Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 345 - Pot Luck

Episode Date: January 24, 2019

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yoga, master, physical therapist, clinical laboratory scientists, or whatever. All right, very good. well um so yeah do you have our youtube channel up okay can you make it go away as it's echoing i muted thank you hey um a couple of things we you know we did that poll last show or the show before about the opening and the overwhelming consensus was leave it alone um we were talking about shortening the opening, Sense, because I know you don't listen to the show. If that's not true, I'm just a little behind. That's okay. And we, so I just say, you know, because like if I listen to DC on screen,

I always skip over their intro because it's really long. And I like those guys, but I can't, you know, I just don't have enough time. So I skip over it. And I wondered if people were skipping over our intro as well. I do try to throw in a couple of interesting things. things every once in a while while we're doing the intro to keep people listening to it. But the overwhelming response was keep it. And the ones that said that they skip over it, I said, just skip over it. You know, just don't change anything. You know, a lot of these players that people use for their podcast and whatnot.

Have a plus 15 seconds. Have that or have a fast, a play and a faster speed. Yes. So it can kind of shorten down their time. But I would have, if I had known that, I would have voted to keep it. Yeah. Well, thank you. Sherwin's Slaves is awesome, by the way.

Diane, have you watched the Sherwin-Sleeves co-written show called Patriot on Amazon Prime? Oh, oh, wait a minute. Go ahead. Okay, do it. No. Okay. Say it again? One more time.

No. No. Okay. Our friend Sherwin Sleeves has got a writing gig on this show, Patriot with Steve Conrad. And if you haven't watched it, you need to watch it. It's very surreal, but it's also a great kind of spy show. It's super awesome, man, I'm telling you. And it's a good family.

I mean, there's family stuff in there. There's, I don't know, it's just crazy. It's the craziest damn show I've ever watched, and it's absolutely worth it. I agree. It's the craziest most insane thing I've ever seen. Yeah, I needed something to watch. In a good way. Yeah, it's kind of, it's a, I don't even want to try to describe it.

If you know, Sherwin's Slaves is involved, it's going to be odd. and it's just very odd but it's very engaging and that's loads of fun it's just great show so anyway what else we got so yeah we're keeping the opening

hey don't forget to check out Dr. Scott's website considering talking about the opening simplyerbils.net that's simplyerbils.net you can get his fantastic best stuff in the world simply herbal sinus rinse

which really is the best thing in the world love it and it's it's quite excellent and i give dr scott a lot of shit about calling things islet cells and stuff like that but he may not know how to pronounce medical terms but he uh certainly can make some damn sinus rants they can't sing sweet melissa either oh let's play that real now that i can't let's play that real quick it's okay what we ought to do what we ought to do though Scott sometime is go back and play that

so people can see the difference how much better you are now you know two years later it's you've really come a long way shit you couldn't get any worse it's horrible it's such a great song though we really need to do it again we need to we need to I do a question

for you and Dr. Scott you know I love the nasal rinse and it works great but when I first every time I do it the back of my head will get this burning tightening sensation way back here in the back of my head i don't know where else describe

it i mean again it does what it's supposed to it clears my nose out and i can breathe better but it's just that that water up your nose burning process but i get it all the way in the well it's just it's probably like the similar to the sensation you get just before you sneeze to where you get all that kind of contraction but it's not going all the way to a sneeze so it's like we have these things called migraine variants where people will get, you know, they'll see the flashing lights, but not get a headache. Right. So it may be a sneeze variant.

Okay. That's the only thing I can think of. What do you think, Scott? Probably needs some astragalus. It needs some estratholus. Unless it's just stimulating that posterior sinus, you know, maybe just got a bunch of shit jammed up in there. Yeah. Well, is it like an ice cream headache?

Because that's the sphenoid. No, it's not like that. Should we talk about the physics of an ice cream headache since we brought it up? So every air-filled cavity in the body has a connection to the outside world. So your middle ears have the eustacean tube, the sinuses, the maxillary sinuses, you know, behind your cheekbones have a little osteum or a mouth that goes, into the nose through the terminates. You know, it's between the first and second or second and third terminate, I can never remember.

And the sphenoid sinus also is right where, you know, if you take a finger, okay, and stick it right above your nose and point it straight in, and then put one at your temple and point it straight in, at right angles to each other. That's where the spinoid, where those two lines meet is where the sphenoid sinus is.

Okay. so it's above the palate and it has a really shitty kind of opening for um for equal a you know um for equalizing the pressure between the equilibrium of the pressure between the inside and the outside that's what those holes are for okay so um when you eat ice cream real fast it cools down the air in the sphenoid sinus, right? Because it's hitting the top of your mouth, the roof of your mouth. And so the air inside the sphenoid sinus shrinks, but that osteum that it has can't quite equilibrate the pressure fast enough.

And so when you have a negative pressure in there, it's putting tension on the mucous membrane inside that sinus, and it contracts, and that causes pain. And so you have a couple of things that you can do to get rid of an ice cream headache. One is drink something warm, and then it'll expand that air in there. Or you can just man up and just wait five seconds because it'll go away. That's a long five seconds. I know it is.

Yeah. All right, so, Sense, you went to CES this year? or are you well i wish i was gone no i just follow it like crazy okay okay yeah because you're an audio technical guy you want to plug your business at all or do you want not want people knowing uh not this not right now okay there's some yeah okay okay okay fair enough fair enough so uh what you saw some cool medical stuff though a lot of interesting things and i just none of it was coming here today and uh i was just watching some of the awards that were given for uh um some of the best of in the show and, you know, being weird medicine,

one of the things that caught my eye, I noticed today was Stanley Black and Decker, which everybody knows those names in the tool hardware, has come up with a countertop pill dispensing robot. What? Yep. It is going to be called, sorry, I am not more prepared. Let's see if I can find the name of it,

but it just sits on your... Pillow. Yeah, yep, that's it. It is? Oh, I was going to say, that's a stupid name. No, it's something close to me. I am Pillow. Yeah, I'll find it, hang on.

Push your man. I ain't go push a man. Wait a minute. Are you sure you've not seen this? Because that's exactly what it's called. P-I-L-O, health. P-I-L-O-Hill-Helf. Of course, they always name them stupid shit like that.

And it just sits on your counter. It's got a round face with a... Give yourself a bill? a base that you sit a little shotgun bus under and it puts your pills in it for the day and you don't need a robot for that you know this

this shit what's that trying to avoid well mistakes like if you got an elderly person and they're taking like Tacey the other day couldn't remember if she took her pills so she didn't know should I take them again

or should I just skip them you know and so you don't know so this robot instead of setting out Like if you've got an elderly parent, you have this pill box and they don't know what Monday and, you know, which one's Tuesday and then they just take them all. This thing will just, you know, put them out like a dog food dispenser. But they already have these that are mechanical. Yes. You don't need a Wi-Fi-enabled robot to do this.

You know, you need something with a, you could even have a spring mechanism that just goes through and this pop stuff out, you know. So this kind of shit is starting to drive me a little crazy because. I went to buy a blender the other day. It was hard to find one that wasn't Wi-Fi-enabled. Why do I need a Wi-Fi-enabled blender? Or Wi-Fi-enabled stove? You know, Samsung makes a stoves and shit to turn them. I'm not turning it on.

Oh, hell no. Amazon released last year before Christmas, a Amazon Alexa microwave, and you say, Alexa pop, you know, pop popcorn. Yeah, it's, you know, everybody who's an Alexa device,

set off, I apologize. Oh, yeah, I got, I got yelled at for that one. Should I play some power? Alexa, stop. We were doing, I was asking her something, and I promised that I would change her name to the least likely one, which I think is Amazon, people aren't using that name. You can change her name. Yeah, yeah, computers.

Somebody was fussing at me. It's like, hey, asshole, every time you say her name, you know, my unit goes off, and I'm trying to listen to you on that unit. So it just fucks everything out. But that, you know, that I did not see through the CES. I found that today while researching the links for the products. I did push the buttons. And, you know, so there's gradations of this.

I have my light controlled by her. Yes. And my wife's like, why? Because it's too hard to just flip the switch on it. She's such a killer. I know. But, you know, and then there are probably people out there that love their, you know, so-and-so-enabled micro-we.

wave and I'm shitting on them so I haven't heard anybody yet I'll let you know yeah I just don't I don't see but you still got to put the shit in it and get it out yeah you still have to load it you're going to load it properly she could go get it and put it in it's not like that's the thing I'd be I'd be talking about we got one of those little robots Tacey wanted one and so I got her a little D-Bod it's like the um um um Rumba kind of robot vacuum yeah it's a robot vacuum right and it's really cool I've got it set to go off at two and the morning, and when I go down in the morning, it's got a bin

full of stuff, but what it, and it's all dog hair, because we've got a Labradoodle and a something. Well, the Labradoodle, the true, they're both F2 Labradoodles, meaning they were Labradoodle bred to a Labradoodle. That is a mistake, by the

way. And when you do that, they don't breed true, so one of mine's really a golden retriever, and poor Rosie. She just sheds, Everywhere. Labradoodles usually don't shit. Yeah, I had a golden doodle.

You'd get a handful of fur every once in a while. Six months, you'd find a handful. Well, she sheds all over everywhere. And so we got this thing just for the sunroom where we, you know, hang out and stuff. And it's great. You can really tell the difference. But the problem with it is you have to pick it up and you've got to empty it. And then you've got to clean it out.

And then you put it back and then you stick it. I mean, with all that work, I might as well just swept the, the, the, the place myself. So when they get them so that they'll maintain themselves, now I'm all in. All right. This is, that's what Scott was talking about with the microphone. I have an answer for you, but we, that's off topic of weird medicine. Well, it doesn't matter.

Okay, well, they did come. Rumba is not off the topic of weird medicine. Well, well, you're going to get me talking geeky stuff and then we're never going to get back on track. That's fine. That's fine. One of the companies, and I want to say Rumba, came up with a new version where the vacuum docks and the stand that it docks to sucks out what is inside the vacuum into a much larger bin. So you only have to change it once a week instead of once a bed.

So then you're changing out the bin that sits in the wall, the charger is, not the vacuum itself. Invent a robot that'll take it and put it in the trash and I don't have to mess with it at all. And then I think we've got something. That's called your child. Have you seen these two kids in this house? Oh, yeah. I'm just teasing They're great kids

Don't let them off the hook You're absolutely right Of course the other thing that I noticed CNET gave all these awards As they do every year But one was the The Impossible Burger 2.0 Yes

So last year's CEO Just release it finally I've seen these things advertised Well this one In and Out burger And White Castle I believe Which we don't have here, either one. Right.

They said we will put this on the menu. Put it in the grocery store. Tell everybody what it is. It is a plant-based burger. But it's the real deal this time. Right. It's all grown in greenhouse and everything and looks. Apparently, I wish I was there to taste it because they were giving away like hot cakes.

They say it looks, tastes, and even bleeds like regular hamburger. Right. hamburger meat and it's supposed to be outstanding every review I've ever read of it both amateur and professional have given it rave reviews

and I've been reading about it for years and it's like just come out with it already. So it's not a bean burger? I don't know what vegetables they're using. Yeah they haven't What's the nutrition is it? That was my other question. Yeah it's a bio a bioavailable iron and protein is the same

serving size as ground beef 14 grams of fat and 20, excuse me, 240 calories per quarter pound. I'll tell you've never had, if you've never had a jackfruit, jackfruit truly mimics. Jackfruit. Jackfruit. Jackfruit. I love to masturbate.

What the hell is jackfruit? Dude, jackfruit is, they actually use that as a substitute for. Jackfruit and jerk chicken. I'm not eating either one of those. no go ahead tell me what jackfruit is but no jackfruit is really it is a it is a fruit it's a great big ugly thing that you cut up and when you when you pull it out it mimics like pulled pork barbecue what absolutely yeah and you can roast it i've heard of that and put and put the barbecue salsa and i'm telling it's fucking i didn't think they call the jackfruit

though but i've never seen that okay let's look it up real quick this is a podcast not our regular radio show it on amazon hey the new the new place in john The Wisconsin City, the Southern Craft has it. Calories in an eight-ounce hamburger patty is 463 according to this. So it's half of the calories. Right. Let's look up jackfruit. What is jackfruit?

This miracle fruit. Everything's a fucking miracle. Jackfruit company, the jack of all foods. Wow. Yeah. They're showing it like it's pork. Sons up beaches. Yeah, well, no, I didn't...

I told you. Okay, we didn't doubt that part. I'm just doubting that it's good. Let's see. It's naturally drought and pest resistance requires no artificial irrigation pesticides or herbicide, so it'd be good for, you know, you know, agra economies

in third world countries. Easy to grow. The fruit is huge. A single jackfruit can grow. grow up to a hundred pounds. Geez. Huh. So I'm just at jackfruit company.com, and they've got curry, barbecue.

Well, I want to try some. What's the nutritional information, Dr. Scott? I have no idea. Why, you're telling us you want us to eat this stuff. Frozen jackfruit banana ice cream, and then you turn around, and it's pork. It's weird. That's weird. Now, we've got one of our friends on YouTube says that the soil and, you know, the

Soylent green. Soilent green. Soilent green is people. Soilent green. It's made from people. It's people. It's people. They've never seen that movie?

Soilent Green? No. I must be really old. Okay. Like a really old movie. Yeah, you're not so young. Your damn self. Okay.

All right. Soilet. I know that there is a company called Soilent out. there. Soilin's got your back. They make some other things. I don't know what's in their stuff. I'm assuming it's soy

if they're... Sure, it's one with them. But anyway, okay, well, yeah, so I'm very interested in this impossible burger. Everybody ever talk about it. That's, they said it was great. Yeah, cool. All right.

What else you got? Another award was this personal device people can wear that have bladder issues and it's just a small ultrasound that detects the level of fluid in the bladder and lets people know when they need to so it alerts them correct so they don't have to just monitor it it goes off so there's not an image on there no correct it's all back to your smartphone and oh okay now see that's an app i can get behind. There are people that have neurogenic bladders, and

they can't sense when they need to catheterize themselves often, and they don't have that sense of fullness. And if they leave urine in there too long, not only can it cause back pressure and affect the kidneys,

but you can encourage urinary tract infections and stuff like that. You've got to, if you have retained fluid in the bladder it's a culture medium so it's called the D free and it's how much is it uh it's it's actually on Amazon apparently for 500 it retails or will be on Amazon 500 or rent for 40 dollars per month well retails for five oh yeah here we go D letter D free

toilet timing predictive device supports independent toileting well I may need that I need some independent I don't want independent I don't want codependent You want codependent toilet Well I have to go to you They've got

They're on Twitter Of course they're on Twitter D-free D-B-Z-HD Well that's a horrible Twitter name That's terrible D-B-T-L-P-N-P And there's also a D-Free D-D-Rif

D-D-Rif lotion So it's not that We'll put that on stuff.doctrsteve.com. We didn't talk about that yet, did we? Stuff. Dot, Dr. Steve.com for all of your shopping needs, if you're going to Amazon, just use stuff. Dot, Dr. Steve.com. Most of the products we've ever mentioned on this show are on there, and also you can just

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Because he spends a half an hour looking up all his food. Shut off. That's if I'm not going to have a salad for lunch. Then I have, you have to input it. No, it's true. By the way, given that your money's never been any good when I buy your lunch, I'm surprised that you would criticize me. Don't bite the hand of feed you.

I'm just making fun. I know you are. You're delightful. But, yeah, you input your food and your counselor sees it. So, you know, my counselor is she got, she didn't like it that I said she was hot because she said, the feminist in me doesn't like it. It's all about my looks. But it's like, no, it's a humorous thing that a dude would not want to tell a, you know, an attractive woman that he has to tell what he's putting in his mouth, that he just. ate a bag of chips and, you know, 14 Snickers, you know?

So, whatever works, because I don't want to tell her that, I don't do it. Exactly, whatever works. I've committed to being honest about it, you know. So, anyway, if you want to check it out, it's Noom, N-O-O-M dot Dr. Steve.com and check it out. Let me know. If you try it, let me know if it works for you. It's not for everybody. You know, some of the lessons are a little cutesy.

stuff like that. But I've actually learned quite a bit about my relationship with food. That's what it's about. They use psychology. If you want to do no sugar, no grains, Sensei, you can. Still doing? You can still do it. If you want to do paleo or, you know, keto or you want to do Mediterranean, that's fine. There's no forbidden foods. It's not a diet. It's a program that uses psychology to change your the way that you think about food and when you change what you think about it you change the way you eat it so that's cool I don't know what you're doing but I will admit it's working because it's been a while since I've seen you and you look good yeah and I'm I'm I'm going for my ideal body weight my ideal body weight my ideal body wage is 180 or 155 and I started at 188 so I'm I'm you know I'm working to get there now I see some of these guys that are my age that lose a shitload of weight and they look like walking skeletons so if I start looking that way you got to say something and I'll stop, and I'll back up a little bit. But I don't like my big fat eggplant-shaped face, and that's getting a little bit better.

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Please sign back up. If it gets back up to where we were before, I'll do, we'll do something special for just the premium listeners. All right. We were supposed to have guests today and we're having some huge technical problems in the studio. So I just want to get this out there. Brandon Strong was a kid who lost his battle with cancer, and he wanted to be a physician to help people. So his dad has set up a campaign so that he can help people, even though he wasn't able to realize his dream. So go to join.

dot be the match.org slash brandon strong what this is is a bone marrow donor campaign if you are between the age of 18 and 44 it's free if you're over 44 like me um and lady diagnosis and oh is dr scott older than 44 who oh who would know um you know then then you got to pay a hundred bucks but it's worth it to be a all you have to do is swab and they don't take your bone marrow unless you're a match for somebody, and you can save somebody's life. So I am telling you right now, I am committed to doing this. So I'm going to do it this week, and then we'll have them on in a couple of weeks once I figure out what in the hell has happened to my mixing board or the software inside my computer that's not allowing us to take phone calls right now. I got a quick question, Dr. Steve.

One of my, two of my students, their grandmother, has been done with cancer. I don't know what kind, it's a form of bone marrow cancer. Okay. And we just got to talking, and I was just curious, how, bone marrow is in every bone in your body. How do you replace the bone marrow? Okay. In your entire skeletal structure. It is amazing, isn't it?

So if they do a bone marrow transplant is what you're talking about. Well, the scaffolding is there. So what they'll do is they'll kill all the cells in your bone marrow, and you immediately become extremely vulnerable to everything you can imagine. So they have to isolate you and then they'll take a donor and they'll just inject those cells

into your bloodstream and they find their way to that scaffolding and start to reproduce. It is amazing. It is amazing. And they have to be a good match because remember what one of the things that immune cells are supposed to do is seek out foreign

foreign proteins. and destroy them. And so you have this sort of friend or foe signaling system in the body, just like you do, the military does, you know, where they can tell if a plane is friendly or not. Right. And so when these cells go by, as long as they see that you're friendly, they'll leave you alone.

But if you're foe, if you're alien to them, then they'll kill you. And what would happen if you put immune cells in somebody's body, and they didn't have any other immune cells to fight them, and these immune cells proliferate, and then they go and attack the person's body because they see it, the whole thing, is foreign, right? Gotcha. Because just because you inject them in there,

they don't go, oh, we're home, you know, they're still seeking out foreign proteins. So you have to have a perfect match, or you have to suppress, well, now, or you have to suppress it to the point where it's no longer worth anything. So you've got to get a perfect match. and that's called graft versus host disease and we'll see that also in you know like kidney

transplants if somebody you know if they don't have a good match then you know the immune system will try to kill it so so anyway so that's why they do this and people in the family my understanding is and the doctor that's going to be on with us can elucidate us on that only 30% of people can find a match within their family oh wow okay so yeah you'd think it'd be better in that but that's how crazy it is wow i was going to say is it your best better parent is it is it is just you know a close relative but it's only 30 percent wow so all right so yeah so we'll check that out uh cord blood i've kept my kids cord blood i did matter of fact i just paid for another year of cord blood i'm no i don't know if that will ever help them or not you know they're 14 so i've paid 4

$1,400 to maintain their cord blood in some laboratory somewhere because it's $100 a year. But, you know, maybe, I mean, cord blood's got stem cells in it. It's got all kinds of stuff in it. So, you know, it might be useful to them if they ever get a blood-borne disease, and they need to have a cord blood transplant. And to see if we're a match is just a swab of your skin? No, the swab of your mouth. They do a buckle swab.

And from that, they can get cells from the inside of your mouth, and from that they can get DNA and look for markers and stuff. Yeah, it's pretty cool. All right, and we'll get the scoop on that in a couple of weeks, assuming I can make this work again. So, all right, take a couple phone calls, and then we'll get out of here. Number one thing, don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. Hey, Dr. Steve, so here again. Question.

If you're drinking alcohol and you eat food, and of course if you don't wash your hands because of the night, you're all hammered and blah, blah, blah, blah, does the food that you touch, that had germs on it, possibly, goes in your stomach and you have all that alcohol in there, will it kill all the germs? You touched going into separate from your fingers and stuff like that.

I just realized that. And your offices and shit like that. You said, never put things in your offices, understand. But does it matter? Yeah, okay. So he's asking if you drink a bunch of alcohol, will it kill germs in your food? Oh, the stomach acid will. Exactly.

The amount of bacteria that alcohol at that concentration will kill in your stomach is negligible compared to the acid in your stomach, which is why you need acid in your stomach, which is why we try not to suppress stomach acid too much with these PPIs and H2 blockers and stuff. There are some people like me that have a hard time living without them. Now, those things don't make the pH in your stomach go back to seven. You know, it just raises the pH with the lower numbers being more acidic,

normal pH in the stomach's around four. But, you know, if you have just episode, sodic heartburn, do what Dr. Scott does. A teaspoon or a tablespoon of yellow mustard? Typically about a tablespoon. Okay. Yeah. I hate yellow mustard, but damn, does that work?

It really does work. That is, it makes no sense. It's insane. No, it makes no sense to me either, but it does. If we could just isolate the part in mustard that actually does it, we could make a peel out of it because that's a typical American response to everything. All right. Let's see. Oh, here's a question for you, Dr. Scott.

Oh. Hi, Dr. Steve. This is Phil from Tampa. I hope you're doing well. I have a question for you and for Dr. Scott about trying to gain some energy back during the day. I work in an office environment, and usually in the afternoon, 2.2.30, I start to crash all, and I get a little tired. And I sleep okay to pretty well. seven hours or so.

And I was just curious if you could recommend anything to have a little pick-me-up. I don't really like five-hour energy. I understand the idea of caffeine and things like that. But any sort of thing I could take, a vitamin or a supplement, or even something silly. Like, I do have the ability to kind of get up and take five or ten minutes to myself, walk around, stress, etc. you know, anything to keep me going during the day. Yeah, so I've got a couple of ideas. And it doesn't have to be a pill.

No. When I, when I, that's my one. Let me tell my story and then you can, and then I'll let you jump in. When I was in fourth year medical school, I was fatigued all the time, but I was also working out, but I quit going to workouts because I was so tired. I'd get home. I'd be exhausted because you'd be up 36 hours as bullshit.

So my trainer said, how come you're not? come and I said I'm just tired all the time and he said that's the time to come and I said oh right well you know more about physiology than I do that if you expend energy somehow you'll get energy and he said yeah exactly just try at once jackass so I said I was going to prove him wrong just sounds similar to the story about Battlestar Galactica when I told that guy he was an idiot when he said it was the best show on TV and then I watched the first five minutes and I'm like it's the best show on TV. But anyway, so I went to the gym, totally exhausted, did my whole workout, did the sauna, jumped in the pool, you know, the hot tub, the whole thing got out of there. And I felt like a

million bucks. And I was like, damn, if he wasn't right, I absolutely have more energy. There's a physiologic reason for that. But we don't have to get into that so much. So Dr. Scott, that's my story um that's my non pill story for an alopathic physician that's pretty good so uh give give him your your thing because i already know one thing you're going to say well another non pill thing would be just making sure maybe laying off the the sugars and the starches in the morning and afternoon he may be having rebound hypoglycemia sure he could be dumping he could be dumping and that's the first thing i would i would do is reevaluate the diet make sure you get more proteins and less less sugars you know give yourself a bill

And I would go to simplyerbils.net. There you go. Give yourself a bill. There it is. I knew that was coming. It's just a fatigue reprieve because it has a straggilus in it. That's great. It does.

It really does. I swear it is, yeah. Hey, in all seriousness, no, I love the stragglers for it. It's a safe energy booster. But, you know, the fatigue reprieve has straggles and ginsing both. Yeah. You know, but I tell people don't take that and take big shots of caffeine. Don't mix a bunch of energy things together.

You know, pick one or the other. Why? Why? What happens? I don't know. That was GVAC's favorite, right? Yeah, it was. Was it the fatigue reprieve?

It's still my favorite. Yeah, I actually took some before I came over today. Let's have some. I might have some. Yeah, I actually took some before I came over to kind of clear my mind. But, you know, the safest thing has been used in Chinese medicine for years and years. It's Wong Chi, which is the straggles or Rinchen, which is a ginseng. So pretty good stuff, you know, just make sure you get, don't mix it with a bunch of other things.

The other thing, so I like the whole idea of more protein-less carbohydrates during the day to, you know, avoid. those sugar spikes and sugar lows. The other thing, let's make sure we're not missing something. So the things I do in a male with fatigue are I'll screen them for sleep apnea. And if they are at risk for sleep apnea, consider a sleep study because that's a cause of undiagnosed fatigue. Number two, testosterone, number three, thyroid, and number four, let's make sure you're not anemic. So, and then depression can also cause its severe refractory fatigue.

And remember, depression isn't just, isn't sadness. Those some, you know, people may only have a sad mood some of the time, but they'll have all the other symptoms. Loss of interest in doing things, you know, apathy, loss of motivation to do things. Those are two really different things. sound similar loss of libido fatigue all these things kind of sound like low testosterone too so these things can mimic each other and sleep apnea yeah and sleep apnea yeah good point

so and transcendental meditation also works oh yeah some DM for fatigue she has oh god yeah really you do it like you're supposed to do it first thing in the morning and then once I would just fall asleep well it's kind of your brain kind of Sometimes it does, but it's called resting your brain. And as soon as that 20 minutes is up, you open your eyes and you're just like, whoa. How about that? It's a whole other, I don't know, like a whole other day.

And, you know, I would guess, I would hypothesize, maybe quarters all levels go down, serotonin goes up, maybe a little bit where you're having TM. Possibly. Yeah, maybe so. Maybe. And I know in the evening, you know, we have these diurnal rhythms to diurnal, just meaning, you know, a day, a 24-hour rhythm, and they'll vary during the day. the amount of hormones that you get in your body

and stress hormones change during the day and I know when I get a cold I feel worse at night and I think there are some people that my son is that way he feels fatigued in the early evening right around dusk and then you know there's the sundowners I was going to say sundowners all that stuff is involved in that you know

we actually work on a 24 hour cycle there are certain you know hormones in our body that go up and down and it does affect how we feel so and even going outside and just looking at the sun and getting fresh air yeah don't look actually at the sun but look up but yeah i know what you mean yeah well they say look up at the sky i guess sure yeah um yeah my kid is really having a lot of fatigue right now i'm going to get him uh one of those sun lamps and you can get that through stuff dot dr steve dot com because it's true in in the winter particularly when it's great and the sun is low, and you never see the sun because it's dark when you go to work,

and it's dark when you leave work. There are people who are affected by that. It's called seasonal affective disorder, and a solar or a lamp that gives you some bright light during the day actually has been shown to improve that. So does go into Florida, which I'm doing on Thursday. That's awesome. So does vodka. Hey, vodka.

Vodka. Oh. All right. Let's answer this one. It's not been proven. Dr. Steve. I was watching the R. Kelly documentary the other day, and one of the gals who was in the house,

I guess it was several women, and they were all having sex with R. Kelly, she got out, and she had, I guess, hired an attorney after she heard that there were a lot of sexually transmitted diseases in the area, area in the house. And she went to the doctor, and the doctor performed a blood test, and she was positive for herpes. And I've never heard of a blood test that you can get that will test positive or negative for herpes. I thought it was a visual. What do you think? Okay.

So, you're right. Herpes is usually diagnosed during an outbreak. So you get a cluster of small, painful blisters. Usually the primary event will happen about four days after you're exposed to herpes. And then those blisters will ulcerate and you'll get these little scooped out places. And again, in that sort of cluster of small cluster of grapes appearance. If you swab the base of one of those, you can either culture the herpes virus out of it or you can look at it under the microscope and look for these abnormal cells.

but when you are exposed to herpes, your body will develop antibodies to it, which are just basically proteins that will mark those viruses for destruction by the rest of the immune system. And you can detect those in the bloodstream. So that blood tests they did on her, all that tells her is that she's been exposed to herpes in the past. It doesn't say you're actively shedding virus. doesn't say you're in your you are you know having an outbreak it doesn't tell you when you got it and it doesn't tell you who you got it from now you can fractionate it to say whether it's herpes simplex one or two and that still doesn't tell you anything because you can get herpes one on your

lip which is where you normally get it but you can also get it on your genitalia and likewise for herpes simplex two so it really doesn't tell anything so many people have herpes simplex one just from cold sores. You know, if you get recurrent cold sores, you've got herpes simplex one. So it really didn't tell anything, and they can't use that in a court of law, unless the, you know, if they don't get an expert witness to explain the timelessness of that blood, of that blood test. Now, you can say that it wasn't just the other day because we have two kinds of antibodies in our bloodstream. one is IGM, which is acute, meaning if you have that,

then you just got it the other day, and the rest are IGG. So, and that's what they test for on that. Hey, we've got to get out of here. I've got 16 seconds. Thanks to our listeners whose voicemail and topic ideas. Make this job very easy. Go to our website at Dr. Steve.com. Until next time, check your stupid nuts for lumps, quit smoking, get off your asses and get some exercise.

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