Nick Keppler

As with all elements of post-coronavirus life, things will be different. Specialty fitness studio dedicated to disciplines like yoga, Pilates, martial arts, and rock climbing are making radical adjustments to curb the spread of the virus. Expect half-empty rooms, rules on physical distancing, and an end of walk-in classes and some shared equipment. Fitness studio owners say they will enforce face masks if their local public health authority mandates them, but they may not require them if theyre cumbersome to the particular exercise. Temperature checks at the door are a maybe. Hand sanitizer dispensers everywhere are a given.

Crowded, sweaty rooms we once entered without a care are 2019. Spaced out, disinfected spaces ruled by occupancy, efficiency, and cleanliness are 2020.

Also a thing of the past are lounges where regulars hang out after class. Its a loss, said Jesse York, co-owner of the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/titleboxingclubknoxville/?hl=en" id="6a4dc3b1-63f8-3310-a447-25cb1b9295f6"> Title Boxing Club </a> in Knoxville. We are definitely southern people and southern people like to talk. However, he is asking that once students are done pounding their assigned punching bags and class is over, people file out quickly, one row to the left of the fitness floor and one to the right.

\"If you are going hard, then you are propelling those droplets everywhere.\"

To review the risks to fitness spaces and their clientele remember that, as a respiratory illness, COVID-19 is spread when an infected person <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-airborne-here-s-what-we-know-n1216726" id="82addd9f-7906-379d-ab71-e5451e0b59e5"> releases droplets through their mouth or nose </a> , through breathing or speaking. Another person consumes them through swallowing or inhalation, or when they touch the virus and then touch their eyes, nose, or mouth. The more people in a space the greater the risk of a person who is, perhaps unknowingly, transmitting the virus, and the more time spent there the greater the risk of exposure. Also, heavy breathing from rigorous exercise can launch droplets further than the six feet of space thats become a norm of social distancing.

[I]f you are going hard, then you are propelling those droplets everywhere, Alan Schenkel, PhD, a virologist at Colorado State University says. I would urge people to be very wary and very cautious.

Fortunately for gyms, sweat is not thought to be conduit for the virusbut surfaces still need to be disinfected regularly, since the virus-carrying droplets can settle onto them. Combine all these factors and experts are hesitant about returning to fitness studios.

I take Pilates and people also use controlled breathing practices, said Zandrea Ambrose, PhD, a virologist at the University of Pittsburgh. I have no intention of going back to my Pilates studio any time soon!

Schenkel agrees. I would not do it myself, he said. I bike past the gyms and see people on stair machines and lifting weights and I think, They are taking a lot of risks. Instead, he recommends outdoor exercise. Very few cases of COVID-19 were traced to transition in an outdoor space, he says.

If you go back to your specialty fitness studio anytime soon, here are some new precautions, regulations and changes to the atmospheres you may encounter.

Mature male yoga student laughing during class

Once-crowded yoga rooms will <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonisweet/2020/05/27/7-big-changes-coming-to-yoga-studios-when-they-reopen-after-coronavirus/#31ed212f266d" id="686da07c-b4ae-3324-aead-432d8a0f4d36"> operate at about one fourth </a> of their pre-COVID capacity as businesses adjust for social distancing. Kendra Blackett-Dibinga, owner of <a href="https://bikramyogawellnessworks.com/" id="2ad7d4b0-5fc2-30eb-acef-b76736dbf264"> Bikram Yoga Works </a> , which has studios in Boston and the D.C. metro area, said that once rows of yoga mats are set six feet apart, she expects to fit 20 people into rooms that once held 60 or 70.

<a href="https://yourya.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Guidebook_Opening_Up_Best_Practices-1.pdf" id="347e0ba3-6d11-39b4-ae87-1a8e99caaa9a"> The Yoga Alliance suggests </a> restricting the use of studio-owned props, like mats and blocks. Some studios may require clients to bring their own. The Alliances best practices list also includes setting aside more time between classes for disinfecting surfaces and mandatory face masks.

Blackett-Dibinga said she wont make her pupils wear masks. People need to be able to take a breath, she says. Particularly in her hot yoga studios, she thinks a face mask may dangerously restrict airflow. One element that also might be missing from yoga class: a flesh-and-blood teacher. To keep instructors from continually moving between locations, Blackett-Dibinga said some will lead via live video link.

These factors might not be great for attracting casual yogis, and the studios, already reeling from weeks of being shuttered, will face financial hardships as they can only serve a fraction of the students who used to clutter weekend and 6 p.m. classes. It will be a challenge unless our landlords can say they will work with us, Blackett-Dibinga said. We may cut down a location or two. We are looking for the model that works.

There are few places more difficult to disinfect than a climbing gym. Every wall and structure is meant to be touched. Oils from clinging hands are thought to be a poor conduit for COVID-19but climbers release water droplets as they breath, huffing inches from the wall as they struggle to grasp the next hold. And those holdsas the shapes that climbers grip are calledare made from porous plastics. That makes them easier to clutch, but they absorb liquids more readily. Some of the holds would be extremely hard for a cleaner to reach. After all, being hard-to-reach is often the point.

There is no real history of disinfecting climbs, said Tyler Norton, a video-blogger for the climbing YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1EKBrabQyZlLQNLASg0TEg" id="f437af88-e944-324e-a46f-3e85b3f4fcfc"> Plastic Weekly </a> and manager at Up The Bloc and Joe Rockheads, a pair of climbing gyms in Ontario. They will go untouched for months.

In online forums, climbing gym owners have talked about options like ultraviolet light and a fumigation spray, but cleaning such a space thoroughly and regularly is largely unfeasible. So expect greater requirements on climbers to curtail the spread of pathogens themselves. Some reopened climbing gyms <a href="https://www.kivitv.com/news/the-commons-climbing-gym-will-open-on-saturday-with-protective-measures" id="13bf65b1-7f7e-37eb-a07c-5adead344146"> are requiring that climbers wear masks </a> and pass a temperature check at the door. Some are requiring <a href="https://www.wkrn.com/community/health/coronavirus/some-climbing-gyms-dance-studios-reopen-across-tn-others-opt-out/" id="675c8c02-8866-33c4-a1ad-055b14df7cc4"> liquid chalk </a> , instead of dust, because it contains sanitizing alcohol.

Norton said to expect fewer people and fewer climbs. His gyms are eliminating half their tracks to create distance between climbers. He said others in the industry are doing the same.

Norton's gyms also plan to limit entry to members initially. Teaching people the ins and outs of climbing usually entails more physical proximity than they can currently manage. Also, members usually have their own chalk bags and harnesses, and some gyms are not renting those out. Shoes, which are typically disinfected after every use, are feasible.

Notably, drops-ins are done. Members will have to call ahead and arrange a time. All the gyms that are open are starting to see complaints about that, said Norton. No one wants to have to sign up two days in advance.

Side view of two men in black kimono practicing hapkido fighting att

In many martial arts, close contact with another person is part of the exercise. For judo, jujitsu, tae kwon do, and boxing, <a href="https://taekwondotimes.com/news/2020/05/reopening-your-martial-arts-school-during-covid-19/" id="0cfcf365-8fe6-3bf6-ac28-0823b0bc896c"> sparring or matches </a> are out of the question. Even the shout of kiai! that begins a match of one of the Japanese martial arts is a forceful exhale of spit.

Martial arts or any other contact [or] collision sport is going to be hard to do now without constant testing, said Ambrose, the University of Pittsburgh virologist, likely unavailable outside of national sports leagues.

Some martial arts studios <a href="https://dailygazette.com/article/2020/05/27/malta-jiu-jitsu-school-reopens-doors-amid-covid-19-without-ok-from-officials" id="16214e81-c1ec-3092-a0cb-703e764dd73e"> that have reopened </a> have had students practice on dummies.

York, of the Title Boxing Club in Knoxville, said he is ceasing mixed martial arts classes. But he says his core business of boxing is uniquely adaptable to the post-COVID reality. You put your hand in the boxing gloves and then your hand doesnt touch anything else, says York, and that glove touches nothing but the bag. Sparring, he says, has always a small part of his boxing classes.

Classes will, of course, be at reduced capacity, from a maximum of 40 students before to 20 now. Students will only work on an assigned a bag, while borrowed gloves will be placed in an ozone purifying locker after use.

Pilates Studios

Mature man doing pilates reformer exercises during class in pilates studio

Like yoga, <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a21095588/pilates-exercises-for-men/" id="a01d364f-e193-3bf8-ade0-e186e0dbfdb9"> Pilates </a> involves a series of controlled poses. And like yoga, Pilates classes will look half-filled due to <a href="https://www.pilatesmethodalliance.org/Shared_Content/PMA-Blog/Business/COVID-19_Reopening_Resources_for_Pilates_Professionals.aspx" id="03c82b3f-682f-334a-a3f4-a46ccc84d8d8"> social distancing guidelines </a> .

While some exercises are done with just a mat, Pilates studios are filled with specialty equipment for resistance and pose assistance, including Reformers, Pilates chairs, barrels, and towers. <a href="https://patch.com/new-jersey/cherryhill/south-jersey-pilates-studio-prepares-reopening" id="ac507d2b-e12c-3da7-a2c7-bbee76445ebb"> Some </a> <a href="https://communityimpact.com/austin/southwest-austin-dripping-springs/coronavirus/2020/05/21/after-reopening-this-week-pilates-south-austin-reconnects-with-clients-under-new-guidelines/" id="d3bf13e7-d38e-3ca0-a8a5-4744c110c661"> studios </a> are spacing such equipment six feet apart.

Pilates attracts former or current physical therapy patients and tends to require more hands-on instruction that does yoga, said Jo Ann Graser, president of the <a href="https://www.pilatesmethodalliance.org/PMA/Default.aspx" id="56ccdd34-e631-341f-a25c-2b20375fafc6"> Pilates Method Alliance (PMA) Board of Directors </a> .

Her studio, <a href="https://www.tensilestrengthstudio.com/" id="6f0fb6d1-5237-3265-a80f-2c9d8ccaf02d"> Tensile Strength Studio and Barrington Yoga Loft </a> in the suburbs of Chicago, is open only for one-on-one instruction. Instructors stand ten feet away from clients, or six feet, if they stay behind stalls of Plexiglas Graser had installed. For Graser, this stage of reopening is about reconnecting with dedicated clients.

Barre is an exercise routine that utilizes movements from ballet to build strength and flexibility. Fred DeVito, one of the co-founders of the <a href="https://www.exhalespa.com/" id="5890580c-8acf-3b00-a9d6-3072353b0d5f"> Exhale </a> chain of fitness studios and a barre instructor, said that practitioners at their clubs will be required to wear masks and disposable plastic gloves. To prevent moving around and spreading their breath, instructors will stay in one place and use a megaphone.

Also, students will be assigned a dot in the studio, distanced six feet from others, and run through their exercises at the assigned spot, which will put each studio at about half capacity.

Before they would wander and be anywhere, DeVito says. They would be wall to wall.

Of course, those were different times.

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<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/states-reopen-map-coronavirus.html" id="44db357f-e28b-38b8-a195-043f81061b08"> All 50 states </a> are easing COVID-19-releated restrictions on businesses, including fitness studios. If youve been cooped up for weeks, developing a one-sided bond with Adrien from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/yogawithadriene" id="4dbe923c-f439-3465-a7d1-ecee7176ea89"> Yoga with Adrien </a> and really feeling the rigidity of your homes hardwood floor...

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Dr. Pimple Popper gets into ASMR territory in a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-fIwuIBL98/" id="2023bf60-9cb7-340a-aa42-3c2f860f8852"> chill #throwbackthursday video </a> posted to Instagram today. With the gentlest push from her comedone extractor, dermatologist and TLC host Dr. Sandra Lee, MD, managers to make a mans solar comedos sprout out buds of white goop. The procedure is so quiet you can hear music in the background.

The whitehead-like growths seem ripe for removal. The first pop comes out in a curl resembling <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/3044877/the-golden-ratio-designs-biggest-myth" id="da0093f9-2d38-3ead-a81d-5f646cc925f3"> the golden ratio </a> , but the others sprout out more simply. Theres a few here, where I dont even need to put a nick in the skin, says Lee, as she runs the instrument along the skin.

The full video was posted in 2016 and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl64vwb2nMU&amp;app=desktop" id="8c6acf72-0d62-3ec4-a14e-dd85b65aabbf"> the 16-minute version is on Dr. Pimple Poppers YouTube channel </a> , if this sort of thing is really soothing for you.

Its quite the difference from videos in which Lee has to <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a30987348/dr-pimple-popper-blackhead-large-removal-instagram/" id="9313bf9e-12ad-3356-affc-d91ac4c04a82"> battle the epidermis </a> to smoke out a stubborn blackhead, <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a30755238/dr-pimple-popper-cherry-pilar-cyst-pop-keratin-youtube-video/" id="00f580ba-3c57-3cce-a816-25b476eb2a07"> carve up and pull out a cyst </a> or tear into a rib cage <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a31946059/dr-pimple-popper-up-close-lipoma-removal-new-youtube-video/" id="bfcce9c2-28f1-3a6a-adf7-87a1646d8240"> to remove a giant lipoma </a> .

A solar comedo is a small papule, resembling a leathered version of the acne of youth, that develops usually on older adults due to extensive sun exposure. Sun-related skin flair-ups can <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a31751653/dr-pimple-popper-blackheads-sun-exposure-new-youtube-video/" id="1a88a868-ca7a-334d-a85f-537a749703f7"> be a bit uglier than this one </a> .

Dr. Pimple Popper posted a #throwbackthursday video in which she gently removes the solar comedos along a mans face.   The video is chill and simple, with most of the bumps sprouting dollops of goo with a simple push.  Solar comedos usually develop in older people and are the result of sun exposure.

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Gently Remove Solar Comedos on a Man's Face

Today, Dr. Pimple Popperaka dermatologist and TLC star Dr. Sandra Lee MD <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Z8BlZh17E/?igshid=1tt4ghm6g5c7e" id="1046ba5d-6e3f-3bd2-a547-910be2c5a1a3"> posted an Instagram video </a> in which she reaches into a patients lower back and pulls out a fistful of bright orange, squishy lipoma, resembling an intestine from a horror movie.

To the side, someone keeps the patient up to date in Spanish, while Dr. Lee gives her own characteristically cheerful explanation. Just tugging and squeezing you, she chirps, like when you have a baby, almost.

Were hoping that didnt get translated to the patient literally. Its weird enough untranslated.

Lipomas, <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a29903204/dr-pimple-popper-lipoma-entire-organ-instagram/" id="5d0e554a-9ef4-323e-af63-6252a3287e93"> frequent </a> <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a31264312/dr-pimple-popper-deltoid-lipoma-new-instagram-video/" id="61c889d5-fc96-3927-ac2d-8afb25935ae5"> stars of </a> <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a31946059/dr-pimple-popper-up-close-lipoma-removal-new-youtube-video/" id="20570ba7-1b55-3cb9-aaca-546ead40517b"> Dr. Pimple Popper </a> <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a31248334/dr-pimple-popper-forehead-lipoma-cyst-pop-youtube-video/" id="9d27ea9e-d94d-3751-ab47-5dcf305ebe3c"> videos </a> , are mushy lumps of overgrown fat cells that accumulate beneath the skin. They tend to appear on the shoulders, chest, trunk, neck, thighs, and armpits, and are mostly harmlessbut can cause pain and psychological discomfort stemming from their appearance.

Dr. Pimple Popper manages to pull out about half of this big one before trimming it with scissors and snipping it. Maybe well see the rest of the operation tomorrow. Hasta maana!

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper's latest Instagram video here:

Dr. Pimple Popper Grabs Handfuls of Lipoma

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Yank out Handfuls of Lipoma From a Person's Back in Her New Instagram Video

<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532967/" id="1398e28b-acfb-3a30-a155-fbaffaae8120"> A dilated pore of Winer </a> is a super blackhead that clogs an entire pore to capacity and then stretches it. The outer layer oxidizes into a blackened, ashy look. As for whats beneath? Sit back, relax, and allow Dr. Pimple Popper to show you!

In <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-XUZRih9kg/" id="7c814238-669b-3519-a736-ccfd21b902c7"> a new Instagram video </a> , dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, MD takes her trusty metal comedone extractor to a crater-looking dilated pore of Winer. As she slowly forces the pore plugger, its darkened crusty exterior gives way to a bleach-white tail of goo. The skin formation maintains its wormlike shape as it exits the patients skin. Is it satisfying, gross, or both? We'll let you be the judge.

As for its consistency? It becomes like wax, explains the star of TLC's hit series, Dr. Pimple Popper. Its kind of like earwax even. Its just sticky.

Her fan base is roused in the comments section.

yes deze is goed, exclaims one popaholic. Were not sure if thats a typo for good, goo or gooed. In any case: It sure is!

Dr. Pimple Popper Pops a Huge Crusty Blackhead

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Pop a Crusty Dilated Pore of Winer in Her New Instagram Video

Dr. Pimple Poppers office is closed. A receptionist answering the number to <a href="https://www.skinps.com/" id="cd651c05-f529-3ab5-aa91-04707aa0af6e"> the Upland, Calif., clinic </a> where dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, MD operates confirmed that the state coronavirus lockdown means Dr. Lee is not seeing patients and presumably not making eye-popping videos for her social media channels. <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/20/coronavirus-lockdown-in-california-what-are-the-rules/" id="c5bcf7c5-5f4e-3380-a6ac-937d1e9766ed"> The order </a> includes some exceptions for healthcare businesses, but Dr. Pimple Popper is not carving up cysts or squeezing out blackheads these days. Instead, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg4o2DvFIIk" id="4df75e51-7e76-30b2-a341-41e0d3a47e3b"> she is responsibly chilling at home </a> and disseminating medical information.

So many popaholics are also stuck at home, hungry for distraction and dont know how many hours of footage she has on hand before her social media stream runs dry!

Luckily, Dr. Lee has built up a library of videos through the years. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NF3MrhT4r/" id="cad4cf9b-2c24-3241-a33a-1648c7655fce"> Today on Instagram </a> , she posted an oldie, where a normal-looking facial pimple bursts out into a surprisingly long line of white gooey string.

Wow, its like string cheese, says one of her assistants.

Its like linguini, Dr. Lee counters, presenting the curling shape to the bemused patient.

The caption reads: Lets do a pop #throwback day! Whats pops do you want to reminisce about today!

If youre looking to dial back into the Dr. Pimple Popper videography with your spare time, we recommend <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a30755238/dr-pimple-popper-cherry-pilar-cyst-pop-keratin-youtube-video/" id="bd83a51a-fa64-348e-af98-cf68b7bbba2b"> this epic struggle </a> against a ten-year-old cyst on a womans head, in which Dr. Lee and the patient breezily discuss lobster bisque as she chops the cyst (and then shows what decade-old mummified keratin looks like) or with a patient who describes the joy of watching Dr. Pimple Popper videos while high on edibles.

Dr. Pimple Popper Shares Long, Curly Pop Video

Dr. Pimple Popper Just Posted a Satisfying Throwback Video of a Long, Curly Pimple Pop

We dont see enough of Dr. Pimple Poppers biopsy punch, <a href="https://www.robbinsinstruments.com/collections/disposable-biopsy-punches/products/rbp-40?gclid=CjwKCAjwguzzBRBiEiwAgU0FTzuPxQTkbZKKJlqzW96A8ZhM35jNob8yQ-9dERycJjFa3P9vxGj6XRoCPUYQAvD_BwE" id="f5a0dce8-cd9f-3b33-a950-adc26a581fa3"> the handy tool </a> that turns a cyst into a dollop of goo with just one hand motion. Perhaps its because it takes just the right skin formation to call for the circle-enclosed blade. A quick perusal of past videos from dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, MD indicates that tiny blackheads can be smoked out with a comedone extractor, and larger ones require the scalpel, and then <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a30987348/dr-pimple-popper-blackhead-large-removal-instagram/" id="0d52da2a-b85c-3e41-a721-33a689913603"> a struggle </a> with scissors and tongs.

In <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B-KghIgBk1_/" id="58258911-59ae-3399-a0df-8d30980bf686"> an Instagram clip </a> uploaded today, Dr. Lee finds a soft, smallish cyst on a mans neck that comes undone after she applies a few turns of her biopsy punch tool (handling it like a socket wrench). Dr. Lee then pushes down on the surrounding area, squirting out a white, gleaming, glycerin substance.

She then turns to her more commonly-utilized tools, the tongs and scissors. She uses them to remove the sac of the cyst, which seems to be a <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/sebaceous-cyst" id="dff9b126-709b-35ba-a736-e55f8fbcaa46"> sebaceous </a> one blocking up an oil gland, judging by its consistency, place on the body, and presence of sac.

Popaholics can hope to see the biopsy punch again when Dr. Pimple Popper encounters the next cyst in need of a good knockout blow.

Dr. Pimple Popper Pops a 'Punchy' Neck Cyst

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Pop a 'Punchy' Neck Cyst

When it comes to <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322551" id="21e4f1a0-d49c-3258-a600-fcb5d3e78656"> lipomas </a> , bigger is better, at least for Dr. Pimple Poppers audiencenot for the people who have to carry these squishy, slow-growing lumps of misplaced fat cells that grown between muscles and skin. Popaholics have watched dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee MD free patients from lipoma clusters <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a31290580/dr-pimple-popper-back-lipoma-meatball-cyst-removal-instagram-video/" id="0349c4e0-7f87-38fb-a0bc-6fa795460edf"> the size of a meatball </a> , <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a29903204/dr-pimple-popper-lipoma-entire-organ-instagram/" id="8198e7cc-417c-34fb-ac72-7594433f6756"> as huge as a bodily organ </a> and <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a31004704/dr-pimple-popper-cyst-pop-mashed-potatoes-youtube-video/" id="dd86424f-06a8-345c-a689-27af01884936"> as soft and messy as a serving of mashed potatoes </a> .

In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2jIDepU2Es&amp;feature=youtu.be" id="1417f9a9-ecd2-3342-a00a-693802815139"> a new YouTube video </a> , Lee forces out a baby lipoma from a ravioli-size cyst, which she estimates has been growing in a mans forehead for about a year. What the video lacks in awe for its size, it makes up for in display of persistence in small-scale surgery. Over 12 minutes, Lee alternates between scalpel, scissors, tweezers, hook and blood-absorbing Q-tip to remove the little limp, while occasionally administering a squirt of anesthesia from her numb gun. I see him, says the steadfast Lee. Were just trying to coax him out.

After the surgery, the patient, apparently a fan, wants to see the dislodged lump of fat thats been incubating on his noggin for a year, but all Lee has to show him is a bloody surgical napkin and a little tissue.

The video is titled Head to Head: Forehead Lipomas Challenge - Challenger 1, so maybe part two will have more spongy head tissue, if thats your thrill.

Dr. Pimple Popper Pops a Huge Forehead Lipoma

Dr. Pimple Popper removes a year-old baby lipoma from a mans forehead in a 12-minute new video.  In contrast to past videos, the mass is tiny, but that requires more surgical persistence from dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, MD.  Lipomas are masses of misplaced fat cells that accumulate between muscles and skin.

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Pop a Ravioli-Size Forehead Lipoma

Dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, MDotherwise known as Dr. Pimple Popperis obviously a skilled dermatologist and a medical educator who has taught her YouTube and Instagram followers so much about cysts, comedones, and acne. Occasionally, Lees desire for social media synchronicity can make her, well, a bit of a weirdo.

Case in point: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yj7F3VL09I&amp;feature=youtu.be" id="cb27c9e3-c05e-33e6-ad27-96a9df721c67"> In todays YouTube upload </a> , Lee pushes out the liquefied tissue within the sac of a cyst on a patients back and gazes into it, looking for a green tint for the perfect St. Patricks Day video. Its a little bit on that color! Lee exclaims. We can have a St. Patricks Day video!

Gazing at the body wash-like white mass that oozes out, after Lee opens the cyst with two scalpel cuts and the removal of a hearty sac wall, we think green is a bit of a stretch.

Because the cyst is large, solitary, slow-growing and contains a thick wall, its likely <a href="https://patient.info/skin-conditions/epidermoid-and-pilar-cysts-sebaceous-cysts-leaflet" id="d58e02ca-5a9b-3eec-a8cf-cb95d8be79fa"> a pilar or epidermoid </a> . The patient has carried it around for about ten years and recently its become enflamed, hence why she came to Dr. Pimple Popper.

Given that today isnt even St. Patricks Day and the green-ish color isnt really apparent in this video, we can only imagine what jade monstrosity Lee pulled out of a bodily bump and has scheduled for her upload tomorrow.

Dr. Pimple Popper Pops a St. Patrick's Day Cyst

Dr. Pimple Popper opens up a cyst on a patients back, removes the sac and releases a shampoo-textured mass of goo.  Because of the thick sac wall and other factors, its likely a pilar or epidermoid cyst.   Dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, MD sees green in the cyst goo, hoping for an ideal video for St. Patricks Day; we dont quite see it.

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Pop a St. Patrick's Day Cyst in New Video

<a href="https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/steatocystoma-multiplex" id="6870b8f8-056a-3309-af8b-a14424183aeb"> Steatocystoma multiplex </a> is a drag of a disease where multiple slowing-growing cysts appear across the body. In <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B9XB4DFhIBK/?igshid=fwa5c8c7yzf4" id="40420f74-6b50-3922-aec3-56b4a563a2ea"> a brief new Instagram post </a> , Dr. Pimple Popper opens some bumps in a mass that dots a young womans steatocystoma-impacted stomach. They drip a yellow fluid, some with liquid buttery consistency and some like melted mozzarella.

The cheese, we say, the cheese stuff, says dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, MD, as she ejects the goo and enthusiastically shows the push to her patient. This yellowish tint and liquid consistency are hallmarks of steatocystoma multiplex.

Lee uses both her hands to squeeze and a sharp instrument to prick the cysts, getting the goo to stream out. She then uses tweezers to remove one of the sacs completely. Its very flimsy, she notes, so that [cyst] probably wont come back.

Dr. Pimple Popper <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a30653493/dr-pimple-popper-steatocystoma-sac-instagram-video/" id="7453e5bf-2cae-3efc-ac7b-39a722ecb352"> has treated steatocystoma multiplex patients </a> in <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a28681268/dr-pimple-popper-steatocystoma-butter-instagram-video/" id="540c61c5-cb0e-3065-a39f-f9c4c79cf422"> multiple videos </a> . Still, some common misconceptions about the condition are repeated in this videos comments sectionmost prevalently, that its the result of poor hygiene. Its not. <a href="https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/steatocystoma-multiplex#genes" id="81e57ea8-a884-33d6-a6dc-74ad07a8bfd0"> Its actually genetic </a> , caused by a flaw in the gene that provides instructions for making an important hair, nails and skin protein. The misfiring of these gene leads to these unsightly continual outbreaks.

Dr. Pimple Popper Pops 'Buttery' Cysts in Video

Dr. Pimple Popper squeezes and pricks open cysts, dotting a womans stomach in a new Instagram clip.  The bumps drip open with the yellowish, runny fluid thats a hallmark of steatocystoma multiplex.  Though some misperceive it as a product of poor hygiene, steatocystoma is a genetic condition.

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Squeeze Some 'Buttery' Cysts in New Video

Dr. Pimple Popper plays detective with a penny-sized white bump on the back of a mans head in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=68&amp;v=kP5-ZP7N7o0&amp;feature=emb_logo" id="be5f0156-1d48-3312-a3b0-6154b22c2c26"> a new YouTube video </a> .

Did you have a bug bite or a pimple there beforehand? asks dermatologist and TLC host Dr. Sandra Lee, MD, as she injects the area with generous squirts of a numbing agent. It could be <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a31122025/dr-pimple-popper-pops-milia-back-new-instagram-video/" id="087800c1-8e58-359c-a1cc-ae9897727582"> a big milia </a> or a big whitehead or it could a little scar.

Lee uses a scalpel to make an incision and presses down with her comedone extractor. Some familiar pale, frosting-like goo rushes out.

Aw, it is a whitehead! Lee says with glee, just a big old whitehead!

<a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/whitehead" id="74050082-cbda-31ac-acd2-7b956b281e85"> Whiteheads are </a> small white bumps on the skins surface, the result of the clogging of a pore with sebum, dead skin cells and other dermatological debris. Dr. Pimple Poppers army of Poppaholics know them all well, and have seen a few <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a30933264/dr-pimple-popper-whitehead-extraction-valentines-day-instagram-video/" id="fa7968a1-e6f8-3157-a156-c62687da8af1"> nasty facial clusters </a> yield beneath her comedone extractor.

Look at all that came out of there! Lee says, as she shows the patient her find. He has one grumble: The problem is my wife will be disappointed, he says. She loves to get those.

The problem is you need to nick the surface of that one, she says, or it wouldnt be able to all come out. Though it was elementary, this case required the attention of a professional.

Dr. Pimple Popper Pops a 'Nice' Neck Whitehead

Dr. Pimple Popper is initially unsure of the nature of a penny-sized bump on the back of a mans neck; is it pimple, bug bite or milia?  After one incision and push of a comedone extractor, dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, MD and her viewers see a familiar sight.  The patient has one grumble: His wife likes to pop these suckers.

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Pop a 'Nice Whitehead' on a Man's Neck

Somewhere, in the rush of news about the possible global pandemic, you may have seen a statistic that <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/5wpr-survey-reveals-38-of-beer-drinking-americans-wouldnt-buy-corona-now-301012225.html" id="d22604f7-8377-3969-a0b2-ca211721a1bd"> 38 percent of Americans would not order a Corona </a> , the beer brand that unfortunately shares its first three syllables with that of <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/index.html" id="8c6678d6-3be0-3c75-a379-e8c187d60692"> the Coronavirus </a> , a.k.a. COVID-19, which has killed 3,200 people and infected 92,000 across the world and impacted global trade.

The poll was conducted by 5WPR, a New York City-based public relations firm and was a phone survey of 737 Americans over the age of 21, done over two days in late February. It seemed designed to grab some viral headlines and expose the supposed ignorance of Americans. (There was no factoring for how eager a person might be to yank someone's chain who was calling them from a random number in the middle of the day.)

The news provoked <a href="https://www.cbrands.com/news/articles/constellation-brands-beer-business-continues-strong-performance-despite-unfounded-claims-about-the-impact-of-covid-19-virus-on-its-business" id="2d14e3fc-c867-32a5-a8b6-12796d3f9ef8"> a response from the CEO of Constellation Brands </a> , the conglomerate that owns the Mexican-born Corona brand (which, FYI, is a Spanish word for crown).

Bill Newlands said today that sales of the beer were up and rattled off some business jargon on profit trends. Then he added: Our thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by this terrible virus and we hope efforts to more fully contain it gain traction soon. Its extremely unfortunate that recent misinformation about the impact of this virus on our business has been circulating in traditional and social media without further investigation or validation.

Weve seen no impact to our people, facilities or operations, Newlands emphasized.

There <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/coronavirus-corona-beer-loss-money-outbreak-pandemic-symptoms-a9364371.html" id="a9533bf4-5b79-379f-adff-575d953bedbc"> was a report that </a> , in the two months since coronavirus spread through China, the company suffered a $170m loss in of earnings in the country. However, this trend may be more due to the fact that the Chinese population is, naturally, staying in and not spending much on beer these daysand not confusion over the name of the brew.

Corona Beer Sales Are Actually Up 5 Percent

The CEO of the beverage conglomerate that owns Corona is looking to fight perceptions that the coronavirus is diminishing sales of the beer in the U.S.  A phone survey done by a PR company found that 38 percent of Americans wouldnt order the beer, unrelated in any way to the pandemic.   Weve seen no impact to our people, facilities, or operations, said Bill Newlands.

Sales of Corona Beer Are Actually Up 5 Percent This Month, Brewery CEO Says

Dr. Pimple Popperknown for <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a30955152/dr-pimple-popper-coconut-oil-cyst-steatocystoma-instagram/" id="01e339d5-f304-38fd-a48b-e304fd03a8c5"> igniting volcanic cyst explosions </a> and <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a31004704/dr-pimple-popper-cyst-pop-mashed-potatoes-youtube-video/" id="01b6426c-1b99-3b15-ab76-14cb8b8030c9"> extricating massive deposits of skin sludge </a> creates something thats <a href="https://www.sleep.org/articles/what-is-asmr/" id="a43f4ce1-a5aa-397b-a7c0-f6c025a6d864"> like ASMR </a> for gross-out video fans in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Nry--hdZn/" id="e787705b-fce9-35d2-a9a8-14f0b4058b5d"> a quiet new Instagram clip </a> .

In the video, Dr. Sandra Lee, MD gently massages a mans reddened, blemished back with a comedone extractor, freeing little accumulations of greyish grunge from blackheads and leaving behind tiny flesh caters, of which viewers of course get close-ups. (It appears to be the same bacne patient <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a31160426/dr-pimple-popper-mines-blackheads-new-instagram-video/" id="18c59c11-040a-3464-aeb7-786a5af61404"> from Fridays clip </a> .)

They are satisfying that way, Lee says as she works her magic, because sometimes we really have to fight with them. (Popaholics have seen <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a29903205/dr-pimple-popper-spitball-pore-of-winer-instagram/" id="54e1d47f-1290-3f16-aa36-696918042fe2"> Dr. Pimple Popper in combat mode </a> before.)

<a href="https://www.medicinenet.com/blackheads/article.htm#blackhead_facts" id="9f2fe4f0-a547-3527-afe1-c820025ae607"> Simple blackheads, a.k.a. comedones </a> , usually develop when the hair follicle orifice gets clogged with sebum oil and dead skin cells, which then solidify. The dark color is due to the oxidation of the fat molecules therein. Whiteheads are lighter because they are fresher and more enclosed, not giving them the change to rust like that.

Lee makes short, easy work of this patients terrain of blackheads. If you dont like to try this at home on a loved one, Dr. Pimple Popper sells <a href="https://shop.drpimplepopper.com/products/dr-pimple-popper-comedone-extractor" id="61a34480-78d8-37e0-a472-985610274d0a"> her own branded comedone extractor </a> !

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper's newest Instagram video here:

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Pop Back Blackheads

Dr. Pimple Popper Goes to Town on Patient's Back Blackheads in New Instagram Video

Its going to be watery, I think, says a hopeful-sounding Dr. Sandra Lee, MD <a href="https://www.aafp.org/afp/2002/0315/p1155.html" id="79abfbc6-e931-3e69-ae3a-c9e88450ead0"> her biopsy punch </a> freshly plunged into a skin bump, at the start of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B9GUA3yhifm/" id="7037c3c6-2e7c-3d2f-a563-c820fe7ab6c6"> a new Instagram video </a> .

The dermatological social media superstar known as Dr. Pimple Popper was not disappointed. Using tongs and scissors, Dr. Lee pulls out a line of watery pus from the silent numbed-out patient. As the substance exits the skin, each layer is a different color on the cyst discharge rainbow: sickly green, creamy white, decayed grey, some mole-tint brown thrown in, and even gelatinous aquamarine.

Youre right, Lee says, a little blueish kind of growth.

She theorizes that the soggy cyst is maybe a steatocyst. <a href="https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/steatocystoma-multiplex" id="6870b8f8-056a-3309-af8b-a14424183aeb"> Steatocystoma multiplex </a> , the underlining condition, is a genetic skin disorder, characterized by the development of noncancerous cysts called steatocystomas, in the sebaceous glands. These glands produce sebum, an oily substance that lubricates the skin and hair and this secretion fluid makes up the mass within steatocystomas, perhaps explaining why this whopper is so moist.

Dr. Pimple Popper Pulls Multicolored Pus From Cyst

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Extract Multicolored Pus From a Cyst in Her Newest Instagram Video

I was helping a friend spruce up her house. She and her wife are upgrading and had closed on a new place, so they needed to get their current home into prime selling shape fast. I painted doors and floorboards. Another guy with more construction experience worked a table saw. He accidentally stuck his hand in it. He didnt scream. He shut the saw off and briskly walked away, his other hand gripping the one spurting blood.

Are you okay? I asked. (In retrospect: stupid question.) No, no, no, he said. I called 911 as he sat in the living room, next to the homeowner, the end of his middle finger growing grey. Paramedics arrived and crowded out the room. I moved to the back and saw the blood splatter, igniting my squeamishness. Fight-or-slight chemicals were flooding my nervous system.

(He will be fine, after surgery. He said the lesson is dont allow your familiarity with the saw to diminish your vigilance.)

Returning to my car, I saw the Apollo in my laptop bag. I planned to start the week-long trial, for which to write this review, the following day, but it seemed like an ideal time for the chemical-free come-down its makers promised. I strapped it to my wrist and chose rebuild and recovery from the seven settings on the corresponding app. Slow throbs reverberated on my wrist, like I had an extra external pulse. As I drove home through the rain, the device helped center my mind.

While the electronics market is <a href="http://www.aplanforliving.com/6-wearables-to-track-your-emotions/" id="9977213c-f586-36d0-a7f9-fe32fc8a91d7"> increasingly flush with wearables to measure your mood </a> , Apollo (priced at $349) is one of the first to promise to do something about it. <a href="https://apolloneuro.com/science" id="0dc41a42-33a2-3292-a715-d46f16699f0e"> Its developers </a> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25714520" id="4c0a1ea7-9351-3af4-ad27-e1940273eca9"> tout research </a> showing that inaudible vibrations can increase heart rate variability (HRV), unlocking an anxious or burnt-out person from a state of overextended alertness.

David Rabin, M.D., Ph.D., the devices main developer and the companys co-founder, told me that the Apollo offers a handy solution for when you're too anxious to lower the mental noise enough to think of a pacifying strategy or you cant logistically take yourself out of a moment to go into a corner and deep breathe. With Apollo, we wanted something we take out of the lab and would not monopolize the users ears or hands or sense of touch, Rabin said.

Rabin hopes the Apollo will one day succeed antidepressants as a first option for depression. We should start with what has the least amount of side effects and that isnt Zoloft, he said. Ultimately, we have to bring the locus of control back to users and away from medications and things that are used to self-medicate.

The impetus for the device stems from research Rabin says he completed at a psychiatric hospital on severely depressed patients. But when his team put this idea into a matchbox-sized black device that could be strapped to a wrist or ankle and sent out a few hundred units for various people to beta-test, they discovered it had a receptive audience in athletes, military personnel, executives, and self-optimizers. Once we put it out into the wild, it was used for energy and focus, he said.

I might fit into both categories of Apollo user: I am a self-optimizer, in that I am a freelance writer for whom productivity equates directly to rent and foodand I am also often a nervous wreck, for mostly the same reason. I spend too much time in front of a laptop, am frightened by blank Microsoft Word documents, and student loans cause me to wake up at 4 a.m.

I was sold on the Apollos effectives for extreme stress after my first experience; it succeed in Rabins aim of releasing one from a mental resource-depleted stupor. As for its impact on everyday life? The Apollo has seven settings and allows the user to vary the intensity and the duration of the vibes.

On my first full day using the Apollo, I woke up, strapped the device to my wrist and started with the energy and wakeup setting. It sent big, quick pulsations, as if it was trying to do CPR on my wrist. It, uh, succeeded in stirring my alertness and I understood why the standard duration is five minutes.

I was much fonder of the clear and focused mode, which sets off a series of long, steady throbs. The productivity pitfalls for a freelance writer are multifold. Theres spending too long on any one email or task, the distraction of thinking about taxes or bills or some other work-unrelated worry, and the allure of scouring the internet for something like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jordanpetersonsneverneverland/photos/a.177967776243320/515811875792240/?type=3&amp;theater" id="30cd765f-85dc-3f1c-a84e-becc4f22c0ff"> memes of Bernie Sanders tormenting Chris Matthews </a> . Clear and focused is slow, steady, non-evasive reminder that Im supposed to be working, and at a steady pace.

My second favorite setting was social and open, another one that utilized slow waves. It was like having a small electronic cat purring at your feet (and I found that having it on the ankle was less cumbersome than the wrist). I took the Apollo with me grocery shopping a few times on this setting and the extra rhythm added a little pep for monotonous tasks.

One big drawback: The Apollo looks like a monitor for parole or probation. I suppose that cant be helped. Still, for that reason, my girlfriend requested I not wear it when we were socializing. (She also, while cleaning up the bedroom and picking it from the floor, nonchalantly called it your vibrator.)

The rebuild and recover mode (the one I used after witnessing the accident) is popular with athletes, Rabin told me, and I understand why. After a gym workout, I usually feel a crash, typical as the body tries to replenish muscles. In R&amp;R mode, the Apollo provided some bodily stableness that made it so I didnt feel off-kilter until I got my usual hardboiled egg or handful of trail mix or other protein-rich remedy.

Italy, mountain running man sitting on rock looking at sunset

There are three settingsmeditation and mindfulness, relax and unwind and sleep and renewalthat I didnt notice, literally. All these were so low-impact, they blended into the sensory backdrop.

Meditation and mindfulness offers these big waves I forgot about after the first few pulses. I tried it for some mindful activities, like writing and cooking, but preferred the old standby of clear and focused.

Relax and unwind has this slow motoring vibration, like the silent, gentle engine of a Prius shrunken and pressed against your foot. Sleep and renewal was barely noticeable, even when I jacked up the vibration strength. I got to sleep every night that I used it, so no complaints. (I also take a lot of sleep-related pills.)

Tired woman yawning while using mobile phone on bed at night

The Apollo was not world-changing for me but I enjoyed having the extra measure of emotional self-manipulation. I punched into an app what mood I wanted to be in and this little companion on my ankle collaborated.

Perhaps it was partially placebo; by ordering around the Apollo I was also telling myself I needed to be clear and focused or social and open for as long as the vibrations lasted.

I think I was more stable and productive during my week with the Apollo than I was schlepping through an ordinary week. By the end of it, I wasnt expecting specific results, but was just glad the Apollo was there help me contain whatever mood may come or adjust my mind to the task the day offered.

To paraphrase Rabin, it brought back the locus of control.

On the first day I had an <a href="https://apolloneuro.com/" id="10842ad4-1725-3ae9-afe8-e7f418b1c897"> Apollo </a> a watch-like wearable vibration machine whose makers tout it as a <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19527045/15-easy-ways-to-bust-work-stress/" id="6c904f26-2d19-3f48-a2d9-f7a42895ffb7"> stress reliever </a> I witnessed someone nearly lose a few of their fingers.

I Tried the Apollo Vibrating Stress-Reduction Wearable for a Week and Ohhhh Boy

Todays <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B81piMiB4zz/?igshid=7gi00i4e5tix" id="bea150f8-15e9-323c-ab77-eac64341543b"> Dr. Pimple Popper Instagram upload </a> is like a movie teaser trailer. The TLC host and dermatological superstar presents a brief clip to preview what she promises is an epic presentation.

In the clip, dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee, MD probes a patients back for blackheads, using a pin to loosen them and a comedone extractor to squeeze out a few drops of crusty blackened keratin. It is just a taster; the description asks viewers to stay tuned because I'll be posting more from this video over the next couple of weeks!

There's even a movie trailer-like voiceover in which Lee deliberates about the direction of her life: When youre young you think, Oh, this is my life; if I dont get into this thing or this program or do this my life is over, she muses as she sticks her patients skin with another pinprick. Theres so many things we do in our life and you look back and think, How did I even get here? How am I popping pimples in all these people?

A Dr. Pimple Popper biopic would include such a line in its trailer. (Our dream casting for such a project: Constance Wu as Sandra Lee and Charlize Theron as <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a30796587/dr-pimple-popper-back-cyst-momma-squishy-instagram-video/" id="248200ee-eb1d-3d7c-a387-4aef0225952b"> Momma Squishy </a> .)

Later in the video, Lee knocks a few flakes related to <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/266748" id="b3b01260-5acc-3a4f-a76f-56bc31370be5"> seborrheic keratosis, </a> a skin condition marked by benign dark spots on the skin. Well see more in the coming weeks as we get to the feature presentation.

Dr. Pimple Popper Digs for Back Blackheads

Dr. Pimple Popper probes for blackheads and knocks off dried skin flakes from seborrheic keratosis in a new Instagram video.  Seborrheic keratosis is a condition marked by benign, mole-like spots.  She promises this is a taste, as more videos from this surgery are to come to her 3.7 million followers.

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Dig for Blackheads on a Patient's Back

We got a little cyst here, announces Dr. Pimple Popper <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B8wud6ehxZy/" id="2d257197-b6da-3e5e-a0b4-f644aeb2dd66"> in a new Instagram video </a> . Its a little wetter because I put numbing in there, so it got a little mixed with water, so its like mashed potatoes.

In the clip, Sandra Lee MD cuts into the cyst with scissors and then pushes on it with her gloved hands to extract a few dollops of sheer white lumpy goo from her patients back.

Its only a small part of the procedure for this particular patient, whose surgery is detailed in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=510&amp;v=LR6TN4hg-Ek&amp;feature=emb_logo" id="86a56e3c-5f4d-33d4-a4ba-69859e11409e"> a 22-minute on the TLC stars website </a> and YouTube channel. The Northern California woman has an extensive case of <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/skin/lumps" id="3b42782e-2487-3faf-a67e-1746add991f9"> lipoma </a> , benign, slow-growing, movable fat growths that develop beneath the skin.

In the full version, Lee makes a large incision in the womans back and pulls out of chicken breast-sized mass of fatall while talking about shooting the Christmas special of her TLC show. (She did produce <a href="https://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/dr-pimple-popper/full-episodes/the-12-pops-of-christmas" id="8a412a7a-7984-3e24-abae-b5f0be0bdca4"> the 12 Pops of Christmas </a> in 2018.) The Kardashians film theirs in mid-summer, Lee says. (Theres no indication when this video was shot.) Dr. Pimple Popper has always been a Kylie, but with an MD and her hands covered in bodily fluids.

Speaking of which: In the longer video, we also get to see more of the prep work for the mashed potato cyst. Lee cuts it open to lessen the chance of getting sprayed when she pops it. Ive opened the sac so it isnt under pressure anymore so it wont get us, allegedly, she said. <a href="https://www.menshealth.com/health/a30814691/dr-pimple-popper-acne-cyst-squirt-new-instagram-video/" id="15063a4b-5252-3ca1-a8a4-62a5965a79f0"> Sometimes it will still get us. </a>

Dr. Pimple Popper Squeezes Out 'Mashed Potatoes'

Dr. Pimple Popper extracts mashed potatoes from a cyst opening in a new Instagram clip.  Its a clip from a 22-minute YouTube surgery video in which dermatologist Dr. Sandra Lee extracts a large lipoma from her back and mentions shes shooting the Christmas special for her TLC show.  Lipomas are benign, slow-growing, movable fat growths that develop beneath the skin.

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Squeeze 'Mashed Potatoes' from a Giant Cyst

One reason we have confusion is because there are misnomers, says Alex Berezow, PhD, a microbiologist and vice president of scientific affairs at the nonprofit American Council on Science and Health. People say, Oh, I had the 24-hour flu or I had the stomach flu. Those arent things. Probably, you had food poisoning.

Foodborne illnesses, colloquially known as food poisoning, are the result of pathogens traveling in food thats unhygienic or ill kept. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that foodborne illnesses cause 48 million sicknesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths in the United States each year. Food poisoning, however, is probably under-reported, says Aaron Glatt, MD, a clinician at South Nassau Communities Hospital and spokesperson for the Infectious Disease Society of America. Minor cases rarely make it to the hospitals and into data.

Influenza, colloquially known as the flu, is a contagious respiratory illness spread mainly through bodily fluids containing the virus, and is incredibly common in the winter months. In the most recent 12-month span for which the CDC kept numbers (including parts of 2017 and 2018), 80,000 Americans <a href="https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20180927/80000-americans-died-from-flu-last-year" id="a49b804a-d916-3a0c-a3f3-2fbcf924075c"> died from the flu </a> , but it was a particularly bad flu season. Usually, the annual death toll is between 12,000 to 56,000.

Fatalities from both are rare, relative to the vast commonality of the illnesses, said Berezow, and usually occur through uncommonly severe virus strains and/or in people who are very young or old or who have some condition that compromises their immune system. As for how to tell one from another? Here's some advice:

While a severe flu can devastate the G.I. tract, a rush of gastrointestinal symptoms, particularly vomiting and diarrhea, usually means food poisoning, Berezow says. The body is trying to purge itself of the offending food.

Repertory and sinus issues, however, are not usual signs of food poisoning. There is typically a lack of additional symptoms, [such as] cough, congestion, sore throat, seen with other illnesses such as colds and flus, said Edward Fog, DO, associate medical director of the AtlantiCare Physician Group, near Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Fevers occur in food poisoning. Thats just a sign of inflammation and the bodys way of showing the immune system is activated, says Jack Springer, MD, an emergency physician and assistant professor at the Northwell School of Medicine at Hofstra University. But fever is rare and it usually burns at lower temperatures than in cases of a flu.

Of course, check with dining who companions who may have also had that suspect-seeming potato salad. Its hard to tell [the source of the illness] unless your mom and brother ate the same thing and have also been puking for four hours, Springer says.

Both flus and food poisoning generally run their course, food poisoning in a day or so and the flu in a week and dont require medical intervention, just rest and hydration-in most cases. People who are unusually hard hit by illness (the elderly, children, those with compromised immune systems) should seek a physicians care, as should anyone plagued by symptoms that are particularly painful or long-lasting.

Otherwise, wait it out. Suffering is part of life, Springer says, and having diarrhea for three or four days is a lot of suffering, but nature will take its course.

Stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, dharma, fatigue. These are symptoms of both food poisoning and the flu. The onset of the two ailments can be so similar-particularly in severe cases-its easy to misidentify one as the other.

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However, the rapper/actor/forever-reigning-Fresh-Prince-in-our-hearts has scored a hit online with a guest appearance on The Slow Mo Guys YouTube channel. The video has a much simpler premise: The ever-affable Smith breaks stuff in a parking lot, picking from an arsenal that includes some ridiculous devices, and we get to see it in slow motion. Its presently the number-two trending video on YouTube.

The Slow Mo Guys do exactly what the name implies: They pull off stunts, like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lov0T3eXI2k" id="39845b82-b554-3ff4-a908-6d6352fbce1d"> opening a condom in a wind tunnel </a> or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkP3eDAROhM" id="ec388382-e29e-3690-a48a-84613c86ac58"> lighting a million sparklers </a> , and then play the footage back in slow motion. Smith is a fan.

Host Gavin Free guides Smith through smashing a watermelon with a baseball bat, shooting a Subaru Outback with a potato gun and wielding a flamethrower against two mannequins topped by with cut-outs of Smith's face at different ages, in a super low-fi recreation of Gemini Mans premise.

Smith was very excited about that flamethrower.

Die, you dirty young me trying to kill the old me! Smith shouts before he engulfs a Fresh Prince-era photo of his face in orange flames.

<a href="https://www.menshealth.com/entertainment/a29352121/will-smith-fresh-prince-of-bel-air-athletic-clothing-line/" id="b794de8b-49cb-3068-a902-074f72b512cb"> Will Smith </a> returns to theaters this week in Gemini Man, a sci-fi thriller in which he plays a hitman andthrough digital de-aginga younger clone of said hitman. <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gemini_man_2019" id="f7a7e2ab-8576-3a3d-a796-cc79cb46f10b"> Critics were not impressed </a> .