Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 450 - Post Vaccine Tumescence

Episode Date: April 13, 2021

Dr Steve and Dr Scott discuss the new trial demonstrating that fully vaccinated persons do not spread COVID-19, and the political ramifications thereof. Remember Dr Steve's equation: Politics + Medicine = Politics. They discuss other non-Covid things as well. stuff.doctorsteve.com (for all your online shopping needs!) noom.doctorsteve.com (lose weight, gain you-know-what) Get Every Podcast on a Thumb Drive (all this can be yours!) roadie.doctorsteve.com OMG the coolest stringed instrument accessory EVER MADE) simplyherbals.net (for all your StressLess and FatigueReprieve needs!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Okay. Yeah. I will do it. Yeah, I'll take her over. Okay. All right, Dr. Scott. Have you got your vaccine yet? I have.

Excellent. Okay. We'll give you one of these. Give yourself a bill. So, yeah, I was giving a talk to a group of medical students. And I'd ask him a question when they'd get a question. When they'd get it right, I'd give them the good old... Give yourself a bill!

It's just kind of funny. So, yeah, so you've had both of them? I sure have. Okay, and I have two, so we can now take our masks off. Yes, maybe. I like to keep mine on. It keeps people guessing. So I was very entertained by Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci duking it out, and it was really just,

two different ways of looking at things. Rand Paul was like, you don't have any evidence that people who are vaccinated can transmit the disease. And Fauci was saying, well, you don't have any evidence that they don't. And

back and forth they went. So it's the libertarian versus the, you know, I don't know, whatever. The sort of more administrative kind of thing. And so the libertarian side is, look, you don't have evidence that this is going to hurt anything.

So why do we have to hunker down and do these things if we've been fully vaccinated? And the other side is, well, you know, theoretically, and we brought this up on the show, people who have been fully vaccinated. Oh, by the way, we're talking about COVID-19. in case you weren't 100% sure. Fully vaccinated, maybe they just get an asymptomatic infection. You and I have talked about this. And so even though the odds of someone who has an asymptomatic active infection

or low of transmitting it, they come into contact with orders of magnitude more people than somebody that's in isolation. Right. socially distancing. So anyway, no, I got it right the first time. Someone that has the infection and they're isolated. So you figure it kind of evens out a little bit.

Well, anyway, now we have the answer. The CDC enrolled about 4,000 people at high risk of being exposed to the virus because they were health care workers or first responders or other people on the front lines, and none of them had been infected before. So most of the participants received both shots of the vaccine during the study period

and about 12% of them only had one shot. They collected their own nasal swabs each week, which were sent to a central location for PCR testing. That's polymerase chain reaction testing. This is the most sensitive thing that are looking for viral RNA.

And the weekly swabs were allowed the researchers to detect asymptomatic infections as well as symptomatic ones. Because if you remember, I told you when I was in the Pfizer trial, they didn't test us for virus. They tested us for symptoms. Okay. So every week I had to fill out a diary that said if I had any COVID symptoms

or was I admitted to the hospital or any of that stuff. They never sent me a PCR test. I'm not saying they should have. I'm just saying they were looking. to see if people got sick, they weren't looking to see if people got infected. So it was possible that those people got infected, and they just didn't, you know, didn't know it. Right. Now, Pfizer, every three months was checking antibodies, so they would have picked up on some of that, and I haven't heard that they ever picked up on any of that.

But for a while there, we weren't sure what they were actually seeing was that we knew people weren't going to the hospital, they weren't dying, but were they getting infected? So, anyway, so that's what this is looking at. And the investigators ask people about symptoms as well. You know, fever, chills, cough, shortness breath, loss of smell or taste, that kind of stuff, just like I had to do every week. So this is sort of like the Pfizer follow-up on steroids. And among those who were fully vaccinated,

there were 0.4 infections per thousand percent. days, meaning among 1,000 persons, there would be 0.04 infections in a day. And there were 0.0.19, so 0.2 infections per 1,000 person days, among those who only had one dose of the vaccine. And in contrast, there were 1.38 infections per 1,000 person days in unvaccinated people. So, let's see, what is that? That would be basically 1.3,000 38 times 5 right so it's 500 600 percent hang on a second echo what's 1.38 divided by 0.3 2 divided by 0.2 is 6.9 yeah so 60 60 60 90 percent less right okay so um so listen so here's the deal so this was Rand Paul's question do these

people get infected if the answer is no now it's not zero no it's not zero but do we do things to make things zero in this in this world i don't think that i mean you wear your seat belt it doesn't make it zero right yeah i don't i don't think total elimination is the you can't possible no i don't think so no it's crazy but what they're showing is that these people don't get infected now six months from now, maybe they will. So we've got to keep looking at it. And maybe your COVID passport, which as a libertarian I am not in favor of, is would only last six months. Right.

You know. So, but anyway, we'll see. We need long-term studies, obviously. Yes. But this is a good study, and these people are not getting infected. So, look. here's my position on this and we can you know honest people can differ sure if i have the vaccine and i'm fully vaccinated there is no reason for me to wear a mask anymore if my mask protects

you you have nothing to fear from me however if i go that may be true if i go to a airport and they require that i wear a mask i'm not going to bitch about i'm not going to bitch and complain about that that's their policy i cannot go to the airport yep yep you can so any place any municipality can set those rules now the problem with municipal with the government doing it of course is then you can't you can't not live under the government like you know if there's a bar that requires a mask and another bar that doesn't then i don't want to wear a mask i'll go to the one that doesn't and take my chances right there are other viruses out there by the way you know puke bugs and stuff like that we haven't we sort of forgot about those but forgetting about that but you

can't choose not to live under a municipality if you live there so that's an issue I have an issue with and you know the thing is how would we do this passport thing are they going to you know give you a tattoo they give you a card are you going to get a card implantable device can it be right right can it be can this card be counterfeited what do you need to get this card you have to show your ID you know all this stuff and now we've got just another thing that limits people that and is this card mandated by the government because then now people who choose not to get the vaccine that want to take their chances or let's say they had the infection right are they going to have an exception for those. If they don't, then people who choose not to have the vaccine are going to

have, it's almost like, you know, the social score in other countries. You know, now all of a sudden there's things you can't do that other people can do because you made a choice not to do something that, you know, the overlords told you to do. Right. And that I have issues with. I'm also a physician and I am interested in public safety. So I have a, you know, I always have this internal battle. And people not getting deadly ill and having to go to hospital. Yeah, I don't see any of that. No, heck no.

We've got enough shit to deal with. So I've always said, protect the vulnerable, let the other people who are at low risk, even though they're not at zero risk, but I'm not at zero risk when I get in my car every day. Let them do their thing. And when we get everybody up and vaccinated, that, And we, I would really like to see us get a therapeutic that is a pill that we can just give that prevents people from going to the hospital and prevents them from dying. Then that's, then it's over. But anyway, but I, you know, I would have a discussion with someone if they have a different point of view that they think is better than that.

I just don't know, I don't know what the answer is. Yeah, a lot of those folks, and I saw a dude today on the morning news that was saying he, He wasn't going to take it just because he didn't think there was enough science behind. He just didn't trust it. Well, and that's okay. But you know what I like to tell those people that, you know, you're an adult, make your own decisions. But there is a lot of science behind it. Well, obviously.

You know what I'm saying? There's a lot of science. So you're saying it's just start doing vaccines. Their company name is Mode RNA. They've been trying to come out with a with an RNA virus. for ages, and they were ready to go with SARS and MERS, and then they'd sort of, you know, fizzled out. They didn't have good results with Ebola, but, you know, it's ongoing.

But they were ready to go because of 10 years of research on that. Yeah, of course, yeah. There's a lot of great research. And may I add to the vaccination thing. I had hypothesized for a while that after I got my second vaccine, and we started to talk about last show, felt poorly for 24, 48 hours. Then about two weeks later, I got a lump under my armpit.

Oh, yeah. Left armpit, which I found, to me, was comforting because what it told me was something really truly was working. But then, Dr. Steve, after that, I felt, and I have felt better for the last two months, and I felt in a year. Oh, yeah, interesting. And this weekend, it was interesting, and I brought it up today,

but there is now there's now some proof and some research saying that people who have long-haul COVID symptoms that do get the vaccine. They feel better. They feel better because they're not saying why, but I think, and you can certainly agree or disagree, but what that tells me is that these vaccines identify those spike proteins that are still floating around your body and says, hey, bad actors, kick them out. And so now your immune system has recognized that Trojan horse and they're going to run it off. well maybe and feel better and but that would make sense because if that's if that's the mechanism it makes sense it doesn't make sense is why you still have these proteins still lollying

and that's what they were saying in the paper too so I'm just I'm just guessing I don't have any scientific proof it because they can't figure out why people have the long-haul COVID symptoms right yeah and that's kind of interesting that is yeah if it becomes like a chronic infection or something the one thing that we can't say will never happen and that I agree with people on if they just go well ain't no science science and it's just people throwing out

the word science that don't honestly understand what the word means but there are some people that have a legitimate concern and I had this concern from day one is immune enhancement

now there was a phenomenon that was seen when they were making feline M-R-N-A vaccines against coronavirus. Okay. And when they vaccinated the felines, they, when they were re-exposed to other coronaviruses,

they died. Now, why they don't, and it's called antibody-dependent enhancement or ADE. Okay. And it's a form of immune enhancement, and it's poorly understood, but it's a concern in situations when people are continuously reinfected with particular viruses

and with the vaccines that work by injecting snippets of the virus to mimic a first infection. And so some of those, like the RSV virus, respiratory-sensitial virus vaccine, have been shown in the past to make disease worse when those patients contract the virus again. And now, these cases are exceedingly rare across viruses, but it was nerve-wracking in the beginning,

because if we see that, that's why you do phase one, phase two, and phase three trials. The good news with this is there's no evidence of this whatsoever, because we would have seen it by now with the number of people that have been infected or vaccinated and then subsequently infected. Right. And they would have been keeling over right and left,

and there would have been a statistically significant nerve-wracking. Yes. Because, you know, I joked about all of this in the beginning. You know, I have seen I Am legend and all that and stuff. You know, we don't want those sorts of effects to happen. But, you know, what if antibody-dependent enhancement happened with this vaccine? And two years from now, people were dropping right and left. from what would have been just a calm and cold at the time.

But there is zero evidence of this. Now, I'm looking at the scientist, and they talk about a dengue fever of vaccine, says dengue remains the best studied. One of the very few solid examples of ADE, it's thought to occur in communities where there are multiple viral strains of dengue circulating. And while antibodies against one dengue strain

will typically reliably protect against that, that strain. Things can go awry when the antibodies encounter a different strain of dengue. Instead of neutralizing the virus that is binding to and blocking the protein the pathogen needs to enter the host, the antibodies only bind to the virus without neutralizing it. And this can become a problem when immune cells dock onto the tail ends of these antibodies. That's what they do. And the dengue viruses use these receptors to infect cells if the antibodies aren't disabling the pathogen, they actually end up helping the virus

enter the white blood cells to infect them. And so it's like a Trojan horse. And, you know, you make the infection easier. One of the hypotheses is you make the antibody against the wrong side of the spike protein. But that's really difficult to do with this vaccine because it only causes the body to manufacture just the, you know, the spike receptor. So we've not, again, not seen any of this.

This is the legitimate complaint. Now, if someone said, listen, I'm really worried about antibody-dependent enhancement. You know, my counter to that is we haven't seen it, but I understand your concern. Sure, sure. Other than that, I'm not seeing it. No, no. You know, there's tons of science. There's tons of science.

Dan, and I'm pretty sure that Bill Gates is not putting any nanotechnology into the vaccines and tracking us. Well, we don't even have that. That's my point. That's my point. What would do? To what end would that be? Zero.

Zero. None. I mean, they can track us already with our effing cell phones. Our phones, with satellites, the camera. There's cameras all over. You can track. I mean, if I ever really wanted to go to Reno and. Have a good time.

Yeah. up my stuff. How can I do it when, you know. You can't. They've got facial recognition. Well, they have, yes. Your cell phone's being in. But my cell phone will, will tell on me.

Yep. And your partners will be looking for you. So Tacey would get a thing saying, you know, Steve arrived at the, at the Mustang Ranch. You know, after a three-mile drive. And then your discover card is going to send you an email saying, you just spend $1,200. That, too. front of the Mustang Ranch. So to develop a nanotechnology that would not be as effective as my cell phone, because

there's no nanotransmitters, it would have to be passive RFID. That's the only thing that would be. So if people aren't aware of active versus passive RFID, you know, active, you're transmitting a signal. There's no nanotechnology that we have that can transmit a signal. Well, you know, it uses the energy of your cell. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't do that.

Different kind of energy. It doesn't work that way. And so it would have to be passive, and that way you would have to pass under a, you know, a detector somewhere. A scanner would have to be set up somewhere. When my cell phone is constantly telling them where I am. It tells you how fast you drive is. Yes. Oh, shit.

That pissed me off. Okay, so my, you got me going on this damn topic. My insurance company said, oh, put this monitor in your car, and we'll monitor your every move. And we'll know exactly where you go at all times to make sure you're not going. You know that they're looking, you know, they're going into a sketchy neighborhood to cop or whatever, you know. And then your insurance rates go up. But, you know, I did all the things. I slowed down.

I didn't accelerate too fast. I didn't slam on the brakes as much as I usually did. You know how much I saved on my bill? Four dollars. When I saw that, I said, get this damn thing out of my car. Well, it made me so damn mad. They offered one to me, and I said,

you've obviously not seen me drive. I'll be passing on that thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, but, you know, they could say, if you don't do it, we're going to raise your rates. And so they can coerce us into, doing that. Really good.

And, you know, we can go to Big Loo's auto insurance at that point. Yep. But, you know, and when they get all of them to do it, then there's no place to go. No. No. That would be kind of frightening with it. So, and then it's like, well, it's your choice. Well, what kind of choice is that?

Okay, here we go. Good. There we go. Tacey, you're on weird medicine. Oh, no. She must be feeling better. Oh, no. No.

She's feeling better. Why? I better stop and call her and see what else she needs. Hang on. Okay, we're back. She better pray to the good Lord above that I don't ever die. Yes. I don't know how she'll FaceTime anybody or turn the TV on or anything.

I know. Run the air conditioner. Stove. No. She knows. Oh, well, she doesn't know how to work the electronic thermostat. So that is true. She'll just burn up or she'll freeze.

Well, she's a getter, no. That's what we say in Tennessee. You're a gettern. All right. Well, you want to do some... Let's do some phone calls. Okay, all right. This one is apropos to our discussion.

Just calling to comment on the show. I know two people who receive the vaccine, one, a young teenage boy, what he's experiencing as a side effect of the vaccine is not the same as getting COVID-19. And I mean, not because he's hospitalized, but with swelling of the tongue and throat, you know, almost like an allergic reaction, reminds me of what happened to someone who I recently came across, a friend of mine who was almost in April and had an allergic reaction. So where your throat swells, which can be really dangerous, and also know a friend personally

who, for seven years, has had an artificial knee, never had a... Let's talk about this first. Serious reactions to vaccines are certainly possible. They are exceedingly rare. Let me see if I've got a number on that. Let's see. What they say is if you have a severe allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis, that's when your throat swells up.

You have trouble breathing, and they have to give you epinephrine to stop it. They say, if you have that, don't get a second shot of the vaccine. That's kind of a whole real. Really? Thanks, Mr. Obvious. So anyway, an allergic reaction is considered severe when a person needs to be treated with epinephrine. Okay. If you didn't have to be treated with epinephrine, it's not a severe reaction.

It's a reaction. Right. And it may have given you a bit of a scare. A bit of a scare, yep. But it's not considered severe. Okay. All right. But that can happen.

Yeah. Certainly can happen. The issues with it got the first dose of the vaccine. Her orthopedic specialist told her that it was absolutely responsible for setting off a chain reaction in her body and producing a staff infection. You know, the staff was probably their dormant on the instrument for years and would have remained that way. But then the body has an immune response to the vaccine and sets off this chain reaction where the staff now prolificate. This sounds like a way to get out of a loss. That's what I'm thinking, too, from the surgeon.

I mean, I'm not laughing about your friend, and I'm sorry that they had a staff infection infection after COVID vaccine. Let's just look it up and see. I don't, I have not seen any. Yeah, I'm with you. I've never. Anything saying that the COVID vaccine can enhance a bacterial infection.

But let's just see here. here. Okay, I know what that is. That's somebody trying to call Tacey and it's going through here. Okay, it looks like she answered it. Okay. So here it is. Staphylococcus bacteremia in patients when infected with COVID-19. But yeah. Secondary bacterial infections result in higher mobility and mortality. That happens because of the damage that's done to the body by the virus itself. So, yeah, that's interesting in that. I mean, that's a, that orthopedist is putting forth a hypothesis that is testable. I'm not finding any data here about other people having the same sort of thing. Me either.

So, yeah, sorry about that. I hate that for, that is an interesting hypothesis. I would want that orthopedist to produce their source for that. And if there is one out there, if anybody out there knows, shoot it at me. I'm just not finding it. All right. I'm finding lots of people that are infected with staff subsequent to having COVID-19, but we see that with influenza as well.

so all right sorry sorry about your yeah I'll think it better it sucks for both of them I'm still recommending the vaccine but yes and by the way this brings up a good point everything has adverse effects

sometimes serious yes it's what you have to weigh the risks versus the benefits and the benefits to the individual with this vaccine you know a lot of times we say well the benefit to society outweighs the risk to the individual

but there's benefit to the individual of this one as well because of the high rate of effectiveness of these things so wearing your seatbelt will prevent you from dying 50% of the time if you're in a wreck that would otherwise throw you out of the car

whereas if you wear your seat belt it may increase your risk of dying if your car catches on fire and the door is smashed in but that's basically one time in a million. Yeah, and you're going to be in pretty, probably dire shapes anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'd be nice to be able to get out of the car.

I get it. That's why they sell those things that cut your seatbelts, you know, in case you get stuck in the car. Oh, yeah. And I recommend people have those, but my point is, wearing the seatbelt may increase your risk of dying once

a million events, whereas not wearing it will increase your risk of dying about one in time in two. So the risk versus the benefit The benefit is much greater than the risk I'm wearing your seatbelt And that's the same kind of thing here All right

Hey Dr. Steve, it's Calvin from California So earlier I had eaten a banana And then my cell phone The Samsung Galaxy was laying on the table And when I moved the banana peel The banana peel was able to manipulate The screen of the cell phone I can only manipulate the screen of the cell phone with my charged finger because it's got the electromagnetic field in my organic being, you know, my carbon-based life form.

But if I try to use a pen or a pencil or any other inanimate object, it can't manipulate the phone screen. So why is a banana peel that's not being charged by my hand manipulating the screen of a smartphone? Yeah. I also, by the way, you're not charged. we don't walk around charged if we did we'd be shocking stuff every time you know like you can charge yourself up if you walk across the right kind of carpet at the right time

of year when they're in a lot of water vapor in the air and you can be have a carry a slight charge for a very short period of time but basically matter exists in a neutral state. And so that's not why touch screens work because you're charged. What you're looking at is a capacitive screen. There's resistive screens and capacitive screens.

Resistive screens are touch-sensitive. Anything that touches them will set them on, you know, what you can work them. And there's two screens that are sandwiched together that have a little spacer in there. And when you press on it, the, you know, the point of where you touch it has a different resistance than other parts of the screen, and so it'll register as a hit. Capacitive screens don't use pressure to create a change in flow. So we figure that out.

If he uses a pencil with a rubber eraser on it, it won't work or a plastic pin. These work with anything that holds an electric charge, including, human skin. It just has to be conductive. It doesn't have to be actually positively or negatively charged. So they're constructed from materials like copper or indium tin oxide that store electrical charges in this grid of tiny wires, and each of them are smaller than a human hair. And then there are surface and projective type screens. It doesn't really matter, but the surface capacitive screens use sensors at the corners and a thin, distributive film, and then the projective ones use a grid of rows and columns with separate chip for censoring.

So when the finger hits the screen and tiny electrical charge is transferred to the finger to complete the circuit, creating a voltage drop at that point in the screen. And that's why they don't work when you wear gloves, because cloth doesn't conduct electricity unless it's fitted with a conductive thread. And the software processes this location of the voltage drop and orders the ensuing action. So I'm getting that last part from scienceline.org. So there are certain styly that are conductive,

and then there you can use those. And there are certain styly, the old-school ones, that you would use with a resistive screen, that were not conductive, no longer work on these kinds of screens. So if it's conductive, it'll work, and your finger is conductive, but so is that banana peel. And so that's how it works. All right. Pretty cool stuff.

All right. Here's one for you. You might be able to answer this one. I'm glad P.A. John's back because I've got a medical question. I need to answer. Well, he was back for one week, genius. That's Stacey Deloge. And we don't know how often he's going to be able to get over here, but we'll try.

Anyway, we enjoyed to have an old PA. It was good. PA shithead in the studio. Heels first. Pennsylvania John. It made me laugh so hard. That is funny. He called up the call screener on Opie and Anthony and said, hey, it's P.A. John.

And they just put it up as P.A. John. And then, oh, he read it. Pennsylvania John on Line 3. God, I love it. He didn't have any clue. I love it, love it. I've got not one, but two of them. one that points down and one points out of the back of the hill that points up, what's the best way to deal with the heel spur and is there any food that kind of affects it?

Like too much sodium, will not make one flare up or something such as that? Not that I'm aware of. Okay, you want to take this about heel spurs because it isn't in the spur that causes the problem, right? I'll take it. It's not. It's the failure really of the arch and the shoes that you're wearing kind of pitching you forward. And the more tension you have on the fash and the connective tissue and the bottom of your. foot the more tension you have on the bone that pulls the bone off of the hill and you get

hillspers because bone is not a rock that is an active living tissue that will respond to to tension to tension by growing in that direction that's that's you know one way that keeps your hip strong because you're always standing up that you're always creating bone perpendicular to the stress but anyway yeah yeah and that's right and you know we see and axial to the stress too well Well, we see a lot of the bones spurs really in the heel and the shoulder both just because of the way the joints set up. But I can tell you, Dr. Steve, one way not to fix a heel spur, but to take a lot of the pressure off of it, and it's counterintuitive, but is to learn to get your balance back on your heels. And the way I teach people to do that is if you can't afford or don't like to wear chakos,

which are the shoes that have negative heels, they'll take a lot of the stress off the arch of your foot and takes a lot of the pressure of your bones spurs. That's one way to do it. and the other i mean you could you can certainly go in and surgically remove a bone but in a foot that's going to be pretty painful yeah i'm very i'm giving it i don't like it i don't like it but you know in theory in theory if you can if you'll take the tension off of the off of the fascia that's there or the the tendons that are pulling on the bone that's the correct now there are some things that you can do at home uh for plantar fasci Yeah, a lot of people who have this, will be runners.

But some people just walking around will get this heel pain. And it sucks, and it's usually worse in the morning when you get up because it's sort of contracted, and now you're trying to stretch it back out again. So a couple of exercises you can do is the lean, where you lean into the wall on your tiptoes, and then push your heels back down and try to stretch that out, and you'll feel it. the other thing you can do is my physical therapist says get a you know one of those little seven ounce coke bottles take it out of the refrigerator and roll it under your foot sure and it gives that does give you some relief and those those things do give you some temporarily

but honest what I've seen to literally fix the plantarous fasciitis yeah is to get to learn how to stand on your heels in the way I teach you Dr. Steve yeah if when you're standing up if you can wiggle your toes your toes are not engaged that means the arch of your foot is resting which is where you want it and if you're leaning forward like in big tennis shoes or cowboy boots or something to pitch you forward then you've got a lot of extra strain you need to be able to wiggle your toes when you're standing yeah yeah because it takes a lot of load off of the fascia okay yeah sure now um when i was in primary care i recommended tuli heel cups t uly and i had a lot of people get good results with those and then i went to a running

place. And they had this really cool thing. It's a sock that you wear at night, and it has Velcro on the toe and a strap, and Velcro on the shin. And you actually pull that thing up, and then Velcro the toe to the shin.

And it looks uncomfortable, but it will stretch that plantar fascia, you know, that sort of inverse suspension bridge under the foot, the arch of the foot. And stretching it will then allow you to have a little less tension in it

when you're running. The third thing, or whatever, I don't even know the 14th thing, how many things we've talked about, I would inject those with cortisone. And the thing is for the medical students that are listening,

never inject from the plantar side, another from the bottom of the foot. Because if you do that and you get a little scarring from that injection, because you're using steroids too, and you've got micro trauma it'll always feel like they're running or walking on a rock so you want to go in from the side which means you got to get good at your 3D perception yes in your brain you've got

to see it in three dimensions yeah so that you can get that needle in right where that the tendon or sorry the ligament attaches to the heel bone which we call the calcaneus so you and you never want to put it into the ligament itself. You want to inject it around the ligament, let them walk around and kind of mush the medication around. Because if you go directly into the ligament, you can actually expand it, cut off its blood supply, and then it becomes disconnected,

and now you're even worse. So this is not a procedure to be done by the faint of heart. No. You know, I use long needles and just come in from the sides on both sides and put electrical stimulation to it. Yeah. Kind of simpler than that. Could be interesting.

Oh, yeah. All right. Good deal. All right. So that's your heel spur thing. See your primary care if you, if doing the home things doesn't get you any better. Hey, Dr. Steve. Hey, man.

John from Kentucky. Hey, John. You may have covered this question already, but I've got friends that got the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. Okay. And one of the side effects they had was raging erections. What? Stop it. Please.

Do tell. and then can I also get that vaccine as well? Can you want? Double down on it. Okay. You know why? It's because the vaccine chart resembles a penis. I was going to say, did they?

Have you seen the vaccine chart? I don't think so. So Johnson Johnson vaccine chart resembles a penis. And here, come look at this. See if you can see this. I've got to be careful turning this thing around. It looks like an erect penis. Just Google, people who are listening, Google Johnson and Johnson vaccine chart resembles penis.

And you'll see it looks like an erect, weirdly shaped penis. This person looks like they've got hypospadius. So that's what Bobo had, where the urethra comes out of the wrong part of the penis instead of out the middle of the Roman War helmet where the meatus is actually somewhere else, sometimes on the shaft of the penis, which is really weird. Yeah. But that's what this looks like. It looks like an erect hypospatiac penis. And then it goes out, and it's got number zero to 63,

and it ends up right around 65. So it looks like a 65 centimeter penis, right? It should be pretty damn big. But anyway, I think that's where this comes from, because I haven't heard any of this other thing. Nor have I. I think, listen, we've all been cooped up in the house for a year or slightly more now, and I think people get their vaccine and they just get excited,

and then they get a big giant rod because they're thinking about all the fun they're going to have. That's the only thing I can think of. That's right. Because I have not psychosomatic, seen anything else. That's funny. That's cool. But maybe it's just unique to Kentucky, you know. Yeah, yeah, I guess.

Well, we have another question about the J&J vaccine, but this one's... Hey, Dr. Steve, quick question. I don't think you cover this, but obviously, if you did, you could ignore it. Why is the Johnson and Johnson vaccine one shot, and the others are two shots? Yeah. The only thing I know that's different is J&J is a DNA, and the other ones are an RNA. Makes sense of that, please. Thank you so much.

Yeah. So that's correct and incorrect. at the same time. So the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines we've covered pretty significantly on the show. They use messenger RNA, which is just instructions

to your cells to make the spike protein. The J&J vaccine uses a little bit different approach. It uses a viral vectored vaccine, which is they take a harmless virus, in this case, an adenovirus. This is a virus that causes common colds. And they engineered it

to carry the genetic code for the SARS spike protein. And once the adenovirus infects you, basically, they're causing an infection. It enters the cells, and then it uses the code to make the spike protein, and then the body does all the same thing. So it's just a different approach to it. J&J used the same technology to make an Ebola vaccine. You know, we'll see on that one.

Now, why one dose instead of two? well, you may not find this answer very, very satisfying. But J&J just studied one dose. That's it. Oh, wow. Is that the only thing? Yeah, Pfizer could have studied one dose, and they would have had, what, 85% effectiveness, and we would have gone, well, that's pretty damn good for a damn vaccine.

But they went for two, and they got 94% efficacy. Okay? so j and j just wanted to see if one dose would work and and they they did it and it's what 68 percent 66 percent infected uh or protective and um sorry let me look i got that wrong that was a 66 percent protective against moderate to severe covid infections from 28 days after an injection It's 72% protective in the United States, 66% protective in South America, maybe because of variance, 57% protective in South Africa. But it's 85% protective against severe disease with no differences across all those countries.

No hospitalizations or deaths in the vaccine arm. So what they're saying is, look, we're not so worried about making everybody asymptomatic where you want to prevent hospitalizations and death, and we can do it with one shot. And Pfizer and Moderna can't say that conclusively because they didn't set out to study theirs with one shot, but they could, and I'll bet you it'll be similar. Yeah.

They may even have slightly better prevention of infection, but the outcomes as far as hospitalization and deaths, I bet would be about the same. But you have to go with what you studied when it goes. You go through dance with who you bring you. you go that's right that's right when you go for approval you can't say well we we studied it with two shots but we were seeking approval for one and the FDA go well where's your data so when I was considering getting my Ph.D. in organic chemistry instead of going to medical school

I published a paper in the journal of organic chemistry and one of the things that just blew my mind was you get these protocols and the scientist will write down let the mix up these reagents and do add these other

chemicals to it and then let it sit for 48 hours and so you have to write it down that way and then when you reproduce it you kind of have to do it that way and the thing is the fucker went on you know did it on Friday and went away for

vacation and just let it sit there for 48 hours but now because they did that you have to include that in your protocol until you then come back and redo the experiment where you didn't leave it for 48 hours

but now you've got all these poor bastards out there trying to reproduce your work and they're letting it oh well I have to let it sit for 48 hours just because he literally did it on Friday and then came back on Monday so But that shows you that it's actually a good thing because you don't want to let it sit for 48 hours and then not tell people you did that because they may not be able to reproduce your experiment if for some reason your experiment only worked because you let it sit for 48 hours.

Does that make sense? So that's the same thing with this. If they only studied it in women, they could only get it approved in women. if they only studied it and with one dose they can only get it approved for one if they only studied it in two they can only get it approved for two but the J&J vaccine

you know prevents hospitalizations and death and death that's the big thing so all right cool okay J&J by the way is testing a two dose regimen and I'll guarantee you that Pfizer and Moderna

are testing a single dose regimen out there All right. And see, you know, like Pfizer, their vaccine contains 30 micrograms. Moderna contains 100. You know, they're using three times more, but they're not getting better results. But they can't now say, well, we're just going to put 30 in ours, too. They'll have to study it. Right.

That is the beauty of science. You know, you just don't make assumptions about stuff. And levels of study and redundancy and all the things. Yeah. Well, you just can't assume things. No, you're right. In science, you can't, you can't even assume a baseball, a double-playing baseball. I could just assume science.

Well, that's, damn good. Give yourself a deal. Damn good. You can't? Good point there, Dr. Scott. Oh, buddy. Hey, Dr. Steve, it's Matt in Austin, Texas. Hello, Matt.

I have a question for you. Why is it that whenever you get drunk on different forms of alcohol, it feels different. Like, say, a champagne drunk versus a tequila drunk. Yep. Versus a beer drunk. They all feel different. Yes, it does. But isn't it the same kind of alcohol?

Yes, it is. Thanks. Bye. So one hypothesis has been that there are these things called cogeners, and these are other chemicals that are in the drink that you're drinking, that are byproducts of the production. Okay. And most of that's been pretty poo-poed, although, you know, not, it hasn't, who's going to fund that study?

You know, but the cogenters can absolutely contribute to your hangover. Sure. So red wine, bourbon compared to vodka or white wine for some people, that kind of thing. But there's no evidence that they produce different moods and things like that. So the critical factor is. is how you drink it. I was going to say, I've got a hot pouts of this. Yeah, go ahead.

Go ahead. No, I think it's how you drink it. You know, a lot of those things like you just described, if there are much higher alcohol content, you're going to get a lot quicker dehydration in your brain. It's going to hurt worse in the morning. It's going to vomit more. But it's also going to feel different, too.

You know, when you sip champagne or sip a bourbon, you get a kind of different, more constant thing than if you're slamming, a shot, you know, a rusty, nipple or whatever a turgid penis or whatever those you know shots are those long island ice I've only done a shot once in my life

and I ended up in I was in Australia stumbling back to my room at two in the morning not knowing who I had been with or what the hell I had done and I woke up with my wife just staring at me didn't you just it's been about 15 years what's that since that happened when y'all went to

Australia no no no no Liam was He had to be little Wait a minute Because I remember when you went Beck was conceived on that one So Beck is 16

So yeah it was 16 17 years ago Yep I remember that Yeah So anyway Yeah How crazy you were

Because y'all You made her Take a separate flight From you or something Huh? No No Didn't you?

No You were talking about that Oh because We were talking about Because if one plane went down, yeah, we actually did consider that. I knew it. My memory is infallible. Because we had a little kid and we didn't, you know, we wanted them to have at least one parent.

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