Misconceptions About Health & Wellness
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- Does cracking your knuckles give you arthritis? How much water should you REALLY drink a day? And what the HECK do crystals do for my health?
In this episode of Misconceptions, host Justin Dodd (@juddtoday) answers these burning questions about your health. Don't believe everything you read out there, your body will thank you.
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There is a perfectly legitimate reason for having a large amethyst in the room. They can be really pretty to look at.
I'm a "crystal person" and also very scientifically minded, and this is pretty much what I say haha. Each one makes me feel a different mood so I carry the one that makes me feel what I need to feel that day. 😊
I am quite fond of amethyst and I second this notion. Even raw amethyst can present a soothing hue to one's personal scene.
I hang crystal prisms in my windows so that rainbows appear on the walls when sunlight comes at the angle to make that happen. I suppose it illustrates a scientific effect regarding the light spectrum, and I don't believe crystals have any inherent power. Nonetheless, it is undeniable the joy I feel when surrounded by rainbows.
I love the shout out to Dear Hank and John.
Lacroix boix for life
The amount of water you need per day varies greatly with climate. For example, in Death Valley in the summer (Temp. 130F humidity 0.25%) you need to drink a *LOT* more than normal. More than a gallon, but I can't remember the exact number.
In fact, you need to carry 1 gallon of water per passenger incase you break down. It might take a few hours to be rescued and people have died waiting for help.
I wish they would have John host again at least occasionally.
As someone who enjoys crystals but is a firm believer in science, I love your explanation 👌🏻
Right? I just think they're pretty.
@@SECONDQUEST and that's all they are. Which should be enough honestly.
Yay🥳🙌🏼.. a ME... 😌💚
Haha thanks. I mean there's a reason geodes were the hot item to have as a tween (just me?), and it still holds true today!
i wonder which of these new age "remedies" actually produce the best placebo effects... honestly tho, sometimes people simply need to take a good solid break and indulge in some me time. which is what meditation achieves wonderfully. or watching some chill youtube vids with no judgement, maybe?
It's harder to take these videos seriously without the bathtub.
It's not like I'd be able to stop cracking my knuckles even if I knew it was bad.
And about grip strength... I went to physical therapy after getting surgery to fix my broken distal radius. The therapist would measure my grip strength each time. I only ever got back to about 80% of the strength compared to my uninjured hand. But that was still 300% of the therapist's grip strength and she didn't have any hand injury. So it's all relative. Unless your grip is too weak to hold on to the things you need to hold, it probably doesn't matter if you have slightly weakened hands from knuckle cracking.
I carry around a 1L bottle of water because I find it more convenient than using glasses.
I find .75 liter to be ideal. A 1 liter bottle is just too big to be convenient.
I worked for a Urologist/ Surgeon. WATER 💦 IS water, and there is no ‘substitute’. Not coffee, not colas, not juice. And, as for ‘where’ he quoted his research; well we all know what the CDC AND WHO credibility has been ‘ lately’.
@@Melinda8162 ok grandma
@@magiconic I’m nobody’s grandma. You illiterate.
I drink copious amounts of water because I'm frequently thirsty.
Great show, Justin!
Great upload, thanks for sharing! Stay healthy and safe! 👍😊🍓
What about the legitimacy of cleanses? Isn’t that like what your liver and kidneys are for?
I’ve done cleanses that really helped my sinus problems(dairy related) and digestive system issues. I’m pretty sure just illuminating selective foods would have done the trick but the cleanse really drove it home to me the effects of a poor quality diet.
Yeah.
but just some of the more than five hundred individual functions of the liver including making bile, processing nutrients, storing glycogen as well as some vitamins and minerals, maintaining blood sugar, making plasma proteins and clotting and immune factors, and removing bacteria and old red blood cells.
And it's not always working at its best…
The journal "Chest"? That sounds like something on the top of the magazine rack wrapped in plastic.
"I just read it for the peer-reviewed articles covering chest diseases and related issues, including pulmonology, cardiology, thoracic surgery, transplantation, breathing, airway diseases, and emergency medicine."
@@MentalFloss you didn't look at the fold-out?
I’m on several medicines that tend to make one thirsty - I average more like 4 liters of water (7 fills of my 20oz Contigo) just in water alone every day.
Thats why We need different amount of this ”lion drink”...😌👌🏼
In studies I have read I have found that the placebo effect is pretty awesome. It works even if you know it is a placebo. It works better if the placebo is an injection rather than a sugar pill. It also works better if the person administering the placebo is dressed like a medical professional.
I always figured the chicken soup thing was just because it was easy to digest and has a pretty good variety of nutrients to keep you going even if you're feeling to lousy to eat much of anything.
Captions have a nice extra commentary on Vitamins fast tracking you to Nobel prizes.
Love that the example of, "a crystal user might convince herself..." as opposed to him or herself.
@@FNHot naah m8.
alternative medicine, like conspiracists, cults, and communes, includes all kinds of people supporting them. Most of them seem to do it for existential comfort/distraction/purpose.
...Many clever people invest enough in these, wanting an initially arbitrary/foolish pursuit to be legit/honest, then find connections with science and stuff to make it logical/benevolent, etc. A redemption for those susceptible to the sunk cost fallacy, amen
😬😖
she/her is a common polite way how to reference a third person of unknown gender
12:10 Wait, is he talking about focusing the sun's rays with a magnifying glass?
The ad before this video: Highly dubious hack to "torch away belly fat".
Yup...
Mental Floss: Opens with the water fallacy
Alan Thrall: Hold my 5 GALLON DRUM OF WATER, please
aaaaah drinking sounds #misophonia
I'm a fan of SOME alternative medicine, such as herbal remedies. A lot of modern western medicine was derived from plants, such as aspirin and some antiseptics. The chemical compounds in medicinal plants are fascinating!
You kind of failed to point out the possible "what is the cause and what is the effect?" problem with knuckle cracking. I played flute for decades, and the REASON I used to crack my knuckles was because they were a bit swollen and damaged so cracking them alleviated some of the pain... they would get stiff and even if purely a placebo effect, that pop had a very real effect on pain perception. It forced my brain to stop fixating on the stiff swollen almost pulsing sort of pain and get 'zapped' in a sense by the sudden jolt of sound and physical motion of the cracking. Even if purely through distraction, my pain lessens when I pop them because they're swollen. I don't think I'm the only one who does it to improve how loose/flexible my fingers feel (toes, too-I can't splay them as far apart or stretch them as high and low before popping them as after). Just a thought. Surprised it wasn't mentioned. Still a great video!
I never heard that vitamin C prevents a cold. I always heard that it was good for a cold to get rid of it.
I'm a big fan of Dr. Pauling. Interesting side anecdote: in 1963-4, when i was a kid, our Mom would megadose us with Vitamin C to help clear up poison oak, which was rampant in the woods around our house. Our faithful daily dose was 250mg, but those times with poison oak, it was 1,500-2,000. I really do think it helped. I have a vague memory that she did this because of Dr. Pauling's work. We lived in the Portland area, which is where Dr. Pauling was based, so it could've been a local news item. He was a cool guy, definitely.
At least you can't overdose on vitamin C. Some vitamins and minerals should not go over the recommended dose because the body cannot handle overdoses of them. With vitamin C if you take more than your body needs, then it flushes the extra out in urine.
My current mental health is not the best
It's not a misconception that Justin is a fine male specimen 😍
Linus Pauling and Henry Heimlich are two of the best examples of respected scientists who ended up going just a _bit_ off the rails later in their careers.
Is the knuckle crack suppose to be as contagious as a yawn?
Pliny rhymes with skinny.
I get about my 8 glasses of water whenever I mow my Texas lawn in the summer. You sure go through a lot of water doing that.
When I had a Texas lawn I was the only one in my neighborhood adhering to the drought imposed watering scheduled. I let my lawn go tan and crispy and loved a summer off from mowing. I would have xeriscaped eventually had I not fled the state
Another one: "sugar gives you a sugar rush" is a myth. Thanks, Aaron Carroll.
I love your channel, even your particular performances, but I found a wrong fact claim: they called English sailors limeys because they took lemons.. which most Brits still call "Limes" today. So you were sort of right, but still very wrong. Limeys were actually Lemonheads
Don't crack your knuckles and don't say anything bad about crystals!!!!! Oh wait - not about me ...
Haha! We support crystals (even if they don't have magic properties), but we definitely support Crystals!
I hate magic crystal people. Drives me nuts. You can like them because they are pretty, you don't need to praise the magic rock. It's okay.
Yep. If they were giving them away, I'd say there was no harm. But just like all other health scams and MLMs and such, people are doing this instead of things that will help them - opportunity costs due to actual costs. Then you get these same leeches telling people actual medicine is a scam and blaming "big pharma" anti-vaxxers who, ironically, originate from one British doctor doing exactly what these people are afraid of "big pharma" doing - lying for profit (Andrew Wakefield's bogus study about MMR vaccines to increase the value of individual vaccines he had the patent on, which caused him to be disbarred, and who should be in prison for the rest of his life if there were any true justice). You want crystals, buy them from someone selling them to rock collectors.
Is that an Angus Young bobble head?
ive got a set of pinky fingers i can crack constantly!!
i mean it
That Mary looks like princess Lea…
…healing touch eh?…
I found these videos more interesting when John was presenting them. That said, this video is still interesting and informative, thanks for the video and all the great information.
I get sick if I drink an Italian coffee, I need to dilute it a lot...
In accordance with the placebo effect pour the beans into a Columbian coffee can and you won’t get sick! 😆
@@tjwash5118 I have problems digesting things so it happens with coffee too... I need to drink a lot of water because coffee probably irritates my liver or my intestines
YO
How did any of us old folks survive before the compulsion to carry a water bottle and chug water constantly?
Some overweight with acne. We drank soda like there was no tomorrow.
@@cherylcampbell9369 there WAS a world before soda too you know. We just drank when we were thirsty, had an extra glass of water in hot weather ant that was it.
I drink nowhere near that much and an perfectly healthy. Maybe 1-2 cups of liquid per day. Drink when you are thirsty and you'll be fine.
Sweet potato in chicken noodle soup? Why?? I've never heard of this before, sounds gross 🤢 lol
Humans beings come in a lot of sizes. The average adult is one hundred and ninety five pounds. The amounts of water needed depends on what size you are. What i go by is an half ounce of water for every pound of weight.
pretty sure that knuckle cracker is the founder of wendys
06:15 Bro, did you bump your head sneezing? You should have the bump or lump on your forehead checked out when your cold is over!!
1:08 look at that peach
That's bold criticism with all that frosting going on in your head there 1999
I drink around 6 litres...
If it wasn't for Felix Dennis...
whats an ounce?
Great, the 5000th video on the exact same misconceptions.
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It’s gonna be okay Liam I promise, just go to your safe space buddy
What the heck do you weirdos put in your chicken noodle soup?! 🤨
Oh me there goes plummeting sales in every supplement now hehe :D, I do however drink more water now, oh I have to say this Pliny the elder gave someone several spoons of diamond dust and they died it was supposed to make them immortal well in a way it did but not the way it was supposed to ew
simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation
@@Ewld I have Grammarly installed thank you
Stop joint damage now, remove the stems :D
I just want the small little clip about crystals and I want to show it to every annoying girl on Facebook who is praying with a stone instead of going to a doctor.
A relative of mine is suffering from pressure from a tumor near their brain instead of opioids to deal with the pain before surgery the family has opted with acupuncture/pressure it is working so much they have to wait to reach a certain weight they're a teen, I know, no one is complaining about the alternative treatment now just waiting on the surgery now.
I just noticed that the way his mouth moves when he talks looks a lot like Donald Trump when he talks.. I can’t unsee it🙈
Do you know what they call "alternative medicine" that works?
"MEDICINE"
Do you know the difference between alternative medicine and medicine?
Science.
I’ll take the one that has been *tested*, please, like turmeric for inflammation and antibiotics for bacterial infection.
Of course caffeine isn't dehydrating, how could all the extreme sports activities be sponsored by RedBull, Rockstar and Monster if they weren't truly helpful and contributing factors for the great performances of these athletes who drink nothing else, ever? ;)
La Croix sucks, long live Waterloo, Aha, and Good & Gather! But seriously, people's perceptions of vitamins and minerals are often very, VERY wrong.
Cracking your knuckles is annoying.
Your pronunciation of the names of Hungary's best scientists needs some serious work - it's like you weren't even trying. Which in itself is fine, they are hard, but within the context of a video that is meant to be educational...pretty poor effort.
No energy from this guy.
i was more interested in watching the reflection of the traffic in the reflection
Belching on videos earns a thumbs down. gross
John Green always spoke so fast you had to really pay attention and kept his info concise. This guy is talking so slow that my mind wandered and 3.5 minutes in when he was still rambling about water I just gave up and stopped watching. Nothing against him personally, just the format and the script.
The other guy talked too fast that there wasn't time to process what he was saying.
No need for the gender-specific pronouns when discussing someone believing in crystals.