The WORST 5-Minute Crafts “Health Hacks”

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5 Minute Crafts has video promoting a wide variety of first aid treatments and cures for mild medical ailments such as headaches and sores. Usually... often... almost exclusively, these "hacks" are useless and occasionally even present a risk to patients. Let me now down below if there are more "crafts" I need to fact check!

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[allisonobryan]

I like that he spends half the video not realizing they're basically all pregnancy hacks.

[joestelawillis]

Mike not realizing the first half was pregnancy hacks is so funny

[ashtonleigh]

“She’s never winning an Emmy with that kind of performance” was hilarious 😂

[Shademer]

Mike: THE FREEZER
Person in the back: laughing their life off

[kanm]

Mike screaming "SHE'S GOT A POTATO" with so much excitement sent me in a laughing fit lol

[Morna]

Fun fact. People used to put onions by points of entry into their homes to try to fight "plague miasma." In some cases it actually worked. Because it deterred rats.

[ambermaas]

My 11yr old daughter has been watching your videos for the last year and has been telling me to watch since (I’m an ICU nurse.)
So today I watched with her and I’m pretty sure I peed my pants a couple of times laughing! This is good stuff!!! Your little recruiter got you another subscriber 😅

[deeforce]

I replays the zoom in on him painfully saying "flipflop" like 20 times, im SOBBING

[katekine]

He always starts off so positive in these videos then slowly descends into pure rage 😂😂😂

[Venusstar]

I love how he descends into further and further insanity with each installment of these 5 minute craft videos 😂

[amelia_EARhart]

at 10:03 she did the "help me" sign where you fold your fingers over your thumb and it signals your in danger, and honey, if i were on that show, i'd be signaling for help too.

[Yupppi]

Don't look up their plant hacks. You're gonna have quite a mess of dead plants.

I love how serious and factual Doctor Mike always gets with these stupid things and even comedy and jokes. It warms my heart that someone else is also so nerdy.

[KnightSlasher]

Using 5 minute crafts for advice is the definition of doing things the hard way

[Travelbyailsa]

I feel like Mike was really missing the point that most of these were pregnancy issues 😂

[chainlink]

Finding your channel is a long overdue breath of fresh air to me. There's a lot of people on the internet, some doctors, most not, giving very dangerous advice out nowadays. Thank you for putting in the work to make this possible.

[GronTheMighty]

Ok, I'm going to have to try to convince at least three of my colleagues at the hospital that 'balloon toes' is a real thing you can suffer from..

[scrimblebimbo]

Hearing "there's a flip-flop available" from a slowly-becoming-more-unhinged Dr Mike is the best thing I've heard all day

[yeahbutthendragons]

He always just responds "that can happen" lol. It gets even more wholesome when he doesn't realize it's a pregnancy hack and simply passes no judgment on people for "embarrassing" challenges.

[-Ghostess]

3:19
And now I have the words LET IT FROZE to the tune of Let It Go stuck in my head.

[mattdani]

oh my god... 7:10 the moment he said "this guy has really cool blue eyes" an ad for colored contacts popped up. I almost rethought my entire life.