Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 483 - Cupping Your (Covid Vaccine) Balls

Episode Date: December 9, 2021

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I even made new music for it Dr. Scott Oh yeah? Yeah so it's based on the theme that Sherwin's sleeves wrote because I would never disrespect him but it's an electronic dance music version. Oh, God.

Should I play it for you guys? I think probably I should. Let me see if I can get it here. I hadn't planned on it. You know, I just talk about this stupid shit and then think, oh, God, I wish I had thought of this earlier. Where is it? L-M-N-O-P.

Okay, it's dummy. All right. This is one of them. And then I did say, something else that was sort of cool, too. I think it was cool anyway. But we only, we just talk over that. Now, I did something that was sort of fun.

I saw a video of a guy who took. took a classical piece of music and went on this website Fiver, have you heard of it, F-I-V-E-R-R, and you can just hire people to do stuff. I think it was called that because originally everything was five bucks. And now things are just whatever price they are. But there's electronic music producers out there that will take whatever music you have and make an EDM version or produce it differently for you. So I got on there and I got three different people making a new theme song based on the original Sherwin Shearwin's theme song. Okay. Which if you want to hear the whole thing, most people have not heard the second verse, go to Dr.steve.com, just put in theme song, and it's about the third thing down.

All right. Don't forget to check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyerbils.net. That's simplyerbils.net. And you've got something new that you're doing. Are you ready to talk about it yet or no? Nope. No, that's coming. It's coming.

Okay. You're going to sell it on there? Yes. Okay. It's going to be a whole different deal. But, yeah, I'm looking forward to sharing when it's time. It's a little premature. We'll get to it, though.

Yeah, it's like a big deal. Huge deal. Yeah, huge deal. Okay. All right. Huge deal. Yeah, looking forward to sharing some new stuff instead of always having nothing. Nothing.

Showing my ingenuity and my forward thinking, Dr. Steve. Yeah, well, shit on you for not sharing with us, but that's okay. I know what it is, and it'll be worth the weight. Yeah, that would be cool. All right, cool. Well, you got some stories you wanted to bring us? Yeah, you know, I've got a couple, actually a couple good stories. Okay.

One of which was talking about the COVID-19 vaccination and using it something that I do every single day, which is the old ancient Chinese form of cupping. Oh, I read this. This is very interesting. Yes, yeah. So give us a synopsis of the story. A little synopsis real quickly at Rutgers School of Engineering. they were showing that with the COVID vaccination,

and if you use the ancient form of Chinese cupping, that it increases the strength and really the efficacy of the shots by up to 100 times. Okay, so tell people what the fuck cupping is because they don't know what the shit you're talking about. Yeah, cupping. I had to get both of the forbidden words in at one. I'm in a mood today. Have we been kicked off YouTube yet? I had, well, they won't kick us off for that.

They'll kick us off if we espouse certain political views. I got Envisaline put in today, and so I'm in a shitty mood because my teeth hurt. But after October, I'm thinking of doing some TV, and I can't talk about that either. What? But I can't do it with my teeth being all crooked on the bottom like that. No, no. Because my mom, I almost said my stupid mom, that would be disresolved. respectful. My mom wouldn't get me braces when my wisdom teeth came in and they just

all my teeth got mushed together. So you're going to have this funky lisp until you finish with your invisible. Do I have a lisp? Just a little taney. I can tell you. I can tell by just it's because I bit my lips so many times it's all swollen. Yeah. What it is is they the invisaline they put these anchors on your teeth. And then that's what the thing hangs to. So it's really, it's a lot, I think, I don't know, and maybe the people that sell those ones where you just buy the home kit. Yeah, that's what I was envisioning. No, me too.

I just thought it was things that you just wear. You just look like a mouthguard kind of. No, they snap on onto these anchors. And those anchors, I just keep biting the inside of my lip with them. And they said that'll go away or you'll get used to it after a while, just like a kid with braces. but you know I'm 66 why I mean I felt like the most vain old asshole you know going in to get my teeth straightened but when I do cameos for people I'm all I can do is see this too it looks like it's missing because it's just you know it's mushed out of the way and I don't like it I look like some old toothless old toothless old country feller oh heel billy doctor there well he never did have to brush She's tight.

So anyway. Just didn't have the wearerbiles. Nope. Nope. So anyway. So, yeah, that's, so the lisp is coming from me trying to move my lip out of the way of these anchors. Yeah, because you're making a weird motion with your lips right now. Am I?

Yeah. Which I could just tell Cindy. That's funny. I should just put the fucking things back in. I took them out for this. Oh, hellfire. Well, that's even worse. Yeah, I should put them back on.

So you're doing that without them in. Right. Oh, damn. Well, because it's the anchors. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I didn't know that. That's, that's... They feel like little bony prominences on the outside of my teeth.

Certain, only certain teeth. But it's only, look, it's 30 weeks, and then I'll be done. Wow. You know, it's none of this two, three-year crap like they used to do. Right on, and having to go in and tighten the wires and, you know, then I'll have them whitened and then I'll look like, because I look at people on TV with these teeth of theirs. And I'm like, God, you know, I'm, I look like a rub. If you don't have perfectly straight white teeth on TV, you look like a maniac.

Yeah, you look like something's wrong with him. Yeah, you look like Steve Bouchemmy. You're no Steve Bouchemmy. No, because he's so awesome he can get away with it. Yeah, he is. He's cool. But anyway. He's got some skills for sure.

All right. Well, anyway, sorry. Sorry, but that's why. No, it's all good. Okay, tell us the story. Yeah, but they were talking. So suction is, we use suction cups. It's the exact opposite of massage.

Think about a massage you're mashing and kneading and pushing. Yes. And the cupping exactly the opposite. We're sucking the skin and the muscle and the fascia up, increasing blood flow and taking some of the stress off, especially bony attachments. So what I love to do. I remember you first explained it to me. It's the only modality.

It's just like sometimes you just want to get your hands under your skin and then lift it up and take. Yeah. Just take the tension off of those bones. I use them on the shoulders. That's exactly what this does. It takes attention off those muscles, and it feels pretty good. There are two ways, the old Chinese, the old classic way that I was trained. We use cups.

It can be glass. It can be bamboo, anything that'll hold a vacuum. You put literally a drop or two of alcohol in the bottom of it, and then light with, yeah, seriously, yeah, literally. So I'll light an old cotton, a whole, a cotton ball full of alcohol. Stick it in, and it lights that little bit alcohol, creates a little bit of alcohol, creates a little bit of. of an explosion, and of course that creates... Oh, that sounds great. But I'm just telling you, that's why I don't do this very often, the old form.

But then with that vacuum, you flip it over and put it on the skin, and it pulls up and creates the... Okay, so what you do is you heat up the air in there, and then when it cools down, because hot air has more volume than cold air, and since the cup itself can't change shape, Nope. When the hot air cools down, it creates a decreased pressure, it doesn't really a vacuum. Okay. Yeah.

Vacuum-like, yeah. Yeah, it's vacuum-like, right. It's a decrease in pressure and it sucks in the skin up in the vacuum. So now what's the other way to do it? You just hook a vacuum thing up to a port? The way I do it, they're plastic cups, and you have a little plastic suction that you put the, in this way you can, and there's no. It's got a port on it. Yeah, and it's.

and it's much safe or there's no risk of fires and burning people. Yeah. Because, you know, a number of times I've had it done the old-school way. And if you miss getting the suction just right a couple times, then the rim of that glass or whatever gets hot. Yeah, sure. So I don't like doing it that way. The whole explosion.

The whole explosion thing is no good. Yeah. You know, I like to do it to show off, but, you know, like a magic trick. Or like doing a flambay. At the table. You turn out the lights. Just a little too risky for me. Nobody wants to see that.

No, no, no, no, no. But probably the way they did it, the way I do it is with just a really simple plastic, and it's a little trigger mechanism you put on the port there and you suck the air out of it. And that way you can put it to exactly where you want it. Right. So, you know, if you come in, let's say you had a total hip replacement. Okay. And you've got a surgical scar on that hip.

And the scars, it's scarred down. I would put some coconut oil over that and just do this cupping up and down along that scarline. Okay. And it pulls that fashion. and it really does work pretty well. So, but I'll tell you, you told me before about, like, getting adhesions. Yep.

And there's no other way to do it. No other way. With massage, you're really, you're just mushing them down, but with this, you're lifting it up. So that makes sense. So tell us, how does this have anything to do with the vaccine? Well, I was intrigued, but what they're saying is by using the cupping over the injection site,

it increases the blood flow to this area and increases the response. And I will tell you in a kind of a parallel universe here, what we found is a lot of my buddies, and they're your friends as well, that do injections into joints, especially like PRP or stem cell. There's actually increased efficacy with stem cell and PRP injections if you use either acupuncture immediately after injection or the cupping because of the same exact thing. So it's kind of cool that they came up with this study. Yeah. Yep. It increases blood.

It increases blood flow and helps really ease the stress of the body. Okay. All right. I'll buy it. Kind of cool. So some damn, I think. And it's real science, big boy. I like real science.

Not everything Dr. Scott does is complete horseshit, is what he's saying. Or maybe horseship, but at least we have some science to prove. Yeah. Okay. So what did they find in this that it, how did they, measure their outcome. So they give the person the injection, and then they did the cupping over it, which makes sense.

It's sort of like massaging something, but with the negative pressure, you will increase blood flow, just like a penis pump. If people think this is crazy, that's how a penis pump works. The same exact same thing. You put the old schlong in the thing, and you evacuate not all of the air. That would be crazy because then your penis would explode. But enough to draw blood into the. penis. Then you slip a cock ring over it. And remember, it will only become so large.

Yeah, that's right. Regardless of how hard. That's right. There is a limit. How hard you, how hard you pull on it. But, you know, evidently after, after an injection, after any kind of injection, if the blood flow is not there, some of some of some of some of this can actually get trapped and it actually breaks down and degrades pretty quickly in an area. But if you'll get it circulating into bloodstream quicker, that you have less of that. breakdown yeah that's my understanding so okay so of course this is a adverse of its studies it's brand new and it was it was in a rat you know on rat so they've got a long way to go okay oh it was a rat study yeah hey but it's hey you know hey you got to start somewhere

you got to start somewhere you know let's see I'm just trying to see what they what they used as an primary outcome at end point yeah I didn't see I didn't see I I did not see a primary endpoint, but I have read about something. So at first the vaccine is injected into the skin, then the suction machine, which has a 6mm orifice applied at the injection site for 30 seconds, isn't painful, leaves no mark. And it showed that, oh, okay, well, you said this. It showed the suction boosted the amount of antibodies made by a hundredfold.

100 times, yeah. Holy, okay. That's huge. I didn't get that outcome measure. Oh, yeah. No, but I said that. I swear it. I know, I think you did.

I think you did. Jesus. That's a huge, that's a huge number. That's huge number. Well, yeah, it is. Yeah, if you think about it. Holy effing S. Okay, yeah, cool.

All right. Kind of cool. You know what they'll do is they'll just, they won't send people to you, though. No. They'll just, they'll make a device. Here's your, you know, post-injection suction device. And poor Dr. Scott, who for 4,000 years have been promoting and cupping, and it finally is shown to do something real, they're just going to take it from you.

And I've got, you know, I'll be standing on the street corner. Because you can't. Sucking all by myself. You can't, yeah. He will for five bucks a throw. Wow, that's really interesting. Okay, good job. That's pretty cool.

What else you got? Well, you want to stay on something kind of interesting. Yeah, that would be good. We're here to entertain. Well, let's do this one. I found this the other day. An Italian doctor, they call him, he's an Italian gynecologist, a gynaecologist, allegedly offered to have sex with some of his patients to help them be cured of a virus. Okay.

Now, I want to know where the research on this is. Okay, so tell us the story. So he's 60 years old. Nice. And he goes by the name Dr. Magic Flute. What? Dr. Magic Flute. And he was uncovered.

What? Is he even a doctor? He's a physician and he's a gynecologist, fraudulently offering, allegedly offering to have sex with female patients to cure her. This is, this is the beauty of this, to cure her of her cancer-causing virus. Oh. So I guess she had had a. Oh, my God, this poor woman has cancer. Yeah, and he's trying to have sex with her.

Oh, no, no, no, she doesn't have cancer. I guess she's got HPV and had a pap, and he said if she would have sex with him, it would cure the virus, so she wouldn't get cancer. So that's even better. Oh, yeah. Well, there you go. He can't say that he didn't. Well, at least he's trying.

Bless it. Oh, my God. Allegedly, this is not the first person, and that's why they set up a sting for him. and so yeah you know hey you never know they set up a sting for him yeah and this this one gal who was so she comes in and says i've got HPV can you do anything yes and he was so kind to offer offer him his penis his penis yeah dr magic fluke oh tacy and i talked about this sometime and we're going to probably talk about it on the next patreon show that when she's feeling rotten You know, she feels crummy.

You know, I just out of altruism, offer, you know, to give her an orgasm. Yeah, because you're nice. Because she always feels better afterward. Right, right. But then she gets mad. Yeah. And I'm just trying to help. Because she thinks you're doing it for your own personal gratification.

Of course. Of course I'm not. And you're just trying to help. That's right. Because you're a good old doctor's saying. I would just do it without having any gratification at all. That's right, because that's how you roll. That's right.

Anyway, we'll be talking about that on the Patriots. Uh-huh. All right. I'll have to show for that one. I had one. Cancer deaths in the U.S. fell 27% over the last 50 years. It's not bad. No, not bad, no.

Fewer people die from cancer in the United States, thanks to improve diagnosis and treatment, better understanding of prevention. Well, that isn't that the case? Yeah. And we're going to have a significant reduction in cervical cancer death, as the women who had the Garda cell vaccine grow up and don't get HPV type 16. Right. And we're starting to see that there are fewer abnormal pap smears.

And in the next 10, 20 years, we'll see that there'll be a decrease in diagnosis of cervical cancer and deaths from cervical cancer. So prevention is the key. Said that it's true in stupid COVID, you know, preventing it. Not getting it is the best way to not die from it. And then if you do get it, taking something to prevent you from getting into trouble is the next best thing. Yep. And we now finally have some of those things. You know, the Merck drug and the Pfizer drugs, we can argue about which one's going to be better.

And the data is still hitting it. You know, the Mulnupyrivere was a little bit of a – I'm not going to use the – the Bababooie term that he used with the iPad when he said the iPad was a bit of a misstep. Oops. Whoops. But I don't think it's a bit of a misstep, but it's not as effective as we thought. But the other drug looks like it's about 80% effective at keeping people out of the hospital. So between that early IV remdesivir and early monoclonal antibody treatments, hopefully this damn thing will be able to put a stop to it.

Now, just real quick about the Omicron variant, right now on Wednesday, December 8th of 2021, it's looking like it took on some DNA of the common cold, which, of course, coronaviruses participate in common colds. So I want to see what they found when they keep saying that, because what that just tells me is it's, it's, it's, doing what we said the virus would likely do would be to mutate into a less less deadly phase, but maybe

more contagious. Okay. Common cold isn't contagious as shit. Yeah, buddy. That's why there's a thing called cold season. You know? So I think that

I'm hoping between the early treatment and obviously vaccination and what we've learned about preventing people from getting to severe disease, that within the next three to four months, we're going to see some real inroads into putting an end of this bullshit. Yeah, I think so. And Dr. Steve, is it possible that is the virus mutates?

It could mutate to a much less dangerous. Yeah. I mean, it doesn't have to get worse. It can get. No, that's right. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah. It's likely to mutate to get worse.

mutate to a variety that's that's very contagious but doesn't kill the host. Because that's the best thing. The perfect virus would be very contagious and not do anything to the host, so the host doesn't do anything to prevent it. Yep. Yep. Just let it multiply to no end, to no end whatsoever. We had a call about this, as a matter of fact.

Let me go ahead and get the... Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. Somebody, oh, yeah, this guy. I think this is exactly what he's calling about. Let's see here. Hey, Dr. Steve. John from Chicago here.

Hey, John. Question for you guys. Oh, by the way, I hope you're doing well. Hi, Dr. Scott. Hey, I'm Casey. Hi. Maybe Rloach, whatever your name is. Now, you jerk.

I like this guy. Devil's advocate question for all the people who say, you know, or devil's advocate question to you about your, we should vaccinate against all viruses and eliminate them. which I'm in full favor of. Yeah. But is there, to play devil's advocate for that, most of the common colds are coronaviruses, right?

Well, just as an example. A good fraction of them are. Is it better to have, you know, cumulative over your whole life? Maybe. Uh-oh. All right. Different natural antibodies that maybe just give your body a higher chance of dealing with. No, I know what he's saying, and he's right, that if we prevented people from getting all the coronavirus as never being exposed to them when they were kids, then what would happen is as they get older than they would be exposed to them when they don't have the immunity, when the immunity from whatever we treated them with wore off.

And then they'll get sick of shit because we know adults get sicker with coronavirus. if they're exposed to it the first time as adults. So what I'm proposing is that we just wipe them off the face of the earth like we did smallpox. And how do you do that with an endemic virus? I don't know. It's going to require a Manhattan project-style project to do something like this. And we'll have to know a whole lot more than we know now. Now, we got rid of the, what was it, Yamato version of influenza.

Yeah, it's like the East train. It's gone. And that's just from last year. That's from social distancing and mask wearing. They really think that it's extinct, so good. Go F yourself on that. I'm glad you're dead. And then the other one is smallpox.

Good. We had a handle on measles and then we screwed it up. So I, so it's, going to take a different kind of effort. Smallpox was easy because there were no asymptomatic carriers. Oh, okay. I didn't know that. Yeah, so you could just identify everyone that had smallpox, and the other benefit

or the other thing in our favor on killing smallpox was that the vaccine was very rapid. Okay. So if you found someone that got smallpox, you isolate them, and then you you vaccinate everyone around them so that the virus has got nowhere to go. It just stops in its tracks and you can do it. You can stop it out

one case at a time. So you start off with max vaccinations. That gets the cases down to the point where you can start chasing single cases around. And then when you don't see it, you don't see it for a year, two years, ten years, it's dead. It's sitting in a lab somewhere. some asshole will let it out again at some point.

You know that that's the case. It's kind of scary. Well, you hate to, I mean, people say, well, you hate to get rid of it. Maybe it'll be useful for something. Well, what you could do is kill all of the samples that we have and just have the DNA. We now can recreate it from just the DNA. We can recreate the DNA strain. So if we really need it for something, we can still have it.

That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's different. We have asymptomatic. We know we have asymptomatic coronavirus carriers because that's where a lot of these outbreaks come from where people that didn't even know they had it and they're just spreading it around.

And so that'll be harder to do. We'll have to come up with something different. Don't know. Yeah, no, it's kind of crudgeoned it. All right. But that's an excellent question, though. Yeah, very good. All right.

Hey, here's one for you. Hey, Dr. Steve, it's John from Chicago. I haven't called in a while. Oh, it's the same guy. I hope you're doing great. Hey, John. Hey, John. Dr. Scott, hope you're doing good, too, buddy.

Super great. I had a question for you. So as you get older, we all break down and become sad pumpkins and whatnot. Yeah, no shit. But I was thinking from a muscle, skeletal perspective, you know, they say after working out, you know, when you're a healthy, you know, you're 20, you know, 30s and 40s, you eat protein or take different amino acids, et cetera, if you're trying to repair the body and blah, blah, blah. So do you need to take more as, should you take more as you get older, if you do continue

to be active, you know, if you're one of those 90-year-olds who's still hitting the gym, or does it not matter, would a normal load, you know, be still acceptable and, you know, your musculature capability just kind of is what it is. Well, a couple of things about that. Human growth hormone helps to promote healing after exercise, and we have less of that as we get older. Now, am I advocating taking human growth hormone to improve that? I am not, but that might be one of the benefits of human growth hormone going forward.

What do you have to say about this? You used to be a coach. Yeah, and I still believe in exercise. and stretching and... Well, that's a hot take. Yeah, you can't... I believe in exercise. You can't look at me and tell, but I really do.

But I think the question is good. I think it's got a lot of moving parts. I think, first of all, as we, as are, I don't, simple answer is I don't think changing a diet if what you're doing is working, it's a great idea. Some people's bodies that exercise, they need a little bit higher load of carbs, some a little bit higher load of proteins and fats,

so I think in the aging process especially as we mature when we become much more comfortable in our bodies like right now I've had to stop eating and you did too you and I both have pretty much quit glutons just because we just don't tolerate them very well we just don't metabolize them well we don't break them down and I think as you as you as you do mature and you exercise you you'll figure that out if you're if you're doing that I think there's some wonderful supplements but I think as you age we have to be a little more cautious with supplements Yeah. And, but, you know, like you were saying, the HGH is down, but other things have decreased.

Testosterone. Testosterone's decreased. The, the pliability of bones decreases. Yes. The pliability of the tendons decrease. Tell me about it. I ripped. Both of my planteris longest tendons in my, in my leg, both of them.

With bad. Running. So running is stupid. Well, it is running is bad. That's a good way to get hurt. But, you know, and even me, pretty. pretty good health, but, and you know this, about two weeks ago, I was putting my dog in a car and reached funny, and I tore a damn tendon in my shoulder.

And it's just because, it's just, it just not as, there's not as much fluid, there's not as much viscosity inside the joint, and I'm certain not as much pliability, but, you know, changing diets in a big way, not so much. I worked with Richard David Smith and his wife, Shatai, who is Mama Sunrah on, on Twitter. And check them out. They make Hyperphysics, H-Y-P-E-R-F-I-Z-I-C-S. This is not a, well, I mean, it's a plug, but it's not a paid promotion. They did send us a 12- or 24-pack of weird medicine-branded hyperphysics, and you're on here.

Yeah. Did you see that? It's a good, like. Yeah, it's got GVAC on here. It's got you, me, PA, shit. Oh, Dr. K is on here? You think it's Dr. K? Is that K or is it?

Yeah, it's not Diane. We changed it to Diane later, but it's Dr. K. I see it now, yeah. So, yeah, and then there are old weird medicine logo. So that's pretty cool. So they make energy drinks, but I had talked to them a long time ago about making a pre-and-post exercise set of drinks. And the pre-exercise one would have arginine in it to increase blood blood.

flow to your muscles and I used to get when when Liam was doing cross-country I did a lot of research trying to figure out how can how can I help him do better blood doping kind of stuff but some of it was when do you eat right and you know when do you take a dump and stuff like that because he would puke every single time he would run by us at the end he'd be covered in puke yeah poor thing and and then what do you do afterward and the crazy thing thing was, what I found was, although the studies on using things like arginine and things that increase

nitric oxide that increase blood flow to muscles, probably will help an elite athlete get another percentage point. Because these elite athletes, particularly like swimmers, you're talking hundreds, maybe even thousands of a second.

And that makes a difference to them. You and me will never notice the difference. Carb loading, you and I would probably not notice the difference. in carb loading for long distance running because we're not elite athletes. But what I found was the best thing after, in all the research that I did,

the best thing I could find that wasn't some crazy concoction was chocolate milk. Wow. You know? Because it's got the carbs, it's got the protein, as long as you're not lactose intolerant. And you see things like muscle milk

and stuff like that on the market. But just plain old chocolate milk is probably just a, as good as any of those. So we really didn't pursue it, although I do think that the pre-exercise thing still made sense. Arginine, yeah. Yeah.

You know, I think post-exercise, just lots and lots of hydration, like electrolytes and hydration. Yeah. Just help you heal. I mean, that's what I do. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you can't run if you're just dry. No.

So you have to be well hydrated because your body needs a lot of fluid. It's got fluid. Fluid to do what it does. Got that flu. All right. Very good. Great. By the way, I did not see anything in my studies that showed that one supplement's better or more of one is better in people who are older.

But you do want to make sure that you got your testosterone under control. Excuse me, because if it's low, you're going to be weak. You're not going to perform well. It is performance enhancing if you bring it back to normal. All right. If anybody's got any. And you don't heal us quickly, too, if you have. So the HGH thing, I have seen some study on using it for elderly people who have musculoskeletal injuries to speed healing.

Talk to your doctor about it. You know, it's not really standard treatment yet. No. But I've seen some studies on it, and they look reasonable. Oh, shoot, yeah. Okay. Yeah, I agree. Okay, doke.

Hey, Doc Sheep. This is Phil from Tampa. I'm calling a follow-up. I called about the homocysteine, and he told me about the M-T-H-F-R gene. Yeah, so should we talk about that just real quick for people who don't listen every week? Sure. This guy had like a mini-stroke, and they couldn't find anything except his home-assisting level was elevated in his blood. And I said that I really had a feeling that he may have a genetic mutation called M-T-H-F-R.

and if you go back and look at our podcast, it's called UM-T-H-F-R is the name of the podcast, so it looks like UMF. And you can detect that in your data if you look at your data dump on 23 and me, because that's how I found out I had it. And that way you don't have to do a bunch of expensive genetic testing. But anyway, so that's what he's calling about.

I want to let you know that I just sent out I put in the mail today in my box for 23 and me based on your suggestions. Okay. And I'd love to keep you up to speed. I don't know if calling the voicemail every time to be best or to email you. Yeah, either one. Forget the email, I'm sorry. But just let me know.

And I'll get the results in a few weeks, and I'll let you know if I have that mutation. Okay, yeah, that's cool, man. Just definitely call us back, email me. If you all don't know how to email us, just go to Dr.steve.com, click contact, and then ignore all the warnings. Those warnings are not for you. That's for everybody else who isn't a listener to this show that is trying to get free stuff off of us and stuff like that. Yep.

All right. Okay. M.HFR. That's something. And folks who have MTHFR have to take B12 and folate supplements that are different than everybody else because they can't absorb them. And that's where the problem comes from. So you have to take methylated.

B-12 and methylated folic acid. When you do that, you can absorb them just fine. It works great. What about the injectable, the shots? You like them better than the... Yeah, no, that would be fine. That would be fine. All right.

Here we go. Hello, Dr. Steve. Hey. This is Steve in New York. Hey, Steve. I have a question. I'm following the Elizabeth Holmes saga. Okay.

And I'm wondering, why some blood tests, like a protein or a glucose test, only requires a tiny bit of blood, like it's just a little dropout. But other tests cannot be done with that amount of blood. You know, everything gets into blood, it's all microscopic, right? Right. So why do you need more than a dropout of blood, which contains multiple, probably a million of those? Do you know what he's talking about?

Because he's talking about the Theranos case? Yes, I do. Okay. So I haven't been following it very closely, but my understanding was is that they claimed that they had a blood test that would do all. kinds of stuff with just one drop of blood. Checking for all types of cancers and diseases. Yep.

And so he's asking, why can't you do that? And the answer for that is sensitivity. So some of these tests have results that are resulted out in nanograms per decilator.

Okay? So nanograms per decilator. So a decilator is a tenth of a liter. So it would be 100 milliliters and a nanogram amount well okay so you know what a two liter bottle is take one 20th of that that's 100 milliliters and uh you're going to try to detect nanogram amounts in that okay now decrease that by a thousand in a drop in a single drop and you can't detect it anymore you just can't it's it has to do with the sensitivity of the lab instrument itself that just need larger volumes than that and that was what they said that they

had fixed but they were telling a fib yeah can i can i ask a question about that too and two if if you have too small of a sample you may not get all of the the little things floating around inside yeah i mean is that is that correct or is it inaccurate in other words you know like well again that's sort of the same thing is if you have something that's in anagram decilator amounts, and then you get it that small. There will be a lot less of it in there. It's not even impossible that you could miss it, I guess. Yeah, that's what I was wondering.

Maybe possibly. I don't know. I mean, we're talking about, when you talk about jerking off, and there's 250 million sperm cells in there, or whatever it is, it only takes one. Yeah, that's right. But it's hard to imagine that many things could be in a volume that small. Let me get the number again because maybe it's two million, but it's still, it's more than a million.

Yeah. Echo, how many sperm cells are in one ejaculation? See if she knows that. Sorry, I'm not sure about that. Yeah, I bet you're not. Okay. Let's, let me just Google it. Carl from WATP loves this.

How many sperm in an ejaculation? Okay, see, it's right there. There you go. You're not the first person to Google it. Okay, two and five milliliters of semen, and there's usually 100 million sperm per ML, so I was right in the first place. Wow. Yeah, 200, 250 million. Damn.

And then if there's less than 20 million sperm per milliliter, they say that's a problem. But like Scott said, you only need one. Why isn't 20 million enough? It wasn't. Good God. That's hilarious. Oh, good Lord. Okay.

All righty, but that's the answer. Cool. Oh, Charleston. Hey, man. I have a follow-up on Lyme disease, tick-borne illnesses, and the such. Yes. So we've got a bunch of dogs, and they are on tick preventative oral medication. That is correct.

Keeps ticks off and keeps please awesome. Off of them. Works pretty good. so for people who spend a lot of time in the woods hunting you know and hiking and camping and that kind of thing couldn't we come up with some kind of oral medication for those people or maybe there already is one and i'm not aware of it maybe there's some sort of massive problem with doing so anyway i feel like you know that would be a natural follow-up to the wildlife diseases episode because oh he was going to say it was awesome awesome so thank you oh yeah good good good good yeah we'll let the kill

masters know. Yeah, they would like to know. Yeah, we got a pretty good response to that one. If you want to hear the podcast version of that, just go back. It's called You'll never go in the woods again, I think. It was the name of it. But here's the thing. If you go

on Reddit and I ask this question, you will get so many bullshit answers. And they'll start talking about the flea collars. So there people, I had friends that were in Desert Storm, and they would wear flea collars on their ankles for the sand fleas and it would burn their skin because it's

meant to go on hairy coats on coats and not on human skin and then other people say well organophosphates and all this stuff they're poisons and they'll build up and a dog doesn't live as long and it doesn't accumulate as much and the thing is is that these drugs that he's talking about they're Floral Honor and

a foxaloner that's a Nexguard and Brevecto and these things may also work in humans to kill off pests like mosquitoes that spread diseases like Zika and malaria so they're actually studying it

cool and so they tested these two drugs on disease spreading mosquitoes and sand fleas found that the drugs were affected but killing off the insects that consume the compounds through samples of human blood using computer modeling, the researchers then estimated

giving these iso-zaxiline drugs, about a third of the people living in areas prone to outbreaks of Zika would prevent 97% of infections. Now, I mean, it's pretty freaking dramatic. They need to test these things in humans, but apparently there's not a significant reason not to, let me see what it says.

says here, when used in animals that drugs kill off pests by harming the insect's nervous systems, if it proves if, it proves safe and effective in humans, researchers suggest that when a disease spreading bug bites a person taking the medication, the insect would die before they could bite another person. And a single oral dose of under 500 milligram would provide protection for 90 days. So you take it every three months if you're in an endemic area. Wow. And it would just kill the stupid bugs.

It doesn't just let them live and then prevents you from getting it. And then sometimes you get sick because, you know, some of the malarial drugs make you sick. This kills the fucking things. Good. I'm all in favor of this. Yeah. That's incredible. Just kill the shit out of them.

I hate mosquitoes and I hate viruses. Do mosquitoes serve a purpose, a good purpose? No. I don't think so. Yes, they do. Yes, they do. They are bat food. bats are good bats are good bats are cool so they provide food for the the chain but

them they're part of the other sucking blood and then borking malarial organisms into our bloodstream that does not do anybody that does not help us know I got bit my friend Chuck Brady he was an astronaut and he wasn't at the time that we did this we we were going to do a ham radio tour down the Haw River. And we were going to start in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and end up at Cape Fear. And our wives were just going to go on down and meet us, and they were going to have a big old time. Okay. And then meet us down there, and they were going to spend a week at the beach.

And we were doing this to call attention to the Haw River because at the time was being endangered by a lake, which is now Lake or Jordan Lake or something. and it was before the internet and before either one of us had any sense whatsoever because we built this giant raft and we had a ham radio we had food we had coolers we had tents we had all this stuff and we get about two miles down the river and there's a fucking dam

where did this come from and the first dam we got around the second dam there was no getting around it and we didn't want to portage our crap all the way around. We knew we were screwed. We had really messed up. So we ended up camping in the middle of nowhere. There's no road.

There's nothing. It's just land and river. And we found a little clearing and we set our stuff up. And I got bit by so many mosquitoes. I mean, my face was puffy. I started feeling febrile. I mean, I was getting sick from just the whatever. were, you know, the reaction to their saliva that causes the itching and all that kind of stuff.

And Chuck and I both, and we were like, if there's one mosquito here with malaria, we're getting malaria today. But there wasn't. We didn't get anything as far as we know. Wow. Of course, part of it may have been all the DDT in my fat layer, because when I was a kid, we used to get behind the DDT trucks and run through the smoke. I remember the smell.

I like the smell of the smoke. We'd run behind it for blocks. Oh, my gosh. The thing's just blowing. In that wild. He has DDT out. Unbelievable. In some sort of petroleum fog is what it was.

Yep. Unbelievable. So, and when, so you assholes who talk about, and this treatment will get rid of toxins. If you can get rid of the DDT in my, in my subcutaneous fat, then I'll believe it. We should be able to test it before and after. It's still there

from what I understand. Yeah, I guarantee it. And we'll test it before and after. And if there's less of it after, then I will buy whatever your stupid toxin thing is. And I won't even call it stupid after that. Yeah, you will. No, I won't.

Now, if it works. All right. So anyway, they are studying this. Okay. And those two drugs, particularly now, do not take these on your own. They're just stages of planning phase one. study and healthy volunteers.

So do not take this shit on your own. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, shit. Wait a minute. That was 2018. Oh, God. I'm nervous. Okay.

Hang on. So let's, Dr. Scott, let's look. I'm an idiot. Let's look up iso-zaxylines for humans and see if those studies are complete. I so Xaxillines. I am so glad you didn't make me read that word

because you'd be wearing me out right now. I am the hillbilly language. I am submitting your attempt at pronouncing balinitis to Carl for a cringe of the weed. It was.

It was pretty horrible. Okay, let's see here. The investigators found that this class is effective against sandfly and mosquito species that feed unhumans. Okay, well, all right. So it looks like not complete yet, but they're working on it. Cool. Yeah. So do not take these drugs.

If you have them for your pet, I'm just telling you don't take them until the phase three studies are done. Okay, you've got to show efficacy, and you've got to show safety. All right. Jesus. You've got to replicate. Okay, this is one for you. Oh, I want to do this one. Now, this is Stacey Deloche.

He's allowed to say this on our show. Hang on. Well, what a thing, too, and, Casey, I miss you. Well, thank you. Run something by you real quick. Real good friend of my introduced into an organization years ago called the Dat Coal Foundation, B-A-T-C-O-E. And it's about children with pediatric cancer, the young man that the foundation is named after, would have been 18 years old had he not passed away from pediatric cancer.

Okay. But his family has come up with a wonderful thing. Okay. Because they're still very interactive with pediatric hospitals and oncology organizations. So they've come up with a wish list on Amazon. and I'm hoping that you'll attach the show notes, in the show notes, the Amazon link. And what they've got on there is just a list of toys that their hospital needs or their organization needs or would like to have to supply it to other pediatric hospitals. Okay.

Some of them are just dirt cheap. I mean, it's a little as $6, and it doesn't cost you anything other than just buying the toys. Yeah. Down at the bottom, you need to add their organizational. link to your address book and then Amazon will take care of shipping any of toys that you pick off of their wish list straight

to the Bat Coal Foundation. Yeah. So, great organization, something that really helps little kids. Yeah. And then just Google the Bat Coal Foundation is really, really amazing. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thanks, man.

Yes, so here we go. I'm looking, it's Bat Coal Foundation. all one word B-A-T-C-O-E Foundation slash donate and I'm going to Amazon so if you do Amazon when you buy something it'll donate money to them well hell I we want you using Amazon dot or stuff dot Dr. Steve but let me see there was oh okay Amazon wish list okay so what you want to do is go down to the bat

Coal Foundation go down to the Band-Aid wish list and it has all kinds of bandages and stuff like that. Plus then you can look at other things. I bought a bunch of toys and things like that. And if you look Dr. Scott,

just while I'm doing this, go to Amazon and look, see if you can look up wish lists and just look up Bat Coal Foundation. It's B-A-T-C-O-L-E Foundation. And I'm just kidding. If you want to use their smile.com dot com link instead of ours that's fine it's a better thing anyway but but using their

amazon wish list i bought a bunch of toys and stuff and just they just ship them to them and they take care of it and when you do that it's not like someone's taking 10% off the top of the toys you know they they got nothing they can't use them for anything i know a lot of people when they make a donation somewhere they're worried that a lot of it's going to administrative fees and things. And when you send toys to an organization like this, they can't take a cut of it. I guess unless they return

some of them, but they're not doing that. So that's cool. Check out the Bat Cole Foundation. I think that's awesome. We only have about a minute left, and someone's got a cervical ridiculopathy, and they need to ask you most. Let's do it yet. Okay. I've been dealing with arthritis in my neck. I've prepared my spinal cord for about four years. And it's the last

three or four months, it has just progressed. gotten worse. Now it's down between my shoulder plates. Can I follow it? Okay, so we're almost out of time. Tell him in 30 seconds what he should do. Well, stop doing whatever is making it hurt, number one. Number two, ice.

Ice, ice, baby. Okay, what about cervical traction? Yeah, you can do, you can do cervical traction. Do you believe in that? I do, but it has to be very gentle. Do it under a doctor's or health care providers supervision including physical therapy. Physical therapy, yeah. Yeah, and certainly we can do interventional stuff, acupuncture, epidurals, facet joint injections, cupping.

Yeah. There's a lot of things we can do to treat this. It's something we treat every day. Yeah, yes, of course. We can fix it. Okay. This is one of those. We can go more definitely.

What was that Johnny Fairplay used to say? Your show is just, you just tell everybody to go see their doctorate. In this case, yes. We're just going to tell you to go see your doctor. All right. Jesus. What do you think we're going to say? Okay.

Well, let's do a couple more. questions before we get out of here. You had one from the chat room, I believe. Yeah, from love it. Love it. Love it. Love it. Well, I don't know if I love it or not. Love it. That's a good question. What's the difference between

the cold and the omnivirus cold? Yeah, the Omnacron. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So Omicron is a variant of SARS-COV-2 because it has some genetic material in common with that virus, but it also has some genetic material of the quote, unquote, common cold, which we kind of talked about this a little bit earlier in the

show. That's just a term, a bucket term for all kinds of viruses that cause a mild upper respiratory infection that's viral. So we have influenza. Flu-like illness causes fever, headache, cause. cough and sore throat and those kinds of things that causes a viral tracheo bronchitis

and that's pretty distinctive so when you see somebody with a fever during flu season first thing you're going to think of is influenza at least it was the first thing that you would think of now it's more likely we're going to think COVID and now we're starting to test for other things too

so when people come in with flu-like illness where you now call it COVID-like illness. We test them for COVID. We test them for respiratory syncytial virus and two kinds of influenza. Gotcha. Now, but the common cold is sort of like influenza. It can cause a sore throat. It causes a cough.

It makes you feel crummy. Usually you don't have a fever with it. And these are caused normally by adenoviruses. There are rhinoviruses. Coronavirus can cause them. as well. And the dirty little secret about this is is that about 10,000 people a year in this country, more or less, will die from, quote, unquote, atypical pneumonia, which we know back in the past was probably coronavirus. But we didn't test for it because there weren't enough people

and you just weren't anything you could do about it. So those people just died undiagnosed. on their death certificate, I would say, atypical pneumonia, probably viral pathology or etiology, something like that. Well, now, all of a sudden, we care about these coronavirus infections, and so we will be testing for those now. And we can see how many, quote, unquote, common cold viruses cause 80-year-old people to die. Because it usually, it was usually the elderly or the otherwise immunocompromised

that would die from those atypical pneumonia. Not always so. So, yeah, so this Omicron will see. We don't know enough about it yet to know how virulent it is. We know it's pretty transmissible. What I'm hoping is that it is more transmissible than Delta but has less chances of putting you in the hospital. If that's the case, this thing is kind of will be.

over just by its through natural selection. If it's more transmissible. If it's less transmissible, then Delta is still going to reign supreme for a while. All right? Crazy. Does that help? Sounds good, guys. So let's get this person's question in. I thought

this one was kind of cool. Yeah. Hey, Dr. Seat, hope you're well. Hey, I am, man. Oh, that's great take care. Yeah, thanks. Hey, nobody wants to listen to that soap glass or cow glass or whatever, twiddly, tizzily, jazz crap. I beg to differ, my friend.

What we were talking about was circular breathing, and I said that Philip Glass's glass works, the second song on that album, is a good example of people who were using circular breathing to play forever, it seems like, without ever taking a – it's seeming like they're taking a breath. They certainly didn't pause. Now, my son's saxophone teacher played in the Philip Glass Quartet. And he talked about this circular breathing business that they had to learn. And it was crazy. So, and basically you say, well, how can you breathe in and breathe out the same time? Well, you can't. But what you can do is you can store up some air in your upper airway and use accessory muscles to blow it out while you're breathing in through your nose.

So let's finish with this guy said. Because I disagree. I love Philip Glass music. Check out Sean Lone Shorty. He does that circular breathing. and, you know, he's from this millennia. Okay. So there you go.

All right. So let's check out Tramone Shorty doing circular breathing. Okay, right there I'm seeing him take breath. So let me go further into this. Okay, it says from the 230 mark to pass the five mark. Okay, so I'm not there yet. Hang on, sorry. Because I'm watching him take breaths there.

Okay, so I'm at 2.30. Let's see. Now he's doing it. That's amazing. I swear, they just. I swear it's not, I'm not playing a loop. And when you watch him do it, you can see how he's doing it, but you and I could not do this. Wow.

I've seen him do this live, but I didn't realize that. That's amazing. He's still going. I've seen, I've seen, I've seen, trombone short it. I've seen him do this. He played in the festival one time we were at with widespread panic. Oh, yeah. And he was playing with those guys.

And you just know he's doing something crazy, but, you know, if you've, it sounds like he's on a loop. It was like, it was kind of late in the evening, and it was kind of hard to differentiate and figure out exactly what he's doing. But it's incredible. It's really cool. We may have been. slightly impaired. That is really cool as hell. Yeah, it's pretty awesome.

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