Mike Danforth

Andrea is an athletic trainer.

She wrote in to us with a technique for stopping a nosebleed, something we'd never heard of.

You said it's called the heel thump.

Yeah.

So if I'm bleeding from my right nostril, you would either whack me in my left heel or I would stomp my left heel on the ground.

It feels like if somebody's bleeding from both nostrils and they start jumping up and down, it feels like just the blood splatter would be something you would want to avoid.

If you thump the wrong heel, does the blood flow increase?

I was very curious.

We looked into this.

There's actually been it's classified as a folk remedy.

There's no, you know, peer reviewed research into why it might work.

Don't go out and induce a nosebleed just to try it.

We don't want we don't want that.

And I'm Ian.

On today's show, how to say goodbye to a burrito.

But first... Hey, Isaac.

What can we help you with?

Yeah.

So when you say they grab it, they grab your left hand, your other hand?

Is there a time, like a specific instance that you remember when it was particularly uncomfortable?