I had tape worm when I was around 7 years old and it was EXTREMELY unpleasant, I was so uncomfortable and ill from it. I would never in a million years infect myself on purpose, not to mention that you'd be putting everyone else in your household at risk too.
HORRIFYING. 😭 i am however fascinated by creepy crawlies that are _actually_ used in modern medicine! leeches can be used to increase blood flow when reattaching a limb, and certain maggots can be used to clean necrotic wounds since their saliva is antibacterial and the are very precise in targeting only dead tissue! more precise than tools!
@@b.randey4599 they likely ingested it unknowingly via contaminated food (like meat, for example). It's quite rare for it to happen but it's not impossible.
@b.randey4599 handling cat litter without wearing gloves, and flea bites can also transmit them. I was cat-sitting for a relative, and their cat was horribly sick with them, and when they found out how expensive treatment was, I ended up with my cat.
I remember an ex-friend of mine trying to get me to do a diet with her and thought it was a good idea until she told me it was to essentially starve myself for 2 weeks and only consume water and supplement pills. I was like, "That's not a diet, that's just starving yourself like you're on a deserted island. That's going to damage your body." She told me that it was ok, that many people have done it, and after you finish the "diet" you need to eat soft food like soup to train your stomach to eat again. I told her that's literally the medical treatment given to survivors who've been lost in the wilderness and nearly starved to death. Needless to say, I did not partake and found out later she had multiple eating disorders. We had just graduated high school. A lot more education and therapy should be given to minors about the dangers of these "diets".
Unfortunately crash starvation diets like these can also permanently damage your metabolism and possibly make it even harder to lose weight in the future. :(
these were already so sad and horrific to think about, but the tapeworm story actually reminded me of something just as terrible on the exact opposite end of the spectrum: a friend of a friend was attempting a "detox" and ended up... taking several coffee enemas for weeks. they later sent out pics of their actual literal shit in the toilet saying "look at this huge worm i just passed from my detox!" and my friend eventually had to tell them like dude, that's not a parasite you had... that's straight up part of your intestinal lining. 🤢 the things we do in the name of "health", like pretending that being thin automatically makes you healthy...
My mom was an extremely strict raw vegan for many years. She would drink these smoothies she called "green detox smoothies". Which translated to her having to run to the bathroom to poop every hour. I swear. We couldn't go out for a day of leisure without her needing a bathroom 45 minutes after just having used one. It got so bad her fingers started to loose sensation and her arms and feet would go numb. When we finally convinced her to see a doctor, he ran some tests and told her her body wasn't producing enough blood. That's why her appendages were going numb. She couldn't produce enough blood to properly circulate blood to her whole body. She also lost a lot of hair, and her teeth got really thin and yellow. Luckily since then she has left the vegan diet behind and is now much better. Her hair is slowly filling in But yes, she did all that for weight loss.
Veganism is not a diet, it is a lifestyle committed to ending animal cruelty. Eating only fruit or leafy veggies to lose weight or “be healthy” is an eating disorder. Calling it veganism is just a way to distract from the mental illness leading you to starve yourself.
as a chemistry student, seeing the 2,4-dinitrophenol is WILD, i’m so used to it in a lab setting that seeing it in this context made me do a double take lol
Never heard about this compound, or the death cases... I don't generally read tabloids which would probably cover this topic the most. But reading about it, it was used as a diet pill in 1930s, just to be banned within a decade. Back then people really used all sorts of stuff and DDT was considered safe and used widely! Imagine that. Amphetamines came on later, just to be banned too. Nobody bans ultra processed food industry though, that is the culprit of making people fat while making them eat like pigs, because it was designed like that.
@@klaudiar7347 polyphenols are very beneficial for us, the whole range of them. Our health depends on them, actually. So that you know. The same goes for di-hydrogen monoxide. We depend on it. Sounds scary, but just a name of the compound doesn't say much without a context and broader knowledge. Don't throw a baby with the bath water. Most people aren't familiar with chemistry. And that's the point.
The problem imo starts with how nasty people can be. More often than not, people will judge others for being overweight. It's not your body. You don't know them or their lives. If that person can't change something about themselves in less than 5 seconds, shut your mouth.
I lost a scary amount of weight last year dealing with serious disease. I started as a size 4, then lost thirty five pounds, I looked skeletal and I hated it. It bothered me how many times people would gush over how “good I looked”, when I felt terrible and didn’t know what my future was. It scared me how peoples perception has become so skewed that they think being seriously underweight is good?😳
@@FlawlessImperfectionBeauty I mean, there are plenty of people doing the exact opposite now too. I'm at a normal BMI currently, though I've frequently been in and out of the overweight category on the past. I visit family in the east, get asked how to slim down, I go back west, I get told I look half-starved and "unsexy", and to pack on some pounds 😑 Crazy how people's perceptions of what normal weight is has changed. It's like things made a complete 180 post 2010.
Being overweight or obese is extremely dangerous to your health science proved that it's called doctors , surgeons etc get away from the toxic body positive movement it will kill you
@@raerohan4241ew, the idea they look at your body in terms of whether its sexy or not? your body doesnt exist to be sexy to others- it exists to be healthy for you to live in! that's insane!
I am 57. This has been going on forever. I remember when it was Phentermine. People only care about what people look like, and it will only continue to kill. I commend you for addressing this, and I love your introduction.
@kellyburnett1833 phentermine is still being prescribed to people to this day. I’m a nurse in a hospital doing preop screenings of patients for surgery and I’ve seen a recent resurgence of people taking phentermine. Our anesthesia group will not give anesthesia unless the patient has been off of it for a week because of the cardiac problems that can occur while receiving anesthesia.
Is phentermine the one that gives people heart palpitations and problems? I remember my dad went on prescription weight loss pills about a decade or so ago.. maybe longer than that.. (and they made him crazy too… he’d get really angry at anything really easily- even more so than his typical behavior lol) and it turned out that people were dying from it and there was huge lawsuit against the company. So maybe it wasn’t phentermine but something else.. but it was *extremely* popular for years until the lawsuit. I thought they pulled it from the market…
@@fatbottomgirl5349 when I hit a plateau with my weight loss my GP gave me a prescription for phentermine to "help kick start" my weight loss again so you're absolutely right. It didn't really do anything to me though, hah.
I recently went through quite a bad kidney infection that made me lose a bunch of weight rapidly because I was not eating much at all. I took time off work and then when everyone saw my noticeable weight loss they congratulated me. However I told them it was because I was sick and it's actually worrying me that I'm still shedding pounds. Yet they would all mostly say that maybe it was worth it.
That kidney infection sounds absolutely awful. I hope you're recovering well and your appetite starts to return soon! I've lost a lot of weight this year because I've been too depressed to feed myself and it's super uncomfortable when people say things like "have lost weight? you look well"
That's like my stomach infection. I can't eat anything outside of rice crackers, soup, boiled veggies and anything with no flavour really. It's a pain in the ass. Losing a whole lot of weight with it too. And people go oh you're finally being more healthy! Meanwhile you're sitting in your bed with no energy and vitamin related health issues cause you can't eat enough to keep yourself functioning. It's not fun. Hell when someone asked me what diet I did I just flat out told them to just eat regular portions and sport for an hour a day cause that's healthier than whatever I am doing now. I gotta wait for my stomach to heal but I also hope I don't keep losing weight. This much is unhealthy.
For the first time in my life, this year I've had a good relationship with food, my body and exercise. The culture around diet products are often so unhealthy- I've thankfully never fallen into the trap of these dangerous teas and supplements, but it's so important to discuss these topics. To anyone else struggling with body image etc, please know that things can change for the better, and recovery is definitely worth it.
A virtual hi5! I would have never expected to recover🙃 and to this day I have a voice in my head saying it's time to start a new diet (i was a chronic "dieter") but it's such a faint, unimportant voice by now. So glad that I didn't give up and hope others won't either❤️
That is amazing. I work at a gym, and my co-workers always talk about cheat days and weight loss, and it's something that concerns me because the conversations my co-workers and some customers have are heavily rooted in diet culture, but they don't see how damaging it really is/can be. My supervisor (boss) is trying to lose weight, and she has been switching diets regularly; from low carb to keto in a matter of weeks, she weighs herself everyday (sometimes multiple times a day). If feel like gyms shouldn't promote diet culture and I feel like gyms/personal trainers should teach that there is no such thing as good or bad foods and that food can impact your weight but maintaining eating and exercising balance will have the best impact on your body and mental health. I believe you can eat what you want and still achieve the body you want you just have to manage.
@00Rav3n00 It boggles the mind how bad it is at gyms(and why I stopped going). I went there for exercise, and knew I would GAIN weight as my muscle mass increased. To hear people talk about how little they ate as they did intensive workouts(I did 100+ lb leg lifts, rowing, pectoral/shoulder workouts(keeping my shoulders fit keeps injuries I had as a youth from impacting my day-to-day), cardio, and fed my muscles loads of proteins and enough carbs to stop my hypoglycemia from being a PitA. I never had good looking abs, and after having kiddo, the muscle tears insured they'd look less so, and I couldn't care less. My only spot I want to fix are my triceps, as I inherited the family chicken wings. My stepdad, who used to live at Gold's(until diet culture ruined the atmosphere) Gym, helped me with a basic routine so I could avoid it, and at least be healthy. I walked into a gym this year for the first time in two decades after getting a try it free offer, as I wanted to work on my arms on the rowing machines and regain their former shape, and use some treadmill machines, as it's better than walking in the heat, heard someone talk about eating 800 calories a day with only 8g carbs, so they could fit into a dress and walked out. I'm going to be snagging some new wrist and ankle weights so I can workout at home, because I can't listen to that without speaking my mind at them, and I know that they won't care.
I had anorexia years back and it started from this diet pill called "garcinia combodia". My parents found those one day and asked me if I was doing drugs. Idk if it did anything to my body but I recovered from my ED after 2 years and had a pretty good relationship with my body and food. Sadly I relapsed 6 months ago and got diagnosed with bulimia. Hopefully someday this will pass and I will recover and love my body again
I'm so sorry you have to go through all this. I hope you will recover soon and learn to love your body just the way it is ❤ sending love and prayers to you dear ❤❤❤❤❤
im over a year into bulimia recovery (my teeth were being dissolved which scared me into trying to recover) and its been hard but god is it worth it, im 1 year clean this week, i really hope you can recover soon
@@perified you know what they say, it gets worse before it gets better (or something like that, I don't remember the exact saying). I have my own eating problems, since I have sick pancreas and don't feel hunger most of the time and I'm also very limited with how much my body allows me to eat. It's nothing compared to your issues, but these bad times will pass for both of us I hope ❤️
My friend and I used to drink this "skinny tea" from the Asian market as a laxative... because, let's be real, that's exactly what it is. Once, her husband drank an entire jug of it thinking that it was normal tea! Needless to say, he was in extreme agony for DAYS!😱😭
Oh no! That poor man! One time I left a laxative tea bag to steep for too long and it messed me up, I can only imagine how drinking an excess would feel 😢
I remember I had posted pictures of my weight loss on my IG back in 2018 and my weight loss was from just eating a dairy-free diet; however, I saw my pictures being used on one of those skinny tea/ detox tea websites claiming I had lost weight from using their product, but they had cropped my head off. I had asked them to remove my pictures because I didn’t use their product, but they just ignored me. Other people started to notice more stolen images to promote their teas and many people (myself included) kept reporting their account until they finally shut down, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they just restarted a new account
I'm so glad you did this james,I was a big runner,weighed 7 and a half stone. Very fit..Started to take thermabol daily,just to give me a boost. Had my first 2 strokes due to caffeine content being so high.i couldn't walk for 6 months. I had undiagnosed heart issues. Didn't know. Ive learned to love my body now,curves are normal ❤meditation helped this..I love the way your not afraid to talk about sensitive subjects.Its shocking how easily led we are for a quick fix . 👏👏👏
The worst part about tapeworms is they dig into your intestinal lining with their "teeth" (mouthparts) and this can damage it pretty badly. Even after you "poo" it out 😂😂😂😂 it can leave lasting damage to your gastrointestinal tract.
i mean, its literally a parasite, a living being, in your body, slowly growing and hungry, you think its not gonna also eat YOU if you dont feed it enough? you're a source of food too in its mind! parasites only care about survival, at any cost! very dangerous!
Not me eating dinner and the tapeworm diet coming up. 🤢 I remember hearing that story years ago and it was just as horrifying as it was then as it is now. I feel like that story is a huge example as to why diet culture & beauty standards are so dangerous. Some people feel like they have no other option other than to do these dangerous practices to reach these beauty standards and that just breaks my heart.
The only time we tried diet teas is when my sister was severely constipated. I knew the whole point of those 'weight loss' teas was to make you poo, so I bought them. She said no dice for days, but then she came to me and said she had a whole new relationship with the toilet. Cured her constipation, but she has never touched them again 😂
They do make decent laxatives 😅. I drink a quart or so once a month to keep my pipes running decently and take some good probiotics. Good gut bacteria.
It’s senna leaves, great for short term solution in desperate cases😂 Btw don’t use them chronically (like almost daily for months) to the point where your intestines become lazy and don’t contract on their own as much as it should though 😅
I grew up skinny by nature, lived worry-free and in blissful ignorance until I suddenly gained 20 kg that won't leave anymore... came here to remind me of real priorities... thank you, James.
similar case for me, up until 15 years old i had a perfect model body, skinny hourglass and tall for my age, then i was prescribed anti-depressants and through trying every brand on the market with non helping me, i gained over 200lbs! and im struggling to lose any at all because i never ate much and still don't, it was all side effects of the anti-depressants accumulating and making me balloon up! its crazy how quickly you can gain weight without even changing your diet and exercise routine!😮
To my shame, I got sucked into buying a teatox at the height of marketing. I only took them for a couple of days before researching them and realising the amount of 'tea babies' women had had due to the tea interfering with the OCP, I absolutely freaked out lol
I was hooked in what the hel tea babies were, I looked it up every way I can from vague to iddly specific and all Im getting is ads for tea for babies 💀
@@acid_tongue_4315that’s actually hilarious. I looked up what OCP was “oral contraceptive pill” and managed to figure it out. Now it’s time to Google your way out again I guess.
@@acid_tongue_4315OCP is oral contraceptive pills, i think she's saying the tea made people's birth control stop working and thus, unwanted pregnancy from drinking skinny teas
I took Fen Phen in the 90's. I lost a lot of weight very quickly . I was thrilled. I stopped when it was determined how dangerous they could be, however, that was the start of an eating disorder. Thank you for bringing light to these weight loss products. I'm 55 now and still struggle with an unhealthy relationship with food. I'm world's better, but so wish I had known that my worth is not determined by my weight. ❤️
Let me guess, you've been struggling with this for decades but still have yet to see a counselor, correct? That's why you've been struggling for decades honey, get some help.
I’ve never gone as far as diet teas and the like, but I’ve presumably tried every fad diet on this planet. Background: I never had problems with weight. I was an hourglass figure, about 5 centimetres too tall for a woman. Then I got ill and ended up with an unending amount of pills, in a desperate bid to keep me alive. Those pills increased my weight at an unnerving rate and no amount of counting calories in or out helped me change the trajectory. Well, that’s where I lost my nerve and just tried *anything* the internet, a health guru or some bargain bin book would throw at me. People treated me differently - substantially worse - literally every week of weight gain. I hated what I saw in the mirror, I didn’t recognise myself anymore. I struggled being close with my partner, not because he was grossed out, but because I was. I constantly had to disclose to complete strangers my medical situation in order to put some breaks on the constant comments on my body - often with little effect. Also, I can tell you, that diet advice is everywhere. Any magazine you pick up at the dentist? Diet advice! The algorithm realising you want to lose weight? Diet advice! Visiting that aunt who only knew you before your health collapsed? Diet advice! Well, I tried it all and I seriously messed with my health as a result. My digestion was awful for literal *years*, because of the weird stuff I was throwing at myself, hoping that this was finally the solution. I became so weak, I struggled to get out of bed, because I was fasting for silly amounts of time - combined with my health crisis, this was incredibly *bad*. My weight did stabilise eventually (though the doctors told me it had nothing to do with my diet, just what happens with medication triggered weight gain). Didn’t matter to me! It was *working*! I just needed to do MORE!! Honestly, it was a nightmare. They only managed to put my head back on straight in hospital. It took years for my relationship with diet culture, food and my body to normalise. My health getting better and the associated pill reduction leading to almost instant weight loss, also somewhat helped. That and the body positivity/healthy at every size movement. The latter helped me figure out exercises I could do with my new body and encouraged me to just…eat healthily no matter what the number on the scale says. The former helped me slowly feel less disgusted with my new form. I now hit the gym or my sport group 5 times a week and cook a lot from scratch. Realistically I am in better shape than I’ve been all of my life. I am still plus sized though, have those lovely stretch marks extremely rapid weight gain gifts you and some flabby skin. The whole experience has left me incredibly resentful with the entire diet industry and often, even other people who are the biggest part of the problem. If my environment hadn’t changed so noticeable, I am not sure I would have fallen as far as I did. Makes me even sadder to see young, healthy people harm themselves, even kill themselves, with this crap. Part of me is angry, because they have been blessed with a healthy, perfectly functioning body and this is what they chose to do with it…but I would absolutely lie, if I didn’t know exactly where they came from.
I can somewhat understand what you've experienced. I gained 50 lbs when I went to highschool which put me at 180. Got on antidepressants at Uni and gained another 50 lbs. Eventually I got off the meds a couple years later but didn't lose the weight. Fast-forward 10 yrs, developed arthritis and fibromyalgia, chronic pain and fatigue. Went on a bunch of meds, gained another 50 lbs. Now I sit at almost 300 lbs. I struggle all the time with my body image but I try not to do so in front of my children. I don't want them to hate their body. Thankfully, my husband loves me despite the weight gain. My parents on the other hand are "concerned" about my health. Which triggers me to hate myself even more. I am so happy that people are realizing that we are not cookie cutters to all look the same. I hope to get to a point in my life where I am happy with my physical self but it's been and continues to be a long and difficult journey.
Oh my gosh my experiences. 1- tried the dexamphetamine prescribed by the GP before, I think I only had 1 script. Didn't help, also was SO MUCH MORE HUNGRY once I quit them. 2- the green tea fat burner (most fat burners) sent me into a HORRIBLE panic attack. Never ever touching that stuff again. 3- the laxative teas, that turned into just taking laxatives post surgery because I'd starved myself for 2years to lose weight for the surgery, and then the 2 surgeries on top of the starving made my bowels all messed up, and then I relied on the laxatives and ah. I may have permanent damage from that, but after a year I feel like it's starting to become normal. It's really hard not "dieting" to lose fat when my natural body is heavy. I have a big skeletal frame (hips, shoulders, ribs) and gain muscle so easy, just a mini-tank, and then having a healthy amount of fat on top of that just makes me look huge, and thick strong women aren't liked, especially growing up in the heroin-chic millenial era that I did. I looked at photos of me as a 15yo, showed them to my kids this week, and I couldn't believe I thought I was fat. I use to cry from being teased about how ugly and fat I was and I looked fucking amazing. And even now, I'm so strong, so healthy, I'm the smallest I've ever been, but I keep comparing myself to others and thinking I'm huge. I hate it. And I'm so sick of starving myself so I'm not. I eat what I want, I work out heaps (Muay Thai and weight lifting) and I feel and look amazing. Just need to shut the voices up in my head.
Yes, I understand this feeling. I spent years being told I was too big. It's only been in the last year that my brother got through to me with the reality that he and I are very similar in that our genetics dictate that we are built dense with large bones and a tendency to build a lot of muscle very fast. Honestly, finding out that functional fitness was an option was probably the best thing to happen to my relationship with my body in years. The focus on what I can do rather than what I look like or the number on the scale is much less fraught with discouragement.
I remember when I was younger and I hated my hips. I wanted to be a stick like the other girls, but it was never going to happen. No matter how little I ate, I would never be able to change my body shape. I’m 30 now and it’s crazy to see pictures of 16 year old me that was 9 stone and thinking I was obese. I really thought I was, it takes a long time to overcome body dismorphia, and to fade those voices in your head.
As a woman with a bigger frame my body holds onto fat like I'm going to starve at any time. I feel you so much. It took me 20 years, but I found what works for me and It's technically a "trend" even though I follow a relaxed version. I asked my doctor before starting and all i got back was an "okay". It just depends on what your body needs and what you want out of your life.
So much of that mindset is the era we were raised in. Having heroin chic and then low-rise jeans/exposed midriff in rapid succession was just hell on womens’ self esteem. I was thin. Like, *thin* thin, and I still starved myself because I thought I needed to be thinner. No muffin top!!! And by that point your perception of yourself is SO warped, you can’t see what’s in front of your face. I am so proud of many of the young women today, rejecting that mindset. It’s not perfect but it is so much better than it was in the 90s/00s.
I’ve never used them but I can understand why people end up there. I had severe problems with my legs when I was in school and had to run the ‘bleep test’. Obviously I didn’t do very well due to severe pain only to be called out in front of a room full of girls about being overweight and unhealthy and i was gonna be fat for my entire life whilst everyone else got to leave we had to stay and ‘taught’ how to exercise. I knew why I had done terribly but comments like that from someone who was supposed to have my best interests at heart could drive someone to take drastic action
When I was in middle school my gym teacher made us measure our BMI right in front of the other kids. I was maybe a little chubby for a 12 year old my height (hell, I still am) and I remember it really upset me for a few weeks being told mine was too high. Luckily it didn’t have any long lasting affects on me, but it’s actually really upsetting to think back and realize a grown woman thought it was a good idea to publicly measure a child’s BMI in front of their classmates, at an age that kids are already starting to get self conscious and insecure.
Thank you for covering this. I have been in and out of recovery from anorexia for nearly two decades. It started at age 10 with dieting, quickly turned into diet pills at age 12 and totally went downhill from there. I have permanent heart and liver damage from what I put my body through, but I'm much better now. Recently I've been told by quite a few people that I should try this diet try this tea try this and that to lose weight and its been weighing on me and I felt tempted. But when I watched this, all the misery and hospital visits came rushing back and I realized that its not worth it. There's no way I'm going back to that.
I'm in recovery from a mixture of eating disorders so I have to be careful with content like this, but it's good to see unhealthy diet practices not being glamorised. At my worst I used to buy all kinds of unknown diet supplements online - mostly tablets but some foot patches as well. I was taking all sorts of weird things trying to lose weight, as well as overexercising which resulted in me sustaining a knee injury that still occasionally flares and causes me pain over 10 years later. Diet culture and normalising all these weird diet pills is so dangerous, and it's often people who have skewed views of how they look that are buying potentially lethal drugs. My boyfriend asked me while I was watching this why anyone would buy drugs from the dark web or unknown sources, but I explained that when you're not thinking clearly because of an eating disorder or body dysmorphia, you don't think about these things, you just want to do anything to lose weight. It's really horrible. I'm very careful now not to set those old thinking patterns off, I avoid triggers as I don't want to go back to that dark place. To anyone struggling - recovery is possible, keep fighting through each day. It can and will get better.
Jamila is one of my absolute favorite people. Her posts, podcast and advocacy is amazing with body positivity. She's so brutally honest. I think we need more people like her! As someone who is a trainer/nutrition coach (after my own hard journey) so many struggle with body dysmorphia, eating disorders, etc. It's no joke. I have many friends who have competed in fitness competitions and one of the hardest things is seeing yourself at this "peak" of fitness and then slowly coming back to "being normal." It messes with a lot of people mentally. To stay in that state of fitness is not healthy long term and it's not realistic. But they become so used to seeing themselves super cut, leaned out, muscular, etc. that when they start to adjust their intake after the shows, they hate their bodies. I can see why someone (like the guy you referenced who was very fit) wanted more fat burners and to drop more weight. To most, no one would say he was out of shape or needed to lose weight. It is all such a huge struggle. Getting to be in a healthy relationship with food is a never ending process. In my own struggle (anorexia in my early teens) and severe stomach issues throughout my life thus far, my nutritionist gave out mantra cards to pick from out of a big deck. The one I ended up with said: Healing your body takes one breath at a time. I still repeat that to myself regularly.
I actually had a friend in *elementary* school talk about the tape worm diet and I just hope shes doing ok. And I hope her mom is doing ok because I do wonder if thats where she heard it from, either way, definitely a memory that makes me say "what the actual fuqq"
When i was really struggling with an ED as a teenager, i took those fat burners from the early 2000s (i cant remember the name, it had a Q or X or something in it😂. The super popular one in the US anyways) and after a few weeks, one of my friends kinda had an intervention on me and helped me get off them. Im so so grateful for her, i was such an emotional wreck and i already really struggle with sleep (if im in bed for 10 hours, ill get around 5 hours of sleep, if that) so i was hardly sleeping at all. I lost a bunch of weight but its cuz i wasnt eating. Those meds were crazy, and its crazy that theyre still on shelves.
yes- anything with ephedra aka mua wang or something. it was in hydroxycut and horrible. I remember it making me so nauseous so of course I wouldnt eat. With my heart beating out of my chest!
@candyce6233 yup that's what it was I couldn't think of the name! I have crazy high BPM to begin with (im always over 100, when I have anxiety it's usually like 130-140) so I can't even imagine how bad my heart was taking that crap.
My weight has fluctuated a lot over my adult life. I'm currently the heaviest I've ever been. The temptation to reach for a "quick fix" can be really strong. In the past, I have come very close to taking some of these "diet supplements " but, luckily, I had people in my life who knew that these were dangerous and provided me with information. I'm now getting back into my pre-COVID routine of eating healthier foods and exercising regularly. It's hard, and I know that it will take some time, but I'm trusting that I will lose my excess weight and, more importantly, I will feel better and more comfortable in my body. ❤ Stay safe out there everyone - physically and mentally.
Wow, it's like you read my mind making this video right this moment. I've been seriously tempted and thinking about buying one of those diet/detox teas for the last few months, the only thing really stopping me is wondering if they would really work; it didn't even occur to me that they could be dangerous! Such an important topic, I'm so glad I watched this video.
If you want to bump up your system and really give yourself something safe that actually cleanses, cider vinegar, lemon and honey in warm water morning and night. It makes you sleep, and sets your system to work so nicely! Not the tastiest, but it’s amazing for arthritis, immune disorders and all sorts!
I have Crohn's disease. I would have people telling me I was body goals when I was at my sickest. Then call me fat when I was recovering from a flare. This led to me having a complex about my looks. So I refuse to let anyone comment about my size, rudely if I have to. No matter the size I am.
I used to work with NWM/MLM company that had products like this I always felt something that was off because our CEO is here in us my recruiters were based in UK and every zoom meeting whenever I would ask certain health questions, questions about if they were safe for people with autism(my kids and I) etc I'd always get muted and told to be careful what I ask and how 😢like wth? I basically ended up having a prolapse and was hospitalized for it, smh
I cannot believe you prefaced this with "excuse my hair" - your hair looks like a 50s male screen star perfectly coiffed fabulousness. I'm jealous it just does that naturally! YOUR HAIR IS DOING THE MOST IN THIS VIDEO.
I tried the raspberry keytone & colon cleanse diet pills when I was in my early 20’s, when I was already only 8.5-9 stone. I’m now 32 am currently on the waiting list for the ED clinic as I’m still obsessed with how much I weigh. I think with these types of diet pills being so freely available, and obviously when you look at one ad for them, they start popping up all over your Facebook and insta feeds, they have a lot to answer for when it comes to EDs in our younger adults. It’s so, so sad.
Mum always has a box of “Skinny Tea” around and I was way too scared to try it, but I did take L-Carnitine at the peak of my disordered eating and obsessive gym days. I’ve always fluctuated been curvy and overweight and I so focused on getting down to an Aus size 6-8, something I’m genetically not meant to be. It really hit home when I came back from a poorer region of Eastern Europe and what I saw there made me realised that we are basically glamorising starvation. It felt horrible. It’s still hard to train myself out of that way of thinking though, it starts so young!
I remember trying XLS Medical diet pills about 10 years ago, and on those you really could not eat anything even remotely fatty because if you did, well I’m going to say two words - anal leakage. The first time I took them I got AL and never took them again. It was horrifying! I’m currently trying to loose 1 stone with a super healthy diet and exercise, and whilst it’s not even remotely working, probably due to menopause, I’m definitely not falling into the diet supplement trap again. Anal leakage is far worse than my wobbly thighs!
Great discussion and good to highlight these things going through menopause and very overweight and i often get drawn to these adds i have tried a few in the past that didnt help i have long covid and fybromyalgia and had to medically retire from nursing so i am restricted in mobility and pain so struggling to exercise regularly it can be hard not being drawn to them and now there seems so many aiming at gut health now more things we should take etc i know gut health important but how can you really know whats safe or not glad you discussed these things thank you x
Andrea, I could have written that myself 😢 It’s so tough to lose weight right now, I’m constantly looking for the next thing that might work and not hurt. God. It’s so depressing. I wish to go doctors cared more about my mental health and less about my weight.
yes, thank you. your health is far more important than what you look like. it took me a long time to realize that but it's very freeing. i myself abused laxatives at the height of my anorexia and i still have digestive issues to this day, nearly a decade later. it's really not worth it to harm yourself just to look a certain way. we should focus on loving our bodies for all of the amazing things that they do for us.
My senior year of HS (2001) i got totally sucked into Xenodrine...like i would go through 2 bottles a week. I remember when the FDA banned the sale of them here in the US and i legit cried because i was so addicted to them. Now looking back, im lucky i didnt die of a heart attack or from not eating
The DNP section brought back memories of the ChubbyEmu video about the same supplement. Super interesting talking about the mechanism and I believe that was about a RU-vidr who took it and almost died? Would recommend if anyone wants more info after they've finished this one!
I have adhd and most of the stimulants used to treat it have a side effect of appetite loss. I have periods of time where I rapidly lost weight due to medication tricking my brain into feeling full. It’s not fun to have no appetite and when you don’t have the meds in your system, you can go into full hunger mode and basically eat everything because your body wants more, but your brain doesn’t. Don’t take pills to lose your appetite, it’s not worth it.
Hi James! When I was around 16 I became diet obsessed due to body dismorphia and an ED. I tried so many different types of teas and supplements over the span of a few years and doing so definitely took a toll on my body and my mind. It took me a long time through therapy and support of loved ones to understand that this behaviour was unhealthy and I needed to stop buying into (literally) the dream all of those companies are selling. I’m now 29 and so happy I learned my lesson because I can see right through those types of advertisements and was able to build a healthy relationship with my body and food. Its so easy for people to be swayed into believing something when it’s targeted at their securities so thank you for speaking on this and bringing awareness. Ps I love this series and am excited to keep learning new things from the future videos you post. :)
Great video! This topic is soooo important! So many of my friends have had eating disorders and severe body image issues . Only later did I learn all they kept secret just trying to be model thin. Thank you!
I took fat burner supplements with Ephedra back in the early 2000s. They were probably the best and haven't worked the same since it was banned. That being said, I haven't used any since and would certainly never order them online or through the dark web. Scary!! I feel so bad for Bethany and all those who suffered.
It's so good to see someone like you make videos about these 'supplements' to warn people and challenge our messed up beauty standards 💜 its so shocking to hear how awful Bethany's death was, so devastating. OMFG the tapeworm!! I had no idea they could eat your organs or reproduce. Thank f*** I've finished my dinner, eww
Gosh I do so enjoy your balanced and humane way of sharing information! Not an alarmest, not poking fun at misfortune of others, funny- just classy and well done. Thank you for what you do!
When I was younger I was made so miserable being bullied for being ‘fat’ I would definitely have taken a tape worm if I’d known how to get one - I was miserable! (looking back I wasn’t even fat, I just had boobs and a bum before it was ‘trendy’) Have taken illegal drugs for weight loss.
As much as people talk about ‘body positivity’ there is still a core belief amongst people that link not being slim to being less of a person - just look at the comments section any time anyone who isn’t slim posts a video/photo online (even when the video/photo has nothing to do with weight). Even now I take legal pills that stop your body absorbing fat. People who have been bullied for their weight feel bad enough to do anything which is why these companies flourish.
Thanks so much for posting this video, James! I remember doing the Beyoncé lemonade diet as well as many other fad diets 😬 I feel as though the media in the 00s contributed heavily to people’s diet obsessions. Weekly glossy magazines mocked celebrities for being too thin or too heavy, so it seemed normal for impressionable teenagers and young women to critique their own body in the same way 😫
Those teas often have senna as the herb and it causes diarrhea. As expected we are starting to see the reports of bad side effects of Ozemoic - slows the intestinal track which can lead to permanent damage which will require long term medical care with no promise of getting back to normal. The quick fix is rarely going to lead to good health.
These videos are my favourite and I am so glad to hear your sensible opinion on this topic! ❤ I have never been skinny "enough" and I've suffered my fair bit with it, but I am relieved I haven't done more than changing my diet in a healthy way and exercising to reduce my weight because I had good examples in the family and, specially, contact with body positivity and these horrible stories when I was growing up!
I took the 1st phorm fat burner in 2013(goddess I think) black and pink bottle. I successfully lost 30 pounds in a month and was happy with it. Not only did I put the weight back on, but now in my 30s after 3 children, I cannot get back into shape no matter what I do. I have had a weight plateau for 4 months now and I just want to fit into my clothes again. I have had a healthy weight lifting routine with balanced diet for many months with no change. Those pills damaged me, I admit I did a few rounds of them when I needed to drop weight quickly. Don’t do it, just don’t do it while you’re young. Don’t take the fat burners. Just move your body in the way that you enjoy and eat real food. Dieting is not worth it if you want to look good as an adult too.
As sb who recovered from Anorexia and then Bulimia, it's nice to see someone talking about these things. From my experience, when you're in the throws of an ED, it's so isolating and so mind-twisting, that the ED's "voice" dominates and takes over and can either make you do dangerous things despite knowing better, or just completely silence your sensible self. I always felt like I had a monster on my back controlling me. Without you talking about it and pointing out how dangerous and insane it is, the ED's "voice" goes completely unchallenged. I remember being 14 and hoping to somehow end up in a coma so I'd lose weight, or that I'd get horrible food poisoning so that I'd lose weight. EDs take you to dangerous, dark places.
I am so glad I barely see these ads anymore. I was a consumer who tried 2 different companies I did lose weight I was working out and barely eating so unhealthy! Most of this stuff has too much of everything. Thank you for bringing attention to this ❤
Years ago I would buy diet/cleanse teas from the 99cent store. Horrible times lol, my stomach was always messed up from them, but I thought it was because they were working. I'm glad I never got into diet pills, it is so tragic that people died from them 💔
I tried the diet teas, thought it was working and I had to deal with the cramps. On day 3 I decided to drink 2 teabags and take my dog for a long walk ya know, good exercise to lose weight. A mile from my house in a park walking the dog I started cramping so bad. I had the absolute worse explosive uncontrollable diarrhea of my life. I was literally in a bush with my dog pooping for at least 20 mins. I had to call my boyfriend to come pick us up because it literally was uncontrollable and every few steps me and the dog were back in the bushes. I had diarrhea for the next 3 days straight. Could barely eat of drink because everything trigged the diarrhea and had to call out of work, could not leave the house. This was the worst idea I've evee had to lose weight. Thank god no serious injury after it. It was disgusting
Thank you for covering this. I feel so much for the poor people that were affected by pills/teas etc. i myself used to be bulimic for a long time. I primarily started with binging and purging as we all tend to relate bulimia to but as time went on I also abused laxatives. I had IBS so was seeing a specialist who prescribed me medical grade laxatives (usually prescribed to much older people) that was like a powder you mixed with a drink and was meant to have maximum half a sachet a day. But my eating disorder spiralled and I ended up having about 2 sachets a day 😫 and then I got on to the detox tea hype and tried that AT THE SAME TIME *shudders* and lost so much weight but felt physically and mentally awful. The doctor that prescribed the sachets knew I had a history of bulimia but didn’t seem to care and I know they do that sort of thing a lot. It’s terrible. Thankfully I’ve been bulimia free for over 5 years now and, although the urges are still there, I will not allow myself to fall back in to that trap. I commend you for making this video and being so diplomatic about this topic. Eating disorders are real and we are made to feel so much shame around them but at the end of the day they are mental health disorders, just like with any other disorder, they need to be treated well and not judged. Shout out to all my other past (and current) eating disorder individuals in the comments as I know first hand how hard it is to overcome and you’re all so brave and strong, even if you don’t think you are. Thanks again James xx
Thank you for talking about this James! I’ve never taken diet pills, but one thing that constantly bothers me is that as a female-presenting person, it is so hard to get advice about getting healthy and going to the gym that isn’t centered around weight loss. It is so hard to find content online or even in person help that doesn’t immediately talk about all the weight I could lose to "look better". In reality I’m at the gym for the cardiovascular and mental health benefits, if I end up losing a couple pounds fine, but that isn’t even on my list of goals.
you’re probably already aware, but LeanBeefPatty has some fun fitness/bodybuilding? content that doesn’t focus on or promote weight loss. she’s open about being an ED survivor on her channel as well. my dude Hampton who runs the channel Hybrid Calisthenics has great videos on the mental side of fitness as well.
'excuse my hair' he says as it looks the best it ever has, seriously consider letting it do its thing cuz it looks awesome with the texture it has going on :0 Love the vid as always!!!
I’ve had ED’s. I still struggle sometimes but my most dangerous eating habits were linked a medical issue, which I am finally being treated for so I’m doing a lot better. Those teas always made me laugh because people would be like “it helps burn calories and fat.” And I knew they were laxatives, like I have a native mom and grandma I knew about these teas long ago.
When I was a teen, I wanted to be skinny, so I tried the Lemon diet, and I damaged my stomach badly, developed ulcer and some major complications ... My point is that no diet is OK. Just try to be healthy not skinny, have a good relationship with your body. I know it's easier said than done, but that is what we need to acknowledge
This might be different in the UK but in Australia I believe this kind of thing is part of the reason why ADHD medication is so heavily regulated- it can have similar effects of raising your body temperature/increasing heart rate and often people lose weight when they start them because of the increased metabolism/lack of appetite- it's crazy that I have to go through such a rigorous process to make sure my brain is working right, when these supplements do so much of the same thing and seem so easy to find! Pretty scary 🙁 Thanks for another great video as usual!
When beauty turns ugly is my favorite thing on youtube !thank you for making these even tho they discuss not so nice topics its so important to break down taboos and get information out there! :)
Supplements like that are so tempting, especially when you feel like you’ve tried so many things, and you just want that little boost. I’m glad I wasn’t on instagram when all those adds were everywhere, cause I’m pretty sure I’d end up buying it😅
I bought diet pills off the internet when I was 16, now at 30 I’m incredibly thankful that they weren’t dangerous. I spent most of my life trying to be stick thin and really messed up my stomach and my mental health in the process. I got diagnosed with adhd a few months ago and finally having those answers and the medication to help me finally have some dopamine is what finally fixed my years of emotional eating. I am now suddenly able to eat intuitively 😊
I was wondering if someone might have mentioned ADHD/meds in the comments! I relate to your comment I chased weight loss for so many years, a combination of trying to combat my 'dopamine eating' + hyperfixations on the process of weight loss itself/my body image. A lot of people talk about how ADHD meds eradicated their appetite but for me it's been more like I've been able to curb the emotional eating/'dopamine seeking' cravings, and I just generally feel a lot more balanced around food now. Tbh the side effects of some of these 'diet' pills sound a lot like the stimulant medication used to treat ADHD but just in an unregulated OTC form. Especially the caffeine 'burner' style ones. It makes one wonder!
My kitten (as small animals do) likes to put everything in his mouth. At ten weeks old, he ate a piece of string. I didn't know this until I saw something hanging out of him after he went to his box. He looked mildly distressed and was a little more distressed when I gently gave it a small tug (while praying he didn't have a worm). Then I carefully cut it down a bit. He was absolutely estatic after his next litter box trip when he got the rest out. He was bouncing all around, babbling his little excited kitten talk that he likes to do. I was estatic that it simply passed and didn't do anything horrible to his intestines. I cannot imagine being a fully sized human being trying to get a once living creature out of my GI track. Like, the possibility of it all just coming out in one go is pretty remote with something very long. And you may not be able to just pull it out either without risk of damaging other things. So...gross.
I remember hearing about the tapeworm thing when it took off and I've never, ever understood it. Why on Earth would anyone willing take on a parasite like that?
The scariest part to me is that U.S collectively pours trillions of dollars into the health industry but the vast majority of Americans aren’t even healthy. The quality of our food sucks, and so we’re told to use supplements to help, but then people end up using supplements to try and replace a good diet and exercise.
I developed an eating disorder as a young teen. It was super easy to get my hands on weight loss meds as a 12 year old from places like Walmart or target. I would over take the suggested amount thinking more meant more effective. I struggled for years. I still do to an extent. Psych meds made me gain weight and I’ve never gotten back to my “normal” body weight or appearance. I actually still love lemonade, but now I don’t put cayenne pepper in it to boost my metabolism
When I was a teen, there were some weight loss tablets in Australia that were banned (but could still get if you knew people) I can’t remember the name, they were so intense that if we were going clubbing we would take them and party all night. My poor heart 😔
I know exactly what you’re talking about, there was also those powdered ‘pre workouts’ called Jack3d which were similar. Definitely get your heart rate up around the 130’s for hours at a time 😬
As someone who has struggled my entire life with self worth and body image, who has never felt attractive a day in my life, all these things make me so angry. Thanks for talking about it, but also….introducing parasites?! It shows you how nuts marketing can be.
As a fat woman who grew up during the "heroine chic" fad of the 90's, it's rough. I literally starved myself until I fainted from low blood sugar trying to be the version of myself that everyone told me I was supposed to be, if only I ate less and exercised more. Yah that doesn't work for everyone. Some people's body's don't respond to that. Some people eat anything they want and are bean poles. You are right, we should be more concerned with actual health instead of just how we look, but that's hard to do.
😂😂 Tapeworm..love your reaction. People were going to dentists and having their jaws wired shut. When I was working long hours I used to down Sudafed( can’t buy that OTC anymore) and drink a ton of coffee with fake sugar. Not a great idea..BTW. I’m surprised I didn’t glow in the dark. I was skinny..however..I was before too.. I just didn’t have a lunch break. People around me thought it was a diet thing and started doing it. It was eventually a grumpy workplace. 😂😂I am, seriously delighted that different sizes and shapes are being shown and praised for their obvious beauty. If we all looked exactly the same how boring. ❤️❤️
Come on! How stupid can we be. If this stuff worked we'd all be thin and could eat and eat. All these do is make the companies rich. Like now people using Ozembic and they eat get nausea and lose weight. I thought that was called Bulemia. I loved your hair at thre begining!
the trend that has come around with Ozempic is insane. my mother is on it as she is diabetic and actually was prescribed it for her health, and it’s crazy to hear how hard it is to find atm because of influencers that take it for quick weight loss.
@@alexandragheorghe7983 Yes it terrible becaise people with diabetes are the ones suffering. I've were peopkes stomach's are getting paralyzed from it. I know about stomach problem in your stomach you have what's called Vegus Netve it gors up to your brain and if you mess with all kinds of things can happen and dr's should explain this to everyone. Dr's who prescibe should have their license revoked. I had a pill prescribed to me for nerve pain that was for epilepsy and my dr should have known it was not for women and in 3 days, I was coughing like crazy in 2 weeks I had pnumonia. Looked it up and saw it made woman get pnumonia but on side effects first one was upper respirtory infection and that was it. My dr got mad it me because I was upset after he looked on his computer and said "Ooo I did'nt see that"! Got mad at me. Got rid of him. Told him "No dr is gonna kil me". Bad Word.
Before ephedra/ma huang was banned in the US I used to take it anytime I wanted to lean down in a short amount of time (I wasn't overweight --I weight trained and it was very popular back then for preworkout and to see more muscle definition fast). I never had a problem with it until I tried a new drink once that was far more potent than I was used to; I should have drank half and not the whole bottle. Well about 10 minutes into my workout my heart started beating so fast and felt like it could burst right out of my chest! Of course I stopped moving immediately and I don't know why I didn't go to the hospital but luckily I was fine by doing some breathwork and resting. It was so scary though! In retrospect I wish I'd never used it. It leaned me down TOO much; I lost my T&A and looked a bit sickly that lean plus I'm sure it messed with my adrenals over the long run. And I sometimes acted bitchy on it. Ugh. These days I just embrace my extra womanly softness and don't care if my abs aren't popping!
"Embracing my womanly softness" is being added to my mindset immediately!!! I transitioned into my 30s a few years back and it hit me like a freight train so little phrases like that help
I've been struggling on and off with various eating disorders for about a decade. I've never tried weight loss teas or any kind of supplement but seeing adverts for those products at a time I was struggling definitely made me want to restrict my food intake even more. Thankfully, I'm doing better now, but the temptation to try those products is still there. I think that, at the very least, there should be more strict regulations. I'd be very happy to see them banned, though.
I’m 31 and only now I’m getting to a happy place in my relationship with my body and food. I do take more care in what I eat now, but I tried every single diet in my teens and twenties, and it makes me sad to think how much time, especially in my teens, I spent worrying about my body. Even as recently as my early 20s I remember buying that Bootea ‘teatox’ from Holland & Barrett!
ew that tapeworm bit makes me wanna refresh my brain 😵💫😵💫😵💫 i have no words but enough mental visual vomit to last me the day 🥴😖 i haven't tried any diet pills, but it sucks the lengths people are willing to go to achieve their desired standard. it becomes a very toxic cycle with no end in sight. i hope people are able to love themselves and their vessel. if they want to change any aspect, go ahead but please do so with professional guidance and not random batshit insane methods that could kill you.
on another note, i randomly stumbled upon the supplements subreddit and looking at some peoples daily supplement intake had me shook. i'm not saying some supplements aren't worth it with current studies coming out but damn, it's a bit odd to see people take 7-8 pills everyday. it made me feel like i was missing out but idk i guess that's research for another time omg do you think robert and you would ever do /aita post reactions? it would be interesting and funny (im convinced some of the posts are creative writing answers LOL)
Do be careful of taking too much of any fat soluble vitamins when taking supplements and vitamins. Due to them being stored in the fat they can build up while extra water soluble vitamins will just be peed out. Too much Vitamin A has some serious side effects.
I remember watching this one episode of this show that just had ER doctors and staff retelling their craziest stories and this one story was about a woman who actually purchased a tape worm pill and gave it to her teenage daughter so she would lose some weight for pageant. The daughter ending getting sick but in the end she was ok. The mom claimed she didn’t actually know what was in the pill but even if she didn’t she did still buy black market diet pills and force her daughter to take them. I think she should have lost custody or faced criminal charges for that.
I went to the doctor a couple weeks ago to talk about how I have been dieting very hard and hardly losing any weight and wanted to talk about some options. She wanted to put me on an appetite suppressant which I turned down. I found that very odd that an appetite suppressant would be the first thing to she would suggest. She also said it can cause insomnia so you need to take it early in the morning which makes me think it has some kind of caffeine or stimulant properties which I do not do well with because I have really bad anxiety so I dont even drink coffee. She also suggested ozempic but said it would be $1400 every time I get it at the pharmacy.
I've had a bad relationship with my weight for most of my life. I remember being around 10 years old and begging my mom for things like hydroxycut, weight loss teas, etc etc. I'm so glad she said no. Love you mom 💓
