Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 504 - When S#!& Becomes Valuable...

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Starting point is 00:04:45 rather than vice versa, that's a good show. Tacey isn't shy. in that regard. Anyway, all right. Listen, I'm very sorry that this show is so late getting out. I had just a shite week at work, and I'm going to be having shite weeks at work for the next probably one to two months.

Starting point is 00:05:09 And then come October as I step down for my system roll and go back to what I really love doing, which is seeing patients and teaching, things should get a little bit better. better. And I'm hoping I'll be able to put a little more focus on the show and all those kinds of things as well. So hopefully the quality will improve on the show. And that's it. So let's get into it. Someone on Twitter sent me an article that I thought was really fascinating because we've been talking about mind-gut access on the show for a long time and also fecal

Starting point is 00:05:50 transplantation and then now here you go here's an article that's titled fecal transplants reverse signs of aging in brain gut and eyes of mice so this is a murine study meaning that is you know a mouse derived data but this is where this stuff starts we seem to be totally fine doing things to mice that we wouldn't do to each other and then but if it works and on the mice, then we are, we'll take it to the next level, maybe do a primate study or a larger, you know, a pig study. Pigs are a little closer to us than mice are. And if it works in the pigs, then they might do a primate study, and then if that works,

Starting point is 00:06:35 it may do human trials. But here's that article. It says, and this is from new atlas.com. The connection between gut bacteria and human health continues to be illuminated in all kinds of ways, among the more fascinating is the way these microbes might influence different aspects of the aging process. So whenever I see anti-aging stuff, I'm always skeptical up front just because there have been so many scams in the past. But, you know, if modern medicine worked in such a way that it's just lack of knowledge that prevents us from a lot of allowing any one certain person to live, you know, for a long time.

Starting point is 00:07:25 In other words, oh, yeah, they've got congestive heart failure. If we just had enough knowledge to do something to reverse that, they would live longer. If that were true, there'd be at least two or three, 400-year-old people running around just by chance. And the fact that the lifespan seems to be capped out at 120, and that's in extreme cases. The average lifespan being significantly less than that. And a lot of these people who live to be 120, it's not because of modern medicine. They just don't ever get sick. There's groups of people in the Ural Mountains that drink vodka and smoke cigarettes every day,

Starting point is 00:08:05 routinely live to be 100 plus, but they never see a doctor. And that's the thing is that, you know, the key to living to be 120 is don't get sick. Well, we don't have any control over that. Having good genetics helps. for sure. But again, you don't have any control over that either. So anyway, I'm always a bit skeptical of this, although I understand that aging is simply a physiologic process that at some point we may be able to reverse that. Should we? I don't know. What if it's fabulously expensive, then only the rich get to live a long time and the rest of us get to

Starting point is 00:08:44 just, you know, die on our regular schedule. If it's, in insanely cheap, then we have a problem with overpopulation, but it may drive our quest to get off this planet and colonize other worlds. Who knows? So, you know, science fiction has studied these things. Significantly, in Frank Herbert's Dune, the Spice Melange had life-prolanging properties, but it was fabulously expensive. So wars were started over it, and that wasn't the only thing it did. It did all kinds of stuff, including giving people a limited ability to see into the future. And that's why the guild navigators, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Starting point is 00:09:35 That's, you know, I'm a big nerd now. Anyway, those of you have read Dune, understand it. If not, sorry I went down that rabbit hole. But anyway, this study has highlighted new facets of this relationship, but demonstrates how hallmarks of aging in the brain, gut and eyes, may even be reversed through fecal transplants. So, you know, a lot of pseudomedicine has to do with seeing a rat study that says, oh, you know, glutamine is good for X, Y, or Z in rats.

Starting point is 00:10:13 And so let's just glutamines on over the counter. We'll just sell people glutamine and make these claims about it. And I just don't see a huge rush of people doing the same thing with fecal microbial, but anyway, it says the makeup of microbial communities in our gut is being shown to shape many different aspects of our well-being. We're starting to really see how inflammation can play an intermediary role when it comes to cognitive health. Now, this I do believe. One 2019 study offered some interesting insights to this space by showing the intestine to be the source of immune cells

Starting point is 00:10:51 that reduce brain inflammation in multiple sclerosis. Later that year, we saw the approval of a drug designed to remodel the gut microbiome to reduce neuroinflammation for treatment of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's. And wait a minute. What is that one? Oh, okay, micro, it's, okay, I clicked on this study, microbiome altering Alzheimer's drug unexpectedly approved in China. It says in a surprise to many researchers around the world,

Starting point is 00:11:27 Chinese authorities recently approved a novel drug claimed to improve cognitive function in patients with Alzheimer's disease. The drug derived from a marine algae or algae is the first new Alzheimer's drug to reach the market anywhere in the world in 20 years. suggested to reduce neuroinflammation by modulating a person's gut microbiome. Now, isn't that interesting? I'd like to see the data on that. Well, anyway, results from a study published in Nature aging last year

Starting point is 00:11:57 provided particularly compelling evidence of the influence of gut bacteria on the brain to focus specifically on brain aging showed that transplanting fecal matter from young mice into old mice. See young people when shit becomes valuable the poorer will be born without assholes. That's a saying from my past. Old mice could reverse some aspects of age-related brain deterioration. So young people's fecal matter will have a higher street value than old people's fecal matter.

Starting point is 00:12:32 Not interesting. Yeah, learning ability, long-term memory was improved. These were considered among the first insights in how gut bacteria can influence brain aging in mammals. Now, the latest findings in this area come from science at some university of East Anglia, who have added yet more weight to the idea. Gut bacteria can influence brain health via inflammation. They've simultaneously shown how these microbial communities can influence certain biomarkers of aging,

Starting point is 00:13:03 not just the brain, but the gut itself and also the eyes. They transplanted fecal matter from healthy young mice to aged mice. and I would like some healthy young fecal matter, please. And also reverse experiments where the younger mice receive fecal matter from the older ones. They then analyzed a rage of inflammatory biomarkers across the bodies and the animals and teased out some valuable insights. Following these transplants, the young mice showed a loss of integrity, of course, because the old have no integrity.

Starting point is 00:13:42 Oh, oh, oh, oh, in the gut lighting. Okay, they showed a loss of integrity in the gut lining, which allowed bacterial products to pass through and circulate around the body. Okay, yes, okay, I understand this. They're talking about tight junctions in the gut. And these are places where cell walls, well, we don't really have cell walls, that cell membranes, meet each other, and if they are tightly bound, then that makes a very tight junction, hence the name, that doesn't allow anything past it.

Starting point is 00:14:24 You know, it acts as a wall, but if they're loose, then toxins and bacterial parts and different antigens can breach that wall. and cause inflammation in the tissues on the other side of that so-called tight junction that is now loose. So this triggers the immune system, in turn, inflammation causing overactivation of certain immune cells in the brain and elevating levels of proteins linked to retinal degeneration in the eyes. That's amazing. Conversely, the scientists found that these sorts of markers could be reversed in the older mice by implanting them with fecal matter from younger mice.

Starting point is 00:15:10 This also boosted levels of healthy bacteria previously shown to be linked to good health in mice and humans. So this is an interesting study. There is another way to do this, though. This just struck me as I'm reading this. There is a medical food called enteragam. Enterogam is serum bovine immunoglobulins. and if you have loose junctions in your gut, you could do something to try to tighten them up,

Starting point is 00:15:43 i.e. do a fecal transplant or other things that you could use. I think the drug lubeyprostone, aka Amatiza, also tightens those junctions. But the other thing you could do is just block things from broaching those loose junctions, and that's what that enterigam does. the serum bovine emuloglobulins bind to all these antigens and quote-unquote toxins and bacterial parts and things like that that cause inflammation and they bind to them preventing them from being exposed to the tissue that then causes inflammation so that may be something so yeah this is this bears some now listen if my mind is just as spry as it ever was and my eye is just as, you know, has just the resolution that it always did.

Starting point is 00:16:37 But my body is still falling apart. That's going to be infuriating to me. I mean, if I can still see that half of a, you know, tit tattoo on a redneck woman with tank top on, which was always kind of my thing. I know it's weird. And because you always want to know what's the other half of the tattoo shows. and I can think about it, I can process that, and I can see it with high resolution, but there's nothing I can do about it that will be irritating.

Starting point is 00:17:09 So we've got to figure out whether fecal transplants reverse signs of aging in other parts of the body as well, if you know what I mean. Anyway, that's very, very interesting. All right, let's move on from there, and let's take some of your voicemails. One thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right, my friend. Thank you very much.

Starting point is 00:17:30 let's do this one Hey Dr. Steve, it's Ben from Connecticut Hey Ben Just a quick question for you I recently had a Pylenitis cyst It had to be surgically operated on

Starting point is 00:17:44 I don't believe they completely removed it As they mentioned That the transfer of currents Is reasonably high Yeah, that's true anyway But to prevent future occurrences of that

Starting point is 00:17:58 Should I've been told to do full hair removal on my back and buttle region and so the doctor recommended Nair but I'm listening to your last podcast

Starting point is 00:18:14 you recommended not to use Mare anywhere near the rectum so I'm wondering what my options are if I should just grit my teeth in barrel wax I'm not really up on that kind of thing so please let me know appreciate it

Starting point is 00:18:30 yeah now we talked about this recently and I've got another person that did a thing that responded to this hey Dr. Steve and everybody in the studio a couple things are not related when I was in the Marine Corps I neared my body from head to toe

Starting point is 00:18:47 and it hurts in certain areas yes it does I don't know I wasn't the smartest person but I did it on a dare okay so I we covered this long time ago, if you join

Starting point is 00:19:01 our Patreon, I believe that show is up, and if it isn't, I'll make sure it is up pretty quickly where we had the ass crack challenge. And P.A. John was going to nair his ass crack, and double

Starting point is 00:19:17 vasectomy turd was going to shave his ass crack, and then I was going to have mine waxed. And doing research on this, we told John not to do it, because everything I read said that if you put Nair on that sensitive

Starting point is 00:19:33 part of your body near the anus you can really cause some real damage so we only did the two legs of that and Todd found that if he shaved his ass crack it was great for like a day and then you get ass crack stubble

Starting point is 00:19:49 because when you shave you make a square end on the hair but if you wax your hair then it will grow back tapered. So if you let it grow back, it doesn't cause irritation as it's growing back. And we found all this to be true. So I went and looked, and there are a couple of people responded to this saying that there are

Starting point is 00:20:13 no hair, intimate private slash at-home hair removal creams. And there are. And some of these are marketed for people to use in the genital. regions except that it says let me just read you some of this is one from one of the ones that says it's for the genital region it says save yourself pain pain pain maybe he was doing the the spock mine meld with the horta pain okay going back too far sorry it says not for balls I got to let you guys know do not buy if you're planning on using this for you sack I want to use this all over down there, and for my butt worked fine,

Starting point is 00:21:03 but please do not apply to your sack. By no means is my skin sensitive at all, and after one minute application, but the sack was on fire. I immediately rinsed it off, but it was too late. My sack was burn, and I wasn't able to get out of the shower. The pain was so severe. I was seconds away from going to urgent care. I'm writing this to save you from thinking it does a damn thin.

Starting point is 00:21:29 for your balls. Once I'm healed, I'll only ever shave that area again. The advertisement is false and shouldn't be allowed to, oh, it shouldn't be allowed on balls. Okay, let's see here. Let's find another one. This one says, find something else. This product needs to be more specific on what skin and hair type it works. I used the whole container, waited the six minutes. Most of the hair didn't fall off as I had to pull most of it by hand. It was a messy experience. Here's another. the one. The packaging for the product expressly states it is for the, quote, genitals, unquote. There's even an illustration of a man's bikini brief clad bulge on the back of the package to go along with this claim. Yet in the fine print, you find it is not for the penis. Guess what? You deliberately deceptive manufacturer.

Starting point is 00:22:21 The penis falls under the heading of, quote, genitals, unquote. Well, that indeed it does. this person said without describing the embarrassing particulars of this product caused severe burns despite using the product as the instructions directed and performing a test skin patch first I sought medical attention from a family member that was my cousin um okay uh let's see here first attempt waited three minutes tested nothing another minute

Starting point is 00:22:53 a little came off in the shower put more on the second attempt Big mistake, took the hair off, then burned my balls. You get nothing. Hit the wrong sound bite, but that actually worked. Okay, let's see. I'll do one more. This one says, I'm not even trying it due to the directions. Okay, I'm not.

Starting point is 00:23:23 It says here, how can something be for your intimate areas when it requires a spatula to apply it because it should not touch your fingers. Good point, my friend. All right. Ouch, I got to use this on my neck as well as my friend. Now listen, okay, this person asked about pylonidal cysts and then was talking about nair.

Starting point is 00:23:43 If you used it, so let's talk about what a pylidotidocyst is. This is a cyst you get at the bottom of your tailbone, and it's called pylonidal because pilo means, hair and nital means nest. So when you open these things up, often there will be a nest of hairs that have grown under the skin, and then

Starting point is 00:24:06 it eventually gets infected, so it's a big mess of pus and a nest of hairs. And hence the name pylonidal cyst. And it looks like a big zit at the bottom of your tailbone. It's more common in men than women.

Starting point is 00:24:22 And it usually happens due to sitting leaning back so people who recline when they sit are more likely to get this truck drivers will get it and people who sit a lot will get it and

Starting point is 00:24:37 they can drain it but it will usually recur so then normally the surgeons recommend that the thing be removed but then you've got to change the way that you sit and yes one way to avoid ingrown hairs is to avoid

Starting point is 00:24:54 having hair in that area at all So I would wax it rather than nair it. Anything that will reduce the inflammation of the skin as the hair grows back is, I think, would be beneficial. Or you could have it lasered. Just laser it. It would be two or three treatments you'd be done. You wouldn't have any hair down there. That'll get rid of the hair follicles and everything.

Starting point is 00:25:19 Now, my friend Chanda tells me that that works better on people with. darker, coarser hair. So if you're blonde with very fine hair, I'm going to posit that you probably don't have a pylonidyl cyst if you have very fine blonde hair in the tailbone region. But if that's not the case, then absolutely go for it and get it lasered. So that's what I would do to prevent it. As a matter of fact, while I was talking about this, I was searching, and I found that research evidence suggest there is a significant reduction in recurrence rates of pylidyl cyst with the use of laser hair removal. Well, I'm going to give myself a dang bell on that one.

Starting point is 00:26:03 Give yourself a bill? I just did. Thank you, sir. So how about that? Yeah, so right now, that would be my top recommendation based on just my own intuition and based on the little bit of evidence that I've found doing a search while I was answering this question so all right very good um we've got this is an interesting one here and this has nothing to do with medicine but it has something to do with something that we talked about

Starting point is 00:26:34 last week hey dr steve this is travis in east tennessee hey travis how are you guys doing good man how are you just uh heard your podcast uh mentioned in dollywood and thought i'd give you a little bit of history on it in case you didn't know um started out in the 1960s or 70s as railroad and the park's always been themed around that steam train that rides through the park and originally it was yeah one thing about dollywood particularly you little kids love is this dang steam engine train that will take you around this cul-de-sac and all around the park and people do love that thing and when it comes you know they have the conductors out there how do they do and all this stuff it's really it really is a cool thing and it's easy to get on

Starting point is 00:27:28 you know you all even when the lines are bad at dollywood you can usually get on the first or second time um like said rebel railroad and it was themed to be uh civil war times and then it became gold rush junction and then silver dollar city and well was it union or was it confederacy that would be, since it's called Rebel Railroad, I think maybe that's why it's not called that anymore. And the folks that bought it as Silver Dollar City changed the name to Dollywood and did a partnership with Dolly Parton. And even up into the 1990s, they still had some of those old buildings up where the train

Starting point is 00:28:11 turns around, and they would have Cowboys come and, you know, rob the train. It was a lot of fun. It was really neat. Yeah, so if you want to have that experience still, and thank you, Travis, go to Tweetsie Railroad, and there are probably a bunch of these things. But I remember our littlest one was a big fan of Thomas, the engine or whatever he was, and they would roll a different front onto that. And all of a sudden, Thomas the train was there, and he would take you around, and the Tweetsy Railroad thing. And they still have scenarios and little action pieces that they do when you go by. And at Hollywood, at Halloween, kind of the same thing, right?

Starting point is 00:29:03 At Halloween, it's all scary themed stuff, you know, ghouls and goblins and things that you see as you go by all these different areas on the railroad. But anyway, enough about Tennessee and North Carolina minor theme parks, although I guess Dollywood no longer is a minor theme park because it has the number one wooden roller coaster in the world, which is called Thunderhead, and it is nuts. It is really nuts. So I always thought that Dollywood would be a bunch of painted concrete and a bunch of just schlocky stuff,

Starting point is 00:29:39 but it's very nice theme park if you're into that sort of thing. All right. Let's see here. How about this one? Hey, Doc Steve. It's Matt and Christy in Charleston, South Carolina. Hey. We have some friends that are, you know, are.

Starting point is 00:29:57 By the way, Matt and Christy, we will be in your area in the next few months as we head down to the Charleston area to do a vacation. And that'll be in July sometime, you all. So we'll make sure that we've got some evergreen shows running or we'll run some. stuff ahead of time, but anyway. A child is friends with their child, and so now we are forced to be their friends. Okay, understood that. They have another child that has something called panda, and some kind of infection that's led to, like, neurological problems in the brain or something like that. Can you help us understand what it is and what they are going through, so maybe we can be better friends?

Starting point is 00:30:40 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, well, being better friends in this case just means being understanding of the situation. Pandas is short for pediatric, autoimmune, neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections. And when kids get this, if they get OCD or a tick disorder or both, they suddenly appear following a strep throat infection or any other. sort of strep infection, could be scarlet fever, or, you know, I don't know if this has ever been associated with strep versions of impotigo, which is a skin infection, so I'll have to look into that. The diagnosis of pandas is further supported if the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disease

Starting point is 00:31:33 or ticks suddenly become worse following a strep infection. and it's usually dramatic and happens overnight and completely out of the blue and can invoke motor ticks that'd be just twitching of the face or the body or vocal ticks or both obsessions compulsions are both and they may become moody and irritable and have panic attacks and show separation anxiety and those kinds of things and these damn strep bacteria are recognized as foreign bodies in the child's system and the immune system reacts to these molecules by producing antibodies as we're well aware

Starting point is 00:32:25 now most people have some expertise on immunology these days after two years of pandemic and vaccines and all that stuff but the immune system is supposed to react only to the strep molecules, but in this case, they also react to the human host molecules that are similar. And so these antibodies attack, these sort of mimicked molecules in the child's own tissues. And this is similar to rheumatic fever, where people get strep infection, and then all of a sudden the body produces antibodies to joints or heart tissue, you know, cartilage in the heart, that kind of thing.

Starting point is 00:33:15 So it's not that different. But in this case, it's causing neuropsychiatric problems. And there are some cross-reactive antibodies that target the brain, and that's what's causing these OCD and these ticks, and then causes this panda syndrome. So it is diagnosed not with the lab test, but by criteria. And so the diagnostic criteria are, as we talked about, OCD, tick disorder, pediatric onset, episodic course of symptoms. In other words, if they get exposed to strep again, it gets worse. And association with any strep infection.

Starting point is 00:33:58 And then the key to it is that it was abrupt. onset or abrupt worsening of symptoms. And what do you do when you treat this? Well, you know, they can do a strep tighter and see if it's really high on these kids. That just shows that they have high circulating antibodies to strep. And then, you know, to treat it, they just treat it with antibiotics. So that's for these acute episodes. They treat the strep infection causing the symptoms.

Starting point is 00:34:28 And usually the great thing about strep is almost all the time you can treat it. with simple penicillin. These dumb bacteria don't seem to be able to mount a response to penicillin, probably because they're so sensitive to it. It just kills them all, and they can't develop resistance to it. They recommend that toothbrushes be replaced or sterilized after antibiotic treatment to make sure they don't reinfect themselves and make sure that nobody in the the family are strep carriers, including, by the way, dogs.

Starting point is 00:35:05 Dogs can have been implicated as carriers of strep and kids with recurrent strep. Now, the children that have OCD usually benefit from standard medications and behavioral therapies, cognitive behavioral therapy, that kind of stuff, and they can use even serotonin re-uptake inhibitor type medications for these kids, and there are medications for ticks, and so we just sort of basically break down the symptoms into their component parts and treat those separately. We never love to put kids on SSRIs when they are, you know, ever. And so they want to start low and go slow, so they'll often use liquid preparation and use the tiniest amount that you possibly can.

Starting point is 00:35:54 And this should be done by a specialist, in my opinion. And then for the very worst cases, you can give them intravenous immunoglobulin sort of overpower and reduce the effectiveness of the local antibodies. Or you can do plasmic exchange just to get those antibodies out of there. The problem with that is, you know, these treatments can increase your risk of infection, and there are always risks with invasive procedures. like that so that should be reserved for just the worst possible cases so um you know there is clinical research out there go to clinical trials.gov and you can look up pandas syndrome make sure you have the S at the end and see if there are any clinical trials that your kid or your friend's kid could enroll in that would be something for the parents to do but you could ask me hey have you guys looked

Starting point is 00:36:51 at clinical trials dot org particularly if they're very distressed about what's going on with their kid. I don't know the severity of the kid's illness. So anyway, all right, very good. Well, listen, we had a little bit of feces talk and then some more interesting science stuff. So I appreciate you all being with us. We'll have a normal show next week, which will be in just about four or five days. Until that time, we can't forget Rob Sprantz, Bob Kelly, Greg Hughes, Anthony Coomia, Jim Norton, Travis Teff, that Gould Girl, Lewis, Lewis Johnson, Paul Offcharski, Chowdy, 1008, Howdy, Guplunk, Eric Nagel, the Port Charlotte Hoare, the Saratoga Skank, the Florida Flusi, the St. Pete Barkeep Blower, the Tampa Dali Museum, Diddler, Percy Dom, Roland Campos, sister of Chris, Sam Robert, she who owns pigs and snakes, Pat Duffy, Dennis Falcone, Matt Klein Schmidt, Dale Dudley, Holly from the golf, Christopher Walkins double, Steve Tucci, the great Rob Bartlett, Vicks, Nether Fluids, Cardiffelette,

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