This is stock number 11302. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck and Ram headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean, like-new 2020 Ram 2500 mega cab short box. This truck has the 6.7 liter Cummins diesel. It has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. The truck has been gone through mechanically 100% and is 100% ready to go. Diamond black pearl coat is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck. Before seeing it in person. And if you'd like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right-hand party screen, is a link to our website. Click that and check us out there. This one comes with 18-inch painted alloy rims and they have been plastic-dipped black to match the rest of the truck. This one has Tarot Raider Delium MT tires. These are 37x12.5 R18LTs and they are like-new, only 3,000 miles on these tires. This one does have a leveling lift kit on it. Frame and underbody is like-new, which you'd expect on a 2020. Front fender is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings in there. Headlight lenses are nice and clear. This one also has the Sport package. That's how you get the painted front bumper and painted gloss black grille. No major dents or dings on that front bumper and you do get the parking sensors. Factory fog lights and the hood is in excellent condition. No dents or dings on that. Coming around to the passenger side front fender. Absolutely perfect. And the passenger side rim. No major scuffs or scrapes. As you go down this side of the truck, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the truck, you can see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So that when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises. And that is why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right-hand part of your screen. A link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise a trade, all from the comfort of your own home. So when you get here all you gotta do is drive the truck, love it, and you'll be all set to go. Frame and underbody is absolutely perfect, which you'd expect on a 2020. And it's like that all the way underneath. It has all the remaining factory exhaust so it hasn't been messed with that way and the lower rockers all look really good. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is absolutely perfect as well. It does have a full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four pin, and seven pin wiring. Back up parking sensors, the tailgate is absolutely perfect as well. No dents or dings on that. This is a locking tailgate. And it comes with a very nice rhino liner, spray and bed liner. No dents or dings back here. And that is a very nice spray and bed liner on this truck. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly. And as you go down the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side. No dents or dings on the box. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent shape as well. Down the rest of the side of the truck looks really good. This one does have the heated fold out till mirrors. They have built in directional signals on them. They also power fold in. Now it's like showing both sides so that you know that all the functions are working on the truck. This one has the big horn package, which gives you the black and dark charcoal cloth interior. No rips, no tears on those seats. They are in excellent condition. Both of these seats are heated. Power driver seat with lumbar. We have the all-weather floor mats in this truck. Auto headlamps, power pedals, power windows, power locks and power mirrors. You also get this nice dark wood grain trim and dark cloth bolster on the door. As we hop inside here, we'll turn the ignition on so that you can see the instrument color cluster and miles and everything. Only 3,958 miles on this truck. You do get a compass display as well as a digital speedometer. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the heated leather-wrapped steering wheel, cruise controls and gear selector on the right. Bluetooth and information center controls on the left and audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. Six-speed automatic transmission with the gear selector down here. Push button four-wheel drive. This one has the 8.4C radio, AM, FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. You have all your radio controls right there. You can also do your heated seats and heated steering wheel controls right there. This is also where you can check out your backup camera. Those are dynamic grid lines, meaning as I turn that steering wheel, they're going to turn as well. And then that center line lines right up with the receiver hitch. And you can actually zoom in on that receiver hitch to get hooked up to your trailer, boat or camper the first time every time. Pretty nice system right there. You also have Android Auto and Apple CarPlay capabilities on this radio where you can project your cell phone to the screen. So if you have Waze or Google Maps or some other navigation system on your phone and want to project it to the screen, you can do that. And then it's just like you have Nav on the screen. We actually did a demo on Android Auto. If you want to check that out on an 8.4 in the upper right-hand part of the screen, check that video out there.  You have your heated seats, heated steering wheel buttons, volume and tune controls as well.  You do get two USBs, an aux jack and two USB C's. Remote start with the keyless entry and a cell phone holder. There's a lot of space down here for storage. And the passenger side, floor mat and seat are really clean as well. No rips or tears on that. Little dark in here from the window tint. The headliner is an excellent shape. This truck's never been smoked in. You have map lights up there and home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. You also have an auto dimming rear view mirror. And we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up and check out under the hood. The back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips, no tears back here. You do get the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may want to put back here. They're in really nice shape. All weather floor mats back here. These seats do fold down two different ways. The first way, you can put the whole backrest down and you have a nice low load floor. And it's nice and flat so if you wanted to actually take a nap back here you could do that. Or if you got pets they got nice flat place to lay. The other way you can do it is if you just put the backrest down. And then you have a higher load floor which is easier to put stuff in and get stuff out. You get storage back here with latch child tether anchors. And just a really really nice truck all the way around. Child safety locks on the back doors. And we'll start it up and take a quick look under the hood. And open the hood first. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video.  Inside and out. Under the hood we have a 6.7 liter Cummins diesel engine base. Very clean. Runs very smooth. Once again this truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend this truck from a quality and condition standpoint. And good looking standpoint too. And to see more pictures of this one or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, your quarter tons, one tons. You name it we got it go to our website right there www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact any second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. A link to more Ram 2500 truck videos like this one on your right. If you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out. And we really look forward to helping with this like new 2020 Ram 2500 Mega Cab Short Box Big Horn Sport in Diamond Black Pearl Coat. Thanks again for checking out the video.


As Gregor has said, if you have really good learning design, then digital tools can enhance that learning design in almost limitless ways. One strategy that I use is the active learning or flipped classroom method. With active learning, students complete a reading or do an activity prior to coming to class. I like to use short videos that are around five to seven minutes long. This teaches the background theory or the surface learning, which means it doesn't need to be delivered in the lecture. So students come into the classroom or lecture theatre already equipped. What happens is that students are able to engage more deeply with the content. I usually include hands-on activities that allow them to apply that knowledge in practical and real-life ways. The feedback from students is that they like the active nature of the course and the way the flipped classroom operates. I've also found that they engage with the content really well. When I poll students, at least 70% of watch the videos prior to coming to class. I use a lot of collaborative learning approaches. Although the tools I use aren't necessarily specifically designed for collaborative learning, one collaborative digital tool I use is called Padlet. Padlet is an online site which is very easy to use. The students type in their answers in real-time. It's like sticky notes, but online. I also use other active learning tools such as learner response systems. The Echo360 Active Learning Platform is an example of this. With this tool, you can ask various types of questions like open-ended, true-false or multiple-choice. Student responses in real-time allow you to gauge where the students are at and focus on areas that need attention at that time. Interactive whiteboards are another great tool to support deep learning. The activities are at the students level and they are really hands-on. This is particularly great for kinesthetic learners with interactive whiteboards encouraging engagement and motivation more broadly by shifting the physical space and challenging students to come to the front and not just have the teacher use the tool. Interactive whiteboards also provide a wealth of resources that are at the teacher's fingertips. Because so many schools now use interactive whiteboards, we actively prepare our pre-service teachers to use them in the future. The collaborative nature of these types of tools means that it's less worrying for the students if they don't know the answer individually because other people in the group might know the answer. Students also like working together in a non-assessed format as a lot of the group work at universities actually assessed. Student surveys reflect this indicating high levels of engagement and students really enjoy the active learning nature of these activities. Digital technologies are changing rapidly but some are here to stay. During the 1990s I started using Microsoft Excel to teach graphing to year four students. It was pretty cutting edge at the time and I presented this great new tool at a teacher conference. Someone actually asked me what I would use in five years time. I said that I would use Excel but this person insisted that Excel wouldn't be available because we would be using a new technology. But of course we're still using Excel 20 years later. So yes, some technologies do change but what we want our students to be able to do is use the skills and concepts in different and new contexts. For example, we previously taught Photo Story to our students whereas now we teach Microsoft Office Mix. The students that learnt to use Photo Story don't have any problem adapting to Office Mix as they're able to engage with that type of technology and the interactive nature of such digital tools. So going back to the critical importance of learning design, it's important to use digital tools that are relevant and appropriate for the task. Technology isn't the answer. Learning design is. Digital tools should enhance learning and not just be used for its own sake.


Now, we can start looking at interpreting our velocity graphs. I'm going to start with a fairly simple one. It's a quick reminder again, positive velocities moving forward, negative velocities mean moving backwards. In this particular one, everything above the x-axis is this whole big chunk here, so you're moving forward that entire time. And down here below the axis is when you're moving backwards the entire time. If you're actually on the x-axis, that means you're not moving. So in this case, both at the very start and at seven seconds, we were not moving. Now we can take a look at a few other things on our velocity versus time graph. So for example, these horizontal flat segments are where we've got constant velocity. Well, constant velocity also means no acceleration. So both of those segments have no acceleration on them. If I've got an upward slope, that means I've got positive acceleration. And if it's a flat line, it's a constant value for that acceleration over that whole straight segment. Now this one is also a positive acceleration, but it's a little bit steeper. So that particular segment has a little bit higher acceleration than our first segment did. If its slope is downwards, that means you have a negative acceleration. In this case, it's the steepest slope out of all of these, but it's a negative slope. So that means your acceleration is in the negative direction, and it's a fairly large negative acceleration. Now we can also look at the concept of where I'm moving further away from the axis. So both of these segments, where I had a positive acceleration, I'm moving further away from the x-axis, and that means I'm speeding up. I started not moving, and as I go along in time, I'm moving faster and faster and faster because I'm further and further away from the x-axis. Now any place where you're moving closer to the x-axis, that means you're slowing down for that segment. So I started with a fairly fast forward-moving velocity, and I came all the way down here to remember where I was not moving at all. So what about this chunk down here? Well, it's below the x-axis, but if you notice, I'm moving further and further away from the x-axis as I'm going. I'm moving backwards, but I'm also speeding up as I'm moving backwards because I'm further from the x-axis. So I started not moving, and then I started backing up faster and faster and faster as I go down. So you have to be careful when you think about acceleration versus speeding up and slowing down. They're not necessarily the same. This entire segment is a negative acceleration. But in this case, I'm slowing down, and down here, I'm speeding up. Now if you've got an actual curve for the velocity as opposed to straight-line segments, we can still understand this in the same sort of way. Over here, I've got positive velocity, so this whole section I am moving forward. I start off speeding up, so I had no velocity, and I'm speeding up faster and faster and faster, and then I start slowing down, but I'm still moving forward. Now we don't have constant acceleration over this particular path because it's curved, but I can imagine my acceleration in terms of how steep it is. Now once I get over here to this point, I've actually come to rest. But I don't stay rest. This isn't stopping and staying stopped. Instead, I'm changing direction. Because I was moving forward, now I'm moving backward. And from that passing through rest as I change direction, I'm speeding up in the negative direction, getting faster and faster, moving backwards. And then I start slowing down, moving backwards. And again, I'm going to change position. So you can keep going through one of these velocity curves to figure out which direction you're moving, whether you're speeding up or slowing down, and if you've changed direction. So again, as a review, your positive and negative tells you which direction you're moving, forward or backward. Any horizontal sections are constant velocities. If you've got a straight slope, you've got a constant acceleration, with upward slopes being positive accelerations, downward slopes being negative accelerations. And you can figure out speeding up and slowing down in terms of your distance from the x-axis. Speeding up, you move further from the axis. Slowing down, you're moving closer to that axis. So this just gives you a bit of an overview for what to look for when you're interpreting those velocity graphs.


This 2010 Chevy Camaro 2SS in Inferno Orange Metallic is stock number 11847Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, year new and used sports car headquarters. This 2010 Chevy Camaro 2SS has the 6.2 liter V8 motor. When paired up with the automatic transmission it pumps out 400 horsepower. This car has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change, all the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this car is 100% ready to go. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet, smartphone, or television turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the car before seeing it in person. If you would like to subscribe to our YouTube channel, the little right hand part of the screen is a gold subscribe button. Click that and remember to click the bell notifications to get updates on the videos we do each and every day. This one comes with American Racing Special Edition 20 inch chrome alloy rims. Brembo brakes on here and these are Pirelli Centuro 24545 R20 tires and these tires have a really good amount of tread left, I'd say probably 70 to 80% of the tread left on those tires. Front fender is in excellent condition as well, no dents or dings in there, it does come with the HID headlamps, the LED running lights, and the factory fog lights. Front bumper is in excellent shape, no scuffs or scrapes on there, the hood is in really nice shape. I didn't see any dents or dings. Passengers side front fenders in pretty nice condition as well and the passenger side rim. Just one tiny little scuff on there but nothing too bad. As you go down this side of the car, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the car. Just walk here the car and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart buying decision from the comfort of your own home. Very clean down that side, looks really good. This back rim is in excellent shape as well, maybe one little nick, a couple little nicks right there but nothing too bad and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires, very new tires on this car. Rear wheel disc brakes, those Brembo's are in the back as well coming around to the back of the vehicle. Rear bumper looks really good, no dents, stings or scuffs on that. Decklid is in nice shape too and we'll take a look inside the trunk in just a second here. Down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger's side, rear quarter looks really good and for full disclosure this back rim is in nice shape too. Rear side door is in pretty nice condition. Inside the 2SS package gives you the gray leather interior. There are no rips or tears, it's kind of two tones, black on the sides, gray in the middle. Both these front seats are heated factory formats throughout, auto headlamps, power windows, power locks, power mirrors and you get this kind of cool silver metallic trim to the door and dash. We'll take a look at the trunk here. Back storage area is very nice and clean, comes with some documentation on the car, including the original window sticker here so that's really neat. These clamps are on there really tight but that comes with the car front license plate holder and looks like a STP air filter comes with the car. The RPO codes are back here as well. If you ever wanted to check those out they're right there. You can check to see if it's got all the options you're looking for if you're familiar with the RPO codes for this car. We'll take a look inside in just a second here. Heading back inside the car, notice it does have side current airbags. The back seats are in excellent condition, no rips or tears, those seats do fold down and it does have the latch child safety system carpetings. Nice and clean back here as well. And we'll hop inside. Turn the ignition on so you can check out the miles and the radio on this car. This one has 17,510 miles, digital speedometer and smear cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the leather wrap steering wheel. Bluetooth and audio controls on the right, paddle shifters, cruise controls on the left. You get the SS logo in the center of the bottom of the steering wheel. CD player, AM, FM and serious XM radio capabilities. It does have a CD player. They're your heated seat and climate controls down here. You get oil temp, oil pressure, volts and trans temp, stability control and automatic transmission. Passenger side, floor mat and seat are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears and the headliner is very clean too. Smells very clean inside this car. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. You do get home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems and on start capabilities in the mirror. Now you do get that silver trim. It wraps all the way around the top of the dash into the door. Looks really good. Then we'll start it up. Take a look under the hood starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video. You've been able to tell just how clean this car is all the way around inside. Now under the hood we have the 6.2 liter V8 motor. Once again, 400 horsepower engine base. Very clean runs, very smooth. And this car has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this car is 100% ready to go. There are those HID headlamps LED running lights. Knight Highly recommend this car from a quality and condition standpoint. Good looking color. And to see more pictures of this car, one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, Camaros, Challengers, Chargers, Mustangs, Corvettes. You know what we got to go to that website right there, www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com www.summitauto.com. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. 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Zack Wilson, we talked about air confidence, let's go! And he looked pretty good, okay? On the jet side, what can you say?  You let it slip through your, straight-hand little fingers, people. I'm not just talking about the Hail Mary. New York converted nearly 50% on third down. They were moving the ball. They couldn't get out, get out your own way. I'm shaking you this morning, get out your own way. Seven penalties on offense alone. One wiped out a touchdown. Another, a key third down conversion. And you know, there were some play calling issues on top of it all. It's very hard to expect any offense to succeed when you're sabotaging. That's what the therapist would call getting in your own way, sabotaging. Not like, not letting things play out, okay? The Will Smith, okay? You're sabotaging everything. That's what we're calling it. Self-insicted wounds, let alone one that's having issues at the quarterback spot. And speaking of that, I mean, Aaron Rodgers. And I think Taylor Lowan's probably checked in. Is Taylor checked in? I have none. I don't want to bring him on, but I hope he's, I mean, me and Taylor are like, there's no way he's coming back in December. And we could go, no way! And here he is telling the great Melissa Stark, an absolute legend in our own right, that yep, he's eyeing a mid-December return. What? It only matters, of course, if the Jets can stay within like some sort of striking distance battleship stuff to a playoff spot. This was a huge shot to their hopes. They needed this one.  What are we doing, New York? They got a trip to Buffalo coming up. Oh, I've done that drive. Marissa's done that drive. It ain't pretty. Uh-uh, it ain't pretty up in Buffalo, especially at this time of year, followed by a meeting with the Dolphins the week after. Oh, if they can't win at least one of those, I'm not sure Aaron Rodgers coming back can save the season. Aaron, that one's for you. Come back and save the season, little something for Aaron.


The Banana Lounge is a space on campus that students can grab a banana, grab a drink, they can study, they can rest. It's basically a space that is meant to bring people together on people in the Maxis community. I'm Megan Lim and I'm currently Logistics Lead of Banana Lounge. My team works on a lot of the operational side of things. So there's ordering of bananas, there's ordering of the drinks and all the other consumables. Just yesterday we went through 53 banana boxes and each banana boxes has about 100 banana fingers. Right now it's being funded by UA and alumni donors, which we really appreciate. Volunteers care about the space a lot and also care about helping others. Why bananas? There's quite a lot of good reasons. It's very mean. That's something light-hearted that we appreciate and that we hopefully the MIT community appreciates as well. I heard about the Banana Lounge before I even stepped foot on campus. Every time I step in the space like there's usually at least one person, especially during the busy hours, there's like people you just someone you know like hey haven't seen you in a while or what are you doing here again at 2 a.m. in the morning. I think it's really important that it's student run. Like no one knows students better than students and that's what makes the place really unique to me because like people that benefit it is people like myself, people who struggle with p-sets, people who are just looking for a community. Students are active all times of the day. Like and if students need a space to grab a banana or grab a drink or like jump pick me up then that's what we want to be for them. It will be open 24-7. Sometimes at 2 a.m. you need food and Banana Lounge will be there for you. There's a wide variety of people at MIT and Banana Lounge wants to support those people. They want to study late at night. What's them study late at night? They want to play with Legos late at night with them. I see someone walking out if they don't have a banana. I know that person just doesn't have a banana Lounge. It makes me smile.


This puppy was in for a surprise when this tiger cub came up to him. Out in the wild, a story like this one wouldn't be possible. But life at the, the farm in wildlife sanctuary in Africa is different. Animals there are best buddies, and this includes the happiest couple out there, Hunter and Chelsea. Hunter is a tiger cub who needed a friend when his mother wouldn't like him around. So, the staff members there had to improvise. Little did they know that Chelsea the German short-haired pointer pup would turn out to be his BFF. Wait until you see all of their photos. Your heart will definitely melt. A three-month-old tiger cub really needed a friend, or else he would get the blues. Chelsea was only four months old too and was looking for a playmate. That's when these two guys first met. When Hunter set his eyes on Chelsea, it was love at first sight. Even though she wasn't a tiger cub, Hunter wouldn't stop following her everywhere. You won't believe what happens next. It really was meant to be. Hunter and Chelsea struck such a bond, that everyone at the sanctuary knew that these guys wouldn't like to stay away from each other. Wherever the pup was, the tiger cub would appear. He even did this. Taking the puppy for a walk involved also taking the tiger on a leash. Chelsea and Hunter grew up together, played, cuddled and ran every day. And everyone visiting the place was in awe of the pair. Hunter was born at the Farm and Wildlife Sanctuary in Pretoria, South Africa. But his mother started to treat her baby too aggressively, so Anthea Michelitos took the cub to look after him. Then, this happened. The rejected tiger cub finally got a friend in Chelsea who was only three weeks older than him. Anthea Michelitos is a 22-year-old student and takes care of them both. This is what she said about them. Anthea said that they think Hunter was born at a time when the female must have felt compromised in some way as she rejected him. That's why they had to take Hunter away from her. Her actions toward him were threatening his survival so we intervened for the greater of his well-being, explained Anthea. But Hunter felt lonely without his mother and a sibling by his side. Then he met Chelsea. When Hunter met Chelsea, it was like getting a sister. He almost had the same experiences as he would have with other tiger cubs. They'd play and nap all day long. And when Chelsea woke up in the morning, she would do this. In the mornings when I take Chelsea out, she will run to his cage and greet him, said Anthea. And then she started explaining how charming they are when they play. It's like a wrestling match. Anthea said that whenever they start playing, there is a lot of wrestling involved, Chelsea pushes him over and then he jumps on her. Hunter learned a lot from Chelsea, as he didn't have a tiger sibling to learn how to interact with his siblings. Chelsea is a litter sister, even though she's not the same species. These guys are inseparable, and Chelsea even taught the tiny predator how to hunt. The tiger cub also has his own instinct. Hunter sleeps outside the house in his own cage. When Chelsea has to be separated, she gets sad. Anthea said that Hunter's relationship with Chelsea is helping him play and interact the same way that he would with another litter mate. Sometimes, the wild kitty likes to stalk Chelsea and race her in the grass. This relationship is so special, and it wouldn't have existed in the wild. Hunter is fortunate to have a playful companion. These guys are just adorable. We already melted when we saw them cuddling together. And when Anthea tells them its time out, Chelsea keeps waiting for the fun to start again. Here's what she said. When I say okay, play time is over and I put Hunter away she'll go stand there for at least five minutes, wagging her tail, said Anthea. She then continues explaining that Chelsea is not done playing, and waiting for Anthea's approval. It's almost like she's saying no, I'm not done playing. I have to wrangle her back to the house, said Anthea. Well, we now understand that Chelsea is quite a persuasive pup, and knows how to handle a wild kitty. Chelsea is having the time of her life and Hunter is more than happy to join in on the romp. However, their time as babies is going to end soon, and fun time will be over. Anthea explains why. If he does get Chelsea down, I do get a bit worried because he goes for the throat. But she never cries, she cries immediately when she's in discomfort and wriggles around, said Anthea. Nonetheless, the pair will have to be separated in three months. When both the kitty and the pup grow older and reach teenage years, they will have to say goodbye. Both of them will play too aggressively, says Anthea, six months will be enough for them, that's when they start to play too hard. The last update was of the pair being separated. But Chelsea got another tiger friend, and she's like a mommy to him.


of all these leg attack positions, then we'll come back and dive deeper into them. So I can start taking my single leg spin out here, and I can start turning it into a leg pass situation. I can start working to those positions, right? Once I know a leg pass skill, and some of these other positional modes that I'm trying to get to, then I can start working and linking things together. A lot of times guys will just scramble one position. They're one at a time. Once you start linking stuff together, we're scrambling to score every time. I'm not scrambling to stalemate, okay? Never scramble to stalemate. If you guys stop scrambling first, usually the guy ends up losing, all right? So we can start taking some of this stuff and linking it together, but I've got to get to the right positions first. Guys, we're going to start going down. We're going to start getting the high leg stuff, getting this leg straight, and then continuing to follow, and I'll just finish with my knee scoop, right? So two moves that we've already learned, we can start linking together, right? Then it just gets better and better and better from there, all right? So don't get frustrated.  You guys will get real comfortable in these positions, so don't get frustrated at all. Now, low single, okay? He shoots that low single. He wants head on the inside of my knee. He's trying to circle, put me on my hip, right? Cover my legs. First thing I've got to do is get weight on my foot. So he hits that low single. I've got to kind of get my chest over my knee here, right? Now I've got his shoulder in the way. I've got to get my knee outside his shoulder, looking for that far ankle as I dive. Now we're going to break it down so everybody can get to this position, but I'm going to jam and then I'm going to slide. See how my jammin and my knee slide outside his shoulder right here. He shoots that low single, pull my jammin, and I'm sliding, and all I'm doing is diving straight on the top, and I'm turning my toe in towards his head, right? Turning my toe in towards his head, so I'm going to jam and slide. Now as I dive, turning my toe in towards his head. The reason why I do that is to make my toe, my foot skinny, allows him to slide out.  Also, see how it takes his hand outside his elbow? It makes him real weak, so I can snap my foot out, okay? So this is what we're going to do. We're going to go straight out. I want you to guys turn into giant pantocats, right? So they run, they stretch out, right? Hands hit, their feet hit. So my motion when I jump is here. Now we've got to get this motion down. I'm on back foot, I'm diving. If you're turning left, if you're left leg lead, you're turning right, all right? That might spread out quick. I've got my knee jammed, slides off. Everybody grabs my jam, slide. Don't worry about grabbing the ankle right now. I'm not going to work. Jam, slide. Any questions? I'll turn. Go!


Hello, Psych2Go viewers. This is Michelle Rivas, host of Psychology Roundtable. Our guest for today's live stream is renowned urologist and pelvic surgeon, Dr. Rina Malik. Dr. Malik is also an associate professor and director of female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Malik is the host of our own amazing YouTube channel, which has garnered over a million subscribers and over 200 million views and counting. Dr. Malik, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Of course. So can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your background? Yeah. So I am, as you mentioned, a urologist. So in order to become a urologist, you do, obviously medical school, which is four years. And then you do a five or six year residency training if you have some research time. And then I did six years. And then you can opt to do a fellowship. So I did a fellowship in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. And I got into doing YouTube because I really felt passionate about health literacy. So I recall having this scenario when I was in training where I was taking care of a patient. We did this beautiful surgery on her. She unfortunately had bladder cancer. And we had to reconstruct her bladder, make a new bladder. And then in order to empty her bladder, she now had to catheterize through an opening in her belly. And, you know, everything went great. She did well after surgery. She went home and then she kept getting readmitted to the hospital into the ICU because she kept getting very sick and we couldn't figure out what was going on at home. And ultimately we figured out that she didn't really understand the concept that she had to now empty her bladder a different way. And that's what I realized that you can do the perfect surgery on someone. You can be the most renowned surgeon. But if you can't teach people what they have to do after surgery or how their life may change, because of course every surgery has risks and complications, potentially, then you're not doing a good enough job. And realistically, we don't have the time to do that because you only have so much time with your patients. And so that's where I said, you know what? I'm going to make videos on YouTube so that I can educate people at the comfort of their own home where they can get answers to questions that they may feel too embarrassed to ask their partners or their doctors about. That's amazing. And thank you for doing that because I think that you're changing a lot of people's perspective and empowering people. So thank you for that. And so for starters, I wanted to start off with the topic of sex and physiology. Can you explain to our viewers how sex affects us physiologically and psychologically?  Yes, so it's a very loaded question. But basically to make it very simple, our sex drive is very much made up of many different factors, one of which is hormones. You need to have good functioning hormones, specifically testosterone in both men and women to have good levels of libido. It is very much correlated.    And then your body physiologically changes, right?  So things actually change and even the appearance of your genitals can change when you're aroused and for women, they'll make more lubrication and for men, they'll get an erection. And then, you know, then you will, you know, go and have intercourse or masturbate or whatever the case may be. And then you reach climax, which is orgasm. And that's essentially a time when your body is, you know, at the culmination of arousal and often also associated with physiologic changes, like pelvic floor contractions in women. So they'll feel a sense of like rhythmic pelvic floor contractions, a sense of like immense release. It lights up multiple areas in the brain. And for men, it often results in ejaculation. It doesn't always because they're actually, you can actually orgasm without ejaculation, but that's usually together for most people.  Usually there's a short period of time when you're no longer able to continue to have intercourse. And usually that's much shorter for younger people and then that increases as age goes on. And it does happen for both men and women, although it's more commonly discussed with men. And what are like the main hormones associated like dirt, like before and during sex? Like which hormones do we release during sex? So during orgasm, you know, you're releasing a lot of dopamine and then afterwards you're having oxytocin and prolactin release. And these actually cause the same, the oxytocin is the same sort of releasing hormone that you get when mothers and babies breastfeed. It's like a very nurturing, comforting hormone. And then when you're, when you're dopamine is, you know, a very commonly known about hormone. It's something that we get all the time when we're doing things that are pleasurable. So you get dopamine from scrolling the internet. You get dopamine from watching a TV show. You like to get dopamine from working out, from walking in the, in nature. So there's lots of different ways to get dopamine, but that's kind of part of the release. And so those are the hormones that are released and you know, our bodies because they're aroused and naturally, you know, learn a learned response also that is that we're going to get these great good feeling hormones afterwards that that's part of kind of the desire that goes into it. But you know, generally speaking, our bodies are made to procreate. I mean, that's evolutionarily. The reason that we're, you know, the, the way to propagate your species is to have children. And so sex is, is mandatory for that. So part of the reason our bodies react the way they do is because evolutionarily, it's important to propagate the species. And not to digress, but are these the same hormones that are released? Like, well, someone's watching porn, dopamine, oxytocin, or is it different? Because I think that sometimes people think it's like the same thing. You know, it's similar. It's just that our bodies, the stimulus is different, right? And so the stimulus that's causing the excitement and arousal is something that you could get habituated to, right? So to start with, you may watch pornography, which is often more aggressive or not realistic, right? Like you're not in real life.  That's not really accurate. And so if your expectation is that's how it's going to be, then, you know, that, that's a problem. And then also, like I said, the, the content you're watching is also usually dramatized, right? And so that's one thing. And then two, the release of hormones can be more stronger, essentially.  And you're still releasing oxytocin since I know that's the hormone that's associated with like bonding and all that, even when you're just watching porn. You know, I don't know about that one, but I think that it's more of a dopamine related process, particularly when you're, when you're, when you're, but orgasm itself is going to release the same hormones, right? It's more of like you're getting a different sort of stimulus that's going to change the way your body responds, because the stimulus is so much stronger. Yeah, that's, that's what I was thinking. I'm like, I think it's probably a little different, but you know, I see what you're saying.  This is a question that's come up a lot just from viewers wanting to know what's the connection between the two. I mean stress, any sort of stress, trauma, relationship issues, you know, performance, anxiety, all those things can really affect the ability to either feel desire, arousal for men to get an erection. Those can all affect our ability because basically stress releases cortisol, which is kind of contradictory to testosterone. So when you have higher levels of cortisol, you actually are reducing the hormone that you need to have, you know, to have desire. And so it can be very, very stressful on our brains are extremely powerful. I think people underestimate that the most important organ in your body for sex is your brain, because when your brain's not in the moment, you're not going to be able to either enjoy it or perform. If that's what your concern is, as you would when you are completely in the moment. And in fact, when you orgasm, it is a truly mindful moment. You cannot think of anything else during that moment.  There's nothing else that your brain can think about while you're climaxing. And so it's really, you know, it needs to be a very present and the experience where you're really in the moment. Oh, wow. That's like extremely interesting and segueing into that because you mentioned the the brain. There's this interesting article from Pepperdine University that explains that sex affects brain synapses. And so I just want to know how that works. Like how does the brain work when it works when it comes to sex, like sexual sexual desire and all of that. How does it work? Well, I guess I don't know what exactly they're trying to say.  And interestingly, the way we've actually looked at this in research is that there are people who have symptoms after sex, right? You hear people joking about like post not clarity, but there is actually a change in your symptoms. I mean, in your hormones that will change that your emotional can actually affect your emotions. So some people will feel this clarity, which is not really well documented in the literature, but people do feel post-coital dysphoria. Like they feel sad or they cry or they feel unhappy after having sex and it's because of this change in their brain. And so it's it's very interesting. There's not a ton of data on it, but like it's very complex.  It's like multiple areas in the brain light up and that effect your and then they turn off immediately, right?  Yeah. So apparently what the article is trying to say is that sexual activity has like an effect on synaptic connections. Is that so? I just want to know how that works. Is that what you're like referring to like the emotions? Yeah. I mean synaptic connections are really like it's kind of a term that means like the connection between nerves. And so I think what they're trying to say and I get I can't I don't I don't know what they meant, but like I think what they mean is that they're turning on right.  So that's kind of all sort of the same thing is essentially what I'm referring to is when your brain lights up, it's going to activate and fire nerves that are then going to change the way you you know perceive or feel certain things. Okay, that makes that. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I thought that was really interesting because I think a lot of people don't realize the effect that sex has on their brain and how it affects our behaviors and you mentioned this in one of your videos.  Yeah, so I mean, I think ultimately sex is something that I guess sorry. Can you be a little more specific?  But I guess I'm not really sure what you're referring to. It was just something that you mentioned in your video that it's something that like guides our behavior, but I guess more so like how does it like, I guess, how does it impact our mood? I'd be a better mood. So yeah, I would say that, you know, I think ultimately sex is very powerful and it's really the the orgasm that is is powerful in in a lot of different ways. So it's actually been studied to reduce anxiety, reduce depression, improve mood, improve sleep. So there's a lot of different positives from reaching climax and sex has the additional benefit of of, you know, bonding with another individual and the benefits of that, which are also very powerful and can affect you in positive ways, particularly in your relationship.  No, not exactly. That's what I was trying to like get at.  Yeah, it's extremely negative.  You're not going to be easily aroused or interested in sex. You're going to be, you know, very overwhelmed with the, the neurotransmitters and things that are actually related to depression. And so the, the unfortunate side of some of the things associated with depression are that like SSRIs have some pretty significant sexual side effects as well. So taking certain medications can also affect your ability to either for to achieve climax to lubricate to ejaculate or for desire. And so if you are on any of those medications and you start noticing that symptoms are changing for a negative in a negative way, it's important to talk to your psychiatrist or primary care doctor, whoever's, you know, prescribing those medications so that you can really assess, you know, can we switch this to something else or how can we mitigate the symptoms because you can actually reduce the dose and still, and that will reduce symptoms or you can switch to another medication.  Yeah. So very often it's reversible. There are some cases that have been reported with other medications that may be more long lasting, but typically with some time they tend to improve. Most often they do. I would say most often, you know, the symptoms, especially with SSRIs, they tend to improve. Well, I want, thank you for that. And I wanted to move on to the topic of pornography because this is a hot button issue. Psych2Go has done a few videos on that and I know you have as well and you have some really interesting insights.  What are like the positive effects of it? Yes.  Just like watching porn since I mean it's a billion dollar industry. It's reported that like porn has had like 11 billion visits this year alone. So just watching porn. Yeah. Yeah.  So that allows them to kind of experience that you can also do it with a partner which can be a bonding experience can also allow for arousal or improve arousal and interest in sex.  It can be it can be educational. I think but a lot of the times I think that, you know, the caveat is there is a small subset of people who can become addicted to pornography and we call it problematic porn use in the clinical literature, but it can become a negative in that way. But I think ultimately it's it's safe. If you're doing it in the safety of your own home, you're finding pleasure from it and you're doing it with with the intent to feel pleasure that I think it's okay. You know, once in a while it's certainly not going to if you're doing it on a, you know, on a basis where you're not having effects that are, you know, you're becoming addicted in the sense of like you are not doing activity that you normally would do.  I'd rather watch porn than go to work. That's a problem.  So specifically one does pornography cross the line from healthy to dangerous such as developing an addiction. Yeah, so like I said, if you start noticing that you are preferring pornography to your partner, you are preferring pornography to doing normal daily activities. Like say you're like, I just want to stay in bed and watch another one before I go to work and now you're getting late to work or you're staying up late to watch pornography or you find yourself looking for more and more sort of novel aggressive stimuli. So you're like, man, this porn just didn't do it for me. Now I need to find something that's more aggressive or more stimulating in a different way. You know, you may be going down that line where it's becoming a problem. And I think the issue now is that it's so accessible. Like when we were growing up or when I was growing up, you know, you had to like find a VCR and you had to find a place to watch it where nobody was, which was like, you know, never happened. Like so, so it was very different. I mean, I think more people watched, you know, like looked at Playboy magazines or, you know, things like that, but it was just like very difficult to have access to it. And now I'll just turn your phone, right? So it's become very accessible, like too easy to access.  Like, do you think it's actually perpetuating it? It's hard to say. I would say that lots of people, I think that the issue with porn is there's a lot of shame around using it and some people may use it just fine, but they have a lot of shame around using it. And then there's other people who use it and then become, you know, habituated to using it or needing it to actually reach climax or to get aroused. And then when they're confronted with the real scenario with their partner or with a person they want to have sex with, they're now having trouble because they're like, why am I not into this person? And it's really not that. So they've been so habituated to seeing that sort of stimuli. And so, and the key is to keep a variety of stimuli. Like don't always watch porn. Use your imagination or read a book or do something else, right? But like don't always rely on porn in order to feel arousal because then your body and brain will get used to that. Thank you for that. And I wanted to ask, and you've talked about this in a video and I think that it's important for people to know. So how is like pornography, you know, the stuff we see on the internet, the videos, how is it unrealistic to a real life?  So, you know, I mean, it's, it's a movie. It's a movie, right? It is reduced. So one is like these people are using, so the men are using ways to help them stay erect longer. They're using all sorts of different techniques. They may be using injections. They may be using medications. They may even have penile implants, you know, so, and this is their job, right? So they work really hard at getting like that that they've chosen this job for a reason because they can perform or they're willing to do the things that require them to perform. Two is, you know, the lubrication and the arousal like that you're seeing the squirting or the ejaculate volume, that's all visually enhanced, right? So they'll use sort of different techniques to make it look more volumous. And so I think that like that is not accurate and something like, what's wrong with me? Like, why am I not doing that?  And not totally not realistic, right? Like it takes time. It takes the average woman about 30 minutes to get fully aroused, 25 to 30 minutes to get aroused and to, you know, to really achieve climax. That includes the whole kind of thing. And for men, sometimes it takes time too. Like it's not this like, and the normal average duration of sex is like five minutes, 5.35, 5.7 minutes if you look at the studies. So like, no, people are not having penetrative intercourse for 20, 30 minutes or the length of a porno, right? Like it's not, it's not realistic. And, you know, there's a lot of like self doubt after watching pornography. Like you'll watch me, does my, why does my dental does not look like that? Like women's labia are all very unique and different. Men's penile lengths are all very unique and different.   And for women, they're always showing kind of a small labia, whereas women can have, you know, large labia, menorah, a different length. They can be asymmetrical and that's completely normal and fine. Yeah, absolutely. And I think that it does sort of make people feel and not sort of, it really does make a lot of people feel insecure and they think, okay, this is how sex should be. And often that's not the case. So thank you for that. And I love this comment by Nifty. I wanted to highlight it because I think it just really encompasses what we're saying.  I definitely agree with that. So thank you, Nifty. Yes, absolutely. And you know, you can use it in a way to learn more about what you like, but it's not going to educate you on what to do or how to do it, right? These are trained individuals who do this for their job, right? It's like watching a Cirque du Soleil show. You're not going to be doing those acrobatics. It's a show. It's the same thing, right? You're not going to be doing those things. It's a show. It's a movie. Do you think it would help if they put, like, a disclaimer on the video? Maybe. I mean, I think the other issue is really that people, little, like, children are getting access to pornography at younger ages. So I was shocked when I found this out that, like, basically by the age of 10, most kids have seen pornography, or a large majority. I mean, 10, like, I have a 10-year-old son and he would not know what's going on.  But, like, I don't, it's too, they're too young.  It's just, it's, that's what worries me, honestly, is having exposure to it at a really young age. I think when you're older and you've had relationships and you've had sex, like, you can kind of differentiate from fact versus myth. But when you're young, it's very hard.  And you're like, wait, this is not like what I watched. Yeah. And there's actually debate on that, though. I've heard many people say that it's good to inform younger, like, children and, like, teenagers about sex. Like, the younger, the better, so that they're, like, confident in their sexual identity. That's different than watching, I think that's completely different than watching porn. You can inform. Exactly. I'm not just that agree that kids should know the terms about, like, what things are. They shouldn't be, like, naming their, their hoo-ha. They should actually know about it. Right? Exactly. Right? First, vice versa. And so I think that, like, it's important to educate kids. It's important to answer their questions when they ask them because you'd rather be, I, like, we actually had this discussion the day. I was like, I want to be the one telling my kid what, you know, what he would answer his questions and he goes to a friend who tells him something that's completely inaccurate, right? Like, I'm the expert. They come talk to me or talk to your parents.  Like, you should be the ones telling them they shouldn't be learning from their, you know, 12 year old or 13 year old neighbor when they're 10, right? They should be learning from you. No, I agree for sure. But like, no, I definitely agree with what you're saying.  But I, I agree with you that there is like a difference and that they're too young at a certain age to be watching porn.  They're all the connections in your brain are not complete. And so like honestly, I think that, I mean, if you're able to like serve in the military like 18 and vote like, okay, fine, 18 years old maybe is reasonable but it's an arbitrary number that was selected, right? I don't think it's based on any physiologic data like 18, you don't change from like 17 and a half to 18, your brain's not that dramatically different. But I think that ultimately like, you know, 10 is too young like it should be much older. I think that, you know, and of course I'm sure kids do see it. It's okay. But like the amount of exposure is probably too much, you know, cause it's just too accessible. Yeah. And then it would be confusing and it's not like someone can explain all that to you.  They don't really, they can't reason. They just think, well, they can reason, but it's different, right? They're not going to look at that and think, oh, it's just entertainment like what you said, they're going to look at it and think this is how it should be and it's confusing and it might distort their, might actually distort their view of sex. Yeah. In some ways, definitely. So now we're going to switch over to our audience segment where we answer your viewer questions. I'm really excited. We have over 700 people in here, a lot of fans of both the channel. So I'm really excited. Let's begin. So just, okay. So someone asked a very interesting question. Dr.  Yeah, I think, I mean, I think, again, if you have problematic pornography use, which we've kind of talked about already, if you're choosing pornography over your partner repeatedly, then yeah, absolutely. It's going to destroy marriages. If you're choosing pornography over going to work and you're not financially stable because of that, it's going to destroy your life potentially, right? If you have a problem with it, it can. Absolutely. And then, sir, I don't want to butcher your name, but I put up on the screen. Dr. Malik, what do you think of No Not November? Oh, I love this question. So No Not November for those of you who don't know is kind of a media related thing where people try to not ejaculate for the whole month of November. Now, if there are people who, you know, there's like tantric sort of Taoist practices where they've done this and there's, you know, they've reported benefits to refraining from ejaculation. But there is no scientific evidence that refraining from ejaculation benefits you in terms of like what people say, like increasing testosterone or, you know, increasing your strength or vitality. There is not any scientific evidence. There's a small study done on very young, healthy men that shows a very small increase in testosterone after refraining from ejaculation. But it is not enough to put yourself through, and it's, again, a very small study and a small group of people, like 10 people, I think it was. And so ultimately my take home from that is that if you are struggling, like if you want to do it and you're perceiving benefit, go ahead, by all means. No one's, there's nothing wrong with doing it.  That's a sign that like you need to stop. Like this is not healthy for you and it's actually causing problems. And in fact, you know, when we have people who have a lot of high tone pelvic floor dysfunction, like in the old days urologists used to tell people like ejaculate three times a week. Like that's your prescription. Go home and go do that. And so, you know, it can be negative and it can definitely cause a lot of distress. And so in those cases, I tell people there's no evidence that this is going to change your life for the better. Now there are people who do again, like I said, I don't want to shame people if they are doing it and getting benefit from it. By all means, I have no problem with it. But there is no evidence it's going to help you. Thank you for that. And then our next viewer question and I think this is a really good one is attachment style associated with pornography addiction. Example, avoidant and anxious avoidant type styles. You know, that's a great question. I have actually not looked at the data on that. I'm not sure, but I will look into it and maybe I will leave a comment on the video later. Thank you. And let me see. Just put that one up on the screen. Okay, this is a really good one. Is the normalization of only fans unhealthy? Well, I mean, there's, I can't tell you data on that, right? There's not been at least to my knowledge a study on only fans in terms of science scientific evidence. You know, I think that it's an interesting phenomenon that's going on currently and I have not yet completely formulated my thoughts on it. Like I think, yeah, I couldn't say. I think that there could be damaging aspects to it and there could be positives, but like what's the net effect? I don't really know yet. I think ultimately like it empowers people to be who they are, but at the same time is it, is it, you know, shouldn't we be making connections in real life, right? Like I think that's my major concern with it. Like should we be actually trying to make connections in real life and are we becoming too focused on making connections over the internet that are not real and not substantial and are we just getting more lonely as a society because of that? On the topic of loneliness, a viewer just asked, why does porn make some people feel emotionally empty? Well, you know, I think that that's part of like, you know, you're getting this dopamine rush all the time, but then you crash, right? Like you get this high release of dopamine, but then when your addiction goes away, just like an addiction to anything, right? Like drugs, sex, when you are away from that, when you've like lost that stimulus and you're like seeking the next one, you're feeling depressed and sad and uninterested in things that you normally used to and that's basically a sign of any addiction, not just porn addiction. You know, if when you're addicted to something, when you're not doing that thing, typically people feel depressed and uninterested in things that they normally used to. And then Ziggy asked, what are some ways someone with an addiction to porn can cut that out of their life, especially for someone who has tried to quit multiple times but keeps coming back? So I'm not an expert in porn addiction, but there's lots of different ways. And I think seeking help from a psychiatrist with an expertise in this area to undergo like cognitive behavioral therapy or other sort of talk therapy or things of that nature, I think is really important. I think a lot of people are trying to do it at home by themselves and it's very difficult. It's an addiction just like any other addiction and sometimes you need more help and it's not that you're weak, it's just like any addiction.  It's not that there's something wrong with you. It's that you need help in overcoming this addiction, just like someone who's an alcoholic needs help or someone who's addicted to food needs help, right? Like whatever it is, this is sometimes requires professional help. And then our next viewer asked, is it healthy to use porn to replace the lack of a relationship? Well, I think if you're using it as like, again, like if you're using it to occasionally achieve orgasm and for pleasure, it's probably fine, but you, I mean, replace is sort of a strong word. Like if you're trying to use it as a way to just sort of, you know, find arousal in those times, it's okay. But I think if you're like, oh, I'm just gonna use porn and not get another relationship or not look for a person, then that's sort of a problem, right? Because that's not a long lasting relationship that's gonna sustain you with intimacy, with, you know, respect, love, all the things that come in a relationship. And so, yes. And then again, like I said, if that's the only way you're getting aroused, that's also a problem. You need to use variety otherwise your brain will get used to it. And then someone asked, let me see. All right, so I think this is a good question. Joe asked, Dr. Malik, I've heard some YouTubers say celibacy makes your life better in certain ways that it improves productivity, creativity. Is that true? Again, no great evidence behind it.  They do believe that and there may be some, I don't want to like discount those, you know, very longstanding religious practices. Like there may be some value to it, but there's no scientific evidence to that fact because no one's really studied it. And then Christina asked, do you think there are any mental health benefits to masturbating regularly? Yeah, so I think like I think I mentioned earlier, masturbation is great. It's actually a very positive, net positive thing because having an orgasm allows you to improve sleep, improve mood, you know, which is contrary to depression, right? You're improving mood. You're getting better sleep. You're, you know, feeling maybe some more focus. It might even reduce your blood pressure a little bit and heart rate. So in those cases, there are many net benefits to having regular orgasms and with masturbation is the way you're getting there versus with a partner. It doesn't really matter as long as again, it's not becoming a problem. Thank you. And Sounds of Silence asks, what strategies can I use to quit a porn addiction? So like I said, getting help, professional help is extremely helpful. There are some, you know, kind of things that you can use like apps that you can use to like make it so you can't access the websites on your phone and things like that. Those things can be helpful. But again, I think sometimes it's just realizing like, you know, what, what, you know, where, where, what's the trigger that's leading you to seat watch the porn figuring out what that is working through that, changing your reaction to that trigger. There's lots of sort of work that goes into it and every person is individual based on their own, you know, their own experience with pornography and what, when they're watching it, like, are you, is it like, oh, I feel sad or I feel bored. So I'm watching porn and then figuring out what can you do when you feel sad or bored that replaces that. And then Nelson asks, Dr. Malik, what are some natural ways to boost testosterone for a better sex life? Yeah. So this is a great question. So testosterone is a hormone that's very important for libido. It's also very important for a lot of different things like bone health, you know, increasing muscle mass, cognition. So there's lots of benefits to testosterone and if you have a low testosterone, there is value in boosting it. Natural ways that we recommend to all patients are one, the huge one is getting good sleep and that's not just good number of hours, but quality sleep. So that means like, avoiding your devices right before bed because that light can trigger, make it difficult to sleep at night and getting good sunlight in the morning, kind of being darker in the evening, trying to avoid caffeine late in the day because actually the half-life of caffeine is about 12 hours. And so when you drink caffeine afternoon, it's still going to be in the system at bedtime and it can actually worsen the quality of your sleep. Drinking late alcohol can worsen the quality of your sleep. So sleep is a huge one. Another one is eating kind of, the best data we have is a Mediterranean diet. So, you know, healthy fats, fruits and vegetables and a little bit of protein and fish. That's the best data we have. Now, there is some smaller data on like other types of diets, but essentially you want to have healthy fats. That's important for testosterone production. And then of course, fruits and vegetables are always beneficial with antioxidants and things of that nature. Avoiding BPAs. So BPAs are often found like plastic bottles. Those are endocrine disrupting chemicals that can affect your body's ability to produce testosterone. And then another key important part is getting resistance training. So like lifting heavy weights when it's usually like the bigger muscle groups. So like lower body and gluteal muscles. Those are the bigger muscle groups in the body. So kind of focusing on those can be actually very beneficial in improving testosterone naturally. And then, so are there any like specific hormones? Because you mentioned testosterone is one that boosts extra. Is there specific hormones that lower sex drive? I know you mentioned cortisol. Is that one that lower sex drive? Yeah, it does.  And then certainly certain medications like we talked about SSRIs for antidepressants, finasteride or propitia, which people use for hair loss or enlarge prostate, has been had some symptoms. And recently I learned about retinoids can apparently have some effect in a small subset of people on sexual functions. So an oral contraceptive. So certain medications can reduce sex drive. And so those are important.  Don't suffer in silence. And then you had, thank you for that. And you mentioned that a Mediterranean diet can help boost sex drive. It's like, so when it comes to the opposite effect, does junk food lower your sex drive? I've always wondered about this.    And this is going to be our last question. Lollipop the robot has interesting username. Thank you for that.  And I wanted to add to that with like anxiety, depression and stress maybe exacerbate someone's like addiction to porn. So I think that, you know, it's like, what's first, the chicken or the egg? Like I mentioned before with addiction, you can develop depression and anxiety because when you're not using the substance of addiction, you know, associated with addiction, it can, you know, create symptoms of depression and anxiety. So that is certainly an issue. And it's, and you know, to simplify, it's usually because of low dopamine, right?  So that's kind of where it is and why certain people are affected by it is unclear. You know, we don't really know exactly why we just know that certain people, those connections become more robust where you become more reliant on that dopamine or more, you know, you have a higher high or a lower low, we're not sure. But certainly that, you know, there is a phenotype of person that's more likely to get addicted. Thank you. And that ends our audience segment. Thank you so much to our amazing Psych2Goers for asking some amazing and insightful questions. And then I had one last question for you, Dr. Malik. I had, I wanted to know, and I think a lot of our viewers wanted to know, how do you become empowered sexually so that you can sort of take control over your sex life, so to speak, because you have a lot of good advice on your YouTube videos and I just want to know your take on this. Yeah, I think that one is like, it's not going to happen all at once, right? It takes practice, it takes time. No one teaches us how to talk about sex. And so you have to talk and like, that's hard, right? Like, how do you talk to your partner about sex or like a new partner, right? You're like, how do I bring this up? When's the right time? What if I didn't like what they did? I don't want to hurt their feelings. There's a lot of like mental anxiety associated with talking about sex, but in order to be empowered, you have to talk. And so the best place to talk is not on the bedroom. So when you are out of the bedroom in a neutral place, like the car is great because no one can leave, like you have to stay in the car and talk to each other or like the kitchen or whatever someplace where it's okay. And then I'm always using I statements to be like, I really prefer this. It's not like you did something wrong. It's me who wants to be different. And then just realize like, it's going to take time. It's awkward. It's uncomfortable even for you. It's just as uncomfortable for them. So like don't, don't, don't expect it to be like immediate and just like stick with it. Like it's worth it. Like you deserve to be sexually empowered. You deserve to have your desires and wants discussed.  So it's important to talk about it. I agree with you, Dr. Malik and thank you so much for your brilliant insights and for all of the amazing content you make that empowers others to feel confident in their sexual identity but also eliminates the stigma around sex because often people don't want to talk about this topic but we need to. So thank you so much for joining us today, Dr. Malik and thank you everyone for participating. This was an amazing live. Have a great day everyone. Thank you.


So my beautiful people, I am back with another Aldo Ring video and today guys I'm going to showcase to you how you can use and activate Godric's great rune. Now if you've beat Godric the grafted, you'll get this from him straight away. I actually posted a video on this earlier, how you can cheese him and beat him quite easily to get this great rune. It's actually a rune that once you activate and do a little bit more work with it, you actually gain a plus five to all your attributes. And today I'm going to showcase to you exactly what you need to do with this. So from here we're right on the map guys. Marguerite the foul arm and this is basically just right by where you kill the big fella, Godric. And then this is where you want to go. I mean you probably got all these because we're going to actually run past all these but I just want to make sure you guys know exactly where you got to go. Eventually we will come to this one right here. So from this spot this is where you got to go. It's quite easy guys, it's quite easy. Now if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. Okay so you just want to follow the path, there's another great sir so you want to activate that if you haven't already. You probably have but I know for people that have just beat Godric I want to figure out how you use this rune which I will state I don't think it works as intended but hey could just be a bog it could be legit. I'm not too sh I'm not too sure guys I'm not going to like it.   Now guys you just want to run up here.   Now this door won't be open for you so you want to open this door won't you do climb up it climb up the ladder if you're wearing a message on the floor stop me climb to the top. Now you do want to come back and explore this area guys because there's tons of things to collect here tons of things to collect. I'm actually working on a video which showcases them all now you can go right there but we want to go left and watch the guy on this corner because he will try and jump out on you and get yes get out of it boy. Okay so we need to keep going around and come this way now there is a couple of sticky little methods in where you can avoid some quite hectic paths which I'll show you anyway so just run up here. I mean like I said this is simple guys this ain't hard at all this ain't hard at all. If you were to try and fight things it would be quite hard okay so let me just activate that grace there which is this one right here and now guys we want to go to this place a limb grave tower bridge. Now you cannot activate this one this one it doesn't really matter but for now we want to go here this is how you activate the room that's what today's video is all about so from here guys just run and jump onto this building right here then you want to jump down here just like so just like so and then just run this way you could actually I could have jumped over that wall there and got down but I just know this way I just know this way so then guys we're going to jump over this edge right here and run back because that big old dirty crab can get you I don't know if it is is it crab is it a spider I'm not even sure I'm not sure anymore people I see from here we need to go and let me pull out my map because well we need to go right so what we're going to do we're just going to run past all these ads just like so a few dodges few rolling a few docking and diving then just go again I mean like it's quite easy I mean like as you can see I'm not even getting hit so a few dodges oh forgot about them yeah avoid them as well I'm too good for this map oh the fire bomb gets me though typical typical now guys we just want to go through here I'll be careful because there's a big old dirty dog there which you don't really want to be fighting so you just roll once we get through here we are actually fine so just like my stamina come back and once we get through this door guys there's another grace we can just activate which I'm going to do anyway and there we go guys there we go guys so let's go up here this way we need to go now there are a few things we do want to run past them in these are they I think they're golems are they there's three of them spawn in here which can be a pain in the ass but there's a guy at the back like an archer big guy you can actually use him to kill the other dudes if you want but it isn't too difficult to just run straight past them to be honest so just run straight past all of these whoa they're not hitting that hard not hitting that hard so just keep going now you want to probably a few rolls here now this archer as you can see right there let him have a shot and then just then you'll miss maybe just run straight past him he's so slow look so big and slow and just couple rolls you can see that the portal right there I mean he's go to the to the back side of it travel to this destination and here we go when he eventually goes I apologize about my slow Xbox Series X my slow Xbox Series X you know what I mean okay so from here I mean you can go down there there's a couple of collectibles down there a couple of eagles you have to fight nothing too bad but for the purpose of the video let's just get on with it and now we need to activate this lift now because I've already been up there and already done this my lifts already up there so it's gotta come all the way back down all the way back down so we just wait patiently as you do cause a whirlwind you know what I'm saying there we go it travels up pretty far you don't feel that far when you actually under lift but that's coming down for ages man there we go there we go okay so now we just jump on and stand right in the middle of it let me go back up we're gonna go back up she can't lock directly up you see where we're going well it's quite high up it's quite high up nothing down there to collect is there because you never know what is sneaky game you never know what is sneaky game things can be hiding everywhere I literally do hide everywhere it's craziness crazy and I've spent like 40 hours in this game just exploring and finding things okay so now you want to activate this grace yeah I just followed the building around that grace is that one there by the way okay so now we just go and this away this way and then guys you'll just activate it right here there's nothing to fight here although it doesn't look like an arena there's actually nothing to fight here just activate it right there guys and you'll see that you have it and let me show you um where are we where are we where are we okay so there is right there raise all attributes now it don't actually do anything as of right now so what you need to do guys is go to your nearest grace point and you'll notice that there will be a new slot called great ruins and here it just gives you a quick tutorial of what you need to do here um so like it says there with the great ruin menu you can equip great ruins so that uh I've had their power restored you can use a ruin art to give even greater benefits to your equipped great ruins but that actually ain't true because if you see let me let me quickly show you have a look at my attributes right here you'll see actually with this applied nothing actually changes until you consume a runak which is just weird weird so if I put you in there I'll put you there guys and you'll notice that mashy is the same now if I consume a runak like so you'll see that my attributes actually raise and the weird thing is guys you'll see that I've raised when you die you lose your attributes you you you'll lose that plus five so you'll have to apply and consume another runak so it's going to get pretty expensive now you can purchase these and I'll take you to where you can actually buy these you need to go to here a table of lost grace and there's actually a vendor here I like I'm not sure if that's supposed to be the way is it is it a bug I'm not sure guys honestly I'm not sure so we've got this way and the vendor is down what the hell was that this way right here there's a vendor and you'll see that they sell them for four thousand each absolutely crazy guys absolutely crazy and well there we have it that is how you uh use uh guardrics great uh apply and get the benefits from it and yet I hope the video helped you out I really do but I'm not not guys it has come to the end of it if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps me out if you're new around here and want to see more be sure to subscribe and hopefully people I will see you on that next one