Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 454 - 99% COVID-Free

Episode Date: May 13, 2021

Finally a show with more testosterone and urethral meatus questions than COVID-19 queries. Also bonus music track where Dr Scott channels his inner Dot Wiggin guitar stylings over our friend Mario from PhonicBloom.com and his new instrument the MMXX T-APE machine. Basically, Scott ruins it, but the device is way cool. 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!) feals.com BACKPAIN.DOCTORSTEVE.COM – CHECK IT OUT! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you just read the bio for Dr. Steve, host of weird medicine on Sirius XM103, and made popular by two really comedy shows, Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez, you would have thought that this guy was a bit of, you know, a clown. Your show was better when he had medical questions. Hey! I've got diphtheria crushing my esophagus. I've got Tobolabov stripping from my nose. I've got the leprosy of the heartbound, exacerbating my impetable woes. to take my brain now, blast it with the wave,

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website at simplyherbils.net. You got any nasal spray on there yet? not yet are you ever going to have it i mean seriously if you're not going to have it i'll shut up about i swear i just i swear okay everybody heard that he swears i don't know what the hell's going on i'm not paying him enough obviously who your webmaster let me do it i can put it on there right now oh i know i have it on it one week you are a jam one week all right okay doke well um we're going to do a COVID free show today oh I just... Give it a try.

I mean, what's going on in India is disturbing. If that is a new strain, then we're dealing with a whole new pandemic. But let me tell you something. If it is, and I don't have any evidence that it is, it could be that they've got a billion people, and you only have a few tens of million people vaccinated. And people are just sick of social distancing, and so people are getting the virus.

And if it is a new variant that is resistant to our immune systems, I have full confidence that the MRNA vaccines can be retooled within a month or two to have us a booster that will also or actually a new vaccine for this new variant if we need one. Right. They won't have to go through the nine to 12 months worth of studying that they did before because they've already done the safety studies. This is just a tweak, so it's really not necessarily a new vaccine. So variants can go through a lot faster phase three trials than the other ones do. So I think we'll be just fine with that. That would be wonderful.

And, you know, let's bump it out. I hear people saying, well, you know, the first world country, are keeping it from the third world countries. I hope that that's not true. My understanding is that it's been almost a billion people in this world have been vaccinated, and that's way more people than are in the United States and way more than have been vaccinated here. So I'm hoping that we are not being assholes about the vaccine. We are, you know, sharing it with other countries and stuff like that.

Because everybody who wants it should be able to get it, in my opinion. I agree, totally agree. But anyway, all right, very good. Hey, would you do me a favor? And while we're sitting here talking, would you text my wife and tell her to come up? I think she may be free. We haven't had Tacey on the show in way too long.

During the pandemic, it was great. She was home every day. And now her job has reopened. And now she's on the road three nights a week. What you would think, oh boy, you're a bachelor three nights a week. I do get to do some ham radio. and some other things like that. But I also, you know, lose out on watching TV.

We have to watch everything all it once. When she gets home with, there's so many cool things on now. But Liam, my oldest, is now 18. And so he and I are watching Alone. Have you ever watched that? No, I haven't. It's called Alone. Yeah.

They take people. And I'm sure you've heard of naked and afraid. They've got these people who think that. They are survival experts, and they strip them of all their clothes, and they throw them this thing. And then they just, most of the time. Meltdown? Yeah, it's not good. Oh, good.

And, but these people are like people who make a living teaching other people how to do survival. And here she is. Yay. Here's tasty. Hello. Oh, I almost hit the, there you go. Hello, love. I've got your mic off, so just go ahead and switch it on.

Okay, it brings the show to a screeching halt. There we go. All right, there you are. That's what I do. Well, so how's it been? You have not been on the show in many, many weeks. Your fans are clamoring for you to return. Oh, clamoring, I'm sure.

And how's it, so what's it like being back out there in the field? It's all right. Is it? Yeah, I guess that's what you got to say, right? Because people from your company listen. You love it. You know you do. I'm adjusting.

I'm figuring it out. Yep. And we're going to retire just as soon as we can, right? I'm adapting, yes. We, all of us? Or is this you two? Am I included in this? You can retire anytime you want to.

Oh, thank you. You're Mr. Money Bad. Yeah, buddy. This guy, he goes to Florida. Loaded. He drops a quarter of a million bucks on a beer store. Yes. And just doesn't even...

All for fun. Think about it. Just for fun. It's, you know. If it wasn't for that damn thing, we could all be retired now, couldn't we? You think? No, I didn't lose nearly as much as you did. It was the aggravation.

The loss is the aggravation. I got a... Before we get on to the questions, we've got a million questions. Cool. I want to give a plug to my friend Mario. Mario is a gentleman of Polish descent, which didn't have anything to do with anything. He lives in the EU, living in Ireland now, which is, I don't even know if Ireland's part of the EU anymore. I'm very confused.

But he runs a company called Gecko Lod. And they make this thing called the gecko loop sense, which we've had on this show before. He also has another website called Ph.O.N.I.C. Bloom.com. Where he makes kind of related instruments. He has the polyphonic whale, which the wooden version is now sold out. And he has gecko loop sense on there. wooden cases and stuff. But he's got a new thing called the MMXXT-A-P-A-P-E. So it's mixtape, right?

And it's a bytebeats sequencer and fractal explorer. Stop it. And he sent me one. And I just turned it on just before the show. I can barely make it do anything, but I did find something that I can make it do. And it's very eight-bit kind of eight-bit sounding stuff.

But I think that you can do some granular things with it to make these eight-bit sounds sound differently. Here, let me up. So it's a little sequencer. Is he talking in Spanish? I don't want to tell he talk about. What are we doing? Scott and I are going to jam.

You stepped into an ultimate dimension. Because Mario lives in a little bit of a little bit of Mario. another country. Now we're going to jam with him. Ready? Yep. It's a little out of tune. Is this what you guys do now?

Is this what we do? Anyway, check out Mario. I don't know what happened to Scott on that one, but check out Mario's genius little instruments, and they're very inexpensive, too, at phonic bloom.com. We don't get anything for it. He's just a friend. Good failure.

And if I figure out how to do some other cool things with this thing, I'll bring it back. But it literally opened it a minute ago before the show. Yeah, I'm surprised you've got to do that much. I bet we'll get a dang copyright hit on YouTube over that for some reason. Or maybe a link to YouTube where you know how to play. Last show I played the Tucci Band train song. train blues or something like that by Steve Tucci, who is he who bones, she who owns pigs and snakes on the podcast, and we got a copyright hit from CD Baby.

Now, CD Baby is one of those places where you send your tunes and they'll make CDs for you. And apparently, they're very proprietary about CDs that are made on their service. And so we got a copyright hit on that. I'm trying to, you know, I said, gosh, if 10 people hear you. this song, it's probably 10 more than heard it. Sorry, Steve. Just kidding, but, you know,

before, but they get a copyright hit, so anyway. All right. You ready to do actual something? Let's do it. Scott and Tacey, neither one of them are, you know, I've just lost them, so that's okay. No, I'm not paying attention. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right, fair enough. Thank you, Ronnie

Bean. Let's do this. Hey, Dr. Steve, how are you? Hey, man. That's a really weird question that I was thinking about. Well, that's the right show. Basically, when people do drugs or alcohol, that increases their heart rate, why is that different than, like, cardio? I know it sounds dumb, but I guess I just am wondering what the base function is being changed. Like, your heart is just beating faster, whether you do one or the other. That's a good question.

It's an interesting question. Doing drugs or drinking to increase your heart rate. So why isn't drinking and doing drugs good for you? That's what he's saying. Why is it bad? Can you just make your, since it makes your heart rate go faster, and exercise makes your heart rate go faster. Right. And it's the same thing.

Tase? Well, sometimes my Fitbit says I'm in fat burn and I'm just sitting there. And I think that's because of the synthroid that I take. You're burning fat. Yeah. Keep it up. So I have had that same question. Yep.

So the thing is, is that the reason your heart beats faster when you exercise is because when you're using muscles and, of course, they need blood flow. They need oxygen, yeah. And they, right, and they need oxygen. And they start generating lactic acid. That's that burn that you get is the lactic acid. And your body needs to clear that. And to do that, you have to, your heart. beats faster to try to pump more oxygen and to clear more lactic acid.

Now, if I just make your heartbeat faster, it may do something for or against your heart. That's fine, but it doesn't do anything for the rest of your body. It doesn't do anything for your exercise tolerance. Right. Now, the reason that when you drink alcohol, your heart rate goes up, initially, if you take one drink, It's a vasodilator. And people who listen to this show for a long time know what I'm talking about when I say vasodilator. But it is, it takes your blood vessels and makes their caliber bigger.

Relaxes that. And when you, right, when you relax the blood vessels, you have the same volume of blood going through a larger area. Right. So the pressure has to drop. Less resistance. Exactly right. So if you remember your elementary physics that relates flow with pressure and resistance, the way I always remembered it when I was a kid learning ham radio was Eagle equals Indian over Rabbit. Okay.

Is that right? No, no. Indian equals Eagle over Rabbit. So I equals E over R. That means the current or the flow equals the pressure divided by the resistance. So if the resistance goes down, the pressure has to, I mean, the flow has to go up, right? And concommonately, the pressure drops. So if you, so if you drink, one drink, the blood vessels relax, your blood pressure drops.

The hurt has to beat faster to maintain that. Right, to maintain. Now, if you drink more than one drink, then it becomes a vasoconstrictor. And then you go, well, why is the heart beating faster? Well, because there's a second thing that happens when you drink a second drink, is you start getting activation of the fight or flight mechanism. So you start pouring adrenaline into your system. And the first thing that that does is make your heart.

faster to pump more blood because if you're trying to run away from a saber tooth tiger you need more blood pumping everywhere yep and that's it and what do you think about the dehydration component of it too causing a little bit of an increase in the heart rate absolutely so that yeah there's all with the alcohol i'm going to give you one of these for instance give yourself a bill because it's multifactorial isn't it alcohol can act as a diuretic most people notice when they when they first start drinking all of a sudden they start pissing right And my roommate in college used to have that phenomenon, but he would be passed out at that point. And so we would be at a frat party, and there'd be a bunch of cool girls hanging around,

and he'd be passed out on the couch, and all of a sudden he'd just start pissing his pants. And when you do that with jeans on, it's pretty obvious. Then we'd have to pick him up, and, you know, the look on the girls' face is just like, ew, he is so gross. I think it's a mood killer there, isn't it? Yeah, a little bit. And he wondered why he never got laid in, you know, in college. Poor kid. He was an interesting guy.

When I first met him, first off, he was, there was supposed to be three people in our dorm room, right? And we knew he was a sophomore. The other guy that was in there was a freshman. His name was Rob Eric Getty. And this other guy whose name was Richard didn't show up for a week. We figured he wasn't coming. You know? And then one day I walk in and there's this guy on the top bunk and he was passed out.

And I didn't talk to him for two days. Every time I'd come in, he would be passed out. So anyway, he finally chased poor old Rob off and so Richard and I were roommates. And this was Richard's, this is the best roommate you could ever have. this was his his protocol at seven in the morning he would wake up and smoke pot then he'd go back to bed totally skipped class and then at 11 o'clock he would wake up and watch the soap opera called the edge of night now the edge of night was a mystery soap opera written by oh gosh what was it can you look it up who wrote the edge of night he was a famous mystery writer and he would write that and so he would watch that watch that, and that's where Dixie Carter got her stop. You know who Dixie Carter is? Yes, that do.

Okay, she got her start on there. And he would watch the edge of night, and then he would go back to bed again. At four in the afternoon, well, he would, of course, smoke pot. At four in the afternoon, Henry something, right? Elliot Lawrence. No, I didn't know who I'm thinking of. No. It was like Henry Sleezak or something like that.

Look, you know, Elliot Lawrence did the music. yeah thank you hang on let me let me find you get it hey come on now hey this it's not like this it's not like this

soap opera was this five years ago it was in black I'm having to dig I'm having to dig here man the edge of night I could probably do that better than that

the edge of night so and he would smoke then he'd go back to bed at four in the morning in the afternoon he would get up and drive

to the ABC store. Oh, my goodness. And buy a bottle of Brass Monkey. Brass Monkey was a pre-made cocktail that tastes sort of like hypnotic, if you've ever had that. Henry Sleezar. Henry Sleezar.

That was right. I said Sleezer, I think. Slezac's were the things on the land beyond time or whatever. Anyway, so it was very well written. It was, I mean, it was a mis... It kind of had murder mystery stuff in it. So he would, at 4 in the afternoon, he would go by a bottle of brass monkey, and then he'd start just yelling at people outside our dorm room. And we were three floors up in the dorm where, by the way, streaking started in 1975 in Mangum Dormitory at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

We were the first ones to streak. As a matter of fact, my naked ass was on Walter Cronkite. How about that? Now that, I did not know. I never told you that story? Forget Richard. I'll tell you that story. So we had this guy in our dorm that worked at Channel 11 in Durham, North Carolina,

and it was a CBS affiliate, as was Walter Cronkite. So he, when people started streaking, he said, let's organize it in our dorm, and I'll have the cameras out there, and we'll put it on the news. Oh, my goodness. So he had it so it was behind. You couldn't see anything. You could just see asses. And what they did was they filled up our dorm.

Our dorm was Mangum dorm, four or five stories. Filled up with naked, sweaty guys. And then they go, go, go, go. And then we'd come out the bottom out this door, right? And I was wearing a groucho marks, you know, the bushy eyebrows and the nose and the mustache mask and a tie. And that was it. All I had on was a tie. And you can see me running right past Walter Cronkite's face.

He did sort of this feature at the end of the show. And he said, oh, well, that's the way it is. You know, it's May 23rd, whatever. And there's my stupid ass with this Groucho Marx mask running past Walter Cronkite's face. Well, when you're streaking and there are thousands of people outside waiting to watch this, It's cool because you're with a whole bunch of other people, and they're all naked. I've never been naked in a crowd before, but you're running past these cheering crowds and all this stuff. Well, I was in a group, and so you just sort of followed the person in front of you.

Well, somewhere in front of me, somebody branched off and decided they were going to go streak through the library. And I'm just following the person in front of me, and we go through the library and then run back out. the main group is gone oh no so we run around and try to figure out what the hell we come back to mangum dorm and that now there's no people lining the streets it's as if the parade is already over and everybody is milling around and here we are and these people start looking it's like who the hell are these assholes oh my gosh now when you run into a crowd like that and you're naked and they're not all of a sudden you're naked I understand how Adam and Eve felt after they ate the apple, right? All of a sudden they were naked. Before that, everything was fine. They eat the apple. And it was, oh, God, I got to put some clothes on it.

Except I couldn't get to my dorm because there were thousands of people out there. So I am walking through this crowd of thousands of people completely naked except for a tie. And try to cover up your junk with a necktie. Let's get back to the roommate Yes, okay Is this the roommate who would just eat jelly Yes, yes, yes, yes He would just eat those free jellies

So he never had any money And he We would go to restaurants They would have pots of jelly And he would just eat the jelly out of the pot Oh my God He would get water and then eat jelly So where is he now?

Well, I don't know I don't know I don't want to say I called him and we were going to get together and then I never heard from him again. So I don't know if something bad happened to him or what. That's what I'm not saying his whole name. I love the guy.

He was one of the, listen, this was one of the smartest people I've ever met. He turned me on to, well, he didn't turn me on to Fire Sign Theater, but he was a fan of Fire Sign Theater. He turned me on to a bunch of different jazz things, Harry Parch, you know, microtonal music, all kinds of stuff he turned me on to. His brain just couldn't handle being constrained. He would get the silhou. for the class, and he would just show up for the test.

That was the only time he'd show up, and he'd take the test, and he'd pass. Wow. He got through freshman year that way, because freshman year is a little different. You know, it's these big giant classes. You can just show up for the test, and if you're a genius, super genius, you can pass. Sophomore year, all of a sudden, you're doing some things in your major, and he was a radio television motion pictures major like I was, and he showed up six weeks into this television. television production class and the teacher's like who the hell are you you know where have you

been oh my god you know they now all of a sudden they people knew that you weren't there in those giant classes of 500 people or whatever you know you're you could hide yeah you just don't show up yeah but anyway um yeah so he um obviously didn't make it through sophomore year but didn't tell his parents that. Oh, my. So they paid for him to go back his junior year, and he just kind of lived in his car and hung out at my place and stuff like that. And his parents would go, hey, we never got your grades. He's like, oh, they keep messing up and all this stuff. And finally, they called the school, said, we never got our son's grades. And they said, well, maybe it's because he didn't attend. Oh, gosh. And he flunked out his sophomore year. The previous year. So just imagine that

you're 20 years old and your parents have to ground you. Oh, God. So they made him, they gave him this really crappy car, made him get a, uh, um, uh, paper out. So, so kids, kids who are listening to this, go to class, do the work. Don't just get up and smoke pot and watch TV in school. And eat jelly. And eat jelly, right. Well, as they said, an animal house, fat, drunken, stupid is no way to go through life.

Right, right. Mr. Bluntarsky. Zero point zero. Richard had a zero point zero. He was Richard Blutarsky. He was as funny as blue-up. Oh, my gosh. Anyway, all right.

Not 100% sure how I got off on that, but I miss old Richard, though. God, he was fun. He was so much fun, but, you know, it was like watching, you just knew nothing good was going to come of it, but we had so much fun with him. Like watching the wheels on a fast car. His sense of humor was so fast. He was just too smart for himself.

I have some relatives that have IQs of 200 and stuff, and they don't do real, real well in this world. All right. Let's see what this little person has to say. Hello, Dr. Steve. I have a problem where I had a, Eureco tract removed. Okay.

And so part of my intestine and bladder came out with that. I have, this was about six months ago now. Okay. I have noticed recently that when I want to pee, I have lost control of the outer sinker in my penis. Like the one that you can kind of hold at the tip when you really have to go. I only can use the one at the base. Instead of both, is this a problem that I should go see with my doctor, or am I overthinking things?

Okay, I don't have one of those. I don't have a sphincter at the end of my penis. Do you? No. No, no, no, no. It's a lot more proximal, yeah. Yeah, I mean, you have a sphincter at the base. And then there is a.

Bulbo cavernosis, which is if you dribble, maybe, I wonder if he's just talking about he's dribbling now. If you dribble, it's coming from this bulbar urethra, which is at the very base. And people will say, well, I shake my, my member and it's still, I still dribble when I put my, my junk back in my pants. And that's because the urine isn't trapped in the end of the, of the urethra or the, you know, the, the tube inside the penis. It's actually trapped in the base of the penis. And what you got to do, if you want to get rid of that dribbling is milk it from the base. Right. Then that'll stop that dribbling.

Yeah. But what this guy, he had a Eurekus. And the Eurekus is a remnant of a channel that went between the bladder and the belly button, which initially drained the fetus during pregnancy when they were in the womb. Okay. Well, they're in utero. Yeah, exactly. In, yes, right.

They're actually in the mother, there's this channel that goes from the bladder to the belly button area, you know, the cord. And it's a way that they can drain some waste products. And it usually seals off around the 12th week of gestation. And then the kid just starts pissing inside the mother. inside the amniotic sack, and that's what makes amniotic fluid. There's nothing else that makes amniotic fluid. It's kid piss. Yeah.

Urine. Thank you. Urine. Yes. Okay. I'm sorry. I used a bad word. And normally, you would just have a cord, like this fibers cord.

If you dissect in, you can see it. It's still there, but there's nothing to it. Now we have some people that when. There's no ceiling off of that that they'll still drain out of their navel, their umbilicus, their belly button. Sometimes they'll get a cyst there. I've seen people with ural cis. Sometimes you'll get what's called a ural sinus, which is where it's open on the belly button in but closed at the bladder end. And you can get a diverticulum too where you just get a blooping out.

I mean, there's all kind of anything that could go wrong with a tube. You can have with this thing. I've had people that had bleeding out of their belly button, and it was a remnant from their uracus. So when you have a patent one, in other words, one that's open all the way, you'll have clear urine leaks out at the umbilicus or the belly button, and sometimes that can cause infection because now that's not, you have a non-sterile communication. between the bladder and the outside world. Because most people don't clean their umbilicus very well. So they treat it, they go in and do surgery. Okay.

Now, after the surgery, it shouldn't have any more problems, and that should be it. So I don't know what in the hell he's talking about, this sphincter at the end of his penis unless he's just got a really strange anatomy. Yeah, I was going to say it's anatomically that it doesn't even begin to add up. No, no, no, no. It's just kind of a, at that point, when it gets to the end at the meatus, which is spelled M-E-A-T-U-S, so it's spelled M-E-A-T-U-S, so it's spelled M-E-A-T-U-S, but it's pronounced meattas. Once it gets there, it really is kind of just a passive tube at that point. There's little flaps at the end kind of keep in things in.

Yeah, now, if he can control those flaps, he's got a career in porn. Yeah, yeah. Other than that, I don't know what the hell he's talking about. So I think what it is is, is he's dribbled. and just milk from the base, all you dribblers out there. Don't just shake. Don't just shake when you're done. Put your hand down at the very base, right where the scrotum and all that stuff is,

where the penis meets the body, and put pressure down there as far down the base as you can and just milk it up and that you won't dribble in your pants anymore. And, you know, take it one. Unless you're just in cotton. Or take it one step further just because we don't know how old the guy is. but, you know, a lot of times we'll see dribbling with guys with prostititis. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I'm talking about normal, plain old drips. No, I know, but I just. Yes, sir. Yeah, who knows. You are correct, sir. He might have something else going on. Yeah, and if you keep dribbling despite that, then you may have a problem as Dr. Scott said. Yes, absolutely.

Check it out. If you think you have a patent uracus or a ural cyst or you're bleeding from your belly button or you've got weird smells coming from there, or if you're dribbling and you can't make it stop just with the simple massage we talked about you need to see somebody yeah okay all right fair enough hey dr steve it's albert from albuquerque hey albert it's been a long time how you guys been yeah we're doing all right how you doing awesome great hey listen i wanted to talk to you about the recent uh question i had and uh for something else let me just state uh it's not covid related thank you talk about my balls okay and my

This recently had a situation, went to my doctor. My prostate started elevating about a year ago in November, the PSA for my prostate, came back at 5.6, up about two points from two years previous. And so we retested in April, and lo and behold, it's 6.6. Okay. So he recommended that I go see a urologist. Yes. Well, coincidentally, at the same time that I had the PSA done, I asked him because we hadn't tracked testosterone in a long time. I was curious if nothing else about that.

So I asked him to do a testosterone test, and he did. Well, I went to see the urologist, and the urologist did his digital exam. Good news is he feels that, you know, the prostate's enlarged. but didn't feel abnormal at all. Okay. I've got no family history of prostate cancer, so that also made them feel good. You know, in 2021, if you say digital rectal exam,

people think of, you know, you're doing some imaging study or something. You know, no, digit. You're using one of your digits, you're shoving a finger up somebody's rear end and you're feeling their prostate. That's what that is, okay. I have a story about that.

Okay, good. I mentioned. Did they check your prostate that way, Tay? No. Well, let me, let him finish, hold that thought. My testicles, or my testosterone level to him. Uh-oh. Oh, no!

And I think I'm around 1,100, over 1,000 for the testosterone. What? And he said he's not seen one really that high, and found that interesting. Part of his regular examination, he did a third exam of my testicles. I mean, he spent some time making sure the boys are right shape, the right side. Nice and meaty if they're putting out that much testosterone. He's a senior urologist. I feel very, very comfortable with them.

He's actually my doctor's doctor. Okay. So anyways, he's going to, course action is we're getting, I had blood work drawn again to verify it was not just an anomaly or a bad lab test, potentially, for the testosterone. Yeah. And he went to get another snapshot of the PSA. And reevaluation with him, in a short order after. that and he's going to do a little research on his side and reference that he likely will

refer me to an endocrinologist to take a look at the testosterone levels if they maintain at that high level but you're a genius man so I wanted to get your opinion on what you think this is I don't think it's necessarily cause and effect however it's it's anecdotal that they're both there right now so yeah I'd be curious to hear any feedback you have on this okay More importantly, I'd love to hear Tacey the next time I listen to it and say, you know, that... Well, okay, I didn't do that. Well, you got your wish, bro. So Tacey, what were you going to say?

Okay, so I have a friend whose husband used to always harass her about anal six. Okay. And then he got a digital prostate exam. Oh, and he said never again? He said never again. Isn't that something? Because he used to tell her she'd just get used to it. Isn't that interesting?

Yes. So he got a little bit of his own medicine. A little empathy goes a long way, doesn't it? Mm-hmm. I love it. So she got empathy and she got validation. And freedom from... And freedom.

And empathy and validation are two of your most powerful tools when you're communicating with someone. So he got a little bit of both. She did. So, oh, isn't that interesting? Isn't it? I, yeah. I mean, I got to colonoscopy without anesthesia. And I'm like, I don't know what Tacey's complaining about.

So high testosterone in males. It's uncommon for high testosterone in males to happen, mainly because we have these. feedback systems that prevent it. When the testosterone gets a little bit high, the pituitary says, hey, produce less. And then the testicles calm down. And then when it starts to drop, pituitary says, make more.

And then it comes back up again. And usually it keeps it in a nice, even keel. Those sort of feedback loops, we see that all the time in the body, with basically with everything. You know, there's always something that will cause the level to come up and then something that will cause the level to come down. Those two things are always in balance with each other.

And what that allows is when you have a system that way, that if you need a precipitous increase, you just shut the one pathway off and the other one can take over. And so it's a very responsive system. It's also a system that's well designed to keep things on an, even keel. So it is unusual. But every once in a while, you'll see it in people that use steroids.

If you're taking steroids and you're overdosing, that could happen. And sometimes supplementation can happen and you're not aware of it if you're taking something from, let's say, I don't know, a supplement store and they got something weird. Right. You know, you've got some male enhancement thing. It actually has testosterone in it. Right. But you can also have issues with the adrenal glands, the testicles, you know, but sex hormone

producing adrenal tumors are rare. It happens in one and every 500,000 people, men. And those can be non-cancerous, too, so I just don't want this guy freaking out. But what I want him to do is to do exactly what they said they're going to do, which is to the first thing you do when you get an abnormal test result that's really unexpected, just test it again. Test it again. Every once in a while, the lab will screw up or you just had a weird day or something,

and it just comes back to normal. And if it's trending back to normal, it's called regression to the mean. Forget about it. Or, well, for the short term. And then check it again later. Yeah, then check it again later. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

Just in case. So that's the first thing I would do is just repeat that blood work. under ideal conditions. And then if it's still elevated, then absolutely go see an endocrinologist. That's what they're going to do, though, is there's some blood work that they can do to see if your testosterone is high, but the hormones that tell the testicles to produce testosterone are low, that tells you that the testicles are doing this on their own. Now, if it's high and those are high,

then it may be that it's something in the pituitary is wrong. Yeah, pituitary gland, yeah. So they'll look at all that stuff, okay? And, you know, they may do some imaging, too. But they'll figure it out. Yeah, head image. This one is less scary than most of these kinds of things. That's why I don't mind saying the T word.

And most of the time, if I think somebody might have cancer, I'll just say, go get checked and email me if you need further information. But on this one, it's most likely going to be something. that's very treatable. And I just don't want him to not go. Because you think, wow, I got high testosterone. That's awesome. Awesome, baby.

So, all right. Okay, dokey. Let's try this one. Hey, Dr. Steve, Dr. Scott. How are y'all doing, gentlemen? Hey, good man. How are you? All right, me.

Hey, hey, I said, how are you? I just don't listen to nothing. Okay, I'm trying this one out for you. For some reason, I've noticed that my heart, I can feel my heart beating harder than normal, and it's to the point that my lady friend, we can be laying in bed. Nothing's been done, no sexual, and of course, anything, but it's just start to the point that

she could feel the bed kind of jerk a little bit from my heart beat. I've noticed that there are occasions, not necessarily when it's beating hard, but it's more pronounced when it's beating hard for no reason that it skips a beat. And it'll beat, beat, beat. And then beat, beat, beat.

You know, it has irregular skips in between it. So I was just curious if that was something I should be concerned about. I actually have a doctor's appointment coming up in a couple of weeks, and that is something I'm going to breach, broach to her, but just out of curiosity, seeing what you want to hear your opinion on it. And I need y'all to fix your audio because if you couldn't hear me when I said, hello, that's your

problem. Okay, that's our problem. We weren't listening. We know it's our problem. We just don't listen, man. Hey, thanks for the call, and that's a great question. Yes. Do you know what he's got? I know what he's got. That sounds like he's got some, you know, a new onset, intermittent tech cardia, or arrhythmia.

Yeah, he's got a little. I'm going to get it. Oh, he's got... Oh, you suck. He's got the arrhythmia. True, true. Technically, technically, I think he just has PVC. So there's premature ventricular contractions are a situation where the beat or the heart will beat slightly early, which seems not what he has, except then once it beats early, it will pause.

Right. And so you'll get beat, beat, beat, beat, beat. Hold. And then it'll hold. And while it's holding, well, it's holding. What people don't realize is just because you're not pushing blood out doesn't mean blood isn't coming back in. There's a lot of momentum to that because the drive to push blood back in to the heart comes from contraction of the venous side plus contraction of muscles, breathing, all kinds of stuff will drive blood back at gravity from above. It's like a freight train moving.

Yeah, it's exactly right. So it goes beat, beat, beat, beat. and then it's pauses, but it's still filling up. And it's like, oh, I'm getting overful. Oh, I'm getting some bullet now. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And I've got, it has to pump it back out again. And so you'll get these really heavy contractions as the heart is trying to pump out that extra blood.

So what do you do for that? Well, it depends. Most people have them. If you put a monitor on every single person, almost everybody would have them during the day. But most of the time, they don't notice it. I've noticed it a few times in my life. Athletes, I would, one of the things I would ask him is how, do you work out, do you run? Because athletes who have PVCs, that's actually a sign of a healthy heart.

So I, but if he's symptomatic and it drives him crazy, there is medication that you can take for him. And one of those medications would be a beta blocker. Yeah. And they have those now that are so specific that they really don't cause as much, if any, erectile dysfunction as they used to. And you think other things, hydration, stress levels, you know, stress. Yeah, all those things can make it more apparent. Or, you know, arrhythmia's.

So you want to really know what it is. Let's say you're his primary care and you are uncomfortable treating this until you know what it is. Sure. Do you know what we've talked about this test before? Do you know what you would use on this person? Given that it's not happening when you say. see them. Yeah, no, like an halter monitor? That's close. You could do a holter. A holter monitor will monitor every single heartbeat the patient has for 24 to 48 hours. Especially if it doesn't

happen while he's in there and you're listening to the heartbeat. But if it doesn't happen every day, you won't catch anything. So what I would use is an event monitor. Now, an event monitor is something you can wear for a month, but it will only record when you push the button. So it's always monitoring your heart. When you push the button, it'll take. the 30 seconds before you pushed it and record that and then record for another 30 seconds so you get a minute something like that whatever however they have it set up but that's for intermittent kinds of problems like this that just happen at random and you can't catch them happening and if it doesn't happen every single day then a holter monitor won't help okay cool

all right so that's what I would do and you know after I did all the blood work and do a baseline and cardiogram and all that stuff and take a thorough history, do a physical. Supplements included medications. That's correct. Yes. Give yourself a bill. Because some of the supplements, you know, you can take, if the gentleman's an athlete, he's taking something, can throw his heart out of the rhythm, too.

What would be some of those supplements, Dr. Scott, because you've talked about them on this show. Well, one of my favorites, it's not even legal anymore, but I'm sure they still use as a fedro. Give yourself a bill. That's exactly right. And too much caffeine, Dr. Stee. Sometimes they'll do it too, so you never know. Yeah, energy drinks, that kind of stuff. I would expect that that would also cause PVC's.

Let's look up real quick. What makes PVC's worse? This is Carl, on WATP, hates this when you do research on the air. It's like, why don't you just cut that out? It's the only time we've got to do research. We don't have any other time to do it. Okay, alcohol and caffeine are the two big ones. There you go.

So there you go. Yep, cool, man. Good deal. That was a good question. Excellent question. I like it. All right. I like both of those.

Hey, Dr. Steve, this is Rex Sexton. And I have a question for you that I've wondered for a long time, but it seems like nobody. That sounds like some, like detective from the 30s or something. Sounds like he's his name was Rex Sexton. He's in witness protection. Or a porn store. Somebody can answer. whether they're unwilling for whatever reason.

And Google does not have the results I'm looking for. You don't need Google. The question is is, if one was to acquire or develop a lower-level STD, let's say, like homidia or gonorrhea, is it possible that eventually your body defeats the virus or the bacteria or whatever, is on its own, or is it more likely that it will fit there in some fashion in your body, you know, indefinitely until it is cured and could eventually lead to other problems, such as for just, you know, a made-up example, a terrible eye infection that renders your eye leap for probably the rest of your life.

Hmm. Well, that's a very specific random example. Asking for a friend, of course. Yeah. So let's just use gonorrhea. I mean, Brock Lansner had diverticulitis and didn't have the surgery, and he had an abscess in his abdomen, and his body apparently was able to overcome that. That can happen. Not every single person that got an STD or got an abscess.

back in the in the medieval times died some of them did a lot of them did but not all of them did so your body could possibly fight this off but let's just let's just look at gonorrhea if you don't treat gonorrhea it can cause serious and even permanent health problems in both men and women in women it can cause a thing called pelvic inflammatory disease we've seen tubo-ovarian abscesses, which is a collection of gonorrhea and white blood cells in the fallopian tube, and it walls itself off, and then you get these high fevers, and they're sick as hell, you know, you can get scar tissue that blocks the fallopian tubes. You can, that can increase the risk of ectopic pregnancy, which is a pregnancy in the tube

instead of in the uterus. That's also life-threatening. You can have infertility. You can have pelvic pain forever. In men, they can get chronic septic in epididamitis, which is infection of the epididymis, which is a little structure where the testicles adjoin with the tube that goes into the body, the vas deference that you cut when you do a vasectomy. and that can cause pain or infertility

and every once in a while it can go to your blood or your joints and cause septic arthritis or sepsis that can be fatal. So if you got gonorrhea or you think you do get it treated syphilis we don't even get into the stages of syphilis. Get it treated.

Yeah, get that stuff treated. Maybe we'll do syphilis next time. Thanks always goes to Dr. Scott to Tacey, welcome back. Thank you, Tacey. It was delightful having you here. Thank you. We can't forget Rob Sprantz, Bob Kelly, Greg Hughes, Anthony Coomia, Jim Norton, Travis Teft. That Gould Girl, Louis Johnson, Paul Ophcharsky, Chowdy, 108, Eric Nagel, the Port Charlotte Horror, the Sarasota Skank, Roland Campo, sister of Chris, Sam Roberts, she who owns pigs and snakes, he who bones, she who owns pigs and snakes, Pat Duffy, Dennis Falcone, Matt Klein Schmidt, Dale Dudley, Holly from the Gulf, the great Rob Bartlett, Casey's wet t-shirt, Carl's deviated septum, Bernie and Sid, Martha from Arkansas's daughter, Ron Bennington, and Fizz Watley, whose support of this show has never gone unappreciated. Listen to our Sirius XM show on the Faction Talk Channel. Serious XM. Channel 103, Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern, Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern, on demand and other times at Jim McClure's pleasure. Many thanks to our listeners whose voicemail and topic ideas. make this job very easy.

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