A) Intermittent fasting hurts very few people, , though-- like, don't make a growing child do it, and caution if you're diabetic. BUT THAT'S NOT THE SAME AS 500 CALORIES A DAY for days at a time. B) The feeling of investment probably does the trick for those who do HCG on top of a lean diet. You pay for the HCG, you get an injection (¿ouch?) , you might as well hold your intake to 1500 calories (gaed, not 500!) and take more walks. You're invested.
What worked for me was to start with exercise, for me it was cycling and lite weight lifting. After I developed the habit of exercising my mind set changed and I started thinking about my diet. I also changed my expectations from “I want to look good” to “I want to be healthy”.
Same here: I walk about 3 1/2 to 5 miles per day, and I've reduced my calories to about 1,750 +/- per day. So far, I've lost 22lbs +/- since October. It' simply wanting to do it and sticking with it.
Activated charcoal is useful on hiking trips. If you get sick from contaminated water or food, it's the fastest way to stop the throwing up and prevent further dehydration caused by it. But a small amount once does the trick, I'd never use it more than once.
I fear that will only empower them. They are already often leaning into the idea that 'big pharma' doesn't want you to know their secrets and that would likely capitalise this .
They are. It’s a common scam. You market the hell out of a product and say it cures everything. FTC sues you and takes all your money. But you already told the world that “it’s invented by a school teacher AND cures everything”. You just remove the “and cures everything”. People still remember the old ad, and that’s when the money really pours in.
Doctors are there to make money... if you listen to them without a grain of salt then you are a product and they will manipulate you to become dependent on them.
Umm I’m down 40kg in 5 months, by doing intermittent fasting, with caloric restriction, and increased exercise (walking and swimming), without injecting anything. I’m just about to hit target weight and shift to muscle and strength training with increased protein.
Echinacea was a big 90s fad. You'd often hear people saying "I feel a cold coming on but don't worry I took echinacea". No wonder everyone was catching colds.
It always amuses me when weight loss products talk about losing 'X pounds' because I'm a brit, and losing 'X £££s' sounds about right - whether the product works or not.
I understand denial, especially about something so awful. The newly diagnosed are easy prey. There have been cases where people have had treatable cancer, have gone with the snake-oil rather than the strenuous months of pain with chemo. Then when they realise they've been had, the cancer has passed the point of no return.
That part reminded me of Steve Jobs. Got an early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, a cancer with a relatively high survival rate, and rejects regular cancer treatments for a vegetarian diet. The man had money for the treatments but I think the fear of the pain got to him.
@@SEAZNDragon yeah, he might well have survived if he got medical intervention as soon as he was diagnosed. He could have afforded it. Fear is really powerful.
Yup, more common than you might think. I'm in neurology, we see these stories on a semi regular base. People avoid effective treatment for their still treatable cancer, eventually they have an epileptic seizure, end up with us in neurology and we find it has metastasized to the brain.
6:50 i can personally attest to this. i have PMLE, which essentially means i'm allergic to UV light. When i get more than 30 min of sun exposure in a day, i break out in hives everywhere that wasn't covered up. this happens regardless if i wear sunscreen or not, so the UV rays still get through, even when you use SPF 50+ like i do. the only difference when i wear it is that i don't get a sunburn on top of the hives, which is definitely worth it. and yes, i am constantly battling vitamin D deficiency.
You must despise hearing people talk about how "nice" the weather is. Speaking for myself. I'm not as severe as you, but hate hot sunny weather in a Rainman kind if way.
@@jodycarter7308 nah man, the sun might be a deadly laser but sunny days are still good for my mental health. I will go outside and enjoy them when I can, it's worth looking like a plague victim for a few days afterwards. If I can't, I can at least appreciate it from my window 😂
Imagine experiencing photo-contact dermatitis from ingredients that are in most sunscreens, lotions, and other cosmetics. That means you are fine, as long as you don't go outside. If you do, then every area of skin that is exposed to the sun, breaks out in a rash....because of a chemical reaction between ingredients in the products and your skin, which is only activated by exposure to sunlight. I usually avoid sunlight, as if I were a vampire.
Anyone selling snake oil stuff should be giving whatever their thing is supposed to cure, and not allowed to receive any treatment other then their snake oil.
@MarianneKat 99.999999% of the time when they clear it is because they were taking real treatment too though. So see how well they do with lung cancer and not being allowed any real treatment. Sure, a small percent will end up OK, but not most.
@MarianneKat this is a huge problem!! Many household remedies, especially for things like a cold, tell you to do this certain thing for a few days or up to a week..... and a cold will naturally run its course in that amount of time.
Ha, that painting you showed for cheese is one of my favourites of all time - Clara Peeters was an unbelievably talented artist. Literally unbelievable; the detail she went to, down to the millimetre, always makes me go 'WOW'. As many women have been, she was and is criminally overlooked, but her genius was on a par with - if not streets ahead of - that of the likes of Rembrandt, Da Vinci, Picasso, and van Gogh.
This was like a Public Service Message that was much needed. Not that those who could most benefit from the information are succeptable to solid reason. Thanks for the video Simon !
Alternative medicine that actually works is called - medicine. Same goes for 'health tips', it very quickly becomes a wildly endorsed policy if it actually works.
You don't have to be that dramatic with weight loss. I'm not a huge guy, but I've dropped 15 in two weeks eating around 1500 calories a day. Oh, and I have a sedentary job, a baby, and a toddler.
@d2beto My Mom kept everything and she has a diet plan from 1950 that was 900 calories. But she was a tiny 5ft 2 and needed to lose 20 pounds to be the proper 100lbs.
@@momkatmax On keto, with very light exercise - like an occasional walk, light gardening - I lose weight on 2000 calories. I'm dramatically losing weight by going down to 1500 some days, basically softcore intermittent fasting. It's also awesome: eggs and goat cheese for breakfast, ribs for lunch, keto bread is glutenous so it's actually good, etc.
Another problem with dandelion root tea, it tastes awful. I made it for an outdoors class once. Tasted like rotten potatoes. Also they may suck up nasty chemicals on treated lawns.
I once lost 20 pounds in about a week. How? I got pneumonia. I had no appetite. My diet was water, a small cup of apple sauce, and if I was lucky, half a sandwich. This is not something that I would recommend.
I would love if you could post a list of the studies used in this video to debunk the dangerous trends, as the first answer when I say "It's dangerous! Don't do it!" about most of these is "Show me ANY study which say it's dangerous, because David "Avocado" Wolfe (or basically anyone "fighting the system") says it works!"
I remember when people were swearing by a diet pill for weight loss, but researchers insisted it was useless, just inert powder. But users insisted they lost weight. Both were right. It was all in the directions: take before going to bed, and don’t eat within three hours of taking this medicine.
I kinda agree But we give vitamin d3 supplements to our secure patients because they don't see any sun. Cholecalciferol I also take additional vitamin d, because I'm locked in there too.
To clear a misunderstanding, guidelines that say you can get enough vitamin D from food are usually from the time it was just discovered you needed some vitamin D to prevent rickets. Since then, it was found out that other applications such as the immune system, need higher amounts (recommended daily intake should be around 4000 IU instead of 400 IU). If you're not on a very, very religious diet of vitamin D rich food, you WILL either need to be out in the sun for an apprpriate amount of time or take supplements.
There isn't really a proven health benefit to substitution for most people. Despite discovering many more roles for Vitamin D, it's very unclear if lower Vitamin D levels actually translate to a problem for the majority of people.
@@olenickel6013 In general supplements and vitamin boosts are a scam that is likely to do you more harm than good unless you have been diagnosed as deficient by a physician and prescribed to take said supplement. However, depending on where you live, that might not be true for Vitamin D. To those living close to the polar regions there is a mountain of evidence that suggest a health benefit associated with Vitamin D supplements in the winter. As an example, the NHS advises that "everyone should consider taking a daily vitamin D supplement during the autumn and winter". There has been so much academic research on this subject that I would say that to claim there is not a proven health benefit is.. simply wrong.
lol this is such a classic internet health scientist comment. Telling you that you WILL need to be in the sun or take supplements... when I've been living a perfectly healthy life for years (currently in my 40s) without seeing much sun or taking any supplements
This video reminded me of the time my Gram told me about a friend of hers that swallowed a tape worm to lose weight, yes that was a diet once and yes it resulted in many deaths
My family recipe is a cube of peeled ginger about a cubic inch or a tablespoon the same amount of lemon either fresh lemon pulp or in a bottle and the same amount again of honey. The ginger and lemon flesh are put in the blender with some water and puréed and then put in a pot with sufficient water to make between half to one liter of tea to boil for fifteen minutes, after that strain through a stainless mesh colander and add the honey, if you strain through a paper coffee filter instead of the looser steel mesh it doesn’t work right, it’s good for sore throat upset stomach and generally just a really nice feeling to the throat drink that is easy on the stomach to keep you drinking enough fluids when you have the flu or a cold, also because it’s spicy it helps to clear the sinuses a bit by increasing the thin mucus production and that causes the stuffy nose and blocked ears to feel better for a short time after you have the drink and breathing in the steam from the tea also helps with the breathing.
gosh the last one just breaks my heart.... the amount of people that must have gotten false hope from it.... now i am someone who does believe in natural remedies i also STRONGLY believe in modern medicine and i think there is nuance and balance in this, like when i am a bit more anxious than usual i will grab for some camomile tea (i mean i also got daily anxiety meds, so im just talking about more than average anxiety for me) but if i have an exploding headache for days on end without any relieve you can find me at the doctors accepting any meds they want to give me. like natural remedies have been with use for eons, and modern medicine have a clear timeline of development and a lot of testing. both have their place if you ask me, but a lot of natural remedie people go WAY WAY WAY to far.
and i do understand why some people might not want to trust the medical profesionals. i myself have my own horror stories (6 years of worsening untreated chronic compartment syndrom, and now unexplained lower abdominal pain) so i get why there might be a lack of trust, but that will only end up hurting ourselves and our loved ones, and will only end up filling the pockets of those using your mistrust by selling you "natural remedies to cure [insert issue]" that might not do anything. (after ofcourse scaring you with incomplete information or just straight up lying about regular everyday foods so that you are looking for alternatives and cures)
Common sense ❤ I love my natural homeopathic salves and teas. However, I also take the medicine modern medicine has made, usually with those same natural plants. They learned how to isolate the chemical in the plant that helps. I never recommend a person only rely on tea. Or prayer. They're comforting, but the people who only had them to rely on had very short life spans.
While staying out in the sun without protection for too long is certainly ill advised, when the "prevailing studies" mention "maintaining vitamin D levels", do they mean a healthy dose or just barely enough for the bones but not for the immune system and other functions? Also, does the UV that still gets through not just scale with the chance of burning the skin (=cancer risk)? By that I mean: getting a healthy unprotected dose of sunlight is getting out of the sun before you burn. Let's say this takes 8 times as long with sunscreen on, then to get the same dose of vitamin D you have to stay in the sun 8 times as long. So it seems to me that the use of sunscreen only makes it so that you get to absorb more IR radiation which is also good for the body (IR is not absorbed by sunscreen, so you get 8 times as much while getting the same amount of UV in this scenario). Caveat is that with sunscreen on, you will have to stay in the sun for longer to get your dose of vitamin D, and I wonder if that makes the risk of cancer about equal?
0:50 - Mid roll ads 2:15 - Chapter 1 - The HCG diet 5:20 - Chapter 2 - Sunscreen is bad for vitamin D 8:00 - Chapter 3 - Detox with activated charcoal 10:50 - Chapter 4 - Cure cancer with dandelions
The worst thing about the chapter on Vitamin D is that it you only need about an hour of sun a day to be fine for sun related Vitamin D, well below what those people are advising, and low enough to potentially not significantly increase your risk of skin cancer, depending on the time of day you're getting your sun.
@FurtiveSkeptical I've lived all over the World. Eaten out of "hole in the walls", noodle carts, stalls along the roads. Many times I never knew what I was eating. A good way to pick up amoebic dysentery, African round worms, TB, endemic typhus, encephalitis and so on.
I went from 270lbs of fluff to 165lbs and lean, back up to 195lbs while maintaining my 6 pack. It was a miracle and super easy! I just had to stop being complacent, exercise, and pay attention to my diet. No drugs needed except a multivitamin
I lost 10kg in a month and it was easy! I was only allowed 2 shakes a day, and dinner was vegetables and 1 boiled egg. First week or two was easy, last half was torture and i was miserable. Needed to do it for a stomach sleeve operation.
It always amazes me to see the huge variety of diets. All most people need to do is eat less and move more. The hard part (which is evidently why people are interested in them) is the discipline required.
To get rid of excess fat in your body, you simply need to convert it into CO2 and water, and don't replace the fat as fast as you get rid of it. (that's just another way of saying eat less and exercise to the point that you break a sweat and breathe heavier.)
@@app103 yep, that's what I'm saying. In theory it's easy, but in practice (what with all the mental baggage) it becomes a lot less achievable for a lot of people. What we don't need is a lot of quick fix scams that don't address the real reason a lot of people have difficulty with dieting. That's just my two cents.
Keto: No carbs. No processed foods. Exercise more. Users say they feel great. Vegan: No animals. No processed foods. Exercise more. Users say they feel great. Zone: Strict ratios. No processed foods. Exercise more. Users say they feel great. Maybe what's doing the real work is no processed foods and exercising more.
We clearly know today exactly that. Exercise + enough protein + fiber (apparent in all plants) +reasonably low saturated fats are critical for our health. The exact diet does not matter much if the above are ok. All mentioned diets can do that (keto is hell though).
Yep, people say "boost your immune system" when they really mean "improve your body's ability to fight disease" or "improve your health". I have IBS, also an immune system overload.
You want a boosted immune system? Then you want lots of allergies. That's a boosted immune system. Your body attacks both the harmful and the harmless, like a rogue guard dog that bites everyone, including your kids...everyone, but you. With a super-boosted immune system, your body will even attack itself, like a dog with rabies.
I lost weight both times my body made hcg. The first time I was vomiting from noon until bedtime for 3 months and couldn’t eat anything that came from a cow and the second time I was vomiting from the time I woke up until I went to bed and had to be hospitalized for dehydration. And couldn’t eat anything from a cow or that was fatty/fried. I looked like one of those starving children in Africa except I was ghostly pale the rest of the pregnancy.
Too many people want quick, cheap, and easy - in everything. Diets, health, you name it. There will always be suckers who fall for this horse hockey. And they never learn, just careen from one One Weird Trick to another.
I want quick, cheap and easy in everything! I just don't think it takes much thought to work out that spending hours messing around with all these really specific stupid diets takes more effort than 10 mins exercise...
I've never been on a diet my entire life. My first 35 years I've struggled to gain weight. I needed to eat like a pizza every day in addition to what I usually ate. Not happening. Turns out I just needed anti depressants that gave me munchies gained 30 kilos. I'm not cold anymore. It's great.
My sister had trouble maintaining her weight when she was living at a boarding school at the national dance school she got into in middle school, she was exercising too much as part of her daily dance training and the doctor recommended that she eat more full fat ice cream every day to get enough calories to support her increased activity levels, she is a normal weight now but it took a while for her to get her weight up after she stopped dancing professionally and because she didn’t go on to join the adult portion of the national dance company, dance at that level of ability is incredibly competitive and there’s never as many openings for new members of the adult dance company as there are students competing to be the best candidate to fill those roles and you can never tell how you will be when you grow up, it turned out that one of her tendons was too tight to do all of the moves necessary to be a prima ballerina at the national level as an adult even though she was doing all of the stretches her teachers recommended and since it didn’t look like it would be able to improve enough for her to be a candidate for the adult dance company even though she had been very successful in the children’s national dance company and had been in many productions she finished her last few years of high school in public school to prepare for university instead of going on to become a professional adult ballerina.
The diet thing taken to it's logical endpoint is a diet of just water and vitamin supplements. One problem with that (I think) is one would gain that weight right back after the diet
Just water and vitamin supplements, depending on how long you do this for, can result in death. You'll notice extreme adverse effects after just a few days. Without going into details of just how many things your body is in need of, just the utter and complete lack of salt, medically called Hyponatremia, will eventually result in coma and eventually death. That's one of the many, many things you are denying your body with a "just water and vitamin supplements" diet that will destroy you. You will gain some weight back after practically all diets that limit your calorie intake below daily recommended amounts, depending on how long you were on it. This is because you starve your body, forcing it to consume excess body fat. This is the slimming that many people want to see. But sometimes it can be pushed too far or the diet itself leaves you unwanting or unable to do normal exercise, in which both cases you start to lose muscle mass. So going back to a healthy diet (balanced nutrients, normal calorie intake) will allow your body to build back some of that mass. That, and you'll feel a lot better due to your body not constantly complaining at you for lacking all the nutrients, making it easier again to do exercise. But don't take my word for it, go to some actual qualified dieticians youtube channels or go to channels that have them in the spotlight a few times. I would recommend, for example, ruclips.net/video/UvlrppqtZoA/видео.html which is from Wired. This Nutritionist also has his own channel and such. Very interesting stuff _even if you aren't particularly interested in a diet_!
Yes, extreme diets damage muscle and can trigger metabolism slowdown (body tries to survive famine). As far as I know healthy weight loss is around half a kilo in a month in combination with exercises, so the body would not waste muscle. Probably that would also depend on the actual weight of the person.
@@L1vv4n0,5-1kg/week is perfectly doable without an extreme diet. Let's say you lower your daily intake by 500 calories and go swimming for 1 hour three times a week. This would lead to around 0,5 kg weight loss/week.
There is a REASON why most MREs are 1500+ calories per day. If the military took time to figure out how much intake it takes to run a human body I think the data might just be, oh I don’t know, valid? Also when you drastically drop your caloric intake the body reacts by storing calories. Where you ask? In fat cells of course!
My body definitely can't store fat when getting 500 kcal a day... :D (Not like I ever tried but I have some basic knowledge.) Metabolism slowing and muscle less, we can except that but fat gain? Nope, that comes later when we eat more. IDK how this myth come from. We are big warm-blooded mammals, we can't function on this little, we must use our reserves let alone store some! 500 kcal is pretty crazy and many many popular diet has them, at least sometimes. PSMF, 5:2... I don't get it, zero kcal is way better and easier and quite okay for a few days but it seems it's not true for everyone. And people seems to be way too impatiant. What's wrong with a slower fat-loss that isn't pure suffering and we don't mess with our metabolism and muscle mass, I don't know.
@@kenbrown2808 most 24h MREs are 2500kcal... Nordic winter 24h MREs for the alpine jaegers are ~8000kcal. They are so calory dense that most people simply can't eat that much in a day without getting nauseous.
I did hcg diet…. It was the only way I have been able to lose more than 5 pounds. I felt really good, but it wasn’t enough. I think because I inadvertently stopped eating things that I have an allergy to, like dairy. Of course I was confused what to do after… because it wasn’t sustainable and came right back on when I stopped. ( I have celiac disease, problem with Dairy is common)
Once bought a book for a non medical cure for depression. It says: Get plenty of exercise Get plenty of sunshine Visit friends and family Take time enjoying hobbies Eat healthier Get adequate sleep. Sound great, but if I'd had the time to do all that, I'd not have gotten depressed in the first place. 👍
Thankfully, because fungi are much more closely related to animals than they are to plants, mushrooms also generate vitamin D when exposed to the appropriate wavelengths of UV light. You can put your fresh mushrooms in direct sunlight for a few hours before eating them, and avoid that pesky melanoma from exposing your own skin to too much UV.
Here is one from my fathers grandfather that i feel might be dangerous but i just dont know anything about it: rubbing WD40onto a join can help reduce arthritis pains.
@theghost9667 Well, great gandad was a mechanic whose hands were soaked in WD40 all day, and he said it helped his arthritis pains in his hands way more than any pain killer. At least that's what I was told, he died 5 days after I was born so I've only heard the claim from my dad and grandad.
I think part of the problem is a lack of widespread anatomy & physiology instruction in, say, middle school. If ordinary people _understood_ how bodies work, they wouldn't be so vulnerable to these scams. 'Boosted' immune system, indeed - what do you mean by that, more white blood cells to fight infection? We have a name for that, it's leukemia. More sensitivity to potential threats? Again, that has a name: allergies/autoimmune diseases.
Agreed! As a nurse, it can be trying at times to explain away the misinformation that people have been spoon-fed. I truly believe that with some A&P knowledge, people can make more informed decisions when it comes to health and nutrition.
Coming from someone with kidney disease. The amount of diets out there with b.s claims are beyond been a joke. I've been to a dieatision as I needed to know what I can and can't eat. Somethings are fine to eat if you have 2 healthy kidneys. I was born with 1 and it's taken damage (didn't know till I was 28 that I had 1). The "healthy diets" for people with kidney disease from RUclipsrs etc will help you get on the tramspant list real quick. One said eat a lot of red meat and bananas. That's a good way to kill your kidneys. Red meat is fine if you have 2 healthy kidneys as it can filter things out easy. Try that with one kidney that's running below 50%. Bananas are bad because of the potassium. Potassium is fine in low amounts but bananas are really high in potassium.
All diets are basically bunk. The way to lose weight is: 1) You exercise thus burning calories. 2) You burn more calories than than you eat, which in turn burns fat. The end. Reduce caloric intake and exercise. It ain't sexy, and it ain't gonna be quick or easy. But it does work and you don't have to forgo your favorite foods - just limit them.
Part 1 is also unnecessary really. Losing weight is just calories out > calories in. Your body burns plenty of calories just sat there. I'm not saying don't exercise though, that'd be stupid! Just that it's not an essential part of that equation. It does help with weight loss of course - it burns a little, plus increasing muscle also increases your consumption while not exercising. Really though, exercise is just great for health in so many other ways it should be part of life regardless. Still, anyone who wants to lose weight needs to focus on diet. I think it was Jimmy Carr who described weight loss perfectly: put the fork down, fatty! 🤣 (questionably OK to say to anyone else, but as a mantra for oneself, reasonable).
Exercise can be counterproductive, it makes many people hungrier. Not me, thankfully but it never helped with fat-loss. I do it for energy, mood, health, strength. Many people MUST cut out whole food groups or at least items as they can't limit them (or they can but it is a miserable diet while cutting them out solves problems. And I am not like that but people say certain items makes their fat-loss impossible. It may do something crazy with their hormones so their metabolism drastically changes? I don't know). It's more complicated for many but pretty simple for me: I just need to eat little. But HOW? I needed about 15 years to figure it out, I DON'T do suffering and lack of focus due to lack of fuel (or give up my food joy). I need some serious rules to have any chance. It is quite tricky for some people - even if they are disciplined unlike me.
I lost 20lbs in 10 days. It was from a severe gastrointestinal infection and I almost died of dehydration because I couldn't even drink water without it coming right out one end or the other. 0/10, would not recommend. Also you can actually detoxify your blood, but you'd need a dialysis machine. And it only works for stuff that the kidneys already filter out, like urea.
I did a diet unintentionally drank 6-8L water and ended up eating about 500kcals then did a work out of around 3000 …. DO NOT DO THE FIRST ONE OR WHAT I DID IT WILL MESS YOU UP AND BE SERIOUSLY HARMFUL my point highlighting what I did, was the fact that I lost a bout a third of my weight over 6 months and have long lasting heath issues now
About 15 years ago a group of my coworkers bought into the HCG fad. I brought up that 500 calories/day was probably the reason they were losing weight and the response was that HCG was making it happen _faster._ You won't be surprised to hear they all quickly gained the weight back when they went back to normal eating.
This topic reminded me of a coworker I had that quit in 2020 when we reopened after a month and a half shutdown due to the pandemic... She told her another new "miracle cure:" a hydrogen peroxide detox. She said, "it makes you feel awful, so you know it's working." I was like, "no, crazy lady. You feel awful because you're drinking small quantities of diluted poison." But she believed that you don't see elephants hiding in trees because they're good at it.
I have never heard about the charcoal or dandelions cure 🤦♀️🤦♀️Well I have 0 SN that must be the reason.... 😁 The quote on homeopathy was excellent and so true.
Medical advice on the internet is so attractive because: - They are cheap. At least way cheaper than prescriptions and doctor's appointments. - The recommended therapies are not working as well as the patient wished. - The user is expressing their distrust of authority. - The narrator has rizz. They make the listener feel smart. They use the F word. Not in any particular order.
THC binds to fat cells, which is why it's difficult to "clean". The products that claim to detox are nothing more than masking agents. And the amount of time it takes to fully leave your system differs wildly from person to person.
I used to run the tests in a medical lab for drug testing. Those drinks that mask are tested for very easily because they change the ph in urine. It's an instant "invalid collection". Depends on the employer if they allow a second collection.
I think before diet education about the self should come. People need to stop aiming at the UNREALISTIC and UNHEALTHY body types are "beaty canon". Im a man and got, like every man much more fat at my 25, like a LOT. And I felt bad until I thought "I dont take care of my food and I know this happens to many men, the fk I was expecting?". Now Im trying to improve my food and do more exercise while simply accepting my body. If no one would love me I really doubt its because of how I physically look, even if is perfectly fine and healthy to want to look better, more sexy, etc. But with criteria and common sense! (Haircut, makeup, clothing, accesories, exercise to boost this or that, etc.)
I lost about 70 pounds, about 30 or so kg in about 3 or 4 days. How? I had severe edema mostly in my legs. The doctor gave me very aggressive diuretics and monitored my kidneys to verify they weren't being damaged.
As a subject of the crown who lives in the US, I think you should know that no one over here knows what paracetamol is. Most over here would have heard of acetaminophen or tylenol.
Can confirm this, I'm even a nursing student and only heard of paracetamol from one of Simon's recent videos, had to look it up to learn it's essentially English Tylenol. Definitely not common knowledge in the states.
While juice fasts are not the way to go, there is much to be said for fasting itself. That'd be an interesting deep-dive for you guys to do. Start with looking up some of the videos Dr. Jamnadas and Dr. Fung (both actual licensed medical doctors). They are keen to point out that fasting is pooh-pooh'd by many in the medical/pharmaceutical world because there is no product to sell the customer, no profit to be made.
But also really unhealthy for certain groups of people. Especially some of those with eating disorders, such as myself, who can use these sorts of arguments to justify their behavior. Not denying they could be healthy for SOME PEOPLE, but I think it's smart to talk to a doctor first.
Battered and fried dandelions are delicious, though. No idea how to make it, but growing up in the country, a friend's parents were great at cooking them up.
HCG is also often prescribed to come off of TRT. That said, even in conjunction with steroids, calorie deficit is what is gonna make you lose such a severe amount of weight. Good for intended purpose, snake oil in this situation.
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Who can drink 8 glass of water in one sitting? Crazy health myth!
Nice to know that this fuck more stupid than me.
A Sheath women's line?....?...?
If someone is eating only 500 calories per day why would they think they also need the drug to lose weight?
Because there are a LOT of really stupid people in this world that are easy to con. They wouldn't understand that it's the calorie deficiency.
cause they not really eating 500 lol
A) Intermittent fasting hurts very few people, , though-- like, don't make a growing child do it, and caution if you're diabetic. BUT THAT'S NOT THE SAME AS 500 CALORIES A DAY for days at a time.
B) The feeling of investment probably does the trick for those who do HCG on top of a lean diet. You pay for the HCG, you get an injection (¿ouch?) , you might as well hold your intake to 1500 calories (gaed, not 500!) and take more walks. You're invested.
Came here to say this
Cause they aren’t really taking in that much.
My daily intake is about 4k and I did a 1200 calorie cut mostly protein and lost 10 lbs in like 2 weeks
Last time my body made hCG, I gained 50 lbs, had to go to a hospital, then took home something that weighed 9 lbs.
I'm guessing that 9lb "something" did anything but make your life simpler.
@@PruneHub He's a computer engineer now. Genius. No, life was not easier.
@@artfuldodger7838 I have kids. They make life much better, but not easier. I hope your son has a better sense of humor than you appear to.
Yeah those parasites sure do cause weight gain
But at least they're cute when they escape lol
@@PruneHub Well, Aren't you the judgmental jerk.
What worked for me was to start with exercise, for me it was cycling and lite weight lifting. After I developed the habit of exercising my mind set changed and I started thinking about my diet. I also changed my expectations from “I want to look good” to “I want to be healthy”.
Same here: I walk about 3 1/2 to 5 miles per day, and I've reduced my calories to about 1,750 +/- per day. So far, I've lost 22lbs +/- since October. It' simply wanting to do it and sticking with it.
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Activated charcoal is useful on hiking trips. If you get sick from contaminated water or food, it's the fastest way to stop the throwing up and prevent further dehydration caused by it. But a small amount once does the trick, I'd never use it more than once.
Me: My back hurts
Dr. Google: You need either ibuprofen or a coffin.
Web MD: It's cancer.
Military member or veteran :This hurts
Docs: Drink some water and take some ivy profen.
Everytime I'm sick and Google symptoms the Internet tells me my aids has gone cancerous
One of my doctors has a mug that says: “Google is the leading cause of terminal illness.”
As someone who has had severe back issues for 4 years and recent back surgery, all doctors will tell you to do is take ibuprofen too...
Fake medicine scammers need to be charged with impersonating a doctor, fraud, and much more.
I fear that will only empower them. They are already often leaning into the idea that 'big pharma' doesn't want you to know their secrets and that would likely capitalise this .
They are. It’s a common scam. You market the hell out of a product and say it cures everything. FTC sues you and takes all your money. But you already told the world that “it’s invented by a school teacher AND cures everything”. You just remove the “and cures everything”. People still remember the old ad, and that’s when the money really pours in.
@@Mikefizzled bullshit.
That's the kind of lazy and cowardly defeatism that enable fraudsters in the first place.
...Fired out of a cannon into the sun works better for me.
Doctors are there to make money... if you listen to them without a grain of salt then you are a product and they will manipulate you to become dependent on them.
Umm I’m down 40kg in 5 months, by doing intermittent fasting, with caloric restriction, and increased exercise (walking and swimming), without injecting anything. I’m just about to hit target weight and shift to muscle and strength training with increased protein.
Well done! That's absolutely fantastic! 💪💪💪👏👏👏
Echinacea was a big 90s fad. You'd often hear people saying "I feel a cold coming on but don't worry I took echinacea". No wonder everyone was catching colds.
It always amuses me when weight loss products talk about losing 'X pounds' because I'm a brit, and losing 'X £££s' sounds about right - whether the product works or not.
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That is the best take on that I've ever heard, and I don't think I'll ever be able to see those weight loss products the same way again.
Yup
I understand denial, especially about something so awful. The newly diagnosed are easy prey.
There have been cases where people have had treatable cancer, have gone with the snake-oil rather than the strenuous months of pain with chemo. Then when they realise they've been had, the cancer has passed the point of no return.
That part reminded me of Steve Jobs. Got an early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, a cancer with a relatively high survival rate, and rejects regular cancer treatments for a vegetarian diet. The man had money for the treatments but I think the fear of the pain got to him.
@@SEAZNDragon yeah, he might well have survived if he got medical intervention as soon as he was diagnosed. He could have afforded it. Fear is really powerful.
Yup, more common than you might think. I'm in neurology, we see these stories on a semi regular base. People avoid effective treatment for their still treatable cancer, eventually they have an epileptic seizure, end up with us in neurology and we find it has metastasized to the brain.
6:50 i can personally attest to this. i have PMLE, which essentially means i'm allergic to UV light. When i get more than 30 min of sun exposure in a day, i break out in hives everywhere that wasn't covered up. this happens regardless if i wear sunscreen or not, so the UV rays still get through, even when you use SPF 50+ like i do. the only difference when i wear it is that i don't get a sunburn on top of the hives, which is definitely worth it. and yes, i am constantly battling vitamin D deficiency.
You must despise hearing people talk about how "nice" the weather is. Speaking for myself. I'm not as severe as you, but hate hot sunny weather in a Rainman kind if way.
My cousins husband has the same issue and they're both motorcycling enthusiasts. Needless to say, he is very well wrapped when riding!
@@jodycarter7308 nah man, the sun might be a deadly laser but sunny days are still good for my mental health. I will go outside and enjoy them when I can, it's worth looking like a plague victim for a few days afterwards. If I can't, I can at least appreciate it from my window 😂
Imagine experiencing photo-contact dermatitis from ingredients that are in most sunscreens, lotions, and other cosmetics. That means you are fine, as long as you don't go outside. If you do, then every area of skin that is exposed to the sun, breaks out in a rash....because of a chemical reaction between ingredients in the products and your skin, which is only activated by exposure to sunlight. I usually avoid sunlight, as if I were a vampire.
Anyone selling snake oil stuff should be giving whatever their thing is supposed to cure, and not allowed to receive any treatment other then their snake oil.
Only problem is when things clear on their own anyway, they still give snake oil credit😢
@MarianneKat 99.999999% of the time when they clear it is because they were taking real treatment too though. So see how well they do with lung cancer and not being allowed any real treatment. Sure, a small percent will end up OK, but not most.
@MarianneKat this is a huge problem!! Many household remedies, especially for things like a cold, tell you to do this certain thing for a few days or up to a week..... and a cold will naturally run its course in that amount of time.
Only thing snake oil is good for is refilling your deadeye core
Or just locked up for public endangerment and fraud.
Ha, that painting you showed for cheese is one of my favourites of all time - Clara Peeters was an unbelievably talented artist. Literally unbelievable; the detail she went to, down to the millimetre, always makes me go 'WOW'. As many women have been, she was and is criminally overlooked, but her genius was on a par with - if not streets ahead of - that of the likes of Rembrandt, Da Vinci, Picasso, and van Gogh.
This was like a Public Service Message that was much needed. Not that those who could most benefit from the information are succeptable to solid reason. Thanks for the video Simon !
Alternative medicine that actually works is called - medicine. Same goes for 'health tips', it very quickly becomes a wildly endorsed policy if it actually works.
i lost 30 lbs in a month for a few months. it was basically called starvation...... eating about 400 calories a day and hating life
Step 2. Check
I did 1100 calories a day while going to the gym daily. I lost a ton of weight and yes I hated life during it
You don't have to be that dramatic with weight loss. I'm not a huge guy, but I've dropped 15 in two weeks eating around 1500 calories a day. Oh, and I have a sedentary job, a baby, and a toddler.
@d2beto My Mom kept everything and she has a diet plan from 1950 that was 900 calories. But she was a tiny 5ft 2 and needed to lose 20 pounds to be the proper 100lbs.
@@momkatmax On keto, with very light exercise - like an occasional walk, light gardening - I lose weight on 2000 calories. I'm dramatically losing weight by going down to 1500 some days, basically softcore intermittent fasting. It's also awesome: eggs and goat cheese for breakfast, ribs for lunch, keto bread is glutenous so it's actually good, etc.
Another problem with dandelion root tea, it tastes awful. I made it for an outdoors class once. Tasted like rotten potatoes.
Also they may suck up nasty chemicals on treated lawns.
I once lost 20 pounds in about a week. How? I got pneumonia. I had no appetite. My diet was water, a small cup of apple sauce, and if I was lucky, half a sandwich. This is not something that I would recommend.
I would love if you could post a list of the studies used in this video to debunk the dangerous trends, as the first answer when I say "It's dangerous! Don't do it!" about most of these is "Show me ANY study which say it's dangerous, because David "Avocado" Wolfe (or basically anyone "fighting the system") says it works!"
On the other hand, the people who are already fooled is likely to dismiss every actual reputable study out of hand...
WHY??? Why are you asking someone else to cite sources when YOU CAN FIND THE INFORMATION ON YOUR OWN!!!!
I remember when people were swearing by a diet pill for weight loss, but researchers insisted it was useless, just inert powder. But users insisted they lost weight. Both were right. It was all in the directions: take before going to bed, and don’t eat within three hours of taking this medicine.
I kinda agree
But we give vitamin d3 supplements to our secure patients because they don't see any sun.
Cholecalciferol
I also take additional vitamin d, because I'm locked in there too.
To clear a misunderstanding, guidelines that say you can get enough vitamin D from food are usually from the time it was just discovered you needed some vitamin D to prevent rickets. Since then, it was found out that other applications such as the immune system, need higher amounts (recommended daily intake should be around 4000 IU instead of 400 IU). If you're not on a very, very religious diet of vitamin D rich food, you WILL either need to be out in the sun for an apprpriate amount of time or take supplements.
I have to be very careful in the sun, because I'm at an increased risk of skin cancer. So when I'm low on vitamin D supplements are my only option.
There isn't really a proven health benefit to substitution for most people. Despite discovering many more roles for Vitamin D, it's very unclear if lower Vitamin D levels actually translate to a problem for the majority of people.
@@olenickel6013 In general supplements and vitamin boosts are a scam that is likely to do you more harm than good unless you have been diagnosed as deficient by a physician and prescribed to take said supplement. However, depending on where you live, that might not be true for Vitamin D. To those living close to the polar regions there is a mountain of evidence that suggest a health benefit associated with Vitamin D supplements in the winter. As an example, the NHS advises that "everyone should consider taking a daily vitamin D supplement during the autumn and winter". There has been so much academic research on this subject that I would say that to claim there is not a proven health benefit is.. simply wrong.
lol this is such a classic internet health scientist comment. Telling you that you WILL need to be in the sun or take supplements... when I've been living a perfectly healthy life for years (currently in my 40s) without seeing much sun or taking any supplements
This video reminded me of the time my Gram told me about a friend of hers that swallowed a tape worm to lose weight, yes that was a diet once and yes it resulted in many deaths
You used to be able to find pills full of intestinal worms for losing weight
I’m on a seafood diet, when I sea seefood, I eat it.
Yum 😋
An oldie but goodie
Ah but its so true 👍
My family recipe is a cube of peeled ginger about a cubic inch or a tablespoon the same amount of lemon either fresh lemon pulp or in a bottle and the same amount again of honey. The ginger and lemon flesh are put in the blender with some water and puréed and then put in a pot with sufficient water to make between half to one liter of tea to boil for fifteen minutes, after that strain through a stainless mesh colander and add the honey, if you strain through a paper coffee filter instead of the looser steel mesh it doesn’t work right, it’s good for sore throat upset stomach and generally just a really nice feeling to the throat drink that is easy on the stomach to keep you drinking enough fluids when you have the flu or a cold, also because it’s spicy it helps to clear the sinuses a bit by increasing the thin mucus production and that causes the stuffy nose and blocked ears to feel better for a short time after you have the drink and breathing in the steam from the tea also helps with the breathing.
gosh the last one just breaks my heart.... the amount of people that must have gotten false hope from it.... now i am someone who does believe in natural remedies i also STRONGLY believe in modern medicine and i think there is nuance and balance in this, like when i am a bit more anxious than usual i will grab for some camomile tea (i mean i also got daily anxiety meds, so im just talking about more than average anxiety for me) but if i have an exploding headache for days on end without any relieve you can find me at the doctors accepting any meds they want to give me.
like natural remedies have been with use for eons, and modern medicine have a clear timeline of development and a lot of testing. both have their place if you ask me, but a lot of natural remedie people go WAY WAY WAY to far.
and i do understand why some people might not want to trust the medical profesionals. i myself have my own horror stories (6 years of worsening untreated chronic compartment syndrom, and now unexplained lower abdominal pain) so i get why there might be a lack of trust, but that will only end up hurting ourselves and our loved ones, and will only end up filling the pockets of those using your mistrust by selling you "natural remedies to cure [insert issue]" that might not do anything. (after ofcourse scaring you with incomplete information or just straight up lying about regular everyday foods so that you are looking for alternatives and cures)
Common sense ❤
I love my natural homeopathic salves and teas. However, I also take the medicine modern medicine has made, usually with those same natural plants. They learned how to isolate the chemical in the plant that helps. I never recommend a person only rely on tea. Or prayer. They're comforting, but the people who only had them to rely on had very short life spans.
My grandmother thought dandelion tea was good for your "constitution." She had dozens of herbal remedies that I wish I had written down.
While staying out in the sun without protection for too long is certainly ill advised, when the "prevailing studies" mention "maintaining vitamin D levels", do they mean a healthy dose or just barely enough for the bones but not for the immune system and other functions? Also, does the UV that still gets through not just scale with the chance of burning the skin (=cancer risk)? By that I mean: getting a healthy unprotected dose of sunlight is getting out of the sun before you burn. Let's say this takes 8 times as long with sunscreen on, then to get the same dose of vitamin D you have to stay in the sun 8 times as long. So it seems to me that the use of sunscreen only makes it so that you get to absorb more IR radiation which is also good for the body (IR is not absorbed by sunscreen, so you get 8 times as much while getting the same amount of UV in this scenario). Caveat is that with sunscreen on, you will have to stay in the sun for longer to get your dose of vitamin D, and I wonder if that makes the risk of cancer about equal?
Sheath underwear for women?! Great! Now I'll have a separate pouch for those pesky labia - thank you Simon and Sheath Underwear!
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Honestly though those damn things are constantly getting squished or pinched by other underwear...imagine if we had underwear that didn't do that!
Lol what the heck you got going on down there 😭
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i not ironically recommend to all women/afabs out here to switch to men underwear lmao it's way more comfortable and safer for our parts
Ray's Mom's Soup from "Everybody Loves Raymond": "That stuff could regrow a Limb!" -Ray's Dad
Thank you for the juice cleanse myth debunk!
0:50 - Mid roll ads
2:15 - Chapter 1 - The HCG diet
5:20 - Chapter 2 - Sunscreen is bad for vitamin D
8:00 - Chapter 3 - Detox with activated charcoal
10:50 - Chapter 4 - Cure cancer with dandelions
If people cannot watch the entire video to support this channel go ahead and skip as this person has..
The worst thing about the chapter on Vitamin D is that it you only need about an hour of sun a day to be fine for sun related Vitamin D, well below what those people are advising, and low enough to potentially not significantly increase your risk of skin cancer, depending on the time of day you're getting your sun.
The audio on this video got the lyrics "every breath you take" stuck in my head.
I use the Donner Party diet. I take people out into the freezing winter weather and eat them.
Then you're either very skinny, or very fat.
Almost certainly alone (burp).😅
@@FurtiveSkeptical I'm just very perfect.
@@DavidBenner-cy4zl Fair enough, the Adkins diet approach hmm? 🤔
When you have someone "over for dinner", you don't go halfway. 😅
@FurtiveSkeptical I've lived all over the World. Eaten out of "hole in the walls", noodle carts, stalls along the roads. Many times I never knew what I was eating. A good way to pick up amoebic dysentery, African round worms, TB, endemic typhus, encephalitis and so on.
I've never heard any of these ideas and i'm thankful for it
I went from 270lbs of fluff to 165lbs and lean, back up to 195lbs while maintaining my 6 pack. It was a miracle and super easy! I just had to stop being complacent, exercise, and pay attention to my diet. No drugs needed except a multivitamin
Water is the best cleanse! ❤
Simon, thank you for saying this so plainly!
The way this man pronounces colon and yogurt just makes my day
(Cole-on & Yahg-ert) lol
I lost 10kg in a month and it was easy! I was only allowed 2 shakes a day, and dinner was vegetables and 1 boiled egg. First week or two was easy, last half was torture and i was miserable. Needed to do it for a stomach sleeve operation.
It always amazes me to see the huge variety of diets. All most people need to do is eat less and move more. The hard part (which is evidently why people are interested in them) is the discipline required.
To get rid of excess fat in your body, you simply need to convert it into CO2 and water, and don't replace the fat as fast as you get rid of it. (that's just another way of saying eat less and exercise to the point that you break a sweat and breathe heavier.)
@@app103 yep, that's what I'm saying. In theory it's easy, but in practice (what with all the mental baggage) it becomes a lot less achievable for a lot of people. What we don't need is a lot of quick fix scams that don't address the real reason a lot of people have difficulty with dieting. That's just my two cents.
Keto: No carbs. No processed foods. Exercise more. Users say they feel great.
Vegan: No animals. No processed foods. Exercise more. Users say they feel great.
Zone: Strict ratios. No processed foods. Exercise more. Users say they feel great.
Maybe what's doing the real work is no processed foods and exercising more.
We clearly know today exactly that.
Exercise + enough protein + fiber (apparent in all plants) +reasonably low saturated fats are critical for our health.
The exact diet does not matter much if the above are ok.
All mentioned diets can do that (keto is hell though).
My body's immune system has been boosted. Now it attacks my colon and inhave ulcerative colitis 1/10 do not recommend.
Yep, people say "boost your immune system" when they really mean "improve your body's ability to fight disease" or "improve your health". I have IBS, also an immune system overload.
You want a boosted immune system? Then you want lots of allergies. That's a boosted immune system. Your body attacks both the harmful and the harmless, like a rogue guard dog that bites everyone, including your kids...everyone, but you. With a super-boosted immune system, your body will even attack itself, like a dog with rabies.
I lost weight both times my body made hcg. The first time I was vomiting from noon until bedtime for 3 months and couldn’t eat anything that came from a cow and the second time I was vomiting from the time I woke up until I went to bed and had to be hospitalized for dehydration. And couldn’t eat anything from a cow or that was fatty/fried. I looked like one of those starving children in Africa except I was ghostly pale the rest of the pregnancy.
Too many people want quick, cheap, and easy - in everything. Diets, health, you name it. There will always be suckers who fall for this horse hockey. And they never learn, just careen from one One Weird Trick to another.
I want quick, cheap and easy in everything! I just don't think it takes much thought to work out that spending hours messing around with all these really specific stupid diets takes more effort than 10 mins exercise...
I've never been on a diet my entire life. My first 35 years I've struggled to gain weight. I needed to eat like a pizza every day in addition to what I usually ate. Not happening. Turns out I just needed anti depressants that gave me munchies gained 30 kilos. I'm not cold anymore. It's great.
Diet is whatever you eat. It doesn't mean a weight loss diet per se.
My sister had trouble maintaining her weight when she was living at a boarding school at the national dance school she got into in middle school, she was exercising too much as part of her daily dance training and the doctor recommended that she eat more full fat ice cream every day to get enough calories to support her increased activity levels, she is a normal weight now but it took a while for her to get her weight up after she stopped dancing professionally and because she didn’t go on to join the adult portion of the national dance company, dance at that level of ability is incredibly competitive and there’s never as many openings for new members of the adult dance company as there are students competing to be the best candidate to fill those roles and you can never tell how you will be when you grow up, it turned out that one of her tendons was too tight to do all of the moves necessary to be a prima ballerina at the national level as an adult even though she was doing all of the stretches her teachers recommended and since it didn’t look like it would be able to improve enough for her to be a candidate for the adult dance company even though she had been very successful in the children’s national dance company and had been in many productions she finished her last few years of high school in public school to prepare for university instead of going on to become a professional adult ballerina.
The diet thing taken to it's logical endpoint is a diet of just water and vitamin supplements. One problem with that (I think) is one would gain that weight right back after the diet
Its worse than that, a crash diet will eat your muscles along with the fat and along with being useful muscles consume calories just by existing.
Just water and vitamin supplements, depending on how long you do this for, can result in death. You'll notice extreme adverse effects after just a few days. Without going into details of just how many things your body is in need of, just the utter and complete lack of salt, medically called Hyponatremia, will eventually result in coma and eventually death. That's one of the many, many things you are denying your body with a "just water and vitamin supplements" diet that will destroy you.
You will gain some weight back after practically all diets that limit your calorie intake below daily recommended amounts, depending on how long you were on it. This is because you starve your body, forcing it to consume excess body fat. This is the slimming that many people want to see. But sometimes it can be pushed too far or the diet itself leaves you unwanting or unable to do normal exercise, in which both cases you start to lose muscle mass. So going back to a healthy diet (balanced nutrients, normal calorie intake) will allow your body to build back some of that mass. That, and you'll feel a lot better due to your body not constantly complaining at you for lacking all the nutrients, making it easier again to do exercise.
But don't take my word for it, go to some actual qualified dieticians youtube channels or go to channels that have them in the spotlight a few times. I would recommend, for example, ruclips.net/video/UvlrppqtZoA/видео.html which is from Wired. This Nutritionist also has his own channel and such. Very interesting stuff _even if you aren't particularly interested in a diet_!
Yes, extreme diets damage muscle and can trigger metabolism slowdown (body tries to survive famine).
As far as I know healthy weight loss is around half a kilo in a month in combination with exercises, so the body would not waste muscle.
Probably that would also depend on the actual weight of the person.
@@L1vv4n0,5-1kg/week is perfectly doable without an extreme diet. Let's say you lower your daily intake by 500 calories and go swimming for 1 hour three times a week. This would lead to around 0,5 kg weight loss/week.
I love that end quote.
There is a REASON why most MREs are 1500+ calories per day. If the military took time to figure out how much intake it takes to run a human body I think the data might just be, oh I don’t know, valid? Also when you drastically drop your caloric intake the body reacts by storing calories. Where you ask? In fat cells of course!
But let us not forget if you get injured, it's 1200 ibuprofen, drink more water and change your socks.
soldiers tend to expend more energy than the average person.
My body definitely can't store fat when getting 500 kcal a day... :D (Not like I ever tried but I have some basic knowledge.) Metabolism slowing and muscle less, we can except that but fat gain? Nope, that comes later when we eat more. IDK how this myth come from. We are big warm-blooded mammals, we can't function on this little, we must use our reserves let alone store some!
500 kcal is pretty crazy and many many popular diet has them, at least sometimes. PSMF, 5:2... I don't get it, zero kcal is way better and easier and quite okay for a few days but it seems it's not true for everyone. And people seems to be way too impatiant. What's wrong with a slower fat-loss that isn't pure suffering and we don't mess with our metabolism and muscle mass, I don't know.
@@kenbrown2808 most 24h MREs are 2500kcal... Nordic winter 24h MREs for the alpine jaegers are ~8000kcal. They are so calory dense that most people simply can't eat that much in a day without getting nauseous.
@@SonsOfLorgar exactly. higher exertion - including extreme conditions - demands higher calorie intake.
I did hcg diet…. It was the only way I have been able to lose more than 5 pounds. I felt really good, but it wasn’t enough. I think because I inadvertently stopped eating things that I have an allergy to, like dairy. Of course I was confused what to do after… because it wasn’t sustainable and came right back on when I stopped. ( I have celiac disease, problem with Dairy is common)
Glad you did this one. Lots of nutty stuff out there.
I did a 1 week water only once, first 3 days were rough but then energy
1:30 - Monty Python called them "Naughty Bits".
A dandelion! Probably the last one of the season!
“You don’t need to buy anything to detoxify, because you have a liver.”
-Chubby Emu
Once bought a book for a non medical cure for depression. It says:
Get plenty of exercise
Get plenty of sunshine
Visit friends and family
Take time enjoying hobbies
Eat healthier
Get adequate sleep.
Sound great, but if I'd had the time to do all that, I'd not have gotten depressed in the first place. 👍
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Simon, in the Sheath ad, are you saying a “jewel pouch” or a “dual pouch”?
Thankfully, because fungi are much more closely related to animals than they are to plants, mushrooms also generate vitamin D when exposed to the appropriate wavelengths of UV light. You can put your fresh mushrooms in direct sunlight for a few hours before eating them, and avoid that pesky melanoma from exposing your own skin to too much UV.
The no bread diet. That one was really popular. I knew alot of people that did that one. What ever happened to proper diet and exercise?
FYI, the paracetamol he mentions several times is known as Tylenol in the US
Here is one from my fathers grandfather that i feel might be dangerous but i just dont know anything about it: rubbing WD40onto a join can help reduce arthritis pains.
Not an expert but I think wd-40 doesn't go all the way inside your joints so it probaply doesn't help
@@theghost9667 idk, you sound like an expert to me.
@@sbsstorytelling thank you!
@theghost9667 Well, great gandad was a mechanic whose hands were soaked in WD40 all day, and he said it helped his arthritis pains in his hands way more than any pain killer. At least that's what I was told, he died 5 days after I was born so I've only heard the claim from my dad and grandad.
@@stigmaoftherose perhaps it acts inderictly by creating other chemicals that do go inside the joints
Simon’s best video yet
I think part of the problem is a lack of widespread anatomy & physiology instruction in, say, middle school. If ordinary people _understood_ how bodies work, they wouldn't be so vulnerable to these scams. 'Boosted' immune system, indeed - what do you mean by that, more white blood cells to fight infection? We have a name for that, it's leukemia. More sensitivity to potential threats? Again, that has a name: allergies/autoimmune diseases.
Agreed! As a nurse, it can be trying at times to explain away the misinformation that people have been spoon-fed. I truly believe that with some A&P knowledge, people can make more informed decisions when it comes to health and nutrition.
Coming from someone with kidney disease. The amount of diets out there with b.s claims are beyond been a joke. I've been to a dieatision as I needed to know what I can and can't eat. Somethings are fine to eat if you have 2 healthy kidneys. I was born with 1 and it's taken damage (didn't know till I was 28 that I had 1). The "healthy diets" for people with kidney disease from RUclipsrs etc will help you get on the tramspant list real quick. One said eat a lot of red meat and bananas. That's a good way to kill your kidneys. Red meat is fine if you have 2 healthy kidneys as it can filter things out easy. Try that with one kidney that's running below 50%. Bananas are bad because of the potassium. Potassium is fine in low amounts but bananas are really high in potassium.
All diets are basically bunk. The way to lose weight is: 1) You exercise thus burning calories. 2) You burn more calories than than you eat, which in turn burns fat. The end.
Reduce caloric intake and exercise. It ain't sexy, and it ain't gonna be quick or easy. But it does work and you don't have to forgo your favorite foods - just limit them.
Part 1 is also unnecessary really. Losing weight is just calories out > calories in. Your body burns plenty of calories just sat there.
I'm not saying don't exercise though, that'd be stupid! Just that it's not an essential part of that equation. It does help with weight loss of course - it burns a little, plus increasing muscle also increases your consumption while not exercising. Really though, exercise is just great for health in so many other ways it should be part of life regardless. Still, anyone who wants to lose weight needs to focus on diet.
I think it was Jimmy Carr who described weight loss perfectly: put the fork down, fatty! 🤣 (questionably OK to say to anyone else, but as a mantra for oneself, reasonable).
Exercise can be counterproductive, it makes many people hungrier. Not me, thankfully but it never helped with fat-loss. I do it for energy, mood, health, strength.
Many people MUST cut out whole food groups or at least items as they can't limit them (or they can but it is a miserable diet while cutting them out solves problems. And I am not like that but people say certain items makes their fat-loss impossible. It may do something crazy with their hormones so their metabolism drastically changes? I don't know).
It's more complicated for many but pretty simple for me: I just need to eat little. But HOW? I needed about 15 years to figure it out, I DON'T do suffering and lack of focus due to lack of fuel (or give up my food joy). I need some serious rules to have any chance. It is quite tricky for some people - even if they are disciplined unlike me.
I lost 20lbs in 10 days. It was from a severe gastrointestinal infection and I almost died of dehydration because I couldn't even drink water without it coming right out one end or the other. 0/10, would not recommend.
Also you can actually detoxify your blood, but you'd need a dialysis machine. And it only works for stuff that the kidneys already filter out, like urea.
I did a diet unintentionally drank 6-8L water and ended up eating about 500kcals then did a work out of around 3000 …. DO NOT DO THE FIRST ONE OR WHAT I DID IT WILL MESS YOU UP AND BE SERIOUSLY HARMFUL my point highlighting what I did, was the fact that I lost a bout a third of my weight over 6 months and have long lasting heath issues now
About 15 years ago a group of my coworkers bought into the HCG fad. I brought up that 500 calories/day was probably the reason they were losing weight and the response was that HCG was making it happen _faster._ You won't be surprised to hear they all quickly gained the weight back when they went back to normal eating.
This topic reminded me of a coworker I had that quit in 2020 when we reopened after a month and a half shutdown due to the pandemic... She told her another new "miracle cure:" a hydrogen peroxide detox. She said, "it makes you feel awful, so you know it's working."
I was like, "no, crazy lady. You feel awful because you're drinking small quantities of diluted poison."
But she believed that you don't see elephants hiding in trees because they're good at it.
A relative was given charcoal tablets by a doctor in the 1970s. I don't remember what it was for.
I have never heard about the charcoal or dandelions cure 🤦♀️🤦♀️Well I have 0 SN that must be the reason.... 😁
The quote on homeopathy was excellent and so true.
Fortunately for me, my maternal side of the family are medical professionals, I can ask them for health tips.
Excellent!
1:46 Lol, I wonder how many people weren't gonna buy it until you said it was the official underwear of the UFC.
Charcoal works miracles if you have bad gas. Its the only time I use it but its always in the cabinet.
I wasn't expecting this level of crazy
A very useful sideprojects 😯 🍀
the primary function of most of these "cleanse" regimens is they also ban the person doing the cleanse from smoking (anything) and drinking alcohol.
Medical advice on the internet is so attractive because:
- They are cheap. At least way cheaper than prescriptions and doctor's appointments.
- The recommended therapies are not working as well as the patient wished.
- The user is expressing their distrust of authority.
- The narrator has rizz. They make the listener feel smart. They use the F word.
Not in any particular order.
"I feel weak after this "cleanse". That must mean the treatment is working!"
Long-term HCG use can cause organ enlargement and cause real problems.
That’s hgh. Human growth hormone.
What kind of organ enlargement? Asking for a friend who would like his organ enlarged.
I'd be curious to see your take on cleaning THC out of your system. There's plenty of drinks out there that claim this. I used to sell them.
THC binds to fat cells, which is why it's difficult to "clean". The products that claim to detox are nothing more than masking agents. And the amount of time it takes to fully leave your system differs wildly from person to person.
I used to run the tests in a medical lab for drug testing. Those drinks that mask are tested for very easily because they change the ph in urine. It's an instant "invalid collection". Depends on the employer if they allow a second collection.
09:40 anyone else's OCD kicked in seeing how those pills were dispensed? 🤣
Fun fact. The spf is the fraction of light let through. So spf 10 let’s in the 1/10th the light aka 10%.
eating my leftover steak and potato from last night while watching this!
Congratulations, power lvl above 1million
I think before diet education about the self should come. People need to stop aiming at the UNREALISTIC and UNHEALTHY body types are "beaty canon". Im a man and got, like every man much more fat at my 25, like a LOT. And I felt bad until I thought "I dont take care of my food and I know this happens to many men, the fk I was expecting?". Now Im trying to improve my food and do more exercise while simply accepting my body. If no one would love me I really doubt its because of how I physically look, even if is perfectly fine and healthy to want to look better, more sexy, etc. But with criteria and common sense! (Haircut, makeup, clothing, accesories, exercise to boost this or that, etc.)
I eating cabbage soup (the 90s were awesome!) for every meal because I like cabbage, ok?! Ha
I lost about 70 pounds, about 30 or so kg in about 3 or 4 days. How? I had severe edema mostly in my legs. The doctor gave me very aggressive diuretics and monitored my kidneys to verify they weren't being damaged.
To be fair, dandelion root tea is delicious, and more people should be enjoying it. It won't cure anything, but it is yummy.
As a subject of the crown who lives in the US, I think you should know that no one over here knows what paracetamol is.
Most over here would have heard of acetaminophen or tylenol.
I live in the U.S. and learned what paracetamol was three years ago.... But I'm 64 and sometimes slow on the uptake.
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Can confirm this, I'm even a nursing student and only heard of paracetamol from one of Simon's recent videos, had to look it up to learn it's essentially English Tylenol. Definitely not common knowledge in the states.
Thank you!
Why do measure your weight in whatever the hell "stone" means? WTF is that? Prebronze age units of measurement?
While juice fasts are not the way to go, there is much to be said for fasting itself. That'd be an interesting deep-dive for you guys to do. Start with looking up some of the videos Dr. Jamnadas and Dr. Fung (both actual licensed medical doctors). They are keen to point out that fasting is pooh-pooh'd by many in the medical/pharmaceutical world because there is no product to sell the customer, no profit to be made.
But also really unhealthy for certain groups of people. Especially some of those with eating disorders, such as myself, who can use these sorts of arguments to justify their behavior.
Not denying they could be healthy for SOME PEOPLE, but I think it's smart to talk to a doctor first.
Battered and fried dandelions are delicious, though. No idea how to make it, but growing up in the country, a friend's parents were great at cooking them up.
Debunking health crap. New channel.
So I guess many people never heard the phrase "if it seems to good to be true, it probably is".
Oh my freaking god Simon I’m now certain there are at least 5 of you. A new channel pops up everyday! You do sleep at least once a week, right?
HCG is also often prescribed to come off of TRT. That said, even in conjunction with steroids, calorie deficit is what is gonna make you lose such a severe amount of weight. Good for intended purpose, snake oil in this situation.