RIDICULOUS "Life Hacks" That Our Parents Made Us Believe
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here's the thing joey... wasabi in a wound won't help with the current wound... but next time you are out in the park and want to go running and potentially skin your knee you will think "if i do this grandma will rub wasabi on it"...so maybe you walk instead of run to avoid that. it might not have cured that first scrape of the knee, but it definitely cured that second one by instilling you with fear of the possibility and preventing the scrape from happening in the first place
Ah yes, trauma, the best prevention plan.
Meanwhile me: Ah, fuk it. We’ll see what happens later.
@@kerosenn7016 first time meeting asian parental figures?
@@ashleylightheart126 Oh I definitely know especially since I'm Vietnamese. I've experienced plenty of remedies and treatments that I'd rather not experience again.
the funny thing is that as Ashley mentions the wasabi root as well as horseradish and mustard do have some antibacterial/-microbial properties (of which real wasabi has the most) This gives way to a theory as to why people began having something like wasabi together with fish, implying the antibacterial properties could've been used for consuming fish that's gone off a little.
though it still doesn't change that it irritates the skin and wounded tissue, it could actually keep the wound from getting infected to some degree.
4:02, Connor: "Yeah but I piss on your leg it would be somewhat antibacterial."
I love how witty Connor can be at times.
He’s really funny and clever
Pissing will make it worse actually lol
@@superboy98612 he probably said it because of the rumor that piss is sterile (which it's not. healthy pee just has lower bacteria levels than unhealthy pee)
I've heard that if you piss on someones leg that have been stung by a jellyfish it will lessen the pain. But I would rather just toughen it out than to have someone pee on it.
@@Zefar77 i mean doing it yourself is also an alternative...
im not saying its a good idea, but it is an option...
My mom and grandma tried to push the belief that tea can heal sickness when I was little and even now as an adult whenever I get sick they ask if I’ve been drinking my tea.
same :D
Teas have antioxidants. They don't heal sickness but taken regularly, it helps your immune system. They're not entirely wrong.
Fluids do help, and might as well make them taste good
It definitely has some health benefits but it will do little to nothing on nutritional value on your sickness
You do need to drink more water. Warm water also gave some relief.
Thanks Mudan for adding those fact check cards.
The vitamin C thing comes from a time when a lot of people may not have gotten enough vitamin C. Having not enough vitamin C can be really bad for the immune system not to mention cause scurvy. And since its one of the few vitamins you can't have to much on, it was just a when your sick make sure you have enough vitamin C.
the vitamin thing is actually because of a guy called Linus Pauling, he was one of the first celebrity scientists and as he got older, he became obssessed with living forever and became convinced vitamins were the path to that and spread this belief on live television, and the media did what it has always done, spread catchy information regardless of its basis on scientific reality
exactly, that's what I though, you eat oranges just in case your Vit C was low, not because it will cure you. Plus, during a cold, any extra hydration is good
Garnt: When I drank all that honey I felt like my throat was getting better....
Yes that is in fact why honey is often used or recommended when you have a sore throat as it can help reduce inflammation and mucus production thus helping reduce your coughs, you'll have less phlegm (and it'll be easier to cough out the excess. etc. Warm fluids have a somewhat similar effect.
idk if this ever happened to anyone, but I remember as a kid I once had a wound on my knee that was between a scratch and a burn, and what my mom did was, put a slice of raw onion with salt on it. Idk if the logic of it was to absorb any dirt/eliminate bacteria from the wound or to help with the healing process but it definitely hurt like hell.
I spit my water out of my mouth when Connor started talking about playing with his poop lol.
1:32 Spring onions and ginger for cold reminded me of something my mom used to do: onion syrup
See, it was a long time ago, when I was a little kid, and we were a poor family in Poland, so actual cough syrups were pretty low on our priorities when it comes to budget.
The syrup was sweet, but still tasted like white onion, smelled like onion and left an onion aftertaste... but it really worked like a wonder, cough would stop for a while, throat would stop hurting and overall I would feel better after it.
Still hated it though xD
Onions and garlic are basically the polish medkit
Here's a really interesting one that my fellow Mexicans might relate too. When I was sick as a kid. My mom would get a glass of water, an egg and then have me lay down. She would rub the egg across my body and if I remember right, i think she prayed as well.
When she was done, she would crack it into the glass of water and see how the egg looked in the water. As a kid, I had no idea what the point was. I've talked to others and it seems to be a Mexican thing. A friend gave me some insight about it but I forgot. I really need to ask my mom what it does lol
I am a mexican
I was never ¿victim? to such treatment (my whole family believes that the “limpias” are BS) but I have a bunch of friends with a family that do that stuff, it seems to be something really religious and mostly based in the evil “vibes” (las malas vibras) stuff
As a fellow Mexican my parents never did this, at least i don’t remember them doing so but my Mexican friends have told me their parents have done this exact thing and that it was a common Mexican remedy.
Maybe it’s because my parents aren’t **that** superstitious/spiritual or their parents never did it to them. Either way I think it’s interesting your mom did that for when you were sick
@@Leo-ok3uj I wouldn't say "victim" lol that makes it sound bad like if it was witch craft lol to add to what you said. My mom is honestly pretty religious. You might have a point there. She would do this a few times to me and my dad but stopped as time went by. I don't think she ever did this to my younger siblings
@@krisdeltarun honestly didn't know how common it was till one day at work we talked about weird things at work. I shocked my coworkers with this but my Mexican coworker was like "Your mom did that too?!" Lol my mom is really religious so idk if that contributed to why she did it. Her sister is the same way so it might also deal with how they were raised. Then on my dads side of the family. They aren't like that so they don't it
That's interesting! I've never heard of anyone doing that here in Mexico. It might just be a regional thing I'm unaware of though
Zinc and vitamin C are vital for immune system function. and oranges have high vitamin C levels
@@xionmemoria well, zinc and vitamin c are still useful when you have a viral infection
@@xionmemoria It's wasting time if you're only intake of vitamins is whenever you are sick. If you're already maintaining vit c daily and increase it more when you are sick, it's fine.
Peppers actually have more vitamin C than any citric fruit
@@xionmemoria agreed. Taking vitamin C when you're sick is like putting on a bulletproof vest after you've already been shot
@@xionmemoria No Vit. C is still good and can be vital in certain diseases except when the vitamin is contraindicated (makes you worse) in order to boost your immune response to let's say a cold. It doesn't prevent you from getting it, it helps lessening the severity and duration of symptoms. Which is why it's important to regularly take in Vit.C everyday.
It's not for correcting deficiencies, it is to help your body fight symptoms manifested by most diseases except certain diseases in the blood and in certain cases of DM (diabetes milletus) as it raises blood sugar.
Another day I went to my grandmother's house for a family dinner. As soon as I entered the front garden a wasp stung my hand. Immediatelly, my mother cut a piece of potato and put in over the wasp sting. The pain immediately subsided and I spent 30 minutes investigating why.
So here some remedies from my family:
1. For fever they would put potatos in my socks when i go to sleep ( i hated that sooo much )
2. When my throat hurts they would take
rakija( traditional serbian drink made from plums) and a piece of cloth and a bit of peper and wrap it around my neck and i would go to sleep wearing that ( it can be anoying cause the peper is itchy but this one actually helps i always feel better when i wear it)
3. If your lungs hurt, take a piece of newspaper make small holes in it and spread a thin layer of lard over it and then put it on your chest and leave it like that for an hour or two.
4. Bacon is a must when your throat hurts cause it helps lube the throat and it's easier to eat (if you don't like bacon you can drink a spoon of olive oil )
Saline water is good for rinsing wounds and gargling after dental surgery.
My parents always used viks vaporub on men and my sister and it literally always worked I have no idea why, Asian medication life hacks are on a different level man
lmao there's a thing in jane the virgin where the abuela talks about the "magical venezuelan healing potion that's been passed down for generations" and it literally turns out to be vicks vaporub
viks does treat flu/cold symptoms tho. which like yeah, it won't make you better any faster, but in an illness that is going to go away treating the symptoms is pretty good.
Viks is a legitimate treatment.
@@TuberoseKisser treatment is just the act of dealing with something - viks doesn't cure you, it alleviates you symptoms so you *feel* better
6:33 i'm indian, and my mom used to tell me the same thing abt whistling at night. it's so weird how the same superstition came up in two different cultures.
salt is actually good for some types of injuries. i kept getting an infected ingrown toenail and my podiatrist got me to soak it in salt a lot as it drew the pus out and put an antibacterial barrier. also betadine after soak. wihtout the salt, it would have been worse
Yeah but for more pronounced wounds it's bad, it also depends on the salt
I've looked into this quite a bit, and from what I can tell, salt in a wound will constrict the blood vessels? It won't help healing, in fact I've heard of people who do ornamental scarification using salt to slow down the healing to create clearer more easily managable scarring. Sugars and salts are transferred into soft tissues in your body through osmosis, literally passing through cell walls. In best case this can be extremely painful for a minute then ease the pain for a while after, but in worst case it can cause added infection. Saline solutions can help rinse soft tissue sores like mouth ulcers and the healing holes after tooth extractions, definitely, it can be anti-inflammatory and also there's evidence to suggest it balances the high ph levels that can arise around infection sites, but in that case you're not letting the salt stick around. If you just pour straight salt on a wound, that's not the same, it'll do more harm than good.
Me and my family knows how the placebo effect works and it is not only limited to the human body and brain.
1:44 There is a similar custom in the Sinophone world of eating ginger if you catch a cold. There is sth like a humoral theory in the Sinitic folk medicine, where you catch a cold literally because you are "invaded" by some evil "energy" which is "windy" and "cold" in nature. Ginger is spicy, i.e. "hot". So the 'hotness" from ginger can force the "cold" out of your body (figuratively).
Japan is influenced by Sinitic culture so I guess that's where the life-hack comes from.
Salting a wound is a form of torture after lashing, to maximize pain at the same time it helps prevent infection.
My family put baking soda on everything. My husband's mother put Vaseline on everything.
Bruh is your family alright?
Vaseline has petrolatum. If it's on the skin, yeah it's a good occlusive to help your skin barrier. Baking soda does so many things, it's using the correct amount though and depends again from one person to another.
@@Pipipipoopoop Irish grandmother's.
my family doesn't have too much since my dad is a doctor and tends to avoid anything other than like medical treatments. i do remember always using neosporin if the cat scratched me. also we used a lot of aloe cause my dad and i sunburn easily (seriously we make frickin voldemort look like he's been tanning)
18:08 made me spit my cereals out of my mouth, and I've seen this clip before but it caught me so off-guard xD
this is one of the funniest episodes imo😂
Tried wasabi yesterday…. Never again. It just literally hits me differently. Made me sad.
Also I pulled off a Mater from Cars 3. Rip my nostrils.
So ever since I was little I loved to put lemon juice, or pickle juice mixed with salt on my scrapes and cuts. I loved that pain for some reason and still do. Till this day I do it. Weirdest thing about me. When I was little my mom told a doctor about this and he was like aaaahhh no don’t do that. haha I’ll have to try the wasabi method next. Sounds delightly painful.
I think that just means you’re a masochist.
I agree with previous comment, you're a masochist
I've never done that but I used to like to press and rub on healing cuts and scrapes when I was young. Like when it had a scab and the pain from it was like a sting.
the craziest "lifehack" my parents did was make me moisturise my face with the insides of a banana peel
I think they were just deliberately trolling you.
Garnt is dying on his sword of bs right here 😂😂
Salt in a would DOES make it harder for bacteria to grow, It may hurt but it also completely changes the chemistry of that spot. Same thing with wasabi. Both also make your body's immune system respond faster to small wounds. Increasing blood flow to heal the affected area. Small cut vs larger area of burn makes your body's immune system respond accordingly. The same thing happens when you eat spicy food, your body's immune response activates faster to heal more of the "pain" your body is experiencing. The latter effects of all these things are minor, gastric distress, dry skin, etc are second to your body healing the "damage" of the burn, salt, wasabi, spicy food etc. and your body is trying to heal the more immediate "danger" of the open wound that is now burning from these old wives tales.
That sounds true enough for me to not fact check it
@@naniwo4438 I am 100% a scientist that worked at NASA under the Nixon administration. Why would a stranger on the internet lie.
While salt can help fight infection, it's more of a "I'm stuck on a mountain and if this wound gets infected I'll die" kind of thing. It should absolutely not be used as the go to for any ordinary cut or scrape.
every time connor says "fuck" in any sentence it makes me laught
One reason oranges are good when you're ill is because often you'll have a fever and loose your appetite. Oranges contains quite a bit of water and sugar which gives your body quick access to fluid and energy, allowing it to keep working in overdrive. So if you otherwise cannot get yourself to eat or drink but can gobble oranges, that's good for your body and recovery.
oh.. yeah the things my mother (i'm from Germany) always said:
- don't eat too many cherries you will get a bad stomach pain from it (or was it don't drink water and eat cherries... something like that)
- your eyes get squared if you watch to much TV
- don't play so much Gameboy your eyes get bad
- don't drink after you have eaten ice that makes your stomach bad
- don't swallow a chewing gum it will kinda glue your stomach together so you can't eat anymore
- if you are ill -> drink a tea (which made me hate tea since of course we only had herbal teas and they tasted awful when you are a kid. So i started drinking and liking tea in my 20s)
10:36 poor garnt, didn't even got the chance to tell what he remembered 😔
My grandmother used to tell me not to whistle at night because it will attract devils. 😂😅
For the mouth Ulcer. I’m not sure if anyone’s Mexican Momma has done/said this as well, but you use salt and lime and rub it in your ulcer. That’s what I still do to this day and it works pretty good imo
The definition of the placebo effect is a placebo effect
3:01 conner being a japanese
Oranges helped with scurvy in the past on long boat voyages, I think is what it was
I mean honey in medicine isn't placebo effect, studies have shown it actually is anti-inflammatory and antibacterial. It's used sometimes in clinics and hospitals topically in wound care. It can help reduce inflammation in the throat when drinking tea or just swallowing it pure. That said, honey isn't used alone in treatment obviously since the effect is limited.
Most of great things start in a theory, but don't tell it to anyone before you prove you're right
"Salt prevent's bacteria to grow." "But what does that mean?" What the hell Connor doesn't understand? If you get a wound, it can get infected, can fester, can get gangrene, can loose a limb or even die. That's because of bacteria. That's why we clean the wound. Also I love when they mentioned sailin solution and he didn't know it's just salt mixed with water. Btw. the reason it works is because salt dehidrates the wounded area (I know, shocking concept) and a lot of bacteria (not all) die of dehidration. This is also the reason why salt reduces inflamation. Obviously it's better to use a modern desinfectant, but if you have a wound, that got dirty and you don't have anything better on hand at the moment (let's say you're camping). Clean it with salt. I don't understand why it's so hard to understand.
"Oh f**k, we gotta patch you up dawg!" - Joey's grandma
8:23 I think the word that can be used to call it is Placebo. Not really sure tho
Salt can be used to seal wounds but it should be dissolved in water first
Joey grandma: don't whistle, snake Will came
My family: ghost will close by. And it's true!
6:37
Snake?
SNAKE?!
Snaaaaaaaaaaaake!!!
Snake: “…wot?”
The data WAS hella lit
Fun fact, Manuka honey does help with your cold. Checked up by a family med doc
my mexican parents believe lemon and vic's vaporrub will cure anything lmao
I had to do a report on vitamin C in college and the basic conclusion is that it doesn’t work to help shorten a cold. You would need to take large amounts of vitamin C for multiple weeks prior to even getting a cold for it to have any effect at all. And the effect that it’s has is very minor. It might shorten the duration of a cold by about 12 hours. So if you were to have a cold for 5 days, it might shorten it to 4 and 1/2 days. Taking vitamin C when you already have signs of a cold is too late and won’t help you at all
I salt my mouth ulcers, and I have no evidence that it does anything
Vitamin c can help by boosting the immune system and honey is antimicrobial and is thick so it coats your throat like cough syrup and eases sore thoats and coughs. So it's not a placebo effect. It doesnt have to be Manuka honey though. Manuka is supposed to have extra antioxidants or something from the plants the nectar to make it was derived from though.
*This is the most misinformation I've ever seen in one place. Poor Gant was right about a lot.*
You're not supposed to pour salt in your throat, you're supposes to make a salty drink and then gargle it to draw out the water from the ulcer. Although you have to do it multiple times per day.
I'm here for the DEEZNUTS joke.
In Garnt's merit, here in Costa Rica we use baking soda and just patch it in the ulcer. It does help a lot but yeah there is not actual medical proof that it works. Also here we eat chicken soup while having a cold to help cure it, instead of the oranges. But being half European yeah my grandma said to drink straight lemon juice to cure the cold.
joey was made into a sandwich
Ginger genuinely helps you feel better when you’re sick.
Joey's grandma: "ah shiii we gotta patch you up dawg 👦🏿"
Wasabi does have antibacterial effects. That's why they put it on sushi.
Honey does actually have documented anti inflammatory and anti bacterial properties, so it will legitimately help with a sore throat. There’s an enzyme in it that creates a small amount of hydrogen peroxide in combination with water.
Salt inhibits bacterial growth. That's why it was used to preserve food. It is used on wounds in the form of saline solutions and such and can also just be used itself but it depends on the type of salt and the severity of the wound and yes it is painful. To be cruel slave owners would use it on whipping wounds like the idiom.
Make a £10 bet to live to 100. With odds of 1 in 10,000,000, that is a very good reason to work out and stay consistent
My mom says eating cold food makes ppl fat because cold foods are harder to be digested and absorbed. To this date, I still have no idea how absorbing less nutrients to the body will make people fat.
I mean I do the whole eat oranges thing. Altough Garnt thinks its only for preventative. It does actively help fight off the cold. Garnt seems to think once you have the cold is over, immune system failed. Just be ill now. No. You being sick is the immune system kicking into action and for that system to remain optimally functional to better fight off that illness. You need vit C. Not just before but also during and after.
Just regularly, really. It's water soluble and can easily be expelled from the body yet the body uses it as an antioxidant and for synthesis of other components in the body.
Folk remedies are fine. They only get dangerous when you blindly follow and end up exaggerating them, worse when they are made to shortcuts, then monetizing them and promised to cure the impossible. Folk remedies do have value in them when they are broken down. You'd just be surprised what's in what. So try to listen to your elders and parents, think and analyze, then decide to follow through. Don't reject them right off the bat just because they're not licensed professionals.
The time is no
I dont reamber where i heard this so take it with grain of salt but
when life flashes before your eyes it beacuse your body is trying to find anything in your memorys that it can use to save your life
3:00 What are you doing, step-grand mother?
I didnt realize I had a cut on my finger one time, and I put it in a jar of salt
That was the most painful experience ever. I will never forget about it
Try going to the Dead Sea, you will discover like 50 miniscule cuts that you didn't know existed,
Snakes aren't deaf. They are thought to be by some people because they don't have visable ears but like birds they still have ear canals just nothing exteral. The snakes can hear you whistling 😂
Spicy stuff heals all apparently including food don’t like it spice that shit up
Honey was proven to soothe the throat
"go to college so you can get a good job"
yeah so one of my friends told me a story where she got hurt came home and of course you guessed it her grandma put f*king iodine on the wound and she screamed like hell but at least iodine s actually really good at treating wounds and it actually does something
I Love this
the problem is that people want a one size fits all solution but that is not how it works especially in science and medicine everybody's body works differently and what works for one may not work for another when it comes to health everybody needs to be treated on a case by case basis
Wasabi has antiseptic properties, so this "wives tale" is completely true.
Wasabi was shown to slow wound healing. Your grandma did you dirty Joey
Yeah we humans are weird as hell. Some things do have health benefits but it really depends on the person it could work for one person and not the other
In India, turmeric is considered the perfect healer
their not gonna see this but the word they were looking for is psuedo science
Actually looked it up, wasabi apparently has been proven to be a strong antibacterial, so japanese grannies know their stuff.
Guys, i think youd all benefit from searching stuff up on databases like pubmed, instead of just googling stuff.
My mom, who is Filipino, also said eat a lot of oranges or mandarin oranges/tangerines and ginger lemongrass brew🥲🥲🥲 but my European dad said PARACETAMOLLL
I just don't know why but I'm from India and my mom says if you eat an orange that's smaller than the rest of oranges then your parents will die I didn't even tried eating a small orange since then like this stereotype is on whole another level
vicks vaporub cures all
the classic chinese remedy: honey water
When my baby teeth were falling out my mom would grab sugar and rub it on the gums where the tooth fell off to stop the bleeding. I don't know if it works but I do this with my kids now.
Uhh isnt that awful since the mouth bacteria will happily feast on that shit? I wouldnt do it man
Another common one is eating lots of carrots will make your eyesight better, but I'm pretty sure I've looked that up and it's fake.
That one is actually really funny, early I to WWII during the Blitz the UK was one of the first countries to use radar to spot enemy aircraft. When they found German spies trying to find out how they knew where intercept German planes they leaked fake intel that it was because British plane spotters enhanced their eyesight with a diet high in carrots.
Im lucky, my mother believe in the power of medicine and would treat me with either medication or getting me to the doctor. I also may have double the amount of vaccines a kid would get since my mother would even lie about my age to get me a extra vaccine sometimes.
Besides my bronchitis and asthma that come from the family I'm one of the most healthy guys around these parts.
vicks vaporub
I mean a lot of people are very nutrient deficient and dehydrated constantly even in “first world” country’s because of the way we farm are food it destroys the microbiology that’s essential for plants to get all the right nutrients, instead we supplement with npk and other nutrients in synthetic petrol based forms that kill life and create under nutritious vegetables and fruits, it’s the reason that if you have ever felt like chicken shit on your hand it burns, same thing happening to the microbes; same with tilling, its almost impossible even if your rich if you don’t know what your talking about to get actual good food that doesn’t straight cause cancer and make you a half human
I used toothpaste for my mouth sores. It works.
My mum told me to put salt on my mouth ulcer when i was a kid. That hurt so bad but i agree it makes it heal so much quicker
my mom always made me eat a spoonful of minced garlic when i was sick as a kid. supposedly has some sort of antibacterial immunosomethingsomething. all i got from it was that i had to put a spoonful of garlic in my mouth ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wonder if the whole belief that vitamin C cures sickness might somehow originate from the cure for scurvy? Since scurvy, which was a terrible illness, was cured by eating fruits or other foods rich in vitamin C, people might have thought it would cure other illnesses too? And that could be why it became a folk remedy.
vicks #1
What? Snakes aren’t deaf
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Whenever I get sick, I eat chicken-related foods, and orange-related drinks.
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