Alcoholism and caffeine addiction are just ways of life in the frigid, dark northern winters. The colder and the darker, the more alcoholism and caffeine addiction. The pattern holds in the United States too. North Dakota and Seattle are famous for their substance use, well, people who know anything about North Dakota know they just drink liquor straight.
@@TheSpecialJ11 It's neither cold or dark in Poland. This isn't the far north, it's a temperate climate with warm summers and gentle winters, though getting hotter year by year.
I can only imagine! Just a few weeks ago at the same time, we had in ED 3 female pts with at least 15 min per alcohol together. Not sure what it was exactly as our lab marks to the max. of 6. and one of them was above for sure. ;-)
My takeaway is that we should always be asking about mushroom consumption, hiking history, imported over the counter medication, and herbal supplements in all people. I think this is a very good example of paying attention to cultural variations in the same way that one should pay attention to occupational variations. I had many doctors ask if I'd ever had a tick before before I had one ask how much exposure to hiking environments I had instead. I was out continuously in tickingfested areas because I was a biology student. Just because I never saw the tick attached doesn't mean it wasn't there😂 Little differences in how we ask questions matter.
Regarding drinking - yep living as a migrant in a country that has stereotypes about your nationality can not only be uncomfortable at times but also just dangerous. I'm a Pole living in the Netherlands and people too always assume I'm a heavy drinker due to my nationality, when in fact I drink about 1 beer every two or three months.
Yeah... that's one of the things people ask me when I visit. I drink _about twice a year,_ give or take. I _can_ drink (by which I mean that I know when to stop...), but _if_ I'm drinking - I want to drink myself into a stupor, which is not something I want to do often. I actually don't believe I've seen _a drop_ of alcohol in 2023...
I got sick at work once and the first thing they asked me was if I was hungover. I rarely drink, only when there is a good occasion and I don't get hangovers either
We are all individuals. I have two friends who immigrated as refugees from Poland to the US during the Solidarity movement with Lech Walesa when their father was arrested for distributing pamphlets. They were both brothers. One brother became a decorated war hero in Iraq fighting for the U.S. Marine Corps and he received the Purple Heart. The other brother became an alcoholic, couldn’t hold a steady job, and had frequent trouble with the police. Even from the same family, two completely different outcomes.
Being an American of Polish origin, I figured heavy drinking was done by Euros who aren't Mediterranean, and vodka specifically was a Russian and Finnish thing.
I admit to being addicted to collecting mushrooms. I have often ventured into nearby woods daily, including while sun was setting and I could barely see anything. But I could recognize the ones I was hunting for by the way carlights were deflected by their caps. Never been mistaken. I also know some Poles who describe themselves as "not mushroom hunters" who have randomly ventured into the woods just because they've seen a single nice bolete only to discover they're like half an hour away from their starting point and they have pockets full of squoshed mashrooms. What's interesting is that mashroom hunting actually helps spreading edible mashroom spores, so the more mushroom hunters in the region, the more edible mushrooms there are. So there is plenty for everyone.
In Spain it's mandatory to use a basket to pick mushrooms to let the spores spread through the holes, in Poland AFAIK people put the mushrooms in plastic bags, so spores don't really go very far
@@pi4795 nah, they do use baskets. It's just people who happen to be "snatched by the woods" unprepared who use bags. That's because in plastic bags mashrooms become squoshed and sometimes even mushy.
@@pi4795 nope, plastic bags are not used for transporting mushrooms, ever. When you carry mushrooms in plastic bags it makes them toxic even if they were edible. You will be very sick if you eat them, you can even go blind. Everyone who picks mushrooms in europe will tell you that you can carry them only in baskets or cotton/linen bags if you dont have anything else. Any container that traps heat and moisture inside without being able to 'breathe' will make your mushroos toxic
It's always fascinating to me that mushroom foraging is so uncommon outside of Poland (and our cousins, of course). Fewer people engage in it these days, but it still keeps coming up. Someone has a wujek or babcia, a small greengrocers can carry seasonal mushrooms, and every so often you hear on the news that someone f'd up and ended up eating a poisonous one. Oh, and Canada is an intersting choice for comparisons with Poland - the size of the land area is so much greater, true, but the population is almost the same, at slightly less than 40 mil. Really puts the % difference in perspective there, eh? :P
@@groupcall6570 It's still kinda surprising, since they have so much nature available, and Canadian forests are incredibly beautiful. Maybe there's just less ticks?
In Baltics people pick mushrooms to sell, it's surprisingly popular gig! So much so, that high traffic hiking trails have nothing to pick all year round. Most foragers have their 'secret' 'good spots' that you can only find out if you agree to go for a outing together lol
Don't you have cheap store brand energy drinks that contain pretty much exactly the same stuff as red bull? Pretty standard in Germany and that stuff is really cheap. Haven't bought it in a while. But I think the 1.5liter bottle is still less then 1€. I think 69/79Cent or so?
@@Alexis-yg2xiOk that did sound weird to me being a polish student myself presently. Nowadays the more desperated ones just buy Red Bulls, Monsters or whatever trash energy drinks there are
TIL Polish culture is identical to the culture of my region of Indiana., right down to the mushroom hunting, Lyme disease infected, pilled-out alcoholics.
That’s right - bimber carries a potential risk. The problem is that home made alcohol is common (to some extent) in Poland and relatively rare abroad. Unless the data I’ve seen is incorrect . Cheers for your comment mate 💪
kilkając w filmik na głównej nie spodziewałem się że prezenterem będzie Al Pacino, nie wierze że do tej pory nikt nie wytknął podobieństwa xD bardzo ciekawy i na pewno przydatny materiał
Very interesting, thanks! Good reminder that a proper and detailed intake, with plenty of attention for lifestyle, is crucial to understand causes of symptomps, and possible treatment option. P.S. I love Zubrowka!
Thank you kindly for your feedback mate I really appreciate it 👊 PS White Zubrowka is in my top three, however Chlopska Pedzona Bimber is my personal favourite (difficult to get in the UK tho!)
In Poland you can bring mushrooms to the local sanitary-epidemiological station where qualified worker will check if any of picked mushrooms is poisonous.
@@groupcall6570 I understand! I just wanted to tell a fun fact for those who don't know, as I think this mushroom service tells how much picking mushrooms is encoded in our culture.
Trafiłeś Panie kolego dobrze w algorytm z tymi Polskimi dolegliwościami xD po 2 latach w transporcie czuję się głubszy niż po szkole to czasami będę zerkać co dodasz.
Polecam podcasty jakieś mądre albo książki czytane ( fundacja dla niewidomych publikuje za darmo), ok to teraz jest Audiobook. Jeżdżąc długo można ogłupieć niestety.
Canada is 32 times larger tha Poland by area, but by population is almost equal. Lets remember that diseases rather happen to people , not to land , so better compare number of cases according to population. Anyway it is still 10 more ;)
I'm a shroom consumer but I don't like picking them. Though I like walking through forests and other areas that you could describe as places where "dogs bark with their arses" with no people, and bushes that most likely are filled with ticks.
I'm a Pole, furthermore I'm a polish born polish student studying in Poland and it's the first time I heard about coffe with coke. Sounds like fake or really edge cases. No offence obviously. I think it was really good and informational video :)
I came back to the same rural county that I grew up in, and many of the folks that I went to grade and high school with, never even left! Well, I had a bad mountain accident. One of the EMTs that was involved in my rescue was someone I went to school with, thus knew I am partly Polish... all he had to do to resuscitate me and fix me on the spot was put the scent of fresh Pirogi near my nose! My Trek was still a wreck though. Lol
The OTC medicine thing is very interesting, I wonder if it's got something to do with the fact that we have a comically large amount of OTC med advertisements in our television. Makes you feel sick with how much they try and get you to buy it. I feel like everyone has a bottle of APAP (paracetamol) on them or like a 5kg bag of it stashed away somewhere in their home lmao.
Lol nice video. I often order stuff from poland when I need supplements or otc peptides. Most polish brands I used are much cheaper and I never had any fake ones. Like you guys. But your language is a pain to learn I tell you xD.
Excellent material with real and serious tips. Polish forest mushrooms are true delicacy second to few, also pickled uhh I'm getting hungry thinking. But the poisonings are real and to be honest I'm scared to pick anything xD Herbs, teas, infusions, "nalewki" - alcohol infusions are also very popular. Some are for taste others can be considered "alternative medicine" but I can't complain about the variety. Drotaverine - There are recorded cases of deaths from this. I have no idea why it remains widely accessible in Poland, maybe some weird lobbying. I remember professors criticizing it during lectures on pharma chemistry.
We Finns do drink quite a bit of alcohol though xd. But idk how biased our EMS is towards alcohol poisoning symptoms. But like I would still call our drinking responsible as a whole rather than excessively dangerous, at least everyone who i know.
@@Fossil_Frank on average my friends and family over 18 drink like half a dozen drinks per month. I dont think its that bad when you can drink more in one sitting without a problem.
@@iarmycombo5659 Well, sure you can drink more and many do. What you describe however, is pretty much already a habit and it doesn't take much to deepen it. Real "irregular drinkers" partake only on special occasions, probaly no more than a few times a year. While I agree that it's no one's business but yours (and you health's) as long as you drink responsibly, countries in which drinking is socially encouraged have huge problems with irresponsible drinkers. In Poland for example, drinking and driving (and killing or injuring someone in the process) is a real plague and has been for decades. It's gotten so bad that new laws have been passed, allowing for the confiscation of the perp's car (because taking away their permit never works - they still drive) - only a few places in Europe allow for that.
@@Fossil_Frank well it kind of does take some to deepen it. The drinking is actually pretty irregular. How my average for this year comes is i wanted to try out different mixtures a few months ago and drunk a few drinks a few weekends in a row. Then a month ago i went into a bar and drunk 10 drinks. Havent drunk anything since. So basically ive drunk alcohol for 6 weekends out of the 30 of this year and yet i have the average. This is not regular drinking. My brain cannot detect anything ordinary about it or make it feel normal. How the average comes for my parents is that for their work and most weekends they dont drink anything but then this summer on vacation they drink like a few per week and then they went to a festival for a weekend. Attending around 1-3 month parties that pretty much always includes drinking is how the rest of the people i know get their average plus occasiobal weekend bar nights/ single home drinks. None of these are a real habit. Yeah you know how to drink so its never a problem to go deeper but theres no reason to and half a dozen per month is not that much that it has to be regular at all. About drunk driving, the limit is 0,5 promille. However our Road Safety Councel made a nice study stating that 1% of drivers on the road are under that limit and 0,2% of drivers over that limit. Poland (340) and Finland (40) have basically equal amount of drunk driving deaths if adjusting for population (Poland's 2019 figures,). Nobody is calling it a pandemic here though. We get more reminders about not driving while tired than not driving while drunk. Also in 2017 25% of traffic deaths in Finland were based on drunk drivers and in Poland only 12%. The law did lower the legal limit from 0,8 to 0,5 recently though.
@@iarmycombo5659 Hey, I'm not lecturing or judging you in particular, I've already said that as long as it causes others no harm, it's your own business if and how much you drink. I'm just saying that socially, it can be a big problem, depending on the country. I've no idea how Finlad measures up to Poland in that regard, but having lived there most of my life, I know Poland does have a drinking problem. Deaths are one thing, general accidents another, but even outside of both, the amount of drunk drivers on the road is a real concern in Poland. There's not a lot of traffic police on the roads, but even so they catch an astounding number - just imagine how many get away. According to last year's numbers there have been over 95k arrests of this nature. Compare it to Finland's 1,6k (if I'm reading this data right) and it starts to paint the overal picture.
While I am not a Dr, this was nonetheless an interesting and entertaining video. One of these days I should embracey partial Polish heritage and go mushroom hunting 😂😂
@groupcall6570 Why do Poles overconsume pain medication for smooth muscle spasm? I'm polish and have taken pain medication chronically in the past, but avoid it now. Can you give more information on the kinds of things Polish people deal with medically?
Man this video really makes me want to compile one for my own country lmfao. I'm a doctor and we have some serious conditions that tends to happen only in out country and we are trained to deal with them but very rare in other countries. For example tuberculosis is a rather normal problem where I am and we even have a tuberculosis control center, however the locals tends to ignore warnings and leave it up to chance, so very regularly you will see TB patients with Brain TB or stomach TB. Or that we have a small flatworm epidemic on the regular, because people really like to eat fermented RAW pork or make sauces from fermented RAW river fish that tends to eat snails that's part of the flat worm reproductive cycles. And don't let me get started on the various tropical disease, snake bites, etc, etc....
Mój ojciec był w krakowskim szpitalu w wakacje 2019 leczony z dziwnej choroby. Nieznany wirus, krew gęsta tak bardzo, że leki i kroplówki non-stop. Czyli w sumie leczenie niewiadomo czego. Pół roku później, cov19. Czy to to? Można się tylko domyślać ale trzeba przyznać, że było "ciekawie"
I've tried the coke-and-instant-coffee mixture and it's disgusting to me. I'd rather drink chifir (russian coffee drink supposedly originating in gulags made by boiling a large ratio of coffee ground to water for a prolonged period, essentially coffee concentrate, known for being extremely bitter and having more caffeine than espresso, supposedly being strong enough to cause hallucinations- In my experience that is not true, same as similar hyped-up rumors about, for example, wormwood absinthe; We seem to intuit (wrongly) that psychoactive drinks that are especially bitter are inherently more psychoactive, which is often not the case). Tried both when I was a teenager pulling all-nighters for various reasons. Also the Finns' high alcohol intake is particularly legendary because the only way they can get affordable alcohol (due to tariffs) is to travel in person to Estonia to stock up, and it is considered the objectively happiest country on Earth, which is remarkable because of the strong inverse correlation between happiness and alcoholism (unhappiness causes alcoholism AND alcoholism causes unhappiness, so while correlation does not imply causation, in this case there is a bidirectional causal link, aka a vicious spiral). One way of looking at it is that the Finnish government is so good at making its citizens happy (in recent years; Finland used to be known instead for a high suicide rate, so they really turned that around) that it manages that rating despite the alcoholism epidemic, and another is that Finns are just innately alcoholic to such a degree that it overrides their happy demeanor.
It makes sense for truck drivers, cause you can buy the ingredients at a gas station, and have a drink with an insane amount of caffeine in seconds. And pretty much all Poles are skilled in drinking straight vodka etc., so it's not a big deal to just down the thing, goes straight in the throat.
Nigdy nie przestanie mnie zadziwiać że chodzenie po lesie jest tak rzadkie w Ameryce :) Btw. jacy barbarzyńcy piją mieszankę coli z kawą rozpuszczalną? 😂
Also, if your Polish mom starts getting a little arthritis in her hands, discourage her from grabbing bunches of stinging nettle in order to cure it. In this case, the cure is worse than the disease... Based on a true story.
Yeah... but what to do when your polish patient shows signs of excessive lettering? Like, when the symptome is "dziewięćsetdziewięćdziesięciodziewięcionarodowościowego"?
So basically a huge collection of cultural bad habits and misunderstandings :)))) That sucks, honestly, ok the mushrooms maybe not, but I live in Romania and we definetly have some of these cultural "unwritten laws" (which are actually bad) where your old granny comes to you and says "yes yes, take paracetamol it will make you feel better" "Noo you dont need to see doctor, just drink some tea, it will fix you yes" :)))
my favorite mushrooms to find in the grass fields here are psilocybe semilanceata ... and hmm, maybe i should get lyme shot cause im always bushwacking in the woods here too
@@Fossil_Frank Only if you dry them iirc. They exist naturally in the wild, so we can't have laws against them existing on your property or live in your possession. Same issue with weed plants. They are literally a naturally occurring weed, so you can only prosecute for growing them inside or for drying it.
@@Frommerman I was talking about being caught with specimens on your person, not on your property. In that case their state doesn't matter. People have been sentenced for having fresh ones on them. Oh, and if it wasn't obvious, I'm talking about Polish law, the most restrictive in Europe, where it comes to substance control.
Can confirm: during high school i was burning thru ibuprofen like no tommorow. Around 1 to 2 packs per month... Yeah... i know it was not good for me... thats why i stopped now.
Nigdy nic z tych rzeczy nie miałem - nie zatrułem się grzybami, nie przyniosłem kleszcza na boreliozę, herbatki mam ale nie pamiętam kiedy je piłem, leżą w apteczce na wszelki wypadek, nie znam tych leków, piję jedną kawę z rana ale taką po polsku, piję alkohol ale rzadko i co najwyżej jednego drinka albo jedno piwo. Co ty tu opowiadasz?
@@groupcall6570 A może lepiej przyznać się do skrzywionego obrazu Polaka bo ludzie to oglądają i myślą sobie ci Polacy to są tacy głupi jakby inni byli lepsi.
@@matrixmannn taki obraz to nie wynik mojego dzialania - on wylania sie z danych statystycznych (chociazby spozycie lekow czy ilosc zachorowan na borelioze) - to po pierwsze. Moje zawodowej doswiadczenie (16 lat w zawodzie) odgrywa tu drugorzedna role. Po drugie, z komentarzy wynika ze inne narody (glownie z Europy Centralnej czy wchodniej - a Nawet napisal ktos z USA) maja podobnie. To nie jest kwestia bycia “lepszym/madrzejszym” czy “gorszym/glupszym” a Juz na pewno nie powinna byc to kwestia urazonej dumy narodowej tylko krytycznego/obiektywnego spojrzenia na siebie i swoich krajanow. Na koniec pozwole sobie przypomniec, ze w ostatniej czesci video mowie o tym zeby medycy nie poddawali sie stereotypom.
@@groupcall6570 No właśnie sam potwierdziłeś to co napisałem bo mówiłeś o tym wyłącznie w kontekście Polaków. Trzeba było mówić o pacjentach, a nie ze wskazaniem na konkretną nację. To tak jak ja bym napisał, że wszyscy Jankesi mają rogi.
Przecież mówił o kierowcach ciężarówek. To nie ma nic wspólnego z biedą, po prostu możesz sobie zrobić z butelki colki taką siekierę skurwiela jak pięć Red Bulli. A jak już jedziesz w pizdu godzin/dni , terminy gonią, a ty zaczynasz widzieć potrójnie, to nie myślisz o zdrowiu, tylko żeby się obudzić.
“We don’t drink more than the Finns” is like saying “we don’t shoot more than the Americans”
The difference is that there's actually noteworthy competition from other nations in the drinking category.
That's only because the human body has it's limits ;) @Fossil_Frank
@@ovDarkness "That's being responsible. Being a man."
Alcoholism and caffeine addiction are just ways of life in the frigid, dark northern winters. The colder and the darker, the more alcoholism and caffeine addiction. The pattern holds in the United States too. North Dakota and Seattle are famous for their substance use, well, people who know anything about North Dakota know they just drink liquor straight.
@@TheSpecialJ11 It's neither cold or dark in Poland. This isn't the far north, it's a temperate climate with warm summers and gentle winters, though getting hotter year by year.
Imagine a doctor in some country watching this with their polish patient unconscious right beside him 😂
That made me laugh harder than I'd expect 😂
I can only imagine! Just a few weeks ago at the same time, we had in ED 3 female pts with at least 15 min per alcohol together. Not sure what it was exactly as our lab marks to the max. of 6. and one of them was above for sure. ;-)
I thought that was going to be a parody but it was really interesting!
Thank you buddy I really appreciate it :)
My takeaway is that we should always be asking about mushroom consumption, hiking history, imported over the counter medication, and herbal supplements in all people. I think this is a very good example of paying attention to cultural variations in the same way that one should pay attention to occupational variations.
I had many doctors ask if I'd ever had a tick before before I had one ask how much exposure to hiking environments I had instead. I was out continuously in tickingfested areas because I was a biology student. Just because I never saw the tick attached doesn't mean it wasn't there😂 Little differences in how we ask questions matter.
@@groupcall6570 I'm an EMT and it makes me wanna do a ride along in Poland!!
@@darcieclements4880 you're absolutely right, little differences matter! Thank you so much for your feedback and comment. Take care :)
Pokazało mi się przez przypadek na głównej, no i zostaję na dłużej. Pozdrawiam!
Dziekuje! Nie spodziewalem sie ;)
@@groupcall6570 NIKT NIE SPODZIEWA SIE HISZPAŃSKIEJ INKWIZYCJI!
@@groupcall6570nobody expects them
@@groupcall6570 mi też właśnie lol
Regarding drinking - yep living as a migrant in a country that has stereotypes about your nationality can not only be uncomfortable at times but also just dangerous. I'm a Pole living in the Netherlands and people too always assume I'm a heavy drinker due to my nationality, when in fact I drink about 1 beer every two or three months.
Yeah... that's one of the things people ask me when I visit. I drink _about twice a year,_ give or take. I _can_ drink (by which I mean that I know when to stop...), but _if_ I'm drinking - I want to drink myself into a stupor, which is not something I want to do often. I actually don't believe I've seen _a drop_ of alcohol in 2023...
I got sick at work once and the first thing they asked me was if I was hungover. I rarely drink, only when there is a good occasion and I don't get hangovers either
No worries, according to stereotypes they are heavy smokers ;-)
We are all individuals. I have two friends who immigrated as refugees from Poland to the US during the Solidarity movement with Lech Walesa when their father was arrested for distributing pamphlets. They were both brothers.
One brother became a decorated war hero in Iraq fighting for the U.S. Marine Corps and he received the Purple Heart.
The other brother became an alcoholic, couldn’t hold a steady job, and had frequent trouble with the police.
Even from the same family, two completely different outcomes.
Being an American of Polish origin, I figured heavy drinking was done by Euros who aren't Mediterranean, and vodka specifically was a Russian and Finnish thing.
I admit to being addicted to collecting mushrooms. I have often ventured into nearby woods daily, including while sun was setting and I could barely see anything. But I could recognize the ones I was hunting for by the way carlights were deflected by their caps. Never been mistaken. I also know some Poles who describe themselves as "not mushroom hunters" who have randomly ventured into the woods just because they've seen a single nice bolete only to discover they're like half an hour away from their starting point and they have pockets full of squoshed mashrooms. What's interesting is that mashroom hunting actually helps spreading edible mashroom spores, so the more mushroom hunters in the region, the more edible mushrooms there are. So there is plenty for everyone.
Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think it's not the best to pick mushrooms near roads
You are right, mushrooms absorb a lot of toxins and havy metals from ground
In Spain it's mandatory to use a basket to pick mushrooms to let the spores spread through the holes, in Poland AFAIK people put the mushrooms in plastic bags, so spores don't really go very far
@@pi4795 nah, they do use baskets. It's just people who happen to be "snatched by the woods" unprepared who use bags. That's because in plastic bags mashrooms become squoshed and sometimes even mushy.
@@pi4795 nope, plastic bags are not used for transporting mushrooms, ever. When you carry mushrooms in plastic bags it makes them toxic even if they were edible. You will be very sick if you eat them, you can even go blind. Everyone who picks mushrooms in europe will tell you that you can carry them only in baskets or cotton/linen bags if you dont have anything else. Any container that traps heat and moisture inside without being able to 'breathe' will make your mushroos toxic
If they come bloated, with a heavy stomach, difficulty breathing and digesting, chances are they just visited their grandma.
Exactly
Actually in Polish, a grandmother is called Babcia and they can be very dangerous species! ;)
It's always fascinating to me that mushroom foraging is so uncommon outside of Poland (and our cousins, of course). Fewer people engage in it these days, but it still keeps coming up. Someone has a wujek or babcia, a small greengrocers can carry seasonal mushrooms, and every so often you hear on the news that someone f'd up and ended up eating a poisonous one.
Oh, and Canada is an intersting choice for comparisons with Poland - the size of the land area is so much greater, true, but the population is almost the same, at slightly less than 40 mil.
Really puts the % difference in perspective there, eh? :P
Almost every time I go into the woods I see families picking mushrooms, it is great to see 🙂
Yes mate you’re absolutely right. I should have used a different comparison factor 🤔 cheers for your feedback 👊
@@groupcall6570 It's still kinda surprising, since they have so much nature available, and Canadian forests are incredibly beautiful. Maybe there's just less ticks?
In Baltics people pick mushrooms to sell, it's surprisingly popular gig!
So much so, that high traffic hiking trails have nothing to pick all year round. Most foragers have their 'secret' 'good spots' that you can only find out if you agree to go for a outing together lol
People went to mushroom hunting on North of Ukraine. Now it's might be unsafe, but people still do that. It's safe to say this video applies to us too
I used to chew on instant coffee and polishing it with a swig of Cola when I was still in university. We called it a poor man's Red Bull
Don't you have cheap store brand energy drinks that contain pretty much exactly the same stuff as red bull?
Pretty standard in Germany and that stuff is really cheap. Haven't bought it in a while. But I think the 1.5liter bottle is still less then 1€. I think 69/79Cent or so?
@@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece It was in 2012 in Russia - so imported products, while more common, were still somewhat expensive
@@Alexis-yg2xiOk that did sound weird to me being a polish student myself presently. Nowadays the more desperated ones just buy Red Bulls, Monsters or whatever trash energy drinks there are
That was funny we have a huge Polish population in Hereford, and I am sure it will come in handy.
Hope it will be useful, bud. Any questions pls DM me I will happily help!
There's also huge population in Herford. It's in Germany and I initially thought you misspelled the city name.
@@DilerNarkotykufThat's a wild coincidence 😆
TIL Polish culture is identical to the culture of my region of Indiana., right down to the mushroom hunting, Lyme disease infected, pilled-out alcoholics.
Brown County?
@@jic1 Martin, but anything south of Spencer counts I think.
Here in Erie Pennsylvania we have a local radio station that plays Polka music every Sunday morning until noon every week.
Welcome to the Happy Tappy.
@@whereswaldo5740 I think Polka is more Czech.
Genuinely no idea why this got recommended to me but it was an interesting video.
About alkohol you should mention about home made alkohol and risks of that
That’s right - bimber carries a potential risk. The problem is that home made alcohol is common (to some extent) in Poland and relatively rare abroad. Unless the data I’ve seen is incorrect . Cheers for your comment mate 💪
kilkając w filmik na głównej nie spodziewałem się że prezenterem będzie Al Pacino, nie wierze że do tej pory nikt nie wytknął podobieństwa xD bardzo ciekawy i na pewno przydatny materiał
Very interesting, thanks! Good reminder that a proper and detailed intake, with plenty of attention for lifestyle, is crucial to understand causes of symptomps, and possible treatment option.
P.S. I love Zubrowka!
Thank you kindly for your feedback mate I really appreciate it 👊 PS White Zubrowka is in my top three, however Chlopska Pedzona Bimber is my personal favourite (difficult to get in the UK tho!)
Dzień dobry wszystkim,
Polska przejmuje ten film, dziękujemy za ładny content 🇵🇱
This is really good to know! We all have particular things in our nation…so important to know!
I went to wikipedia, typed "lyme disease" and then opened language menu - and what? Polish article has the star as a "good article". Kinda funny :)
In Poland you can bring mushrooms to the local sanitary-epidemiological station where qualified worker will check if any of picked mushrooms is poisonous.
True. However my idea focuses on Poles abroad - and to be honest I’m not aware of any foreign service like SANEPID provides back home.
@@groupcall6570 I understand! I just wanted to tell a fun fact for those who don't know, as I think this mushroom service tells how much picking mushrooms is encoded in our culture.
Trafiłeś Panie kolego dobrze w algorytm z tymi Polskimi dolegliwościami xD po 2 latach w transporcie czuję się głubszy niż po szkole to czasami będę zerkać co dodasz.
@@0pluta149 zapraszam serdecznie! 💪
Polecam podcasty jakieś mądre albo książki czytane ( fundacja dla niewidomych publikuje za darmo), ok to teraz jest Audiobook. Jeżdżąc długo można ogłupieć niestety.
Canada is 32 times larger tha Poland by area, but by population is almost equal. Lets remember that diseases rather happen to people , not to land , so better compare number of cases according to population. Anyway it is still 10 more ;)
You’re absolutely right! Cheers for your feedback bud!
But you forgot that on area 32 times larger than Poland, there is a lot more mushrooms.
bardzo przytulny poradnik
I'm a shroom consumer but I don't like picking them. Though I like walking through forests and other areas that you could describe as places where "dogs bark with their arses" with no people, and bushes that most likely are filled with ticks.
Just about every place with enough shrubbery is full of the nasty buggers. They've even moved into public parks located in large cities.
Wow, that's a good quality video
Cheers buddy 💪
I'm a Pole, furthermore I'm a polish born polish student studying in Poland and it's the first time I heard about coffe with coke. Sounds like fake or really edge cases.
No offence obviously.
I think it was really good and informational video :)
Thank you, Alex! Perfect, as usually!
Glad you like it buddy and cheers for your feedback!
I came back to the same rural county that I grew up in, and many of the folks that I went to grade and high school with, never even left! Well, I had a bad mountain accident. One of the EMTs that was involved in my rescue was someone I went to school with, thus knew I am partly Polish... all he had to do to resuscitate me and fix me on the spot was put the scent of fresh Pirogi near my nose! My Trek was still a wreck though. Lol
Somehow it's 100% accurate for russians too
You forgot about symptoms of overdoing pierogi. Really dangerous, would have died a couple of times.
You think that's bad? Try doing bigos for 2 weeks straight.
We got lime disease here in the US. It’s not really that common, but we get plenty of cases.
It's common enough in Poland that the population is reminded about basic prevention methods every season by the ministry of healthcare.
The OTC medicine thing is very interesting, I wonder if it's got something to do with the fact that we have a comically large amount of OTC med advertisements in our television. Makes you feel sick with how much they try and get you to buy it. I feel like everyone has a bottle of APAP (paracetamol) on them or like a 5kg bag of it stashed away somewhere in their home lmao.
Interesting type of video.
Lol nice video.
I often order stuff from poland when I need supplements or otc peptides. Most polish brands I used are much cheaper and I never had any fake ones.
Like you guys. But your language is a pain to learn I tell you xD.
cheers buddy :)
We are fully aware, it's even a point of pride for us a bit. We don't expect anyone (that isn't Slavic at least) to learn it.
Excellent material with real and serious tips.
Polish forest mushrooms are true delicacy second to few, also pickled uhh I'm getting hungry thinking. But the poisonings are real and to be honest I'm scared to pick anything xD
Herbs, teas, infusions, "nalewki" - alcohol infusions are also very popular. Some are for taste others can be considered "alternative medicine" but I can't complain about the variety.
Drotaverine - There are recorded cases of deaths from this. I have no idea why it remains widely accessible in Poland, maybe some weird lobbying. I remember professors criticizing it during lectures on pharma chemistry.
Im pretty sure the same applies to everyone east of Berlin
Jak mówiła mojej świętej pamięci teściowa antybiotyku nie można zapijać wódą, ale koniakiem już tak (wg. niej jest zdrowszy)
We Finns do drink quite a bit of alcohol though xd. But idk how biased our EMS is towards alcohol poisoning symptoms. But like I would still call our drinking responsible as a whole rather than excessively dangerous, at least everyone who i know.
I don't know about the Finns, but heavy drinking is pretty much ingrained in Polish culture, which is problematic, to say the least.
@@Fossil_Frank on average my friends and family over 18 drink like half a dozen drinks per month. I dont think its that bad when you can drink more in one sitting without a problem.
@@iarmycombo5659 Well, sure you can drink more and many do. What you describe however, is pretty much already a habit and it doesn't take much to deepen it. Real "irregular drinkers" partake only on special occasions, probaly no more than a few times a year. While I agree that it's no one's business but yours (and you health's) as long as you drink responsibly, countries in which drinking is socially encouraged have huge problems with irresponsible drinkers. In Poland for example, drinking and driving (and killing or injuring someone in the process) is a real plague and has been for decades. It's gotten so bad that new laws have been passed, allowing for the confiscation of the perp's car (because taking away their permit never works - they still drive) - only a few places in Europe allow for that.
@@Fossil_Frank well it kind of does take some to deepen it. The drinking is actually pretty irregular. How my average for this year comes is i wanted to try out different mixtures a few months ago and drunk a few drinks a few weekends in a row. Then a month ago i went into a bar and drunk 10 drinks. Havent drunk anything since. So basically ive drunk alcohol for 6 weekends out of the 30 of this year and yet i have the average. This is not regular drinking. My brain cannot detect anything ordinary about it or make it feel normal. How the average comes for my parents is that for their work and most weekends they dont drink anything but then this summer on vacation they drink like a few per week and then they went to a festival for a weekend. Attending around 1-3 month parties that pretty much always includes drinking is how the rest of the people i know get their average plus occasiobal weekend bar nights/ single home drinks. None of these are a real habit. Yeah you know how to drink so its never a problem to go deeper but theres no reason to and half a dozen per month is not that much that it has to be regular at all.
About drunk driving, the limit is 0,5 promille. However our Road Safety Councel made a nice study stating that 1% of drivers on the road are under that limit and 0,2% of drivers over that limit. Poland (340) and Finland (40) have basically equal amount of drunk driving deaths if adjusting for population (Poland's 2019 figures,). Nobody is calling it a pandemic here though. We get more reminders about not driving while tired than not driving while drunk. Also in 2017 25% of traffic deaths in Finland were based on drunk drivers and in Poland only 12%. The law did lower the legal limit from 0,8 to 0,5 recently though.
@@iarmycombo5659 Hey, I'm not lecturing or judging you in particular, I've already said that as long as it causes others no harm, it's your own business if and how much you drink. I'm just saying that socially, it can be a big problem, depending on the country. I've no idea how Finlad measures up to Poland in that regard, but having lived there most of my life, I know Poland does have a drinking problem.
Deaths are one thing, general accidents another, but even outside of both, the amount of drunk drivers on the road is a real concern in Poland. There's not a lot of traffic police on the roads, but even so they catch an astounding number - just imagine how many get away. According to last year's numbers there have been over 95k arrests of this nature. Compare it to Finland's 1,6k (if I'm reading this data right) and it starts to paint the overal picture.
While I am not a Dr, this was nonetheless an interesting and entertaining video. One of these days I should embracey partial Polish heritage and go mushroom hunting 😂😂
@groupcall6570 Why do Poles overconsume pain medication for smooth muscle spasm?
I'm polish and have taken pain medication chronically in the past, but avoid it now.
Can you give more information on the kinds of things Polish people deal with medically?
You are such a cutie, thank you for the information!
Great video!
What is it about specifically Poland and specifically mushroom hunting? 77% is a staggering degree of agreement across a culture.
You must eat muchrooms in Poland or you lose citizenship
Man this video really makes me want to compile one for my own country lmfao.
I'm a doctor and we have some serious conditions that tends to happen only in out country and we are trained to deal with them but very rare in other countries.
For example tuberculosis is a rather normal problem where I am and we even have a tuberculosis control center, however the locals tends to ignore warnings and leave it up to chance, so very regularly you will see TB patients with Brain TB or stomach TB.
Or that we have a small flatworm epidemic on the regular, because people really like to eat fermented RAW pork or make sauces from fermented RAW river fish that tends to eat snails that's part of the flat worm reproductive cycles.
And don't let me get started on the various tropical disease, snake bites, etc, etc....
That’s really interesting mate! Please do! If not the video, an article would be super interesting to read! Thank you kindly for your comment
Mój ojciec był w krakowskim szpitalu w wakacje 2019 leczony z dziwnej choroby. Nieznany wirus, krew gęsta tak bardzo, że leki i kroplówki non-stop.
Czyli w sumie leczenie niewiadomo czego. Pół roku później, cov19.
Czy to to? Można się tylko domyślać ale trzeba przyznać, że było "ciekawie"
But, nice video, useful.
Came for the memes, stayed for a nice educational video :D
Czego to YT nie wrzuci na stronę tytułową ;)
Przepraszam w imieniu YT ;)
@@groupcall6570 Cóż człowiek by nie wiedział, że przez taki pryzmat można patrzeć na "pacjenta"
I wish I was Polish
Not once Ive heard someone use coke and coffee. Vodka and Redbull sure, but Coke and Coffee seems like asking for heart attack.
True! Or at least a “proper” syncope
I've tried the coke-and-instant-coffee mixture and it's disgusting to me. I'd rather drink chifir (russian coffee drink supposedly originating in gulags made by boiling a large ratio of coffee ground to water for a prolonged period, essentially coffee concentrate, known for being extremely bitter and having more caffeine than espresso, supposedly being strong enough to cause hallucinations- In my experience that is not true, same as similar hyped-up rumors about, for example, wormwood absinthe; We seem to intuit (wrongly) that psychoactive drinks that are especially bitter are inherently more psychoactive, which is often not the case). Tried both when I was a teenager pulling all-nighters for various reasons.
Also the Finns' high alcohol intake is particularly legendary because the only way they can get affordable alcohol (due to tariffs) is to travel in person to Estonia to stock up, and it is considered the objectively happiest country on Earth, which is remarkable because of the strong inverse correlation between happiness and alcoholism (unhappiness causes alcoholism AND alcoholism causes unhappiness, so while correlation does not imply causation, in this case there is a bidirectional causal link, aka a vicious spiral). One way of looking at it is that the Finnish government is so good at making its citizens happy (in recent years; Finland used to be known instead for a high suicide rate, so they really turned that around) that it manages that rating despite the alcoholism epidemic, and another is that Finns are just innately alcoholic to such a degree that it overrides their happy demeanor.
It makes sense for truck drivers, cause you can buy the ingredients at a gas station, and have a drink with an insane amount of caffeine in seconds. And pretty much all Poles are skilled in drinking straight vodka etc., so it's not a big deal to just down the thing, goes straight in the throat.
Theyre happy because of their aintideppresant intake
Isn't chifir made of tea?
@@minushuman Yeah, it is. I misremembered from years ago.
4:11 WAIT OVER 1 PERCENT OF HIS BLOOD WAS ALCOHOL
He was trying to get his vampire friend drunk, such a nice guy
@@johnsmiff8328 true!
ok, canada is 32 times bigger than poland, but... we both have about the same number of citizens so...
just a friendly reminder.
cheers
Yes absolutely! Good point cheers mate👊
Nigdy nie przestanie mnie zadziwiać że chodzenie po lesie jest tak rzadkie w Ameryce :)
Btw. jacy barbarzyńcy piją mieszankę coli z kawą rozpuszczalną? 😂
Also, if your Polish mom starts getting a little arthritis in her hands, discourage her from grabbing bunches of stinging nettle in order to cure it. In this case, the cure is worse than the disease... Based on a true story.
I love how nonopioid painreliver is illegal in US. How ironic
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I am now convinced hat poles are real.
But they are fey.
Fey are real and polish!
3:56 what's a DNV?
D and V - Diarrhoea and vomiting
@@groupcall6570 Alright, thanks
this channel is one of those random things house MD dvelves upon
Ah yes... The Mushroom Folk
I wonder if this video was sponsored by a certain beverage brand 😅
You must be either Indian or Polish.
Coke+instant coffe? Where did you find people drinking such abomination?
On British roads mate, on British roads.
Yeah... but what to do when your polish patient shows signs of excessive lettering?
Like, when the symptome is "dziewięćsetdziewięćdziesięciodziewięcionarodowościowego"?
You are trying to reverse it with a dose of wszczebrzeszyniechrzaszczbrzmiwtrCinie :D
@@groupcall6570 thanks! Will do... Or... I will take some Żubrówka... That usually helps!
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So basically a huge collection of cultural bad habits and misunderstandings :))))
That sucks, honestly, ok the mushrooms maybe not, but I live in Romania and we definetly have some of these cultural "unwritten laws" (which are actually bad) where your old granny comes to you and says "yes yes, take paracetamol it will make you feel better" "Noo you dont need to see doctor, just drink some tea, it will fix you yes" :)))
my favorite mushrooms to find in the grass fields here are psilocybe semilanceata ... and hmm, maybe i should get lyme shot cause im always bushwacking in the woods here too
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You should also get a good lawyer. If you're caught having those you're looking at a drug possesion rap, up to 3 years.
@@Fossil_Frank Only if you dry them iirc. They exist naturally in the wild, so we can't have laws against them existing on your property or live in your possession. Same issue with weed plants. They are literally a naturally occurring weed, so you can only prosecute for growing them inside or for drying it.
@@Frommerman I was talking about being caught with specimens on your person, not on your property. In that case their state doesn't matter. People have been sentenced for having fresh ones on them.
Oh, and if it wasn't obvious, I'm talking about Polish law, the most restrictive in Europe, where it comes to substance control.
Дротаверин, еее) у нас тоже люди любят его пить когда не надо. )
Хоть в этом западные и восточные славяне понимают друг друга))
@Group Call I believe your video could be called an illegal advertisment in Poland due to showing an alcohol brand name.
That's why I hope no one in Poland will watch it! :D
Can confirm: during high school i was burning thru ibuprofen like no tommorow.
Around 1 to 2 packs per month...
Yeah... i know it was not good for me... thats why i stopped now.
Śmieszne, że dziurawce nie mogą przesadzać z dziurawcem.
Chwila, moment... to ludzie innych narodowości nie jedzą tabletek bez recepty dla relaksu? Co za chory świat...
Wlasnie!
Polska 🫡🇵🇱
Not entirely about vodka? Unsubbed.
I thought your from India... 😂
Whyyyy?
😂
Grybas 🍄
What a non sense
Nigdy nic z tych rzeczy nie miałem - nie zatrułem się grzybami, nie przyniosłem kleszcza na boreliozę, herbatki mam ale nie pamiętam kiedy je piłem, leżą w apteczce na wszelki wypadek, nie znam tych leków, piję jedną kawę z rana ale taką po polsku, piję alkohol ale rzadko i co najwyżej jednego drinka albo jedno piwo. Co ty tu opowiadasz?
Nie wiem czy Ci gratulowac, czy wrecz przeciwnie ;)
@@groupcall6570 A może lepiej przyznać się do skrzywionego obrazu Polaka bo ludzie to oglądają i myślą sobie ci Polacy to są tacy głupi jakby inni byli lepsi.
@@matrixmannn taki obraz to nie wynik mojego dzialania - on wylania sie z danych statystycznych (chociazby spozycie lekow czy ilosc zachorowan na borelioze) - to po pierwsze. Moje zawodowej doswiadczenie (16 lat w zawodzie) odgrywa tu drugorzedna role.
Po drugie, z komentarzy wynika ze inne narody (glownie z Europy Centralnej czy wchodniej - a Nawet napisal ktos z USA) maja podobnie. To nie jest kwestia bycia “lepszym/madrzejszym” czy “gorszym/glupszym” a Juz na pewno nie powinna byc to kwestia urazonej dumy narodowej tylko krytycznego/obiektywnego spojrzenia na siebie i swoich krajanow.
Na koniec pozwole sobie przypomniec, ze w ostatniej czesci video mowie o tym zeby medycy nie poddawali sie stereotypom.
@@groupcall6570 No właśnie sam potwierdziłeś to co napisałem bo mówiłeś o tym wyłącznie w kontekście Polaków. Trzeba było mówić o pacjentach, a nie ze wskazaniem na konkretną nację. To tak jak ja bym napisał, że wszyscy Jankesi mają rogi.
Jezeli masz na to JAKIEKOLWIEK dane statystyczne, ja bym nie wstrzymywal publikacji.
Dude like. consider stoping life functions
That comment looks like a Russian 🧌 to me
Omg cześć polacy
Wow nie wiedziałam że przyjmujemy tyle tabletek
W TV bardzo duża część reklam to leki. 😢
@@aaergplay6022 no zauważyłam, zwłaszcza suplementy diety...
To ja Polaka pacjenta spotkasz to jeszcze musisz zapytać czy jest biedny. Bo nikt normalny nie pije kawy z kolą. Jak coś to wódkę z energetykiem.
Przecież mówił o kierowcach ciężarówek. To nie ma nic wspólnego z biedą, po prostu możesz sobie zrobić z butelki colki taką siekierę skurwiela jak pięć Red Bulli. A jak już jedziesz w pizdu godzin/dni , terminy gonią, a ty zaczynasz widzieć potrójnie, to nie myślisz o zdrowiu, tylko żeby się obudzić.
Taki sam pato-drink jak ta kawa z kolą.
proszę mi nie obrażać figowej z tigerem
Kierowcy zawodowi i inne zawody narażone na kontrole trzeźwości muszą jakoś sobie radzić.