Hot Diet & Health How-Tos


How To: Understand the Process of Inflammation
In each day of our life, we see inflammation. We see it during sore throats and abscess formations in our bodies, and even slight tooth pain is a form of inflammation. Sometimes it's good when it fights to protect us from invading organisms, but sometimes it becomes bad when it occurs in inappropriate ways, like acne.

How To: Make a Simple Herbal Extract
Hello there, people. Today, I am going to show you how to extract the essence from a useful plant, using either alcohol or olive oil. This is how you take a plant and turn it into a useful (and preservable) medicine. For those of you who know nothing about herbal medicine, let me explain it for you in a nutshell...

How To: Get rid of stomach bloating on a raw food diet
In this video from RawRadiantHealth she answers a question about how to avoid bloating on a raw food diet. Vegetables sometimes make people bloated and retain water. This might be that your colon is too clogged up. It's an issue of the condition of your intestines that needs to be dealt with. Over time you have to clean out your diet to clean out the bad stuff coating the inside of your intestinal tract. Fruits and vegetables are cleansing and help to pull out the bad stuff in our intestinal ...

How To: Feel high without taking drugs
Ever wanted to know what its like to hallucinate? This video gives you the visual effects without the medication. It's great for when getting high on life isn't enough, but you've got no money, an NA promise, an upcoming drug test, or some other reason for sobriety to keep you from dabbling with the real pharmaceutical mind-altering deal. Watch this in full screen mode and turn away from the video when instructed to look at anything you want. The results are amazing!

How To: Make the Medicinal Aphrodisiac Snake Wine
Herbalists have been prescribing snake wine to patients for centuries. It is said to cure everything from a low libido to back pain. Don't bother flying to Vietnam to buy a bottle in Ho Chi Minh City for $25. Make your own.

How To: Make a really cheap water bong
In order to make a cheap water bong you need a 20 ounce water bottle, a Bic pen, gum, aluminum foil and a straight pin. First, cut a hole in the bottle. This hole should be big enough to fit the pen shat through. Stick the empty pen shaft through the hole angling it down so it touches the bottom of the bottle. Take your gum, chew it!, and press it around the pen shaft near the hole. This will seal the hole and pen. Cut another hole, about 1/4 inch, across from your first hole. Take off the bo...

How To: Clean a dirty piece for smoking pot
In this video, we learn how to clean a dirty piece for smoking pot. First, get a package of pipe cleaners, salt, and rubbing alcohol. Next, grab your piece and run it under some hot water. After this, add some salt to the bowl with alcohol, then swish it around. Next, rinse this out with warm water again, then keep adding in salt and alcohol until it's cleaned out. After this, use a pipe cleaner to scrub the inside. Also, use a q-tip to continue cleaning out all the gunk that is on the inside...

How To: The Trick to Hearing Your Friends Better at Loud Clubs & Concerts (And Having Them Hear You)
You may not notice it when you're intoxicated and banging your head to the music, but when you're at a club or concert, your ears are getting seriously damaged. The noise level is usually above most people's pain threshold for sound, which begins around 120 to 140 decibels. At that level, it only takes a few minutes to damage your hearing. For me, there's something even worse than long-term hearing loss in a loud environment—not being able to hear or talk to your friends.

How To: Make methamphetamine
This video shows you how to make Methamphetamine. The process for making it in chemistry terms is called an acid catalyzed dehydration of an alcohol using an E2 mechanism. The chemical compound being used is called Ephedrine. To turn Ephedrine into Methamphetamine you first need to break down the OH molecule and replace it with a H molecule. In order to do this it needs to be soaked in a mixture of Hydrochloric acid. What this does is breaks off the OH molecule. The next step is to add a Hydr...

How To: Make Black Eyes, Bruises & Hickeys Fade & Heal Faster in 5 Different Ways
I've never had a black eye, but I was in a car accident that turned my entire ear dark purple a few years ago. Believe me; it was enough to get more than a few funny looks.

How To: Listen for breath sounds through chest auscultation
Lung auscultation is an important part of diagnosing and treating lung conditions. This medical how-to video shows you how to perform a lung exam on a patient's chest. Use a stethoscope to listen for normal and irregular breath sounds that a patient might have.

Vision Hack: How to See Clearly Without Your Glasses or Contacts
As someone who's dependent on glasses to see on an everyday basis, losing or misplacing them is obviously a bad thing. I can't even see clearly enough to find the glasses that I just lost, so I'm pretty much blind now.

How To: Give a testicular self exam
Screening and early detection is the key to beating any form of cancer. Share this with a friend. You may save a life.

How To: Perform a rectovaginal examination
The rectovaginal examination allows testing of the cervix, and perhaps a little higher. It is one of the first way a doctor may detect abnormalities on the ovary. Watch this video medical health tutorial and learn how to conduct a rectovaginal gynecological exam.

How To: 10 Stories of Crazy Self-Surgeries + How to Perform Them Yourself
Do you have what it takes to save your own life, or perhaps even your sanity? Maybe save a buck or two in the process? If you think you do, read on, but I warn you—if you're prone to vasovagal syncope, i.e. fainting at the sight of blood, maybe you better skip this one. But if you can stand a little pain and control your heart rate Hannibal Lector-style, then you might just be able to perform a few life-saving, cost-effective self-surgeries. It almost sounds like a Chuck Palahniuk novel, wher...

How To: Remove Stubborn Splinters in Your Skin Using a Bottle
Incredibly tiny in size, splinters can be frustratingly difficult to remove from your skin. If large and not completely embedded, a splinter can usually be extracted using tweezers, tape, or glue, but if it's small and in there pretty good, you'll have to get more creative.

How To: Insert a Foley catheter in a woman
This how to video demonstrates how to do a female Foley catheter insertion. Before beginning any catheterization procedure make sure to properly identify the patient, wash your hands, and that all the supplies are handy. Watch and learn how to properly insert a Foley catheter in a woman. This medical how-to video is intended for medical students and professionals.

How To: 10 Ways to Get Rid of a Migraine Fast Without Any Medicine
When a migraine strikes, it can be crippling. Intense and sharp pain not only at the temples, but radiating throughout the entire head; feelings of nausea and digestive discontent; an unbearable aversion to light, sound, and even the smallest of movements.

How To: Use a condom external catheter
When a man is unable to control his urine for long periods of time he is said to be incontinent.

How To: Make a foil pipe
This is a video showing the steps on how to make Foil Pipe There are no verbal directions during the entire video, simply the hands of the person

How To: Roll a marijuana joint Dutch Tulip style
Tired of the rolling up your weed the same way everyday? Then watch this how to video and learn how to roll a joint using the Dutch Tulip method. No it wont make your marijuana smell like a flower.

How To: Make an eco-friendly lubricant from flaxseeds
In order to make your own personal lubricant out of flaxseeds, you will need the following ingredients: 2 1/2 tablespoons. of flaxseeds, 2 cups of water, and a pot.

How To: Insert a Foley catheter in a male
This how to video demonstrates how to do a male Foley catheter insertion. Before beginning any catheterization procedure make sure to properly identify the patient, wash your hands, and that all the supplies are handy. Watch and learn how to properly insert a Foley catheter in a man. This medical how-to video is intended for medical students and professionals.

How To: Roll a cannabis joint with a credit card
Watch this how to video tutorial on rolling a joint/spliff using a credit card to get the perfect tuck. This is a great method of rolling your marijuana when you don't have anything available.

How To: Hold and Use Surgical Forceps, Scalpels and Suturing Needles
How to Hold Forceps This video shows the basic skill of holding forceps or any scissor-like instrument. The most important things to notice here are:

How To: Set up an intravenous line
This video tutorial shows how to set up an intravenous line, or intravenous drip. Most are familiar with IVs, as a way of providing people undergoing medical treatment that are otherwise unable to ingest food with vital nutrients. Watch this educational medical science video and learn how to set up and insert an intravenous line.

How To: Get rid of hiccups by drinking water upside down
There are a million suggestions for how to get rid of your hiccups but the most effective seem to involve drinking water. You don’t have to do a headstand or hang from the rafters. All you have to do is lean over to simulate being upside down and drinking some water. This video will demonstrate very clearly how to drink water upside down to get rid of your hiccups and this one really does work.

How To: Hot knife hash
How to hot knife hash. For all the people that watched my hash video and weren't sure what I was doing at the end with the hot knives, here is how you do it. I searched youtube but everyone was doing huge tokes and if you do that with my hash, you will hit the floor.

How To: Make a light bulb vaporizer
This video will show you how to make a vaporizer from a light bulb and other household materials.

How To: Use a body powered prosthetic hook for arm amputees
A below elbow arm amputee demonstrates how to don and operate his body powered prosthetic hook. This video is made to help individuals use adaptive equipment and prosthetics for getting around with one arm. This is an equipment overview for amputees or individuals that have single limbs and need a hook prosthesis to enable them. It's equipment for handicapped or disabled individuals as taught by a man with a below elbow amputation.

How To: Make a water bong in 5 minutes
In this video you will learn how to make a water bong in 5 minutes. The materials you will need are a water bottle, some scissors, tape, a paper clip, a 3 16 wrench piece, a lighter, and a Bic pen grip. The first thing you'll need to do is prepare your water bottle (empty it remove cap and wrap) then get your paper clip, heat it up, and make your hole for your pen. Then you will need to chew on your pen tube on the end so that the socket will fit into the pen tube. Then simply put your pen in...

How To: Make a soda can pipe
This video explains how to make a bong pipe out of a soda can. You will need an empty soda can and a piece of sandpaper. Remove the metal cap tab from the can and bend it until it breaks. You will need the piece with the two sharp ends later. On the side you drink out of, flatten out the top part. Now, start to form the walls of the can (this will be the bowl) by pinching the edges. Take the piece of sandpaper and sand away the paint in the bowl of the can so you don't get that paint in your ...

How To: Break your sugar addiction with Frank Lipman, M.D.
Lose weight and have more energy by taking the refined sugar out of your diet. Learn how to break your sugar addiction with this how to video.

How To: Apply sequential TEDS in nursing
Studying to be a nurse? Then here is a nursing how-to video that teaches you how to apply sequential TEDS. TEDS are used to prevent deep vein thrombosis. TEDS are sometimes also called stockings. Every nurse should know the basics of this technique, follow along and see how easy it is to apply sequential TEDS on patient who is on extended bed rest. These medical tips are sure to help you pass your nursing exam with flying colors.

How To: Give a scalp massage in circular motions
Massaging the scalp releases tension. Start with a circular motion, going all the way up from the ears, maybe working all the way up to the crown. Learn the art of giving a scalp massage in this health how-to video.

How To: Give a foot massage with peppermint lotion
Foot massages are great a great way to relax after a long day. Get expert tips and advice on massage and other treatments in this diet and health how-to video. Use a little peppermint lotion on the feet to help revitalize the skin.

How To: Back roll a cigarette
This is a video tutorial on how to "back roll" a cigarette. This technique can reduce the amount of paper being smoked by up to half depending on how you roll the cigarette, how much tobacco you use and the size of filter. This is good if you don't like to taste the paper in your cigarette.

How To: Roll a joint with legal weed magically
Check out this video to learn how to roll a joint with legal weed. Or the weed can just roll itself.

How To: Perform a testicular self exam
Testicular cancer is a young man’s disease, and yet this is the age group that has the greatest sense of invincibility from the illness. Dr Harper demonstrates the technique you can use to self-examine your balls, and as it’s best carried out in the shower, it’s a great excuse for taking a bit longer in the morning. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to check testicles for any lumps or possible cancer.

How To: Make a non-toxic clay pipe for smoking marijuana
We are taught how to make a non-toxic pipe using baking clay and an eyelet and socket. First you form a bowl out of the clay with your hands. When thats done you poke a hole on the top to form the bowl, then a hole on the side towards the bottom to create the shaft for the pipe. Freeze it. While that's being froze the shaft of the pipe can be made. Rolling the clay the longer piece is formed. The inside is hallowed out. Blow through it to make sure its usable. Attach the long piece to the bow...