I asked 20 doctors to give me their hottest take about medicine I'll go first cold plunges are incredibly overrated and bordering on useless there's no great real life data that shows benefit let alone if people actually stick to these things long term all these podcast hosts and experts coming out and talking about research they're talking about Fringe research that doesn't include real life examples of improvement to justify spending three to five thousand dollars for these specialized cold tub plunges when there's actually some research coming out that's legitimate showing that cold water immersion doesn't even help with sore muscles let alone all the other Miracle promises out there how's it going I'm Dr alok Patel I'm a pediatric hospitalist so if a child is hospitalized count on me to coordinate care you want a hot take I've got a few we need to better understand and study medical marijuana climate change is the largest looming Public Health threat our health care system does not adequately value pediatric mental health regardless of what anyone says and there is no data backed reason for any child to ever see a chiropractor there I said it fight me my name is Dr Anthony Yoon and I'm a board certified plastic surgeon the scrotum is the ugliest part of the body there was a study in the Journal of cosmetic Dermatology where they surveyed men and women they had them look at various scrotum or scroti is it scrotie and they had them rank these scrotums on a scale of negative three to positive three negative three being the least attractive and positive three being the most attractive well every single scrotum was given a negative score so none of them were actually considered attractive hi my name is olok kenoja but the internet knows me as Dr K I'm a psychiatrist which means that I'm a medical doctor that focuses on the mind my hottest medical take is that meditation should be first line treatment for just about any mental illness there are already studies that show that mindfulness or meditation is effective at improving symptoms of just about any Mental Illness but I think it's really important to understand that the yogis basically figured out how to use meditation to purify and even transcend the mind and if we think about where most mental illness exists it actually exists within your mind so the ability to shut off or move completely beyond your mind can be incredibly healing my hottest medical take is that probiotics are useless for the average person probiotics companies are taking advantage of people it's more hype than health and if you're taking probiotics there's a good chance all it does is make your feces more expensive now there is some evidence that it does work and provides some clinical benefit for people with a narrow range of conditions but for this you'll still need medical grade probiotics it needs to have the right strains and a high enough concentration for it to actually work but with the popularity of buzzwords like microbiome and gut health probiotics companies are doubling down out on convincing marketing efforts to make billions of dollars off of unsuspecting Americans who are just trying to be healthy what's up everyone my name is Jake Goodman and I'm a Psychiatry resident doctor in my third year of residency training my hottest medical take is that in general resident doctors in this country are not given an adequate time to sleep and recover in training and as a result they suffer and patient care can suffer too today it is still legal and accepted for resident doctors to work up to 28 hours in a shift I mean research has found that sleep deprivation can cause physiological impairment in our bodies that actually mimics the effect of alcohol intoxication being awake for 24 hours straight is similar to having a blood alcohol content of 0.1 which is above the legal limit to drive if it's not safe for resident doctors to operate a vehicle why would it be safe for us to operate on or treat a patient I'm Dr Danielle Jones some of you may know me as mdj and I am an OB GYN that means I take care of anything having to do with periods pregnancy and the female reproductive tract I believe that Healthcare Providers far too often dismiss or ignore the concerns of women and that this is incredibly detrimental to our health hi I'm Dr Siobhan deshauer also known as violin MD I'm an internal medicine and Rheumatology specialist our medical system is set up to fix problems in the doctor's office or in the operating room but there's only so much that we can do when we're living in an unhealthy Society I believe people need to take more ownership of their health and that Society needs to enable them to make healthy decisions hello my name is Ed hope I'm a doctor working in the emergency department over in the UK my hottest medical Tech okay here it goes strap yourselves in because I believe in a way you can live forever this is my theory here take a mouse it only has a tiny brain and only lives for a couple of years but to that Mouse it experiences a lifetime therefore the smaller a brain size the slower an animal's experience of time now what happens in your last few moments of life well your brain cells die off essentially your functional brain is getting smaller therefore time in that moment as you experience it will start to expand and so my theory is that you end up living forever in this kind of dreamlike state my name is Ricky Brown and I am a board certified plastic surgeon in Scottsdale Arizona my hardest take is that everyone in the world thinks that what we do as plastic surgeons is what is portrayed by Hollywood or the Kardashians don't rude that couldn't be further from the truth people always forget we also do tons of reconstructive work like cleft palates and cleft lips and cancer reconstruction my name is Dr Sanjay janeja I'm a hematologist and medical oncologist basically specializing in blood disorders as well as Cancers and how to treat them I think there's almost an intentional or not coming to the middle when it comes to integrating diet lifestyle herbals and natural products into Cancer Care compared to research and traditional pharmacologic drugs in Industry what up my name is Dr John Patton Doc jb3 and I'm a board certified anesthesiologist in a regional anesthesia and acute pain medicine specialist medical hot takes so acetaminophen or Tylenol ibuprofen or Motrin can be very effective pain medications and in some situations they may even be more effective in opioids I'm Dr Dana Brands and I'm a podiatrist which is a foot and ankle specialist and surgeon speaking in too much medical jargon is not good for pain I think that if you can't explain things in a way that people understand then maybe you don't understand it yourself hi I'm Dr Brian boxer-walkler and I'm an eye surgeon AKA ophthalmologist never rub your eyes or put your fingers in your eyes because you can actually get them stuck and have a doctor have to pull it out which is not true of course but when you do rub your eyes you can cause infections you can give yourself covet in fact and also if you have an eye disease called keratoconus where the cornea is bulging like a hernia rubbing your eyes can make it worse hi I'm Dr Rena Malik urologist and pelvic surgeon and a urologist is essentially a Surgical and Medical Doctor of the genital urinary tract my hot medical take is that doctors don't learn enough about nutrition in medical school we probably got less than a 30 minute lecture on nutrition and nutrition is the foundation of Health if we knew more about nutrition I think we could help a lot more people here's your hottest medical takes and my reactions to them some of them are way wrong and some are actually pretty sharp and as always stay happy and healthy thank you