I used to think chubbyemu vids were a bit embellished. Then, my 30-year-old buddy had a near-fatal stroke caused by an inner ear infection. Against the odds, he made a full recovery. So, yeah... Sometimes sh*t really goes sideways.
When they were making the 'House MD' series, the writers were initially worried that they would run out of bizarre medical cases that they could make episodes out of. Then then did a little research and discovered that they would NEVER run out of bizarre medical cases. The human body is amazingly complex and we are still discovering new and unusual ways in which things can go sideways every day. Kinda makes you happy just to get by!
Your buddy was a 30-year-old man presenting to the emergency room with slurred speech, paralysis with weak muscles, double vision and/or sudden visual loss, fatigue, lightheadedness, and/or vertigo. He was unable to communicate with staff that these signs and symptoms followed the onset of an inner ear infection. With the correct diagnosis and proper treatment, your buddy made a full recovery.
The fact that we consider dental records/dentistry in general completely separate from medical is insane considering how much each affects the other and your body health.
I'm one of those individuals with unlucky teeth. I've had cavities since I was a kid, root canals in 4th grade, and in the past few years a third of my teeth completely removed. The number of times I went to the ER for infected teeth, concerned that the infection could spread, and been prescribed ibuprofen and sent on my way is appalling. I had swelling moving to my eye socket once. All of this because I couldn't afford dental insurance and therefore couldn't pay to have my teeth professionally cared for. Brushing and flossing only does so much for someone with weak enamel and horribly crooked teeth. Dental care absolutely needs to be part of healthcare, I can't comprehend any reason it isn't.
@@SilvrRazorFeather probably the same reason that I have 2 cars and have to pay for insurance policies on both of them rather than some kind of lower combined rate. I can't drive both of them at once. Everything in the US comes down to shaking money out of our pockets to "profit"
@@justinsnider9772honestly dude?? you are blessed 😭😭😭 i just wanted to let you know you’re cared for. even by randos online. glad you’re alive dude. very glad, even though i may be a stranger. sending you good energy/ prayers/ whatever you believe in 🎉❤
Updated: My mom could be on this channel in the future. She put 8 ounces of myrrh essential oil on her whole body to anoint herself. Her eyes became needles, her blood pressure went so high she couldn't communicate, she had seizures. It was nuts. I am glad she is alive. Update: it seems like as of today she is mostly if not all okay from it. I should have said her pupils became needles. Thank you to all the concerned people. I honestly have no outlet to talk to anyone about how crazy she is getting outside of my therapist once a week. My sister still won't have anything to do with her, so it is all on me. She never lets go of pain. 😥 I wish I could teach her to forgive.
My mom died from infective endocarditis. They figured it came from her teeth. They pulled all of her teeth and had her on IV antibiotics. But 2 days before she was supposed to have valve replacement surgery, she had a stroke. She lived 2 months after that before she died at home. Please take care of your teeth.
Oh I am so sorry!!! My cousin died from infective endocarditis. She got it from intravenous drug use. It was terrible. But I can't imagine going through all that you went through with your mom. Having all her teeth pulled and then STILL having all those complications is so unfair.
Nah, having serious bowel issues can cause even the sanest person to do crazy things trying to fix them. Studies of IBS patients have found that people say they'd happily give up _sex_ to be able to eat whatever they wanted to again. It's truly that bad.
@@sandboy5880 Right, because some internet troll that feels the need to punch down at people has the self-discipline necessary to be hyper-vigilant about what they eat, lest some tiny amount of an ingredient in it cause a flare-up that makes you want to die or, in some cases like with Chron's, literally puts them in the ER. I have to do that every day, I can only eat a couple of different meals on a regular basis and my options for occasional treat meals are quite limited. I've been doing that for _years,_ as has everyone that suffers from things like IBS, IBD (they're different) and Crohn's Disease. Tiny amount of corn will make me badly nauseous and miserable for _hours._ Once got hit with that because the two catfish fingers I'd eaten turned out to use cornbread in the breading. Even trace amounts of gluten can make people with Crohn's disease wish they were dead for a day or more. All of us have to have iron self-control and discipline or we'd kill ourselves over all the flare-ups. Constant bowel issues destroy all quality of life for those who suffer from them. I doubt you'd last even a week with any of those bowel issues.
@sandboy5880 I agree with both of you. If the issues are serious enough, you’ll do whatever you can to alleviate those symptoms. Poor self-control in this case, I absolutely agree, but I don’t think many of us truly understand his mental state at the time. Pain makes people do irrational things.
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I got a case of infective endocarditis caused by a small mouth injury at work. I was born with a defected heart valve so the vegetation spread rapidly, within days of the first symptoms. I got what the surgeons called the commando procedure which is a double valve replacement, aortic root replacement, and repair the inside fibrous body. Hats off to the ones that spend decades of their life learning this complex craft
Registered Dental Assistant here and it absolutely terrifies and angers me that the United States keeps medical and dental care separate. Not only does it make it totally unaffordable, but also limits access to dental education. Most of my patients are over the age of 60 and 80% (not an actually stat but an educated guess) tell me that they were never taught the importance of taking care of your teeth and how it effects your overall health. Our office is small (just 1 doctor, 1 hygienist, 1 office manager and 1 assistant) so we don’t see a lot of patients but I’ve seen enough to know that if medical and dental would be together I would have healthier and happier patients. We do a lot a work that we know we are never going to see a dime for simply because they are suffering and no one will help them
If it makes you feel any better, this arrangement is quite common even in countries with socialised healthcare (like here in Denmark; dental is not covered after turning 18).
@@casperkampthat’s crazy when dental health is just as important to our well being What’s also crazy is eye doctors are often not covered by most insurances here either.
I just wanted to say the phonology is extremely helpful, breaking down words to understand their definition is an amazing excercise that will let you know the definition of words without having to check, and I've been obsessed with it my whole life, it always helps when you break down a biology word into the origins of each part of the word.
My parent had heart surgery a few months ago. I was surprised how seriously they took his dental health before and after the surgery. Turns out proper dental care is vital for overall health but the US doesn't treat it as such. Dental and vision should ALWAYS be included in healthcare and it's bull$hit that it's not.
If you have too much bad bacteria in your teeth and body you have dental issues, because you don't have enough good bacteria to even make sure the teeth don't get affected by bad bacteria. It also depends on genetics as well, because I don't have teeth problems anymore.
I love how organs are so intolerant of random things, two bottles of pepto bysmol, gas station sushi, bleach, 120 probiotic gummies, a gallon of soy sauce, pesticides
It's not really random but I get your drift. Most of these are simple overdoses. The overdose causes a chemical change that throws the body's homeostasis way off. The pesticide is just pure poison. There's no safe dose of that. The sushi was not shelf stable, which also sabotages homeostasis. And of course people wait until they can no longer speak or see to get care, so that adds 3d10 damage.
My dad also had a broken heart valve, started out really inconspicuous with him being a bit short of breath. GP thought it was pneumonia at first so they prescribed him something to manage the shortness of breath. But then one day he nearly had a heart attack or infarct (i can't remember) in his sleep and he drove himself to the hospital, which was about 30 minutes away. Once there they quickly realised he had almost died and rushed him to a bigger hospital ,with one of the best cardiology departments in the country, by ambulance. Took them a few days to figure out what exactly was going on but eventually they replaced his heart valve with the valve of a pig's heart, which I think is kinda neat lol. Anyway, he recovered in full and his heart has been so healthy as of late that they are scaling back some if his cardiology appointments.
Modern medicine is so amazing and human bodies are insanely durable. A pig's heart valve? Sounds medieval yet futuristic at the same time lol. Glad he's doing okay now
Reminds me of a case I read about years ago. The patient had inflamation on a knee replacement joint. Explorative surgery found the joint to be coated in a bacteria normally found in the mouth. Apparently overzelous flossing lead to gum laceration...leading to bacteria in the blood ...leading to the joint being infected.
I dont think you've ever described a medical condition as terrifying as "vegetation on the heart". Definitely going to brush my teeth for 120 minutes after watching this.
We are recommended the 2-2-2-2 method. Put a 2cm string of poothtaste on your brush and brush for 2 minutes, 2 times a day. Finally after brushing your teeth don’t eat for 2 hours.
In Bulgaria, we make yogurt using the Lactobacillus bulgaricus bacteria and it's considered a medicine, but we eat it like every day as normal yogurt, we've made it for like hundreds of years and never got a case of someone getting very ill from it. Some foreigners however, can't tolerate it very well and get symptoms similar to drinking fermented milk.
I'm sure there were cases, only the medical system in Bulgaria is so bad that nobody noticed or announced it. Many people die without correct diagnosis.
If you sat and ate 4 pounds of your special yogurt every day I think you’d be sick too. It’s not a matter of whether probiotics are bad (they’re not) but instead a matter of dosage and that he took FAR too much of it
Agreed. I make my own naturally fermented kimchi and hot sauces and have never in over 30 years had a problem. Have also taken high potency pro biotic supplements per medical advice after a treatment with a very strong antibiotic, but I followed the instructions I was given to the letter. The problem is that many times people think if a little is helpful then excess is great
my father ended up having some sort of heart infection when i was about 8 back in 2004, it actually took the doctors awhile to finally be able to finally diagnose it. what caused it was supposedly from flossing. they ended up performing surgery on him removing his pericardium because of his heart infection and they were able to treat him and finally cure his infection. i do remember going to the hospital to visit him before his surgery and him being pretty much out of it due to all the drugs and shit they were putting in him, i also remember the tubes coming out of his chest to help drain the infection. being a young kid you dont fully understand a whole lot of what's going on and i never realized how close i was to losing my father over the heart infection. the doctors said his survival was pretty low but somehow he pulled through surgery and made a full recovery.
I was dealing with a lot of strange medical problems since last summer. My motto to motivate me to not lose faith in fighting for myself was that “I don’t want to be the subject of a ChubbyEmu video” and finally got an MEI and they scheduled me with a neurologist because they discovered what they think is MS. My pcp thought I was just “beginning to notice my age.” I’m 30 and I told her my retiree neighbor shouldn’t be out pacing me mowing the lawn.
It is frankly criminal to me how little regard is given to dental care in the US. Everything from it being separate insurance to the lack of record sharing and lack of effort on both sides of someone's providers to bridge the gap...your teeth can literally kill you. I feel so strongly about this because of the way it nearly destroyed my family. My mom had a knee replacement, and while it was current practice at the time to give preventative antibiotics after a such a replacement and before dental work for 2 years thereafter, following that 2 years they stopped. She then got her very next dental work done without them, and she nearly died. She'd developed a massive infection on that artificial knee from that dental work, and it festered so long she went septic and developed necrotizing fasciitis. She lost 80% of her thigh, had to have her calf sliced open from ankle to knee to help it drain, and spent a month in ICU, then 6 months in a level 1 trauma center's burn unit, and much more time after that in assisted care. She lives with me now, can miraculously still walk despite all the damage - frankly she's lucky she didn't lose the leg, let alone her life. But she's forever in pain from all the damage and the changes made to her walking gait that cause her to put her weight down on that leg improperly. I'm terrified she's going to fall one of these days when I'm not around to help her. She's actually an anonymous case study on the report that made it standard practice for dentists to give those preventative antibiotics for much longer after artificial replacements. However, nothing can heal her mental health or chronic pain or the fact she's going to remain partially crippled the rest of her life, not to mention her ongoing fear of dentists for understandable reasons, but I can't get her to seek treatment she needs for some dying teeth. It's just so frustrating. As to the probiotics side of this, I'm a big believer in them, but I refuse to take any medical gummies period simply because of their treat-like qualities. At minimum I feel like people need to take them VERY seriously - keep them locked away from children, take them only as directed, understand that probiotics are not a replacement to but rather a supplement with antibiotics, and even then should probably wait if one is currently suffering from any kind of internal open wound like dental work or any other infection in the gut. Bacteria is still bacteria and even with the good ones, there is always a possibility of too much of a good thing. And for the love of all that is holy, brush your dang teeth.
So sorry for what your mom went through. I am wondering if by any chance your mom had other underlying conditions or any complications with the knee replacement surgery. The guidelines in Canada stopped supporting prophylactic antibiotic for dental procedures for joint replacements with no complications since 2016.
I had a n aortic valve replacement (to fix a genetic defect) and got infective endocarditis on the artificial valve 3 months later. The new valve was basically about to fall off which would be very fatal. They did an immediate re-operation to replace the valve again. I had to go on 6 weeks of aggressive IV antibiotics to make sure the infection wouldn’t come back. The cause of the infection was never identified. It was 10 years ago on March 15.
@@sempergumby2341 You still wouldn't be able to sue them for it even if they said so. If people started sueing for nosocomial infections, hospitals and healthcare would go extinct overnight. No doctor would look at any patient out of fear of getting sued. And it's.ot even the doctors' fault - some bacteria are just really, really good at surviving and spreading.
@raerohan4241 on the contrary, an investigation could and often does find egregious violations of safety protocols usually involving failure of proper applications aseptic technique throughout the hospital. Not just in the O.R. either, but even the centralized sterilization department where the operating equipment is sterilized.
@gachatana9656 No, that's a big false equivalency. One can be spread from airborne droplets or contacting a contaminated surface and then contact with mucosal membranes, from any number of people or surfaces, delivering a viral load of varying ranges altering the period of incubation and subsequent symptoms. It is hard to pinpoint the origin, while this case came from direct contact during the specific few hours someone's chest is opened during surgery and the heart being directly contacted. It was either the O.R. team that violated safety protocols, or the sterilization team that was responsible for sterilizing those specific instruments. Either way, it is why they hammer this into healthcare workers' heads during college and what feels like every month with mandatory safety meetings, online training, and review boards. It is also a big reason malpractice insurance exists as well as CGIP and OSHA inspections. Educate yourself and stop spewing ignorant fallacies trying to gaslight people who actually know the job.
I'm always amazed at how thorough so many of these medical teams are in these vids. I almost died of pneumonia as a kid b/c the quacks I was taken to see first called it a "chest cold" and then said it had been so long that I must be faking it to get to stay home from school. I went to a diff place where the lady who became my new dr heard me get haflway thru a breath before she snapped "get her to x-ray NOW".... I found out 20min later that I was 2-3 days away from dying of walking pneumonia if I went w/o treatment b/c of the quacks in my previous clinic. :/
Yooo similar experience, but it was the local regional hospital. There are too many doctors and nurses who let personal prejudices and/or unprofessional behaviour, incompetency, ego, etc. affect the quality of care they give their patients. story: Felt sharp pain for months in my abdomen but only when I slept, until I collapsed to my knees and had to hold back my screams [I would've screamed the loudest in my life, but was volunteering at a daycare and childhood trauma is not a nice gift] twice 6 days apart. Went to the emergency room twice. Saw two different doctors, first young and second old. First said, and I quote, "There is absolutely no possibility for you to be suffering anything more than a muscle strain/pulled muscle. Take tylenol, take this topical numbing cream, and you'll be fine in two to three weeks." and his reasons were age [14, "You are too young for any serious health issue, in fact I won't even bother for x-rays or tests because we both know they'll come back clean], gender [not his at the time], and physical fitness [I appeared fatter than I was] . . . he should've been held accountable but we didn't get his name. The second doctor took one look at me, left, came back asking my mother to take a picture of me to compare to a photo from a month or two prior. We could see what was wrong instantly. I was literally bright yellow compared to my typical olive tan so nobody could tell that over the last month or less I had been getting progressively sicker bc everyday was more yellow than the last. An ultrasound fifteen minutes later confirmed it for us; I was on the verge of liver failure. My gallbladder and gallduct were so obstructed that nothing could leave my liver and it was essentially eating itself away. I was immediately taken for thorough ultrasound scans, xrays, and then over the next two days I underwent two emergency operations, one of which had to be done out-of-town. Sure a week is a week...but according to the second doctor, he guesstimated I'd have hit liver failure within the next 2 weeks at most. And then a nurse pushing my gurney to the operating room fatshamed me on the way and made assumptions about my dietary habits regarding McDonald's in front of my mum (she blamed my situation on eating fast food every day, a burger or two at least, but shut up when my mother told her off---read: shouted at her--and I made sure to smugly inform her I preferred fruits and veggies over meat, dairy, bread, etc. and my McD's order at the time was a ceasar salad, grilled chicken on the side [I never ate it], and used only half the dressing; with orange or apple juice depending on my mood).
What do you call someone who graduated top of the class with flying colours, and what do you call someone who barely passed? You call them both doctors. Stay safe, people
Andy Hallett, the actor who played Lorne in Angel, ended up with cardiomyopathy at 29 because he got a dental infection right after they finished filming the series and it traveled to his heart, weakening it and he never really recovered. He had to give up acting and less than 5 years afterwards he was dead from heart failure.
This is the first time I hear a story that's even remotely similar to what happened to me. For me it probably started with an infected tooth and bacteria entered my bloodstream ( I only realized it afterwards, as the tooth didn't hurt). I also developed splenomegaly, which was quite painful (for someone who had just given birth and had stiches on her behind), but I was unusually sturdy and went undiagnosed for far too long thinking it was a common cold (it was covid season too) or some post-birth anemia that also caused fever. I had fever and anemia for over a month, lost weight and bunch of hair. My GP really failed me. Since I was holding up well (usually having shivers and sweats at night), my GP didn't even believe I was that ill, lol. Only because my family insisted, I went to a hospital (I was still hoping this would resolve on it's own and the GP didn't have any other ideas). I ended up with an open heart surgery. I had to leave my baby for weeks. It was hard for both of us, since he wasn't trained to eat from a bottle. Eh.. but I guess thanks to my family and hospital - I'm alive and doing quite well, with a synthetic patch on my valve. Also, in the hospital I received a heart Ultra sound and when doctors were talking among themselves (and not to me) about my heart vegetation.. I was truly shocked.
Now I want regular gummies. I had a liver transplant and I take some medication, and it's forbidden for me to eat pro biotic yogourts, it can cause me a blood infection.
This is damn near exactly what happened to me last year. I was 29 too, and had a vegetative growth of staph bacteria in my tricuspid heart valve and horrible sepsis. Aka bacterial endocarditis. I almost died and had to have heart surgery to remove the growth. No blood clots whatsoever luckily. i.v clindamycin and flucloxacillin for multiple weeks and a 3 month hospital stay later i was released and am completely fine now. Even like 50 years ago this wouldve been a completely life-altering thing and i would've needed a pacemaker, meds, and a mechanical valve for the rest of my life. I'm also very lucky it wasnt MRSA. I owe my life to the surgeon and cardiologists who figured out what was going on with me and fixed me up ❤
I Uber a lot. and the amount of horror stories I hear (bc my area also happens to have a shitton of hospitals) is just astounding. One lady, was talking about how she was visiting her bro, who had a bacterial growth over his heart/lungs, and spread to his brain. So I told her, "well thank God you got him admitted to a hospital, if they keep him on antibiotics and stabilize him, full recovery ez) and she said how she almost didn't bc her bro kept telling her not to for like a week straight. Then I bring up the topic of health and diet, and i recommend stocking supplements/vitamins etc. and keeping in touch w/ others so you can ping off eachother when either of u looks off. and she tried to give me an excuse about how she can't justify the cost of getting vitamins. The lady smokes, but she won't put 3 bucks aside a year for a bottle of vitamin C?!
@@bobzillathebabykicker2981 Most people tbh. Friend has numerous health issues, is obese, and assumes he won't live to 40. Eats junk food all day, hasn't even bothered to buy a bottle of oregano oil I recommended years ago but buys every new FOTM game that comes out, and complains he's always low on money. The lack of nutritional education (or even logical thinking) in this country, if not the entire world, is astonishing. It should be taught in schools since it's so important to actually living, whereas crap like history, chemistry and animal biology isn't. Or worse, it is taught, but it's completely wrong (US food pyramid). 2 billion people in the world are iodine deficient. 1.2 billion are obese. And even if you try to educate folks, many don't even listen, or worse; call you wrong. It's lunacy.
I lost my wife of over 41 years to sepsis, rapidly advancing from a dental infection on a weekend. Within around 6 hours of initial pain, she had died while I was outside having a cigarette. Initiated CPR to no avail, while on the phone with 911. Brief interruption to open the door for law enforcement, who ran and retrieved his AED to no avail. EMT's arrived, took over compressions to no avail when the paramedics arrived and plugged in the monitor. No pattern, not even pulseless electrical activity and I recommended discontinuing CPR (old military medic here, I know those monitors and treatments intimately). They continued for another 20 minutes, then called the hospital for the code to be called. Four hours earlier, she'd helped me carry in $400 in groceries. Couldn't eat for a week, as every time I saw that food, I saw her carrying it inside for me. Two weeks of nightmares of her ribs fracturing under my compressions.
@@bobzillathebabykicker2981 You got a comment notification from me yesterday, right? I don't see that comment, or any other comment under this reply chain either. Can't tell if censorship or someone's blocked me.
@@Omerfayyaz2001 Stem-cell and lab-grown organ tech is really coming along lately. I hope things like heart valve replacements eventually become as simple as pulling a fresh scaffold out of a meat incubator in a closet.
Yes - It is disquieting! Maybe the reason the bacteria are able to adhere and reproduce is because it's on the bottom side of the valves, and blood rushes past it all the time. The white cells aren't there long enough to see the problem and phagocytize the bacteria because they keep getting flushed away by the next heartbeat-full of blood.
I had endocarditis myself a couple of months ago. I watched some of your videos while I was in the hospital, actually. My case was an unusual one so I'd narrate it in my head like one of your scripts for fun. Very cool to see you talking about it!
I'm 29 my initials are BC so that was kinda wild especially considering my history. Every time i visit the dentist I have to take antibiotics for at least three days before I get any work on my teeth done. I was born with a very rare heart condition and due to the surgery my valves can catch bacteria more easily than a normal person never happened yet, but this is the exact reason why i need to take antibiotics beforehand.
@@chubbyemu Yep! I was born with Transposition of the great arteries. I'm actually the oldest arterial Switch in Louisiana. My pulmonary valve acts as the aortic valve and vice versa for my aortic after the switched the two main arteries back.
@@wackyfantastic8857Modern medicine amazes me. Like how the hell do you even find out that your heart valves are more sensitive to bacteria than normal?? Like don't get me wrong I understand they do some tests, get some weird results and go "hey bad news", but it's just so nuts to me that it's even possible. Best wishes to you and yours, glad to hear you're doing alright with your condition (I hope that's not a bad way to word it, not sure how else to word it though. If it came out bad just know there's no bad intent there lol)
I take a probiotic supplement every day, 50 billion live cultures. However, mine is a capsule which i take with a meal. My doctor recommended it because i had some gut issues after an antibiotic course (actually after a wisdom tooth removal). He had said at the time that most bacteria you get in a probiotic yogurt that reaches your stomach likely wont survive the stomach acid to the point they can replicate later, but a longer lasting capsule has a better chance of surviving the roughly 6-8 hours it will take to get to the large intestine. But ye, he definitely wasnt a fan of probiotic yogurts etc, said basically most healthy people will get nothing more than bacteria in their mouth from them, where it wont do any good lol.
@HappyBeezerStudios -- there was an abscess after forming deep below the tooth which is why it had to come out. After the removal of an abscess you will be prescribed antibiotics.
The thing with fermented foods is that they have to be a regular part of your diet for a large enough population to be established in your guts (since few make it at any given time). You also have to eat fibrous foods that will feed these bacteria. Most people would benefit immensely from both, but if for whatever reason someone isn't able to make that change, then yeah, a probiotic supplement will do more for you than eating yogurt for a few days.
I appreciate that someone took the time to make sure the subtitles are correct (including punctuation). So often, RU-vid’s automated subtitles contain strange phonetic spellings in videos with lots of technical terms.
If you haven’t guinea pigged yourself, you aren’t a real scientist/doctor. A hundred years ago, they’d just try their own new drugs and see what happens 😂 kinda how we discovered the effects of LSD
I never would have guessed it could do all that without even swallowing the main body of the gummy. I sometimes drink probiotic stuff like Kombucha in excess, but it never feels like it's altering my health in a perceptible way.
getting yourself sick to film a video like this reminds me of the guy who infected himself with helicobacter pylori to prove they cause ulcers. or the doctor who used cocaine on himself as a local anesthetic to map out peripheral nerves (before it was known how bad cocaine was). We appreciate your self sacrifice to give us these educational awesome videos.
The statement at the end about how eating yogurt and having other risk factors may correspond to endocarditis is really interesting, since for much of human history, we've eaten fermented foods that contain lactic acid bacteria, like yogurt or sauerkraut. This wasn't just because it tasted good, but also because it allowed longer term storage of perishable foods like vegetables and milk, since that bacteria would out-compete spoiling bacteria that would make it unsafe. Modern consumption of fermented foods has now become more of a dietary choice or trend rather than a survival necessity, so I'd really like to see what the incidences of that type of endocarditis is in cultures that still rely heavily on fermented foods for survival.
That would be interesting. If those cultures have low rates of other risk factors, like diabetes, they might not have an increased rate of infectious endocarditis.
I think South Korea would be a good subject seeing they eat quite a far bit of Kimchi (though not for survival) and is a first world country with good healthcare
@@amicaaranearum Most literature I've personally seen involving such communities (ie. what little is available as a layman) do suggest much lower instances of insulin resistance that correlates with lower consumption of most known dietary risk factors.
Some cultures (like turkey, georgia, etc ---> Joghurt/Kefir!) used to and still drink a lot of tea. There are some studies suggesting tea might protect against cavities, maybe (my guess) in spite of poor dental hygiene.
It's been known for at least 30 years That eating Milk / Dairy products when you get old is really dangerous. My parents got an health boost from switching to standard yohgurt to vegetables ones + Vitamin D.
This is, as you say, an extreme example, but it really speaks to an issue I have of people calling things in the microbiome "good bacteria" versus "bad bacteria". It suggests, to some people, that there's no risks involved, because they're helpful, beneficial bacteria, not harmful ones.
A good example is staphylococcus epidermidis. Very common as part of the skin flora. And even staphylococcus aureus, which isn't rare (about 21-30%) on the skin and upper respiratory tract, but can also cause issues starting with things like pimples, but can be as bed pneumonia, meningitis and even to sepsis.
There is a similar thing with medications like Methylphenidate (Adderall). Because it benefits people like me with ADHD, Neurotypical people looking for a way focus on studies assume it will give them a boost in concentration. In reality, there is little to no scientific evidence that it has any significant effect on people who don't need it, but is associated with increased satisfaction and a more positive perception of one's own preformance. That's cause this medication is basically diet Methamphetamine. And yes, it can get you high. And as a tangent, I wouldn't take this if I didn't need to. You can't consume that much caffine, alcohol is COMPLETELY off the table. I sweat a bunch and get dehydrated easily, and you can forget to eat and drink cause it supresses your hunger. The phrase "The only difference between medicine and poison is the dose" really needs to be stressed more when it comes to this sort of stuff.
I have IBS and while I knew probiotics might help, I didn't try to figure it out on my own. I asked my GP and took the one she recommended (Align Probiotic). I only take it at the dosing it says to a well. It has helped and if I stop taking it my IBS gets worse, so I'm stuck using it for the rest of my life.
My 49-year-old husband died last November from MRSA pneumonia and blood infection. He was diabetes II and didn't take care of his health. He went to the hospital on a Sunday, and he died the following Saturday from a heart attack. I say Diabetes killed him in the end because he didn't test his sugar or use his insulin, and his whole body suffered. DON'T GET DIABETES II, AND IF YOU DO, TAKE CARE OF IT! LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! ❤❤❤❤❤
@@consumingkazoos"look captain, I get that the all berries thing was a happy accident and that turned out okay, but this is just begging for all lawsuit"
I'm assuming the gut infection causing a major case of the runs was C-Diff, yeah? My father had gotten C-Diff after receiving vancomycin for a bad staph infection in his right big toe. His infectious disease doctor actually recommended he take a probiotic supplement (by following the normal dosage, of course) to combat C-Diff's tendency to grow back after a full course of antibiotics. Not only did his C-Diff never come back after a full course of Dificid, but he felt even better than before. I think the moral of the story here is that everything is best when consumed in moderation. Anything in extreme excess can be deadly. Side note, watching your videos has inspired me to apply to medical school to become a neurologist! Thank you Chubbyemu!
It's a thin line we walk many times oblivious to how close to edge we are... until we cross it. Blowing out a heart valve is a life long issue. A recovery... one reason I take it easy when I have a fever. Lots of things can break if you push too hard.
Exactly why dental care should be included with normal health care. Dental care is so important for your overall health and many people struggle alone to have health insurance. So I'm sure we have a ton of people with really bad dental care in the US. Hope this changes one day. No matter how little you make you deserve health / dental insurance. Providing for our populations health care makes us stronger as a whole.
A good friend of mine got really sick and was put in the ICU, doctors were stumped then after a few days discovered Mark had an infected tooth. A day to late the infection spread through his body, he got septic and died the next day. Always take care of your teeth !!
Dental health is so important to heart health. Had gestational hypertension with kids 4, 5, and 6; that developed into preeclampsia with 5 and 6. During that time I had broken teeth. Pregnancy 7, got a lot of my teeth taken care of, two root canals and 8 rounds of antibiotics for various infections. No hypertension through the pregnancy. This video and my recent experience have committed me to rebuilding fantastic oral hygiene practices.
“This is how their organs shut down…” and all the other variations of that line are totally iconic at this point. You always know how to keep me coming back Bernard ❤. Keep up the great work man, you rock!
If you slow down the video then click on the exact moment youll see a wisdom tooth trying to come out next to it is a pencil drawn face. The wisdom tooth and the one next to it has a superimposed face of a green man with a grin and the other has a dod style face with shades. Some funny stuff representing tooth ailments 😅😅
The body always working to maintain homeostasis, and part of that is keeping our own probiotics at the right levels. The balance of probiotics that each person has in their own body is important, individually, no one of them is ‘good’ in high numbers. If that balance gets out of whack, it can cause harm. That homeostasis is vital throughout the body, if a person wants to change something, it’s a good idea to run it by a doctor first. particularly as a person ages.
"In response to the attack or the probiotics, the spleen felt a slight discomfort. The rest of the organs asked it: "Are you swollen because you are starving of oxygen, or are you starving of oxygen because you are swollen?" The spleen replied: If the bacteria were to grow it might cause me a bit of trouble. But would you starve? Nah, I'd swell." 04:25
4:57 its little details like that, that made a purely educational video, entertaining, i spent 2 minutes trying to pause and find it, and i was rewarded with laughter please please please keep doing things like that, i think it was an awesome choice in editing
i had a major stomach surgery back in 2011 and i remember once i was adding solid foods back to my diet having many issues. I started taking probiotics and still do today. I have however been doing this with my doctors knowledge and advice. To much of anything can make you sick or even kill you, even things usually good for you such as water. Stay safe.
I had breast cancer, and I was learning about how normal food acts in the body against cancer. I was also following a very successful course of treatment outlined by my oncologist and surgeon. When I told some friends about it, one friend said ginger is good for nausea. Most times I know that's true for me. But not while having cancer. My stomach really hurt. I was also surprised I didn't gravitate toward citrus fruits for vitamin C. But I knew fresh produce has vitamin C, so no problem. Especially since I always started in the produce aisle in my grocery. One of my friends suggested probiotics. I told her I've got enough going on inside. I don't want to add on any bacteria that might cause something worse. Now that you put out this video, I'm glad I didn't.
Good call. Probiotics are not innocuous. They aren't FDA regulated so you can't guarantee what you're ingesting in terms of the amount and type of bacteria. Also, your gut is full of several thousands of different types of bacteria that have a different balance for each person. Why would a probiotic with 5 to 10 types bacteria solve a dysbiosis? Additionally, some probiotic strains have been engineered to be antibiotic resistant so when people take them with antibiotics they aren't killed. How do you treat a resistant probiotic infection? Probiotics are a waste of money. You're better off just trying to get back to your normal diet so your flora can restore itself.
@@kathleenvargovich9539 did it help? I'm always fascinated hearing how the exact same substance affects different people in such vastly different ways.... Or even the same person in different circumstances.
You are so intelligent! Please tell your friends to shut the fuck up. There are many souls lost to alternative bullshit. Steve Jobs didn't die because cancer outpaced modern medicine. He would have been okay if he wasn't so fucking obsessed with "plant based diets" and random shit made in a lab that a guru sold to him. THAT is what killed him. He would have survived the cancer otherwise.
This last summer my gums were constantly aching due to bacterial gastric reflux. I also have periodontal disease - the perfect prerequisite for the bacteria to get from my gums to my blood stream and then hello endocarditis... My doctor was nonchalant despite the fact that my throat cultures were repeatedly showing dangerous bacteria. I went that far to order by myself blood bacterial culture and then an echocardiogram to look for vegetations on the heart valves because my gums were constantly aching, signifying bacterial infection there. Finally that resolved when I stopped my sleep medication, which was causing the gastric reflux by relaxing the esophageal sphincter when I slept. Now I brush my teeth with salt (great antimicrobial) and then swish 2 drop of tea tree oil (antimicrobial, antiinflammatory) in my mouth for 30mins and spit out.
infective endocarditis usually happens in drug addicts whom share syringes. immunocompromised people catch it as well as a secondary infection. Sometimes you can find old calcifications on their mitral valves without them even knowing about it which can be mistaken for active vegetation if the echo Cardiographer isn't experienced.
As someone who takes pro biotic gummies and multivitamins every day. They are safe in moderation just please follow the bottle. The guy In the example ate 60 times the severing size. As long as you follow the instructions they have major health benefits.
Of course I use them as directed and mainly use the gummies because I don’t really eat a lot of natural sources of the probiotic bacteria… Presumably the Keflex wouldn’t have beaten me if I did eat more yogurt but…
Very interesting video. I'm a PhD student researching probiotic lactobacillus engineering and I was not aware of these instances of opportunistic lactobacillus infection. Food for thought
Well, now I know why after an extremely long and arduous wisdom tooth extraction ordeal the dentists insisted I get stuck in the butt with an additional anti-biotic injection in addition to the normal course of oral anti-biotics. Fortunately for me, I don't presume to argue with doctors over things I know nothing about. 🤣
Well, I hope that at least, unlike me, You got a proper anaesthesia for such procedure (extraction). For me, that was an hour-long drilling out of tooth pieces, with anaesthesia being completely inefficient. As a child. I don't remember getting any antibiotics, though.
@@deltalima6703 This attitude by the dentists (towards a 10 y.o. child) is exactly the reason I haven't visited one for over 20 years, and why I'll never let any of these sadists touch me ever again.
So after a hysterectomy for cancer, I got an infection - they put me on every antibiotic including experimental versions of those I'm allergic to. Finally able to eat and starved after 7 days no food, what does the hospital "nutritionist" feed me? SUGAR-COVERED WAFFLES, WITH 7 "Breakfast Syrups" & powdered sugar... Been having sugar cravings & gut issues ever since🤦♀️
