Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 651 - Vabbing: Y'all are Gross AF

Episode Date: February 3, 2026

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I produced my first video for Angela does horror. Angela was one of the producer and co-host of Normal World that no longer exists. But she always had this website and YouTube channel where she reviews horror movies. And so the new thing that we're doing is she had me. review the human centipede. And from a medical standpoint. Okay. And my position was the human centipede would literally last five minutes once you got

everybody hooked up at least five minutes after the first donation from the lead person. Okay. Because when the person, do you know what the human centipede is? Nope. Oh. No. Okay. Okay.

It's this dabble-boring. It's just dabble verse. No, it's not. It's a movie. No, it's a horror movie. And this guy, I haven't seen it. I have no desire to see it. But they, he or she, I don't know who does it.

So is the mouth of one person to the anus of another person. And then they go in a big line. So it's the human centipede. I don't know how I missed it. Yeah. So my position was this would literally last. five minutes from the first quote unquote donation from the first person because as soon as they you know transmit bowel contents into the mouth of the second person what are they going to do

they're going to vomit vomick yep and where is it going to go it can't right it can't go back into the you know into the donor well because that's kind of a one-way valve for the most part yep So it's going to go out their nose and then into their lungs. So now they're going to aspirate and then they're going to die. And what happens when you die? You relax your bowels. So now the third person is going to happen to them. And then they're going to die and then the fourth person and so on and so on.

It's a domino effect and they're all going to croak. So if you want to see this video, just go to YouTube.com slash at weird medicine or YouTube.com slash at. Dr. Steve presents, because I'm going to put all those kinds of videos just over there, so they're not mixed up. I'll have one channel where there's not a bunch of different types of content. Because on our YouTube channel right now, we've got our podcast, and I've got my YouTube shorts and all this stupid stuff. And, you know, we don't really do a video show. I mean, the people show up like the King of the Dabbleverse. and Luke of the blind.

Oh, Airy Jane is there. Hello, Airy Jane. We've never met, but I have heard her name multiple times. And then, okay, or are you deleting things that people are saying? I deleted one thing. Okay. One dummy. Okay, that's fine.

And is that you, Scott, QQ3, U.A? I don't know why that is. Okay. All right. Believe me, you know me well enough. I don't know how to turn it. anything on. Yeah, no, no, no.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd just show up. Yeah, Luke of the Blind says human centipede is the grossest horror movie ever conceived. Anyway, where was I going with this? Oh, well, yes, we just do a behind-the-scenes video live stream of us recording our audio podcast. That's where all of our income comes from. That's where all the views come from. And, you know, we never really pushed the video.

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Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. And you were asking me about Stacy. Yeah. And, well, here he is. Hey, it's your friend with the dumb-ass questions from time to time. Awesome. Just kind of curious, is it possible for a mother's breast milk to change colors according to what she eats?

Yeah, of course. Just stupid questions that pop up on my head. It's not stupid. Bye, family. It's actually a good question. Because the, you know, everything that we secrete comes from our bloodstream. And, you know, mucus is hyper-filtrated blood mixed with some proteins that are produced by cells in the, you know, mucus membrane. and breast milk is derived from ultra-filtrated blood as well,

but then there are specialized cells that add fat and protein and, you know, antibodies and stuff like that to them. So breast milk can be white or yellow, and every once in a while, it could be blue, green, pink, or orange. And, you know, it can be normal factors like leafy greens or carrots. So you'll get yellow orange from beta carotene and sweet potatoes, carrot squash, and then colostrum, which is the early breast milk is also yellow. And if you eat just a ton of spinach or kale or green food dyes, certain green food dyes can turn the breast milk slightly green. and, you know, blue, again, from food dyes, or a lower fat, mature milk that's sat in the breast for a long time.

It can turn kind of blue. Now, red can come from beets, but it could also be from blood from cracked neples. And, you know, black or brown can be from certain drugs like in a cycling. or old blood. Now, if you see pink or red and you haven't been eating something that might turn it pink or red, then you probably ought to see your OB-GYN or your primary care provider. If it's black or dark brown, same. If there's any sort of weird digestive issues like gas or unusual stools,

what the mother eats can affect the kid. So, you know, I knew some people that the kid was colicky until the mother cut out certain foods from her diet, and then all of a sudden the kid turned around. So, all right? Questions, comments? Great. Question. Stozy. Very good.

Yes. He's a pretty good fellow. Pretty good. All right. Let's do this one. Oh, this is a good question. I like this one. Dr. Steve?

Yes. Hello. Hello. Thank you for answering my calls that I have asked before. Of course. Oops. Oh, no, no, I didn't mean to do that. Sorry.

I was trying to delete that. Let's try that again. Dr. Steve, hello. Hello. Thank you for answering my calls that I have asked before. Questions rather than I have asked before. I appreciate it. Of course.

I have a question that I believe I asked you, but I don't know if you answered. Okay. I was recently in ICU on a ventilator. Oh gosh. I was on there for 13 days. Oh, nice. And they were very adamant, but they had to take me off the ventilator. That day, because at 14 days, they would have to put in a trait.

Right. Like, I'm guessing that's one of those voice box days. Do you understand? Why would they have to do that at 14 days? Yes. Isn't there stories of people who lived in ICU on a ventilator for years and came out? Yeah, but they had a lot. tracheosomy though.

And didn't have a voice box or I guess... Yeah, it's not a voice box. So let's clear that up. Whenever you say aos, oastomy, that means you're putting a hole in something. Okay. Okay. Yep. So a tympanostomy would be a hole put in the eardrum.

I'll have two of those. Have you? Okay. Terrible. To allow equilibrium of the... It's not to drain it. It's to allow pressure. to equalize.

So a tracheostomy would be a hole placed in the trachea. And we do that for this reason. When you are first put on the ventilator, they shove this tube down into your trachea. And then, but if they put air in there and they just had a tube, the air would hit the resistance. of the lung, because the lung is not inflated, and you're trying to inflate it. Well, there's resistance to that, of course. So the air would just hit that resistance and then come right back out around the outside of the tube. So to prevent that, there's a balloon at the end of that tracheostomy, I mean, it's the end of tracheal tube.

and the balloon inflates allowing a perfect seal. So when you shove air down there with pressure, it opens, it goes into the lungs. It pushes air into the lungs and they inflate rather than that air escaping around there. Like blowing up a balloon. Right. Right. Yeah. If you tried to blow up a balloon and you don't make a perfect...

If you don't close your mouth away. If you don't close your mouth around it, it's the balloon's not going to blow up. Right. You're just going to blow air around. And that's a good analogy, Dr. Skil. God, I'll give you a bell. Give myself a bell. Because you actually helped me.

So the problem of it is that the trachea is lined with a mucus membrane. And it has very small blood vessels, capillaries running through it. And when you inflate that balloon, the pressure pushes the blood supply away from that area. Just, you know, of course it does. It matches it, yeah. Yeah, you push on your hand even. You can blanch it, you know, that because you're pushing blood away from that place that you're touching. Then when you let go, you can see the blood brush back in.

Well, 14 days about all the trachea can take of that because after 14 days, you can kill the mucus membrane. You kill the mucus membrane. You end up with a hole in your trachea. Now, that 14 days is not an absolute. I have seen people, yes, go much longer than that, that refused a trachea, but they couldn't take them off the ventilator. And I've seen people go 21 days. I saw somebody go up to 28 days and they did okay. But you can't count on that.

You don't know if there's no blood test. You could say, well, this person could have a tracheal tube for two weeks. This one could only handle it for 10 days, but this one could go three months. There's no way to know. Okay. So to prevent that, they found that 14 days will mostly prevent that tracheal damage. And the tracheostomy is just a hole. And in the trachea, and they put a tube in there, and then you breathe through that.

And that can stay in forever. And I've had some people, they just take the device out, and they've just got a hole there, and that's what they breathe. I've seen people smoke through that. That's how degenerate smoking can be. But it is because there's no resistance to flow, you can't talk very well through that. Because when you start, the way that you talk is the vocal cords close and you breathe against that resistance

and that resistance causes them to vibrate. And that noise is then modified by the upper airway. into intelligible speech with your tongue, the size of your, you know, the oral cavity, you can change the quality of the sound, all that stuff that we do naturally

when we talk. The vocal cords really just make different buzzing sounds and that are then modified. So when you have that tracheostomy in there, there's no resistance to flow anymore so the voice box doesn't work right. So a lot of those people, even if they haven't had their voice box, you know, vocal

cords removed, they have difficulty speaking. So they have to get a speaking valve that allows them to close that thing so that now they can push the air through the vocal cords rather than out the hole in their neck. So that's what that's about. Excellent question. It comes up in the hospital all the time. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. So what you're trying to do is prevent a catastrophic failure of the vocal cord. I'm sorry of the trache. If that thing goes

kind of without a blood without blood flow you can cause a lot of you just got a hole in it and we want to put a hole in there under controlled circumstances

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And I have some suggestions. Hey, Dr. Steve. Hey. I'm a 39-year-old male. Yeah. A few years ago, around age 35, I discovered that I have hypermobile spectrum disorder, which, of course, I've had my whole life, but didn't realize. For 13 years, I've been an avid weightlifter, and nowadays it's not working out so well.

Because I have hypermobility. I always have about five different injuries at once. Right now, I have planter fasciitis, bicep, tendonitis, golfer's elbow, radial nerve pinchment and some pain in my right hip as well. And I was wondering, I don't want to give up weightlifting. I don't know if I could. But I was wondering if you had any advice on what I should do in my life to change this. So I'm not always just riddled with pain every day.

And I would also like to know if you have any advice on how I should go about the healthcare industry, because every time I go to a doctor, they're always hyper-focused on one injury at a time. So like a shoulder doctor would be hyper-focused on the bicep, Correct. Whereas no one really knows how to treat hypermobility spectrum disorder in general so that I can be relatively pain free. Right. You got to look at the whole patient.

I agree. This is part of the problem. Do you have any advice, man? I really appreciate it. And I'm glad the show is still going because I'm a new listener from the Dabblevers. Hey. Okay. Thanks, man.

I'm going to show is great. Bye. Hey, thanks. So let me just define hypermobility spectrum disorder for a second. It's a connective tissue disorder. It used to be called hypermobility type 3 or hypermobility Ailer Danlos syndrome. And it's a genetic disorder. And these people are extremely double-jointed and have elastic tissue and stuff like that.

So let me just throw out a story. There's a movie. Have you ever seen My Dinner with Andre? No. It's two hours of Wallace Sean. and this guy Andre, who was a director, eating dinner for two hours. Okay.

And they just talk. Okay. But at one point, Andre talks about when his mom was dying in the hospital. And she's dying. She'd fallen and broken her wrist, but she was in the hospital, you know, dying. Okay. I can't remember if it was cancer or whatever, whatever it was. But she was soon, you know, to be leaving this world.

And he talked about how the orthopedist who had fixed her. her wrist, went in and looked at her and came out and said to Andre, she's doing great. She's doing great. And he was like, all he looked at was her wrist. He didn't look at this woman who's laying in a bed literally dying. And so that's what this guy's talking about. Agreed. And he's got a bunch of stuff going on.

He wants a generalized approach to this, a quote unquote, holistic approach. I'm not talking about necessarily holistic medicine, although. Of course. Dr. Scott practices a form of that. But, you know, you need to look at the whole person. So anyway, Scott, talk a little bit about, you know, from the sports aspect. He wants to continue to lift. I know there are machines that will kind of constrain the joints so that you can do different exercises and stuff.

I have a suggestion for him. But you take it first and then we'll talk. Yeah, I was kind of going along the same line as you. The first thing is with hypermobile issues, joints, what we like to do is remind folks that when you have pain tendonitis in these joints, it's from repetitive motion. And a lot of times it's from overuse and over rotational stuff. What I would say is identify a specific muscle,

you want to work out and then focus on that muscle by not taking it through and through a too far of a range. So to be specific, like bicep curls, if you want to do bicep curls, you don't need to do standing bicep curls where you're letting your arms fly through space. Correct. And you're letting your, you're rotating your wrist and tweaking your elbows and giving yourself tendonized, like you said, he had his elbow. I would sit and I would put my elbow on the inside of my knee and I would drop that weight

in a really slow control fashion straight down and just. just isolate the bicep and only go to the end range and not past. In other words, don't let any motion. If you're doing bench presses, if you're doing any kind of exercises, squats don't go past what would be considered a normal end range. Number two, cut down on the doing three sets of 10 kind of stuff. First of all, yeah. So in other words, in other words, doing multiple, multiple, multiple, multiple rounds.

love what I call the 30 second bicep, curler, the 30 second bench press. Take a really lightweight and count 10 seconds down to your, if we're doing the bench press, okay, we're laying on the bench, 10 seconds down to your chest, hold it for 10 seconds, and then back up for 10 seconds. So that's a 30 second bench press. Okay.

It's like square breathing, except. Exactly. Very similar. Instead of taking a 400 pound and going, you know, bouncing it off your chest and pushing it back up. The ballistic stuff is not good for him. Because what he wants, what he really wants to do is continue to have strength. He wants to continue to have, you know, range of motion and less pain.

And you can do this thing, but you want to stabilize, you want to strengthen some of the smaller stabilizing muscles that will help in this whole thing. Okay. So do that. The other thing I would encourage is Pilates. I was going to, that was one of them. Oh, was it okay. I'm sorry. No, no, no, no.

Go ahead. Yeah. But I think Pilates is a great way to continue to work out exercise, maintain strength and in a really controlled fashion. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so that's the thing. Don't do stuff that's going to let your, you know, free kind of flowing, twisting motions, heavy, heavy, heavy loads. Right.

Or 100 rips. Right. Slow, control. Do you know where they have these machines, though? Is physical therapy. So he could find a physical therapist. His insurance will pay for it. Go ahead.

Well, I was going to say, if this physical therapist is paying attention. Right. And is not just doing an e-vail and passing them off and saying, here's a sheet of exercises. No, no, no. Right a bicycle. My physical therapist never did that. I had to go in and do these exercises.

They had a million machines where they could isolate all these different muscle groups and stuff. That's what you want to find. That's what you want. And they are out there. They are out there. They are wonderful ones. But there are also ones out there that just are numbers, just like any other profession.

Yeah. We'll go in and let you start. They'll say, well, go ahead and do those, those strengthening. Yeah. You need somebody that really understands hypermobile disorders and how to identify. Right. these small stabilizing muscles that can help stabilize these joints. And you can call them and ask them and say, I would like to speak to one of the therapists.

This is what I've got. And sometimes you can find a physical therapist that's got your disease. Yeah. Which, like if you've got scoliosis. Maybe that's why they went into it. Right. If you've got scoliosis, maybe you've got some of it's got scoliosis and they can say, hey, this is what I do and it helps. Yeah.

Yeah, I would ask that. And I want to emphasize that hypermobility spectrum disorder is a spectrum. It is not the same thing as Ayl or Dane. Anelos syndrome, and that's a kind of edge. That's why they renamed it. Right. You know. So, but anyway.

Keep back to exercise. And what about going to a D-O-M? Yeah, you know, acupuncture for sure for tendonitis, overuse syndromes, it works exceptionally well. You know, I think acupuncture, I think physical therapy and certainly osteopathic, an osteopathic approach sometimes to make sure that if you do have bones that are slightly out of place. Yeah. Then we get them back to where they're supposed to be to allow, you know, a shoulder maybe to move more freely because if it's out of place, because you have a lack of tension in these joints. Yeah.

Then it just makes everything worse. Yeah. So a holistic approach. There are some benefits to this, by the way. Oh, are they really? Well, there can be. It depends on where you are on the spectrum. But people who are hypermobile, but functional may be faster runners.

And some people have posited that Michael Phelps might have some hypermobility. I could see that in his shoulders. Yeah. The way his shoulders moved? Oh, yeah, man. He has really flexible shoulders.

For such a strong dude. They naturally have a larger cerebellum than average. And the cerebellum is the thing that stores the mental map and processes movement and stuff. and without training people with hypermobility can sometimes be awkward, but when they do train, they can become super coordinated. Now, can I add to that too?

Now that you mentioned the athletes, that reminds me of a pitcher for the pirates back in the 80s and 90s, maybe Kent Toculvey was a sidearm pitcher. And you can see images of him. And it was like when his elbow was in front of his body, his hand was behind his hip. I mean, it was like, how in the world does that even work? But it was kind of a whiplash.

Yeah. So maybe he had touch of that. And, you know, someday if someone's deficits outweigh the benefits, because there are cognitive benefits, too. People with hypermobility disorder tend to be, have higher IQs than people who don't, which is kind of interesting. Now, that's an aggregate. Yeah, sure, sure. That's wild. But if your deficit outweighs the benefit, then in the future we may have a genetic fix for this because they're working on editing people's genomes.

There's some real philosophical and moral and ethical issues about changing someone's DNA. But when it comes to something like this or, you know, if you were at risk for Huntington syndrome, I think most people would want to have their genes edited so they didn't have to worry about it. Yeah, I would think so. That's a whole other story, though. All right. Well, I'm in here, buddy, and thanks for being a new friend. Yes, and I need to send text to everybody that's sent in. I used to do that always, and I've gotten kind of behind, so I haven't been doing it, but I do need to do that.

Yeah, hey, Dr. Steve, yes. Could you talk about this thing called Vabbing? I really don't get it, like at all. Okay. Do you know what vabbing is? No, they've heard of it. Okay. Well, I hadn't heard of a centipede movie.

Oh, yeah, okay, fair. It's vaginal dabbing. And what women do is, well, not all women, but some women, take their finger and shove it in their vagina and then use it as cologne. And they'll put it on their pulse points like, necks and wrists like perfume, and they think it's a pheromone-based scent to attract romantic partners. Now, say that again.

Okay, they take vaginal fluid and then they dab it, you know, behind their ears and on their wrists and stuff like perfume. Gotcha, got you, gotcha, got to. Thinking that somehow that's going to attach, or attach. Right. And. Interesting. Yeah.

There may be a placebo effect to this that the person who does this feels more confident because they did it. It's like some people who have performance anxiety, men who have performance anxiety when it comes to erectile dysfunction, they don't have anything physiologic wrong with them,

but they just get scared and then they can't perform. But they put a Viagra in their wallet and all of a sudden they're fine because now they know they've got that, you know, secret weapon in our back pocket. You know, this was popularized by TikTok in 2022, and there was this influencer that, you know, started this. And they're, you know, dermatologists say obviously there's, and endocrinologists as well say there's no scientific evidence to support that this does anything. But what if you had herpes or HPV? And then someone's nuzzling around on your neck because you got, you know, could there be transmission?

I do not know that there's ever been any single case ever reported where this happened. But, you know, there you go. But I think it's the placebo effect. Interesting. Women, please stop. Please stop doing that. And it. I saw an Instagram post talking about this and just said TMI and they didn't meet it.

And they just meant too much internet. It's pretty fun. It is true. Oh, wow. That's crazy. All right. Yeah, hey, Dr. Steve. Yes.

Got a question here. I don't really, I don't know how to say it other than why is it that you really got to take a, you know, a poo after you drink coffee. or that espresso stuff. Okay, thanks. Yeah, okay. Well, coffee acts just as a natural stimulant. It's for the most part, the caffeine, because when you do decaffeinated coffee,

it's not as predominant of an effect. But even decaf can do it. So there's other things in coffee. Like, for example, I can drink tea. It's got caffeine in it. I can drink, you know, five-hour energy. It's got caffeine in it. But I can't drink coffee.

So there's something else in there. But coffee itself triggers the release of a hormone called gastrin and another one called colycystichinin, which colicinin causes the gallbladder to contract. And this all speeds up digestion. And, you know, the heat of the liquid. You've talked about that before, too, that that speeds up. And the time of the morning people usually drink coffee.

It's about the time of the morning we normally go. It may just be that. A lot of those things together, yeah. So now, so it's not universal, though. Not everybody has that, obviously, this caller who sounds like I'm sure she lives in Alaska somewhere. is obviously affected by it, but not everybody. Right on. All right.

Now, let's just say you're lactose intolerant and you don't know it and you put milk in your coffee. That could do it too. That will do it for sure, yeah. It may just be that. Yep. So anyway. All right.

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