Really appreciate men that actually know what they're talking about when discussing lady parts and lady problems. They're usually the ones who disclose "hey friendly reminder I'm a guy so I don't know what it's like I can just describe what it's doing." Crazy to think that if he was my doctor he might actually believe me if I told him I was in pain.
@@JustAnotherBuckyLover The talk I got was "well since you said you don't want to have kids, there's no point in treating your endometriosis and ovarian cysts" followed by "you, a 20/21/22/23/24/25/26/27 year old veteran (depending on the year), are incapable of making the decision that you don't want children, so you can't have your ovary or uterus removed to improve your quality of life even though you've almost had septic shock twice due to cysts and you're at a high risk of cancer."
@@nadapenny8592 what the actual frickballs? Jesus wept. I mean why the hell does it matter if we're in agony, AMIRITE? It's our punishment for being evil child-free people by choice... Ugh. And I am SO sick of people including so many doctors (and that includes female ones, and nurses and other medical folks) telling women that they are incapable of deciding that they don't want children and they need to get permission from their (oftentimes non-existent future) husband first... Like WTF is wrong with people? Ugh.
@@JustAnotherBuckyLover I've been told that not all states are like that and usually online people are just like "just go to the next state over stupid" but first of all what bullshit half-assed insurance that I do have won't pay for that, second of all this here's the Bible Belt y'all, finding a state with laws that don't devalue women would be at least a 6 hour drive, and third why the fuck should I have to make special accommodations to get basic care for a painful, treatable condition when a guy can just get ED pills from his GP if he just asks for them? Why the fuck is it that starting at 18 I've been given the option for fertility treatments to have a baby and be a teen mom, but not the option to have a surgery to treat pain that removes a defective reproductive organ that's medically deemed infertile anyway? It's a myth that the law allows women to sue a provider for performing a surgery that they consented to that causes infertility. That's federal, there is no state in the US where you can do that and win. It has never happened and it never will happen and it never should happen. It's like if I tried to sue Toyota after I intentionally sideswiped a whole line of cars in my neighborhood and said "well if they hadn't sold me the car that I asked for and paid for, this wouldn't have happened." It's not going to work. The myth was created by a bunch of men scared to let women make healthcare decisions for themselves, because they can't handle the thought of not being able to control their potential future wife.
@@nadapenny8592 what?!?! What horrible doctor would dare say that to a woman??! If my feet were in stirrups during that conversation I’d kick him in the face for that
Loved the video a lot!! Myths I've heard MANY times: - ''sex permanently stretches the vaginal canal/makes it loose'' (No. It doesn't. If she's feeling 'loose', you did finally a proper job by getting her excited. The vaginal canal is made out of muscles which don't lose their stretch just by having intercourse. Sometimes difficult pregnancies/births can do some damage to the muscles there but this is often temporarily.), - ''Female bodies don't produce testosterone because that's a ''men thing''. (Spoiler: female bodies DO produce testosterone, just in (often) lesser amounts), - ''every women bleeds when losing their virginity'' (no, not all women bleed. Most of the time, they don't bleed. If they do, it has nothing to do with virginity but more with unconsciously tensing the vaginal muscles which makes the skin of the labia minora more prone to tear (and prevents proper wetness) which is often seen by vaginism, not being excited, or some benign vaginal conditions), - ''women don't have facial hair'' (they often do, which is more than normal. Some also have minor beard growth which is often related to common hormonal problems/illnesses like PCOS, fertility treatments, some kinds of birthcontrol). Can't wait for the next video!! :D Edit: words
Indeed :) I'm someone who had to have my hymen surgically removed due it being too thick and large according to my OB-GYN at the time. Even after I had sex for the first time, there was no bleeding or pain.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 Thank you for sharing your story!! I really feel like there's still such a big stigma about this, especially in some religions where women are expected to bleed, otherwise ''they weren't virgin''. I'm happy you could get helped with that btw, and glad you had no issues during your first time! ^^
@@RedRoseSeptember22 The hymen in and of itself is another whole bundle of myths! The way society thinks it works, vs how it actually does in most cases, is so different.
Yes definitely the testosterone one! People see the quite noticable effects of testosterone (deeper voice, increased body hair, etc) and decide that men must have tons of this hormone that women don't have at all but I am a trans man who takes synthetic testosterone to keep my hormones at the same levels as a male who produces it naturally and I only inject .25 ml a WEEK. 1/4 of a mililiter...
By far the craziest thing multiple relatives have tried to tell me was a true thing was that women can't have sex when they're pregnant because if the baby's a girl, she could also get pregnant, and if it's a boy, he'll come out gay. Not as crazy, but I've heard of some men who believe that if a woman has sex with multiple partners, if she ever becomes pregnant, the baby will "be influenced" by the "residual sperm" left by the previous partners. Neither of these are even remotely true, but the fact that there are actual people who really believe that they are terrifies the crap out of me.
Actually sperm can live in little "by ways" in the fallopian tubes, nicely bathed by nutrient friendly fluids, for up to 12 days. So.... hypothetically ...
@@lir3379 Yes, this is true! Sperm are quite adept at surviving withing the female reproductive track, drawing out the potential conception window. But I meant that some people believe that the sperm can/will remain for years or even indefinitely. So as an example, that would be like thinking that a woman still has 'residue' from her first boyfriend from her late teens when she's in her 30s and 40s. And then thinking that residue can somehow do something to a baby. Like, infiltrate it and mess with the genetics/DNA in a way that it makes the child 'not fully the husband's own'. This idea is what's completely ridiculous. The only thing close to it is ' Heteropaternal Superfecundation' which is when two ovum are inseminated by two different men during the same conception window, resulting in fraternal twins that are technically only half-siblings.
My older female co-workers always "bother" me with the "you can't go out into the cold without a jacket" myths. I always respond with "That is not how it works. Otherwise humanity would have been long wiped out" It bothers me how little people know. And how resistant to knowledge some are.
“Popping” or “cracking” my knuckles would cause arthritis. What actually happens when you crack your knuckles or pop other joints? I’ve heard that the sound is a release of gas that has built up between the bones in the joint space. Love your videos ❤️
I used to volunteer at a thrift store, and one of the things that came through was a nurse's manual from the early 1900s. I skimmed it and it was pretty fascinating how far medical science has come since then. There was a discussion about whether colds were caused by the cold or by viruses, and the book came down on the side of cold exposure, and it seemed skeptical of viruses in general. Also, informed consent was clearly not a think since they explicitly recommended NOT telling the patient if you were going to use leeches for treatment. I do think it would be good for you to point out that while cold, wet weather can't give you a cold, it does weaken your immune system and make it easier for the cold viruses to gain a foothold. It's still best to avoid prolonged exposure to cold, wet, weather, especially if you already have a cold (learned that one in high school when I helped lug set-pieces for a theater production in a downpour while I had the sniffles. The next day they were... more than sniffles. My drama teacher felt bad, lol).
Oddly, studies have shown people who take cold showers, or use cold shock therapy (ie. jumping in a frozen lake) actually have amped up immune systems.
I don't believe cold weather weakens your immune system directly, but stress does, so if being out in the cold (and/or wet) weather causes you stress, that could do it. Cold weather also dries out the nasal passages, making it easier to transmit and catch viruses. Another reason people tend to get sick more in cold weather is because people are more often indoors in the dry air, and in closer contact with other people.
I've read a lot of comments or stories of people genuinely believing that someone can "hold in a period". Can you add a comment like "smooth muscle is involuntary which is why someone with a uterus can't 'hold in' a period" if you do a video debunking more female reproductive anatomy myths? The idea that uterus owners can control their inner reproductive organs like going to the bathroom or whatnot is so frustrating. If we could "hold in" our periods and release it like peeing, feminine products wouldn't be needed, bought, or even exist! Ugh!!
Oh but don't you know? They're just for people who are too lazy to hold it in, like "adult diapers"... /s 🙄 There ARE some people with very light flow and who have particularly good pelvic floor muscles, I guess, and who have particular anatomy that allows the blood to pool in their vagina until they "let it out" or it overflows, but eh, they're very much the minority. The tiny minority. Those are the same people insisting the cervix has a sphincter though, oftentimes, and that anyone can do it. Utter rubbish. And in fact, this can be a particularly frustrating aspect for uterus owners who have had surgery to remove their rectum. Because the tissues that support the vaginal canal from behind are no longer there, the back wall can pooch backwards, allowing both normal secretions and menstrual fluid to gather before something happens to cause it to all rush out at once. To me, this idea goes along with the people who have convinced themselves that periods are a symptom of a "toxic" lifestyle and it's actually not normal to have regular periods - but I feel like that's just a justification for the fact that these people are usually eating wacky diets and are probably suffering amenorrhoea because of their disordered eating habits.
Great myths to cover and stepping into feminine ones. One myth my doctor helped with me with menstrual pain is it shouldn't be an extremely painful experience. I spent two decades just accepting 'my genes' and that periods were going to be very painful. On mention to my doctor and describing my pain we were able to pinpoint some treatments with iron and ultrasounds to save me from being knocked out for a week and then recovering for a week after. If you experience a lot of pain let your doctor know, it is not 'just how things are' in many cases and treatments improve every few years it's worth revisiting for more solutions and options.
Y'all are worrying me... While we're here, NOOOO sex should not hurt. Penetration should not hurt. Touching the vulva or clitoris should not hurt. And if they do, these can be treatable things!
This reminds me of how I was taught blood was blue until it hit oxygen as a kid and I'm literally 17. Insane that people still think it is though, as they just haven't been un-taught it.
Human blood is darker when in the viens, and viens apear blue through the skin, but the blood itself is still technically red. Although other blood chemistries exist that can result in blue, green, purple, and white blood, its all about the oxygen carrying matrix/protien. (Octopus have blue/green blood because their is copper based)
While putting away dishes, my mother once nearly scared me off of step stool screaming at me "Don't lift your arms over your head when you're pregnant!!!!! You'll tie the babies umbilical cord around its neck!!!" Lord mother! Tying of the umbilical cord will be the least of our worries if you scare me off this step stool!!! After the raising of my arms above my head, and many other activities, I have six healthy children, followed by six healthy grandchildren. Happy New Year to you! God bless you all!
I just imagined some tendons of my shoulder muscles reaching down into the uterus and tangling with the umbilical cord. How some of these ideas are formed is beyond me...
Someone told a coworker that when I worked retail, and I was so confused about how that would work. Also, how would you be expected to wash/brush your hair if that was the case? Doesn't make sense.
I always hear the myth of "Hairdressers growing different coloured hair on their arms because cut hair finding its way into a pore" and it drives me crazy. That's not how hair or pores work! You just work with dye and get teeny tiny splashes of it o you when you're washing it out of your clients' hair!
One of the myths I've heard for a long time is that we only use 10% of our brains. This has been proven false of course but I would love to see you make a video about the specifics :).
@@ShyGirlSays about 10% of our brain is used for conciousness, the rest is used for literally every little other things that keep you from dropping dead, such as breathig, your heart beating, your body temp regulation, etc.
@@nashir1187 I know that, what I mean is that we all have the potential to be geniuses like Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawkins, that is the true potential of our brain, but not all people are like that, same with photographic memory, we all have the potential to have a perfect memory, to store information with one reading, but not all people are like that, this is what I meant by saying that we are not using the full potential of our brain, is like saying that you have a computer with a 1000 tb of ram, a hard drive of 10000 tb with the best graphic card and a 20 core processor, and you only use it for word, play solitaire and draw with paint
I think there is some confusion about the wet hair issue in that at least for me, going outside or sleeping on wet hair messes with my sinuses and I get a headache and a drippy nose for an hour or two, sometimes longer. So those things can make you FEEL sick, but not BE sick. It would be very easy, especially back before we understood germs, to think those were the same thing.
Hairs you shave are also cut at a about a 90° angle. As a hair stylist you learn that the angle of how you cut the air determines how "blunt" your line looks.
"Don't swallow the cherry pits as they will a) cause appendicitis or b) sprout and take root there." According to our family lore, sitting on cold surfaces gives you UTIs, not hemorrhoids. One other was that milk is the one and only source of dietary calcium, thus, a cup of warm milk was mandatory for breakfast 🤮. I suggested as a child I might eat my egg with the shell instead but that wasn't taken kindly. My best friend had to deal with the most restricting myth: No bike riding for girls, it would weaken and stretch their vagina so much that she would become virtually unmarriagable. This was around 1970 in a German provincial small town.
We had the milk one too but I loved milk so it was actually a good one for me 😅 I heard the bike one in highschool but we had amazing sex ed and the teacher was very clear as to what is the hymen and why we shouldn't care about it.
Lol that bike one is funny, never heard the milk or cold surface one. It is true however for some girls that bike riding and horse riding can wear away your hymen, but that still has nothing to do with virginity.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 It seems like a good idea to encourage it, as youd think an unperforated hymen would create more pain, or at least pressure when having penetrative sex the first time. Though unsure if it has nerve endings, maybe just create stress for the couple.
@@MrCmon113 It wasn't my family, as I said, but my best friend's mom. I think she never sat on a bicycle herself or she would have known that the saddle does not "sink in".
After taking a shower I was passing the living room and said goodnight to my parents. My mom said, "You're not going to bed with that wet head, are you?" I said, "No, I was planning to leave it on the nightstand and put it back on in the morning."
When I was a toddler, my grandmother told me that putting paint on my skin would suffocate me, because the skin has little lungs and they could get drown if I clogged them with paint. I later guessed, that she had told me that in order for me to stop putting paint everywhere, including on myself, and making a mess with paint and brushes. But at the time, when I was three or four, I believed her ; and I started getting scared of paint and of "skin suffocation". I am pretty mad at my grandmother for telling me this lie.
I had the same idea but with super glue. I was never told it, I just assumed that I would die just because I had some on my thumb. I remember going up to my mum when she was on the computer and said "asking for a friend, this happened in school, can you die from getting super glue on you?" Immediately met with a death glare... I was no longer worried about the glue killing me 😂
This belief led to the Goldfinger plot point of a woman being murdered in the movie by being painted completely gold. Paint can have an effect related to pores by preventing perspiration which can cause overheating, or have toxic components that can leach through the skin, but it’s definitely not because of “breathing” through the skin.
There are very good reasons for avoiding paint exposure even though we don't 'suffocate' due to covering the skin: "Occupational exposure as a painter was classified as a Group-1 carcinogen in IARC Monograph Volume 47 (IARC, 1989), based on an increased risk for lung cancer, and reaffirmed in Monograph Volume 98 (IARC, 2010a), based also on increased risks for mesothelioma and bladder cancer." - granny may not have understood the details, but her advice with respect to health was consistent with this study: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK304433/
There may be an additional reason that getting into water eases menstrual cramps. That reason is a deduction on my part from when I used to have bad menstrual pain; I don't know for certain that it is correct, but I suspect it may be. Here's the reason I'm suggesting. When water is supporting the body, the muscles that we use to hold our torsos up against gravity can relax. Although those skeletal muscles aren't necessarily a major source of cramps, there is a bit of a feedback loop: pain from menstrual cramps causes all the surrounding voluntary muscles to tense up, which in turn can intensify pain.
PLEASE do a video on connective tissue disorders!! I have a genetic connective tissue disorder called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. I would LOVE to see a video going in depth into how faulty collagen can affect the different parts and regions of the body like skin, bones, and joints.
i also have eds and would love to see this as well. i think it may be harder because they may not get many bodies what had eds. part of why i plan to donate my body to science when i die. a video on gastroparesis and/or pots would be cool too becaus ei ahve both of those because of eds. im also actually planning on donating my uterus to science after my hysterectomy soon if possible so maybe they could study a uterus of someone with eds to maybe find out why eds can cause more issues with periods and childbirth etc.
A few myths i grew up with (for context, my family is chinese and so some of our myths are based around the our traditions): 1. Drinking cold water and eating chicken worsens cough. 2. You will get appendicitis if you exercised after eating 3. You will get cramps if you swam after eating 4. Food with growth hormones injected to them can cause cancer (not really a chinese myth but my family kinda buys into a lot of conspiracies anyways) 5. Bathing after exercize causes you to get a cold 6. Cold temperature causes flu. I think i might have more but these are the things at the top of my head rn
If you need a western side for each 1. Never heard this but a similar practice is chicken noodle soup when sick 2. Does not exsist here 3. Very common myth 4. Not heard of but there is the Msg makes you fat/unhealthy 5. Never heard it 6. All over you will hear this one
@@apolloandwarrior_3229 chicken noodle soup does help when sick, but thats just the fact that warm fluid and steam from any source will soothe a sore throat and loosen up sinus mucus respectively. And as far as cold weather causeing colds, being mildly hypothermic does weaken the immune system so it can theoretically cause you to be more vulnerable to invading pathogens, but in a perfectly sterile environment temperature can't make you sick (with an infection).
I really appreciate you and men in general not acting like they know how bad it hurts and that they know exactly what's going on when we are on our menstrual cycle, so for not being rude and stupid I thank you for that.
I have heard so many when I was a kid. My mother told me if I drank coffee as a child, it would stunt my growth. Lol, I wish it would have! A video on this would be great to see!!!
+ My grandma always told me that eating sugar gives you worms. + My dad thought that drinking water with your meals would make you fat. + Then there's the old canard about having to wait an hour after eating before going swimming lest you die of cramp. Coincidentally, about the time I got my first library card was when I stopped believing anything they told me.
Almost forgot one! One year we spent a week visiting my aunt and she cooked something fairly fatty for dinner. I think it was a pork roast. Anyway, after dinner she was serving coffee and I, not having become a caffeine addict yet, asked for a glass of milk. She looked aghast and said that, after eating a fatty meal, you needed to drink something hot to keep the fat melted.
The first one is pretty wild to me - what was her thought process behind it, do you know? Did she think that sugar could somehow carry parasites? Very interesting
@@sophiagrace6361 I have no idea why she thought that. I guess it's an old belief that was passed down through the generations. She was of the first generation born in the U.S. to parents who immigrated from Eastern Europe, so who knows?
I remember being told that periods will pause when you get in the tub for a bath in health class. I never believed that since my experience told me otherwise. I hope health teachers aren't still teaching this.
Being in water obviously doesn't stop the uterus from contracting, but if you are swimming, the exercise may bring some relief from the pain. (I find that mild exercise like walking or swimming helps with menstrual cramps. I don't know if it's just the distraction from pain or if it's like an abdominal massage.)
Love these videos! I think a very important a stigmatizing myth you could bust is the notion of the hymen as being a proof of virginity, as well as the anatomical variation seen in hymens in general.
The myth that I was told when getting my period is that I could not take a bath or go swimming because the water would back up the blood into the brain and cause me to become insane. This was in Germany in the 1950's.
Btw, I only recently discovered this channel, and I'm absolutely hooked! I subscribed after watching my first video. You guys are excellent at explaining such intricate processes in ways that can be understood by those without any medical background or study. I also love that you guys include the proper names for everything. I've always been a bit of an autodidact. I've just always had a great appetite for knowledge. Even in college, I would audit classes in my spare time. So this channel is right up my alley. Thanks for being so enthusiastic and not shying away from any topic. Keep up the good work!! You guys rock!!
This was a great video!!! (As always) It would be great to see a video about toxic shock syndrome because I feel that there are too many people that don’t understand how it occurs! I had to explain this to my mother who is going through menopause the other day. I told her that it stemmed from a bacterial infection and she felt that her life was a lie 😂😂😂
I'm really looking forward to a video on what cold does to the body!! A lot of people are trying to convince me to do cold showers and siwms etc. But I have a connective tissue disorder (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) and I wonder if it wont hurt me...
Yes and me. People that do it throughout the year tell me how good it is for the body but my gut instinct says it can't be. In engineering, thermal shock is always detrimental to materials.
I was told by a few friends as a young teenager that your actual period stopped when you were in water so you didn't need a tampon. I told them they were idiots. This was before the internet though so people believed a lot of stuff that was hard to debunk.
Still like that today, things are easier to debunk but humans *DO NOT* process facts logically, unfortunately that's not how our brains work. On the contrary, lies can spread as fast as the truth.
With the hair thickness one I think you might've missed the most obvious explanation, which is that shaving cuts off a hair's taper, so instead of being thin on the end and thicker at the base, you've cut it down to the base so that what is growing out now seems thicker (at least temporarily).
@@pinkpaisley4520 he did say it, yet he explained a bunch of other stuff complitelly irrelevant to the topic and spent a very small amount of time talking about this which is literally the reason behind this idea.
I remember a few decades ago my mother telling me that my father shaved his eyebrows once and cause them to not just grow back thicker but longer making both eyebrows come closer to each other in the middle of his face. I kind of found this hard to believe for similar reasons to what you explained here. And of course I've heard the myth many times that being outdoors in the cold while wet would cause you to catch a cold.
Dude for reals, so many women I know shave their arms because they’re afraid that once they stop it will come in thicker than before. I’m like, 🙄that’s not true!!!!! I used to shave my arms but stopped and there was absolutely no change to my super light blonde arm hairs.
@@Megadextrious While the hair doesn't grow thicker, it appears so, for most of the growth. The problem with that is, well, your hair will be more visible, until it grows to a pointed end. If you shave your arm you would need a few weeks of "recovery" if you don't want to be seen as "hairy". It doesn't grow thicker, but it definitely will look and feel thicker for most of the growing, which is why, usually, you either don't stop shaving, or you don't start.
@@Megadextrious I recently watched a video about hair myths, and they explained it like this: When the hair shaft grows naturally, it's tapered so it feels softer/thinner, and when we shave, we make it blunt, and also the hair is thicker at the bottom so it'll feel thicker as well initially.
Critical thinking skills should be mandatory for all kids in every year they’re in school. That would cut down on beliefs that are not supported by good evidence.
There are many Things which were once backed by science but with time they proved to be scientific myths. Science is evolving like us, kids or grown up like us , needs to keep learning whole life or live a life of an ignorant person , second type live more peaceful life. See the tribals, simple and happy life.
School district where I grew up had been trying for a long time to include more fundamentals of logic in regular classes. Many of my classes talked about them. Seems to me however that once you learn something, the application of it is the true test. Many kids were just doing the minimum because it was what they had to do, which means they were mostly just memorizing the material. Not much space for analysis there.
"Drinking cold water would cause you to be fat" or something similar along the lines of upsetting the stomach...which I just laughed off when I learned basic biology years ago
One of my bigger fears is accidentally putting a second tampon in, because I don't use them every day of my period, so sometimes I'm not sure if I've taken it out or just forgotten it. I knew it didn't go into the abdominal cavity haha, but I'm also glad to know that it's a relatively simple issue to solve if it ever did happen. But to make sure it doesn't, I'm just gonna.. double-check when I'm not sure :'D
Love your videos! They are so informative. I recently had a ruptured cranial aneurysm and would love to see a video on the effects of blood in the brain. I am 4 months into my recovery, and aside from having sharp pains and daily headaches, my short term memory is coming back. Again, love your videos...so interesting! Thank you!
With menstrual cramps there is commonly some abdominal and back muscle guarding, so you have both skeletal and smooth muscle involvement. Skeletal muscles are definitely soothed by warmth, so a warm bath or shower, which is the water of choice for many of us with cramping-uteri? Uteruses?-feels relaxing to those achy back and abdominal muscles. And a warm bath or shower definitely calms the nervous system, which will have positive effects on the autonomic nervous system and thus the smooth muscles. So I’m saying nah on #1 as being too reductionist and only looking at the uterus, but the tampon thing cracks me up.
It’s also strange and amusing that, of ALL of the weird myths about the human body, truly some bizarre stuff people think up, you choose “hot water relaxes muscles” as one of the Top Five CRAAAAZY things to target, lol.
I think it should also be noted that stress causes pain, and given that period cramps cause pain and therefore stress, stress starts to amplify the pain especially in that area. Warm water relieves stress and thus relieves pain. Stress also causes muscle tension which can be fixed with warm water. I got a tension headache recently, then got stressed about it, causing it to get worse, which then caused an anxiety attack and made it even worse. I fixed it by taking a shower. The shower solved the muscle tension causing the headache as well as the anxiety. I imagine the same effect could apply to period cramps.
@@doniscoming Very lucky us - Thank you to whoever it was who kindly donated their body for us (and many many other people) to learn from such amazing anatomy lectures.
@@hollywood4955 I worked for a neurologist and between my time there and my own mother, I can vouch that if someone had one and was hypoxic, then they can definitely develop memory and mental issues. My mom’s oxygen went low with hers and she has a few areas she really struggles with, mainly with word finding while speaking, spelling/grammar, repeating herself, and mixing stories together. The doctor told me to think of it as a bridge that collapsed. Everything has diverted to the other bridge, but not all things are accessible in the collapsed area or it’s harder to “pull” information out of that disaster zone. The imagery helped it make more sense to me.
Thank you for all your efforts. When I was a kid, my dad used to say, drinking 2 liters of water a day will keep the body clean as it flushes out all the impurities. As parent's love is always unconditional, I blindly believed it and have been following it (now in my late 30s too). Could you help us understand what happens when we drink water and how does being hydrated helps our body?
Drinking 2L of water daily is old info that got twisted around & became dogma. There's days I drink maybe half that. Then a few days later, I drink more. You body *usually* knows what's best.
You guys are SOOO awesome! At 60 years old, I’ve played into a lot of myths, especially the wet hair and cold outside. I am NEVER disappointed watching your content. I wish you were around Year’s ago when I was raising a family.
My mom always told us we couldn't go swimming for an hour after eating or we would get a cramp and drown. Didn't make sense as a kid and doesn't as an adult with kids. It never happened to any of my five kids who are all adults now.
Omg, yes. Although the one I hear was not cramps, but I don't even remember what it was, but I know it weren't cramps. I always went swimming right after eating and it was always fine. But I can understand that people with sensitive stomach (depending on what they are sensitive to, as in not food sensitive) can have an upset stomach if they go swimming immediately
I think they already covered this in another video, IIRC but I might be thinking of someone else. The general belief was that because the blood had diverted to your stomach, it would cause you to have insufficient blood for the exercise, and you would get a cramp in your leg and then drown because you couldn't keep swimming. It's not true, but it had a rational basis... just goes to demonstrate why we need well-designed research because even rational things can be wrong!
@@Adriana.Gabriela It's not stomach cramps, generally, but muscle cramps - though I guess the belief that it meant stomach cramps has obviously become a more common variation now, as I've seen people say that before too. And of course, very small kids are prone to throwing up if they start hurling themselves around and upside down too soon after eating too, which no parent wants to have to deal with either.
@@JustAnotherBuckyLover yeah, I understood it as muscle cramps, and also assumed their reason was what you said in the first comment. I just said I don't remember hearing about that reason. But I know even adults who will throw up if they are active too quick after eating, but they are really sensitive and rare from my experience
@@Adriana.Gabriela Yeah, honestly, kids throw up ALL the time for the slightest reasons, a lot of the time. Fever? Puke. Sore throat? Puke and stomach ache. Ate too much? Puke. Overexcited? Puke. Temper tantrum? Puke. LOL, it's endless Except for my friend's kid who somehow has such a cast-iron stomach that when she finally got a stomach bug a few weeks ago age eight, didn't know what to do with herself. LOL
One thing I always remember hearing ever since I was a kid was you absolutely DO NOT pick a mole or it will turn into skin cancer. Or at least have an increased risk of turning into skin cancer. I have no idea how much validity to it there is. But since I've never been inclined to pick a mole, it's not an issue. I just remember once in a while a friend or someone would get a cut or scrape where they have a mole and it would bleed an awful lot.
When it's caused by genetics, pronation is usually the cause. I have it and I passed it down to both my children. It's painful but we manage our pain with orthotics. I wish my parents had been aware when I was a child so I wouldn't have had to suffer the way I did. I even had plantar fasciitis for 3 years caused by pronation. Fallen arches caused later in life is usually brought on by an accident that tears the tendon supporting the arch. I can't imagine the pain and I understand your fear.
My father often told me that walking around barefoot would give me flat feet, or other unspecified foot problems. (In fact, I have higher-than-average arches.) This isn't exactly an anatomical myth, but one of the funniest things I've ever heard: a friend told me her mother discouraged her from wearing underwire bras, because if there were a thunderstorm, she might get hit by lightning!!
According to my podiatrist, as people age, and this can slowly begin in your 20s, there’s a tendency of feet going flatter and you could develop plantar fasciitis, you also loose your cushioning and going barefoot having little cushioning can turn into plantar fasciitis, so your dad wasn’t entirely wrong about that 😊
Jonathan - I believe this is the only subscription I've turned on the notification bell. Specifically because I want to see your analysis of cold plunges and if they are good for the body. I wish you & yours a Happy New Year. - Mark
I stuck a tampon up my nose once to try and stop a heavy nose bleed, didn't end well as the tampon swelled up and i had fallen asleep with it in, ended ripping the bottom of my nose open :-( the things you do while drunk
I remember being told when I was little that standing on cold tile floor for to long while bare foot would give you a bladder infection ... I have no clue how this myth could even begin to be true
another one that's very common to say here is that you get UTI from sitting on cold/wet surfaces or if you're walking barefoot on cold surfaces. so much that i remember seeing ads about it
Regarding #3: I find that sitting on a cold hard slab on concrete not only doesn't make them flare up, it actually helps soothe them when they're inflamed and irritated.
I had excruciating period cramps every month. This affected every area of my life. When I went into labour with my daughter, I suddenly felt the familiar agonising cramps, after about 3 hours. The pain increased in severity until I had an epidural. The joy of finally holding my baby made up for the agony I had endured. When my periods came back, the horrible cramps did not. It was such a relief.
Would be nice to understand if it was the stretching of the tissue from the first pregnancy did actually cause the reduction later. I am a guy but have worked in a hospital but never thought about this angle. Never really hurt a brought up, and would like to be less ignorant about the female body, LOL. 👍🏻
@@williamscoggin1509 You would have heard it a lot if you were a woman having bad period pain. It's a common retort of doctors that "having a baby will solve your period pain". For some people, it does seem to help. Unfortunately, for many with extreme period pain (i.e. that which doesn't resolve with things like heat and over the counter medication like ibuprofen, and which causes you to routinely miss work, school, faint or throw up, etc) that's not true, especially if they have some underlying disease rather than just extra-strong uterine cramps, such as endometriosis, etc. It's thought that perhaps that the cervix maybe opens easier to allow the menstrual fluid to leave after delivery, or perhaps it's a shift in the hormones post-partum. It's great when that happens for women like Elizabeth. I just wish doctors wouldn't fob off women without even trying to help them for years... on average, the best part of a decade for people with endometriosis, and it's not even rare - it affects 1/10 women and girls.
Same here. Devastating cramps all my life until giving birth when I asked "Is this all the pain? I have had it worse every month of my life". After first child, never had monthly cramps ever again!
You might have had endometriosis. It is very odten the cause of the insane cramps (in modern day, even since early puberty - in the past, it was very rare). And it usually (though not always) goes away after giving birth
I just want to say, Thank You to the Institute of Human Anatomy for all the great videos. I'm not in the medical field in any way, but I have learned so much watching your videos. Have a Happy New Year and a great 2022.
Doc, how could being in a cold environment for a prolonged period of time “cause” a cold? If the low temperature causes vasoconstriction then, could that reduced blood in, say the nose, make an infection more likely to happen because of the lower concentration of immune system cells in the area? Pharmacy student, big fan :)
I get frustrated with the whole ‘you can’t catch a cold from getting cold’ thing. I actually get symptoms that feel like full on flu from getting cold. I never claim that it is me actually ‘catching a cold’ but cold does legitimately make me sick (it may be because of one of the few medical conditions that I have: Ehlers Danlos, POTS, M.E. Histamine intolerance, and a couple of others), but any time I mention this people THINK that I’m one of those people who think you can catch a cold from getting cold and so dismiss my completely legitimate concerns that I personally am going to get sick if I don’t stay warm enough. Also, I have heard some people of my grandparents generation talk about catching a CHILL rather than a cold from getting cold, and I think that is probably a more accurate assessment of what can happen if people go out with wet hair or whatever. They can end up getting physical symptoms of feeling unwell from just getting too cold.
I have Crohn’s disease and when I have a flare up, my last resort to help me with the pain is getting in a warm bath. If it doesn’t getter better once I take a long warm bath, I’ll have to go to the emergency room. It also helps my period pain. I think it is the combination of warm water and being submerged, but I can guarantee it has helped me with the pain and sometimes I’ve avoided going to the emergency room even when I’m at the beach or at the pool. Getting in the ocean also helps 🤷🏻♀️
Hello! When i was at uni, my hygiene professor explained that a quick drop of body temperature can “freeze” the villi inside our nose, stopping them from filtering air from pathogens. It’s therefore reasonable to think that wet hair can contribute to lowering body temperature, increasing both vulnerability and chances to get a cold. What do you think? Thank you.
Please do a video on how temperature effects our blood circulation (cold temperatures- vasoconstriction/hot temperatures- vasodilation). And thank you so much for the valuable information. 🙏🏼 Happy new year ❤️🎊
Want to know about arthritis being in the cold weather or being in the warmer weather would help or does it not even matter the weather of being in pain? Happy New Year!!!🤗
I've always felt like the "you'll catch a cold" old wives' tale" was essentially just brought on by the fact that, at least in places where it gets cold enough, and as long as you're out there long enough, you can often experience many of the _acute_ symptoms people often associate with "a cold" - runny nose and sore throat especially, but also potentially sinus irritation and coughing (if the air is dry enough), and even, given long enough (faster with something like wet hair), things like fever-like symptoms due to the onset of hypothermia, just off the top of my head - without actually contracting a rhinovirus or coronavirus and _actually_ getting a cold. Obviously these symptoms will go away once you (properly) warm back up, but I can certainly see where the idea could come from in people's minds. Add that to the fact that more often than not it would be kids spending lots of time outside in the cold without their coats on, whom are also more likely to often both be in places where the spread of cold viruses are almost certain every cold season, like schools and daycares and other high-density locations, and have less than ideal hygiene practices, the confirmation bias from a lot of these mothers that would spread these myths was likely very massive, since they would frequently see their (or other people's) kids play outside in the cold without a jacket, come inside with cold-like symptoms from doing so, and then within the next few days actually have a full-blown cold simply because they caught it at school.
Hmm I'm a bit skeptical of #5. I remember watching a video by Madlabs where participants had to dip their feet in cold water and subsequently were more likely to catch a cold. The reason being that the body, as a response to the cold, reduced blood flow to the extremities, including the nose (which is why our noses are cold in winter). Less blood flow = fewer WBC = easier for pathogens to invade. Idk if it's true but it does seem plausible 🤔
That actually does sound plausible. There seem to be many, many, people who still believe, though, that you can "catch a cold" by being outside in the cold. As though viruses are just floating around in the air out there. They don't seem to understand the concept of a virus requiring a host (i.e., another person) to pass it to you. LOL.
Every doctor says that cold environments don't actually cause a cold because colds are caused by viruses. However, I haven't seen anybody explaining whether being in a cold or just any harsh environment puts your body under some stress and thus compromise your immune system (even by a little) which might increase the likelihood of opportunistic infections from pathogens that are just generally hanging around in our environment.
Loved this. My parents often talk about getting “cold in your neck” if I don’t wear a scarf or a hat during the winter months. They also complain of my not wearing socks on my feet during the winter months. My parents believe I will catch a cold from not wearing socks. What are your thoughts?
Well... I learned it depends. While you're definetely not gonna catch some bug, you CAN get some interesting reactions and, since we're all different, the responses we get may vary... a lot. For instance, I can't stay without socks when it's cold or else my lady parts are bound to "complain" about it and my throat likes to get inflamed whenever it senses cold air for longer periods (guess who wasn't bothered by wearing a facemask the last 2 winters, lol)... among other things
My grandmother would tell me I’d get a cold in my diastacutis if I didn’t wear a hat. She (born in 1894) could never tell me what that meant but it still sounds serious to me.
My grandfather born 1895 in England was always hauling us children up off the concrete front step where we sat in summer so we wouldn't get "the piles inside". He meant hemmorhoids but used the British term learned during WW1. Poor grandpa but bless him for worrying!
Regarding bleeding in water: I once injured myself while snorkeling. Only after getting out of the water I realized, that I was bleeding relatively much. My interpretation was, that the water was simply washing the blood away, and deluding it quickly, so that the bleeding was hardly noticeable, while I was still in the water. I am not so sure about your pressure theory, since the water is pushing against all submerged body parts, which should increase the blood pressure as well.
It would not effect blood pressure because the pressure is from all angles, maybe if you had your lower half of your body in the water and your upper portion out of the water, and had a cut on your finger you were holding above the water. And it does not TOTALLY stop blood flow, it suppresses it.
Concerning more myths, could you please explain why "you'll get warts from touching frogs?" People where I'm from always told us not to play with frogs when we'd find them as kids because if the frog pees on your hands when you scare it by picking it up, the frog pee gonna give your hands warts 😱 I thought warts were caused by one of the myriad HPV viruses, but now I'm confused... Does frog pee spread or trigger HPV or nonsexually transmitted herpes simplex virus!?! Where do Palmer warts come from!? Ain't no way *that* many people got peed on by a frog 😂
I always heard this too! Never stopped me from going out after a rainy day to catch me some froggies, I’ve never gotten warts. Ever. I don’t know if there may be some truth behind it or maybe they got the idea from olden witch - hating days (since frogs were considered to “carry spells or curses”) and warts were connected to witches lol.
I should guess that's a much older myth and srems from the Renaissance approach to science, which is based on likeness. So the idea was that a person whose hair had the colour of fire (red) also had a fiery personality and that in order to get pretty, you should surround yourself with pretty things and people. Also, the principle of catching a disease by touching sick people played a role. And toads have this wart-like bumpy skin on the back. So, according tp renaissance science, you could "catch" warts and your skin could become "alike" to their skin. Frogs were probably just mistaken for toads by some people.
Frogs neither have nor spread warts. The myth comes from their bumpy skin, which people mistake for warts. When handling frogs, wash your hands after and you're good. As far as I know they do not transmit skin diseases.
My guess on shaved hair growing back "thicker" is that hairs that are just entering the active phase after being dormant start out thin and whispy at the end and then thicken. Hairs shaven during the active phase keep coming thick. So a hair that fell out and grew in naturally has a thin end that makes it feel soft, while a shaven hair has an abrupt blunt end that feels stiff and scratchy, especially when it's short stubble.
MYTHBUST VID: - Does the hymen bleed first time intercourse? - Does the hymen bleed at all, or have blood vessels? - Why do some women bleed first time during intercourse? - Etc. I was taught the the hymen "breaks" during intercourse (loosing virginity), even in late teans, early 20s. After my own research I found out that the hymen does exist but naturally break away early teens, it shouldn't bleed with intercourse and that the bleeding women experience is due to being inadequately lubricated during intercourse, thus vaginal tearing occurs.
It can also tear because of horseback riding! Luckily I don't know that from experience but I did go horseback riding A LOT during my childhood so I'm lucky mine didn't break lol
Hymes usually has holes in it, so depending on how big the holes are and how flexible your hymen is (some are more, some are less flexible), it doesn't have to break at all
Childhood obesity being called "baby fat" I was morbidly obese as a child and it was always blown off as something I'll grow out of. It's not til the doctor made my parents realize how bad it was that my mom tried some bs, but it was too late. Now as a 500+ pound adult I gotta deal with this long term issue myself
Not to be insensitive. But if you're a adult and have been for a while. You uave had the agency to overrule mom and her "bs". So blaming everything on her is your own "bs". 8f you take responsibility now you can at least take control of your situation and see what you can still salvage.
Awesome again! Thank you. I’ve heard some crazy ones. It’s hard to explain to someone that really believes silly rumors. My friend (we are in our 50’s) said to me… “my hair stylist said when you used thinning shears on my hair in high school, messed it up, now it will never grow again.” 😆 🤦♀️🤷♀️
here's a myth that seem to have persisted for ever in France and in Italy where I have lived many years... In France people say you can catch a "coup de froid" meaning "catching a hit of cold air" and in Italy it is very similar as people say you get a "colpo d'aria" which means "a cold air hit". In both countries this means you have either caught a cold, or you about to catch a cold if you leave the window open for example, even sitting close to air-conditioner during the summer months... I wonder where this thought comes from and if it could be a cultural element? Also my question about myth or reality: can you get a sore muscle from cold air and if so why? Thank you very very much for all your videos and hard work at putting them out there :) simply brilliant!
Same thing is believed in Romania on a large scale. A lot of ppl yell or look at you in anger if you open the bus window even during the summer (lots of buses don't have AC in public transport here). I've tried busting the myth myself and sometimes I did get a headache (this might be a coincidence because I get migraines quite often), but I did try staying with wet hair between two open windows and nothing happened. So I believe it's just a myth. We, Romanians, believe all sorts if things 😅
Regarding the sore muscles from cold: Some people report that they get cramps - especially in the lower leg muscles - more easily if their muscles are cold when starting exercise, most likely because there's somewhat reduced blood flow. However, I've never bothered to check if there's much research on it, since it doesn't seem to happen for me.
@@miya2760 they got it right . Here, this thing is responsible for flu, cold, tooth aches, headaches, back aches and sometimes, even death. Damn air flow 😂
Is it true that some people are 'mirrored' on the inside? Liver on the left, heart pointing to the the right etc.? If true, have you ever seen such a body in the lab? And does it have medical consequenses?
Yes it's true, and there are several types. One type makes your organs completely inverted, and this isn't too dangerous - most people go about their lives totally normally until they need a medical scan etc. and then it's discovered. I think this type happens most commonly with twins...? There's another type which is a lot more dangerous and it's where there is partial inversion, i.e. only some organs. Obviously this can mean that certain parts don't join up properly, or are all twisted, etc. - so needs correction, often through many surgeries. I actually spoke to someone the other day who is researching these birth defects and replicating the partial organ mirroring in frogs/tadpoles. The coolest part is that the species they're using reproduces in just 3 days, and have transparent skin so they don't have to dissect them to see whether they have the defect! So they're working towards identifying the genes involved.
Highly appreciate you for this.... I'm from India and currently in the UK. Per Indian tradition, many were forcing me to TONSURE my 2 years old for 3 times with a gap of 8-12 months.... our believe especially for a girl child to be tonsured is that "the hair growth more thicker and longer", which i was against. Thank you so much for breaking this myth that Tonsure doesn't make hair grow thicker . Keep up the good eye opening work 👌
I heard lots of silly myths growing up. My cousins would hit me in the breast (as I was just starting to develop). Then they'd laugh and say that I was going to get breast cancer and die. My mom always told me that if I crossed my eyes that they'd stay that way. The wet hair myth was a constant. Then there's all the superstitions. If you break a mirror, it's seven years bad luck. I really believed that when I was little. So many more. But, these are the first that came to mind.
Yet so many people still believe that shaving makes hair thicker 🤦🏻♂️ I say wow you’re gonna be a billionaire as you’ve cured baldness! Reply is often them doubling down and saying something about that being different. We are living in idiocracy!
Not only an injury. I have one toe (the one next to the big toe. Index toe? Hahah) with a thicker nail. It was never injured, but it just started growing a thicker nail at some point
Most nail spots are benign. But. * There is a sign called Muehrckes Nails where there's horizontal banding indicating liver or kidney disease, and a variation *called 'Terry's nails' which is when the bottom 2/3rds of nail near finger are white and tip is pink/brown. *"Clubbing" of fingertips and nails is common in certain diseases of liver, pulmonary or heart. *"Spooning" of nails where they seem soft and scooped out and usually can hold a drop of water, indicates either some kind of anemia or hemochromatosis.
I no longer have a menstrual cycle. I got a surgery done that stopped the cycle. I don't know if it will return. Doctor told me it's very rare to stop the cycle by the surgery I got done. I am a rare case. I am happy to not suffer from the cycle. I got the surgery to calm down heavy painful sickening cycles of bleeding. Also, I will never shave down there. I don't care about having hair. Everyone has hair. It's not normal to be hairless. I am handicapped and I can't use razers nor reach my legs in the shower. I already have a shower chair and I have no way to shave. I am proud of my humanity. I have body dysphoria and I have worked hard with mental health to deal with my views of myself. I've learned to love myself.
I've never heard of anyone claiming that their hair grew back "thicker" or "stronger" _right away_ after shaving. But every teenage boy *_knows_* (right?) that if you shave "your beard grows back stronger" because - well, because look, six months ago I only had some peach fuzz and now look! Stubble! And it's not just me, it's Johnny, and Pete, and Mike, and Dylan as well! So obviously it's shaving that made it do that (No. It was going to do that anyway. Sorry to say, if you have a weak and patchy beard growth, it's never going to get any stronger or fuller). Same as the other myth: "wearing glasses makes your eyes get weaker". No. Your eyes are going to get "weaker" (again, no - the lenses are going to lose elasticity) in middle age _whether you wear glasses or not._ No further discussion necessary.
Love your videos. My Dad and my mom used to tell me that if I drank coffee as a child it would stunt my growth. I believe I have heard all of the ones you mentioned today also, in my life.
Eu sendo um brasileiro Sempre achei muito estranho que os gringos não dão café para seus filhos pequenos. Eles costumam dar leite com cereal, ou achocolatado, aqui no meu país mais mais ou menos pelos 4 anos de idade ou 5 os pais começam a dar café para criança se ela quiser..
Great Video! Thanks a lot for the very entertaining content. Yet, In regards to getting ill while having wet hair - perhaps having wet hair does not make bacteria/viruses pick us from the crowd more, but, it could somewhat affect our immune system, inhibiting it's ability to defend from the bacteria all around us. Could that be the case? Getting cold, our blood vessels get contracted to prevent heat loss, and with lower blood flow, less leukocytes are there ready to fight the bacteria all around us, which could increase the likelihood of getting ill. Of course, for a healthy person, perhaps that's not a factor, but for someone with a condition already deteriorating efficiency of their immune system, getting cold might be just enough to make that person ill. Could that be the case?
It's wild to me that the uterus is as small as it is. I'd always thought something so painful would be bigger
It is pretty amazing!
Me too! And then also seeing how thick the endometrium and smooth muscles of the uterus is? Absolutely crazy to me.
It has always looked bigger than that in diagrams that I've been shown before too.
To be fair, that may be from an older/elderly woman, the uterus shrinks over time after menopause, on average by 30-50% according to studies.
It's always the little ones you have to watch! 😄Nyuk nyuk
Really appreciate men that actually know what they're talking about when discussing lady parts and lady problems. They're usually the ones who disclose "hey friendly reminder I'm a guy so I don't know what it's like I can just describe what it's doing." Crazy to think that if he was my doctor he might actually believe me if I told him I was in pain.
@@JustAnotherBuckyLover The talk I got was "well since you said you don't want to have kids, there's no point in treating your endometriosis and ovarian cysts" followed by "you, a 20/21/22/23/24/25/26/27 year old veteran (depending on the year), are incapable of making the decision that you don't want children, so you can't have your ovary or uterus removed to improve your quality of life even though you've almost had septic shock twice due to cysts and you're at a high risk of cancer."
@@nadapenny8592 what the actual frickballs? Jesus wept. I mean why the hell does it matter if we're in agony, AMIRITE? It's our punishment for being evil child-free people by choice... Ugh. And I am SO sick of people including so many doctors (and that includes female ones, and nurses and other medical folks) telling women that they are incapable of deciding that they don't want children and they need to get permission from their (oftentimes non-existent future) husband first... Like WTF is wrong with people? Ugh.
@@JustAnotherBuckyLover I've been told that not all states are like that and usually online people are just like "just go to the next state over stupid" but first of all what bullshit half-assed insurance that I do have won't pay for that, second of all this here's the Bible Belt y'all, finding a state with laws that don't devalue women would be at least a 6 hour drive, and third why the fuck should I have to make special accommodations to get basic care for a painful, treatable condition when a guy can just get ED pills from his GP if he just asks for them?
Why the fuck is it that starting at 18 I've been given the option for fertility treatments to have a baby and be a teen mom, but not the option to have a surgery to treat pain that removes a defective reproductive organ that's medically deemed infertile anyway? It's a myth that the law allows women to sue a provider for performing a surgery that they consented to that causes infertility. That's federal, there is no state in the US where you can do that and win. It has never happened and it never will happen and it never should happen. It's like if I tried to sue Toyota after I intentionally sideswiped a whole line of cars in my neighborhood and said "well if they hadn't sold me the car that I asked for and paid for, this wouldn't have happened." It's not going to work. The myth was created by a bunch of men scared to let women make healthcare decisions for themselves, because they can't handle the thought of not being able to control their potential future wife.
@@nadapenny8592 Well, in Texas you could drive 15 hours on an almost straight line highway and still be in Texas.
@@nadapenny8592 what?!?! What horrible doctor would dare say that to a woman??! If my feet were in stirrups during that conversation I’d kick him in the face for that
Loved the video a lot!!
Myths I've heard MANY times:
- ''sex permanently stretches the vaginal canal/makes it loose'' (No. It doesn't. If she's feeling 'loose', you did finally a proper job by getting her excited. The vaginal canal is made out of muscles which don't lose their stretch just by having intercourse. Sometimes difficult pregnancies/births can do some damage to the muscles there but this is often temporarily.),
- ''Female bodies don't produce testosterone because that's a ''men thing''. (Spoiler: female bodies DO produce testosterone, just in (often) lesser amounts),
- ''every women bleeds when losing their virginity'' (no, not all women bleed. Most of the time, they don't bleed. If they do, it has nothing to do with virginity but more with unconsciously tensing the vaginal muscles which makes the skin of the labia minora more prone to tear (and prevents proper wetness) which is often seen by vaginism, not being excited, or some benign vaginal conditions),
- ''women don't have facial hair'' (they often do, which is more than normal. Some also have minor beard growth which is often related to common hormonal problems/illnesses like PCOS, fertility treatments, some kinds of birthcontrol).
Can't wait for the next video!! :D
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Indeed :) I'm someone who had to have my hymen surgically removed due it being too thick and large according to my OB-GYN at the time. Even after I had sex for the first time, there was no bleeding or pain.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 Thank you for sharing your story!! I really feel like there's still such a big stigma about this, especially in some religions where women are expected to bleed, otherwise ''they weren't virgin''.
I'm happy you could get helped with that btw, and glad you had no issues during your first time! ^^
Well said and you covered it all!
@@RedRoseSeptember22 The hymen in and of itself is another whole bundle of myths! The way society thinks it works, vs how it actually does in most cases, is so different.
Yes definitely the testosterone one! People see the quite noticable effects of testosterone (deeper voice, increased body hair, etc) and decide that men must have tons of this hormone that women don't have at all but I am a trans man who takes synthetic testosterone to keep my hormones at the same levels as a male who produces it naturally and I only inject .25 ml a WEEK. 1/4 of a mililiter...
By far the craziest thing multiple relatives have tried to tell me was a true thing was that women can't have sex when they're pregnant because if the baby's a girl, she could also get pregnant, and if it's a boy, he'll come out gay.
Not as crazy, but I've heard of some men who believe that if a woman has sex with multiple partners, if she ever becomes pregnant, the baby will "be influenced" by the "residual sperm" left by the previous partners.
Neither of these are even remotely true, but the fact that there are actual people who really believe that they are terrifies the crap out of me.
Actually sperm can live in little "by ways" in the fallopian tubes, nicely bathed by nutrient friendly fluids, for up to 12 days. So.... hypothetically ...
@@lir3379 Yes, this is true! Sperm are quite adept at surviving withing the female reproductive track, drawing out the potential conception window.
But I meant that some people believe that the sperm can/will remain for years or even indefinitely. So as an example, that would be like thinking that a woman still has 'residue' from her first boyfriend from her late teens when she's in her 30s and 40s. And then thinking that residue can somehow do something to a baby. Like, infiltrate it and mess with the genetics/DNA in a way that it makes the child 'not fully the husband's own'.
This idea is what's completely ridiculous. The only thing close to it is ' Heteropaternal Superfecundation' which is when two ovum are inseminated by two different men during the same conception window, resulting in fraternal twins that are technically only half-siblings.
this is the first time I've ever actually facepalmed ._.
I am always amazed, what people are able to believe in.
I'd like to know the logic behind those first two...(I know the point is they are illogical, but the logic that led to them is what I wonder about)
My older female co-workers always "bother" me with the "you can't go out into the cold without a jacket" myths.
I always respond with "That is not how it works. Otherwise humanity would have been long wiped out"
It bothers me how little people know. And how resistant to knowledge some are.
i work in an elderly care facility, one of the women living here was a doctor..but tells you the same thing..
@@saskia8678 Doctors are not at all infallible. Specifically the retired ones.
@@saskia8678 not all doctors are medical doctors.
@@N0ES she was
I have two biologist friends who both believe you'll get sick from being out in the cold 🤔
“Popping” or “cracking” my knuckles would cause arthritis. What actually happens when you crack your knuckles or pop other joints? I’ve heard that the sound is a release of gas that has built up between the bones in the joint space. Love your videos ❤️
I'm so jealous of people that can actually crack their knuckles, I can never do it 😭
It's just releasing nitrogen bubbles from your joints. It could also include other gasses, but I think it's mostly nitrogen.
I've heard that one all my life, same with the wet hair and all that lol.
Ooh that's a good one because that's absolutely a myth you will not get arthritis from doing that
@@lisachiappetti6092 You have it backwards. Cracking your knuckles DOES NOT CAUSE ARTHRITIS.
I used to volunteer at a thrift store, and one of the things that came through was a nurse's manual from the early 1900s. I skimmed it and it was pretty fascinating how far medical science has come since then. There was a discussion about whether colds were caused by the cold or by viruses, and the book came down on the side of cold exposure, and it seemed skeptical of viruses in general. Also, informed consent was clearly not a think since they explicitly recommended NOT telling the patient if you were going to use leeches for treatment.
I do think it would be good for you to point out that while cold, wet weather can't give you a cold, it does weaken your immune system and make it easier for the cold viruses to gain a foothold. It's still best to avoid prolonged exposure to cold, wet, weather, especially if you already have a cold (learned that one in high school when I helped lug set-pieces for a theater production in a downpour while I had the sniffles. The next day they were... more than sniffles. My drama teacher felt bad, lol).
Oddly, studies have shown people who take cold showers, or use cold shock therapy (ie. jumping in a frozen lake) actually have amped up immune systems.
There are still shitloads of conspiracy theorists that think that viruses do not exist, and they are made up. Especially with HIV or sars-cov2
That's bullshit. It doesn't weaken your immune system.
I don't believe cold weather weakens your immune system directly, but stress does, so if being out in the cold (and/or wet) weather causes you stress, that could do it. Cold weather also dries out the nasal passages, making it easier to transmit and catch viruses. Another reason people tend to get sick more in cold weather is because people are more often indoors in the dry air, and in closer contact with other people.
Sources to support your claims,?
I've read a lot of comments or stories of people genuinely believing that someone can "hold in a period". Can you add a comment like "smooth muscle is involuntary which is why someone with a uterus can't 'hold in' a period" if you do a video debunking more female reproductive anatomy myths? The idea that uterus owners can control their inner reproductive organs like going to the bathroom or whatnot is so frustrating. If we could "hold in" our periods and release it like peeing, feminine products wouldn't be needed, bought, or even exist! Ugh!!
VERY true! Good point! 👍
Oh but don't you know? They're just for people who are too lazy to hold it in, like "adult diapers"... /s 🙄
There ARE some people with very light flow and who have particularly good pelvic floor muscles, I guess, and who have particular anatomy that allows the blood to pool in their vagina until they "let it out" or it overflows, but eh, they're very much the minority. The tiny minority. Those are the same people insisting the cervix has a sphincter though, oftentimes, and that anyone can do it. Utter rubbish. And in fact, this can be a particularly frustrating aspect for uterus owners who have had surgery to remove their rectum. Because the tissues that support the vaginal canal from behind are no longer there, the back wall can pooch backwards, allowing both normal secretions and menstrual fluid to gather before something happens to cause it to all rush out at once.
To me, this idea goes along with the people who have convinced themselves that periods are a symptom of a "toxic" lifestyle and it's actually not normal to have regular periods - but I feel like that's just a justification for the fact that these people are usually eating wacky diets and are probably suffering amenorrhoea because of their disordered eating habits.
Look at "Momma Dr. Jones" channel. Female OB/GYN with a great sense of humor.
@@katiekane5247 Seconded. Love her!
@@katiekane5247 Third-degree! Learned so much about myself from her😊
Great myths to cover and stepping into feminine ones. One myth my doctor helped with me with menstrual pain is it shouldn't be an extremely painful experience. I spent two decades just accepting 'my genes' and that periods were going to be very painful. On mention to my doctor and describing my pain we were able to pinpoint some treatments with iron and ultrasounds to save me from being knocked out for a week and then recovering for a week after. If you experience a lot of pain let your doctor know, it is not 'just how things are' in many cases and treatments improve every few years it's worth revisiting for more solutions and options.
I’m surprised there are other people that know this. I learned this from my anatomy and physiology professor in college.
Y'all are worrying me... While we're here, NOOOO sex should not hurt. Penetration should not hurt. Touching the vulva or clitoris should not hurt. And if they do, these can be treatable things!
This reminds me of how I was taught blood was blue until it hit oxygen as a kid and I'm literally 17. Insane that people still think it is though, as they just haven't been un-taught it.
whose blood? human or horseshoe crab?
Human blood is darker when in the viens, and viens apear blue through the skin, but the blood itself is still technically red.
Although other blood chemistries exist that can result in blue, green, purple, and white blood, its all about the oxygen carrying matrix/protien. (Octopus have blue/green blood because their is copper based)
Isn't period blood blue? I mean, every advert for period pads and such always show blue....
@@Wayne-fe1ed Really hoping you aren't any older than 13... dear lord.
@@Wayne-fe1ed 🤣😂😅
While putting away dishes, my mother once nearly scared me off of step stool screaming at me "Don't lift your arms over your head when you're pregnant!!!!! You'll tie the babies umbilical cord around its neck!!!"
Lord mother! Tying of the umbilical cord will be the least of our worries if you scare me off this step stool!!!
After the raising of my arms above my head, and many other activities, I have six healthy children, followed by six healthy grandchildren.
Happy New Year to you!
God bless you all!
I just imagined some tendons of my shoulder muscles reaching down into the uterus and tangling with the umbilical cord. How some of these ideas are formed is beyond me...
I was told that too, and don't run while pregnant..lol 🥴
@@JenaTuckerAquariums They had some silly ideas back then.
@@ClaudiaArnold 😆🤣
Someone told a coworker that when I worked retail, and I was so confused about how that would work. Also, how would you be expected to wash/brush your hair if that was the case? Doesn't make sense.
*Can we just apperciate how much effort he puts in making these cool videos*
He's super fantastic!
Always, it’s one of my favourites 👍🏼
I always wait for their upcoming videos ☺️
So many human bits I've never heard of. Pretty awesome. These people who bring us this channel are fantastic.
Oh my gosh. They're absolutely incredible videos. One of the best & most educational video series on the net!
I always hear the myth of "Hairdressers growing different coloured hair on their arms because cut hair finding its way into a pore" and it drives me crazy. That's not how hair or pores work! You just work with dye and get teeny tiny splashes of it o you when you're washing it out of your clients' hair!
You can also get hair splinters!
the reality is they collect and sell your hair if it's long enough
One of the myths I've heard for a long time is that we only use 10% of our brains. This has been proven false of course but I would love to see you make a video about the specifics :).
That myth almost ruined my life, along with the myth of "Your brain can only store so much information".
I think people meant that we only use 10% of the potential of our brains, it's like watching a video in 360 while it has the option of 1080
@@ShyGirlSays thats still not really true so
@@ShyGirlSays about 10% of our brain is used for conciousness, the rest is used for literally every little other things that keep you from dropping dead, such as breathig, your heart beating, your body temp regulation, etc.
@@nashir1187 I know that, what I mean is that we all have the potential to be geniuses like Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawkins, that is the true potential of our brain, but not all people are like that, same with photographic memory, we all have the potential to have a perfect memory, to store information with one reading, but not all people are like that, this is what I meant by saying that we are not using the full potential of our brain, is like saying that you have a computer with a 1000 tb of ram, a hard drive of 10000 tb with the best graphic card and a 20 core processor, and you only use it for word, play solitaire and draw with paint
I think there is some confusion about the wet hair issue in that at least for me, going outside or sleeping on wet hair messes with my sinuses and I get a headache and a drippy nose for an hour or two, sometimes longer. So those things can make you FEEL sick, but not BE sick. It would be very easy, especially back before we understood germs, to think those were the same thing.
Of course you get ill
Hairs you shave are also cut at a about a 90° angle. As a hair stylist you learn that the angle of how you cut the air determines how "blunt" your line looks.
"Don't swallow the cherry pits as they will a) cause appendicitis or b) sprout and take root there."
According to our family lore, sitting on cold surfaces gives you UTIs, not hemorrhoids. One other was that milk is the one and only source of dietary calcium, thus, a cup of warm milk was mandatory for breakfast 🤮. I suggested as a child I might eat my egg with the shell instead but that wasn't taken kindly. My best friend had to deal with the most restricting myth: No bike riding for girls, it would weaken and stretch their vagina so much that she would become virtually unmarriagable. This was around 1970 in a German provincial small town.
We had the milk one too but I loved milk so it was actually a good one for me 😅 I heard the bike one in highschool but we had amazing sex ed and the teacher was very clear as to what is the hymen and why we shouldn't care about it.
Lol that bike one is funny, never heard the milk or cold surface one. It is true however for some girls that bike riding and horse riding can wear away your hymen, but that still has nothing to do with virginity.
@@RedRoseSeptember22 It seems like a good idea to encourage it, as youd think an unperforated hymen would create more pain, or at least pressure when having penetrative sex the first time. Though unsure if it has nerve endings, maybe just create stress for the couple.
Your family must have used bicycles in a very odd way.
@@MrCmon113 It wasn't my family, as I said, but my best friend's mom. I think she never sat on a bicycle herself or she would have known that the saddle does not "sink in".
After taking a shower I was passing the living room and said goodnight to my parents. My mom said, "You're not going to bed with that wet head, are you?" I said, "No, I was planning to leave it on the nightstand and put it back on in the morning."
Lol 😂 i hope she laughed
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That is so hilarious. I wish I had thought of that when I was a kid.
When I was a toddler, my grandmother told me that putting paint on my skin would suffocate me, because the skin has little lungs and they could get drown if I clogged them with paint.
I later guessed, that she had told me that in order for me to stop putting paint everywhere, including on myself, and making a mess with paint and brushes.
But at the time, when I was three or four, I believed her ; and I started getting scared of paint and of "skin suffocation".
I am pretty mad at my grandmother for telling me this lie.
I had the same idea but with super glue. I was never told it, I just assumed that I would die just because I had some on my thumb. I remember going up to my mum when she was on the computer and said "asking for a friend, this happened in school, can you die from getting super glue on you?" Immediately met with a death glare... I was no longer worried about the glue killing me 😂
This belief led to the Goldfinger plot point of a woman being murdered in the movie by being painted completely gold. Paint can have an effect related to pores by preventing perspiration which can cause overheating, or have toxic components that can leach through the skin, but it’s definitely not because of “breathing” through the skin.
There are very good reasons for avoiding paint exposure even though we don't 'suffocate' due to covering the skin: "Occupational exposure as a painter was classified as a Group-1 carcinogen in IARC Monograph Volume 47 (IARC, 1989), based on an increased risk for lung cancer, and reaffirmed in Monograph Volume 98 (IARC, 2010a), based also on increased risks for mesothelioma and bladder cancer." - granny may not have understood the details, but her advice with respect to health was consistent with this study: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK304433/
@@mychemicalcookie the show Myth Busters did an episode on this. One of them actually painted themselves in gold, ...for science. Lol
I'm pretty sure she was mad at you when you were putting paint everywhere on the house and on yourself.
There may be an additional reason that getting into water eases menstrual cramps. That reason is a deduction on my part from when I used to have bad menstrual pain; I don't know for certain that it is correct, but I suspect it may be.
Here's the reason I'm suggesting. When water is supporting the body, the muscles that we use to hold our torsos up against gravity can relax. Although those skeletal muscles aren't necessarily a major source of cramps, there is a bit of a feedback loop: pain from menstrual cramps causes all the surrounding voluntary muscles to tense up, which in turn can intensify pain.
PLEASE do a video on connective tissue disorders!! I have a genetic connective tissue disorder called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. I would LOVE to see a video going in depth into how faulty collagen can affect the different parts and regions of the body like skin, bones, and joints.
Sameee
i also have eds and would love to see this as well. i think it may be harder because they may not get many bodies what had eds. part of why i plan to donate my body to science when i die. a video on gastroparesis and/or pots would be cool too becaus ei ahve both of those because of eds. im also actually planning on donating my uterus to science after my hysterectomy soon if possible so maybe they could study a uterus of someone with eds to maybe find out why eds can cause more issues with periods and childbirth etc.
My son has that, I would love to see a video on ED as well
Me too!
A few myths i grew up with (for context, my family is chinese and so some of our myths are based around the our traditions):
1. Drinking cold water and eating chicken worsens cough.
2. You will get appendicitis if you exercised after eating
3. You will get cramps if you swam after eating
4. Food with growth hormones injected to them can cause cancer (not really a chinese myth but my family kinda buys into a lot of conspiracies anyways)
5. Bathing after exercize causes you to get a cold
6. Cold temperature causes flu.
I think i might have more but these are the things at the top of my head rn
If you need a western side for each
1. Never heard this but a similar practice is chicken noodle soup when sick
2. Does not exsist here
3. Very common myth
4. Not heard of but there is the Msg makes you fat/unhealthy
5. Never heard it
6. All over you will hear this one
@Ur Mama You haven't the slightest clue what you are talking about. Please educate yourself.
What about never eat fish and drink milk in the same meal?
@@apolloandwarrior_3229 MSG isnt as bad as people make it out.
@@apolloandwarrior_3229 chicken noodle soup does help when sick, but thats just the fact that warm fluid and steam from any source will soothe a sore throat and loosen up sinus mucus respectively.
And as far as cold weather causeing colds, being mildly hypothermic does weaken the immune system so it can theoretically cause you to be more vulnerable to invading pathogens, but in a perfectly sterile environment temperature can't make you sick (with an infection).
As we age we get a bit loosey goosey…well that’s a cute way of looking at it 🤣🤣🤣
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It sure is 😉
I read this literally at the same time he said it lol
I think it's more that every generation gets more refined scientific knowledge that isn't garbled via word of mouth.
More like floppy sloppy 😂
I really appreciate you and men in general not acting like they know how bad it hurts and that they know exactly what's going on when we are on our menstrual cycle, so for not being rude and stupid I thank you for that.
I have heard so many when I was a kid. My mother told me if I drank coffee as a child, it would stunt my growth. Lol, I wish it would have! A video on this would be great to see!!!
+ My grandma always told me that eating sugar gives you worms.
+ My dad thought that drinking water with your meals would make you fat.
+ Then there's the old canard about having to wait an hour after eating before going swimming lest you die of cramp.
Coincidentally, about the time I got my first library card was when I stopped believing anything they told me.
Almost forgot one!
One year we spent a week visiting my aunt and she cooked something fairly fatty for dinner. I think it was a pork roast. Anyway, after dinner she was serving coffee and I, not having become a caffeine addict yet, asked for a glass of milk. She looked aghast and said that, after eating a fatty meal, you needed to drink something hot to keep the fat melted.
I think that swimming one is half true?
Ah yes I've always heard the swimming one.
The first one is pretty wild to me - what was her thought process behind it, do you know? Did she think that sugar could somehow carry parasites? Very interesting
@@sophiagrace6361 I have no idea why she thought that. I guess it's an old belief that was passed down through the generations. She was of the first generation born in the U.S. to parents who immigrated from Eastern Europe, so who knows?
I remember being told that periods will pause when you get in the tub for a bath in health class. I never believed that since my experience told me otherwise. I hope health teachers aren't still teaching this.
Being in water obviously doesn't stop the uterus from contracting, but if you are swimming, the exercise may bring some relief from the pain. (I find that mild exercise like walking or swimming helps with menstrual cramps. I don't know if it's just the distraction from pain or if it's like an abdominal massage.)
Love these videos! I think a very important a stigmatizing myth you could bust is the notion of the hymen as being a proof of virginity, as well as the anatomical variation seen in hymens in general.
The myth that I was told when getting my period is that I could not take a bath or go swimming because the water would back up the blood into the brain and cause me to become insane. This was in Germany in the 1950's.
Btw, I only recently discovered this channel, and I'm absolutely hooked! I subscribed after watching my first video. You guys are excellent at explaining such intricate processes in ways that can be understood by those without any medical background or study. I also love that you guys include the proper names for everything. I've always been a bit of an autodidact. I've just always had a great appetite for knowledge. Even in college, I would audit classes in my spare time. So this channel is right up my alley. Thanks for being so enthusiastic and not shying away from any topic. Keep up the good work!! You guys rock!!
Thank you! Love reading comments like this!
@@theanatomylab u r the best
This was a great video!!! (As always) It would be great to see a video about toxic shock syndrome because I feel that there are too many people that don’t understand how it occurs! I had to explain this to my mother who is going through menopause the other day. I told her that it stemmed from a bacterial infection and she felt that her life was a lie 😂😂😂
I'm really looking forward to a video on what cold does to the body!! A lot of people are trying to convince me to do cold showers and siwms etc. But I have a connective tissue disorder (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) and I wonder if it wont hurt me...
Hey Zebra friend 😊🦓
Yes and me. People that do it throughout the year tell me how good it is for the body but my gut instinct says it can't be. In engineering, thermal shock is always detrimental to materials.
That sounds awful but I also have POTS which means I'm already terrible at temperature regulation.
@@ElizabethDohertyThomas Yes me too! So swimming in a normal pool already makes my toes and fingers blue😅
@@janedoe7025 Hi there haha!
I was told by a few friends as a young teenager that your actual period stopped when you were in water so you didn't need a tampon. I told them they were idiots. This was before the internet though so people believed a lot of stuff that was hard to debunk.
Still like that today, things are easier to debunk but humans *DO NOT* process facts logically, unfortunately that's not how our brains work. On the contrary, lies can spread as fast as the truth.
With the hair thickness one I think you might've missed the most obvious explanation, which is that shaving cuts off a hair's taper, so instead of being thin on the end and thicker at the base, you've cut it down to the base so that what is growing out now seems thicker (at least temporarily).
He did say that.
Yes I heard him say that too - he even pointed to the blunt cut piece of hair!!!!!!
@@pinkpaisley4520 he did say it, yet he explained a bunch of other stuff complitelly irrelevant to the topic and spent a very small amount of time talking about this which is literally the reason behind this idea.
I remember a few decades ago my mother telling me that my father shaved his eyebrows once and cause them to not just grow back thicker but longer making both eyebrows come closer to each other in the middle of his face. I kind of found this hard to believe for similar reasons to what you explained here. And of course I've heard the myth many times that being outdoors in the cold while wet would cause you to catch a cold.
Dude for reals, so many women I know shave their arms because they’re afraid that once they stop it will come in thicker than before. I’m like, 🙄that’s not true!!!!! I used to shave my arms but stopped and there was absolutely no change to my super light blonde arm hairs.
@@Megadextrious While the hair doesn't grow thicker, it appears so, for most of the growth. The problem with that is, well, your hair will be more visible, until it grows to a pointed end. If you shave your arm you would need a few weeks of "recovery" if you don't want to be seen as "hairy". It doesn't grow thicker, but it definitely will look and feel thicker for most of the growing, which is why, usually, you either don't stop shaving, or you don't start.
@@Megadextrious I recently watched a video about hair myths, and they explained it like this: When the hair shaft grows naturally, it's tapered so it feels softer/thinner, and when we shave, we make it blunt, and also the hair is thicker at the bottom so it'll feel thicker as well initially.
Critical thinking skills should be mandatory for all kids in every year they’re in school. That would cut down on beliefs that are not supported by good evidence.
There are many Things which were once backed by science but with time they proved to be scientific myths. Science is evolving like us, kids or grown up like us , needs to keep learning whole life or live a life of an ignorant person , second type live more peaceful life. See the tribals, simple and happy life.
@@TheKashmirsapphire I said “critical thinking skills”. You went right to criticizing science. I wonder why?
School district where I grew up had been trying for a long time to include more fundamentals of logic in regular classes. Many of my classes talked about them. Seems to me however that once you learn something, the application of it is the true test. Many kids were just doing the minimum because it was what they had to do, which means they were mostly just memorizing the material. Not much space for analysis there.
@@loriw2661 "Deepak" need anymore answers?
Welp, considering they've literally been burning books on certain districts, i have little hope for this.
"Drinking cold water would cause you to be fat" or something similar along the lines of upsetting the stomach...which I just laughed off when I learned basic biology years ago
Added to the list!
Cold water would actually burn more calories because your body has to heat it up. Which is funny how someone would think that it does make you fat
One of my bigger fears is accidentally putting a second tampon in, because I don't use them every day of my period, so sometimes I'm not sure if I've taken it out or just forgotten it. I knew it didn't go into the abdominal cavity haha, but I'm also glad to know that it's a relatively simple issue to solve if it ever did happen. But to make sure it doesn't, I'm just gonna.. double-check when I'm not sure :'D
Love your videos! They are so informative. I recently had a ruptured cranial aneurysm and would love to see a video on the effects of blood in the brain. I am 4 months into my recovery, and aside from having sharp pains and daily headaches, my short term memory is coming back. Again, love your videos...so interesting! Thank you!
It's been a while since your post, so I don't know if you'll see this reply. But I hope you are doing very well now!
With menstrual cramps there is commonly some abdominal and back muscle guarding, so you have both skeletal and smooth muscle involvement. Skeletal muscles are definitely soothed by warmth, so a warm bath or shower, which is the water of choice for many of us with cramping-uteri? Uteruses?-feels relaxing to those achy back and abdominal muscles. And a warm bath or shower definitely calms the nervous system, which will have positive effects on the autonomic nervous system and thus the smooth muscles.
So I’m saying nah on #1 as being too reductionist and only looking at the uterus, but the tampon thing cracks me up.
It’s also strange and amusing that, of ALL of the weird myths about the human body, truly some bizarre stuff people think up, you choose “hot water relaxes muscles” as one of the Top Five CRAAAAZY things to target, lol.
I think it should also be noted that stress causes pain, and given that period cramps cause pain and therefore stress, stress starts to amplify the pain especially in that area. Warm water relieves stress and thus relieves pain. Stress also causes muscle tension which can be fixed with warm water. I got a tension headache recently, then got stressed about it, causing it to get worse, which then caused an anxiety attack and made it even worse. I fixed it by taking a shower. The shower solved the muscle tension causing the headache as well as the anxiety. I imagine the same effect could apply to period cramps.
@@catpoke9557 Heating Pad and Ibuprofen are gd lifesavers. My uterus is extremely full of Wrath!
Please do a video on the effects of a stroke on the brain and also the different degrees of burns on the skin and how it repairs itself 👍
We have a new body that passed away from a stroke, so we will definitely be doing a video on that!
@@theanatomylab a fresh body? lucky us…I guess? 😁
@@doniscoming Very lucky us - Thank you to whoever it was who kindly donated their body for us (and many many other people) to learn from such amazing anatomy lectures.
@@hollywood4955 I worked for a neurologist and between my time there and my own mother, I can vouch that if someone had one and was hypoxic, then they can definitely develop memory and mental issues. My mom’s oxygen went low with hers and she has a few areas she really struggles with, mainly with word finding while speaking, spelling/grammar, repeating herself, and mixing stories together. The doctor told me to think of it as a bridge that collapsed. Everything has diverted to the other bridge, but not all things are accessible in the collapsed area or it’s harder to “pull” information out of that disaster zone. The imagery helped it make more sense to me.
I would love some insight on the burn degrees!
Cheers to the anatomical awesomeness and many, many more educational and entertaining videos from you guys!!
Happy New Year 🥰
Thank you for all your efforts. When I was a kid, my dad used to say, drinking 2 liters of water a day will keep the body clean as it flushes out all the impurities. As parent's love is always unconditional, I blindly believed it and have been following it (now in my late 30s too). Could you help us understand what happens when we drink water and how does being hydrated helps our body?
Drinking 2L of water daily is old info that got twisted around & became dogma. There's days I drink maybe half that. Then a few days later, I drink more. You body *usually* knows what's best.
You guys are SOOO awesome! At 60 years old, I’ve played into a lot of myths, especially the wet hair and cold outside. I am NEVER disappointed watching your content. I wish you were around Year’s ago when I was raising a family.
Thank you to the people who donated the ultimate gift to advance the knowledge of human science.
My mom always told us we couldn't go swimming for an hour after eating or we would get a cramp and drown. Didn't make sense as a kid and doesn't as an adult with kids. It never happened to any of my five kids who are all adults now.
Omg, yes. Although the one I hear was not cramps, but I don't even remember what it was, but I know it weren't cramps.
I always went swimming right after eating and it was always fine. But I can understand that people with sensitive stomach (depending on what they are sensitive to, as in not food sensitive) can have an upset stomach if they go swimming immediately
I think they already covered this in another video, IIRC but I might be thinking of someone else. The general belief was that because the blood had diverted to your stomach, it would cause you to have insufficient blood for the exercise, and you would get a cramp in your leg and then drown because you couldn't keep swimming. It's not true, but it had a rational basis... just goes to demonstrate why we need well-designed research because even rational things can be wrong!
@@Adriana.Gabriela It's not stomach cramps, generally, but muscle cramps - though I guess the belief that it meant stomach cramps has obviously become a more common variation now, as I've seen people say that before too. And of course, very small kids are prone to throwing up if they start hurling themselves around and upside down too soon after eating too, which no parent wants to have to deal with either.
@@JustAnotherBuckyLover yeah, I understood it as muscle cramps, and also assumed their reason was what you said in the first comment. I just said I don't remember hearing about that reason.
But I know even adults who will throw up if they are active too quick after eating, but they are really sensitive and rare from my experience
@@Adriana.Gabriela Yeah, honestly, kids throw up ALL the time for the slightest reasons, a lot of the time. Fever? Puke. Sore throat? Puke and stomach ache. Ate too much? Puke. Overexcited? Puke. Temper tantrum? Puke. LOL, it's endless Except for my friend's kid who somehow has such a cast-iron stomach that when she finally got a stomach bug a few weeks ago age eight, didn't know what to do with herself. LOL
One thing I always remember hearing ever since I was a kid was you absolutely DO NOT pick a mole or it will turn into skin cancer. Or at least have an increased risk of turning into skin cancer. I have no idea how much validity to it there is. But since I've never been inclined to pick a mole, it's not an issue. I just remember once in a while a friend or someone would get a cut or scrape where they have a mole and it would bleed an awful lot.
Well, that's partly true. Hurting your mole is a chance to get a skin cancer. It will not for sure give you that, but it's one of the factors.
@@schmeterling 信頼できる引用がなければ、これは私が子供の頃に聞いた多くの話ほど説得力がありません。 しかし、私はあなたの入力に感謝します。 どうもありがとうございました。
You're poking a non-cancer tumour, each of them has a chance to transform into cancer, so messing with cells there is not the best idea.
One of my biggest fears is getting fallen arches on feet. Can you talk about why this happens and repercussions of having them?
Not a thing. One is born with flat feet or not. Arches don’t fall.
When it's caused by genetics, pronation is usually the cause. I have it and I passed it down to both my children. It's painful but we manage our pain with orthotics. I wish my parents had been aware when I was a child so I wouldn't have had to suffer the way I did. I even had plantar fasciitis for 3 years caused by pronation. Fallen arches caused later in life is usually brought on by an accident that tears the tendon supporting the arch. I can't imagine the pain and I understand your fear.
I developed painful bunions about age 60 and have discovered that loose foot connective tissue is often passed down genetically.
My father often told me that walking around barefoot would give me flat feet, or other unspecified foot problems. (In fact, I have higher-than-average arches.)
This isn't exactly an anatomical myth, but one of the funniest things I've ever heard: a friend told me her mother discouraged her from wearing underwire bras, because if there were a thunderstorm, she might get hit by lightning!!
According to my podiatrist, as people age, and this can slowly begin in your 20s, there’s a tendency of feet going flatter and you could develop plantar fasciitis, you also loose your cushioning and going barefoot having little cushioning can turn into plantar fasciitis, so your dad wasn’t entirely wrong about that 😊
Jonathan - I believe this is the only subscription I've turned on the notification bell. Specifically because I want to see your analysis of cold plunges and if they are good for the body. I wish you & yours a Happy New Year. - Mark
I stuck a tampon up my nose once to try and stop a heavy nose bleed, didn't end well as the tampon swelled up and i had fallen asleep with it in, ended ripping the bottom of my nose open :-( the things you do while drunk
I remember being told when I was little that standing on cold tile floor for to long while bare foot would give you a bladder infection ... I have no clue how this myth could even begin to be true
Same story, actually people still tell me this
another one that's very common to say here is that you get UTI from sitting on cold/wet surfaces or if you're walking barefoot on cold surfaces. so much that i remember seeing ads about it
Regarding #3: I find that sitting on a cold hard slab on concrete not only doesn't make them flare up, it actually helps soothe them when they're inflamed and irritated.
I had excruciating period cramps every month. This affected every area of my life. When I went into labour with my daughter, I suddenly felt the familiar agonising cramps, after about 3 hours. The pain increased in severity until I had an epidural. The joy of finally holding my baby made up for the agony I had endured. When my periods came back, the horrible cramps did not. It was such a relief.
Would be nice to understand if it was the stretching of the tissue from the first pregnancy did actually cause the reduction later. I am a guy but have worked in a hospital but never thought about this angle. Never really hurt a brought up, and would like to be less ignorant about the female body, LOL. 👍🏻
@@williamscoggin1509 You would have heard it a lot if you were a woman having bad period pain. It's a common retort of doctors that "having a baby will solve your period pain". For some people, it does seem to help. Unfortunately, for many with extreme period pain (i.e. that which doesn't resolve with things like heat and over the counter medication like ibuprofen, and which causes you to routinely miss work, school, faint or throw up, etc) that's not true, especially if they have some underlying disease rather than just extra-strong uterine cramps, such as endometriosis, etc. It's thought that perhaps that the cervix maybe opens easier to allow the menstrual fluid to leave after delivery, or perhaps it's a shift in the hormones post-partum. It's great when that happens for women like Elizabeth. I just wish doctors wouldn't fob off women without even trying to help them for years... on average, the best part of a decade for people with endometriosis, and it's not even rare - it affects 1/10 women and girls.
Same here. Devastating cramps all my life until giving birth when I asked "Is this all the pain? I have had it worse every month of my life". After first child, never had monthly cramps ever again!
@@annfrost3323 I'm so happy for you
You might have had endometriosis. It is very odten the cause of the insane cramps (in modern day, even since early puberty - in the past, it was very rare). And it usually (though not always) goes away after giving birth
I just want to say, Thank You to the Institute of Human Anatomy for all the great videos. I'm not in the medical field in any way, but I have learned so much watching your videos. Have a Happy New Year and a great 2022.
Well I can confirm, shaving my head hasn't helped the hair get thicker.
Doc, how could being in a cold environment for a prolonged period of time “cause” a cold? If the low temperature causes vasoconstriction then, could that reduced blood in, say the nose, make an infection more likely to happen because of the lower concentration of immune system cells in the area? Pharmacy student, big fan :)
I don't know about that... but your body might react to various temperature excursions and the likes
I get frustrated with the whole ‘you can’t catch a cold from getting cold’ thing. I actually get symptoms that feel like full on flu from getting cold. I never claim that it is me actually ‘catching a cold’ but cold does legitimately make me sick (it may be because of one of the few medical conditions that I have: Ehlers Danlos, POTS, M.E. Histamine intolerance, and a couple of others), but any time I mention this people THINK that I’m one of those people who think you can catch a cold from getting cold and so dismiss my completely legitimate concerns that I personally am going to get sick if I don’t stay warm enough.
Also, I have heard some people of my grandparents generation talk about catching a CHILL rather than a cold from getting cold, and I think that is probably a more accurate assessment of what can happen if people go out with wet hair or whatever. They can end up getting physical symptoms of feeling unwell from just getting too cold.
A cold or flu is the result of infection by a rhinovirus rather than a physical reaction to being cold.
happy new year everyone 😊
Happy New Year!
Thanks, I guess
As someone staying in the NYE, I'm so grateful for this amazing content today! Have a safe and happy new year!!😷✌️
Damn I do love knowledge. It just shatters all of one's illusions.
Nothing is more beautiful than truth.
Thank you for sharing knowledge and truth!
I have Crohn’s disease and when I have a flare up, my last resort to help me with the pain is getting in a warm bath. If it doesn’t getter better once I take a long warm bath, I’ll have to go to the emergency room. It also helps my period pain. I think it is the combination of warm water and being submerged, but I can guarantee it has helped me with the pain and sometimes I’ve avoided going to the emergency room even when I’m at the beach or at the pool. Getting in the ocean also helps 🤷🏻♀️
Hello!
When i was at uni, my hygiene professor explained that a quick drop of body temperature can “freeze” the villi inside our nose, stopping them from filtering air from pathogens.
It’s therefore reasonable to think that wet hair can contribute to lowering body temperature, increasing both vulnerability and chances to get a cold.
What do you think? Thank you.
i hope you guys have an amazing new year!! your the best!! ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks! You too!
Please do a video on how temperature effects our blood circulation (cold temperatures- vasoconstriction/hot temperatures- vasodilation). And thank you so much for the valuable information. 🙏🏼 Happy new year ❤️🎊
Yes that's a great suggestion please include raynauds phenomena with it as that is a circulatory issue please and thank you
Want to know about arthritis being in the cold weather or being in the warmer weather would help or does it not even matter the weather of being in pain?
Happy New Year!!!🤗
I've always felt like the "you'll catch a cold" old wives' tale" was essentially just brought on by the fact that, at least in places where it gets cold enough, and as long as you're out there long enough, you can often experience many of the _acute_ symptoms people often associate with "a cold" - runny nose and sore throat especially, but also potentially sinus irritation and coughing (if the air is dry enough), and even, given long enough (faster with something like wet hair), things like fever-like symptoms due to the onset of hypothermia, just off the top of my head - without actually contracting a rhinovirus or coronavirus and _actually_ getting a cold. Obviously these symptoms will go away once you (properly) warm back up, but I can certainly see where the idea could come from in people's minds.
Add that to the fact that more often than not it would be kids spending lots of time outside in the cold without their coats on, whom are also more likely to often both be in places where the spread of cold viruses are almost certain every cold season, like schools and daycares and other high-density locations, and have less than ideal hygiene practices, the confirmation bias from a lot of these mothers that would spread these myths was likely very massive, since they would frequently see their (or other people's) kids play outside in the cold without a jacket, come inside with cold-like symptoms from doing so, and then within the next few days actually have a full-blown cold simply because they caught it at school.
Hmm I'm a bit skeptical of #5. I remember watching a video by Madlabs where participants had to dip their feet in cold water and subsequently were more likely to catch a cold. The reason being that the body, as a response to the cold, reduced blood flow to the extremities, including the nose (which is why our noses are cold in winter). Less blood flow = fewer WBC = easier for pathogens to invade. Idk if it's true but it does seem plausible 🤔
That actually does sound plausible. There seem to be many, many, people who still believe, though, that you can "catch a cold" by being outside in the cold. As though viruses are just floating around in the air out there. They don't seem to understand the concept of a virus requiring a host (i.e., another person) to pass it to you. LOL.
@@jwinter6105 "As though viruses are just floating around in the air out there." Well, aren't they? 😅
For such immune repression so as to allow a virus to take hold would be hypothermia.
These videos are probably 100xs more useful than modern public school science classes.
Yeah cuz why would school science class focus on this stuff? Dummy
I love your videos. Happy new year! ❤️
Thank you! Happy New Year!
I love learning human anatomy from Paul Rudd!
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Wow, now that you mention it, they do look like they could be related
He doesn't look like Paul Rudd at all
@@monstrousdream he does
Every doctor says that cold environments don't actually cause a cold because colds are caused by viruses. However, I haven't seen anybody explaining whether being in a cold or just any harsh environment puts your body under some stress and thus compromise your immune system (even by a little) which might increase the likelihood of opportunistic infections from pathogens that are just generally hanging around in our environment.
Loved this. My parents often talk about getting “cold in your neck” if I don’t wear a scarf or a hat during the winter months. They also complain of my not wearing socks on my feet during the winter months. My parents believe I will catch a cold from not wearing socks. What are your thoughts?
Then I must be sick all winter becuase I only wear socks at home when I HAVE a cold to feel warmer.
Well... I learned it depends. While you're definetely not gonna catch some bug, you CAN get some interesting reactions and, since we're all different, the responses we get may vary... a lot. For instance, I can't stay without socks when it's cold or else my lady parts are bound to "complain" about it and my throat likes to get inflamed whenever it senses cold air for longer periods (guess who wasn't bothered by wearing a facemask the last 2 winters, lol)... among other things
My grandmother would tell me I’d get a cold in my diastacutis if I didn’t wear a hat. She (born in 1894) could never tell me what that meant but it still sounds serious to me.
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My grandfather born 1895 in England was always hauling us children up off the concrete front step where we sat in summer so we wouldn't get "the piles inside". He meant hemmorhoids but used the British term learned during WW1. Poor grandpa but bless him for worrying!
Diasticutis means buttocks. So... you're gonna catch a cold in yer booty if you don't wear a hat! :p
Regarding bleeding in water: I once injured myself while snorkeling. Only after getting out of the water I realized, that I was bleeding relatively much. My interpretation was, that the water was simply washing the blood away, and deluding it quickly, so that the bleeding was hardly noticeable, while I was still in the water.
I am not so sure about your pressure theory, since the water is pushing against all submerged body parts, which should increase the blood pressure as well.
Pressure on surface of body like pressing lightly on a cut, not pressure like in scuba diving that affects pressure on the heart and lungs
It would not effect blood pressure because the pressure is from all angles, maybe if you had your lower half of your body in the water and your upper portion out of the water, and had a cut on your finger you were holding above the water. And it does not TOTALLY stop blood flow, it suppresses it.
Concerning more myths, could you please explain why "you'll get warts from touching frogs?" People where I'm from always told us not to play with frogs when we'd find them as kids because if the frog pees on your hands when you scare it by picking it up, the frog pee gonna give your hands warts 😱 I thought warts were caused by one of the myriad HPV viruses, but now I'm confused... Does frog pee spread or trigger HPV or nonsexually transmitted herpes simplex virus!?! Where do Palmer warts come from!? Ain't no way *that* many people got peed on by a frog 😂
thats probly more to discourage kids from grabbing frogs so much....to just leave them alone
I always heard this too! Never stopped me from going out after a rainy day to catch me some froggies, I’ve never gotten warts. Ever. I don’t know if there may be some truth behind it or maybe they got the idea from olden witch - hating days (since frogs were considered to “carry spells or curses”) and warts were connected to witches lol.
I should guess that's a much older myth and srems from the Renaissance approach to science, which is based on likeness. So the idea was that a person whose hair had the colour of fire (red) also had a fiery personality and that in order to get pretty, you should surround yourself with pretty things and people. Also, the principle of catching a disease by touching sick people played a role. And toads have this wart-like bumpy skin on the back. So, according tp renaissance science, you could "catch" warts and your skin could become "alike" to their skin. Frogs were probably just mistaken for toads by some people.
Maybe something to do with bacteria. I've got warts once from touching a sink in a public washroom...
Frogs neither have nor spread warts. The myth comes from their bumpy skin, which people mistake for warts. When handling frogs, wash your hands after and you're good. As far as I know they do not transmit skin diseases.
I appreciate the phrase "wrath of the uterus". It really does feel like my body is trying to shut down from the inside.
My guess on shaved hair growing back "thicker" is that hairs that are just entering the active phase after being dormant start out thin and whispy at the end and then thicken. Hairs shaven during the active phase keep coming thick. So a hair that fell out and grew in naturally has a thin end that makes it feel soft, while a shaven hair has an abrupt blunt end that feels stiff and scratchy, especially when it's short stubble.
MYTHBUST VID:
- Does the hymen bleed first time intercourse?
- Does the hymen bleed at all, or have blood vessels?
- Why do some women bleed first time during intercourse?
- Etc.
I was taught the the hymen "breaks" during intercourse (loosing virginity), even in late teans, early 20s.
After my own research I found out that the hymen does exist but naturally break away early teens, it shouldn't bleed with intercourse and that the bleeding women experience is due to being inadequately lubricated during intercourse, thus vaginal tearing occurs.
We will add it to the list!
Sexplanation has a great video on the hymen
It can also tear because of horseback riding! Luckily I don't know that from experience but I did go horseback riding A LOT during my childhood so I'm lucky mine didn't break lol
Hymes usually has holes in it, so depending on how big the holes are and how flexible your hymen is (some are more, some are less flexible), it doesn't have to break at all
Your myth is less accurate than the first one. It might or might not tear in childhood.
How can such a tiny thing, uterus, cause me so much crap! I mean, if it was the size of the liver, I'd understand more. 😅
It's pretty crazy how small it is!
Childhood obesity being called "baby fat" I was morbidly obese as a child and it was always blown off as something I'll grow out of. It's not til the doctor made my parents realize how bad it was that my mom tried some bs, but it was too late. Now as a 500+ pound adult I gotta deal with this long term issue myself
I doubt it's too late for you to get to a healthy weight. However, you will probably have to take drastic action. Like going completely plant based.
Not to be insensitive. But if you're a adult and have been for a while. You uave had the agency to overrule mom and her "bs". So blaming everything on her is your own "bs". 8f you take responsibility now you can at least take control of your situation and see what you can still salvage.
@@DennisNeijmeijer You're green with it
Awesome again! Thank you. I’ve heard some crazy ones. It’s hard to explain to someone that really believes silly rumors. My friend (we are in our 50’s) said to me… “my hair stylist said when you used thinning shears on my hair in high school, messed it up, now it will never grow again.” 😆 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Thanks for this program an crew member for teaching us a little bit about our body what happens. After we are gone...thanks.
My grandma liked to tell us we'd get lead poisoning if we wrote on ourselves with a pen and we'd go blind if we read in dim light all the time 😂
Omg yea I forgot about the pen one. Or a Sharpe
It was pretty much anything 😂
here's a myth that seem to have persisted for ever in France and in Italy where I have lived many years...
In France people say you can catch a "coup de froid" meaning "catching a hit of cold air" and in Italy it is very similar as people say you get a "colpo d'aria" which means "a cold air hit". In both countries this means you have either caught a cold, or you about to catch a cold if you leave the window open for example, even sitting close to air-conditioner during the summer months... I wonder where this thought comes from and if it could be a cultural element?
Also my question about myth or reality: can you get a sore muscle from cold air and if so why?
Thank you very very much for all your videos and hard work at putting them out there :) simply brilliant!
Same thing is believed in Romania on a large scale. A lot of ppl yell or look at you in anger if you open the bus window even during the summer (lots of buses don't have AC in public transport here). I've tried busting the myth myself and sometimes I did get a headache (this might be a coincidence because I get migraines quite often), but I did try staying with wet hair between two open windows and nothing happened. So I believe it's just a myth. We, Romanians, believe all sorts if things 😅
Regarding the sore muscles from cold: Some people report that they get cramps - especially in the lower leg muscles - more easily if their muscles are cold when starting exercise, most likely because there's somewhat reduced blood flow. However, I've never bothered to check if there's much research on it, since it doesn't seem to happen for me.
very much present in my culture as well! we call it promaja (pro-ma-ya) and it's the real killer according to my people 😅
@@miya2760 they got it right . Here, this thing is responsible for flu, cold, tooth aches, headaches, back aches and sometimes, even death. Damn air flow 😂
Is it true that some people are 'mirrored' on the inside? Liver on the left, heart pointing to the the right etc.? If true, have you ever seen such a body in the lab? And does it have medical consequenses?
It's called situs inversus I guess 🤷
Yes it's true, and there are several types. One type makes your organs completely inverted, and this isn't too dangerous - most people go about their lives totally normally until they need a medical scan etc. and then it's discovered. I think this type happens most commonly with twins...?
There's another type which is a lot more dangerous and it's where there is partial inversion, i.e. only some organs. Obviously this can mean that certain parts don't join up properly, or are all twisted, etc. - so needs correction, often through many surgeries.
I actually spoke to someone the other day who is researching these birth defects and replicating the partial organ mirroring in frogs/tadpoles. The coolest part is that the species they're using reproduces in just 3 days, and have transparent skin so they don't have to dissect them to see whether they have the defect! So they're working towards identifying the genes involved.
Highly appreciate you for this.... I'm from India and currently in the UK. Per Indian tradition, many were forcing me to TONSURE my 2 years old for 3 times with a gap of 8-12 months.... our believe especially for a girl child to be tonsured is that "the hair growth more thicker and longer", which i was against. Thank you so much for breaking this myth that Tonsure doesn't make hair grow thicker . Keep up the good eye opening work 👌
I heard lots of silly myths growing up.
My cousins would hit me in the breast (as I was just starting to develop). Then they'd laugh and say that I was going to get breast cancer and die. My mom always told me that if I crossed my eyes that they'd stay that way.
The wet hair myth was a constant.
Then there's all the superstitions. If you break a mirror, it's seven years bad luck.
I really believed that when I was little.
So many more. But, these are the first that came to mind.
My uterus never gave me one minute of grief in my entire life. And I love my uterus for it.
Yet so many people still believe that shaving makes hair thicker 🤦🏻♂️ I say wow you’re gonna be a billionaire as you’ve cured baldness! Reply is often them doubling down and saying something about that being different. We are living in idiocracy!
Happy new year to everyone reading this comment love to you from Australia 🇦🇺
Happy new year!!
1. What causes ridges on your fingernails?
2. Why does an injury to the toenail cause it to grow thick from then on?
Not only an injury. I have one toe (the one next to the big toe. Index toe? Hahah) with a thicker nail. It was never injured, but it just started growing a thicker nail at some point
Diabetes and/or aging past middle age can thicken toenails, too.
Most nail spots are benign. But.
* There is a sign called Muehrckes Nails where there's horizontal banding indicating liver or kidney disease, and a variation
*called 'Terry's nails' which is when the bottom 2/3rds of nail near finger are white and tip is pink/brown.
*"Clubbing" of fingertips and nails is common in certain diseases of liver, pulmonary or heart.
*"Spooning" of nails where they seem soft and scooped out and usually can hold a drop of water, indicates either some kind of anemia or hemochromatosis.
What about white marks on your nails? The myth behind those was you told a white lie.🤣🤣
I no longer have a menstrual cycle. I got a surgery done that stopped the cycle. I don't know if it will return. Doctor told me it's very rare to stop the cycle by the surgery I got done. I am a rare case. I am happy to not suffer from the cycle. I got the surgery to calm down heavy painful sickening cycles of bleeding. Also, I will never shave down there. I don't care about having hair. Everyone has hair. It's not normal to be hairless. I am handicapped and I can't use razers nor reach my legs in the shower. I already have a shower chair and I have no way to shave. I am proud of my humanity. I have body dysphoria and I have worked hard with mental health to deal with my views of myself. I've learned to love myself.
I've never heard of anyone claiming that their hair grew back "thicker" or "stronger" _right away_ after shaving. But every teenage boy *_knows_* (right?) that if you shave "your beard grows back stronger" because - well, because look, six months ago I only had some peach fuzz and now look! Stubble! And it's not just me, it's Johnny, and Pete, and Mike, and Dylan as well! So obviously it's shaving that made it do that (No. It was going to do that anyway. Sorry to say, if you have a weak and patchy beard growth, it's never going to get any stronger or fuller).
Same as the other myth: "wearing glasses makes your eyes get weaker". No. Your eyes are going to get "weaker" (again, no - the lenses are going to lose elasticity) in middle age _whether you wear glasses or not._ No further discussion necessary.
Love your videos. My Dad and my mom used to tell me that if I drank coffee as a child it would stunt my growth. I believe I have heard all of the ones you mentioned today also, in my life.
I still hear my adult friends blame their parents for this! Lol!
Eu sendo um brasileiro Sempre achei muito estranho que os gringos não dão café para seus filhos pequenos. Eles costumam dar leite com cereal, ou achocolatado, aqui no meu país mais mais ou menos pelos 4 anos de idade ou 5 os pais começam a dar café para criança se ela quiser..
I can't tell you that how much your videos are helping me out amazing content !! Happy new year btw
Great Video! Thanks a lot for the very entertaining content.
Yet, In regards to getting ill while having wet hair - perhaps having wet hair does not make bacteria/viruses pick us from the crowd more, but, it could somewhat affect our immune system, inhibiting it's ability to defend from the bacteria all around us. Could that be the case? Getting cold, our blood vessels get contracted to prevent heat loss, and with lower blood flow, less leukocytes are there ready to fight the bacteria all around us, which could increase the likelihood of getting ill. Of course, for a healthy person, perhaps that's not a factor, but for someone with a condition already deteriorating efficiency of their immune system, getting cold might be just enough to make that person ill.
Could that be the case?
Tempting to think like this however, there has been no documented evidence of such that I'm aware of.
Dude I love your videos. I watch one a day and learn so much!!! Thank you!
Thank you for this! I am a R.N. and have heard all of them throughout the years. Great job elucidating all of this!!!!