ice pack. Also, it was easily the coldest thing in the house. Even if a family had an icebox (like a small, insulated cabinet with a top shelf that stored an entire block of ice), no one was going to chip ice off that block.
I believed everything my Gram said (my Mom's Mom) because she was an herbalist and helped SOOOO many people through her life... She was one of those tough old ladies that had nine kids on a farm. She was awesome! She even took care of people she didn't know in her own home...
I didn't see anyone mention this yet, but the carrots being good for the eyes goes back to WWII. They didn't want the axis powers to know they had developed radar, so they spread the idea that the pilots ate a lot of carrots and have great night vision because of it. Similarly, but very different, the idea that you can catch an STD from a toilet seat was purposefully spread so that more soldiers would get checked/ treated for them. 😊
Can confirm. Caffeine has its own color. Dissolving caffeine in a clear liquid will impart a yellowish hue, depending on concentration. Thus, a clear liquid cannot contain caffeine. Fun fact: This is why many caffeinated pops use caramel color. (Not all, though. Most root beers have no caffeine but still use caramel color.) Without any coloring, caffeinated pops would resemble urine and thus would look incredibly unappealing.
When I was 17 an old man told me I could get rid of my gallstones by “flushing them out”. I looked it up and his method would’ve been deadly. So I asked my doctor if anybody had ever tried it and he said yes but with consequences. So I don’t take medical advice from old people now without asking my doctor about it first and doing research.
what was his advice ?!? I just found out i have this problem and my doctor immediately wanted me to get it removed! (Im 23 with a now known family history and its not severe) i'm going to try just changing my diet because i'm not having something removed at 23 if theres a chance i could be $h!tting myself the rest of my life
@@bravobby8773 I had to have mine removed after having my baby because it was full of stones back in November. So far, having been pooping myself. A little bit of diarrhea while I was hospitalized from the stones, but so far no effect from the removal
@@bravobby8773 Gallstones that cause symptoms needed to be treated with gall bladder surgery because the stones could try to get out and get stuck in the pancreatic duct and then the pancreas is going to try and digest itself. If it sounds nasty it probably is a nasty experience you don’t want to make.
7-up actually doesn’t have caffeine. I find it does help me when I’m nauseous, but I’m not sure if that’s because it just happens to be one of the drinks I can keep down, resulting in less vomiting or if it actually affects my nausea levels. If we’re talking soda that is proven to help with nausea then ginger ale is the way to go.
I think 7-up has some properties that may make it more appropriate than other sodas. It seems to have smaller bubbles than many, and as pointed out, it doesn't have caffeine. It also doesn't have colorants that may induce minor reactions (red dyes are notorious for this, it's not an allergy, not anaphylactic shock or anything that drastic, but definitely a lot of people have a minor sort of reaction to it, some itchiness or hives even). The lemon-lime flavor is relatively refreshing and seems easy to keep down. I haven't seen any study on whether or not 7-up helps an upset stomach, but it doesn't seem totally infeasible to me. Oh, and the sugar probably makes it more palatable than plain water for sick kids.
Rest In Peace GB! You will always be the best grandma in the game! So thankful for the time you gave us and your videos will always be dear to my heart!
Oh no, that's sad news! She looked like she was a lot of fun, and definitely full of love. The archetypal grandma we all wish for. I'm trying to be as close to that as I can be, but my nearest grandkids (so far, my only grandkids!) are about 150 miles away. Saw them yesterday and they're as daft as ever 😄😂❤️ I'm sending all her family and friends my deepest condolences and all my love.
7-up does NOT have caffeine in it. And I'd never heard that it could soothe an upset stomach, but it is (usually) mild enough to keep down when nauseated. My mom's logic when I was little was that it had sugar and electrolytes, so I was at least getting some of that replaced even if I couldn't keep down much in the way of solids.
Seltzer water is good for churning up the stomach which can aid digestion if the issue isn't from overeating, 7Up is basically just a high in sugar seltzer water.
It has no caffeine and I know I'm my case, it makes me burp faster than any other drink. So if the stomach issue is actually gas, I can see it being helpful
Yeah no Idea who fact checked this video, but they slipped up and missed the fact that 7-Up has ALWAYS been caffeine-free. The myth is also weird. Never heard 7-Up or any other lenon lime soda tbh. It's actually real authentic Ginger-Ale
Whenever we were sick with anything, my great grandmother would always insist on making us homemade chicken soup from scratch. She used to always say "chicken soup is Jewish penicillin" she handed down the tradition to my grandmother, who handed it down to my mom, who handed it down to me. It's always the go to when sick.
Coming from a Jewish house, that is the most accurate statement ever. But it can't be that store bought garbage, it's gotta be the kind that was left to cook on the fire for hours and you could smell two floors up.
@@will.i.kiwalla exactly. That's the good stuff that my great grandmother would make. She used to have all sorts of other remedies for us when we were sick too. My moms side of the family is Jewish.
It did originally have lithium in it, only so little of it that to actually have an effect you would have to drink do much of it that you would die from fluid intake.
a lot of people drink ginger ale when their stomach feels weird. i like to drink sodas when i feel like i need to burp which then makes me feel better. i prefer ginger ale as it’s not sweet like sprite or coke.
7up doesn't contain caffeine and honestly I really do think that, or ginger ale does wonders for someone who's puking and can't keep anything down. Something many hospitals recommend today
The reason the whole “Carrots are good for your eyes” thing came about was due to a new radar system that England invented in WW2. They didn’t want the Nazis to discover the new radar tower technology so they invented a story that the reason the English could see better at nighttime when the German planes flew over was because they gave their troops carrots.
@@pegaseg70 I'm only here because I'm taking a break from studying the third Reich and trust me. The Nazis were the dumbest mofos ever, they've believed the dumbest stuff.
7Up, until recently when they ran a special 7Up, it doesn''t have caffeine. Their slogan for many many years was "no caffeine. Never had it. Never will."
The “being too close to the TV,“ is based on when TVs were first commonly introduced in the 1950s and 60s. My research has shown that at one time, the components of old TVs, especially black and white TVs, “caused more x-ray radiation then was desired,“ was the statement issued at the time. Even more recently, Samsung issued a warning about the elderly and pregnant women watching their 3-D TVs. Yes, now we know that holding a screen too close to your face causes eye strain, and the blue light from screens disrupts how we sleep; but it goes further than that as to what TVs were actually made with at the time.
Im not that old so i cant say you are right or wrong but i grew up with colour CRT TVs and due to how that technology works it did feel your eyes tired watching in a close distance thanks to that weird image vibration CRT has and your eyes are constantly trying to focus wich makes it even worse , giving you headaches sometimes. i dont regret it tho, Good old Final Fantasy 7,8,9 times. lol
The problem is now blue light. LCD screens produce way to much of it. The way all CRTs work is focusing a beam of energised particles on to a phosphuros layer on then inside of the tube. Early TVs lacked a metal screen layer that caught some escaping electrons. There are no X Rays in any TV ever made. The older TVd had highly energised electrons escape. These free radical electrons if the TV is old enough and started to lose its layer of PH. These electrons lose energy at around D cubed. So you would need to put your face on the screen.
@@thepoliticalstartrek I am certain that I addressed blue light in my comment, and if you’re asking an old woman, or even an old man, I am certain that they are not going to be describing blue light from a screen. Their reference is going to come from their time, which is what I stated to begin with: the materials that old TVs of their generation were made with dispersed unwanted x-ray radiation which meant people need to sit further back from the TV.
They did a double blind study on sugar and hyperactivity, and they found that some kids had no reaction at all to sugar (or the placebo) but their parent believed they did, while some kids had a reaction on no sugar (as well as sugar) as a response to what their parent wanted them to have (kids are great at figuring out what the adults around them want from them, which is why they're so hard to study). So, if your kid gets hyper because of sugar, it's most likely a response to the adults around them expecting them to act hyper and them behaving according to that expectation. ... also, another study about kids (5-6-ish age range) and their behavior found that when there were monitors in the room, they would form cliques and group up and in-fight, but when the in-room monitor had to leave for something unforeseen, the kids all chilled out and were perfectly well behaved with one another... until the monitor returned. Turns out that even when the monitor might have been trying to be be neutral, they weren't, and their expectations of the experiment changed how the kids reacted to it!
@@ludwigwittgenstein1280 Not entirely, but in way too many cases. The difficulty with that is that there are very real mental disorders and because the diagnosis is difficult and they can present quite differently, it is probably better that everyone that needs help gets it even if people that don't actually have an issue abuse the system as well rather than cracking down on it and preventing people that really need help from getting it by accident.
My grandma was a nurse for almost 50 years, when I had my son I asked her a whole load of questions. He was my first child and I was young when I had him. Now I love my grandma to bits but some of her medical advice may be a tad outdated…
Fun fact: The whole “carrots make your eyes better” myth comes from WWII. The British where developing the first radar detection systems and other powers noticed that they were much more accurate and ready to defend against air raids quicker than ever before. They used the excuse that “our soldiers are eating lots of carrots, and it’s improving their vision.” True story lol.
I thought I was the only one that knew this lol my dad told it to me when I was a kid and I was like that’s interesting but I’ve never heard anyone else ever talk about it cool.
As a past competitive swimmer, I can confirm if you eat a decent size meal/anything heavy -even a bowl of oatmeal- then swim at a swift pace stomach cramps do happen. Eating a snack or a quick sandwich then doing some warm up laps or casual swimming I've never had a problem.
I ate a bowl of pasta right before a water polo game one time and had some of the worst stomach cramps of my life. I ate light meals right before practice all the time though and never had any issues. If you're just swimming for fun, eating lunch and then getting back in the pool is fine as long as you aren't eating anything really really heavy.
Fun fact: the carrot myth was started by the RAF to explain why they had so much better accuracy at night in WWII. The real carrots in this case was radar
In addition to that, they they were heavily rationing sugar and trying to get people to use carrots (which could be grown easily at home) as a substitute. That's why carrot cake exists.
@@datadivanet And people have complained to me when I've mentioned that carrots are sweet. Like, they aren't sugar beets, but still, they're sweet enough to provide for a slightly more savory dessert.(with maybe cream adding a bit more, which they also get upset about the idea that there's sweetness in)
Grandma's almost right - it's ginger ale, not 7up. Ginger has anti-nausea properties - my obgyn told me to nibble a little ginger root to ease morning sickness. But you have to get the quality ginger ale with real ginger and my mom would always let it go a little flat. Ginger ale, saltines, chicken soup, vicks vapo-rub. That's the whole medicine cabinet of my 70s upbringing.
In Michigan it's specifically Vernors Ginger Ale (basically a cure all here lol) and Vicks lol. Also, 7-up has helped before too, just not as good as Vernors.
THIS! Also, 7Up does NOT have caffeine. Really Dr. Mike? If you can't get the basic info right how are we supposed to trust you to get the complicated things right?
I just wanna say that watching your videos has literally helped me save my grandma’s life. I’ve learned the importance of CPR and thanks to that she made it thru a cardiac and respiratory arrest with no brain damage. I’m not a nurse nor do I know anything about medicine but watching your videos helped me save my grandmothers life. Thank you .
Fun fact, the whole “7 year” thing for the gum comes from the same saying that if you break a mirror you get 7 years bad luck. Back in Roman times they knew it took the body 7 years to replenish all cells - your skin cells are constantly being replaced but things such as the cells that make up your bones will replenish much slower, I’m not sure what part takes the longest, but either way after 7 years you’re technically an all-new person. Romans believed that your reflection was your soul, and the soul being a part of your body meant that if you break a mirror it will take 7 years for your soul to heal from that. So the gum is 7 years because of this reason! Not sure what the semantics of this wive’s tale are but they’re probably that it ‘sticks to your stomach permanently’ or something and your body needs to ‘heal’ from this
Wow. Back in my country, instead of saying 7 years, they often say that if you break a mirror, it give you bad luck for 7 generations- and the only reason I can think of why they say that is because its very hard to clean up the mirror shards, because it was small it metaphorically took you 7 generations just to clean it up- (also I think maybe it's the mistranslation that make people in my country say 7 generation instead of 7 years)
Except that is not true. The average life span of a cell is 7 years, but there are cells that don't renew ever, like neurons or heart muscle. Also Romans didnt know about cells and the origin of the 7 year number for gum is unknown.
As a former competitive swimmer, for me it’s true that eating before swimming will give you stomach cramps. During swim meets I would only drink water and maybe Gatorade and not eat during the entire competition because otherwise it would give me a cramp. I have no idea how the rest of my team mates were able to eat and then turn around and compete 🏊♀️
I wonder if swimming in cold water, like the ocean, will interrupt your digestion (and give you cramps). Because the blood leaves the stomach to warm your body, and also due to the shock…
To be fair eating before any strenuous exercise will give you stomach cramps. Used to have the same problem while at powerlifting meets in high school.
... Maybe it's mostly placebo (or inverse placebo here). Or more of the psychological effects of competition, the butterflies are very real. I did swim team for many years and would before practice and during meets and never once got a cramp. I think the only time I did wasn't a stomach cramp and I hadn't eaten, was 6 AM in the outdoor pool in Summer and was a toe cramp.
8:17 I immediately thought back to all the times I’ve checked for which of my soft drinks had and did not have caffeine, and then went to fact check this. 7-up does NOT contain caffeine.
My grandma has several apple trees on her garden, one strain of those apples which we call jonagold is like sweet as hell and tastes really fresh and good lol. But she also has these little green apples which are ripe sooner than the others and those are really sour. So it also depends on the strain of the apple and stuff like that lol.
@@MechaShadowV2 nah, he said on twitter it was a mess up and he was thinking of Mountain Dew, it’s possible stuff was edited out and him and Dan or Sam started talking about their favourite sodas.
@@Shant3ll998 That sounds possible... but I would have hoped a video that claimed to be all about fact checking would itself be fact-checked before posting.
As a competitive swimmer, I can safely say that training shortly after eating doesn't cause too many issues, but it does make it more uncomfortable to swim.
If you are hiking and gaining altitude, I highly recommend bringing a Gatorade which can help ease altitude sickness because it has electrolytes in it.
I experienced altitude sickness for the first time last year when visiting the Colorado Rockies. I wish I knew this then. Thanks for sharing. Next time I go to the mountains, I'll drink Gatorade.
@@lizbecker1677 Yeah! It's gorgeous in the Rockies and when I visit my family constantly tells me to drink gatorade, it helps a lot and is refreshing! Helps with the higher altitude for sure.
I did it too and it lasted for about a minute before it was back in my face. Does anyone know if it's a myth that you alleviate the eye strain by looking at larger things in the distance for 5 minute intervals?
@@FlowerPower-cf2fp What @Porpoise said is true, you should do pauses every 20 minutes, look at a distance, and count 20 different objects. This is especially important if you are short-sighted.
Haha, at 6:45 when i was younger I got obsessed with trying to fix my eyesight. I'd watched a video that said carrots can help eyesight, so I ate a boatload of carrots. I turned orangish around my hands and sort of on my face, and couldn't figure out why. So thank you Dr. Mike for diagnosing me with carrotus-overeatus.
I recall a cartoon, Magic School Bus I think, where one of the kids ate all these carrots everyday for some reason (it was a long time ago lol) and turned orange and they discovered by driving around in his veins that the orange came from the carrots.
If gum stayed in you for 7 years, so would pennies, stickers, marbles, and other strange things I may have accidently swallowed as a kid. I would be a freaking kitchen junk drawer with fantastic treasure poops that held a fun surprise time capsule with every bowel movement.
"When we gave them coca cola in the beginning, and it had sugar and Caffeine!" You forgot the cocaine, Mike... I think that was part of the reason kids went hyper after drinking cola.
"Anyone who leaves the house with wet hair weakens the body's defense system. Important to know: Wetness makes your head cool faster and you start to freeze faster on your head. This means that the scalp is hypothermic and as a result, the mucous membranes are not optimally supplied with blood." Could this be the thought behind it? I dont know...
That's the BS rationalization which is false. People noticed a link between cold weather and respiratory infections. This is due to people staying indoors with other people more, not temperature. But people intuitively believed it was due to the temperature. Our intuition, in the modern world, is dangerously misplaced and almost always wrong about everything. It was wrong about cold impairing the immune system. If you stay outside in the cold, you'll actually get fewer viruses because they transmit poorly. Where do you figure influenza goes and how do they know what strains to put in the flu vaccine each year? It's in the southern hemisphere where it is cold. Because they are staying indoors away from the cold. Virologists observe which strains are most prevalent, knowing those will be the ones most likely to spread to the northern hemisphere and be the biggest problem in the coming winter months, so the dominant ones are what become part of the vaccine. And around and around it goes. Following the cold weather despite cold air holding less moisture and thus being harder for viruses to transmit through... because people stay in where it's warm. Especially when they're sick.
But you still loose body heat on your head - easier /more than at any other body part if exposed in the cold.....this is a given fact. And repeated hypothermia could weaken your immune system, if you go out with wet hair in almost zero degrees Celsius all the time, directly after showering to go to work early.... (I'm NOT saying it causes viral infections, such as a common cold) but the loss of body heat quickly - on a daily basis - doesn't sound like a good thing to me... Maybe shower and wash your hair and then eat breakfast, so your hair can ( almost) fully dry ? It helped me with ear infections or sudden swollen lymph nodes a lot when I had to get up at 5 am to be at work at 6:30....and even more when a a - stream ? - of cold weather and wind hit the City with temperatures up to minus 15 degrees Celsius. I think we could agree that going out with wet hair at this conditions couldn't be very healthy. So I wasn't talking about slightly cool morning breeze but freezing cold and strong winds.... I don't know where Granny lives and what the weather is there, but given.....Chicago- I'm not from the US- she could be partially right though her reasoning might have been wrong or not specific.
Mike your facial expressions when you do these types of videos are absolutely precious! Love your videos! They get me through a lot of tough times lately!
Yes! I'm a teacher (PreK) that did a movie theater experience in the classroom last year. When I got drinks, I bought sodas caffeine free, 7up and orange. Wouldn't buy caffeine for the littles.
@@poisonedkilljoy9304 cocain was eliminated from coke in 1929 so i’m guessing grandma never got any of that but maybe didn’t know it was taken out. She looks to be in her 80’s so she was born just after it was taken out. EDIT: BINGO! I just checked her tiktok and she is 88. So she was born in 1933. 4 yrs after cocaine was taken out.
My dad's mom (aka my grandma) told my dad and his sisters they couldn't go near the window during meals. My dad and aunts always went to the window and waved to the mailman, and my grandma didn't like that, so she told them their mouths would get paralyzed or crooked. That is very sound advice!
The "carrots are good for your eyes" myth started in WW2 when the Brits invented this amazing new technology called RADAR that allowed them to see German planes. In order to help cover the new technology and keep it a secret, they spread the rumor that their observers just had really good eyes. How did they have good eyes? Well, they ate a lot of carrots, of course, which - conveniently - the Germans didn't have a lot of.
Fun Facts: When my twin brother and I were babies, we really liked carrot and sweet potato puree's so my mum kept feeding us them...We actually did turn orange! 😂☺🥰
My mom used to give me these giant frozen carrots to gnaw on when I was teething. It would make my hands orange and my Dad took me to the hospital when he noticed it. Mom was at her sister’s and rolled her eyes so hard when she found out he panicked.
“Getting too close to a screen for too long will make you nearsighted “ Me who is very nearsighted and can only see clearly for like a foot away: slowly puts phone down 😬
i was often sick as a baby in the udssr and the nurses had some rather creative advices to my mom to keep me healthy. one of them was putting cut open garlic just beneath the wrists and keep it there. maybe my memory got fuzzy after all these years , but there's still hyperpygmentation marks there, similiar to the burn i once had as a kid on my leg, even now as a grown up. not sure if my mom was clueless or desperate to believe that would help with anything. Edit: Another one i remember vividly, is getting rubbed with some kind of chili oil and wrapped up in warm clothes to the point where you can't move and free yourself. Then left to your own devices to "sweat the sickness out" in a too small crib, so you can't escape the treatment. It wasn't that bad , but the part where you're left alone , unable to move, suffocating and dizzy from heat stroke as you helplessly scream and cry for about 30 minutes was not so fun. Parent's maybe should have stayed in the room to reassure a panicking 4 year old, rather than ignore him.
“Sitting to close to the tv hurts your eyes”. *VR has enter the chat* I also believed that this sitting to close to the tv is bad for you was due to early television leaking microwave radiation from the CRT as they were poorly shielded. Particularly around the bottom of the television. So sitting to close would put you closer to the leak.
I’m skeptical with the VR part tbh, because I’m a huge VR enthusiast and I control my VR time well (Strictly 30 minutes, no more) and I still have 20-20 vision, but the thing about the early television is interesting…is that also why old TVs have a strange filter over the screen vs the most recent ones, where it’s a lot more picturesque and more like a photo vs a hundred LEDS flashing together to make a picture? I can’t explain it too well but that’s the best I can do.
@@Feimicha VR is improving while its not perfect it wont cause permanent damage. You will more or less get light sensitivity, eyestrain or fatigue. Other symptoms like nausea are caused because of your brains spatial awareness (Since in vr you are not aware of where your body is ) , field of view ( FOV) and Frame rate/frame timing.
@@Feimicha Color CRTs have a grid in the back that works with the positioning of the 3 electron guns to allow it to control the 3 colors separately. Newer TVs are higher resolution so you don't see the pixels unless you're extremely close, and LCDs are a filter rather than being a light like CRTs. CRTs flicker because the screen is lighting up every frame, whereas LCDs have a backlight that's always lit.
I was always told as a kid not to watch in the dark it would also hurt your eyes. I am in my late 60s. As a child I did get leg cramps going into the ocean shortly after eating. I always swallowed watermelon seeds as a kid, okay I still do, but usually buy seedless, so not as many any more.
My wife is a hair professional, teaches, works in the entertainment industry for IATSE 873 and 461 and she says "Thank you Dr. Mike. Going outside with wet hair in frozen temperatures IS bad."
Dr. Mike showed how young he really is when he said 7-Up had caffeine.... anyone growing up in the 80s could never forget the tag line "Never had it, Never Will" 7up used in reference to caffeine 😉
@@Asptuber No 7-Up does not have caffeine. They don’t have a caffeine version. If you want caffeine with your lemon lime, get a Mountain Dew or Mellow Yellow.
remember a "words of wisdom" section from school magazine when I was in grade 1 - just stuck with me, "It takes 72 muscles to frown but only 14 muscles to smiles." even was skeptical at the time, became an editor 20 years later and started a whole weekly mag section to debunk such words of wisdom. :)
@@Feimicha LoL! this research was created; like a 6 yr old standing in front of a mirror frowning, then smiling. I remember counting two muscles for smile and 12 for frown. When I asked my mom to model a frown and a smile, the calculator in my head broke counting - smiles are fine but I was fascinated by the detail in her scowl. Obvs. as a kid my frown was a caricature of a real one, and her's...well, imagine a mother of seven being dragged to the mirror by the youngest and asked to do this; her frown is etched in 72 of my muscles :)
If you’re ill, I wouldn’t suggest staying bed-bound the whole time. I suffer chronic illness & all it does for me is make me feel sluggish & congested, so it’s at least recommended to get a little fresh air as well (even if it’s just sitting in the garden or a light stroll down the road). Also agree with the soup, but you should include fruit &/or veg somewhere. ☺️❤️👌 PS - My fam traditionally buys Lucozade for anyone who is feeling poorly, kinda like the ginger-ale idea. Always works for us! 😄
Good chicken noodle soup should already have celery, carrots, and maybe some onion, but adding more veggies to your diet is always a good idea. I add a little steamed spinach to a lot of my meals for the iron. I've also heard that cooked tomato products are good to keep you from getting sick. Dunno if that'll help chronic illness, but it might be an idea?
This watermelon thing actually brought my brother and I to tears when we were really little. We had some watermelon and didn't notice that we had swallowed some seeds until it was "too late" so we just broke down crying because we thought we would now have several watermelons grow inside of our stomachs, which would in turn kill us because even one watermelon was bigger than our stomachs and we definitely ate more than one seed. Mental breakdown over watermelon seeds xD Grandma then obviously had to tell us that she didn't mean it and was just joking. Looking back at it now always makes us laugh and facepalm
Me on the other hand purposefully swallowed the seeds cuz I wanted more watermelons. Was prepared to swallow dirt and water too. Imagine my disappointment when my mama told me it won't work.
3:43 my mama actually do that to her “dead” hair. We have to watch her because she even do this in public unintentionally. Like PUBLIC. Public mirrors in department stores!! So funny and humiliating at the same time, tho. 😂
It’s so heartbreaking that’s she’s passed. She was a precious soul.
I didn’t know that 😢
she died sadly :(
@@imnotsayingmyrealname WHATTTTT
@@xsincerely._evax bruh
NOOOOOOOOOOO
About the sugar thing: My Mom used to give me a glass of sugar water whenever I could not sleep, and I fell asleep a short while afterwards. I still use that today, if I absolutely cannot sleep and it has never let me down. (Thanks Mom.)
take my like, this is wholesome
i need to try that. never heard that it works but it would be cool if it did.
Poor teeth
@RokuAni I'm also not a medical professional, so I can only tell you what I experience and that's that sugar, on me as a person with no diabetes, only gives you a short "high" on energy, and energy levels will drop kinda fast afterwards, which can help getting some sleep, if you've been up for the day. (On the other hand, whenever I collapse during the day, a bit of a sugary drink while resting with my legs up often helps me get my energy back faster for a moment, so I can help myself during that sugar "energy high".) Only water with a bit of sugar also does not contain as much stuff in general as for example an energy drink, which I would at least personally not recommend in the evening, since those drinks are at least made to give you energy for at least a bit of a longer period than sugar alone.
@@harrysvanberg5047 well, water with a bit of sugar should not be your "every evening"-drink. Visiting your dentist regularly and making sure you brush your teeth twice a day(according to my dentist) is always a good choice. 😉
I love how he is always calling her Grandma and he is so respectful towards her.
She’s so cute!
@@CanteburyJones yes she is
@@AsadK5.0 bro what
@@CanteburyJones that’s a bit sus but k
@@radwan3371 how is it sus?
My grandma is a retired nurse. She retired about 4 yrs ago, when she had a stroke. She worked with kids a lot, and can almost always accurately diagnose diseases. Mostly simple ones, but when my mom had cancer and didn't know it, she was the one who felt it might be cancer and made her go to the hospital. And she was right, it was cancer. My mom would be dead if it weren't for my grandma.
gg for your grandma
@@listopad09bro wtf
@@polystyrenefoam what?
W grandma
I’m so glad your mom is okay, and your Grandma is a HERO! 🦸♀️ ❤
7-Up doesn’t have caffeine. As the old 80s commercial used to say, “ never had it, never will.”
I was about to ask about this
Lemon-lime sodas like 7up do not contain caffeine. Sprite(Coca-Cola product) and Sierra Mist (PepsiCo product) are 2 additional products that fall in line with 7up.
Gosh , you must be OLD!!
LOL
he litterally said he confused 7up with mountain dew. (in desc)
Also, speaking of the bubbles, my mom used to give me 7-up when I was sick but only after stirring it with a whisk till it was flat, so I guess she had heard it was good for an upset stomach but only without the carbonation. lol
Funnily enough, my dad is allergic to apples. For him the saying is “An apple a day means the doctor will stay.”
I'm also allergic to apples, it's the emergency room next and a lot of doctors if an apple so much touches my lips 😂
Lol I rlly want someone who is allergic to apples become a doctor and use this line
@@jussomeidiot5858 lolll
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@@thecherrybish1455 oral allergy syndrome
Out of context: I think Doc Mike’s editor is a fan of Breaking Bad. Yeah science! 👌🏼
Out of context : Grandma doesnt really like swalllowingg ;)
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Suprised to see you here, Doc Alvin!
I’m early to a verified comment
Doc! More with Nurse Even please. Thanks.
I miss GB so much. I lost my grandparents when I was in my teens, and GB reminds me so much of them. It was so wonderful to have grandmotherly wisdom in my life ❤ she was a true gem and made the world better by existing!
My Nana's medical advice when I broke my foot was "Be glad if you have to wait in A&E (ER) because that means you're not dying. If they see you straight away, worry"
My buddy Gabe is a surgeon and lost his first patient after 12 years a few years ago from a cardiac embolism, where the superior vena cava burst killing the patient during surgery in seconds, he HATES using AED but obviously that wouldn't have worked...
But he had to tell the family he lost their child during surgery, they forgave him but he developed minor ptsd and almost quit... He's still saving lives but nowadays his nose will bleed whenever his patient goes into cardiac arrest...
His rule is don't use AED unless the person really is dead... It stresses him out because he knows AED is usually a last resort...
@@TheDuncanStudios2000 well your buddy Gabe at least tried his best to save the person’s life, that is all that matters 💗 he is still a hero even if he has PTSD. :)
@@TheDuncanStudios2000 It matters that he tried saving a life. I probably worded it wrong, sorry. But having PTSD does suck. My mom has it..
@@batrachology I understand what you're saying, I'm saying that all that matters is he tried... As in I agree with you, he usually avoids AEDs (that's his trigger)
I waited a few minutes thankfully I only had uti😅 context I was puking all the time before going to the er
The “raw meat” on a bruise thing came from when freezers, if people had them, we’re not common. If you had a piece of cold meat that had been cold from the butcher, it substituted for ice. It was always a steak or some solid, cold piece of meat. Not hamburger.
Thank you Mx. Smarty
Frozen peas are good because they conform to the surface, rather than delivering spot cold to small areas like ice cubes do.
@@Markle2k are you paying attention? I’m not making a discussion about stuff you can put on a bruise, I’m sharing where the saying or myth originated… 🤦🏼♀️
@@Shadowpixy your profile pics perfect for that comment lol
@@Shadowpixychill about the frozen peas. its pretty common for people to share what comes to mind after reading someone's comment.
THB, at first, I didn't read "GUM" on the thumbnail. I was like "grandma what ?"...
Same bruh 🤦♀️🤣🤣🤣
Me too 😂🤦🏾♀️
Same.
Lmao same! 🤣
Me too, poor choice of font...
I told my Nana that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, and completely deadpan she just answered:
"Yeah, if you've got good aim."
I was wheezing.
That’s not how your supposed to use it, grandma! 😂
Omg nana no
My grandma’s medical advice is always, “it will feel better when it quits hurting.” Not wrong but also not helpful.
It could be helpful if applied to a tension headache. If you ease the pain with medicine, it'll help the muscles relax which will relieve your headache faster.
*big brain intensifies*
I’ve got chronic pain, guess it won’t stop….
@@apanimation7950 albert eisstein's son
Like my dad's "it's always in the last place you look" thing whenever you ask him where something is
The “carrots are good for your eyes” myth is from WW2! The British military didn’t want anyone to know about their fancy new tool called RADAR, but needed to come up with an excuse for why they were suddenly finding more enemy planes and such. So they said “ah yes, our soldiers are eating carrots and it’s making their eyes good. Yep yep nothing to see here”
What’s the most inconspicuous vegetable? Carrots of course! 🥕
"Nothing to see here... Unless you eat carrots to improve your vision"
oh neat, i find that funny for some reason
Yes, but it won’t actually help your night vision really. That myth comes from the above
sure they are good for your eyes.. but they make a terrible spectical.
Fun Fact: My brother used to LOVE carrots. So, when he was around 6 he ate so many carrots that he turned a very light orange tone. My mom didn't know what was happening so she brought him to our local pediatrician, and when we went into the doctor's office, the first thing he said when he saw my brother was "boy, somebody likes carrots."
Idk. I heard the carrot thing and I thought of this when you said you can turn orange from eating too many. :)
He is BONNY BOI
@@jeonbassig2394 Um what..?
@@Emma_K Bunny Boi~
@@anti-rad13 ohhhh man's can't spell so I didn't know what he was saying lol
@@Emma_K It was a wierd way to type it out, yes
About the soda helping your stomach thing - there is actually a bit of truth to it! As someone with chronic GI problems, nothing has helped more than soda for soothing nausea (besides medicine ofc lol). I think the theory behind it is the fizzy bubbles can apparently encourage motility in the GI tract - and can make you burp more lmao, which could help if gas is part of what's causing your problem. Another thing is that nausea/stomach issues and a sore throat often go hand-in-hand, and lots of people can't get down water because it's too hard on the throat. Clearer drinks, like 7-up/sprite among other things that aren't soda, can be more tolerable and help you rehydrate, and hydration can help soothe your stomach/symptoms of an illness!
Obviously drinks with electrolytes and less sugar are preferable, but I for example can't tolerate tea as it's harsh on my throat like water is, and thicker drinks like milk can cause extra mucus which isn't great if you're sick. If it works, it works lol
As much as I'd hate to say I disagree with Dr Mike, I agree with you! As a kid I often had nausea accompany the flu, and the only thing that felt good on my sore throat AND calmed my upset stomach, was some type of ginger ale. I know ginger is good for stomach upsets, but I had other sodas/pops too, with the same soothing effects.
i use to drink alot of soda personally i cut like 95% out of it and stick to mainly water i still get heart burn though but i take tums for that
The 7up is for the carbonation, it’s to help induce burping, when I had a stomach bacterial infection, though I was throwing most things up, ginger ale and 7up helped more than water because it would relieve gas build up through burps instead of throwing up bile.
It also doesn’t have caffeine
Same here.
When I have a tummy bug, I drink lemonade (which in Australia is basically Sprite, we don’t really do fizzless lemonade that’s actually yellow and made from lemons so much). But I really dislike fizzy drinks (they hurt my throat), so I shake it to make it flat.
I drink it because it gives me sugar, on days when I can’t eat anything except a little Vegemite toast. Now, I know Americans know very little about Vegemite. You get toast, spread butter on it, and a very, very thin scraping of Vegemite. It’s not Nutella. You also can’t judge it by eating a spoonful. That’s like swigging soy sauce from the bottle and then refusing to ever use it on anything ever again because it’s gross. You’re just not supposed to have it like that. That’s not how it works. But spread thinly on toast with a bit of butter? So good. It’s umami, much like soy sauce.
So the bread provides carbs, the vegemite provides salt, and the flat lemonade provides sugar. Keeps you going when you’re feeling crook.
Flat ginger ale for the ginger to calm your stomach of that's all you have on hand
Exactly! It’s not meant to be a cure, it’s meant to help you feel more comfortable. Also, when you’re that sick, having something with a little sugar can help you keep your energy up. You aren’t gonna be eating meals that day or even for a couple days if you’re really unwell, and drinking soda is better than not taking in any food or liquids at all. I was sick once with a bad stomach bug, and I didn’t eat or drink for many hours because I didn’t feel like it. I passed out in the shower later that night. I couldn’t see or hear. I wish I would’ve had a glass of 7-Up haha.
Doctor Mike: “Hug your bruise”
Me: *hugs the bruise*
The bruise: *Hurts worse*
Me: “I thought you were a professional!”
😂😁😂
LMAO
when you have EDS and hugs cause bruises 😂💜
@@KaylaMaryy and people don't seem to understand that you can dislike being hugged for a reason :D
Hmm. Walk it off.
Ok, I think I've figured out the raw meat one. I'm betting that goes back to when cubed ice wasn't readily available in most homes like it is now. I'm betting the meat was dense and stayed colder longer and served the same purpose as an ice pack.
Pretty much. Also, that myth started in the early part of the 20th century, so I'm betting it was a treatment used primarily with boys, to make the seem more macho. Finally, it was a good way to have steak for dinner. It was already out and getting warm. No sense letting good meat go to waste. Keep that 9n your eye for another hour and then your mother will cook it up for dinner.
Ding! Ding! Ding! You're *both* right!
Additionally, while people did keep fresh meat "on ice," it wasn't frozen. (Home freezers weren't even invented until the 1940s.) It really was flexible enough to work as an ice pack. Also, it was easily the coldest thing in the house.
Even if a family had an icebox (like a small, insulated cabinet with a top shelf that stored an entire block of ice), no one was going to chip ice off that block.
Nothing a New York strip won't fix
-SIGNED FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN
@@joshmitchell8370 u have the same pfp as him lol
that makes sense
I believed everything my Gram said (my Mom's Mom) because she was an herbalist and helped SOOOO many people through her life... She was one of those tough old ladies that had nine kids on a farm. She was awesome! She even took care of people she didn't know in her own home...
"It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile."
Lesson learned: constantly frowning is the first step in achieving a swole face.
😆😆
I accully cant frown I don't have the ability to do that so how do you do that
Is this the Krusty Krab? 🤣
Bring grandma back!
Does frowning count as exercise?
I didn't see anyone mention this yet, but the carrots being good for the eyes goes back to WWII. They didn't want the axis powers to know they had developed radar, so they spread the idea that the pilots ate a lot of carrots and have great night vision because of it.
Similarly, but very different, the idea that you can catch an STD from a toilet seat was purposefully spread so that more soldiers would get checked/ treated for them. 😊
Hahaha was about to say this! History is fun when it's not taught in school.
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Never heard that before. Sounds interesting
i just said this before checking other comments
Bruh
FYI: 7 Up might not help a stomach ache, but it does not have caffeine in it as you stated. Neither does Sprite or Ginger Ale.
Can confirm. Caffeine has its own color. Dissolving caffeine in a clear liquid will impart a yellowish hue, depending on concentration. Thus, a clear liquid cannot contain caffeine.
Fun fact: This is why many caffeinated pops use caramel color. (Not all, though. Most root beers have no caffeine but still use caramel color.) Without any coloring, caffeinated pops would resemble urine and thus would look incredibly unappealing.
Ginger does however sooth stomach pain tooth pain ECT however the sugar in the soft drink added to the ginger may not help
@@wkbj7924 7up used to contain caffeine but took the ingredient out in 2006 and is now caffeine free.
fiouf thanks i was 8:28 worried bc my kid drinks a lot of it😅😅😅
I thought so. I can’t have caffeine and I thought I could have those drinks.
R.I.P. grandma, You will always live in our heart.
She died?
When I was 17 an old man told me I could get rid of my gallstones by “flushing them out”. I looked it up and his method would’ve been deadly. So I asked my doctor if anybody had ever tried it and he said yes but with consequences. So I don’t take medical advice from old people now without asking my doctor about it first and doing research.
Oh no
what was his advice ?!? I just found out i have this problem and my doctor immediately wanted me to get it removed! (Im 23 with a now known family history and its not severe) i'm going to try just changing my diet because i'm not having something removed at 23 if theres a chance i could be $h!tting myself the rest of my life
@@bravobby8773 I had to have mine removed after having my baby because it was full of stones back in November. So far, having been pooping myself. A little bit of diarrhea while I was hospitalized from the stones, but so far no effect from the removal
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@@bravobby8773 Gallstones that cause symptoms needed to be treated with gall bladder surgery because the stones could try to get out and get stuck in the pancreatic duct and then the pancreas is going to try and digest itself. If it sounds nasty it probably is a nasty experience you don’t want to make.
7-up actually doesn’t have caffeine. I find it does help me when I’m nauseous, but I’m not sure if that’s because it just happens to be one of the drinks I can keep down, resulting in less vomiting or if it actually affects my nausea levels. If we’re talking soda that is proven to help with nausea then ginger ale is the way to go.
I could be psychological too but I doubt it
I was wondering who else drank ginger ale when sick lol
I think 7-up has some properties that may make it more appropriate than other sodas. It seems to have smaller bubbles than many, and as pointed out, it doesn't have caffeine. It also doesn't have colorants that may induce minor reactions (red dyes are notorious for this, it's not an allergy, not anaphylactic shock or anything that drastic, but definitely a lot of people have a minor sort of reaction to it, some itchiness or hives even). The lemon-lime flavor is relatively refreshing and seems easy to keep down. I haven't seen any study on whether or not 7-up helps an upset stomach, but it doesn't seem totally infeasible to me. Oh, and the sugar probably makes it more palatable than plain water for sick kids.
Its the ginger
Check the descriptions
Rest In Peace GB! You will always be the best grandma in the game! So thankful for the time you gave us and your videos will always be dear to my heart!
Oh no, that's sad news! She looked like she was a lot of fun, and definitely full of love. The archetypal grandma we all wish for. I'm trying to be as close to that as I can be, but my nearest grandkids (so far, my only grandkids!) are about 150 miles away. Saw them yesterday and they're as daft as ever 😄😂❤️
I'm sending all her family and friends my deepest condolences and all my love.
WAIT NO- SHE PASSED AWAY?!?
😭 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@@yes.998 she did
R.I.P
Whhhyyyyyyyy?!?!?!
I’m glad she’s not saying that not wearing socks gives you a bladder infection like mine says all the time
My parents always say stuff like that all the time to me (probably because I had a bladder infection when I was little)
You know Dr. Mike is fearless and confident with what he says when he starts fact checking grandmas
Ancient wisdom is a fearsome enemy
🤣
Lol yessss
True with the less muscles one.
7-up does NOT have caffeine in it. And I'd never heard that it could soothe an upset stomach, but it is (usually) mild enough to keep down when nauseated. My mom's logic when I was little was that it had sugar and electrolytes, so I was at least getting some of that replaced even if I couldn't keep down much in the way of solids.
Seltzer water is good for churning up the stomach which can aid digestion if the issue isn't from overeating, 7Up is basically just a high in sugar seltzer water.
It has no caffeine and I know I'm my case, it makes me burp faster than any other drink. So if the stomach issue is actually gas, I can see it being helpful
On the other hand, I grew up with Ginger Ale being the go-to for upset stomach, because Ginger.
Its a cure all in Ireland we take it for all our ailments and it works especially flat 7up. 7up is the best medicine in Ireland 🇮🇪
Yeah no Idea who fact checked this video, but they slipped up and missed the fact that 7-Up has ALWAYS been caffeine-free. The myth is also weird. Never heard 7-Up or any other lenon lime soda tbh. It's actually real authentic Ginger-Ale
Whenever we were sick with anything, my great grandmother would always insist on making us homemade chicken soup from scratch. She used to always say "chicken soup is Jewish penicillin" she handed down the tradition to my grandmother, who handed it down to my mom, who handed it down to me. It's always the go to when sick.
Coming from a Jewish house, that is the most accurate statement ever. But it can't be that store bought garbage, it's gotta be the kind that was left to cook on the fire for hours and you could smell two floors up.
@@will.i.kiwalla exactly. That's the good stuff that my great grandmother would make. She used to have all sorts of other remedies for us when we were sick too. My moms side of the family is Jewish.
I'm Roman Catholic and my aunt did the same thing. I loved her chicken soup so much I just asked for it even when not sick sometimes.
Same in my family, including calling it Jewish Penicillin XD
Back in the day, my grandparents from a rural area would actually slaughter a chicken to make a soup when someone got sick.
I love grandma she’s such a vibe
“grandma needs a little sugar in her life” ok, wow... I guess we all do?
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@@soap1185 yeah they do
Also, I don’t think 7-UP contains caffeine, and I think this is based on the idea that carbonation helps an upset stomach.
There is no caffeine in 7up. The concept is that the bubbles will make your burp and make your indigestion go away.
It did originally have lithium in it, only so little of it that to actually have an effect you would have to drink do much of it that you would die from fluid intake.
Right. In fact, the name "Pepsi" is short for "dyspepsia" as the inventor thought that it helped relieve an upset stomach.
a lot of people drink ginger ale when their stomach feels weird. i like to drink sodas when i feel like i need to burp which then makes me feel better. i prefer ginger ale as it’s not sweet like sprite or coke.
Which is really funny because carbonation actually contributes to indigestion. Mine became a lot better when I cut all fizzy drinks out of my diet.
the "chicken noodle soup thing": it works best if it's on homemade broth, as it will be rich in vitamins and minerals and other good stuff
Tru dat
Momento mori
Yes. My grandmothers soup has magic properties.
True and rice is easier on the stomach than noodles.
Yea it’s best when you use fresh chicken, just cut its head off and put it in a bowl! Nothing better than grandma’s home made chicken blood soup™️
RIP GB, you will always be remembered as the coolest grandma in the game
7up doesn't contain caffeine and honestly I really do think that, or ginger ale does wonders for someone who's puking and can't keep anything down.
Something many hospitals recommend today
Ginger ale helps cause ginger is beneficial for stomach aches but I think the 7up thing is more psychological
Sprite also works
@@JazzieBee00 and tastes better
@@_RanaR_ no
@@jaxynnsimons2159 placebo affect?
It is so sad she isn't here anymore. Amazing TikTok grandma!!! Wise words from GB!! ❤
The reason the whole “Carrots are good for your eyes” thing came about was due to a new radar system that England invented in WW2. They didn’t want the Nazis to discover the new radar tower technology so they invented a story that the reason the English could see better at nighttime when the German planes flew over was because they gave their troops carrots.
I just went through to comments to make sure someone said this about carrots 😂
And nazis believed it?!
Well a lot of people believe in it now so I guess most people don't think it is as farfetched as myself ^^
@@pegaseg70 yah they believed it to the point that they started feeding their pilots carrots
@@pegaseg70 Yourself is farfetched?
@@pegaseg70 I'm only here because I'm taking a break from studying the third Reich and trust me. The Nazis were the dumbest mofos ever, they've believed the dumbest stuff.
The fact Mike thought grandma was flirting with him. So funny😆
7Up, until recently when they ran a special 7Up, it doesn''t have caffeine. Their slogan for many many years was "no caffeine. Never had it. Never will."
As Peter on Family Guy once said while reciting their old slogan: *CRISP AND CLEAN. NO CAFFEINE.* 😄
That may be where he got that 7up has caffeine in it.
He corrected it in the description.
That slogan is from the 70s.
@@danielleking262 yep. Followed by: Never had it never will, in later commercials.
The “being too close to the TV,“ is based on when TVs were first commonly introduced in the 1950s and 60s. My research has shown that at one time, the components of old TVs, especially black and white TVs, “caused more x-ray radiation then was desired,“ was the statement issued at the time.
Even more recently, Samsung issued a warning about the elderly and pregnant women watching their 3-D TVs.
Yes, now we know that holding a screen too close to your face causes eye strain, and the blue light from screens disrupts how we sleep; but it goes further than that as to what TVs were actually made with at the time.
Im not that old so i cant say you are right or wrong but i grew up with colour CRT TVs and due to how that technology works it did feel your eyes tired watching in a close distance thanks to that weird image vibration CRT has and your eyes are constantly trying to focus wich makes it even worse , giving you headaches sometimes. i dont regret it tho, Good old Final Fantasy 7,8,9 times. lol
The problem is now blue light. LCD screens produce way to much of it. The way all CRTs work is focusing a beam of energised particles on to a phosphuros layer on then inside of the tube. Early TVs lacked a metal screen layer that caught some escaping electrons. There are no X Rays in any TV ever made. The older TVd had highly energised electrons escape. These free radical electrons if the TV is old enough and started to lose its layer of PH. These electrons lose energy at around D cubed. So you would need to put your face on the screen.
Too many words 😫
@@matika444 what?
@@thepoliticalstartrek I am certain that I addressed blue light in my comment, and if you’re asking an old woman, or even an old man, I am certain that they are not going to be describing blue light from a screen. Their reference is going to come from their time, which is what I stated to begin with: the materials that old TVs of their generation were made with dispersed unwanted x-ray radiation which meant people need to sit further back from the TV.
They did a double blind study on sugar and hyperactivity, and they found that some kids had no reaction at all to sugar (or the placebo) but their parent believed they did, while some kids had a reaction on no sugar (as well as sugar) as a response to what their parent wanted them to have (kids are great at figuring out what the adults around them want from them, which is why they're so hard to study). So, if your kid gets hyper because of sugar, it's most likely a response to the adults around them expecting them to act hyper and them behaving according to that expectation.
... also, another study about kids (5-6-ish age range) and their behavior found that when there were monitors in the room, they would form cliques and group up and in-fight, but when the in-room monitor had to leave for something unforeseen, the kids all chilled out and were perfectly well behaved with one another... until the monitor returned. Turns out that even when the monitor might have been trying to be be neutral, they weren't, and their expectations of the experiment changed how the kids reacted to it!
You can add adhd as “behaving according to that expectation”. (Or parent explanation) and any other “mental disorder” as well.
@@ludwigwittgenstein1280 Not entirely, but in way too many cases. The difficulty with that is that there are very real mental disorders and because the diagnosis is difficult and they can present quite differently, it is probably better that everyone that needs help gets it even if people that don't actually have an issue abuse the system as well rather than cracking down on it and preventing people that really need help from getting it by accident.
I’m like 99% sure mike was on something during this video, I loved the trip.
Same here
Sipping on sprite, 7up, or ginger ale has always helped with my stomach aches and bugs. The key is to SIP, not take big gulps (for me, at least).
Same
There’s no caffeine in it so it definitely won’t irritate you and ginger-ale has ginger which helps stomachaches. I agree.
Whenever I have an upset stomach and I drink 7UP or another highly carbonated drink, I feel instantly better.
@@frankficcle7081 agreed even coke helps me and has caffeine in it!
I also will do warm Pepsi of course it tastes better ice cold but something about it being warm does help
Omg, I have more than 20 pieces of gum in my stomach so far.
amazing 🤠
For real
Cool.
I ate 32 yesterday
You are everywhere dang
My grandma was a nurse for almost 50 years, when I had my son I asked her a whole load of questions. He was my first child and I was young when I had him. Now I love my grandma to bits but some of her medical advice may be a tad outdated…
8:28 Somewhere along the line Grandma's got ginger ale and 7-up mixed up. I had noticed that as well.
Fun fact: The whole “carrots make your eyes better” myth comes from WWII. The British where developing the first radar detection systems and other powers noticed that they were much more accurate and ready to defend against air raids quicker than ever before. They used the excuse that “our soldiers are eating lots of carrots, and it’s improving their vision.” True story lol.
Thought it was because they couldn't get bananas in so the only treat they had for kids was carrot on a stick
@@irishdc9523 No. That's not a treat. That's a punishment.
Lol wow
I thought I was the only one that knew this lol my dad told it to me when I was a kid and I was like that’s interesting but I’ve never heard anyone else ever talk about it cool.
But don't carrots have vitamin A which is good for our eyes and prevent night blindness
The whole swimming after eating causes cramps was a common statement while I was growing up. I can't believe that he has never heard that one before.
Maybe its more of an excuse to make kids wait because during snack time sunscreen was reapplied and needs some time?
@@TheLucentFish that is a good way to look at it.
As a past competitive swimmer, I can confirm if you eat a decent size meal/anything heavy -even a bowl of oatmeal- then swim at a swift pace stomach cramps do happen. Eating a snack or a quick sandwich then doing some warm up laps or casual swimming I've never had a problem.
I ate a bowl of pasta right before a water polo game one time and had some of the worst stomach cramps of my life. I ate light meals right before practice all the time though and never had any issues. If you're just swimming for fun, eating lunch and then getting back in the pool is fine as long as you aren't eating anything really really heavy.
For me I felt like I was gonna throw up
My grandma was a nurse and she said if you ever swallowed gum, you would fart bubbles for a month.
Bruh fr 💀
My grandmother said the same thing
Lol. Some gum actually starts breaking down in your mouth, and hydrochloric acid in your stomach will take care of the rest. Ridiculous.
Lmao that’s actually quite funny
noice
She seems like such a lovable old lady!❤❤
Fun fact: the carrot myth was started by the RAF to explain why they had so much better accuracy at night in WWII. The real carrots in this case was radar
Wow. Didn't know that. It's a cool fact.
In addition to that, they they were heavily rationing sugar and trying to get people to use carrots (which could be grown easily at home) as a substitute. That's why carrot cake exists.
@@datadivanet And people have complained to me when I've mentioned that carrots are sweet. Like, they aren't sugar beets, but still, they're sweet enough to provide for a slightly more savory dessert.(with maybe cream adding a bit more, which they also get upset about the idea that there's sweetness in)
Grandma's almost right - it's ginger ale, not 7up. Ginger has anti-nausea properties - my obgyn told me to nibble a little ginger root to ease morning sickness. But you have to get the quality ginger ale with real ginger and my mom would always let it go a little flat. Ginger ale, saltines, chicken soup, vicks vapo-rub. That's the whole medicine cabinet of my 70s upbringing.
Flat 7UP is a mystical healing facility in ierland
Ginger ale upsets my stomach, I can't drink it. 7Up, on the other hand, helps with nausea more than anything for me.
In Michigan it's specifically Vernors Ginger Ale (basically a cure all here lol) and Vicks lol. Also, 7-up has helped before too, just not as good as Vernors.
THIS!
Also, 7Up does NOT have caffeine. Really Dr. Mike? If you can't get the basic info right how are we supposed to trust you to get the complicated things right?
When I was in middle school if you went to the nurse with an upset stomach they gave you a little cup of coke and some crackers. 🤭
I just wanna say that watching your videos has literally helped me save my grandma’s life. I’ve learned the importance of CPR and thanks to that she made it thru a cardiac and respiratory arrest with no brain damage. I’m not a nurse nor do I know anything about medicine but watching your videos helped me save my grandmothers life. Thank you .
I love how dr. Mike laughed when she said “a doctor away keeps the doctor away and the meme but he’s a doctor ❤️❤️
Fun fact, the whole “7 year” thing for the gum comes from the same saying that if you break a mirror you get 7 years bad luck. Back in Roman times they knew it took the body 7 years to replenish all cells - your skin cells are constantly being replaced but things such as the cells that make up your bones will replenish much slower, I’m not sure what part takes the longest, but either way after 7 years you’re technically an all-new person. Romans believed that your reflection was your soul, and the soul being a part of your body meant that if you break a mirror it will take 7 years for your soul to heal from that.
So the gum is 7 years because of this reason! Not sure what the semantics of this wive’s tale are but they’re probably that it ‘sticks to your stomach permanently’ or something and your body needs to ‘heal’ from this
Neat. Thanks for this tid-bit.”
Wow. Back in my country, instead of saying 7 years, they often say that if you break a mirror, it give you bad luck for 7 generations- and the only reason I can think of why they say that is because its very hard to clean up the mirror shards, because it was small it metaphorically took you 7 generations just to clean it up- (also I think maybe it's the mistranslation that make people in my country say 7 generation instead of 7 years)
I think this is also why I've heard that every 7 years your taste buds change (which is false)
Except that is not true. The average life span of a cell is 7 years, but there are cells that don't renew ever, like neurons or heart muscle. Also Romans didnt know about cells and the origin of the 7 year number for gum is unknown.
Um, no. Not unless you can back it up with academic references.
As a former competitive swimmer, for me it’s true that eating before swimming will give you stomach cramps. During swim meets I would only drink water and maybe Gatorade and not eat during the entire competition because otherwise it would give me a cramp.
I have no idea how the rest of my team mates were able to eat and then turn around and compete 🏊♀️
I experienced the same thing! But you definitely won't drown from the cramps!
I wonder if swimming in cold water, like the ocean, will interrupt your digestion (and give you cramps). Because the blood leaves the stomach to warm your body, and also due to the shock…
How are you doing
To be fair eating before any strenuous exercise will give you stomach cramps. Used to have the same problem while at powerlifting meets in high school.
... Maybe it's mostly placebo (or inverse placebo here). Or more of the psychological effects of competition, the butterflies are very real. I did swim team for many years and would before practice and during meets and never once got a cramp. I think the only time I did wasn't a stomach cramp and I hadn't eaten, was 6 AM in the outdoor pool in Summer and was a toe cramp.
8:17 I immediately thought back to all the times I’ve checked for which of my soft drinks had and did not have caffeine, and then went to fact check this. 7-up does NOT contain caffeine.
I've drank lemon lime soda when I have an upset stomach for years. It helps. Doesn't matter what brand.
Ginger ale for me.
Yea I had to see if someone else noticed. I love reading nutrient facts lol
@menotes Mountain Dew has actually caused me to have stomach aches before.
@@firebladetenn6633 mountain dew has caffeine that could be why. Also a lot more flavors and sugars than 7up or ginger ale.
My grandma has several apple trees on her garden, one strain of those apples which we call jonagold is like sweet as hell and tastes really fresh and good lol. But she also has these little green apples which are ripe sooner than the others and those are really sour. So it also depends on the strain of the apple and stuff like that lol.
7-Up does NOT have caffeine! Their slogan was "Never had it, never will."
Probably just assumes all soda = caffeine, I've met people that way.
Uncola
@@MechaShadowV2 nah, he said on twitter it was a mess up and he was thinking of Mountain Dew, it’s possible stuff was edited out and him and Dan or Sam started talking about their favourite sodas.
@@Shant3ll998 That sounds possible... but I would have hoped a video that claimed to be all about fact checking would itself be fact-checked before posting.
@@laurendoe168 Agreed
As a competitive swimmer, I can safely say that training shortly after eating doesn't cause too many issues, but it does make it more uncomfortable to swim.
Depends how much you eat.
What’s your fastest 50m free and what’s your favourite stroke? Just curious :)
@@puregold1725 true
@@jadenkane8850 my fastest 50 yard free is about 25, and I'm a breaststroker and an IMer
@@redcar9949 that’s incredible. Good on you. I’m a swimming fan, unfortunately not the best swimmer. Kudos to you.
I feel like he's getting weirder (more comfortable) the more videos he does..... I love it!!!!!
True
Yeah lol
Yes! hahah
It's sad that she has passed,All respect to her family😞
If you are hiking and gaining altitude, I highly recommend bringing a Gatorade which can help ease altitude sickness because it has electrolytes in it.
I ussually bring oxygen since you actually need that, but if you want to inhale Gatorade, go right ahead.
@@fredpuntdroad8701 Forgot to add to bring some sort of oxygen mini bottle, which can help
I experienced altitude sickness for the first time last year when visiting the Colorado Rockies. I wish I knew this then. Thanks for sharing. Next time I go to the mountains, I'll drink Gatorade.
@@lizbecker1677 Yeah! It's gorgeous in the Rockies and when I visit my family constantly tells me to drink gatorade, it helps a lot and is refreshing! Helps with the higher altitude for sure.
It always surprises me when Mike hasn't heard of something that everybody else has and he's the doctor
That's because he's a Millennial. It's ok, though, some of those myths need to go away.
I'm a millennial. Maybe a little older than Mike but I know the cramp thing
@@lizbecker1677 idk I was born in 2004 and I’ve heard of all these things. But I agree the myths need to die
Mike is young and a child of immigrants. Could be this old wives tale wasn't common in Russia.
grandma: sitting close to the tv hurts your eyes
mike: this is so true
me: pulls away phone*
I did it too and it lasted for about a minute before it was back in my face. Does anyone know if it's a myth that you alleviate the eye strain by looking at larger things in the distance for 5 minute intervals?
Me too!!! Lol
be careful, actually my daughter is getting myopia cause watch her ipad to near, when in my family we all have farsightedness.
@@FlowerPower-cf2fp What @Porpoise said is true, you should do pauses every 20 minutes, look at a distance, and count 20 different objects. This is especially important if you are short-sighted.
Some of the current thinking is lack of exposure to bright light. Play on your phone outside.
3:44 Dr Mike you sneaky slime!!! I thought I was the only one !!!
Haha, at 6:45 when i was younger I got obsessed with trying to fix my eyesight. I'd watched a video that said carrots can help eyesight, so I ate a boatload of carrots. I turned orangish around my hands and sort of on my face, and couldn't figure out why. So thank you Dr. Mike for diagnosing me with carrotus-overeatus.
Oh dude... Did it fade away?
"Carrotus-overeatus"😂😂😂😂
@@user-fy9lv9qs7v thankfully yes.
Look up what happened to Basil Brown when he ate too many carrots.
I recall a cartoon, Magic School Bus I think, where one of the kids ate all these carrots everyday for some reason (it was a long time ago lol) and turned orange and they discovered by driving around in his veins that the orange came from the carrots.
“It takes more muscles to frown than to smile”
*It takes zero muscles to not smile or frown*
Nope wrong because you need to have muscles to move everything
big brein
@@globgblobgabgalab yeah... but you know what they say about that! 😁
Genius
True
If gum stayed in you for 7 years, so would pennies, stickers, marbles, and other strange things I may have accidently swallowed as a kid. I would be a freaking kitchen junk drawer with fantastic treasure poops that held a fun surprise time capsule with every bowel movement.
Same XD
what
What if you swallowed a whole bunch of gum at once. Gum poo
SAME DUDE
I just read “pennies” as “penises” and oh my god that was so confusing 💀
I actually have vision when I can’t see what’s really close to my face but I can’t see what’s really far from my face
Robber: *breaks in mikes house*
Mike: HEY I SAW YOU IM CALLING THE COPS
the robber: *eats a apple*
Mike: you litte shi-
Oh please hes russian
@@henrytheeighths yepp Russians are technique immune to that technique but this is america
@@Harrypotter-rb6kv no it isn’t
@@Harrypotter-rb6kv Potter is in America? Hmmmmm
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”
I’d stop eating apples just to meet you Mike, even I’m gonna get sick
He debunked that too
Hahaha! Imagine having him as a doctor though. He'd be like, "What's with your heartbeat here?"😂😂😂
"When we gave them coca cola in the beginning, and it had sugar and Caffeine!"
You forgot the cocaine, Mike... I think that was part of the reason kids went hyper after drinking cola.
um what. It says they haven't had cocaine in it since 1928
That was my thought when he said that too
Weeelll… could be a really old urban legend; that had the kernel of truth behind it from before 1928? 🤔
@@spacebar9733 so, we need to bring back Coca Cola from before 1928. I agree. I got ghosts in my blood.
Yeah... Coz they still have caffeine
Your grandmother is very pretty, she is a very healthy person, greetings and blessings.
"Anyone who leaves the house with wet hair weakens the body's defense system. Important to know: Wetness makes your head cool faster and you start to freeze faster on your head. This means that the scalp is hypothermic and as a result, the mucous membranes are not optimally supplied with blood."
Could this be the thought behind it? I dont know...
That's the BS rationalization which is false. People noticed a link between cold weather and respiratory infections. This is due to people staying indoors with other people more, not temperature. But people intuitively believed it was due to the temperature. Our intuition, in the modern world, is dangerously misplaced and almost always wrong about everything. It was wrong about cold impairing the immune system. If you stay outside in the cold, you'll actually get fewer viruses because they transmit poorly. Where do you figure influenza goes and how do they know what strains to put in the flu vaccine each year? It's in the southern hemisphere where it is cold. Because they are staying indoors away from the cold. Virologists observe which strains are most prevalent, knowing those will be the ones most likely to spread to the northern hemisphere and be the biggest problem in the coming winter months, so the dominant ones are what become part of the vaccine. And around and around it goes. Following the cold weather despite cold air holding less moisture and thus being harder for viruses to transmit through... because people stay in where it's warm. Especially when they're sick.
But you still loose body heat on your head - easier /more than at any other body part if exposed in the cold.....this is a given fact.
And repeated hypothermia could weaken your immune system, if you go out with wet hair in almost zero degrees Celsius all the time, directly after showering to go to work early....
(I'm NOT saying it causes viral infections, such as a common cold) but the loss of body heat quickly - on a daily basis - doesn't sound like a good thing to me...
Maybe shower and wash your hair and then eat breakfast, so your hair can ( almost) fully dry ? It helped me with ear infections or sudden swollen lymph nodes a lot when I had to get up at 5 am to be at work at 6:30....and even more when a a - stream ? - of cold weather and wind hit the City with temperatures up to minus 15 degrees Celsius. I think we could agree that going out with wet hair at this conditions couldn't be very healthy.
So I wasn't talking about slightly cool morning breeze but freezing cold and strong winds....
I don't know where Granny lives and what the weather is there, but given.....Chicago- I'm not from the US- she could be partially right though her reasoning might have been wrong or not specific.
@@janedoex1398 also a wives tale.
Mike your facial expressions when you do these types of videos are absolutely precious! Love your videos! They get me through a lot of tough times lately!
Commenter fact-checks Dr. Mike: Seven Up usually doesn't have caffeine!
I was about to say!!!
Yes! I'm a teacher (PreK) that did a movie theater experience in the classroom last year. When I got drinks, I bought sodas caffeine free, 7up and orange. Wouldn't buy caffeine for the littles.
Truth! No caffeine in 7up.
also he mentioned coca cola which used to have cocaine in it, which probably doesn’t help matters
@@poisonedkilljoy9304 cocain was eliminated from coke in 1929 so i’m guessing grandma never got any of that but maybe didn’t know it was taken out. She looks to be in her 80’s so she was born just after it was taken out.
EDIT: BINGO! I just checked her tiktok and she is 88. So she was born in 1933. 4 yrs after cocaine was taken out.
My dad's mom (aka my grandma) told my dad and his sisters they couldn't go near the window during meals. My dad and aunts always went to the window and waved to the mailman, and my grandma didn't like that, so she told them their mouths would get paralyzed or crooked. That is very sound advice!
I never thought of, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” as a literal statement. I thought it just meant, “eat healthy”
I think “eat healthy” was the intended message
@@aayushpatel2788 I think "eat healthy" isn't even English. I still cringe when I read or hear it, which is often.
@@akrenwinkle what
@@akrenwinkle wtf u talking about
@@akrenwinkle what
The "carrots are good for your eyes" myth started in WW2 when the Brits invented this amazing new technology called RADAR that allowed them to see German planes. In order to help cover the new technology and keep it a secret, they spread the rumor that their observers just had really good eyes. How did they have good eyes? Well, they ate a lot of carrots, of course, which - conveniently - the Germans didn't have a lot of.
I love history and i learned something new today,thank you internet stranger
This is the funniest fact I have ever read and your wording is just /chef's kiss/
proof
Awww I love this lil history lesson
The more you know
Fun Facts: When my twin brother and I were babies, we really liked carrot and sweet potato puree's so my mum kept feeding us them...We actually did turn orange! 😂☺🥰
My daughter loved carrots more then sweet potatoes but same. A bit on her nose.
My mom used to give me these giant frozen carrots to gnaw on when I was teething. It would make my hands orange and my Dad took me to the hospital when he noticed it. Mom was at her sister’s and rolled her eyes so hard when she found out he panicked.
The goong outside with your hair wet thing is SO trueeeee!!! Grandma knows best
Dr. Mike: 7-Up doesn’t help when you’re sick
My entire Mexican family: * shaking *
In Trinidad 🇹🇹, we use Coke-Cola, but I think that worked when it still had cocaine in it 🤔
@@donnasalandy4804 I think it’s the carbonation in the soda that does it.
Ikr? That blew my mind. Still kind of in denial about it and drink 7-Up as a Placebo 😅
Same with my indian family we call it 7 up but we never drink 7 up we drink Canada dry/ginger ale
@@alyssafinch6853 yep it's the bubbles. People just drink seven up instead of cabonated water because it tastes better.
“Getting too close to a screen for too long will make you nearsighted “
Me who is very nearsighted and can only see clearly for like a foot away: slowly puts phone down 😬
Hi I also had that profile
Haha, Im very farsighted so I was like uuhhmmm oops something went wrong here
My great aunties told my parents I needed glasses at 12nbecause I read too much. 40 years later.....
i'm wondering if near-sighted eyes can be treated though...
Việt An i believe that being outside a lot will at least prevent it getting worse.
i was often sick as a baby in the udssr and the nurses had some rather creative advices to my mom to keep me healthy. one of them was putting cut open garlic just beneath the wrists and keep it there. maybe my memory got fuzzy after all these years , but there's still hyperpygmentation marks there, similiar to the burn i once had as a kid on my leg, even now as a grown up. not sure if my mom was clueless or desperate to believe that would help with anything.
Edit: Another one i remember vividly, is getting rubbed with some kind of chili oil and wrapped up in warm clothes to the point where you can't move and free yourself. Then left to your own devices to "sweat the sickness out" in a too small crib, so you can't escape the treatment. It wasn't that bad , but the part where you're left alone , unable to move, suffocating and dizzy from heat stroke as you helplessly scream and cry for about 30 minutes was not so fun. Parent's maybe should have stayed in the room to reassure a panicking 4 year old, rather than ignore him.
Probably kept garlic for to long.
That's awful!
Dr Mike, damnit, the carrots for better eyesight is true, my dad always asked me "Have you perhaps ever seen a rabbit wearing glasses???" :D
“Sitting to close to the tv hurts your eyes”. *VR has enter the chat*
I also believed that this sitting to close to the tv is bad for you was due to early television leaking microwave radiation from the CRT as they were poorly shielded. Particularly around the bottom of the television. So sitting to close would put you closer to the leak.
Actually VR does not have this problem because the lenses adjust your focal distance to be at infinity.
I’m skeptical with the VR part tbh, because I’m a huge VR enthusiast and I control my VR time well (Strictly 30 minutes, no more) and I still have 20-20 vision, but the thing about the early television is interesting…is that also why old TVs have a strange filter over the screen vs the most recent ones, where it’s a lot more picturesque and more like a photo vs a hundred LEDS flashing together to make a picture? I can’t explain it too well but that’s the best I can do.
@@Feimicha VR is improving while its not perfect it wont cause permanent damage. You will more or less get light sensitivity, eyestrain or fatigue. Other symptoms like nausea are caused because of your brains spatial awareness (Since in vr you are not aware of where your body is ) , field of view ( FOV) and Frame rate/frame timing.
@@Feimicha Color CRTs have a grid in the back that works with the positioning of the 3 electron guns to allow it to control the 3 colors separately. Newer TVs are higher resolution so you don't see the pixels unless you're extremely close, and LCDs are a filter rather than being a light like CRTs. CRTs flicker because the screen is lighting up every frame, whereas LCDs have a backlight that's always lit.
I was always told as a kid not to watch in the dark it would also hurt your eyes. I am in my late 60s.
As a child I did get leg cramps going into the ocean shortly after eating.
I always swallowed watermelon seeds as a kid, okay I still do, but usually buy seedless, so not as many any more.
I love how he treats her like she's his Grandma.
My wife is a hair professional, teaches, works in the entertainment industry for IATSE 873 and 461 and she says "Thank you Dr. Mike. Going outside with wet hair in frozen temperatures IS bad."
Oohh that’s cool!
@@cookierunkingdom8553 I see what you did there.
I didn’t even know you could be a *hair* professional, well, you learn something new everYday
7-Up is caffeine free.
Dr. Mike showed how young he really is when he said 7-Up had caffeine.... anyone growing up in the 80s could never forget the tag line "Never had it, Never Will" 7up used in reference to caffeine 😉
Wait, does 7up actually have caffeine now in some places??!
I don’t think so
@@Asptuber No 7-Up does not have caffeine. They don’t have a caffeine version. If you want caffeine with your lemon lime, get a Mountain Dew or Mellow Yellow.
I came here to say the same thing 🤦♀️
He says in the description that he confused it with Mountain Dew
remember a "words of wisdom" section from school magazine when I was in grade 1 - just stuck with me, "It takes 72 muscles to frown but only 14 muscles to smiles." even was skeptical at the time, became an editor 20 years later and started a whole weekly mag section to debunk such words of wisdom. :)
At least smiling is more of an exercise :)
I’ve been told it takes 26 to smile and 62 to frown. The inconsistency is SCREAMING in my ears lol
@@Feimicha LoL! this research was created; like a 6 yr old standing in front of a mirror frowning, then smiling. I remember counting two muscles for smile and 12 for frown. When I asked my mom to model a frown and a smile, the calculator in my head broke counting - smiles are fine but I was fascinated by the detail in her scowl. Obvs. as a kid my frown was a caricature of a real one, and her's...well, imagine a mother of seven being dragged to the mirror by the youngest and asked to do this; her frown is etched in 72 of my muscles :)
"Apple a day keeps the doctor away"
"Unless you throw it at me..."
"Than I'll stay away forever"
I love grandma ❤
If I eat sweets or sugar before bed I wake up with a horrific headache.
If you’re ill, I wouldn’t suggest staying bed-bound the whole time. I suffer chronic illness & all it does for me is make me feel sluggish & congested, so it’s at least recommended to get a little fresh air as well (even if it’s just sitting in the garden or a light stroll down the road). Also agree with the soup, but you should include fruit &/or veg somewhere. ☺️❤️👌
PS - My fam traditionally buys Lucozade for anyone who is feeling poorly, kinda like the ginger-ale idea. Always works for us! 😄
i hope ur health gets better soon :)
im chronically ill too and i notice a huge difference when i eat well and stay physically active
Good chicken noodle soup should already have celery, carrots, and maybe some onion, but adding more veggies to your diet is always a good idea. I add a little steamed spinach to a lot of my meals for the iron. I've also heard that cooked tomato products are good to keep you from getting sick. Dunno if that'll help chronic illness, but it might be an idea?
This watermelon thing actually brought my brother and I to tears when we were really little.
We had some watermelon and didn't notice that we had swallowed some seeds until it was "too late" so we just broke down crying because we thought we would now have several watermelons grow inside of our stomachs, which would in turn kill us because even one watermelon was bigger than our stomachs and we definitely ate more than one seed.
Mental breakdown over watermelon seeds xD
Grandma then obviously had to tell us that she didn't mean it and was just joking.
Looking back at it now always makes us laugh and facepalm
Me on the other hand purposefully swallowed the seeds cuz I wanted more watermelons. Was prepared to swallow dirt and water too. Imagine my disappointment when my mama told me it won't work.
it was apple seeds for me... if I swallowed them Gma said it would grow a tree.. I assume.... it was to avoid the cyanide.
7up has no caffeine. Their slogan in the 80s was "never had it, never will."
I take 7up free since I have reynauds at 17 so I have to take care of my heart. No caffeine or alcohol :(
3:43 my mama actually do that to her “dead” hair. We have to watch her because she even do this in public unintentionally. Like PUBLIC. Public mirrors in department stores!! So funny and humiliating at the same time, tho. 😂