Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 308 - El Crappo

Episode Date: April 19, 2018

The crew discuss nuts that are passed through a goat GI tract before ingestion, cutting board safety, magic meat labels, lumbar pain, dead bugs and more! Please visit STUFF.DOCTORSTEVE.COM simplyherbals.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's not just, you know, it's not a bullshit modality, which is one of the reasons why he's here because, you know, I respect what he does. And it is underappreciated by the medical profession. No question about that. If they just want to see the data, I can send them a pile, reams of good data that shows that, you know, for certain things it's good. The other thing, simply herbal sinus rents, absolutely my favorite thing. and yeah go ahead taste and and the allergy well that's where i was that's where i was going so those were the two things i couldn't give him shit about yes hooray so the other day my allergies were just destroying me and i had taken singular i was getting ready to take some uh over-the-counter

allegra when dr scott pulled out of his magic bag some stuff called nasal formula or something what is it's xanthium it tastes like shit oh it is no it tastes lovely you know what it tastes like it tastes like it tastes like beef bullion like if you were putting a bullion cube in your on your tongue that's kind of what it tastes i would accept that because i'm going to tell you a story about tasting like shit in a minute okay okay so um yeah and it it wasn't my cooking right no it's okay that's fine then you can talk about it so is that spray different from this spray no this isn't a spray this is a pill it's a tablet and it's just like every other dang thing he has you know from tcm they've thrown in the kitchen sink

there's got to be a hundred you know 50 different different ingredients in there you're bound to hit something exactly and I understand 4,000 years ago it's different it's different approach you had it just through the if it's not broke don't shit in and if it worked then you just left it alone and I understand that whereas we would go oh let's put this in an HPLC column

and try to which is high pressure liquid chromatography and try to get each molecule to come out of there and, you know, they'll all come out at different times because of their molecular weight. And then you start giving them each one of those little tubes that's got a peek in it to people until you find the one that causes the effect. Well, you know what's if it's a combination of things? Then it makes it, if you've got a hundred different things in there, it's a hundred times a hundred combinations of just two, you know? And much less, what if it requires three of these things to do? Some one's anti-inflammatory, one's anti-harmatory, who knows?

So I understand why they do it that way. But I will have to tell you within an hour, and this is an N-of-1, an anecdotal evidence, but I was quite amazed at how much better I felt. It helped me a lot, too. So now we have an N-of-2. So that would be a fun one to do an actual double-blind placebo-controlled study. You'd have to find some pills that taste like shit, but don't have any activity. It smell like shit, too.

Yeah, and, yeah, it smelled like beef, on and don't have any active ingredients and then that because you know why not um you guys want legitimacy maybe you don't need it people are going to come flock to you anyway because you're alternative but um and he's got a man bun under the radar that's right to lay in low yeah so and i and i get that but that would be one where i really believe there is some effect of this stuff this is not bullshit no it's a great it's a great formula yeah So anyway, hey, real quick, we need to say hello to all the people watching us live right now because they were saying to make sure we give them a little shout out to our YouTube people.

Shout out, shout out. Yeah, so we appreciate they've been having some good questions and stuff. Well, how come I don't ever hear these questions? Because I answer them. Oh, you're just answering them? That's what you're doing when you're over there typing. You know we're doing a radio show, right? And you could bring those to the show.

I will. Say it out loud. If there's a good one, I promise. Hey, real quick. This isn't pal-talk where you're just, where you're typing to the, to the women that are taking their tops off, like certain radio hosts. I'll tell you the last thing I wrote, they were. They were asking what kind of doctor you were, and somebody said... One of their goddamn business. Well, somebody said MD, and I said, yeah, the MD stands for a million-dollar doctor.

There you go. There you go. A bill? What did you say? Give yourself a bill. There you go. Real quickly, those, you know, those herbs, a lot of those herbs do have a real earthy flavor, so it's not uncommon. And another thing, the reason that is because we don't put any kind of sweeteners or artificial stuff.

Right, I get that. Well, can't you? You just have to kind of, well, you can, but it kind of yucky. Take it with juice. You just get over it, hold your nose, swallow fast. It worked. But when Steve took it, I was like, what the hell is this? Yeah, she could smell it.

She could smell it from 10 feet away. When I took it, I was like, boy, that tastes like shite. Yeah. But it worked. Have you heard my story about the... Yeah, so tell us the, you were going to tell us the story about smelling like shit. I'll make her real quick, real quick. When I was in school, on Mondays, we had herb clinics.

So every single formula we prescribed, we had to make from scratch. That's cool. Everything. And it was horrible. I had to do that in pottery. I had to make the glazes. Everything, yeah. Well, you've got to know what's going in it.

You do. So one of the forms I picked for this lady, it had his stomach egg, had flying squirrel feces in it. Oh, my God. Dried flying squirrel feces. Wow. Yep, because it was, well, I'll get to that. So I go in to see, I go in to see the, you know, our preceptor, and she was the head of the herbal medicine department.

And I asked her about it, and she goes, well, you put it in the formula. And I said, well, how can you put flying squirrel feces in a formula? And she goes, you double bag it. I went, okay. So I double bagged it. I gave it to the lady. She came back in a week. She goes, you know what?

My stomach has not hurt since I took that formula. And I said, that's wonderful. I said, and then she goes, but you know what, that stuff tasted like shit. Oh, no. And I looked and I went, well, ma'am, here's the good news. You don't have to take that anymore if your stomach doesn't get. She ate it? Was she supposed to make a tea out of it?

No, no, it's a tea, yeah. But she ate it? No, no, it's a tea. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah, so what you do is I made all these herbs in a tea bag. Because we had people eat Kentucky jelly before. No, yeah, no, those didn't. K-Y jelly.

We put all the ingredients. I don't care if it was a dried snake or, or, or, you know. you know, whatever it is. You put them in a tea bag and you have like three or four or five tea bags, however many days you're going to give them the formula. And you give them this brown bag full of all their herbs, and they take it home and make the tea. Oh, I see.

Yeah, the problem is with that is just. But the flying squirrel feces, surely it was dried. It was a little wet pellets right out of the squirrel's ass. Oh, yeah. But literally, yeah, she was better in two days. She had like acute gastritis or something. What are flying squirrels eat? Yeah, that's what I was going to ask.

You know, why did they use flying squirrel feces and not some other feces from some other rod? It's like that one really expensive coffee bean or whatever it is that the goats climb up in the trees and eat the nuts out of the trees and shit it out of the trees and they have to. What? Have you seen, yeah. I'll look it up. I'll find it for you. They shit it out and then they collect it. And then they collect it.

Get out of here. Because I guess the goat's stomach helps to break the shell of this nut or whatever the head is. Yeah. Yeah, my guess is... Goats are ruminant, so they've got four stomachs and they've got enzymes that can break down sugars that we can't, particularly cellulose. Right. And if you're in a third world country and you don't have fancy machines to break shells and stuff, I guess you finally... You follow goats.

With a little... With a little bag. With a zip-block. You're following this goat around waiting for it to shit into your bag. That's right. That's when you look at a lady diagnosed, like, God, you're going to have to get all that. My back's killing me. Go pick him up for us, will you?

Look that up. I want to know a little bit more about that. Yeah, so that's a true story. But, you know, the thing is, those are, some of them are pretty pungent or, you know, acrid. And so they can have some pretty strong smells and taste. But if you can get over that, they're pretty good. Yeah. You know.

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I'm giving you tons of notice. I want to see a lot of you guys show up to this. Get all your friends. It's free. And, you know, maybe we'll have a party after it. It's a Thursday night, which kind of sucks. So it won't be much of a party, but we'll have a little party at one of the local resorts or something afterward. Yeah, let's do that.

So I think that would be a lot of fun. So try to come to that. I'm doing, I say I, we are doing less of the sort of staged events like the Bobby Kelly thing. Because just frankly, it about killed me worrying about it. I lost a lot of sleep. And I was not satisfied until it was over and the comic was on the plane. and it just wasn't fun. I don't mind doing it some more.

You know, we've got some big ones that have offered to come, but we just need a better venue. And we've got a better venue. We'll do it. And, but this, all I, all we have to do is get the, get him there. Because we're just, we're booking it, but somebody else is running it. And they'll have craft beer, food trucks, and comedy. And I think Magic Mike and I are going to, and.

are going to play. And if Scott will learn his instrument, he might get to play, too. Oh. Yeah. So there you go. I've got to learn my instrument first. But anyway, we're going to, it'll be a fun night, and it's free. All right.

Are you ready for this? Hey, real quick. Are you going to take a call? Yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. It doesn't matter. So these are tree goats in their, what they do is they eat this argon fruit.

And they eat the fruit, and they shit out the nuts, and they collect these nuts. And that's what they make, like, the Moroccan oil that you put in your hair in argon oil. Oh, okay. So it wasn't caught. Yeah, I thought it was coffee, but I'm wrong. It was, it was a, okay, I was going to say. I don't know that I'm a better. The coffee's a better story, though.

I don't want to drink coffee that's been passed through a goat's colon. Oh, yeah. That's good for you. We'd rather have it soaked in arsenic. Lots of probiotics. How about that? Pretty cool, huh? Very interesting.

All right. Let's take a few calls. Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. We've got Area Code 408. He's, Tacey, you'll enjoy this because he's been wanting to talk to you. Area Code 408, you're on Weird Medicine.

Hey, Scott and Steve and Tacey and Lady Die. How's it going? Can you hear me? Yeah, man. How are you? Doing well. So you're on Larry Calvin Live. I wanted to ask you one question. When you're preparing Blue Apron meals, should you be cutting on a piece of wood? Should you be cutting on a piece of plastic, maybe a piece of bamboo?

who how important is the board okay i know what's coming next but i'll um play along i'll explain so yeah we use it we use plastic because uh it's less likely to uh get crevices in it that will um harbor harbor thank you harbor bacteria i was waiting for the romone i was assuming a romone was coming no as okay yeah no okay plastic or glass glass is rough because um it'll dull your knives, but a good plastic board is perfect, I think. What do you think, Tase? I agree. I like wood. Now, I know a lot of people love their wood, and if it's finished properly, it's perfectly safe. But, you know, when you start getting cracks in it, you can't get the food particles out of there. You can't get the bacteria out. And I'm just a weird germ freak in that

regard. I am an metophobe, which means I have an irrational fear of vomiting. And Dan Natterman would say there's nothing irrational about it because he is also an emetophobe. And so I'm weird about foodborne illness. But, you know, it doesn't go that far. It's just I would prefer to use a plastic cutting board. Did you really want to know that? I was seriously I thought there was a joke coming. Waiting for the Ramon. No. No, there's no Ramon there. Okay. I'd be nice. I asked you if you wanted a Ramon an email and you said no, so I just, I'd minded my

peas and cues, but yeah, it's important to, it's important to prepare food properly. Otherwise, you'll have to remodel an entire house after you overflow somebody's toilet. Linger longer. Yeah, that's the old magic, Mike, whose new name is L. Crapo. Yes. Yeah, since we found it. a new magic mic that actually is magic so but yeah yeah very good i did have one scientific yeah go him one one scientific question if that's okay uh real quick um how uh with ATP energy does that travel

through the bloodstream like how integral is uh blood to the process of ATP getting to the muscles yeah that's ATP uh it's a denocene triphosphate and it's a way that uh it's sort of the currency that the body uses for energy. So, and there's a whole cycle where this stuff, you've got the NAD and NAD and NADP and then ATP, and this is a way that you can exchange units of energy from one cell to another, and that's mostly intracellular. I don't think, so, for example, if you ate a bunch of ATP, wouldn't do anything. I'm sure it would be broken down by the digestive tract.

if you injected it, you know, I don't think you'd have any sort of saliatory effects from that that I'm aware of. So it really is intracellular. It's produced in the cells and it's used in the cells. I'm not aware of any use of like ATP supplementation or anything. Now, there is a vitamin B3 supplement that I'm getting kind of interested in. That's called nicotinamide ribicide. And it has some really interesting anti-AIDS.

Aging data, not great data yet, but there are some good studies that are being done right now. So stay tuned on that one. If we can make a firm judgment on it, I will definitely announce it to you guys. But it's supposed to decrease your blood pressure and do a lot of things to enhance energy use in the cells. Who knows? I always hate hearing that kind of stuff because that sounds like snake oil to me. but the data that they have on truly measurable endpoints so far looks decent. So I'll let you know on that.

Anyway, that help? Okay. Yep. Thank you so much. Okay, buddy. I love you guys. Have a good day. And you can always Ramon or Chip us.

Don't worry about it. I was just fucking with you when you asked. All right. All right. Okay. Romone. Get this guy off the phone already. Ramon.

See you. There he go. Steve from Yellowstone, that used to be my favorite, my favorite thing. Oh, they'd have some guest on, and all of a sudden, Opie would say, well, Steve from Yellowstone, and you knew Jim had walked out, and he was going to remone the shit out of these people. Long story. That's a real linger longer. Goes back to 2007. Anyway.

Hey, Steve. Yep. I found an article that actually would be pertinent to this conversation. Okay, very good. And it's from Science Daily. They have a new patch. A good website. the way for science news.

Yeah, this is a new transparent patch to detect dangerous food-borne threats. So it's supposed to take the place of, like, the expiration or best-by dates. They're going to start putting these patches because they're really easy and cheap to make on foods. So what are they detecting, like, E. coli and stuff like that? Yeah. That's cool. Really? And it's a college up in Canada that's doing it.

It is. Yeah, here we go. McMasters. Transparent patch to detect dangerous food-borne threats. So what things were they looking for? Well, it's at meat. Well, it just says food-borne pathogens. It's got a chickless deria, you would think.

E. coli salmonella. Ecoli, salmonella, yeah. Well, how about that? I wonder how that works. I can, it says here if a pathogen is present in the food or drink inside the package, it would trigger a signal in the packaging that can be read by a smartphone. A smartphone app, yeah. Wow.

test itself does not affect the contents of the pack. So I guess the only bad part is it doesn't tell you when it's bad. It just tells you if it's bad, is my assumption. Foodborne pathogens result in approximately 600 million illnesses in the worldwide and 420,000 deaths a year. And 30% of those are children five years old and younger. And I'm assuming they're including waterborne illnesses and that. so you're looking at things like cholera and stuff like that as well. And it's called a Sentinel, let me see, signaling technology for the food test was developed in the McMaster's labs.

Okay, it doesn't matter. Yeah, mass producing such a patch would be fairly cheap and simple. The molecules that detect food pathogens can be printed onto the test material. Wow, that's cool. You know, I would love to have it. Yeah, because I worry a lot, even if it says best buy. You still can look at it and think. But you know what I've heard, and someone that's an expert in chicken handling, we had a resident that had a Ph.D. in food science.

And she was funny because she knew so much about foodborne illness. All she would eat were chicken fingers because it was the only thing that she was sure that they cooked enough. So it kind of made her weird on her food habits because she would eat. She didn't trust anything anybody made. But my understanding is that the vast majority of raw chicken in this country already has salmonella in it. And that's why, you know, we don't eat raw chicken and it has to be cooked to 160 degrees if you're going to, you know, kill all the bacteria. Or 130 degrees in a suede for 90 minutes, you know, and hold it at that temperature. Basically, you're pasteurizing it.

So you can kill it with cooking. Oh, yes. Yes, absolutely. So that's why you always want to cook poultry to an internal temperature of 160 if you're doing, you know, cooking it rapidly. And just investing in a food thermometer, I feel a lot better since I bought my food thermometer, you know, 20 years ago. And I just shove it in there and make sure that it's come up to temperature. Suvied sort of threw a monkey wrench in that. And for people who don't know, suveed cooking is where you vacuum seal something and then cook it in a surf. circulating water bath at a much lower temperature.

And so you can cook chicken to 130 degrees in suvied, but you are cooking it for 90 minutes or two hours, sometimes even longer than that. And the texture of the chicken is very different than anything you've ever had before because you've always had something that was either grilled or broiled or fried. And the flavor is really good, but, you know, and the texture, you get that texture because you're not bringing it up to 160 degrees. But the only reason we bring things to 160 is to kill all the bacteria. You

want 100% kill. And you can get that at lower temperatures. You just have to hold those temperatures longer. So that's the key. Do you have a question? No, they were just saying on YouTube that we lost a little bit of the audio for some reason. It was just sounding like it was buffering or something. Okay. But I don't, it looks okay. I mean, it doesn't look like we lost signal or anything. Okay. All right. Can't fix that.

No. All right. Carla Finch, you're on weird medicine. Hey, guys. Hey. What's up, Carla? I sent you a sexy DM of my inside yesterday. The lumbar scoliosis.

Absolutely. So, yeah, tell everybody about it. Yeah. Well, I've been having low back pain for a while and went to the doctor. He said, here have this medicine. come back in a few weeks and I go what about x-ray he goes ah we're good come back have some more medicine and I said while we do an x-ray so anyway I got an x-ray and come to find out I have a lumbar scoliosis it's curvature to the left for me and it's causing pain obviously because

the muscles are tighter on one side and then the other you know they don't line up the way they were designed yeah pardon I just said they don't line up the way they were designed to up and that can induce pain so okay how many degrees was your scoliosis did they say they didn't okay and I didn't have my handy you know gadgets so I'm just like I just looked at it and gasped and then that was that's all the measurement I needed I was like no but so they're going to have me doing physical therapy for three weeks three times a week Is there any other things that I can do to improve the support? The KT tape, would that help at all?

Yeah, maybe. I mean, it wouldn't hurt anything to try it, but I'm not getting a real strong vibe from that from my cortex. Yeah. Dr. Scott shaking his head. You know, one of the things that people will use when they have low back pain from any cause, I have spondololisthesis, which means that my vertebrae don't line up in a different way. Yours are curved.

Mine are actually, you know, they're supposed to be one on top of the other. Mine are stair stepped. And that causes me some severe back pain from time to time. But, you know, people will wear a corset, you know, a back brace. And that does help to give support, but you can build your own brace out of muscle. Because if you think about the back muscles, they're under a lot of stress because they have no leverage. Think of, and I'm going to try to do this on the radio. I usually draw this picture out.

But think of a 10-foot pole that's sitting in a bucket that's set into the ground and it's only about a foot deep. So if you set that pole in there, it's going to fall over, right? So you put a nail in the top and put two ropes, one going down to the right, one going down to the left. And you've got two people who are holding those ropes trying to hold that pole straight up and down. So it won't fall. But one guy, you only give 20 feet, the other guy, you give 100 feet. So who is going to have the hardest time holding up their end of the bargain? It's going to be the guy that's closer to the bottom, right?

The guy that's got the 20-foot rope instead of the 100-foot rope. The 100-foot guy sit there and put it on his pinky probably and hold it up. So the back muscles are like the guy holding the 20-foot rope, and the abdominal muscles are like the guy that's holding the 100-foot rope. So if you will build up your abdominal muscles, you can really take a lot of the burden off of the back muscles, and you're building up a corset made out of muscle that, support your back.

So, you know, we don't like sit-ups, but crunches are okay. There's lots of things you can do in the gym to build up your abdominal muscles to build up that corset. Dr. Scott, why don't she take the next phase. And I would say part of that abdominal strengthening is, again, not a fan of sit-ups at all, but if she'll look up dead bug exercises, Google that or YouTube it. Dead bug exercises. It sounds like another ingredient you put in your Chinese thing.

And your tea. What about estradiolin? I love astragal. And you can order it on simply herbals dot. Can you? You have estrangelis on there? Or is it astralogist or astralic? I'll sell you anything.

But all seriousness, look up dead bug exercises. You're laying flat on the floor, and it's all about abdominal state on your back, and you're stabilizing your abdomen, and then you're taking yourself out of that stabilized environment. one extremity at time. It's a great exercise, but it's strictly for core strengthening. And the other thing that I love more than anything is a type of yoga called Yen Yoga. And I love all yogas, but Yen is my favorite, especially for scoliosis, just because it gives a lot longer stretch. And I'm a huge fan of physical therapy for this, by the way.

Scoliosis is very difficult to treat with medicine or acupuncture or injections or anything. I mean, we'd treat it every day, but it's very difficult. Here's a video on the dead bug exercise. Let's see if she explains it or just demonstrates it. Let's see here. Come on. Say something. Say something.

The dead bug exercise is a great exercise to help strengthen the call. Extend the right arm and left leg. Then extend the left arm and right leg. This is laying on your back. Okay, so she's laying on her back, and she has her arms and her arms. Her arms and legs are stretched out. Pointing up. And then she's bringing the right arm and the left leg down parallel to the ground and then alternating.

Pulling that belly button in towards your spine to turn on that transverse abdominis. And also her legs are, you know, bent at the knee. But the hip, the thigh part is pointing straight up at the ceiling. The arms are pointing straight up at the ceiling. Okay. But there's a bunch of variations. This is also a great exercise for those of you who have low. that pain there you go so anyway so try that it's a great abdominal strengthening thing yeah

dead bugs oh and there's hard to hear first and on the coffee subject there's a cat it's the cat feces in some forest and i tweeted you out a screenshot of it that they collect that feces to make coffee and it's the most expensive coffee in the world i believe i've got it i've got it i've got it Okay, we'll do that story next. Yeah, the coffee is actually Copee Luwock, or Copee Luwack coffee, but yet it's a civet cat, yeah. They eat this cherry beans and then shit it out

and they scoop it up. It's very expensive. Well, I would say so. How many fucking cats have to make a cup of coffee? A bunch. Speaking of yummy coffee, Yes. Our grocery store will be getting a gas station. In July, they're going to start building it, and a Starbucks.

Oh, wow, very good. Boo. Now, for around here, that's a big deal. Because, you know. Well, there's no coffee places. Yeah. So it's Starbucks or nothing. It's not going to keep me away from my Dunkin.

But it's nice to, hey, have a grocery store with a Starbucks in it. That is some classy shit. We're going to big time. All right. Big city. Big city. Okay, Carla, I hope you feel better. Yeah, work on those stretches, man.

Dead bug, dead bug. Physical therapy is awesome. Very good. Physical therapy is great for this. And I can't believe you didn't recommend acupuncture to her. Well, we can do it for the pain, but for longevity, it's really, it's the strengthening and a stretching for sure. Very good. When it gets bad, we can help her, but do your home. And you've had this since adolescence.

That's the thing that's only now just starting to hurt. Yeah, I had upper. That was upper when I was younger. Right. They never, ever mentioned anything about being the lumbar. Yeah. So when they did the x-ray, I was really shocked to see that it was, you know, there, too. I'm like, you know, and to that degree, it wasn't a slight curve.

It was pretty decent. I can tell you why your provider didn't want to do an x-ray on you in the first place, too, because most chronic low back pain doing an x-ray is a very low benefit thing. And, you know, if they have their own x-ray machine, sometimes they'll do them just because they make a couple of, bucks off of it. But I would not say they were incorrect by putting off getting the x-ray and not doing it right off the bat for low back pain. But that's why you do these things is because they found something that was unexpected and now you know the answer. So, you know, ultimately, they ordered the right test. But anyway, all right. Hey, thanks. I hope you feel better. Have a good one.

So I have what may be a stupid question. So scoliosis, I know I have a little in my upper back, But can you get it from poor posture? Or is this just something that your body's going to just either do or not do? It seems to be genetic. Okay. And you can get kiphoskoliosis as you get older as you're, you know, you see these little old ladies that are hunched over. And that's called kifoskoliosis.

And that's caused from osteoporosis where they're getting little micro fractures of the back and it's getting out of shape. But the kind of scoliosis that young people get happens because their spine is growing differentially. I got an example where if you ever take a ribbon and then you take a scissors and you go along one edge of it and it'll curl up. Okay. Why does that happen?

Because when you're going up the one edge, you're actually making that edge longer. So the right-sided edge will be longer. on the left side of the edge and it'll curl. And that's kind of what's going on with scoliosis is, you know, the metaphoric right edge is growing a little faster than the left and then it just starts to twist. And there's typically a genetic predisposition to it. You typically see it in families.

I have, but it makes my rib cage look weird because I'm mal-rotated. And so I'm, you know, if you see me, that's why I don't run around without a shirt on because I look stupid. because my lower rib. And that's gross if you do that anyway. Yeah. You thought it was just because you were so muscular in your chest wall. I was at one time.

And then when you stopped working out and then it just turns to fat. Because it's gross. Oh, Lord. I don't think. I'm not going to hit that stuff. No. All right. Where's the wine when we need it?

Hello, wine. Let's take another call here. This one is. from the voicemail. We'll get out of here. Okay. Hello? Hello?

Oh, no. Oh, I hate this fucking thing. Hang on. I have to put the MP3 tag on it on every one of these now because Apple did something weird. Okay, and now it'll play it. Okay, hang on.

Oops. Nope. All right. We may just have to stop the show. Dot MP3. Come on. Yes, I want to add it. Hey, you want me to give you a quick story?

Sing for us. Oh. Hey, how about this? Some research the other day was showing that one minute of this kind of exercise equals 45 minutes of jogging. Oh, is that right? What kind of exercise? Well, it's in the reason I brought it up is because we had a collar a couple weeks ago

that was asking about kind of hitting a wall during their training. and I was describing interval training. Yep. And this supported that. They did a bunch of research, and I could give. But the bottom line is doing a sprint for 20 seconds. And then light jogging and doing that for one minute, you know. High interval.

Yeah, yeah. It's like, there's a word for that. High interval and then a low for 10 seconds. Mm-hmm. And then high interval. Mm-hmm. It's called awesome. Mm-hmm.

All right. Okay, we're good. Thank you for eating up a minute while I did that. Yeah, uh, there's a problem with opiates, uh, your first painkillers, and then, uh, I was snoring five to ten little baggies of heroin a day for a one. I killed sex drive for a long time and I, I wasn't masturbating. So now that I am, um, sometimes it's very corpy, sometimes, uh, even a tiny, a little bit painful, uh, very yellowish. I was wondering, could that be an infection, or is that just, I mean, if I were to get back? Whoops.

Lost him. Okay. So he went for a long time without emptying out the pipes. And now that he is, it's kind of yellowish. And it could be an infection. That's a possibility, although less likely because he hasn't been using it. You can still get a prostate infection. I mean, it's not, prostateitis isn't necessarily a sexually transmitted disease, so it is possible.

The other idea, though, is that he may just have had prostatic congestion for so long that the protein that coagulates semenagellin has coagulated inside his seminal vesicles, which are, you know, one of the other fluid-producing organs that make semen. And when that happens, you'll get what looks like tapioca sometimes. Sometimes you'll get yellow semen. So what he needs to do is clean out the pipes, masturbate multiple times, drink plenty of fluids and see if it clears up. If it does not, he should get that checked, and they can easily check his prostate, milk his prostate, and have him, you know, basically the procedure for this, you bend somebody over the table, you stick your finger, hopefully with a glove on, into their rectum, and you apply pressure to the prostate on the right. right side, the left side, then down the middle. Derek, you ever had this done? Oh, you have? Okay. And then hopefully you remembered to tell the person to hold this glass

slide under their penis because the next thing it's going to happen is all this milky white fluid is going to come out of the end of their penis out of the urethro meatus, aka the cockhole, Dr. Scott. And they do not, it's not an orgasm. They're not ejaculating either. It's just you're forcing fluid out the paper. of least resistance. And then you look at that fluid under the microscope. And if it's got white blood cells in it and or bacteria, then that confirms the diagnosis.

You put somebody on antibiotics and they're fine. All right? So get it checked if it doesn't get better. Get it checked. Lots of fluid. Yeah. Hi, Dr. Steve. Pardon my voice.

I have a terrible cold. Oh, you're fine. I emailed you asking you about these. creams that and suppositories that are supposedly natural that help with symptoms of perimenopause like horrible vaginal dryness and pain during sex hot flashes and I ordered something from a place called New Eve N-E-U-E-B-E and you had said certainly they don't put their proprietary blend on on their label and you don't know what percentages. you suggest I call in

so here I am okay so she has hot flashes she ordered something over the counter and I think this was quite a while back she asked me if it was any good and it's like I can't tell because they'll just put proprietary blend of herbs and spices or something like that on there

and they don't tell you what's in it so it's impossible to say people have used black cohosh people have used um um yam extract But those things all have phytoestrogens in them.

The thing that you don't know about this particular person was that later in this call, which, you know, we're just running out of time, they had a double mastectomy, so they can't take hormones. Breast cancer often is sensitive to hormones, and it's like throwing kerosene on a fire. So in those cases, Dr. Scott may have a thing or two. Absolutely. Absolutely. And we have exactly one minute and 23 seconds to do all of this. I'll just throw this out that what a lot of docs will do in that case is put the person on an SSRI type antidepressant. And that is, in many cases, pretty effective for hot flash as caused by menopause. And that would be Prozac, Zoloft, and those kinds of things.

Some of our old Chinese herbal formulas are great for hot. flashes and vaginal dronises and all this stuff without the phytoestrogens and typically without some of the side effects of some of the SSRIs but you had to find some certified in orinal medicine um either of you women have anything to offer i know neither one of you are menopausal but um anything that you know of any of your friends doing yeah okay yeah those are the two big ones so anyway well thanks always go to dr scott lady diagnosis derrick johns and my wife tacey uh listen to our serious xm show on the faction talk channel Sirius XM 103, Saturdays at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Until next time, check your stupid nuts for lumps, quit smoking, get off your asses and get some exercise. We'll see you in one week for the next edition of Weird Medicine.