Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 497 - The Seminal Bleach Connection

Episode Date: March 20, 2022

Dr Steve and Dr Scott discuss: Kicked in nuts or childbirth Scintillating scotoma  Mustard and heartburn Coronavirus fatigue Star Trek and Covid The seminal bleach connection (great band name) Limits to life expectancy Post steroid shoulder divot Orgasmic Rhinorrhea (great band name) Ineffective testosterone treatment With a cameo appearance by Patreon co-host Tacie! Please visit: stuff.doctorsteve.com (for all your online shopping needs!) simplyherbals.net (now with CBD nasal spray!) Cameo.com/weirdmedicine (Book your old pal right now while he’s still cheap!) noom.doctorsteve.com (the link still works! Lose weight now before swimsuit season!) chef.doctorsteve.com (green chef, the best of all the meal kits we've tried!) CHECK US OUT ON PATREON!  ALL NEW CONTENT! Robert Kelly, Mark Normand, mystery guests! Stuff you will never hear on the main show ;-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Well, there you go. There you go, Dr. Scott. That was pretty good. That's what you call country humor there, Dr. Scott. So you've been working on it all day. Yeah, actually my diet partner. told me that one today.

Couldn't stop Putin. Couldn't stop Putin. That probably doesn't land in some places because I doubt everyone calls Flatus with that eponym. Yes, I agree. Or not eponym, that's not the

word I'm looking for. Euphemism. Okay. You know? I would say you're correct there. What is the euphemism? Oh, let's do that as a radio bet. What's the euphemism for fletus in your area?

Oh, a toot. Yep. I think a toot. Well, I'll tell you what. We talked about this in a recent show that where my brother would hold me down. And that was nothing but farting in my face. There's no other word for it. He didn't toot.

He didn't poot. He effing farted in my face. And it stunk so bad. And I do not understand this. It smells the same today. Oh, no, not 50. 60 years later, it smells the same. I can't believe Tacey couldn't remember that.

That's kind of bizarre. She talked about that for years. You'd think it'd be something she would remember. Yeah. Anyway. Well, you know. I don't know. I don't know anything.

Obviously. She's doing her best. God bless her. All right. You got anything? Because we have a million phone calls. we've got to get through to that yeah i got a couple things we'll go we'll go through people will be happy about that instead of us bullshitting there will be lots of phone calls well there's i'm

will say something about bullshit i'm going to talk about something serious here okay we found this article of the day yeah and it's a very it's a legitimate question okay childbirth or getting kicked in the balls which hurts more oh childbirth by far i would think so by far except and men can't even come close to understand except the problem is most men are just and you know this Well, when it comes to tolerating pain, men will tell you that getting kicked in the nuts of course. Whoa, it's the worst thing ever. Oh, it's so painful. And then my wife will say, just imagine shitting out a watermelon.

But it goes on for eight hours, or 12 hours, or 24 hours. Or 24 hours, yep. And there is a guy named horse. We've had him on the show. I don't think you've ever been here when we had horse on the show. He came to national fame. America's Got Talent when Howard Stern was a judge. And his talent is he can get kicked in the balls.

He can jump off of a 10-foot thing onto a two-by-four with his legs spread out and land on his balls. And he makes faces and stuff like, whoa, it hurts, but it doesn't bother him. Wow. Is he anatomically connected? He's been examined by physicians, and they say he's fine. And his testicles are fine. And I don't understand it. They took, you know, one of those bamboo canes that they cane people with, they did that under his legs.

Now, that would be hard. That would be painful. Had two guys, at one point, two guys just with each end just, you know, lifting him up. Oh, for goodness sakes. And he's going to be on the show again. He reached out to me recently wanting to come back on. He's got something else to talk about. But my kid, Liam, Beck was too little.

He doesn't really remember. but Liam would watch him and just laugh and laugh and laugh. He thought it was hilarious, and so when he had a horse on the show, he was kind enough to autograph a thing to Liam, which he still has. How funny. He's got it on his wall. You know, I actually remember the horse guy getting kicked in the nuts. Yeah, oh, God.

And I'll tell you this. Of course, everybody has their own level of discomfort. But, you know, they don't teach a lot of, in self-defense classes, women not to kick men in the testicles because it really doesn't cause them that much pain. It just kind of piss them off. Yeah. You know, they teach you to, you know, punch in a nose or the side of the neck. But much more so than getting kicked in the knees.

Is that right? Yeah. Interesting. Hey, I've got a quick question from Sean. Yeah, and any women who have actually passed a human through their vaginal cavity that wants to chime in in the waiting room to feel free, and Dr. Scott will pick those things up. Yeah. But, yeah, no, it's childbirth.

Yeah, I'm saying childbirth 100%. 100%. If you kicked me in the nuts so hard that it ruptured one of my testicles, I'm still not going to say that's worse than childbirth. I agree. I agree 100%. Anyway. But, yeah, Sean was chiming in. He said, how about kidney stones compared to the childbirth?

Kidney stones are bad. They're horrible. That's really bad. Now, that might be close. Now, I've got gout. And I'm not saying gout says bad. You got the gout. The gouch.

The couch? Cloud, I'd eat my goutch, man. It's awful. It's awful. Yeah. Oh, God, it's awful. But I think between kidney stones and gout, those are two pretty similar in discomfort. But I'd say childbirth has got to be worse.

Well, severe pain in your big toe. Yeah. No matter how bad it is, I'm not thinking that it's worse than passing up. I think it lasts longer. But, you know, one benefit about childbirth is after the birth. the women's hormones kick in to help them kind of forget how painful it was. Well, you don't remember pain anyway. You remember that you were in pain, but you don't remember pain.

People that are listening to this, think about it. Think of the worst pain you ever had. You can remember, like I said, that you were in pain, but as far as feeling it again or remembering it in the way that we think of remembering things, you just can't do it. No. No, it is not. Somebody saying something to you in the waiting room. Yeah, Mick's talking about going to pass out if we keep talking about rupturing nuts. Hey, we might have our new GVAC here.

We need a GVAC. It is funny how people in medicine, you'd just be sitting there talking and it's like, yeah, this guy defecated all over the bed and it was full of mucus and you're just eating your spaghetti. And everyone else, and you look around and everyone is like sitting there just with this horrified look on their face. Yeah. It's a whole different. It's a whole different way. You get inured to it. Yes, you do. So there you go. Well, that's a good by now. You had a question left over from last week. From last week. It was, let me find it here. Oh, hey, Dr. Scott, did you see my question about scintillating scotoma? Yeah. Who's this from? Occasionally. Is there a reason for concern?

I did not get the name. I just copied the question, so I apologize. Okay. Yeah, that's all right. But if you want to... I've had this happen to me once. Okay. So scintillating, you know what scintillating means? You know, flashing, and then scatomatah means a deficit in the visual field.

So it would be flashing lights in one part of the visual field. And, you know, it usually starts as like a spot or a flickering light, and it can be near the center or near the edge of your visual field. with me, my scintillating scotomita happened just out of the blue. I was driving and there was bright, you know, the sun was bright. And I got into the hospital and I thought that I had, you know, if you look at a bright light for too long, you get sort of, you know, a spot in your vision that's temporary where the rods and the cones have just been overworked and there's no chemicals left to send that signal of the brain. So you get this spot.

Right. Well, it was a bright spot, and it didn't go away. And then it spread to the upper right side of my vision, only in my right eye, and it looked like a neon sign where it was just, you know how a neon sign. Well, one of the, worse than that, a marquee sign where they have the lights and they flash in sequence to make sort of a pattern that looks like motion. Right. You know what I'm talking about? Sure, sure. And it looked like that, and it got bigger and bigger and bigger.

and I was like, oh, my, God, what's going on with me? So I was near the emergency room. I went ahead and checked, just went in there and called a neurologist and said, get your ass down here. There's something going on because it wasn't something I could ignore. And then before he could even get there, it got less and less and less, and then it just went away. Wow.

Never happened again. Oh, cool. Well, let's keep it that way. So he said that I had an asophagic migraine. Okay. Never had a migraine, never have headaches. But acophagic migraine, A, remember the Greek, A in the front of a word means not. So cephalgia, Ceph, meaning CEPH, meaning the head, algera, meaning pain.

So no head pain migraine. Right, right. And so it was an acephalgic migraine. And that can just be caused by contraction of the blood vessels around the brain and, you know, I had some contraction of the blood vessels in the visual cortex, which is near the back of the brain, and that was it. You know,

never happened again, and that can happen sometimes. Sure. And other people will have these things as aura before they have a migraine. So they'll see these scintillating scatomeda and they know, uh-oh, I'm going to have a migraine. And then they take their migraine medicine

and try to prevent it. Yeah. So anyway. That's cool. Yeah, so I'm just looking for some studies and anything here just says a visual anomaly results from abnormal functioning of portions of the occipital cortex of the oxiput is in the base of the brain on the back and there's visual stuff in there there's internal mapping you remember we talked about when i had those hypnopompic episodes the sleep paralysis episodes that i would open my eyes and i could see the whole room around me but when i actually woke up it was pitch black

in there and that whole quote unquote room around me thing was my occipital part of my brain reconstructing a three-dimensional map of my surrounding now how in the hell you think about it people who have ever programmed games or played games if you have a game with a big giant map in it with a lot of detail it takes up huge amounts of memory right you know and you can usually only run one of those things at once particularly in a game console or you run one at once but this little part of the brain that's about this big, you know, the size of half a grapefruit, if that and a small one of that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, can contain all of that detail and not just right there, but pretty much any place you've ever been that you can remember

details about how the place is constructed. That could be roots on a road, you know, how do you get from here to there and you can visualize it. That's all in the occipital cortex, so it's crazy. It's pretty wild. How in the hell? I don't know. I don't know. Well, then we get into, well, how do we even have any consciousness at all? And that has to be some sort of recursive thing where concept, well, not even concepts.

There can't be concepts yet, but impulses refer back to themselves. So you have this loop that somehow generates consciousness. I mean, it's good. But you think about it too much. You will go insane. Yes. There's a reason why that's the one. one thing that we really haven't done a great job of figuring out yet.

Yeah. His brain function. Well, Gerdell kind of proved that we'll never be able to fully do it. And in one of his proofs, he showed that mathematics by itself is inherently incomplete. There are things that mathematics cannot describe about itself. That's what he was really talking about. And the great book, if you're interested in this kind of stuff, is Gerdel, Escherbach. It goes through all of this recursion and stuff like that.

But mathematics, it's not that we don't know how to do it, it can't do it. Right. It's not possible with the way that we do mathematics for it to describe every single thing about itself. And that may be true of the brain, too. It just can't describe everything about itself. Well, I think so, and I think considering that every brain is so unique in all of the, you know, someone lives for 50 years. Not me. All of the, all of those.

Does anybody get that? that. Yeah. I'm not unique. Probably, probably movie, probably movie Messiah here. He might get it. Well, that was from my life of Brian. You're all individuals. And one guy pipes up and goes, I'm not. He's the only one that was. Hey, I think Mick's got a good question here. Does being aware of medical phenomena make you more inclined to experience that? Yes. Yes, it does. Absolutely. It does. Because it's really easy to. look at yourself and go, oh, my gosh, am I, what's going on? Or just worry about it. Yeah, yeah. Could that be a blank or a blank? Yeah, no, I've always got cancer. I've always got, and so, and I'll go through, oh, God, I've got pancreatic cancer. I went through a period of

that, where I was just having abdominal pain. I just assumed that I had pancreatic cancer. While I was any normal person would just say, I've got a bellyache. Right. And so I went through all kinds of testing. It had to prove to myself that I didn't have it because I'd wait up thinking about it. Now, this was a long time ago. Now, hell, I welcome the relief that death will bring. Jesus. From pancreatic cancer to gastritis. Yeah. I mean, you know, so yes, it does make a big difference. It does make a huge difference. Yeah. That's why it's. But that's true for anything. If you're, if you build houses, you're always going to be thinking that there, you know, there's some flaw in what you made. Yeah. Yeah, I agree.

and be thinking about it and stuff until you can prove to yourself that it isn't there. I'm sure that happens. Yeah, I would think so. Anyway, that's hilarious. Yep, that's a good one. Good one. All right, so that's scintillating scatoma. If it happens once, you know, Dr. Steve's rule is, and it's not really my rule,

I just like to say that going back decades ago. But if you have something like that happen once, get it, check. checked out. If there's blood coming out from an orifice, it's not supposed to be coming out from, which, by the way, is every orifice, get it checked out. And then if it happens again and they've identified a benign cause, yeah, you don't worry about it. Yeah, you just know it's blood. Same thing with sex headaches. We've talked about this before. Some people get these massive thunderclap headaches during intercourse, and it will happen. It's got to happen for a first time at some point. The first time it happens, get it checked out. get a neurologist to look at you they'll make sure you don't have a something going on that they need to deal with and if they don't then you you know take the medicine and move on with your life do your thing yeah stretch your stuff stretch your stuff all right you got anything else I know I sent you a bunch of stuff but we could do some some questions he else is a question because we've got some other good ones for next time okay all right all right number one thing don't take advice from

some asshole on the radio thank you Ronnie B that's absolutely true let's see here um well oh here's one for you by the way this would be a good one for dr scott let's see hey dr steve this is adam in nebraska hey adam how are you doing good man how are you good to hear dr scott what's how are you doing great man thanks great glad to hear perfect i was just calling to say thanks uh i was listening to your show a couple of shows ago and uh you guys talked about mustard for heartburn or acid reflux. I don't get heartburn all that often, but when I do, I've tried a bunch of the over-the-counter medication, and it doesn't really seem to do a lot after a day or so.

It just goes away. But I was at the store and remembered your show, so I picked up some mustard, had it, and got some heartburn a couple days later, and so I got a big teaspoon, like Dr. Scott said. took it and it was gone instantly, the heartburn and, you know, the burping and that kind of thing. It was just gone. And it was great. So I just wanted to say thanks. It really helped me out.

And now I have a bottle of mustard. Just ready to go. Cool, man. It's fine for temporary relief of what we call pyrosis or heartburn. Have you thought any more about why this works? because I can actually attest that in the short term, this does work and it's against what you would think. Right.

My gut feeling, and I've not done any research, is maybe the turmeric and the mustard might help with inflammation. Yeah, turmeric is known to be an anti-inflammatory. Has it worked that fast in the stomach? I think so. I think so. But, you know, and the thing I tell people, too, with recurrent gurd and reflux and gastritis is make sure of warm foods.

and warm drinks are important, making sure that, you know, you lay off the, the fried stuff helps, but in a shot of yellow mustard can help quickly, but it doesn't, it certainly doesn't cure it, but it does help calm. Right, so if you have that frequently, please go see your primary care provider. Make sure what's going on. But using it the way he used it, never has heartburn, had some mustard or went and bought some because he heard you talking about it. Then he got some heartburn course.

That's an excellent question. did hearing you talk about it give him heartburn? Because listening to Utah gives me heartburn. Well, there you go. Anyway, but yeah, so and then he took it and it went away and never came back. That's fine. If you're having recurrent heartburn, even Dr. Scott, especially Dr. Scott would say, make sure you get that check down. Oh, shoot you.

Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. All right, good deal. Hey, man, that's why I'm here. I love science. Check it out. Yeah, me too.

Check it out. All right. We had, let's see here. Let's do this one. I think this is props. I'm not sure. All right. Hey, good doctor.

This is Virgil from Kentucky. Hey, Virgil. Hope you doing good. Doing great, man. Casey, Dr. Scott. Hey, man. Hope you are too, man. Listen, you were talking about how bad your last show was.

For me, it was one of the best you had in a long time, and I got a lot. it okay good just my two cents work keep up the good work out more so much from the show hey thanks virgin I appreciate it all right let's see let's try this one okay nope so I'm going to have to do all of these a certain way because my computer is missing on hey doctor Steve it's Trevor Dixon again I'm giving up a call in maybe you need a marketing guy if you know anybody who's a podcaster, maybe a formal marketing. A former. Oops.

Oops. Let's see. Well, I fucked this one up. You can embarrass me on this one. Sorry. We don't have to do anything of the sort, my friend. No. You did that yourself.

Let's see what he was trying to say here. All right. Hey, Dr. Steve. Tucker Dixon. Maybe you need a marketing guy, former podcaster, who used to be in marketing, might help you out with this. But my question was, what do you think about coronavirus being the only thing we'd talk about from here on out and ignoring things like the common cold?

Totally agree. From a large in standpoint, I see that as the news sells that as, oh, yeah, you know, the coronavirus is terrible this year. Coronavirus, you know, 22, 23, 24. Anyways, I guess I'll take this off there. Good luck on the Cardiff Electric Podcast Network. Thanks, my friend. So he's not wrong, but I think there's a lot of COVID fatigue out there.

People are sick of it. I advertise this show as being COVID-free, not realizing that, you know, we were going to have. This is tangential to it, though. What's going to happen is that all those people who used to die from coronavirus, back in the day, meaning three years ago, we'd get 10,000, 20,000 people die of coronavirus disease every year, but they were just lost in the noise. We called it atypical pneumonia,

or we called it viral pneumonia, non-influenza, or whatever. But we didn't test for that. You better believe we're going to be testing for it from now on. And we'll probably pick up all the other coronaviruses too. And I'm okay with that because I want people to know these effing coronaviruses are a problem, and we need to destroy them. Again, putting out my call for, you know, universal destruction of all human pathogenic viruses. That would be nice. It would be.

And then we have a question about that, as a matter of fact. So, yeah, thank you, Tucker. You're not wrong. but people are sick of it no one wants to hear it on this show anymore unless something outstanding happens we won't be bringing it up anymore unless an excellent call such as yours

comes in and then we'll touch on it but we do need to be paying attention to get back to paying attention to other diseases one of my really good friends just found out they had a tubular adenoma in their colonoscopy, and I'm really glad they didn't put it off, blaming it on coronavirus, but there were tons of people who missed their screening colonoscopies in the last two years, thinking, you know, I don't want to go in there and be exposed to something in this colonoscopy suite.

And the colonoscopists weren't thrilled about it either, because, you know, they're just sucking stuff out of people's colones and their stomachs, And, you know, there's spraying viruses all over everywhere. So even in a closed system, it's impossible for it to be fully closed. Yep. So I do think that we need to put that out there that since all of this started, the age for a colonoscopy, a screening colonoscopy has been ratcheted down to 45. If you are older than 45 and you have not had your colonoscopy yet, please go. do that now and at least talk to your primary care, say, hey, I'm over 45, I heard that

I need to get a colonoscopy and get it done. It's not that bad. The prep is the thing, but hell, you lose seven pounds of shit when you do it, and you feel pretty light on your feet with all those turds in your colon. Yep. Yeah, it's not so bad. It's not so bad. You get a day or two off of work, and you're asleep during this, unless you're a nut like I am

and do it without anesthesia. If you want to see something cool, don't do anesthesia and watch them do your colonoscopy. It's live. It's pretty neat, except for the putting in and the taking out part because then your giant anus is on this screen. It fills up this six-foot screen because it has to as they get closer and closer to it.

It gets bigger and bigger, and then it's just giant. And then they get it in there, and then you see nice pink mucous membrane, and you see, you know. No more hair. No, oh, God. It's so awful. And when I see those women that help my GI guy in the hospital, I always go, stop it. And they're like, what?

And I know what you're thinking about when you see me. Because how could you think of anything else? Except they see a million of them. They don't care. No, no. It's just like Jared. Gray ass is the same off the board. so disgusting. I swear

I'm going to get a Brazilian before I have my next column. That would be radioworthy for sure. Well, we did that before. That was before your time. I got a Brazilian recorded it, played the recording on the show, and then

I passed Flatus to demonstrate how it sounded different when it's just skin against skin rather than hair and skin against hair and skin. That makes sense. Oh, my God. You're right, Kim.

He's lost it. I'll put that one on the Patreon. And do check out our Patreon. There's stuff on there that you can't get anywhere else. Anyway, all right. Oh, Pete Davidson is going into outer space. I saw that. March 23rd, I think.

Oh, that's very soon. And he's agreed to come on our show and talk about it afterward. Oh, cool. Yeah. So I'm very excited about that. Super cool. And that's, okay, so anyway, all right, let's take another question. So we got Tucker Dixon.

Oh, I like this one, too. This is a good one. And I, oh, it's just habit. I'm going to have to fix this after the show. Hi, Dr. Steve. This is Phil. I'm calling in regards to your most recent podcast where you brought up your solution to COVID, as in sticking everyone inside a bubble for two weeks.

Yes. It would all be over. That's right. Boy, do I wish that was possible? I would say a lot of heartache. Anyway, it made me think, does a filtration system exist in the medical field or anywhere that is so strong that it could filter out every known pathogen and, frankly, every unknown pathogen where if you walk into a room that was insulated with the filtration and you stood in it unprotected, you would feel comfortable being bombarded with viral particles from the outside. And as a follow-up, if it does exist, could it be minimized to a point, you know, I'm thinking like Star Trek, where you have that technology, small debris that's where I was going, that could be given eventually to the public. And I know that with masking, people were so against that, but, you know, there's a lot of miscommunication about masking and which masks to use.

But if something was shown, you know, as much seriousness as people would take it with, you know, could that technology be shrunk down to such small. scale that it becomes portable and easily distributable. Thanks, Dr. Steve. Yeah, no, I love it. So let's just talk about filters real quick. So the virus that causes COVID-19 is SARS COV-2. It's 0.125 microns. Okay. So that's 0.125

millionths of centimeter, right? Yeah. It's 125 nanometers. So it's right around the same wavelength of some light. You know, that's how big this thing is. So it's really, really tiny. But hepa filters, you know, can go down to 0.01 micron. Wow.

You know? So that is kind of interesting. Now, what he's talking about is we would need a Star Trek-type situation where you have a force field that surrounds your body. that can, will allow oxygen and nitrogen carbon dioxide in, will allow carbon dioxide out, and then we'll somehow block, you know, selectively block things like viruses. Yeah.

That would be awesome. That would be cool. We, I would rather just kill all the viruses because I hate them. Yeah. But that would be a solution. Yep. Of course, it would require technology that to us would look like magic right now, so we don't have it. But is there any reason that you couldn't have an intelligent force field like that in the laws of physics?

I can't think of a law of physics other than maybe if it violated entropy in some way, but you can get over violating entropy by adding energy to a system. So it would just require, you know, a power supply. Okay. So anyway, there was a sort of a physics philosophical question where you would have a demon in a cave, and the demon would only allow slow moving particles into the cave and would repel all the fast moving particles. And then you would set up a gradient where the cave would be much cold. older than the outside world.

And you can get into all kinds of philosophical discussions whether this is possible or not. Of course, we do it every day with air conditioning. But it's a different thing. And okay, let me ask you, here's an energy slash entropy sort of type question. And everyone can think about this, and you'll probably all get the answer right

because you're smart. If I open my refrigerator, In a very small room, you've got a tiny little room, you know, six by six room. And you open up the refrigerator and the freezer doors. What will happen to the temperature in the room over time? I'm asking you. Oh, I'm sorry. Cool at all. Yeah, that's what you would think.

Yeah. So initially, it will. It might even do that. Yeah. But here's what will happen. But over time, it'll get hot because the refrigerator has got to work too hard to... Cool the room. Okay, I'll give you this.

Give yourself a bill. Yeah, that's right. So initially, the thermometer may go down, but over time it will increase and it will never go back down again. Right. And the reason for that is, is that the motor and the system for transmitting heat from one place to another, that's all it's doing. Right. It's exchanging heat that's inside the refrigerator and bringing it out to the outside. side world, and there's no perfect system.

You can't have that demon. That was what that was all about. You can't have that demon doing it, and there has to be a cost. And the cost is heat energy that's caused by the mechanism that makes that transfer. And it can't be zero. It has to be net positive. So therefore, the heat must go up in the room. Now, the more efficient it is, the less hot it will get in the room.

but with a regular refrigerator, they're terribly inefficient. The heat will, the temperature will go up quite a bit. So anyway, very good, Dr. Scott. Cool. You're one of them dang geniuses. Regal genius. All right. So we did the universal panel.

Okay, here's a good one. And I clicked it the wrong way again. Okay, there we go. Hey, Dr. Steve and Dr. Scott. This is Zach from Oklahoma. Hey, Zach. I have a question about ejaculate. Excellent.

Or as you guys in the medical field, call it, come. So when I was younger, I would notice that ejaculate. It has a very distinct smell. Yep. And as I got older, I equated to maybe just a faint smell of bleach. I mean, it didn't smell like straight up bleach. But I just thought this was normal. I get what he's saying.

if you had to describe it, then that would be the closest. It's like trying to describe an orgasm to someone, and if you had to describe it, you say, well, it's like a sneeze, but it goes on for a long time, but it's really not like a sneeze, but it's kind of like that.

I understand what he's saying. Yet I would have conversations with other people, usually of the opposite gender being women, and they would be like, you know, that just sounds strange. If you're, you know, if you're comest smelling like bleach or something wrong with you. Well, as I got older, I've since heard other conversations and comedians. I remember O&A saying something about it.

Jim Norton has said the same thing that when they describe the smell of ejaculate, it has a slight bleachy smell. Correct. So I didn't feel so crazy. But yet still, now that I'm older, in conversations, Listen, just because everybody says the same stupid thing doesn't make you less crazy. So that's, that in itself is not reason for you to feel better about yourself, but I'm going to make you feel better about it. Where it comes up like a joke or something like that in conversation, mostly women will be like, oh my God, I've never heard of that. That should not smell like bleach.

There's something wrong with you. So my question is, is it possible that women smell ejaculate differently than men? Interesting. Or that they bothered to smell it at all, because why would they? And smell it differently than men? Is it something to do with pheromones or something like that? No, that's a really interesting question. I think this gets down to the whole concept of zeitgeist, where everybody smells like

bleach and that's not a completely wrong answer so now it just smells like bleach to everybody and here's here's the scientific answer that i can give you is that um semen is slightly alkaline and sweat which is usually around when semen is produced is um has sodium and chloride in it so the chloride's the big thing well the sodium is what is as well when you have an alkaline environment and sodium and chloride, you may be making a little bit of sodium hypochloride. It's not impossible. Even if the reaction is, you know, 0.0001% when you're talking about the numbers of atoms that are there and how sensitive the nose is to these things, that may be what's happening.

And so it makes sense that it would be kind of a bleachy smell to you that you could describe it that way. other things in semen, zinc and other metals and things that can combine with things on the skin that could cause an odor as well, which is why it doesn't smell just like semen. Now, if it smells off, you know, you may have an infection in your prostate, that kind of stuff. Now, if, and my hypothesis about women not smelling, first off, they're not as gross as men. I mean, men, they're beating off and then they're smelling their seams. I mean, you know, that's just something a dude would do, you know. But, and women aren't that gross, but the vaginal wall and secretions in the vagina tends to be acidic.

And so when you combine the alkaline semen with the acidic vaginal secretions, that may be why, that may be neutralizing that smell, why women have just never encountered this, you know? I mean, look, if you've got a good relationship with the woman and you're having, you know, intercourse with her and stuff, see if she'll do, you know, give you a handy and then just smell it and see what she says. Women don't talk about men's ejaculate like that unless it stinks, unless there's something wrong with it. So if you want to know, that'd be a good experiment to do. I want to be, you know, anecdotal, but it would be interesting. but you'd have to have a really special relationship with that woman to do that. All right. I like that one.

That was a good one. Okay. Let's do this one. A little more philosophical. Clicked it the wrong way again. I'm going to have to delete that app. Okay. Hey, Dr. Steve.

This is Adam in Nebraska. Hey, Adam. Hey, Adam. I had a question about life expectancy. Okay. Let's just say for sake of argument that, the two main killers in the United States, the heart disease and cancer,

let's say they were eliminated tomorrow. Yeah. Do you think that, barring any kind of medical miracle, that we could get to the point where people live beyond the age of 110 or 120 years old, or is there just a point where the body cannot work any longer or it just won't function correctly?

I'm just curious what your thoughts are on this. Thanks. Yeah, so I love this question. You guys, you're on top of it. We're getting back to weird medicine questions. I like it. So no COVID, please call in more philosophical and questions like this and all these that we've had today. They've been great.

So you all have really made our job easy. Larry Niven had this, he was a science fiction writer, and he had this thing called Dicta Immunity. And it was just a bastardization of dictator. And when they would grab these posts, they had teleportation, but he grabbed this post in this book with both of his hands and nothing happened or he didn't think anything happened. But what really happened was all of the senescent cells and things that were impeding. cellular regeneration were teleported out of his body into this other, you know, canister. And he started getting younger. His hair grew back.

He started looking younger, all this stuff. So it was really interesting. So anti-aging is a science. It's not gotten very far yet. But if you look at it, and I tell people, you know, if we had some answer for whatever medical problem, If we just knew enough and understood how all the numbers went together, that we could solve any problem. If that was philosophically true, right now there would be at least two or three, 400-year-old people running around just by chance. Right, just randomly, yeah.

Right. Out of the billions of people that have been alive. Right. The fact that the maximum age seems to be around 122 or somewhere in there, and those people, by the way, if you think about that, those people have never been to the doctor for the most part they're not sick they don't have congestive heart failure they don't have lung cancer they just get to be 125 and then they have a stroke or they fall and break their hip they die something like that and those people in the ural mountains that smoke cigarettes and drink vodka every day they never see a doctor or a day in their life so that does seem to be the hard stop so our goal is if we want to do it with our organic bodies is to figure out a way to stop aging but if we we do that, then we're going to either have to colonize other planets or we're going to have to stop having children, too. Yeah.

Because this place will fill up pretty quickly and people stop dying. Yeah. So it will bring with it a lot of other issues. Now, I've thought for years that our children that go to the stars and colonize the universe are going to be machines rather than us. But that's going to require our ability to take a quantum picture of what's going on in our brain and move that over to a machine, you know, so that we go intact. Yep. And then what the hell? Okay, so I take my consciousness and I move it into a machine.

Well, now the machine is conscious, thinks it's me. I still think I'm me. What do I do? They just shoot me in the head. I mean, now there's two of me. Be easier to feed if you're dead. Yeah, but I mean, it's like, well, wait a minute. I'm not in the machine. I'm still here. The machine's going, oh, no, the transfer was worked very well. I'm in here. I can think of a lot of people that would make, that's a really scary scenario to them. Yeah, well, look at the Star Trek.

Your wife and your kids. Yeah, the Star Trek transporter, for example. Yeah. It's not a wormhole where they stepped through. They're being destroyed, and then they're being sent somewhere else and then recreated. And there was a time when I think Scotty. was trapped inside a, um, a, uh, transporter, you know, on the receiving side. And then they recreated him like years later.

So that means I could, um, put somebody in that machine and then just turn it off and just go, go, go, go, F yourself. And they say, well, we're taking you in for murder. And I go, well, click. And then person comes back. And there's, here they are. You know? Yep.

Yep. Yep. Yep. And then what if it gets. scrambled on the way and you come out with your ear on your forehead and all that kind of stuff. So, transporter technology brings with it some ethical and moral issues. If we can't figure out a way to create a wormhole that you just walk through and it's actually you here on Earth and then walking through and you're on Mars or whatever, you know. All right.

Okay. Cool. Pot talk. All right. Let's see. Okay. I know the answer to the. this one, but if I would click the right

thing again, God, I am just a creature of habit. Here we go. Hi, Dr. Steve. My name's Matt. Hey, Matt. I have an dent in my shoulder. It looks like something atrophied right a little bit above the

belly of my deltoid. Okay. He used the right word. I'm going to give them a little of these. Because he already has the answer. On my primary care, he thinks it might have been from a quarter zone shot I got. Give yourself a bill. I also had two shots.

The Pfizer vaccine. Last one was a year ago, March 11th. Okay. I could send you a picture. He did, as a matter of fact. No, it's fun. Anyway, kind of wondering, you know, what's going on in there. Muscle atrophy and fat atrophy.

I'm not sure. You might know. All right. I'll try and text over the picture, see if it works. Yeah, you did, and thank you. I could not find anything where there was an association between, and here we have another COVID question, but this really isn't a COVID question,

where the COVID vaccine caused fat atrophy, but lots of times I have seen where a lot of times it's when you use a needle that isn't long enough to give someone a cortisone shot in their shoulder, and they'll get atrophy of the fat around where they did it. In other words, so I got somebody and for whatever reason, I don't know, they've got a sinus infection and it's not going away, and I want to give them a shot of corticosteroid, which decreases inflammation in the body. And their fat pad is an inch deep, but I, or let's say, well, an inch and a half deep, and I only use a one inch needle. And all of that cortisone goes into the fat itself. It doesn't go into the muscle where you want it to go.

Because if you put it in the muscle, it stays there and then disperses out to the body over time. And if you put it in the muscle, sometimes you'll kill the fat cells around there, and they'll shrink, and we call that atrophy. And you'll get a dent in that place. So that's all that is. Same thing we'll see in very sensitive tissues of the skin, if you use a powerful steroid, like on the jungle region, you can get an atrophy of the skin there as well, so don't do that. Yeah, don't do that. Never put cortisone on the junkle region unless a dermatologist has given you the kind

that you can do that with, and they've told you that it's okay. It's a very specific strength. That's right. That's right. All right. Let's see. Oh, I like this one, too. This is a great weird medicine question.

And I've got to quit double clicking on those. Open up the right app. I know I'm stupid. Okay. Hey, Dr. Steve, how are you doing? Okay, I'm done. I'll wait the obligatory amount of time for your response. Thank you, sir.

I'm an idiot. Okay, so anyway, weird question, getting a runny nose and actually nasal drippage while using the restroom, number two, or also getting ready to achieve a sexual orgasm. Yes. it's become a problem obviously with a new girlfriend and not the pooping wise but for the orgasm wise so you know I'm getting close to climaxing I'm having to wipe my nose and just kind of getting interrupting the flow of everything yeah I can imagine yeah it's kind of messy I've done some research I know it's a fight or fight response not necessarily what they're saying but what can I do to treat it

Yeah, I'm not sure I agree with that. So he's having histamine release during orgasm. Let's touch on that one first. There are people that start sneezing and snodding when they go outside because there is a sunlight-associated histamine release. There are other people that have this when they go out in the cold. Yep. Okay?

And then other things like allergens and stuff like that, but just environmental things. when you get close to orgasm, you release histamine into the tissues of your giant meaty erect penis. And there are some people, they're rare, but there are some people that they'll release it in other places as well, and you're doing it in your nose. Now, for some people, antihistamines can cause problems with erectile dysfunction and ejaculation. But if you try one of the, wait, let me put this another way. Many physicians would recommend that if you try an over-the-counter non-drowsy antihistamine, that may help. So letting her know that this is what it is and let her listen to this so that she knows that you're not a nut. And then, you know, just have some tissues and then while you're strutting your stuff, you can be blowing your nose.

Right on. And the other option is maybe a nasal spray instead of an oral, instead of an oral. That might help. Possibly. Thank you. Thank you. Give yourself a bill. There is a nasal spray called azalastine, and it is a nasal antihistamine.

It doesn't go everywhere else. That's the right answer, Dr. Scott. Ask your primary care for that. That one is, I believe, prescription only. Yeah, I think. Okay. Awesome. Excellent.

Thank you. Thank you. And see, Dr. Scott, that's why you're here. So I appreciate that. So I understand you've got a question from one of the people in the chat room, aka the waiting room. There you go. Oh, that's so hacky, but that makes me happy.

All right. All right. What do you got? Colin, can testosterone therapy not work consistently? I've tried shots, pellets, clobed. Sometimes they help, but stop working. or make me feel worse, I had the best results with Clomid. Yes.

Okay. Lots of people do. Oh, here we go. Yeah, yeah, and he's talking about these. So I just want to know what he means when it works. What kind of symptoms is he? Right on. So he says, I feel better physically and sexual overall and sleep better when they stop

working. It all goes away. Gotcha. That makes sense. That makes sense. So Clomid is Clomaphene, and Clomaphene, rather than replacing testosterone, causes the body to make more testosterone. And it's really great for people who want to preserve fertility when they have low testosterone.

Because if you take testosterone supplementation and you take it over a long period of time, it'll just tell your testicles, well, you don't need to make anywhere. We've got plenty here. And they'll go, okay. and they'll just go to sleep and they won't produce sperm or anything. And because you're driving down the hormones in the pituitary gland that tell them to do all these things. So they'll just stop and many people become infertile in doing that.

Whereas the clomophine basically tells the testicle through a different pathway than the fsh and LH, which are the pituitary hormones, to make more testosterone. It does a couple of things. It may, you know, we don't know everything. It may be that testicular testosterone comes and the other things that come with it is, quote, unquote, better

than just giving just the molecule testosterone. And also, it's your testicles don't shrink and the body may see it as being more of a, quote, unquote, process. So I think that in that regard, clomophine may be superior, and that's why you felt better on it. In the end, if that's what made you feel better,

then I think they should concentrate on that. And what can we do to make it work more consistently? And that's something you've got to talk to your prescriber about. And honestly, you could see an endocrinology, They deal with glandular issues for this, and they may have some answers for you. I'm wondering if there are things that cause that decrease absorption for chlomaphene. Let's just look up chlomaphene absorption and see if there's something in his diet or something else, some medication that's blocking this.

Redly absorbed orally in humans. Well, that's interesting. Because they usually give it in a shot form. Let's look at drug interactions and see. Let me see, absorption, okay, the volume of distribution route of elimination. We don't care about that. Drug interactions, okay. Aha.

So the serum concentration of clomophene can be increased in the presence of certain drugs, like tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Don't worry about that. Those are mostly cancer drugs. I'm looking for, okay, the serum concentration of clomophene can be decreased when it is combined with apalutamide. What the hell is that? Is that diabetes drug? That's one I have never heard of.

So there are some drugs. Anyway, I can't go through this whole list. It's exhaustive, but there are some drugs that can cause a decreased. action of the chlomaphene so look at that have them look at all the drugs you're on if you're taking supplements that they don't know about give them those there is

an app called epocrates and there are others that they could put all that stuff in and see if something is interacting with the clomophine itself did you look up that drug you and I should have both guessed it what this is it's prostate cancer drug oh it is oh okay oh is that right

oh so it never heard of it but that should have known but it works did say what its trade name is yeah erlida I don't know that one okay it's not one that our oncologists use okay but there may be other things like that that could be causing that issue so if the clomophine

worked the best I would focus on that maybe the dose was off maybe it was too much or maybe not quite enough or maybe the frequency that they were giving it to you wasn't it wasn't correct so talk to them about it and email me and I'll send you some info I'll do some more research. And the other thing about the shots, too, sometimes if you're not having good

results with shots, they'll give them to you once a week instead of every other week. Yeah, or they can change the place they're giving the shots, too. Change it, yeah. You know, if you're not. Oh, hell. Look who it is. Uh-oh. We're in trouble now. Tacey, you're on weird medicine. Still? Yes. Still? We had technical differences. Oh, I would have come up. My therapist forgot me. oh no well that oh that's not good that's like didn't you have a therapist fall asleep on you once what is it about you and your therapist i don't know but okay y'all have fun i find you to be interesting and vivacious but you know apparently all right well i would have come up but anyway

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