Doctor RAGES At 5-Minute Crafts “Health Hacks”

– “5 Minute Crafts” (upbeat music) has given first aid tips, pregnancy tips. Now they’re giving health, wellness, fitness hacks? Time to fact check these bad boys. Come along for the journey. Let’s get started.

Be whoop! Okay, we have a paper towel that is being used to clean someone’s nose. Oh, the paper towel roll fell on the floor, which actually becomes problematic, ’cause germs get on there. And the five second rule is untrue. Germs don’t just say, hang on a second, let’s wait a few seconds.

Give ’em a chance to pick it up. They just get right on. And she picked it up. She put her foot, wait, what is it about to happen? Is that a form of exercise?

I thought she was gonna clean up or make the napkins disinfected somehow. And instead she’s like sliding around on the floor and waving around a broom. I mean, you could do this with any object, like you did not need to waste good quality napkins, because now no one’s gonna wipe their face with them when you put your sweaty feet on it.

The feet, when they’re sweating, bacteria can form, fungi can form. And then you’re gonna put that on your face?

The sensitive skin. No way. Eggs, okay, are those quail eggs? What kind of science, what kind weird science craft is this? Oh no.

Oh no, why is she wrapping it in a tube like that? Oh, she’s sous-viding it. I’m sure you could do that. Okay, you cooked eggs. Congratulations.

Not a craft! It’s like “5 Minute Crafts.” Drank water, mm! She literally sous-vided the eggs and she didn’t use a appropriate sous-vide container. So who knows what BPA chemicals are floating around in those eggs now.

And there’s a giant husk of corn there. Like she’s going to town. That’s a big meal. Oh, we got a rock mat. You know, whenever I go hiking, I bring my rock mat.

Oh, hold on a second. It’s a massaging, she really brought rocks to walk on when she’s outside walking on rocks. (whimsical music) It’s like bringing like a patch of grass for a bear to pee on when he’s outside in the forest.

There’s grass. Just walk!

Do it! Just walk lady! You’ll least get some grounding benefit. I don’t even believe in this, but I’m still saying it. And what she’s now stronger and ready for the hike, ’cause she took her shoes off and walked on the plastic rocks.

Pancake? Oh, dropped a pancake. Remember, five second rule doesn’t apply. Oil, why are you spreading it? That’s what napkins are for.

You could use the napkins that you were working out with in the earlier scene and instead use the napkins to clean the stuff up. Or you can pour a little baking soda and then the napkins. So the baking soda absorbs the oil. You can just walk. Yo, it is crazy.

You don’t need to do it in place. Well, maybe in this “5 Minute Craft” prison house thing that they keep their actors in clearly, but in real life, walk. Okay, that’s why you wanna lift with your legs, not with your back. And when I say lift with your legs, you wanna bend at the knees and squat the object up.

No.

No! Lift with your knees! Are you allowed to call yourself a craft channel when the only piece of advice you give is to straighten your back? That is not a craft. Okay, so she wants to power lift, clean jerk, whatever.

She sees a bottle. Okay, a bottle has weight, okay. Okay, okay. Not against this exercise. It’s like a straight leg deadlift working through a posterior chain.

What this clip is showing you, and I’m diagnosing this clip, is anything that has weight can be used to strengthen your muscles. And I swear I might recreate this clip with me and Bear. Oh, let’s clean. Nope, let’s put soda on it? Let’s tape soda.

Ah, Russian label. Only the Soviets can come up with such glorious ideas. Please don’t tell me she’s about to bench Coca-Cola. I never thought I would say that on my medically-themed YouTube channel. Please don’t.

Please don’t bench, please don’t. She’s squatting the Coca-Cola. You have a couch right behind you. Just squat the couch. I knew it.

She’s benching the Coca-Cola, and close grip bench too. That’s a little strange. Oh. Oh, what is he gonna do with little cow? What is that?

What is the purpose of the little cow? – I was first born in a laboratory unknowingly falling into a pit of immortality. – Like, yeah, you shouldn’t be hitting your chest and breaking your sternum.

But like now that she’s getting a bounce, Dr. Mike Israetel should review that clip and put it in its place.

Okay, a little stretch during the day. Yep, oh, standing desk? Okay, I’m with it. A standing desk with a treadmill underneath it. Okay, a lot of tech going into this.

Again, is that a craft? They did not make the treadmill nor the desk, so I don’t know what they’re taking credit for.

Imagine I’m like Dr. Mike Craft channel, and I show you a squat rack. Do I get credit for showing you how a squat rack works?

Don’t have dumbbells. Lift your dog! Oh, I always say, if life’s got you down, get a sock with Goya beans, it’ll cheer you right up. (holding back laughter) That was the closest I’ve ever come to having a stroke on the channel. I’m not gonna lie, this actress should win an Emmy.

I’m looking at her face, and if I was to not look at the rest of the image, it looks like she’s enjoying it. And there is no way she believes 10 ounces of beans that they put in the sock is enough for some kind of valid workout. Next “5 Minute Crafts,” I wouldn’t be surprised if she straps two routers to her legs and starts exercising with the routers and then she goes, “And my signal’s even better.” Can’t do pull-ups? Do pull downs.

What’s about to happen? Clean the floor. (crickets chirping) I mean, look, I’m all for giving people exercise they can do at home without specialized equipment, but there is no need to ever drag your body on the floor over and over again like that.

There’s better ways. A towel?

Do you know how fast my door will break if I hang on it like that? Do they not understand that doors hang on these little hinges. Please never do this. You will get injured. Back pain?

Squat, lean right. So move? You know, the only thing I’ll say about that, like the specific instructions were useless, but just getting up and moving around every so often is valuable for back pain.

You don’t wanna be sedentary in one position for too long. What is this?

Kinesio tape? Yeah, a lot of these things have been oversold. It really depends what you think this thing is doing for you. There was one Olympics, I forgot which one it was, where all the athletes were wearing them and afterwards they realized just kind of looks cool, doesn’t do much. Oh yeah, you know, the hand does tighten up after a long day on the keyboard.

I write a lot of notes. So this is, I feel this. Oh, oh, oh, interesting gadget. So she started doing hand exercises. I’m not against it.

Occupational therapists are probably watching this and saying she’s not doing it right. But as long as it’s like some kind of exercise to get circulation and strengthening going, I’m with it.

It’s not gonna help that fast. That’s exaggerated. But still, I’m not mad.

Okay, we got a sock. A pink sock with balls. You know, if I was getting a pink sock, I would think the next edition’s gonna be balls. (whispering) Put the balls on the floor and go like this. It’ll be more pressure.

Look, I’m a “5 Minute Craft” channel, and I don’t even know it. Sometimes I tell my patients, if a tennis ball is too soft, you get a lacrosse ball, has a little more thickness and get a little bit deeper. Like the difference between a deep tissue massage and a deep tissue massage.

You know what I’m saying? Ooh, bunion, bunion.

Those are painful. That happens when there’s a crowded toe box like that. You know, there’s another foot deformity that happens as a result of wearing heels called the pump bump on the back of your heel. That happens right underneath the achilles tendon insertion. Little toe separators.

Okay, that’s not gonna solve it, but okay, doing calf pumps won’t really solve it, but it’s not a bad exercise.

I wouldn’t be mad at it. You closed your toes and then you opened your toes and you’re doing a before and after. And first of all, I would probably use a cleaner toe if I’m gonna be doing a toe video like this. And I would use a toe that might not have a sign of a fungal infection on it, because then I’m not sure what we’re talking about.

Are we talking about the bunion or the fungal infection? Okay, back pain, back pain. Maybe your seating position being hunched over and being locked in on the laptop also without a charger. Pretty dangerous, I’d say. And a cooling scarf.

Or no, just a regular scarf. Okay, we’re making a little back brace. Or do you see how there’s chairs behind you that have a back? You could just use one of those.

Like “5 Minute Crafts” stays creating a solution to a problem that maybe existed, but could have been solved by a million things.

Yes, the posture that she’s in on the right side there, that’s not gonna be healthy long term because she’s gonna be locked in in an uncomfortable position. It’s gonna hurt. But the thing on the left long term isn’t great either, because that’s gonna allow her posture muscles and her supportive structures to get weaker over time.

Therefore, it’s not gonna be beneficial. Create more harm and just get a better seat.

And actually, if you work and sit on that seat correctly with good posture, could be a form of exercise. Not recommending that. But some people do do that. Squatty Potty. She’s not sure how to use it.

Why is she leaning on it? That’s for your feet. Yep, yep. There’s a little bit of truth to this. Changing the angle could help certain individuals, but you don’t need to buy a plastic little stool thing.

You could literally rest your legs on any object.

Just don’t do it on like your dog or your cat. That’d be weird. Poor quality burger. Pineapple?

We’re gonna cut a little piece of the pineapple out. So this is the first craft I see being made. Pineapple, melon. Are we making a fruit burger? Dare I say, we’re making a fruit burger!

Kiwi. Oh my God, peach, avocado? Oh, this is a very strange meal.

What is the purpose of the seeds? Oh my God.

Please don’t tell me you think you’ve created something valuable here by stacking fruits upon one another and then putting in avocado. You could have just chopped up the fruits and used a fork like a normal person. Mango. Okay, or you could use this crazy invention that I actually have in my kitchen called a spoon. Okay, so we have mango juice with gelatin.

So are we gonna make jello, mango jelly? Please don’t tell me this is getting injected somewhere wrong. Oh, okay, I’m okay with this. So we’re making mango jelly snacks. Okay, okay.

I have a feeling that that is not enough ingredients to make that, but because I know almost zero about cooking, I will not say it with factual accuracy. Okay, we have some tea or coffee or something.

Oh, we have makeup under the eyes. Right, dark circles, okay. Which can happen because there’s thin skin there so if you’re dehydrated, you’re losing some volume there as you age.

Based on the light reflection, you could see more darkness there. Water and gelatin and old coffee grounds. Oh my God. Are those the under eye, like cooling gel things? The amount of poor quality sleep you’re gonna get doing and waiting for this thing to work, you’re better off just sleeping.

It looks like a potato crisp at this point. Honestly, just use a cucumber, a cool cucumber. Cool as a cucumber! That’s where it came from! So stylish.

Oh my God, and it took your makeup off. Sick. You know, I have a big floofy dog, but now I have a second big floofy dog. Click here, check that out. And as always, stay happy and healthy.

And welcome Rib to the channel. Officially, officially, officially. (music ending).

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