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This hour of the Bill Meyer Show podcast is proudly sponsored by Klausur drilling. They've been leading the way in Southern Oregon well drilling for more than 50 years. Find out more about them at Klausurrilling.com. Now more with Bill Meyer. I was talking yesterday about Make America Healthy again, and I really like the goal, the intent of this, to get us off the processed foods, tamped down on the seed oils. How about maybe some less sugar?

How about more protein? I wanted to talk about that with Dr. Sal Georgiani. Dr. Sal Georgiani Jr., I should say, FarmD. It's a senior science advisor to the Men's Health Network. It's also a past chair and chair emeritus of the American Public Health Association, former Alumni Association board member of Columbia's University School of Public Health. You know at all on this matter here, Doctor. Welcome back to the show.

Great having you on. Morning. Always a pleasure to be with you. Good morning. What are you thinking about the trajectory of make America healthy again? Because there's kind of an impression that it's kind of losing focus or sort of sputtering at this point. I'm wondering if people start rebelling when they're told, hey, maybe you really need to change your diet America, right? What do you think about this overall?

Well, people need to be patient. You know, I think that we, in this instant age of instant messaging, if we can call it that anymore, instant delivery of groceries and things, instant coffee or instant everything. We've come to expect that when something is said, it's going to happen instantaneously. And that just doesn't happen with something as complicated, multifaceted, and working within some very complicated and long, you know, overdue need-to revision systems as health care. you just don't take one vitamin tablet and then all of a sudden feel fabulous. You have to do it over a long period.

So I absolutely agree. You summarize my views about making America healthy again, making Americans healthy again very nicely. We need to move away from poor habits, poor food nutrition, poor exercise back, poor mental health and stability, poor relationships to a time. time when we were doing things a little bit better, more at home and under our control, rather under corporate control. But it takes some time. I wonder if one of the challenges here that the Maha movement is making is that there are mixed messages coming out of the administration at times. I can think of, well, as an example, glyphosate, like a Roundup, in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. rightly saying, hey, there were

some real problems with this. Maybe we shouldn't be using Roundup to dry our wheat as a drying agent to use a weed killer to dry our wheat. I know that overseas in Italy is an example. They don't do that with their pasta wheat. They just dry it naturally and process it, et cetera. And then you have the Trump administration comes out and then says, hey, you know, glyphosate, national security issue, right? And then, okay, what is it, doctor? Is that one of the challenges I think we're facing these days? A lot of it is, it goes back to, I think, the lack of patience and the fact that, you know, in science, these issues and the debate and on the look at data, the emerging new data,

the need for people to talk through, to think through, to analyze and realize, has always been going on since time and memorial. You know, I'd study a little bit of the history of science. And it's always been the case that these discussions to make sure we're. as right as we can be based on the information we have at the moment is the way we proceed in science and health and medicine. But now that's all playing out in the public field, in the public town square, if you will, that is now playing out in the electronic public town square, and that's confusing to people. So scientists can handle it as what they're trained to do.

When we're in a discipline, I used to tell my students, now that you've gotten your doctoral degrees, you can have the privilege of being told you're absolutely wrong all the time by so many other people. you have to defend your decisions in making it. But that process now is confusing to the public. And I think, yes, we continue to see mixed messages. We have everybody weighing in on various internet platforms, which confuses people. I think the best thing to do is to, once again, go back to the way things are in a different time. Talk to your health care provider, talk to your physician, nurse, pharmacists, you know, dentists about what they believe.

They know you, they know your circumstances, and they are trained to digest that information and advise you. They are learned intermediaries. Is that always true, though, because what I understand, one of the challenges in our medical industry, maybe you could comment to this, Dr. Georgiani, is that the amount of time that your typical family physician spends on nutritional aspects is very little, from what I understand. and there have been calls to increase that, and nutrition almost seems to be kind of an afterthought for most physicians. My right or wrong about that. Oh, you're right, not just in physician training, but also in training across all the disciplines. I used to teach at Columbia University, School of Pharmacy.

You used to teach at Belmont University School of Pharmacy. I still teach. I do a continuing education program. And understanding of nutritional values and nutritional counseling is not in the general repertoire. but there are nutritionists out there. There are dietitians out there. These are individuals who have the expertise and who have done that kind of study and that kind of work.

So they can be advised us. I think one of the things that will help when you think about the importance of understanding better nutrition would be to have coverage for dietitian and nutritionist counseling as part of the overall health packages that we get. So, yeah, there are people who do this. There are people who understand it. Not a good place to get it as your AI talkbot. Good point.

Good point. Yeah, which I think I've worked for the people rely on. But there are professionals who do this. And how is the curriculum for these nutritionists? And the reason I bring this up, I'll give you an example of what happened. Now, this was about five, six, maybe seven years ago that this happened, all right? and that I was invited to go on a walkout for diabetes. It was the American Diabetes Association, doctor.

And I remember that you could go to the American Diabetes Association's website and they would talk about diets that would be friendly towards keeping your blood sugar low. And one of the first things they're bringing up is loads of pasta and orange juice. And I'm just, you know, kind of, well, the Brits would say gobsmacked when I would see that instruction about, you know, high processed carbohydrates along with liquid sugar and that somehow this was a great diet, you know, great part of your day if you're a diabetic. And I'm thinking to myself, that's just total nonsense.

And yet this was coming from the organization supposedly fighting the disease. Have we changed enough over the last few years? Are people coming to their senses on such matters? How do you see it? there's been a huge change and views about obesity, overweight, management of weight and dietary restrictions in the past few years. Because of the GLP's, the OZMPICs and the Zeppans of the world, it's a huge change in how people are thinking about it, whether it's a slovenly habit,

did it be overweight or whether it's a true metabolic defect that has to be treated the same way would treat thyroid condition or, you know, seizure disorder or high blood pressure. So, yeah, there's been a huge change. I will also add that, unfortunately, large organizations require large amounts of money for funding their large organizations, and sometimes the influences of those who put money into the organizations can lead to curious conclusions. But, you know, that's one of the reasons that we have all these debates. So I think one of the very effective things that have happened with the HHS guidelines on nutrition and raw

is it has been completely thinking of what is a healthy diet or is healthy food. And folks should go back and look at the way diets were constructed before we had all these processed foods. That's very important too. So there has been a huge change. There's more going to come. And I think that people need to become, you know, much more knowledgeable. But I also hear from you, you're looking for patients, right? Is that what I'm kind of getting to be patient with this situation?

I certainly think that RFK Jr. is, you know, has his heart in the right place. The other day, the order came out that they wanted to improve hospital diets. And I thought that was very interesting. And they were talking about how, well, as an example, for breakfast instead of the, you know, instead of breakfast cereal, it might be steel cups. hot oats or else, you know, grilled salmon and quinoa for lunch or something like that. And, well, I don't know if the hospital world is ready to change away from the standard gruel fare. How do you see it playing out?

If you'd like to do about an hour and a half, maybe two hours of what's wrong with the health care system and our big corporate health care system players in America have led to so many of the health problems. that we have, we could do that. But yeah, one of the areas that needs to be reviewed, revised, rethought through is health care access. Look, as you know, I do an awful lot of work

on the health of men and boys. I know. And I talk to my colleagues who do an awful lot of work on the health of women and girls. And the guy advocates say health care is not guy friendly. The women advocates say health care is not gal friendly. And I think that's one of the fundamental problems.

not only do we have corporate influences and on nutrition and our diet, but also corporate influences that I don't think of particularly, if you're pardoned upon, healthy in the way health care is delivered. And look, it's much cheaper to buy a box of generic puffed. Yeah, puffed rice or something like that, yeah. Right. Then steel color, oh, it takes nothing to prepare it in service. It takes an awful lot to make steel color.

But I think there's a lot within the system, which if it's not addressed, we're still not going to be a healthy society. Yeah, maybe we're going to have to start channeling our inner Frenchmen, because you know how the French are serious about food and cuisine, right? Maybe a little bit more of that. I try to channel my inner Italian all the time. Nothing wrong with that, right? Mediterranean diet. Is that what you like? I'm just curious. Mediterranean diet. And you know, you mentioned pastas. I look at even the kinds of pastas that we get in America. They're much less healthy than the kind of pasta you can get that's made in Italy. So I urge people, people who read labels, urge people to become knowledgeable, urge people who spend, you know,

$300 bucks getting a gossip with a dietitian. It might save your life. It might help you eat healthier. It's not a bad thing to investment in making yourself. And to your point, though, about the pasta, I started buying a number of months ago because I used to always get kind of gassy and bloated on standard pasta, standard American, you know, the American beauties that you see in the grocery stores. And, of course, that's the stuff. which quite often, not only genetically modified, but also processed with glyphosate in order to dry it, because that's the way most American wheat is harvested and processed before it ends up being ground on a flour. And then when I ended up getting this organic Italian pasta, which of course had none of that being done with it,

it's like I rediscovered pasta again. And it's like, where has this pasta been all my life? I was thinking, how different could it be? I was astounded, Dr. Georgiani. I'm right with you. We must be in sync there, cross-country from Florida and Oregon. I, too, have revisited the kind of pasta, which is pretty stable in the old Giofijian and the Sicilian household.

Yeah. So now I do also buy pasta as made in Italy. and there's a fair amount of information on the Internet which can at least serve as a fundamental basis of understanding that talks about the type of wheat that is used, the semolina, the way it's processed, the way it's dried, the way it's even extruded to allow for ridges so you need less of the rich sauce to give it wonderful taste

and how it has bite and how it can, is more of a low glycemic index type carbohydrate. So yeah, I mean, these are the simple things, that if you are serious about becoming healthy again and make my household healthy again, you can investigate these nutritional facts. You can do an awful lot about buying better quality foods. I think people are all agog about the nutritional pyramid that was turned on its head and, God forbid, they said beef is good again.

Oh, yeah. Not just any beef. Yeah, yeah, make beef great in America again, certainly what I was looking at. You know, I'm kind of curious, you know, since you, and by the way, Dr. Georgiani is senior science advisor to the Men's Health Network. And what is that website again because you focus on men and boys and young men, certainly. What's the website? I want to make sure people go to that to check this out. www.men's health network.org.

And then another side is healthymen.org. The two organizations I work with a lot and you have lots of good information on both websites, men's health. network and healthy men that provide some good guidance on these kinds of things. I'm kind of curious where you fall down when it comes to the nutritional side of things with, I notice that the American diet is filled with soy. And soy, of course, has the unfortunate aspect. It may not hurt bother women when it comes to raising estrogen levels. But I can't help but think that, you know, we jokingly talk about the soy boys, right?

You know, the, you know, of feminine men that, and we call them soyboys, but there is kind of a connection from what I've been reading. Have you been following up on that and why you don't want to have that kind of protein, soy protein, put in all your processed foods, which seems to be a big part of the American diet, isn't it? Yeah, I'm not familiar with the term soy boy. It hasn't made this way to Florida yet, but I'm sure that somebody knows about it. I'll ask my children, but I do understand your point about that, and it's a very, very true that the types of things. things that we eat in our 20s, even as teenagers, can affect fertility and then conception rates. And we are seeing them for many, many reasons that I don't think it's just soy, but we are seeing

a decrease in active fertility spermatozoa being produced. We're seeing a decline in birth rates for a lot of reasons, sociologic as well as physiologic. So, yeah, I think it does really matter. And again, just going back to something as simple as the pasta. the bread, the crackers that we buy, you know, looking at the ingredients if you want to buy, if you're not glucose intolerant or, you know, it's sensitive, you know, good semolina whole wheat that has a decent glycemic index content is far better than seeing all these processed things with vitamins added, with soy added as bulk in fillers, with preservatives added to keep it on the shelf,

stable like the proverbial quinky into the next 23rd century. So I think you do have to read labels and become knowledgeable. Sites such as Cleveland Clinic, WebMD, the Dietitians Association, American Dietitians Association. They have really, really good, easy to understand information, as well as the Men's Health Network and Healthy Men websites. So go to become knowledgeable, read those labels. I mean, we used to do that a lot, but we don't do that anymore. Yeah, indeed. And if you're going to give your child a fruit, do the fruit roll up.

Don't do the fruit roll up, rather. Actually give them the fruit so that way you're getting the fiber and all the other micronutrients. I think that would be a good idea. Just me. Yeah. Making fruit growups at home. I know people are pressed for time and it may not be realistic.

But it's not all that difficult, but you're correct. Read those labels of the fruit roll-ups, and you'll see it's essentially processed sugar that's been fruit flavored. It's not real fruit. And here again, the influences of corporate America, which have over the decades since the nutritional pyramids have been created, the influences of corporate America have, let's say, tainted or let's say had more influence than they probably should on what we think about proper food and diets are, and even the thing that are brought to schools. Dr. Georgiani, do you have a minute or two to take a call or two from listeners?

Good with that? Absolutely. All right. Let me just. Hi, good morning, KMED. You're on with Dr. Sal Georgiani. Who's this? Hey, good morning, Bill.

This is Michael. Michael, you have a question or comment for the doctor? Well, I got a few things here. I was going to ask him, but I don't know about time. But I would like to know what he thinks about fluoride and also proprietary ingredients that we're not allowed to know what. We're in our food and dog food and everything else and how these companies get away of making claims when they don't even disclose what's in the product. That's a really interesting question. Doctor, could you feel that for Michael?

Yeah, we absolutely should know what we're putting into our bodies. So proprietary ingredients are, again, part of this influence that corporate America has had an undue influence on what is legitimately labeled in food. And again, why I'm moving back to the way things were done at home. I prepare most of my foods at home now as much as I possibly can. In my dotage, in my old age, I'm becoming much more conscious than I had been. As this whole notion of fluoridated water, fluoride in water supply, I am of mixed feelings. I haven't seen enough data to know what it means. Yes, we have seen a tremendous decrease in a developed and,

dental carries, you know. Cavities, yeah. Cavities and over the decades, the teeth, the tooth structure, the tooth longevity of children today is much better than it was just a generation ago, 20 years ago, 25 years ago. I don't know if there's sufficient data to prove that it's toxic. I think we have to, again, you know, I have to beg off giving an immediate answer, because the immediate answer is not a good one. But the real answer is we just don't know yet.

So we'll see. Is it a bit of experimentation on a mass population basis? I suppose that's true, but we can't really know. But in the next generation, if we see a rise in cavities, arise in dental problems or jaw problems, if we see a rise in oral infections, then we'll know that this was a bad move. But the peer system says, yeah, you should eliminate it. days as many things as you can.

Well, out here in our state, we don't have fluoride added to the water, but although it is kind of a naturally occurring aspect of some well waters, too. But I appreciate the call. Thank you, Michael. I'll grab one more. You're on with Dr. Georgiani. Good morning. On KMED.

Who is? Scott. Scott from GP. Hi, Scott. Stevia, I just learned here a couple months ago, and I've been using that for about three or four years, but I'm old enough not to. have the need for not eating stevia. But evidently stevia, when you eat it, you lose the ability, both men and women, to have children. And even if you stop using stevia for 60 days afterwards,

you're still not able to get pregnant. So, uh, hold on here a bit, Scott. And, Dr. Have you heard about Stavia? Stavia is a big, you know, natural sweetener that we see, you know, you see it on the health files. Have you heard anything about that? Just curious. I have not heard what this gentleman is talking about. It is quite stunning. I will do my homework.

So thank you for the homework assignment. I will read up on that. It is something I'd like to put out on our, you know, other ways, you know, the other platforms that I work with. I would add, though, in general, just because. something is quote unquote natural doesn't necessarily mean that it's without consequences my goodness you know cocaine is natural fluoride as you just alluded to is is a natural substance and so is so is arsenic for that matter but you don't want but you don't want it in your breakfast cereal right correct so i will look at all of this i do think though that you know plain oat sugar in moderation uh is probably

far better for you than all these artificial sweeteners in large amounts, which is what they design these things to do, it doesn't really satisfy you. It just gives you a taste, but then you want that taste because if you're not satisfied and you eat more and more. So, I mean, think of just a theory of, well, we want to create something that causes you to want more of it. So I will look into this the tedious thing. I do think that there may be some merit to it, but I don't want to answer, and I'll give you the... Yeah, no, I understand that. It's something. Hey, Scott, if you could email you that to me also I'd appreciate it because this is one story I have not heard of and if so

that's actually pretty much big news. Dr. Salvi, I'll Georgiani once again and it is men's health network.org.menshealth network and what was the other website again? Healthy men, Inc. at healthymen.org. All right, very good. Thank you so much, doctor. A pleasure talking with you and we'll kind of tamp down and just be patient on the Make America a healthy again messaging and agenda. I appreciate you being on. Be well. Always a pleasure. Have a great holiday. You too now. It is 836, KMED, and 993 KBXG. Water is life. And for over four generations, Clauser drilling has been dedicated to delivering it with expertise, integrity, and professionalism.

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Oh, the Kia Soul, right? Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So whatever happened to designers, you know, I've known about engineers, you know, engineer the car. And then they had designers design it so that they look unique. Now they all just look like bread boxes. A lot of that has to do with aerodynamics, from what I understand. And it's about...

This is like a big square box driving down the war. They're not even round. Well, you're right when it comes to the van. But, yeah, there are many different shapes right now, are there? No. Yeah, not many different colors either. Appreciate the call, Minor, Dave. 20 before 9.

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And maybe people have said, oh, I want more power. So they put a big one in, right? Yeah. But your duct system is actually a separate system, right? The air delivery system is, in a sense, a different entity from the equipment. And so you want to make sure that, one, the equipment is sized appropriately for the home, and two, that the duckwork is sized appropriately for the equipment. All right.

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This is not an April Fool's joke, but all the way through April 30th is when you're going to be doing it. And Energy Trust of Oregon, of course, still has those great rebates that you could probably tie into some of this. Isn't that the case? Yeah. All right. Absolutely true. Hey, anything else you wanted to add here before we take off other than change the filters for crying out loud? Change them, change them, change them.

How many times we got to do that? You knew what I was going to say. There's nothing more important that you can do for your system than changing the air filters regularly. And on many splits, a lot of people have many splits these days. Those are the high wall heads that you see oftentimes, like in hotel rooms and stuff. A lot of people have them in their homes now. There are washable filters on those air handlers. usually there's a little cabinet door.

You can pop that open and slide out the washable filter. Clean those because you can have water damage. Your condensation builds up in that fan coil. And if the filter's plugged and then you can have water running down your wall and it can be a significant problem. I'll bet you a lot of people, you're cleaning your filter. I'll bet you a lot of people don't clean those, those mini splits. They don't. And I try, you know, even when I go over to Friends House and whatnot and I see, you know, they have one on the wall, I just say, hey, you know, I don't mean to be rude.

but did you know there's a filter in there that can be washed? And it's a big deal. You can have gallons of water running down your wall. Oh, man. All right. That's it. The filter nag. The filter nag is a good thing to do.

Think about that, all right? All right. Real party killer. Randall over at Myadvancedair.com. Myadvancedair.com. Call 541-772-6866-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-9. Get your filters changed and find out how your system is doing. Thanks, Randall.

Good talk. Thank you, Bill. All right, 854. This is KMED. April marks 47.7, KMED. The Reverend Dave writes in this morning, Bill, if I remember correctly, as far as state elections go, the state has a lot of latitude, but I think you had to follow federal rules for federal elections. And yep, that's going to be the rub here, Dave. I'll give you an email of the day, sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson, Central Point Family Dentistry.

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Lauren, you wanted the way in on the gold standard that our Secretary of State and others have been talking about President Trump wanting to go. They need to protect Oregon's gold standard vote by mail. I got about a minute left in the show. What are you thinking about that? I guess I'd say if that's the gold standard, I don't want to have anything to do with the gold standard in the rest of my life. for real gold or elections. But mainly, your question came up about two hours ago when you said, if you agree with the president or if you agree with the state that we got a gold standard,

the only thing I had to say at that time I was out walking is if it has to do with Oregon and an elect and something going to court, then I know I agree with the president always because as soon as they start suing or going to court, you know it's a phony deal. All right. I appreciate the call. Lauren, great hearing from you, okay? Take care. Okay, have a great day. All right, you too. Now then. Conspiracy theory Thursday will be tomorrow,

and you may have noticed that there was a story that came out about the Charlie Kirk trial and that the bullet supposedly removed from the body, this according to the defense attorney, does not match the rifle. He's there claiming this. Is this true? What's he think? Well, I'm going to talk with Nils Grubilius, private detector from L.A., Mr. Maya. He is going to be talking with me tomorrow morning, 810.

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