Chinese Old Wives' Tales Explained (ft. Mia - Asian Beauty Secrets)

Hey everyone! So Chinese mothers always tell us not to do certain things and most of the time we don't understand why. So today we invited Mia to discover some of these Chinese old wives' tales. Hi everyone! So me and Carmen actually know each other back in Australia so that's why I was so excited to actually work with her on Off the Great Wall and now... We have a long history together so uh what is it? We used to dance together? Oh yeah, oh yeah. But I was a really sucky dancer like she used to teach me and I still suck and then and then for my formal which you guys call prom she actually did my makeup. She was so beautiful. So if you maybe you've seen Mia before now uh behind the scenes video she's actually one of our makeup artists and she actually has her own health and beauty channels as well called Asian Beauty Secrets so I'm gonna put the link in the description box below and so check it out. Alright Mia, my mom always tells me not to take a shower after a meal. That is actually correct because when you do eat all your blood flows to your stomach so it actually helps you digest and better absorb the nutrients but when you take a shower or do any form of exercises your blood actually flows elsewhere which means not only are you wasting all the nutrients you can actually cause bloating and discomfort around the stomach area. So you have like excess random food that's not being used? That is not being digested, yes. So I'm sure a lot of you have heard of this already it's like don't eat or drink cold things when you're on your period including like uh cold things deemed by Chinese medicine like what tea or watermelon. This is actually quite a complicated and intricate system in China or in Chinese culture I should say where we deem certain foods cold and certain foods hot so in Chinese medicine everything is about balance so balance between the yin and the yang so for women especially we are considered yin which is actually cold so that's why you don't want to drink any excess cold things to actually cause health problems for you in the future. I actually just recently did a video about PMS which I will link somewhere. Always cover your stomach when you go to sleep with a blanket because or else the wind will go in and the next day you'll have a... Yes again with the cold energy obviously the stomach area is where all our organs and things are so obviously in Chinese culture medicine we believe to protect this area and when the cold actually cold energy actually goes in it affects you that's why you have diarrhea or other health problems. There are actually a couple of vulnerable places in in the body which is one is stomach and the one is on the sole of your feet. Like sometimes my feet sticks out so does that matter? Well I mean like my feet sticks out of the blanket like is that is that a problem? No that's fine. Okay do I have to wear socks because I don't like wearing socks. When you when you do have the AC on or we when you have the fan on make sure it doesn't blow straight to your feet. And uh this one um never sleep with wet hair or else you get a headache. Yes that is very correct and I also have a video on that so make sure you watch that. Gee how many videos do you make? I actually make one video a day on a week day so it's five videos a week. Oh my god okay watch them all. We never sleep with wet hair not only because it gives you a headache but also it actually helps to grow bacteria because bacteria likes to grow in damp places so if you have wet hair and go to bed with it not only are you creating um a headache because the wind because the hair is damp so therefore it's cold which is bad for your body. You're also having bacteria that grow on your roots which is gross. So if you have wet hair damp hair then your whole body is damp and cold. Yeah because you're actually you're actually sending cold energy through your body. Wow so much cold and hot. Yes that's why when when that's what they say when you're in summer right you have to eat cold things to cool you down because you're more heated in summer so that's why they they eat mung beans and things like that to cool you down because any excess heat or coldness can cause problems for you. Hmm all right oh about eating uh my mom always calls me and goes don't eat out all the time all the restaurants are so dirty. I'm not sure if that's a real Chinese thing. I think she just wants to save money. My mom does that too. Okay all right all right something else always sleep before midnight. That's very very important because sleeping before 11 p.m is actually more correct because your body goes through a detoxing system at night time so if you don't sleep through those hours you're actually not allowing your body to detox therefore you're actually accumulating more toxins in your body therefore you'll be constipated you'll be you gain weight you might have dark circles you might feel tired and all of the above. Okay my question is how on earth does your body know it's 11 p.m? Does it like have a watch or something? Actually your body does have a clock but back in the olden days they believed that when the sun sets is when your body's supposed to be at rest however always in the modern times we obviously we have work we have things we have a life so it's it's been stretched out to 11 p.m. Your actual body knows when the sun rises and sunsets so a certain amount of times after the sun sets is when your body goes through a detoxing system. Okay but in winter the sun sets earlier so should I be sleeping earlier? Definitely. So I should be sleeping more? I should be telling my work that? Yes. I need to detox my body to you know look more beautiful. So all of you know that I'm from Australia and you know people from Australia a lot of them go bare feet especially at home and I have rather large feet for my height so my parents say that it's because I used to go bare feet as a kid that I had big feet. What size feet are you? I don't want to mention because it's a little embarrassing but between eight and nine. It's actually not that bad. That's huge for my height this is like what model's size feet is like and the model is a freaking six foot model I'm not six foot. Well I think it is a myth it is more genetics and I think your parents didn't have any other reasons to tell you so they told you that they're like yeah it's your fault it's actually their fault because they gave me the genes. Exactly so they can't really back out from that instead of like no it's your fault because you didn't wear sandals or whatever because I'm five seven and I have six and a half. Oh wow your feet are tiny. So and I used to be bare feet all the time my mom used to say oh your feet are so flat you're gonna be like a duck feet. You know what they used to say to me they said that if I was back in the ancient times I'll be very undesirable because you know girls should have small feet and I'll you know have probably have to marry a farmer and plow the fields with my big feet and they're like oh so lucky for you you're born in the modern age and that doesn't really matter. Yeah that's some of the things that my mom used to tell me so if you guys have any questions of these like weird things that your parents tell you your grandparents tell you comment below and ask Mia and special thanks to her again for answering these questions that I really don't know I just knew that it's bad for not to do those things but I just didn't know why and make sure to check out her health and beauty channel. 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