Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine - Is it Safe to Eat This Plutonium?

Episode Date: June 7, 2022

We’re back with Sawbones Medical Questions! Justin acts as stand-in for the listeners while Dr. Sydnee answers questions about tall people getting COVID, eye goop, nose goop, labor organizing in the medical field, and corn in poop. This one’s for the Sawboners. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

Saw bones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion. It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil? We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth. You're worth it. that weird growth. You're worth it. Alright, talk is about books. One, two, one, of misguided medicine. for the mouth. Wow. Hello everybody and welcome to Saw Bones, a marital tour of Miss Guided Medicine.

I'm your co-host, Justin McAroy. I'm Sydney McAroy. You always try to add, like, make it a song. I mean, like, you're doing that a lot lately. I did a great temptation. There's a great temptation to make it a song. You're a hundred percent right. See, there's already, you're not hearing it

because we don't listen to our own theme song before we start recording every time Right, but you but that did just play You didn't just hear it, but it so it'd be like a song in a song you can't do a song in a song There is you're saying that there is already a theme song so I don't necessarily need to do another theme song right that makes perfect sense Like why would you follow a theme song with another theme song makes perfect sense? Honestly makes perfect that would be confusing why would you follow a theme song with another theme song? Makes perfect sense. Honestly, makes perfect sense. That would be confusing and disorienting for our audience.

Yeah, if there were two theme songs. Well, because then when you're in the midst of the second theme song, you have to start to dread like, is a third theme song? Is there a third theme song? A less capable, a third yet less capable theme song on the way. It would feel very like David S. Pumpkins, like singing or any more. Are you feel very like David S. Pumpkins singing. Are you ever singing David S. Pumpkins animated special that only you and I and our daughters had watched?

You can't even find it on streaming anymore. It's just we saved it on our Apple TV or something. It's become a Halloween tradition. And by Halloween tradition, I mean, we watch it the entire month of October and well, every other month of the year always Constantly because our children love it pretty much verbatim. It's funny. It's got some good lines anyway And so great and a great song. Can you guys recommend a great David S. Pumpkins base Halloween special?

That's for Justin. No, this is a we're gonna do your questions and answers everybody loves it when we do these and we love doing them And it's just fun. It's some, you know, temperatures going up, you know, everybody's out there living their lives. So we are going to take your questions and turn them out, come to like into wisdom, medical wisdom. Still not advice. No, not advice. Just like, the essence of weird medical questions are just like things you wander about, but aren't necessarily them, sometimes they're important for your own personal health, but sometimes it's just like a curiosity kind of thing. As always, if it's an actual, I am worried about my body and my health question, you should

ask your personal health care provider, not me, Sydney, the podcaster. So let's get into it. Do you want to read the question or? Yes, I want to read the question. Okay. Okay, I'll inhabit the list. We'll do it. Hi, I've been hearing a lot about we missed a few opportunities for COVID to become endemic.

Or the ones that's endemic were good, but I haven't actually seen anyone say what that means and what it looks like other than the big idea that endemic equals good. Do you think you guys might be able to talk about this? Thanks, Erica. So there has been a lot of talk about whether or not COVID has become endemic. I would say not, we're not quite there, but that is the direction that we're heading as opposed to, I think early in the pandemic, there was this idea that a lot of people had that we were going to like pandemic, there was this idea that a lot of people had that we were going to like vaccinate our way out of it and it would go away. And that's not, that is not going to happen. Right. COVID is not going to go away. People are going to continue to get COVID.

Our hopes moving forward is that, and this is when people talk about something becoming endemic, what they're saying is that it will consistently be present. That's an endemic disease is always there within a certain region or population or whatever, but it's more predictable because we know it's coming, like we get the flu every year. Right. You know, in a lot of parts of the world, indemnity, we talk about malaria, indemnity, I don't remember that word being in Demick

Malaria is in Demick to certain parts of the world So it's predictable that people are going to get malaria We know about we know about how many people on average are getting something right so what that allows us to do or several things one We can focus on effective treatments and like you and continuing to evolve vaccines as needed, like we've seen with influenza. And two, it helps to keep hospitals and healthcare facilities from being overwhelmed if you know the times of year and what to predict and what to expect in those sorts of things. In a perfect situation, this would also motivate masking at appropriate times, you know, depending

on what the levels are, you know, of COVID in the population at that moment or the situation in the indoor versus outdoor. And it would also encourage more people to get vaccinated so that when inevitably you do get COVID, hopefully, it's not as bad. And to protect people who, for whatever reason, cannot get vaccinated or the vaccines don't work. That is sort of the direction we're moving. Levels are high right now in a lot of places here in Cabal County.

I don't know if you know that, Justin. Thanks. I didn't before, but it's you wouldn't you wouldn't know. If you left the house. There is no indicators from anybody's behaviors or anything that the levels are high. You don't really see masks ever anymore here. Well, I mean, I work in healthcare. So I see masks all the time in the situations I work. I need a brand, but no, you're right outside of outside of my workplaces.

There really aren't here. But that would be what we're moving towards. We're not there. I think it's still really important to remember. So using no risk, preventative measures like masks, which are no risk whatsoever, is still really important depending on the level in your community and monitoring yourself using the test if you think you're sick like stay home Been seeing it pop up a lot like as we are face folks. I know this is a Confirmation bias, but I've been seeing a lot of folks on my my feed getting

Getting sick and I wouldn't say it's no risk because when I'm wearing a mask people miss out on half of The goods, you know what I mean? They're just getting the top half, very good. But it's not the full goods. We're not there yet. I would say that COVID being with us permanently, a lot of people were like, well, then we should just give up and go about our lives.

No, no, we shouldn't do that. But we should, how can we live with COVID while protecting everybody as best we should, how can we live with COVID while protecting everybody as best we can, but also continuing on our existence? I mean, that, there has to be a balance. It can't just be like, well, let's just throw our hands up in the air and I'll go get COVID at once. And super reminder, kids under five still can't have vaccinated.

So I should be coming soon. Well, there's not a question about that. But they're in Oh, and boosters, By the way, we should talk about that last. Yeah, yeah. Kids, five and up, five, me, a five to 12 can now get their boosters and should get their boosters. So do that. And hopefully by the end of this month,

there will be a vaccine for kids under five fingers crossed. Recently, while waiting in line at the grocery store, a stranger standing behind me told me that there have been studies done in India that show that humming releases nitrous oxide, which kills COVID. And people have been, people in India have been carrying their own COVID via humming. That is kind of just say wild story. Yet wilder just be like, Hey,

Hey, I'm a stranger. Excuse me. Can I tell you some wild stuff? I a stranger would like to tell you some wild thing. Obviously, this guy was being nonsense, but I was wondering about any potential theoretical curls of truth. What he was saying. Does humming release night's stock side, etc. Thanks Natalie. Okay, here's what's wild. So anytime I hear something like this, I don't just dismiss offhand, even though I know, okay, obviously, Humming doesn't cure COVID.

I know that, we all know that. We know that we don't have to be medical professionals to know Humming doesn't cure COVID. But. Mike, you're a gloomy day. When you hear that, you have to think somebody did something. This comes from something.

This isn't. Yeah, grain of truth there. Yes, there's something underneath. A grain of something. So, okay. I found. Yes, there's something underneath. Or grain of something. So, okay. I found some studies, specifically a Swedish study from 2002, that looked at nitrous oxide levels in the nose before and after humming. Do you, does humming release more nitrous oxide?

That's the first question. Is that true? Yes, it does. That is a fact. There are studies that have looked at the contents of your paranase or sinuses. You have several different, you have a couple different sinuses, right? You have a few different places, which are just like empty spots in your skull, which unfortunately can get infected sometimes. They measured the levels of nitrous oxide and found that if

you hum, you will increase those levels. Okay, what is the utility of that? Well, in that study, what they were saying is, so if humming causes this increase in nitrous oxide and also ventilation, like clearing, ventilating the sinuses, can you reduce the risk for sinusitis with this? Because nitrous oxide has been shown to prevent the replication of some viruses like coronavirus in a lab under those studies.

Lots of things do that, right? We've talked about this before. We have a great magnet that a listener sent us on a refrigerator that says, whenever somebody tells you that something kills cancer cells in a petri dish in a lab, remind them, so does a gun. Like, there are lots of things that can kill germs and bad things in laboratory settings that we can't necessarily translate to our human bodies, right? It's why we don't put bleach in our veins. Yes, I remember. So, can nitrous oxide be utilized to do this in the human body? There's no evidence right now that like there is a clinical effect that we can expect.

Yes, nitrous oxide might prevent the replication of coronavirus in a lab. What does that mean in the human body? We don't know. They've tried, in terms of prevention, I couldn't find anything that really looked into it. That's a hard thing to say, right? Like, hum all day and we'll see who gets COVID. I mean, that's a wild study to do.

So I don't have any evidence that like doing that would prevent COVID in real life. Now as a treatment, they've tried it. They have tried during the pandemic in different places to give patients this, but and usually these were like very very sick ICU on the ventilator patients were given nitrous oxide to see if it would improve their rate of survival and inconsistent. And a lot of the times it's like you're trying, especially during the height of the pandemic, if something was pretty low risk and you were trying it, you weren't just

going to try it and want like try it and everybody who you thought was going to die anyway was sort of a, I mean, you saw this. Are you saying I was, is it fair to say then that it's not good? H. Humming? No, I don't think humming would hurt. I think that one author wrote in the absence of effective treatments or vaccines, humming could be a reasonable thing to do. So if you've got nothing else, I guess, hum, which is, I don't know if this is like just a philosophy on life.

But no, humming, we have no definitive evidence in any way that humming prevents COVID. There is a grain of truth in there about humming and nitrous oxide and nitrous oxide and what it can do to viruses and labs. So there is some sort of theoretical basis for it. Right. But to just say that everybody can walk around humming

and they won't get COVID, no. But, no. No. But, if you have COVID, I mean, if you want a hum, hum, hum, couldn't heart to hum, it might actually be a nice little. If you want to hum out, hum out. Is that it? I don't think that works as well, sing. I had another question for you. Yeah.

I heard that the acne medication acutane turns your bones green, and this would only be visible upon autopsy. Obviously, that's from Adam. So I, you know, it's funny. I took acutane as a teenager. I'm familiar with acutane. It has, there are a lot of reasons

to be careful with acutane. It has a lot of dangerous side effects in some patients. You absolutely cannot take it if you are pregnant or could become pregnant or, well, if you need to take precautions not to get pregnant while you're on it. Anyway, there are lots of risks with acutane. I had not heard of this one. So I looked into it. I couldn't find anything linked to acutane, the acne medication.

This is where I think there there was a mix up. So there was another medication that we do use for acne sometimes, it's an antibiotic. It's a form of doxycycline, which is in the class of antibiotics, the tetracycline. And it's called minocycline. Minocycline can turn your bones green. Okay.

So what I'm thinking is that this was the mix up, this was the acne medication that yeah, it can in fact do that. Tetracycling can turn them yellow. Minicling can turn them a sort of green shade. Okay. And it has to do with the way it actually is taken up and binds to the bones.

This is why for some for children, you have to be careful with these kinds of medications because they can have permanent tooth discoloration. And you'll see some people have that. Like it took us a while to figure out, so you'll see some adults who have some permanent tooth discoloration or gum discoloration, and it's from being exposed

to these tetracycline class of antibiotics. That's wild. Early on, yeah. That's wild. Early on, yeah. That's wild. So it can turn, menacecycling can turn bones green, tetracycling can turn the mellow. Menacecycling is used for acne.

I think that's where that came from. As far as I know, acutane with all of its other risks, this is not one of them. Hello, doctors, Sidney and Justin. Thank you. My boyfriend is physically unable to sit cross-legged because cross-Applesus.

I think it's because he doesn't stretch enough and that he should be able to, if he just stretches once in a while, he will not try it. He thinks it's genetic and he'll never be able to do it. His brother and father can also not sit this way. It's actually common to not be able to sit cross-legged, even if you stretch.

That's from, best regards from Agnes and Malaysia. I don't know, I thought this was a really interesting question. I don't know of any reason genetically. Outside of, obviously there are sort of like, there are syndromes, genetic syndromes that can involve lots of different clinical manifestation signs and symptoms, and among them may be certain physical limitations.

But it wouldn't be just this. You know what I mean? There's not a genetic syndrome that says you cannot cross-legged, but that is the only issue related to it. So outside of those sorts of things, this is a common problem. As I started looking into it, I found that a lot of people ask this question, why can't I sit cross-legged anymore?

Or I have so much trouble sitting cross-legged, or they're being told to do something like yoga or some sort of exercise stretching kind of program, and part of it is sitting cross-legged and they can't do it. It's because there are multiple parts of the leg and hip that are involved in sitting cross-legged and they can't do it. It's because there are multiple parts of the leg and hip that are involved in sitting cross-legged, and if any of those parts are having issues, it can be more difficult. So it's like a complex thing we do.

Sitting cross-legged is a complex physical action. So if you have problems with your hips, like weakness in your hips, or if you have inflammatory conditions in your hips, it can prevent you from sitting cross-legged. Obviously, if you have knee issues, it can be weak glutes, your butt muscles. Not me.

If you haven't been working your glutes. If your thighs are weak, there are lots of different reasons that you might have trouble sitting cross-legged. I guess it sort of comes down to flexibility. Yes. But it should be something that you might have trouble sitting cross-legged. I mean, I guess it sort of comes down to flexibility. Yeah. Yes. But it should be something that you can, especially if you go to a physical therapist

that they could assess you and help you work on if it was a concern. Can we just keep living your life? Or you just don't sit cross-legged. But as far as I know, there isn't a specific genetic condition that only causes this issue. Okay. There it is. Uh, I tell you what, do you want to break? Yeah, that sounds good.

Let's go to the Belly Department. Let's go. The medicines, the medicines that I skill at my cause for the mouth. Hi, I'm Dan McCoy. I'm Stuart Wellington. And I'm Elliot Kalen. And the three of us host the Flop House. It's a podcast where we watch a new bad movie and then we talk about it.

Dan, you say it's hosted by the three of us. We've had a lot of great guest co-hosts like Gillian Flynn, Jumel Bowie, John Hodgman, Jessica Williams, White Synacto, Bob Braggs, Josh Nottelman, Roman Mars. Yeah, and you said new movies. But what about the time he didn't meet all's to? Okay, okay, yeah. Sometimes we do older movies and sometimes we have guests, but mostly it's about us talking about

like recent bad movies. And don't forget about the ones where I made you do a role-playing game where you played cartoon dogs. All right, yeah, but... Shouldn't a promo be a really simple explanation about what our show is about? So what's the show about, Dan? What's it about?

What's it about? What's it about? It's about friendship, alright? It's about our friendship and how we love each other. The flop house. It's a podcast mostly about bad movies, on Maximum Fun. Do you sometimes wonder what ever happened to the kids at your school who really loved Star Trek? You might remember a kid like me, the one who read the Star Trek novels and built starship models. I also took music classes to avoid taking gym classes that required sharing after,

but I don't see what that really has to do with. Or a kid like me. I introduced myself to kids at my summer camp one year as Wesley. But when the school year started and some of those kids were in my new class, I actually had to explain to my friends that I had tried to take on the identity of my favorite Star Trek character. Shame haunts me to this day! I'm sure some of those Star Trek fans from your childhood grew up to have interesting and productive lives, but we ended up being podcasters. On the greatest discovery, you'll hear what happens to two lifelong Star Trek fans who didn't grow up to be great people. They just grew up to be people who love jokes as much as they love Trek. So listen to our new episodes every week on MaximumFund.org or wherever

you get your podcasts. Welcome back. Hi, unfortunately I have a question about poop. Why do some people poop out whole corn kernels after eating corn? People have been eating corn for thousands of years. So shouldn't everyone be able to digest it? Um, and they say thanks. Whoever writes this in, um, is it? Can I guess it's just that you got to chew it? You got to chew it. Yes, you do need to chew it, but that's not from your tummy. Yeah. Well, you do have to chew it, but can your body break it all down? Yeah. No you have to chew it. Well, you do have to chew it. I've got to chew it. But can your body break it all down? Yeah, no problem. No.

Oops. Corn is high in cellulose. Oh. Cellulose is a form of insoluble fiber. Your body cannot break that down. It cannot digest that. But it breaks down all the other stuff in corn. So that's why we still get stuff from corn.

There are still things in corn that are. Something out of corn. Yeah, you can still get something stuff from corn. There are still things in corn that are... Something that I corn. Yeah, you can still get something out of corn. Even though we don't actually digest the cellulose, and like you said, cellulose is an important part of plant structure and protection and all that kind of stuff, which is why plants continue to have cellulose despite our inability to digest them.

If you chew it longer, you can access more nutrients, so there is some truth there. Like if you break down more of the cell walls, then you can. Chew, chew, chew, you get to 22. That's my thing. There is a way of preparing corn. I found this corn. I found this Nix damalization. Nix damalization. Wow. And you soak the corn in lime. Oh, it breaks it down. These acidity breaks it down. And then you can actually enhance how much it is digestible if you go through that process. And that is used like specifically for like corn meal, tortillas, tamales, those sorts of products made out of corn. Oh, that's interesting.

And you, I have, I, when we, when we were trying to figure out how to make our apos, I've, I, I stumbled across like looking for the right product that had been through this processing or hadn't or whatever, like the differences and all this kind of stuff. But that is why that's part of it. But it does make it more digestible. So, but yeah, that's why, so no, you can't break down the cellulose, so that's why you're going to see something in your poop. But if you chew it more, you won't see so much.

It is. Even both of you. Hi, Sydney and Justin. I was wondering if there's any sort of correlation between height and catching air porn illnesses. On 6-5, so my head is well above the zone where most folks cough and sneeze. I know it wouldn't matter if I'm in a room or in close space for a while, but my less likely to catch a cold when someone doesn't cover their sneeze on the street. Love the show, Chris, they them. Um, you know, I had never considered if height would have a diff would would make an impact.

And so, but I assumed someone would have done the study. I couldn't find a study. It's so rare that when someone asks the question or if I think of a question that somebody out there hasn't already said, oh, I'm going to get some money and do that study. It has to be now logically speaking, it has to be better. It has to be at least some monarch come better This is no this is really conflicting through COVID There were articles published where they did okay Nobody obviously is going to in order to do this properly what you'd have to do is have a

population of people above a certain height and below a certain height, and expose them via sneezing or something in a room and see how many people get an illness, right? Yeah, it would be quite a production, just so at the end of it, you'd be like, well, there you have it. I guess tall people don't get germs as bad.

Right, nobody's gonna do that. So like, you have to do them retrospectively and look at like the heights of people who got different illness. It's hard to do. It's a tough study, right? This is tough. But what they there was a suggestion during the pandemic at one point that tall people were actually more likely to get COVID. Nobody knew. Okay. But then I saw some articles that suggested that no, actually, tall people are less likely to get COVID. I don't think anybody knows is the point.

Right now, I don't think we have any definitive correlation between your likelihood of getting some sort of respiratory illness and your height. Right now, I have no- That was a long walk around for you to say, I don't know. Well, it's interesting because there are people who have written about this. So I can see where like, you might, like if you, if you Google it and start reading,

you'll find articles where people are like, oh my gosh, tall people got COVID so much more. Other people are like, no, no, no, no, no, it was sure people who got COVID more. Do you remember that that first few months of COVID where it's like every week, you'd hear a different like,

here's the new thing anyway? I think the thing is it depends on the size of the droplet would be my other thing. You don't need large respiratory droplets to transmit COVID because it's airborne and so height would play less of a factor. Whereas if you're talking about something that is only transmitted through large respiratory droplets, which won't go very far before they drop, right? Like if they are expelled from your nose because they're heavier, they're gonna drop faster. Mm-hmm. Then that wouldn't, and some illnesses are transmitted that way.

So, but I mean, again, I don't, I don't, I don't know. Um, my boogers and snot have recently turned fluorescent green as yellow, like bright lime green with a 10-jb yellow and ROPake. I'm not, this is grossing me out. Okay, come on Justin, get it together. This is for the salt boners.

I'm not sick and nothing else about them is different. Am I dying and then they attached a photo of a color. Oh. It was a color square. Okay. Yes. And then they did not, this email writer did not want their name mentioned because then everybody wouldn't know about their bookers.

I understand. No, and they did not send me a picture of a book or they sent me a picture of a color. I just wanted to, this is always an important thing to return to because a lot of people will associate the color of their snotterbuggers with like, uh-oh and infection. And certainly if you do have some sort of infection, you can see a change in the color of your mucus because there's white blood cells that are there

to attack things and that changes the consistency in color of your mucus. So yes, that can happen. However, it can also happen if it's more concentrated. So sometimes it's clearing out invaders and that's why blood cells doing that. Sometimes it has to do with concentration because you're dehydrated. So your mucus will get thicker and darker if you're not drinking enough fluids. Okay. So increase the hydration.

Increasing hydration sometimes can change that. So yeah. My wife was recently gifted a small about the size of a fly. I can't think anything other than bugs. I don't know why. Piece of plutonium that their father got from nuclear testing site, knowing me well, they both stressed that I cannot eat

this piece of plutonium. I know I probably shouldn't eat it, but can I, knowing me well, they both stressed that I cannot eat this piece of plutonium. I know I probably shouldn't eat it, but can I, when I survive, when I have lasting effects, or can I eat this tiny radiation rock? Friend, can I just say real quick, I don't know how long you've been listening to our show, but in what reality did you expect my wife to send me some of my macaroni to be like,

yeah, go ahead and pop that bad boy in. You know you're not gonna get permission here. Oh, it's coming from pollution. Yeah, let me, let me preface whatever else I say with do not eat the plutonium. I'm gonna go hog wild, say most rocks. She would say don't eat it. There, yeah.

Yeah, let me generally, but don't eat the plutonium. If what we're talking about is, will this kill you? I mean, it really depends on how much plutonium it is. What happens is when plutonium gets in your body, it can get into your bones, it can become part of your liver, like, and it stays there for decades. It doesn't go away. Like it's there, part of you, for maybe your entire life, right? And because it's there, emitting radiation for decades, it can cause cancer.

And sometimes immune system problems and just generally, it's not good to be exposed to radiation. Exactly like, would that much do that to you? It's hard to say it has to do with how much radiation it's emitting, which you can measure, and they're acceptable levels. You can look up all this. They're acceptable levels of radiation that you can be exposed to through your life.

That's really important for people who work in radiology. You need to know how much radiation you can be exposed to safely. So I don't know that this fly sized piece of plutonium would do this to you, but I don't know that it won't. So don't eat the plutonium. Don't eat plutonium. We're all gonna get exposed to radiation in our lives. Okay, I'm not seek out. I'm cutting you off. Hey, I was wondering how medical, especially hospital staff strike, for retail it seems is simple to organize a mass walkout for everyone to quit because someone is unjustly fired. But in hospital, you can't just do that. Can you? Do you guys even have the option to strike? Is there something you can do to

make sure your paracetions are cared for? Et cetera. So this is the question striking in the medical field. Hope you guys are staying healthy and safe, gale. I thought it was interesting because we've had strikes here at our hospital. Um, recently it was not the so first of all, I don't know in this country. I there are a few unionized residency programs. I think in New York. But for the most part doctors are not part of any sort of organized Anything the AMA does not count. We're not we would not we have no way to strike Exactly and they do not speak for all of us There would be no organizational structure for doctors to strike so I've certainly never seen that happen I'm not saying it hasn't but like I that is not gonna be common

doctors to strike, so I've certainly never seen that happen. I'm not saying it hasn't, but that is not going to be common. Certainly, other healthcare workers like nurses and other staff within the hospital definitely have unions and can go on strike and do. This happened recently at our local hospital. It was extremely difficult. It was basically the impetus was on the administration to figure something out because they didn't figure it out first by negotiating fair contracts. So, they had to hire a ton of temporary travel positions and that kind of thing to fill

a lot of vacancies. They know that the strike will come, right? I mean, part of it is that they're given warning for weeks and weeks and weeks. Yeah. So you know you have to have a plan in place. Yes. And so there so that the plan gets in place to bring on temporary staff. And then honestly like administrators were going around emptying trash and stuff and carrying laundry around. Inspiring. No. No. And then a lot of stuff slows down. A lot of stuff slows down a lot is the truth. It was interesting. I went when I was working at a hospital in Malawi. I saw a strike happen. And it was like a soft strike. It's like a basically that they didn't want to, the nursing

staff didn't want to leave the patients uncared for, but they also did want to get the message across. So it was like, they would come in, like, just a lot of people would call in. So there would still be people there, and you could still take care of the patients, but it would move a lot slower, and it would be very frustrating for administration. So I thought that was kind of a cool message to send. We're going to take care of the patients, but we're going to make your life hard until you pay us fair wages and all the different things that they were asking for.

Anyway, yeah, that is how strikes happen. It usually is because there's a lot of forewarning given, and then you can transfer patients to other hospitals or bring in travel nurses or whatever you need to do to try to fill those vacancies. Well, it'd be better as if we've just paid everybody a fair wage and gave them good benefits and made their job enjoyable to have because it provides for their family and their life

that they don't strike. Yeah, it would be great. What about that? That's a better plan. That applies to all industries, I think. My sister recently had some stomach ulcers that sent me down a rabbit hole of googling a syd to the it and water enhancers

and energy drinks. It came across some information who could save its reliable. That listed the pH levels of different soft drinks, energy drinks, and water enhancers. You ever find those websites that's like, who is doing that? Who made this big list of caffeine content and diet students? Anyway, the information I got listed, some drinks at a pH of 3.5.

This is the same pH range as stomach acid. Well, it's been dubious of the way information is presented. And one to know, does a pH level necessarily represent the acid power of something? Can I drink a soda and be fine? But I have vomited before at the stomach acid burn my throat, so what exactly is going on here? It's so I did find you can find like studies where they've they list the pH of different beverages that are legit like these are real and this was the specific study that I found was done to look at damaging dentition like how what acid level will damage teeth? Okay.

And can we connect like drinking sodas and stuff like that with tooth damage? So it was done on behalf of the dental profession. But either way, it is true. There are a lot of beverages we drink that have extremely low pHs, not just sodas, which do. They're down in the two point. I have this big list in front of me. Oh, there's my diet, Dr. Pepper. It's 3.2. Coke, cherry zero is 2.9, 3. Caffeine-free coke is 2.34. These are very low pHs, by the way. That means more acidic, lower the number, the more acidic, the higher the number, the more alkaline. But so, by the way, is lemon juice, as you may imagine, incredibly acidic, and we can

drink that. Yeah. Stomach acid. We don't really. Well, but if you did, it wouldn't kill you. That's true. Yeah. Everybody that the miracle berries, folks, get some miracle berries and try as well.

Stomach acid is actually a little lower than what you mentioned. That 3.5 is on the high end of the pH of stomach acid. It can be as low as 1.5. So, which can account for differences in like, if you vomit and it hurts. The other thing I will say is like, when you vomit, lots of stuff is coming up, you're a softwagus in the wrong direction. There are lots of reasons it burns other than just the stomach acid,

whereas when you're sipping small amounts of a beverage, you're, you know, it's not going to hurt. But the point is, yes, the pH does mean the acid power of something. I think what you got to take into context is like our body's handle acid pretty well. We have a lot of mechanisms to balance out acidic things and balance out alkaline things. So you can drink these beverages and they won't necessarily do harm. Now obviously, if you do have something like ulcers where your stomach lining is more sensitive,

you wanna be more careful with acidic beverages and they do impact addition. They can damage your teeth. So, you're just guessing there because you don't know anything about teeth. I read this study by Dentist who told me. So I wouldn't have known anything about teeth except the dentist told me.

What's up with the goop in your eyes? My eyes crudid goop. It seems to grab on a hair and other particulate in my eye and tracks in the inner corner. What is that stuff? That's from McKinsey. Do you know what the eye goop sleep? I don't call it sleep.

Yeah. In West Virginia, I don't know if that's what everybody calls it. I, well, so I've heard people call it eye boogers. I can't, I know, I don't like that. So I call it sleep. You got some sleep in your eye or crusties. Custies.

Custies. It's mucus, dead skin cells, and oil. And then tears that you cried overnight that sort of crushed it in there too. So it's the Sandman's sand. Stop. Okay, I heard it. Hey folks, thanks so much for listening to our podcast.

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