TikToks Only A Doctor Can Explain

I knew a girl who'd eat raw garlic in the morning and I once asked her, "you know you can chop that up and throw it in an omelet right?" She was flabbergasted.

"We don't fix patients. Patients fix themselves" This is why I like Dr. Mike

That tape over the mouth things scares me. My mom snores horrifically, whenever my family is on a vacation or something and I can hear her snoring it's like all I want is for it to stop, but the second it does I sit up in a panic and have to check if she is still breathing.

@7:05 When my mom was in for cancer treatments, her room was right next to the nurses station. I decided to stay the night with her because she didn't want to be alone. She said she kept getting woken up through out the night so I felt if she had some company she would be ok. Through out the entire night I stayed, we were both constantly woken up by the nurses station having their personal phones alerting them to new TikTok videos, having loud gossip fests, and this lasted from 11pm until 8am and now my mom and I both have a permanent fear of phone noises. True alert fatigue at it's finest.

Honestly respect to this man for fighting misinformation with such enthusiasm and persistence.

"We don't fix patients they fix themselves" most honest thing I ever heard out of a medical professionals mouth.

7:00 - 7:25 "Alarm fatigue" almost got me killed once. I used to live in a fairly seedy neighborhood, I was in college and broke and it was all I could afford, and I didn’t have a car so I walked everywhere. All summer long it was 90°+ so I wore shorts/skirts, and all summer long people were constantly honking their horns and catcalling me. Eventually I ended up learning to tune out the sound of car horns and yelling from cars. One day I was walking and someone started honking and yelling, and ofc I ignored it thinking it was just another catcall, but it turned out they were trying to warn me a drunk driver had jumped the curb and was driving very fast up the sidewalk behind me. The only reason I didn't get hit was because they hit a light pole before they could hit me. It was very scary and very eye-opening, and it's one of the major reasons why I yell at people so ferociously for honking and catcalling now

imagine the confusion on a robber's face when they break into your home and see that you taped your own mouth shut. like, I know there are other concerns in that moment. But can you just...imagine?

My dad could not breathe through his nose for a prolonged period of time. Luckily, his friend is an ENT and had him come in for an exam. He had a cancerous tumor that was blocking his nasal passage. Luckily he listened to doctors instead of TikTokers and got it checked out.

What I learned today: -- the stomach is in your cheeks -- potatoes are bad -- garlic is good -- avocadoes should go on your feet Thanks doctor Mike! ☺

4:37, that's my friend Prescott!!! It's awesome every time we find a YouTube or Tik Tok clip of it!!!!! I think it's been 5-8 years and we're still finding them. For the questions that always come after: yes, he still has the helmet for sentimental value; no, he did not suffer long-term damage from the fall; yes, he does wear a helmet EVERY SINGLE competition, but not always for basic road, yes always for ramps, bowls, tricks etc..; yes he still skates religiously today. Other videos you can find of him are fun skate and hand slide videos, pretty roads and steep hills type; so, sorry, but no there aren't a bunch of Steve-o style videos of trying to hurt himself 😆 Really cool dude and is the first to tell people not to be an idiot, and wear your helmet so you can keep skating longer

"You immediately know whats wrong with you when you drink your own pee in the morning" He aint wrong there.

You know he's a good, reliable doctor by how stressed he gets about silly things. That's passion.

5:35 I love how she included DEPRESSION as a PARASITE or a symptom thereof. Thank you tiktok lady, I had no idea 80% of people have depression caused by parasites. Turns out, I've probably been taking the wrong medication, and taking therapy for no reason since the problem is that I have parasites.

I have that neck roller thing and it feels really good. My skin doesn't get pinched, but sometimes my hair gets caught. You just have to make sure your hair is completely out of the way. It's definitely worth a try.

the video at 9:04 is likely someone getting a scleral/gas-permeable rigid contact removed. Since they're hard like glass/plastic, they need a special suction tool to remove and sometimes the suction can be so set that trying to remove the lense pulls on your actual eye. In this case, you're supposed to take the plunger and angle it at the bottom of the contact so you can break the seal against your eye. Source: I have Keratoconus and use scleral contacts to see.

Dr. Mike, thank you for shedding light on the crazy quackery that is unfortunately everywhere. When I was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma my neighbor tried very hard to talk me out of doing chemotherapy and try some weird concoction using apricot seeds. She was adamant that I was likely going to die if I went with conventional western medicine. I didn't listen to her and I'm happy to say 13 years later I'm here cancer free.

I love your comment “We don’t fix patients. They fix themselves.” I went to the doctor six moths ago and found out I had very high blood pressure and was at risk for heart attack or stroke. I started actually paying attention to what I ate, started eating 1,500 mg of sodium a day and only 25 grams of added sugar a day, started eating healthier and stopped eating out, started walking daily and going to the gym three days a week. Now I’ve lost 45 pounds and my blood pressure is excellent. Without the doctor though I wouldn’t have known there was an issue.

"If the little finger can move freely, the brain is healthy" Me with multiple sclerosis: "I'M CURED!"

3:49 I’be on board with this except when I was diagnosed with Crohn’s, the doctor prescribed me Lialda and said “this really won’t do anything for Crohn’s” That’s when I became disillusioned with the medical system. She KNEW it didn’t work and felt no need to ask herself the question of why she was prescribing it.