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Whisking Up Wellness: Culinary Remedies for Modern Medicine
Uh pepper on this yep oh no no oh what am I doing that was so weird so often people say that doctors don’t know anything about nutrition but today I’m joined by the one and only Nick the Giovani world class Chef world class YouTuber to help me fix my patients problems are you ready I’m ready in this video I’m going to present you medical.
Cases and I’m going to ask you to prepare a meal to help fix what ails them 34-year-old male stumbles into the clinic looking like he just washed the shore from a pirate ship he complains of months of fatigue aching joints and gums that bleed he admits that his diet for the past 6 months has largely consisted.
Of instant ramen chicken nuggets and Unholy amount of unhealthy energy drinks when asked about fruit and vegetables he laughs and says do french fries count uhoh they don’t they don’t any ideas what our patient has my best guess is that you have scurvy wow good job by the way this is this is.
Real I guessed that for real I need you to prepare a vegetarian taco salad trying to maximize the amount of vitamin C so first I’m going to go grapefruit actually oh grapefruit and I’m going to I’m going to I’m going to how do you tell the difference between a grapefruit and an orange is one graier orange that got tan I’m going to start with some.
Little grapefruit suprem so I’m basically just going to take some nice little slices you get off all that white pith of the citrus fruit then you just come in with the with the knife and we’ll get all those really nice s oh that’s high level the reason I’m using grapefruit instead of orange is because it’s going to be a little bit more tart.
And less sweet no one wants a sweet taco salad that’s what I always say try one of those try one of those right we don’t so we can start making the kind of base of everything so we’ll put some corn in there balance those out with the beans okay okay I’m going to black beans great source of fiber yep I knew that let’s go with some.
Pepper right what’s the patient’s name we don’t know is it Anonymous no no no we can call them Ricky Bobby I’m going fast again first o oh oh you’re going with the the skin lime’s Z for citrus to me it’s the best parts on the outside very superficial at this here it’s the opposite of humans so let’s start.
Seasoning this up first we’ll put the olive oil right why don’t you go in with some a little bit of honey just a tiny tiny bit of Honey perfect okay chili powder cuz this is a taco salad go ahead with some pepper interesting form for pepper you kind of held it way further out than I’ve ever seen anyone hold.
It okay nice pinch of salt let’s go in with a little bit of just some nice allpurpose seasoning just to like all purpose it’s purpose yeah grab a bunch of that lettuce and put some in there okay I just created a bed of lettuce we’ll just go allpurpose seasoning on that toss that up super gently this doesn’t have to look too crazy right.
Like we we want to a pirate after all he’s a pirate he doesn’t care yep that’s good and then to finish it off we’ll just take a few chips oh think of it as the croutons and this is a pirate from South America so they’re really going to appreciate the meal they’re going to love this it’s a little bit of like a fun mess of stuff look at that I got.
Everything oh no I had everything m m what a great medy of flavors all right now I have to give you the doctor rating on it okay okay you chose amazing ingredients okay but you did not choose uhoh the most vitamin C rich ingredient on the table in front of you is it kiwis uhhuh yeah well where do the.
Kiwis fit here though 32-year-old female presents to the clinic with chronic diarrhea bloating and fatigue that have progressively worsened over the last 6 months she frequently experiences abdominal discomfort and excessive gas she also knows unintentional weight loss despite maintaining her usual diet she.
Denies fever vomiting blood and stool or recent travel of interesting note the patient is a huge fan of dominoes shoot maybe you’re Celiac or maybe you lactose intolerant something is not being digested properly when you eat it probably you may be lactose intolerant Celiac it was Celiac godamn so in this case the reason why I think.
It’s more likely to be Celiac is because of that unintentional weight loss for this patient you will be preparing for them an Asian noodle gluten-free meal I can make that work let’s see what we got here we’ve got some Lade noodles those have gluten I believe so we’re not going to use those SOA noodles for sure gluten-free made of Buckwheat um they.
Don’t so noodles are gluten-free why are you coughing I have a cough oh they have organic wheat flour though in them this one for sure is gluten free rice noodles yeah it says gluten-free on the packaging now know it’s gotten serious is there zest in garlic or is that not that’s a c thing that doesn’t.
Make sense okay I’m almost deep frying them in the olive oil right now yeah I could see the depth in that frying I need a tiny bit of honey this is going to help to caramelize onions just a little bit extra wow oh yeah soy sauce might not be gluten-free soy beans water wheat and salt that’s not.
Gluten-free so I think I’m going to go with u the coconut aminos it’s just organic coconut tree sap see how it could sneak its way in there here’s what I’m going to do this is kind of crazy right you’d never think that you could just cook these in here right you can cook that in there yeah I’m going to put these in okay ready.
Yeah we use some coconut aminos in there I always say two pumps you can do a little more three pump that’s good you got it all over the counter w w that isn’t that crazy happening yeah can you trim off the end of the ginger yeah make it easier on yourself though let’s just like sh m I love that you don’t use.
Amounts see if I did that with prescription medications though I don’t think that would go well I’m going to add these one more time because I love them all right so I’m going to go one two three so watch here we go we’re finishing things off here we’ll add a little bit of that sauce and then we need some of these too cuz I love green.
Onions so and then we’ll just put like some of the green some of the green onions over the top few nice nice leaves we can go like the tiniest little drizzle but I don’t want a lot oh okay barely Sesame O Okay more lime zest sprinkle that over the whole thing and then after that I just I think you as.
The patient should try it m and it taste gluten-free I know there’s no gluten I have a sensor do you really no I’m a 38-year-old male now and I present to you with sudden onset severe KY pain on my right side that started a few hours ago the pain is sharp it’s.
Intermittent and I can’t seem to find a good position constantly moving around and I recently started following a famous IG Health influencer who recommended taking a lot of supplements can you jump okay you can jump that’s good okay I’m going to potentially roll out appendicitis okay that was a that’s.
Actually a thing we do in Pediatrics when we jump you shake your insides if there’s pain it could be a sign that there’s an acute abdomen what do most of the supplements are are they made of do you know um the one that was recommended to me was for strong bones interesting do you know what makes bones strong nocium exercise Calum calcium calcium.
I’m wondering if you have a kidney stone and then it might be kind of up there so you’ll send me for what kind of test I’m going to send you for a calcium test it starts with a C but it’s not a calcium test it’s not a dog it’s a a cat cat test CAT scan cator Sor I got too locked in on the whole cat test is such a stupid.
Answer I need you to cook me a meal that is low in oxalates wow that form is f can I try one that worked in a weird way sweet potatoes I’m feeling like are quite healthy so they’re good well not necessary okay that’s am I am I whisking okay like this right yeah uh that’s a weird way to whisk go from above yeah.
Cuz I don’t want to put too much air in this we’re trying to make a French omelette it’s not easy to make but we’re going to give it our best shot butternut squash I’m feeling like might be a good move that’s a good move is it yeah I’m going to use it in kind of a creative way I don’t even know what squash is what squash kind of like a pumpkin oh a.
Nice knob of butter okay not too much the egg I’m not going to season it up with any salt with anything yet maybe just a little bit of pepper we can do a little bit of pepper so why don’t you put a little bit of pepper in there little pepper on this yep oh no no oh what am I doing that was a test that was not a.
Test you I I thought you’d know that it goes in the eggs and not just into the pan but where are the eggs ultimately going to go that was so weird that you just did that I want the egg to cook into like these really small little curds I don’t want like like big thick pieces of egg what makes an omelette French French.
Method of cooking it and what is the French method of cooking it this and with some of this okay it’s almost like a mush do you want to put some spinach in there um sure but we got to decide pretty fast cuz I got to roll this thing up soon oh is that good no oh okay yeah I was this is one of the most oxalate Rich ridiculous but the cheese is fine.
Though okay yeah how do you think I knew that uh I don’t know how did you know that I didn’t I just guessed okay for some reason this pen is just giving me a tough time today what I want to be able to do is just to flip this over it’s not a good french omelet but it looks like a good french what makes this a bad French alond the French almond is supposed to.
Be perfectly smooth I think that always be nice to finish it with like a nice Crum testing of fatted cheese and then we do need light salt because you don’t want to high sodium barely salt we going to go ahead and just melt the tiniest bit oh of butter okay to finish it off just a few of these low in oxalates a few of these arugula micro.
Greens which are very low in oxalates and what makes them micro they’re small oh look at that looks good M the concern was unwarranted and the patient’s doing fantastic oh I think my kidney stone just passed wow right on the floor no into my bladder from my urder.
Oh okay 22-year-old male I’m presenting to you an En Urgent Care setting with severe painful rash on my back shoulders and upper arms after spending an entire day at the beach 2 days ago I have redness swelling and blistering that started within a few hours of sun exposure and it’s continually worsened.
The areas are extremely tender to touch and I have difficulty sleeping due to the burning I also happen to follow a famous Health influencer who believes the sun is their friend and sunscreen is dangerous you got a bad heat rash from the Sun I have a bad sunburn you have a bad sunburn very bad yeah really and because there’s a uh presence of.
Blisters that means it’s a it’s a second degree burn correct y so serious that I need to be hospitalized urgently you need to up my calories by about 50% for the day and increase protein by about 100% to allow my tissues to heal and we think about adding extra protein and extra calories you think steak here we go okay we’ll go steak on our cutting.
Board just some simple pepper nice salt all over okay same thing on the other side avocado oil also calories calories 120 tablesp lay the steak away from you oh so it doesn’t po pop yep calories calories see that calories calories calories calories that’s what I always say that’s where we’re going to get all the flavor okay.
Hear that crackling yeah what does that mean it’s the water in the um in the time calories calories you’re really taking the calories to heart I’m a medium rare guy you are I’m a medium guy okay you strike me as a medium guy yeah I’m a medium guy normally I’d want like a yellow mustard but just for like a little bit of extra.
Flavor on this let’s just let that kind of melt let’s put a tiny bit of this in here as well just for like extra flavor you know I think I almost I could experiment a little bit oh okay I like the experiment yeah yeah I could experiment a little bit all the all the.
probiotics look I got like all this cheese that I can just oo that looks crazy that looks so good yeah does look really good and you’re hitting me with the lemons boom we’re done look at this yeah take a nice little bite with like everything you know oh look at that that has everything yeah that looks good yeah.
I have a feeling it’s going to be pretty good I do think that you basically just strict me to cook for you for like 3 hours I mean pretty much that’s what I did you blame me student Dr Nick I now humbly award you the graduating fake stethoscope award that you can now use to just wear as a prop around your neck in future.
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