Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 314 - Placenta Helper

Episode Date: May 30, 2018

Dr Steve and Night Nurse Evy discuss drinking water and alcohol, cbd oil, trigeminal neuralgia, eating afterbirth, sweating while drinking, primrose oil, lifestyle changes for high blood pressure and more! please visit: stuff.doctorsteve.com simplyherbals.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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All right, very good. This will be a quickie because it's our Memorial Day special. Yes. So thank you all for your service to your country. We greatly appreciate you. and because we have Memorial Day off, I'm drinking beer and we're going to do a 30-mile. How does that even make any sense? I don't know.

How did Memorial Day turn into, well, you get a day off so you can drink beer and cook out? I don't want alcohol today. I just can't. I'm still hungover. What are you hungover from? Wine. Were you strutting your stuff in the Milky Way? Well, I had a mojito first, and then I had like six or seven glasses of wine.

And so let's just say it was interesting. Those effing mojitos, the first time I ever had one, I was on a business trip with Tacey. And it was in Palm Springs. Is it Palm Springs, Florida or Palm Beach? Palm Beach. Is it? Palm Beach is Florida. Palm Springs is California?

Yes. Is it? Okay. I don't know. It's Palm something. But anyway, and they're walking around. And I didn't realize the culture and her company. was basically

alcoholic but these people were walking around with these things that look like lemonade with mint in it, right? And I'm like, oh, hell, that looks. We were just gotten off the plane. We were thirsty. It was hot. I drank like three of them.

Just grabbing them off the sink. Had no idea there was any alcohol in it. And that's like, what in the hell is wrong with me? Yes. It was another time I got surprised. We just talked about the last time I got surprised with stupid PA-John's 9%

ABV, excellent, by the way, Imperial Hopdrop, it's called. So if you are ever near Upper East Tennessee, you can buy his beer in the grocery store now. Oh, right. I'll try that. Or if you happen to be in a town called Johnson City, Tennessee, it's a college town. That's where P.A. John has his brewery. You go to J.R.H. Brewing and go get your Imperial Hopdrop on. but let me warn you he will not stop you from drinking five of those and that's like drinking

15 regular beers so it was that last one which was really my last three right that killed me yeah well i figured i should have probably not had the last two glasses of wine you know but i kind of i have a hard time controlling myself with wine to be honest with you it tastes it tastes so good Yeah, and I could just... And it feels good going down, and it's really hard. Yeah, well, you know, it doesn't taste so well coming up. No. Oh, oh, did you do one of those?

Yeah. That's when my wife and I fell in love. We were in New Orleans, and she spent half the time of puking in the hotel room. God. It's so embarrassing, though, because it was really... I thought the trash can was there. Oh, no. And the trash can wasn't there, so I hit the bed.

Oh, come on. Yeah. Andissa, you're with your boyfriend? Yeah. Is he your boyfriend or just somebody you're strutting your stuff? It's strutting myself right now. There you go. Yeah.

But the messed up part about it, it ruined my good bra. Oh, really? I had to throw it away. I'm so mad. That's a $60 bra. Oh, damn. Well, you have to buy, like, custom bras, right? Yes, it's like, you know, G-cup.

How in the hell do you get a bra for people who have never seen you? Yeah. I mean, Nightner-C-Vie was blessed with an abundance of tit meat. Yes, yes. Yes. I don't know. And ass. Yeah.

So, I mean, do you have to have people make these or do they make bras that fit? They make them, but you have to go to a special store to get them. You just can't go to any store. So it's like instead of the big and tall men store, it's like, you know, big tit, big butt store. Exactly. So it's, you know, a G cup. So $60 at least. Damn.

So I had to throw it away. I was pissed. Well, it's got to have some mighty underpinning and stuff. It does. I hold it up, you know, because it, these are... Have you ever tried to, we, I always tried to figure out how you could weigh breast tissue. And I have a method, I think, that I've always wanted to try. And it would, it would be water displacement.

Oh, okay. So you would measure how much water, you know, one boob would displace. Because it's hard. You can't just really lay it on a scale, right? Because your body's attached to it. But if you go from above and dip one boob into a properly designed tub and see how much water it displaces, then knowing the average density of breast tissue, you can calculate how much it weighs. I want to say my chest is probably at least eight pounds per boob maybe. Wow.

At least. The other way to do it would be to have you stand. on a scale and then have me come behind you and just lift them up. Yeah, and see if that works. And then we subtract the amount. Yes. And then... They're heavy, though.

They're heavy. They hurt. Uh-oh. No, I was trying to hit us. Never mind. Did you kids. Okay. Of course, of course.

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Thank you very much for your input. And let's see who we've got here. Uh-oh. I was planning on drinking a whole bunch. Would drinking a bunch of water help my liver? Is there any benefits? Thanks. Love the podcast.

Hey, thanks, man. Okay. So he's wondering if drinking a, bunch of water will somehow help his liver. And the only thing I can say to that is let's say that you drank, for every beer you drank,

you then alternated it with an equal amount of water. Right. So if you did that, that would be half the alcohol that your liver would have to metabolize. So in that sense, yes. But otherwise, if you're thinking, well, somehow I'm diluting it.

Now, every ethanol molecule that hits your stomach that gets absorbed has to be metabolized, whether it's diluted in, you know, twice the water or not. Yeah, so I still got to go through the liver. Yeah, still got to go through the liver. So that won't help. But just alternate. You can pace yourself better by saying, hey, I'm going to drink 12 ounces of water after every 12 ounce of beer. Yeah, right?

I know. Easier said than done. Yes. Or you can do sparkling. water and put a little lime in it or something like that and it sort of fools you into thinking that you're drinking. But you're drinking half as much that way. And so in that

sense that would help. Sparkling water does not fool you. Does it fool you? Yeah. If I'm saying I'm not going to drink tonight for whatever reason, if I get some sparkling water with or tonic water

with a little lime in it or something, I can drink that all night and not even worry about the fact that there's no alcohol in it. I can't do that. Really? You got to have the alcohol. Yes, I can't do that. You might have a problem. Well, I don't, I mean, I don't like the taste of tonic or sparkling. Oh, okay. Well, see, I'll drink, I'll drink vodka tonics all at times. Yeah. I just can't do this sparkling. It doesn't taste good to me. Okay. Yeah. Well, that makes, that makes a difference. I wonder, do you drink, but you drink wine, though, right? Yes. So I've not seen any non-alcoholic wine like I see

non-alcoholic beer. Right. But I don't drink wine all the time. Okay. So it's not every day. So if you're drinking, you want to be drinking. Why? Yeah. And you don't want to try to fool yourself. Exactly.

Because it's very few and far between. Just not drink, then. Yeah. So what do you drink if you're not drinking alcohol, then? I usually just drink water. Water. Yeah. And lemon.

That's it. There you go. Well, just do that then. Yeah. Save somebody's mattress. All right. Yeah. Hey, Dr. Steve.

Oh, how embarrassing is that? Yeah. Okay. So you're there with this guy that you're newly. having intercourse with right right and he's taking you on this trip figuring he's going to get to bodie odo and instead he's he's got puke on his bed well i just kind of leaned over and i said where is the trash can and he hands it to me and i'm sitting there and i'm like okay i'll be okay and i set it down and next thing you know i'm crawling to the edge of the bed trying to get to the

trash can and i can't reach it and so i just kind of just let it go was he just horrified he was like oh my god are you kidding so long story short I take the I cleaned up the mess the next day because there's no way I could function I was that drunk

so the next morning and I take the sheets and just throw them away so what well they're going to think you just stole the sheets then I'd rather just throw it away than leave it then yeah it's disgusting I threw the towels away

the worst it was just oh my God oh that was the worst Can you imagine working in a hotel as housekeeping and the just absolute shit. I remember Howard Stern told a story that was, oh gosh, it was Sam Kinnison's girlfriend, and she was the one that Jim Baker, what the heck was her name? I know people are yelling at the radio. But anyway, apparently, Sam got up in the middle of the night and walked around, thought he was going into the bathroom, took a shit right in the middle of the carpet, and then went back to sleep. And his girlfriend is up at 3 in the morning trying to clean his feces out of the carpet with towels and stuff.

Oh, God. Yeah. But anyway. Yeah. Yeah, we do stupid things when we're drinking. Yes, we do. Really, really stupid stuff. I'll never do that again.

Hey, Dr. Steve, this is Rick. My mom is suffering from trigeminal neuralgia, and she's been interested in CBDs. Okay, let's talk a little bit about what trigeminal neural neuralgia is. It is one of the most painful syndromes that we're aware of, and the trigeminal nerve comes out of the skull in front of the face and then splits into three. That's why it's called trigeminal. and either we're not 100% sure what's going on. The nerve root is swelling and it gets compressed by the surrounding tissues or the bone that it's passing through.

Whatever, it hurts like an MF. I've seen people just begging to die with this. That's how bad it can be. It doesn't have to be that bad. So let's see what his question is. But she doesn't know how to go about finding a reputable source. I was wondering if you or anybody else would have some advice on that. Thanks.

And I listen on the podcast. I don't put it in serious. Thanks. Okay. Okay. Well, good. Well, I'm glad I played it on this one. CBD oil is cannabidiol, and as long as it is derived from the hemp plant and not the pot plant.

You know, hemp basically is pot plant without, that doesn't produce THC. Right. And or very much of it. And so my understanding is, and I'm not an expert on CBD oil, but my understanding is that if it's produced from the hemp plant, then a cannabidiol is legal in all 50 states. So the question is, where do you find a reputable source? Well, if it's legal, I would start at a compounding pharmacist and ask them if they can supply you with it because, you know, they're going to have a reasonable source of medication. And you want something that's actually been tested and is identified strength and all that kind of stuff. So I would start there.

If you can't get it there, there are reputable sources online. Now, whether it will help for this is a whole other thing, but I don't think there's a whole lot of harm to it. So she can try it. What we usually use for trigeminal neuralgia is an anti-seizure medication called carbamazapine or tegretol. and in the about 50% of people it works for it's like magic but the other 50% end up having to you know they try a combination of lots of different medications and then sometimes you have to go to an anesthesiologist

and have them just go up in there or an ear nose and throat person let them go in there and just kill the nerve and you'll have a numb face but at least you won't be an abject pain let me ask you something so what's the difference between the hemp oil and the cannabis oil though you know it says I mean Well Okay

It just depends Because it's all oil Right Right So you can have A hash oil For example That has tons and tons of THC in it

That's the stuff that really gets you going There's other Active ingredients In marijuana But Delta 9 THC is the biggie Okay And yeah you can get Plenty of that

And you could call that cannabis oil. Or, you know, some people may call CBD oil cannabis oil, you know. So you have to define your terms. Because I know that they can work at, you know, where they take out the THC from the marijuana itself, too. Well, you can, but it's just easier to use plants that aren't producing it. Well, let's see. That's why I'm wondering why they don't just do that then. That's more sense.

Using Dr. Scott's stuff. Can you smell? Yeah, all of a sudden. All of a sudden, my nose just went crazy. Dr. Scott's sinus rinse is still my favorite thing that he makes, and you can get it at simplyerbils.net, and it is fantastic. It is quite good. Did you try that salt, by the way? Yeah, the ramp salt.

Yeah, did you try it? I did. I did. I thought it was really good. It's kind of like garlic salt. It is. It's got a garlic oniony smell to it. Yeah, it's different.

Yes. It's a little more subtle and a little more complex than garlic salt. So, yeah, if you want to get some of that, it's V, no, WV-Ramp salt. right it's west virginia ram salt.com and we appreciate the guy he just sent me some uh abaniero uh ramp salt oh nice really pretty awesome so all right boy my allergy this is allergies i'm not okay i promise don't breathe up this way and probably big old see alice and i took giving me some nasal congestion so all right hello dr steve i am a studying emt student and we are about to talk about uh

having babies and shit when I go back to class. But I figured it'd be better to ask you this question than to ask it in class. Maybe I'll do it anyway. Yeah. So is it healthy for a mother to eat her own placenta after she has the baby? Yeah. Thank you. Okay.

Is it healthy? Well, no, you've got to define that. Right. There's protein and iron in there. And, you know, the placenta basically is the blood supply for the baby. But it does more than just supply blood. It's an active membrane. So, you know, there are things that are filtered through there.

It's almost sort of acts to certain extent like a kidney. Not really. You know, the baby's kidneys act like kidneys. But it will supply proteins and antibodies and stuff. stuff like that that are soluble in the mother's blood across the placental barrier and get into the baby's blood supply. So, but what it also does is it protects the baby from the mother's immune system. Right.

So that doesn't reject. The mother's not rejecting it. Exactly right. Now, that only works so far if you've got an R.H. Positive baby and an R.H. negative mother. The first time everything's fine, but the second time the mother will attack, and the mother's bloodstream will attack that. baby and that's why we give this stuff called rogam whenever you've got an rh negative mother and an rh positive father and they'll just give it before they even tell you there's no harm

in it right and it makes blocking antibodies so that the mother doesn't mount an immune response to the rh positive factor this is why by the way and belin got her hit chopped off because Anne Boleyn was R.H. negative. Henry the 8th was R.H. positive. Their first born was, you know, Queen Elizabeth, became Queen Elizabeth. But every other kid she had after that had had high drops because they didn't have knowledge of RH factor. So you can have one normal kid, but then after that, they'll all die in the womb. So I think, well, the main benefit I would see is the cord blood storing it. stand sales, but eating it?

Sure. Okay. Well, so, yeah, so that's a separate thing. Yeah. I did that. I have no idea if that'll ever do my kids any good, but we've got it. And I pay 90 bucks a year to keep it on ice. Now, the placenta, if you're starving, you know, if you're a cave person and you're starving and or you have limited protein, you can't afford to lose all that protein. So, yeah, it makes sense to eat it. When my dog had 10 babies, She ate 10 placentas.

Yes, they will eat that, yes. You know, to get all that stuff back. Yeah. So, but in this day and age, you know, when my wife had her kid, they brought us a steak, you know, afterward. And that had all the protein and iron she needed. So she didn't have to eat the placenta. That's the modern version of eating the placentas, have a nice high protein meal after you deliver a baby. I just couldn't eat the placenta.

I can understand, you know, the cord blood and keep you. it but yeah yeah there's people who do it but there's it so you got to define is it healthy it's not going to do any harm right but it's not neat it's not necessary right it's not necessary got's it but um you know our ancestors probably it made sense for them to eat the placenta all right dr steve amen it's marcus from north carolina marcus so i've been drinking a bunch of beers today. Of course. I'd come out in the yard and pick up some dog shit.

It's pretty hot day, but I feel like I'm sweating more than normal. Is it possible that when you're fucked up, you sweat more than you normally would? You can not fucked up. Sure. I just wanted to know if there's some medical knowledge you could drop on me. Well, yeah, alcohol is a peripheral vasodilator. In other words, it opens up capillaries in the skin. and it will make you feel warm when that happens,

but it's an illusion. You're actually radiating off more heat. So people that drink alcohol, you know, back in the day, if they were in Michigan or something going to a game, they would bring a flask to keep them warm, right? But the more they drank, the more heat they're actually radiating away, so their core temperature is probably dropping. So that's an illusion.

But because you're opening up those capillaries, you're also getting more blood to the sweat glands and yes, you're going to sweat more. It makes sense. Yep. All right. Hey, Dr. Steve. Recently was diagnosed with high blood pressure.

It seems to be genetic in my family. Is there any possible way I've been losing some weight that I can be pulled off this medication or might kind of be saddled with this for the rest of my life. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Hey, thanks, Ben.

Absolutely. There are lots of people walking around, and I'm one of them, who had high blood pressure that are no longer on high blood pressure medication. Nightnerce Evie says she is one as well. Right, yes. And so lifestyle management can make a difference. If you have, particularly if you have stage one hyperpressure, those are people that have just sort of low level high blood pressure and uh you know you

eat more green leafy vegetables you increase your exercise in night nurse evie's uh example you have more intercourse for prolonged periods of time that you didn't do for for many years before that uh you uh you know decrease the amount of salt in your diet i don't think a low salt diet is necessary just you know you don't have to eat so many McDonald's french fries right and when you do that you may see your blood pressure come down now there are also some supplements that you can take of course now you're taking a pill again and um we could talk about those and people are really interested in that but there there are some supplements that you can take that that may help to lower your blood pressure but really the exercise and fixing your diet or the or the biggies and

Not over-drinking and not smoking cigarettes, too. Cigarette smoking is a nicotine is a vaso-constrictor. And, you know, if you decrease the caliber of the vessels, the pressure has to go up. That's just, you know, it's the laws of physics. Yes. So those are things you can do. Tell me about your high blood pressure and what you did. I was diagnosed with it after my last son and went to the doctor.

I didn't even know it was high, but I noticed I was having really bad headache. So they put me on Lysineapril. I took that for a while. And then I just started losing weight. I just started working out, changing my diet, stop eating out, fast food. And the weight came off and my high blood pressure went away. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you can do it.

It works, yes. So, yes, you do not have to be on it forever now. People with a genetic predisposition to, you know, really high blood pressure, they may have to be on medication. And you just won't know until you try it. So I'll usually, if someone's stage one, you know, relatively, you know, it's higher than normal, but not crazy high, I will give them six months to get it down on their own. We're checking them every month, making sure that they're not getting into the stage two level where we really kind of have to treat you. That's what I think I was like borderline 140 over 80.

Yeah, there you go. There you go. So it was, let me ask you something. What about primrose for women? Does that benefit women? Should I know. For, I read something. Okay.

For metabolism. What does that mean? What the hell does that mean? Premenopausal. Okay. That it benefit, Primrose actually benefits women's bodies, the older that we get. Okay. This would be a good question for Dr. Scott, but I'm going to look it up and see what the, okay.

Huh. Well, effective dietary oils on peripheral neuropathy related endpoints and diet. obese rats. Now, I'm interested in that. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids derived from fish oil. Okay, this is not primroids oil. It can be an effective treatment for neural and vascular complications associated with obesity. Well, I don't have that, but I do have peripheral neuropathy.

I'm always looking for something. Okay. Well, I have nothing. There is a study called the Primrose study, which is complicating things because that's what keeps coming up. Right. Well, I'll just research it and then we'll come back to it next week. Next, next show.

Yeah, let's, okay, here we go. Herbs, vitamins, and minerals in pre-menstrual syndrome, a systematic review. 62 herbs, vitamins, and minerals were identified for which claims benefits for PMS were made with evidence found for only 10, heterogeneity of the length of trial-specific products and doses and outcome measures predicted metonym. analysis for any end point. Data supports the use of calcium for PMS and suggests that chasteberry and vitamin B6 may be effective. That's what I always gave people was vitamin B6.

You'd take 50 milligrams for a week before your period and all the way through your period in a week after, and it was supposed to be effective for premenstrual syndrome. But they said no evidence of benefit with evening primrose oil or magnesium. calcium oxide was found. So that's for PMS. Okay. So, okay, let me look at one more. Meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials of evening primroy's oil in atopic

eczema. Okay? So these are people that have allergic skin. It said it had a simultaneous beneficial effect on itch and crusting, edema, and redness that becomes apparent between four and white. eight weeks after treatment is initiated, the magnitude of this effect is reduced in association with increasing frequency of potent steroid use. So that's interesting.

Well, it says that it's used for breast pain, of course, PMS, like you said, endometriosis, and symptoms of menopause, you know, for like hot flashes. Okay. Well, usually people are using black cohosh for hot flashes. Okay. Okay, here we go. A comparative study of the effect of black cohosh and evening primrose oil on menopausal hot flashes. Let's look at this one, then we'll move on.

Okay. All right, here we go. Both herbs were effective in reduction of severity of hot flashes and improvement of quality of life, but it seems that black cohosh is more effective than primrose oil because it was able to reduce the number of hot flashes as well. And this is in the Journal of Educational Health Promotion, which is, you know, it's not one of the biggies. All right. But anyway, there you go.

So, yeah, maybe some benefit, but there may be other things that are better. Better, better, yeah. Let's look at one more. The Effective Oral Evening Primrose. By the way, I'm looking this up on a website that anybody that's listening to this can look at, which is PubMed.com. It's got all the peer-reviewed and some not peer-reviewed articles in the medical literature. So let's see here.

the effect of oral evening primrose oil, postmenopausal hot flash is a randomized clinical trial. Now, this is a good, let's look at the method. Six-week randomized clinical trial, 56 menopausal women were participated in this study. So it's not a giant study, but it might be big enough to get a statistically significant answer. Patients were asked for their hot flash characteristics and responded to a hot flash related daily interference scale questionnaire. before and after intervention. Participants were randomly assigned to take two capsules per day of placebo or evening primrose for continuous six weeks. Then the improvement in hot flashes was compared between the two groups.

So if they did this properly, it was a double-blinded placebo-controlled study. This is, you know, the best kind of evidence there is. So the results, the percent of improvement in hot flash frequency, severity, and duration were 39, 42, and 19 percent in the Evening Primrose group compared with, and here's the placebo group, 32, 32, and 18%. So hot flash severity went from 32% improvement to 39% improvement. So that means a third of the people who took the placebo said, yeah, I felt better. That's how powerful the placebo effect is. And the absolute effect was only 7% more.

You see that? So it went from 32 to 39. The severity of those went from 32 to 42% said that it was better. So again, another third said, yeah, I felt better. But in the Primrosa oil group, 42% said that they got better as far as severity. And then the duration went from 18% to 19%. So 1% improvement said that they were shorter. You know, okay.

Okay, now here's where they look at the statistical significance. All of that is interesting, but is it statistically significant in such a small group? It said, although all three characters of Hot Flash were ameliorated in evening primrose. In other words, there was improvement, although slight, in all three things that they looked at, only severity was significantly better in this arm compared with placebo, and the P was less than 0.05. And what that means is there was a 1 in 20 chance that this was from just random chance. So that's, you know, pretty good. So the severity, so you could say from this, that evening primrose oil does not statistically significantly decrease the frequency or the duration, but does seem to decrease the severity of the hot flashes.

Okay. So there you go. Okay. That's how you look at stuff like I. I appreciate it. Well, there you go. Get you some primrose oil. All right.

Okay. You about ready to get out of here? Yeah. Okay. Are you? Okay. Well, me too. Thanks always go to night, Nurse Evie.

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What do you want to wait? Yeah, no, no, no. Okay. All right. Let's talk about a urectal dysfunction in me. Is that what you want to talk about? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

Of course, I always want to talk about that. And this is specifically for men who've had a prostatectomy. Okay. After they've, you know, have prostate cancer. It's a cure of erectile dysfunction and to make the penis bigger, they found. Injecting stem cells into the base of the penis. Damn, I'm all in. Yes.

So. Where did they get the stem cells from, does it say? It doesn't say where they got them from. I mean, is it? But the scientists are located in Denmark. So they're still working on it. So they're hoping to have more information by the end. They're hoping that men don't have to take pills all the time.

And the study so far, the men that have had the stem cell search a year later, they're still able to get an erection. Damn. A heart erection. Yeah. Yes. Good. A big meaty, juicy.

A big one. Yeah. Yes. Good. I mean. So stem cells in the base of the penis may be the answer for this. It says that it resource of function for men who struggle to get an erection. Yeah.

So, you know, kudos. It can work. Absolutely. I mean, are you up for? Nope, that makes sense. Am I up for it? I know that was serendipitous, but yes. Yeah, I'm totally up for it.

Yes. And this was found because men who had undergone prostate surgery. Yes. For their due to cancer. Yeah. And they thought they would, hey, hey, try this. Let's see if this works. Yeah.

Try anything. Yeah, and it's actually working. So they're still waiting on a few more, I think it was a trial of 70. Okay. So far. We'll follow up on that in the future. Until next time, check your stupid nuts for lumps. Quit smoking, get off your asses and get some exercise.

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