Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 473 - Twixt Glans and Foreskin

Episode Date: October 3, 2021

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My problem is I do a really crappy job of maintaining my website and advertising. It's fun to get it started. Then after that, it's not so much fun anymore. As people know, after 17 years of us doing this show, and we're just sort of phoning it in, which is sad. But try not to just phone it in. No. All right.

So on that topic, I've done zero prep today. I interviewed my replacement at work, and that was fun. I think she will be awesome. And I will be very happy to step back one year from, Two days from now. So you're in two days. Jeez. I'll believe it when I see it.

I know how you are. I'm not going to quit working. I'm just going to become a grunt. I'm not going to be the man anymore. I will be the only man on our team. But, you know, the only person who identifies as male with X, Y, chromosome. But we will have a new boss because I'm the boss, and I'm not going to be. be the boss anymore. So you know what that means? No more effing meetings. No more. There's things I

can't talk about. Sure. Because I would docs myself. But just, you know, no more. And I think I'm going to step back from being editor-in-chief of the medical journal. And I'm going to step back from just all kinds of stuff. I'm just going to work. All I want to do is teach and see patients. That's all I want to do. I would like to transition and do a little more teaching, too. If you can get somebody to pay you to teach sticking needles in people. Yeah. Well, you know what? I do it at a medical school.

I teach the family medicine residents a lot. But do they pay you for that? Not yet. They don't, okay. Not yet. I've been on the faculty of three different medical schools, and they've all pay me a big fat zip-o. That's what I'm getting right now. And it looks good on the resume.

Right. You know, you get to put assistant clinical professor of this, that, and the other. But I don't need a resume builder anymore. I'm, what am I building a resume for? Yeah, I'm about the same. I'm about to phase that out a little bit. Well, you're still young. Yeah, but hell, I hang around you, so I feel old.

How old are you? 53. You're my best friend. I don't know how old you are. 53. Okay. And a good 53, too. Until I looked at that camera, and I think the lighting must be bad at here.

We both have gray hair, huh? I can't fix it. The stupid iPad is what controls the lights, and it keeps saying it doesn't have battery, but I've got it plugged in. Shit, make sure that's plugged in down there. It is, yep. I don't know if it's charging. I don't know if it's turned on, yep.

This is compelling radio, by the way. Well, that iPad's older. It is, but it's got our damn sound card on it. I mean, soundboard on it. Yeah, got our stuff. Anyway, all right, well, yeah, so no Ron Bennington announcing that we need to do this, that, or the other. So what do you got? Well, I've got it.

We've got a couple people in the chat right now. Okay. Which is kind of cool. And didgerie dues are where the money is. that that is true selling didgerie dues that is the most okay if i have mad respect and no one tunes in to hear me talk about frigging didgeridues but i have mad respect for anybody that can play that god damn instrument oh yeah the circle breathing when i was in uh when i was in uh when i was in australia and had it shipped home yeah hell i gave it to somebody i couldn't get it to make a

damn sound it just sounded like it's a circle breathing thing you've got to be able to do. And I do have, you and I have a common friend that can play one. Really? Yeah, read. Get out of. Of course he can. Of course he can. Of course he can. But I saw somebody on YouTube doing circular breathing

and people don't know what we're talking about. It's where you're exhaling and inhaling at the same time and it sounds impossible, which if that were what was going on, it is. But what they're doing is they're storing they're storing pressurized air in their

in their mouth. Right. And then they're expelling it while they're inhaling through their nose. Right. And then they recharge the, you know, the pressurized cabin, which is their mouth. Very much, almost kind of like a... Backpipe. Like a Philip Glass Quartet, he had these, the...

I'll play some of it for you, where they're just going doolid-l-l-l-lid-lid-lid-lid-lid, and it goes on for, you know, 20 minutes. Wow. And there's no place to take a breath, but they're all had to be proficient in circular breathing. You couldn't be in his ensemble. Oh, that's pretty cool. That is pretty cool. Let me see if I can find some of that. Go ahead.

Yeah, I'll start topic while you're looking it up because I think just to keep people semi-em-engaged. Hey, so. Yeah, I don't want to get a copyright ding either, but I think if we play just two seconds of this. Yeah, I think it would be good. Yeah. No, but in the category of no shit, but it's about time we got some good solid research. I was reading a thing today. It's called the Dash Diet, D-A-S-H.

Oh, yeah, sure. Okay. And it stands for the dietary approaches to stop hypertension. You know, so we've always... This is going to be fascinating. Last week we did, you know, painful penile parables, and now we're going to do the Dash diet. I look for people. I look for people sticking things in their penises and up their rectums.

Oh, God, that's all I can find. I just wasn't having anything good this week. Yeah, so the DASH diet is promoted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Yes. To prevent and control hypertension. Go ahead. Do your story, and then I'll comment on it. Poetic on it.

Well, the bottom line is what we stuff we talk about all the time. keep your blood pressure down by staying active, monitoring your type 2 diabetes. And the things that we've talked about for 15 plus years. But the dash type bottom line is it works by not making drastic changes, but eating more of kind of a Mediterranean-type diet. Increasing vegetables, increasing fruits at every meal, and reducing your consumption of meats.

Nope. Down. To make them not to starve, show, but as a, is a, may it be, is a side. As a condiment. As a condiment. But here's a big thing that, which I feel like was kind of, um, the take home for me. The bottom line is when they get down the bottom, they talk about the exercise component

and how important it was for them to have a, nope, well, but how important it is for them to have a, have a, have a, a worst doctor. A, a, a, a, a, a structure, a structure. He, last mate, nope, exercise, nope. Drink more, smoke, more. Do as I say, not as I do. That's the thing. Yeah, I mean, hellfire.

If you can't drink a little bit and smoke a little bit and eat a little bit of meat, what good is it? Well, you know, this is true, and I know people are sick of hearing me say it, but my mantra has always been everything in moderation, including everything in moderation. In other words, every once in a while you've got to blow it out your ass. But anyway, go ahead. I'm being horrible. No, that's about, now that you've ruined my exciting. Well, it's terrible. Well, the DASH diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and low-fat dairy food.

So listen, we are what we eat. Yes. If you want to be a big tub of lard, eat pizza and cheeseburgers and all that stuff, every day, day in and day out, drink beer. Yeah, and then you'll be a big fat zone. And that's okay, too, if that's what you want to be. I guess. If that's where you're comfortable anyway. I don't know.

I mean, if you want to be healthy, and we define healthy as the, you know, an absence of disease and increased life expectancy, then you do want to eat better than that. Right, yeah. And, but that's a choice that we all have to make. And all, many of these maladies can be controlled by diet. Type 2 diabetes can be. Hypertension can be. You just got to want to do it. And the problem is, it's just so easy to take a low sartin, and then you've got your blood pressure down, and then you take a rosuvastatin, and then your cholesterol's down, so a hell I can just eat whatever the hell I want to.

You know, people in Norway have less heart attacks because they eat lots of fish. So let's just take a bunch of fish, put it in a vat, and then render them down to a pill, and then we'll take a pill. There's got to be an easier way than exercise. Does it? Who wants to exercise? I have patients all the time say, do you exercise? I'm like, hell no. How do you think I make all my money?

It's like all you crazy people out there doing those Cal Bell things and those. Oh, yeah, they're all your clients. Yeah, those P90X things. I've paid more, the only pay, there's only one person that's made more money on P90 and me. And that's the guy. That's the dude, yeah. I think that's his name. Is it P90?

Yeah. P90. I did P90. And, you know, we still recommend P90 for people who are on the road, you know, over-the-road truck drivers, particularly who will tell me, I can't exercise. You can with that because you don't have to carry around a bunch of weights. It's all resistance bans. And you have a, you know, a DVD player in your cabin. So you could do P90.

And it's only 15, 20 minutes a day. So that's, it's doable. It's better than nothing, which is unfortunately what I'm doing these days. Some of it's my back, but some of it's just plain laziness. Now, I'm very active. Nobody can keep up with me. When my back isn't effing me up at work, there's no one can keep up with me. So, and I'm not bragging.

I'm just walk fast. It drives Tacey crazy. You know, my legs are just slow down. It's like I'm going my normal speed. But anyway, that's whatever. She's lovely. Matter of fact, she's so lovely that our listeners have sort of demanded that she come back. So this is kind of what I thought we might do, and let me know what you all think about this.

But I thought what we could do is do a Patreon. It'd be very inexpensive. I'm not Carl from WATP who can charge, you know, 10, 25 bucks a month. I mean, we won't do that. But we would do, or Vinny from the Creepoff, who charges, you know, $10. I would instead do something, you know, between three and five dollars a month, but it would just be Tacey. I think I'll just call it Weird Tacey, and she and I'll do a show like three times a month. We'd still have this show.

We'd do Sirius XM, the regular podcast, but then we'd have the Patreon show that's just Tacy stuff. And then she can yell at me and people like that. Yes. You know, especially if she's drinking. and then she yells at me. People love that. I know it. So apparently I need to be yelled at more.

But anyway, okay, so the dash diet. That was fascinating. Fascinating. Well, another good topic. Mindfulness. Let me see if it'll let me play this. Oh. And I just wanted to play like two.

I'll play two seconds of it. Okay, that goes on for six minutes. Jeez. Okay, there's no one taking, that's not synthesizers, that's not sampled. No one is taking a breath. You know, no one's stopping playing to take a breath. Right on them, yeah. They have to continue to play.

That is Philip Glassworks, if you want to listen to it, and just hear an example of a whole ensemble that's doing circular breathing, and the song is called Flow, F-L-O-E, or the piece. It's called, I guess they're not songs. That's pretty cool. But anyway, yeah. Okay, I think I played a little enough of that that we won't get a copyright strength. All right.

What else you got? So a little bit of talk about mindfulness. Okay. And what I was reading was that... Mindfulness. Yeah, mindfulness. Something, it's a little bit more in our happiness. See, I figured last week we did penises, well, I thought maybe this time we would do vaginas.

Well, you couldn't find any gross vagina stories? No, gross vagina stories. Nothing. On the whole internet, okay. Hey, I even looked in some news outlets overseas and couldn't find anything good. But I did try. I really did. I think it's the first time I've done that much of show prep in about 15 years.

But anyway, so CNN was talking about this whole concept that they have. And it's a Dutch concept, but it's called Nixon, N-I-K-S-E-N, embracing the Dutch art of doing nothing and the importance of that resetting your all of us who get pretty stressed out but you know the bottom line is it's not that doesn't mean nothing it means giving your your brain a chance to rest instead of having it they were relating it to to an exercise and how when you exercise your body lift weights you need a day off you know you don't want to do bicep curls every single day and they were they were saying kind of the brain needs a little bit of the same thing even though absolutely yeah because at night of course what does nixon have to do with this not that's not that's No, that's the Dutch term. I am not. Oh, okay. You are not a crook, no. But that's the Dutch term for this.

So I thought that was kind of cool. Well, and I agree with that. I'll tell you what, I was talking to one of my concierge clients today. And what this person said was that when they lay down at night, they just have music in their head. And they can't get rid of it, and they have these thoughts, and they can't get rid of those. And I can identify with that. I have a shower speaker. you know, that it's waterproof that I can listen to podcasts in the shower

because I have to be constantly entertained, apparently. Yes, you do. It's called ADHD. Yeah, that probably, yeah, that's it. You're right. So, but it has three notes. And the three notes are the three first notes in Black Magic Woman. Okay.

But also the same three notes of, of Get Smart soundtrack or a theme song. So when I play it, it goes do, do, do, do. And then, so I can either hear do do do do do do do do do do do from Carlos Santana. Or I can hear do do do all day long in my head. I can't get it out of there. Sometimes I get songs in my head that I hate. I hate the song and I can't get it out of my head.

That drives me bat shit. So I tried the Trip app, T-R-I-P-P, it's for Oculus, and if you do it, it'll knock that out of your head. It's a form of meditation that for people who don't want to, quote-unquote, meditate, you know, because it's like a game, but it's not. You're in an alien environment and you do these breathing exercises with this light, and when you breathe, out you can see red sparks and when you breathe in you can see blue sparks and you then ascend to the next level and it's the coolest damn thing and the last level is you're over the world and they're saying look there's no boundaries or you know it's all kind of you know new agey stuff right but when you're in the middle of that that's it's

awesome and that gets that crap out of my head well you know I do a similar thing and but I do with that cold water therapy and it's about time to start that again tell me about that my pool like in the middle of the uh is your instrument okay yeah it's good i just sorry about that i kind of no i don't care about i just not but now i don't bring it i don't want anything bad to happen to it um i don't think the way i play i don't think you would notice but um do you have the robot by the way yeah you do okay okay um the uh what i what i've what i do is is when the when the pool water gets cold I'll do my meditation.

I'll go out there. I mean, it may be 30 degrees outside. Yep. And I'll do my meditation, meditational breathing, get a big deep breath in, get a big deep breath out. And I walk down into the pool

and sit in it. Are you out of your mind? No, I'll sit in there for at least eight minutes. Is your pool not filthy this time of year? No, no, no. I kind of work on it the whole year round. I just turn out the pump

and winterize it, but I'll leave it full of water so I can get in and do my deep thinking. Yeah, that's Beck's job now. That's interesting. So how late do you keep your pool open? I got in it every month of the year last year except for February. Really?

Yep. So you just leave it over? You don't put a cover on it? I put a cover on it. I just peeled a corner back. Yeah. Just peeled the corner back and then just walk down in and have a seat and start breathing. Cold water therapy.

I don't know. It's insane. But now I have to admit now. Eight minutes in there, then I walk down to my hot tub and get in there for one night. Yeah, yeah. And then walk back up and get back in the cold again. Yeah. for about another five to eight minutes.

There was a Japanese spa. We're just going far afield, but there was a Japanese spa in Asheville called Shoji. I remember. I never went to that. They're still there. They're still there. And they had a thing where you would do the same thing, except it didn't have leaves and shit in it. But they had a cold pool.

Oh, yeah. And you'd get in the hot tub. And when you get in a hot tub, the capillaries in your, skin open up right right to radiate out all that extra heat and so you know you're kind of increasing your core temperature or attempting to in the hot tub and then so you'll open up all these capillaries and small vessels so you're increasing the volume of your of of your circulatory system right so when we increase the volume but leave the amount of fluid in there the same What happens to the pressure?

Everything goes down. Drops, exactly. And if this stupid, I guess I'm going to have to get a new iPad. This one's, I think it's darned. I would give you a bell. I give myself a bill. Thank you. But it, so, yeah, and then when you jump in the cold pool, it does just the opposite.

So there are those people who say, well, what you're doing is you're exercising your circulatory system. I tend to say you're courting a stroke. But I used to love to do that back when I used to. work out every day and I was pumping iron and I was all buff I was pretty buff back in your streaker days yeah yeah fourth year of medical school I would I would do that I would go from the cold pool to the hot pool back and forth and back and forth because I loved the way it made me feel I mean it was invigorating so well that's pretty well so you said you couldn't find anything on you know vaginas we did a whole thing about penises last time it's just

only fair so here's one 10 reasons your ugly vagina is normal and gorgeous oh yeah and then they have a picture of a tree branch you know like the knee the elbow of a tree and it looks like a horrific looking just scabbed over you can't see it can you see it no i was looking to see it's not it's not it doesn't look good um anyway um so yes plenty of guys out there use terms of like roast beef or cabot. You know why they use roast beef? An exploded roast beef sandwich? Because they heard it on Opian Anthony.

That's where they got it from. And so they think it's funny. And they don't really think that. But they like it is, they think it's funny. So, and by the way, when you're looking at that, that's not the person's vagina. It's their vulva. Right?

I mean, hopefully you can't see their vagina from the outside. no um so let's see uh that's about it okay there's no such thing as abnormal even cd quack operations like the vagina institute i don't know who they are these people are saying cd and quack not me um maybe do some uh some labiaplasty which is when if a woman is not happy with her labia they can actually do surgery on it women don't do that if you're with a guy It doesn't like the way your labia look. You get a different guy, you know? Yeah, because that's a surgery.

He's not very comfortable. Yeah, you can have surgery on it. I agree with them. They say you shouldn't even consider doing this. Now, the people who do it out there are probably yelling at their radio right now. But, you know, there's lots of nerve endings in there, so you will lose those. And, again, if a guy doesn't like something interesting down there, you know. He ain't looking hard enough.

Yeah, what are they looking? before. So anyway, and beauty standards are completely arbitrary. I agree with that. And don't look it up on the internet. You'll drive yourself crazy. So it's normal. Whatever you got down there, it's normal. And there are lots of guys who would be totally happy to be with you. And, you know, when do you go down there and just start poking around looking at stuff anyway? Do you do that? No, hell no. I don't either. There's a purpose. You've done it for one.

purpose and that's not that if i'm down there doing stuff i got my eyes closed or my eyes are above so i can't see anything you know they're looking yeah i'm not down there evaluating right exactly i've got a purpose without being gross but you know i'm just i'm just saying yeah so these people say girly looking vulvas are for little girls they're right now some guys like that uh you know there you go to each their own so what else you got Oh, well, you know, the reason I brought that topic up because it was discussing the, of all the horrible things that have come of COVID-19, a couple of the good things. I can list a bunch of good things. Yeah, and I think let's talk about that for a minute because it's one thing we just haven't.

Yep, I'm with you. I mean, for the last 19, 20 months, it's nothing but the horrors. Yeah. The horrors. Oh, that is the good thing. The horrors of COVID-19. But, you know... No, I bet their business went down, too.

Yeah, one way. And we don't call them that. No, gosh, no. That'd be disrespectful. Professional women. Yes. The oldest profession in the world. That's right.

But I'm as... Oh, here I'm going to get in trouble again. Here we go. As a libertarian, I think it should be completely legal. But it should be, you know, and the women should be protected and not exploited. Right. Agreed. I'm not okay with exploitation.

Now, some people will say any sex work is exploitation. There's a lot of sex. workers would disagree with that. But, you know, there's, I can see both sides of this. I know one that makes a ton of money down in Miami and loves her life. Yeah. And does, good, good for her. And, I mean, yeah, does it because she likes it.

Yeah. It makes a freaking mint. Well, she ought to because I'm sure some of the guys she has to deal with are just creeps, too. Oh, yeah. That'd be terrible. Anyway. But, you know, no good things. Obviously, people are learning how to do new breathing techniques.

A lot of the home exercising went up. Okay. Home exercise equipment sales went up and people streaming apps as far as exercise things have gone up. And I was thinking people practicing their instruments. And yeah, and that's the other thing is to

every one that I've seen play live recently. In fact, we went to the Merle Festival, which is a music festival out in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Yeah. Every one of those guys who I didn't think, could get better. They were all better. It was wonderful.

They had nothing to do but practice. And actually one of the guys, and he's actually the lead singer and guitar player for a band called the Kruger Brothers, which is the best. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. You and I played some of their songs. Oh, yeah. And they're wonderful guys. But even Uve said that he feels like he's better now than he's ever been because he said, heck, for the last year and a half, we've just sit around and pick all day.

And that's all they do, just play. Yeah. So at least, you know, there's a silver lining. Oh, I said I was going to do all those things. What did you get better in? Nothing. The COVID year? I don't think so.

Ham radio. Yes, true. You got better. Spam radio. You build a lot of gadgets. Yeah, I built a. I did build a bunch of shit. Oh, God.

That's just stupid. I had all these ideas. Oh, my gosh. So. What are you going to do? I don't know. I'm a goddamn idiot. So, good things for...

Yeah, one of the other things that came out of this was the MRNA technology. I know there are people out there that think it's the devil, but MRNA technology is one of those things that may bring us treatments for cancer that we never had before. Because we've been talking about this for ages on this show from day one. Well, not exactly day one. That show was all dicks and nuts. But since then, we've been talking about non-sudoscience cancer cures, and one of the ways to cure cancer is to teach the body to kill it its damn self, because that was what it was supposed to do in the first place. If the body was doing its job, the cancer wouldn't have happened because this is a failure of the immune system to recognize that tissue as being abnormal. And using MRNA vaccines, it is possible to teach the immune system which proteins to look for and then have it just go kill the cancer.

And people say, well, that sounds like science fiction. Well, we have seen it. We have seen actual cures like this. There's the abscopal effect. Abscopal effect happens when you have someone, say, with melanoma. of the bone and this is metastasized so it's stage four and you you radiate the that bone because the person's having pain and then they come back a month later and all their cancer's gone it's gone they're cured and the immune system when you irradiated that bone you opened up those cells

to be exposed to the immune system and in those people where that works it they found a protein Those T cells found a protein that they could transmit to the other cells that says this is what we're looking for. Wow. And then they just go and they go everywhere. And it's perfect. It's cell by cell, molecule by molecule, a perfect cure. Wow. That's incredible.

So this can be done. Yeah. Now, if we can, it always happens by accident. We don't know how to enhance it to increase the probability that will happen. But we know it happens. And what that means is, we. We just have to put our heads to it and figure out what factors cause it to happen. What's different about those people than the normal person that you irradiate and they're

still, you know, stage four and all that stuff. And once you figure that out, then you can start to reproduce it in other people. So that'll get that cancer underway. And then, you know, there's other technologies where they're taking T cells out of the patient's blood, exposing them to tumor proteins that they're. have now opened up by denaturing them somehow and then injecting those T cells back in and they just go and hunt out the, and then they teach the rest of the system and they divide and they multiply and then the next thing you know, the cancer's gone.

Wow. So then you don't want them looking around going, oh, so what do I do now? Yeah, but that's the problem. That's the problem. Because these are living human cells living inside a living human person. You have to be very careful that when you train them against some protein in the body, that it isn't also in the heart or the brain or something like that. Right. So it's attacking the wrong thing.

It's like an autoimmune disease. Well, it's kind of like the Opium Anthony army, you know, the pests. They developed, when they did Jocktober, this group of fans that would, when they decided, when they trained the eye of Soron on, say, free beer and hot wings show, and they would go shut down their Facebook page. They'd have phase one when they'd shut up comments, and then phase two when they shut the whole page down, and they would come after them.

Well, after Opium Anthony, when they're not on the air anymore, what are all those guys going to do? That's fun. It's still fun. So they just turned on Opium Anthony. Oh, geez. You know, and it's like you should be proud of that. You created this monster.

Oh, my God. And now they're, you know, on WATP, but... Wow. Or who are these podcasts? Heard wherever you hear podcasts. But that's, you know, that's kind of where some of the pests went. And this is sort of the same thing, is you got to be careful that when you train these T-cells to fight something, that when the fight is over, that they just go away and they don't attack the people that created them.

Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of interesting. Yeah. That's a weird analogy. but I think it's apropos. It is apropos. All right, you got anything else? No, not right now.

Okay, all right. Well, so what we're going to do now, because I had to work all week like any other normal person, and I didn't have time to do show prep, let's just take some random phone calls off of our phone call back. It's 347-766-4-3-23,

and you can call any time you would like. And let's see what we got here. Okay, technical... God. Okay, here we go. Hey, Dr. Steve. Before I ask my question, I just wanted to say, thanks so much for being, you know, such an informed voice for trying to figure out what's going on during the pandemic. Well, thank you, my friend. Very difficult for me to figure out, you know, who's got an agenda, who's just straight up lying.

Yeah. Or misinforming, but not intending to. There's just so much going on that I feel like you've been one of the few sources that I know, okay, this is going to be the honest straight shot. Thanks for that. My question is about asymptomatic cases of COVID and whether or not they are drivers in the pandemic. And if we have any evidence for that, you know, at the beginning of this, the fear of asymptomatics was really such that it was the reasoning behind lockdowns, right? The idea is you can't go out of your house because you may have it and you don't even know.

And they really were banking on that being one of the significant drivers for the pandemic is this asymptomatic spread. But I didn't know if there was any now that we're, you know, 18 plus months in. Is there any actual evidence for that? Because if there's no evidence for that, then I'm really wondering why we're seeing some of these very strict and stringent, you know, approaches to controlling COVID or attempting to control COVID. Yeah. So one thing I want you to do, though, this will make everybody feel a little bit better is by going to COVID. stoutlabs.com, which is our friend Daniel Stout's website, look at new cases and go out to 300 days, put on the simple moving average at 20 days, and what you will see is that this

we peaked, and the crazy thing is, see, my innovation on that website was adding the Bollinger bands. What the Bollinger bands are, are an indication of the standard deviation of the data, which is like, okay, you know it's choppy, you can see what the standard deviation is. You can estimate that. But what you can't estimate are the signals that the Bollinger bands will give you when they're laid over the tracing. And so back, it's been, I don't know, three, four weeks now, for the first time the data tracing did not go over the top Bollinger band. Now, people, you just have to go there and go look at it and convince yourself.

And on that day, I said we're going to see a peak in the next couple of weeks, and then we're going to see a decline. Now, that was assuming that this surge has a symmetrical or semi-symmetrical shape like all the other ones did. And lo and behold, that initial signal was correct, even though the rate or I'm sorry, the new cases continue. to increase if you looked at the smooth moving average. So just looking at that, you wouldn't be able to tell. But when you look at that signal on the Bollinger bands, you could tell. So anyway, so the good news is that it looks like not only have we had a peak, but we're past the peak, and we're on the decline now.

So if this tracing is symmetrical, I'm just going to throw this out. If it is symmetrical, then we should get back down to like zero. cases around December 15s. Okay, cool. Now, there's a lot of things that could mess that up, but that's what I'm looking at, so we'll see. Now, we've been, on this show, been pretty good at

predicting these things. I was terrible at predicting when Favapiravir was going to come out. It just totally blew that one. And, but I think that was from pressures that had nothing to do with reality in some way. Yeah. Very, very

irritated about, Just now they're figuring out, oh, if we give remdesivir, there's a study Gilead just put out this week, that if we give remdesivir at the beginning of the illness, right when they were first diagnosed, they don't go to the hospital. Right. Oh, well, you're pretty smart. 18 months later, we're trying that. And they've been concentrating on all these people that are, I get it, that are critically ill. But at that point, it's very difficult to turn it around when what we need to be doing is the whole reason, and I'm getting to his point, the whole reason we're doing lockdowns when we do them is to keep people out of the hospital because we came this close this time to having to say, hey, you have an 80-year-old grandmother who's got all these different comorbidities and stuff, and we're going to have to take her off the vent to put a 50-year-old on. there. And if it's a 50-year-old

unvaccinated person, there's people are going to be mad and there's going to be, you know, we've never, there's a principle in ethics called distributive justice. And we have never paid attention to that in this country ever. And what distributive justice says is that you distribute resources, limited resources to the people for whom it will do the most good. Well, we don't do that. All right. No. If you're 112 years old,

which I'm approaching, and you've had a stroke and you're on the ventilator and you want to just be on life support, the rest of your life in a coma. We'll do that, you know. And some people will grumble about it, but we'll do it because we don't ever worry about, you know, distribution of resources because we think we have unlimited resources. So if you don't want shit like that to happen, we want to keep people out of the hospital. Well, the best way to do that is having, yes, vaccines have a role. They're not the panacea. They're not the end of this. But a therapeutic that keeps people out of the hospital.

So don't wait until they get sick and then try your stupid drug. Give it to them in the beginning. And then lo and behold, because we've seen in the hospital that remdesivir, it's okay. It's not what we were hoping it would be where we're just turning people around. But when you're just turning people around. But when you give it to them, you know, day one or day two, now all of a sudden, you know, 60% of them are, you know, 60% decline. And I don't have the numbers in front of me, but it's a big number, aren't going to the hospital. That's a big number, though.

So when we have a pill, now that's an infusion and the monoclonal antibodies, same way, but, you know, reduces hospitalization significantly. But that's an infusion. It can be given in four injections in the abdomen, so you can do it quickly and it doesn't hurt. the way. That's how I had it. But what we need, we're just got to have that pill. And if this Mulnupiravir, this is what I'm banking on

is Molnupiravir, it will be the pill that will allow us to just go back to normal, because that's when we go back to normal. When we have a therapeutic. That's why everybody, listen, the drive for hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, all that's

things, those were drives by people who wanted things. to go back to normal, who knew therapeutics were the key. Yes. It just, you know, the data didn't pan out. But the intent was correct. Absolutely correct. Yeah, just trying to help.

Come up with the solution. Right. And anybody that, and I've said this before, too, anyone that, you know, was rooting against those drugs being effective because they didn't like whoever was promoting them. You know, like if you don't like Joe Rogan. and he just said, hey, my doctor prescribed Ivermectin, and it's, oh, you know, if you're rooting against that, you really are kind of part of the problem. Yeah. Because wouldn't it be nice if there was just a drug that was already on the shelf that we could have just taken?

And this thing would have been over. But didn't work out that way. No. So, but I'm really hoping for Mulnupyrivere, but we now have monoclonal antibodies, keep you out of the hospital. If you have early COVID and let's say you just got your PCR. you're sick, got a temp of 102.5, and your PCR test is positive, and you're over 65, or you're a kid with an, you know, compromised immune system, or you have diabetes meldice, or you're overweight, you know, obese, or you're on immunosuppressive drugs for whatever reason. You can go get that, and most of the time this will keep you out of the hospital. So we'll see what's going to happen with the Remdesivir thing.

I think it's a little bit late, but at least they're looking at it. At least finally they're looking at throwing these things at people early on. Why we couldn't do that in the beginning? We were so focused on vaccines and critically ill people that we didn't focus to my liking, you know, as much as I would have liked to have seen, on early therapeutics. Anyway. Oh, so here's the deal with asymptomatic transmission. We know that it's possible.

The reason that it's an issue is because if you are sick like I was, I don't think I transmitted it to anybody because I immediately isolated myself in my room. The only time I went out was to go get the infusion, and they brought me up the back way. It was all safe. They were all PPEed up. I was Pee-E'd up, you know, and then my family didn't get it. Nobody got it. So because I knew I had it.

If you don't know you have it, you're going to come into contact with more people. And so it kind of evens out a little bit that I've infected nobody. Let's say someone with asymptomatic transmission, they stick their finger in their nose and they shake somebody's hand or whatever. Or they cough into their hand because we all cough. and then they shake somebody's hand or they, you know, somehow it gets on somebody and they get it. So now maybe they infected two people. Well, I had it, I had a symptomatic case and infected no one that I know of, but an asymptomatic person could easily infect one or two people. And that's why they're worried about it.

But listen, lockdowns aren't for, you know, preventing transmission of, disease, really, they are for preventing the medical system from being overwhelmed. And we don't want people to die. We have more people die from this now, at least had the diagnosis on their death certificate. That's something we could talk about than the influenza pandemic. But we've got way more people in this country now, too. So if you look at it as a percentage of the population, it's still extremely low.

All right? Yep. All right. So very interesting question. Yep, good question. Not bad for a random question. Okay, this looks like Tracy from Louisiana. Let me see.

Here we go. Tracy from Louisiana, everybody. Hey, Dr. Steve. It's your old buddy. Got a question for you. Is there any biohazards to all these disgusting face masks that people are leaving around every they sneeze and snodded at them? What's my chances of catching COVID?

because the mask is blown across the parking lot and I tried to pick it up or whatever. Well, don't pick it up. That's not your job. So, no, but good for you for trying to be a good citizen. Most of the time, which is ironic for anyone who's listening to the show for the last six months. I felt like we were being set up.

So this virus is not really fomite transmitted, But if you've got someone who had COVID-19, so you've got to look at the population, what are the odds that the person who snotted into this thing that you just touched had COVID-19? So we would have to go to COVID.stoutlabs.com and see what the incidence, no, I'm sorry, the prevalence of this virus in the community right now. And let's say it is a half of one percent. Let's just say it's 1%. So that means if you pick up 100 face masks, 99 of them won't have that virus. Right. So that's the first thing.

Now, so it's 1%. Now, what are the odds that you'll get it from that? If you wash your hands and you don't put the mask on your stupid face and you pick it up by the string and you drop it in the thing and then you sanitize your hands afterward, let's say that's one in a thousand. So now you're talking about 1, 1,000th of 1% chance that you would get it from that. He sounded like a pretty cheap bastard. He probably goes around and picks up the next. I don't know. He sounds like the kind of person that might, you know, just throws hundreds around here.

Just, you know. Yeah, but the truth is if you just wash your hands and practice good hygiene, the odds are you're not going to even if you're doing your good deed for the day, which is picking up trash. Yep. in somebody's parking lot, which is wonderful. Thank you. Thank you for your service. Yeah, we appreciate your service. Yeah, wash your damn hands.

Yeah. Absolutely. And if it's a stupid iPad was working, we're just going to have to get a new one. Oh, man. Have we lost all the, I wonder if we lost all the? Yes. Oh, dang. That's okay.

I can recreate them. Okay. I think. But, yeah, so people, some of my concierge patients would call me, And say, I had sex with somebody. What's the chance I have AIDS or HIV? And then we just go through the same thing. Well, what's the prevalence in the population?

If you were with somebody that had it, what's the odds you're going to get it through penile vaginal sex? And, you know, you multiply those things together, and the number is so low, it's usually very reassuring. Okay? Yep. All right. Okay, doke. Here we go. Okay.

Oh, this one says, I can see. see that this is not a COVID question, but I don't know what it is. Uh-oh. I also think I just got bit with that crap. The whole family. It's not fun. Sorry, man. All that is. What? Never mind. It doesn't matter.

Hey, I got a question. It's not about God damn COVID. So I'm about 40, but everything's falling apart, and my life is getting worse by the day. But, you know, a year ago or so, Sorry. I woke up with a start in the bed, and I felt like I was going to piss myself.

So I jumped up, and I ran to the bathroom, scurried, if you will. And I feed the toad, and that was lucky. But there was a little bit of blood, you know, a little bit of blood. And the toilet goes a long way. and just sharp horrendous pain and so I gathered I guess I passed a stone unless for some reason

I got clogged up or something I don't know man you're the doctor you tell me yeah I don't really happen anyway all my friends are like ah you're going to get a bunch more stone this is the end of your life oh what good friends get ready for all of these shards of horror to come shooting out of your dick

why are humans like that We just delight in other people's misery. And then it never happened again. Good. It's been like over a year, and, you know, I still have this overarching fear over my entire life that this will happen again. Yeah. So the answer to that is my rule always is if blood comes out of an orifice it's not supposed to come out of, and that's every orifice, that you should get it looked at at least the first time.

Yeah. Now, it's been a year, so does he have a polyp that's turning into something? I hell, I don't know. Did he have a stone? There's no way to know. I would tell my primary care about that, and if they feel like sending you to a urologist just to make sure everything's okay, Dr. Scott and I both have had that procedure. It sucked, but ask for other procedures first.

It was nice to get confirmation that we didn't have bladder cancer. So, you know, all right. So, yeah, I would get that checked out. All right, let's see. I don't know what that is. Don't know. Okay, says, oh, cool, thanks. Anyway, I did.

I don't know what that is. Let's see. Hey, this is Senator Tim Scott from the group. Okay. Now we're getting those kind of calls. Okay. Oh, God. I don't even know who that is.

Okay. How about this one? Let's see. Hey, man. Did you hear me hear? about this, these Dutch kids that boys, the girls or whatever, they'd be putting them the snooze pouches,

you know, them tobacco, mouth dips in their foreskin and anal cavity? Okay, I have not heard about that. I have heard about other things like this. We talked about, this is from last week. Okay. Don't

put things in your foreskin and in your anal cavity that are supposed to go in your mouth. And don't, Don't put tobacco pouches anywhere. No. I mean, if you ever looked at what it looks like when it comes out of your mouth, I mean, it looks like you're shitting out of your mouth.

So I would avoid that as well. Yeah, don't do it. Please don't do that. And then you're not being clever by coming up with some innovative way to get nicotine into your body by, you know, putting a pouch in your forescat. I mean, you're just inviting problems. And one of those is, remember nicotine. is a vasoconstrictor.

So now you take this pouch, you put it, instead of twixt cheek and gum, you put it twixt glands and foreskin, and now you're constricting the blood vessels of the foreskin and the glands, and you're inviting disaster because there's one thing about the mouth is it's central.

So it's got lots of blood supply. And it has a mucosal lining, too. That's true. It's true. Which is a little different than those other locations. Yeah. And the foreskin is at the periphery of the body.

As a matter of fact, it's a terminal location. In other words, blood has to go down and then get to the tip of the foreskin, then turn around and come back. So any of those places are sort of like, I don't know, the rural parts of the body, that they don't get the services. Deadsville is what it is. Deadsville. Okay, yeah, man.

You don't get the services like you do in the big city. No, you do not. And therefore, damage is harder to heal. Yep. And that's an issue. So I would not do that. That's stupid. We had, you know, when we did the vodka tampon, one of the reasons we did that was because

there were people who were taking tampons and soaking them in vodka and then inserting them in their orifices and trying to get high. And one of the things that we said was if you put that in the vagina, it won't work. Right? Yep. Why? Because the vagina is not made to absorb things. The vagina is made to not absorb things.

Right. Block things. Yeah, well, it's made to transmit semen into one place. Into one place and not absorb anything. Right. It's just crazy. It is nuts. So, and then people were taking vodka, putting it under their eyelid.

And yes, you can do that. get a chemical conjunctivitis from that. You could get some permanent corneal damage, and you're not going to get very drunk because you're talking about a, you're talking about a thumb, you know, a thimbleful. No. They're cut the shit. Yeah. Don't be stupid.

All right. All right. Good deal. Well, listen, thanks to Dr. Scott. We can't forget Rob Sprantz, Bob Kelly, Greg Hughes, Anthony Coomia, Jim Norton, Travis, That Gould Girl, Lewis Johnson, Paul O'Charsky, Chowdy 1008, Eric Nagel, the Port Charlotte Hoare, the Saratoga Skag. Roland Campo, sister of Chris, Sam Roberts, she who owns pigs and snakes, Pat Duffy, Dennis Falcone, Matt Kleinschmidt, Dale Dudley, Holly from the Gulf, Steve Tucci, the great, God, I'm not face-timing with you. I don't know who that is. Some, oh, if it's one of you assholes, we're going to have, we're going to have issue.

I'm just kidding. I don't want to call anyone who's listening to us an asshole. Vick's nether fluids, Carl's deviated septum, Casey's wet t-shirt. Bernie and Sid, Martha from Arkansas's daughter, Ron Bennington, and Fes Wattley. Okay.

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