Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 540 - Phlegm Herbs

Episode Date: February 2, 2023

Dr Steve. Dr Scott, and Tacie discuss: acupuncture for constipation ? pesticide fun disease of the nail bed Jargon Alert! Does hospice kill? (no) Chiropractic TCM for gynecomastia? Please visit: stuff.doctorsteve.com (for all your online shopping needs!) simplyherbals.net  (Dr Scott's website) simplyherbals.net/cbd-sinus-rinse (the best he's ever made. Seriously.) roadie.doctorsteve.com (the greatest gift for a guitarist or bassist! The robotic tuner!) Also don't forget: Cameo.com/weirdmedicine (Book your old pal right now while he’s still cheap! "FLUID!" Most importantly! CHECK US OUT ON PATREON!  ALL NEW CONTENT! Robert Kelly, Mark Normand, the O&A Troika, Joe DeRosa, Pete Davidson, Geno Bisconte. Stuff you will never hear on the main show ;-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What do you call boogers on a diet? Slim pickings. What's a dog's favorite spot in the garden? The pea patch. I take a shot at writing a flabble. I'd take a shot at writing a phlebotomy joke, but it would be in vain. If you just read the bio for Dr. Steve, host of weird medicine on Sirius XM103, and made popular by two really comedy shows, Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez,

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I want a magic pill. All my ailments, the health equivalent of citizen cane. And if I don't get it now in the tablet, I think I'm doomed, then I'll have to No, insane. I want a requiem for my disease. So I'm paging Dr. Steve. Dr. Steve. From the world famous Carniphylactic Network Studios, it's weird medicine,

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you got to buy this stuff. That was, you know, he's not making any medical claims, but they fixed the sprayer. You get a nice, meaty spray up your nose and it's got that earthiness of The CBD, now I can finally smell it, and I really think that this is the stuff.

Thank you. This is the best you've ever made. Good picture. Yeah, so check that out at simplyerbils.net. And when you do, tell him Dr. Steve Sanchion. There you go. Scott sends out, if you identify yourself, he always sends out some chotchky, you know, shitty thing. Swag.

I'm going to have a bunch of stuff after DabbleCon, by the way. Oh, cool. February 3rd in Rochester. I shipped. what a gosh, 24 pounds worth of mouse pads. Those little things that you stick pot. What are the things you stick on your phone? Poplocks?

Poplocks. Yeah, I got Navalcon poplocks. I've got mouse pads. I've got Bristol stool scale, water bottles. I got all kinds of shit out there. And I'm really hoping I don't come back with any, but I may be sending back 23 pounds of shit back here, and we're going to be giving it out to our listeners.

We'll work on that. And the mugs are still there. You can get those somewhere on the website. I'm still, I'm, I, I trashed the old website completely and just start it over again. And now it's just green with a bunch of writing on and it's awful. But it'll get better soon. And check out patreon.com slash weird medicine. Tasey and I are doing some fun stuff over there.

We've had some really good ones. And it's different than this. We do a thing called the exam room where celebrities will call us and ask us questions. Or a bitch. Or just yell at us for an hour, aka Gino Bisconti. But the other thing, Tacey, I just got confirmation from Tim Dillon. He's going to do it. And we knew Tim before he was Tim Dillon.

So that'll be a fun one. And anyway, so check that out. And then if you want me to say fluid to your mama or whatever you would like for me to say to anyone anytime, give me a shout at cameo.com slash weird medicine. It's dirt cheap. I love to do them. We did one as a group here for our buddy Clint's mom who came down from Chicago to take care of him while he's getting chemotherapy. So that was a fun one. And it's like, Clint, I would have done this one for you for free.

But, you know, I took the money. What the hell? It's only $9. It's not that big of a deal. It's all good. All right. Please check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyherbils.net. Simplyherbils.net.

And we're going to do it without the AI today. Chat GPT has been busy, so I bought my own damn AI. There you go. And it actually has a voice and stuff. So I just have to get it set up so they can help us during the show if we need to. Oh, cool. Sometimes they give crazy answers, though.

How much does your own AI cost? Well, it doesn't cost you and me anything. It costs the corporation a couple of bucks a month. Good answer. But it's funny, though, I asked it who wrote a specific article that I actually wrote so that I would know the answer. And it said it just made up. It just made something up.

That yes, and it spoke very authoritatively, this article was published at such and such a time and was written by two people I never heard of. So I'm learning that as far as generating ideas and responding to you in text, it's great when it comes to doing actual research on it, not so much unless your research is how does a large language model actually respond to it? input. That's crazy. So the matrix is not perfect. No, no, no. And actually, one time I asked it about who, tell me about weird medicine, the podcast. It said weird medicine is a podcast on, you know, unscensored medical issues hosted by, you know, Stewart something and some woman I never heard of. It just made it up.

So it turns out that these things are what they're called predictive model. So they try to predict the next word that should come. And sometimes when it comes to names, they'll just sort of guess. Make it up and on its own. Yeah. Yeah. Very interesting. Yeah. Oh, okay.

Thank you. We forgot to turn the camera on. Thank you, everybody. We have a question, actually, from the waiting room. And if you're listening... And you don't know what the waiting room is. Oh, no. No. It's a fluid family.

No, the fluid family is in the waiting room. Okay, there you go. Oh. The waiting room is just our YouTube chat. We do YouTube on Saturdays at 1 o'clock, and you can join us. Just follow my Twitter at Weird Medicine, or go to our website, or sorry, to our YouTube channel,

and just click notify, and then you get notification. But then you can just hang out. We don't make a big deal out of it. I mean, if we get 20 people in there at once, I'm excited. We're not steel tow or, you know, some of these other big shows that live off their live streaming. We're really an audio show, but we've got this video element just so we can hang out and talk to people live. So it seems different when you're talking to even if it's one or two people in real time. In real time, yeah, that are not in the studio.

Scott and I both said it changes our energy a little bit. Oh, shoot you. Yeah, way better. Oh, that's why I sit back there and just shoot y'all stupid questions. Yeah, we appreciate that. There's no stupid questions. Oh, there aren't they come from me. There's no such thing as a stupid question.

You have good questions. Yes, you actually do. No, no, no, no. I'm special. Well, you are... Hey, that camera on Stacy's head makes his head look like it's a giant. Oh, God, and it's all red.

Oh, my God. Check his blood pressure out. It's had a full-faced helmet on it all day. Oh, God. All right. Well, again, this is an audio show, so the people that aren't watching don't know what the hell we're talking about.

Yeah, it's. The way that the camera is set up makes Stacy's head look like it's a big, giant red balloon on top of a, what is that, a blue... shirt or black shirt. It's black. Yeah. So the contrast is

pretty striking. Anyway, we have a question about acupuncture, Dr. Scott, and bowels. And it was I better pay attention. Johnny Longfeller, or feather maybe or something. Who was that?

Up there. Johnny Longfeather said, yeah, can acupuncture help me with my bowels? So what do you think? Yeah. Oh, yes. shoot you if we're talking constipation okay for sure yeah what what I would do is put some little teeny needles all

way around the bowel stimulate with a little bit electrical stimulation yeah and I put some probably that should have some music for this some coconut oil on there okay you got oh there you think then a little coconut oil smoothed on and I do this thing called moving cupping

I put the cups on the stomach and actually kind of follow the colon around yeah yeah yeah we do that yeah exactly and then I teach them how to do it home yeah so yeah it actually works pretty well I've done... Thanks, Johnny. Yeah. Yeah.

No, when if y'all get down, I've got a question about all this. Okay. We'll go. Yeah, go ahead. How does the colon work? Is it kind of like a snake where it has muscles where it moves from point to point to point to point to point or is like a pastry bag where it just squeezes it from one end to the other? That's an excellent question. The answer is yes.

Okay. There's a little bit of both. That is true. But really, peristalysis is the way that you get stool from one end to the other. And peristolsus is rhythmic contrast. of the bowel going kind of in the direction of the rectum. So when you have a big giant load in your colon, it's just sitting there, right? And then all of a sudden you have to go.

Right. And it's like all of a sudden it's an emergency, and now you're turtling. Yes. You know, you better get to the bathroom. And then when you get in there and you can't quite get your belt off, and it's like, oh, my God, I can't get this GD belt off quick enough. Yes. You know, everybody knows what I'm talking about.

That's peristolsis is causing that to happen. Okay. And actually, the bowel is even more interesting than that. It's not just an inert sack. It can secrete fluid into the lumen, the lumen being the inside of the bowel, and it can also suck fluid out of it. Its main purpose is to reclaim water. Nice.

We're recycling here. Yes, of course. Yeah. Yeah. So you put liquid fecal matter into the large bowel at what's called the Seacom. That's where the small bowel attaches to it. And then it starts being moved up, you know, up toward the liver, across the abdomen and then down the, well, let me see the left side. I'm looking at the patient in my head, the left side of the body down to the rectum, right? And during this whole period of time, the large bowel is taking water molecules, not shit molecules, just water molecules. Or alcohol molecule.

Yeah, if you shove alcohol up your ass, that's right. That's a whole different thing. But don't do that. Don't do that. But yes, it can take them just molecule by molecule at a time and leave the shit behind. So you're not like, you know, sieving. It's not like a sieve or a cheese cloth. It's active transport.

You know, these transport proteins will grab a water molecule and then just take it and push it to the other side into the bloodstream. It's cool as hell. How it works. People don't realize how compact and dense shit is. I mean, molecules like 99% just pure waste. There's very little. other in there unless it's diarrhea yeah yeah no that's right it's and it's a lot of it is bacterial

bodies right stuff but the weird thing is if you see raw sewage like so you you take a dump and you flush it down the toilet and it goes through the sewage system assuming that you don't have a you know a septic tank that sewer water is 2% sewage which means it's 98% pure water, but man, it's that 2% that really, you know, the Fs things up. Every ship that I manage, we have to have our own treatment centers on board.

Oh, yeah, okay. The process is like your own septic tank on board before you can do it overboard, and it depends of what part of the country we're in if we can even pump it overboard after it's treated. A lot of places, we have to retain it. And then what do you do with it? We have to wait. We'll go back out to ocean and pump it out.

Okay, so and then what's left over? I mean, there's obviously shit, you know, turds left over, right? And so you separate the turds from the water, but also the chemicals, too, like urine and stuff like that, urine chemicals. How does that work? It's an MSD marine sanitary device.

It's essentially its own little septic take system that we feed lots of yeast to. Oh, yeah. Okay, so the bacteria break it down and stuff. And I apologize, is that kind of like what's in the septic? Yeah. The stuff that we use at our house. Yeah. That you dump into the septic cream.

Baker's yeast is the best stuff in there. They put ridd it and all these other... Yeah, riddits, I think is what I have, yeah. But, yeah, Baker's yeast is what we actually use. So that's what I could use. Yeah. Oh, cool. Who knew?

Huh. It's probably cheaper to get those giant bags of rid, though, right? Yeah, I mean, it's not very physical. I just don't know, yeah. So then, okay, so now you've separated water, and it's got some impurities in it, but not like it had. Right. It doesn't have any solids in it. Right.

and you can dump that into the ocean. Right. But the solids eventually go into the ocean off, so we just wait on them to break down. They go through an emulsifier. Oh, really? Yep. A grinder.

Okay. We have some... I was hoping that you, like, had the big, just sort of block of what used to be turds, and you could make things out. Nope. Grind it up and send it overboard.

Some of the units have an incinerators, and you better not piss in it. I don't care who you are. You better not piss in it. It actually has a, we call it a turd burner. Put down a wax liner. You do your bow. business and it's essential just like the burner on your stove with a big vent system on it.

And then why don't you piss in it? What do you mean? Because a piss doesn't burn. It just turns to steam. You're right. And that fills up the whole bathroom. It's about you can put 10 of those in this. You're talking about an incinerating toilet. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's the Deccan's baptism is you need to go clean that out because somebody pissed in it. Oh. Somebody has to do it. That's a deckhand's job. Bricie mistake. So in an incinerating toilet, what's left? Just carbon?

Yeah, just carbon. You know, anything's your watch paper. Can you make pencils out of it or something? What do they do with it? Pour it over the side. They pour it. Oh, no, they should. You just, when you go outside to dump it, you make sure you know which way the wind is

blowing. It seems to, compress it, make diamonds out of it. I would buy one of those for Tacey. This was made from a diamond made from human fecal matter. That's so romantic. You can see it's a shitty ring. Oh, stop it. There you go.

I didn't mean to interrupt your story time. No, I didn't know. You did not. I'll say, that better not get a bill. I'm going to be sick. All right. See, I'm good at derailing things. I went to a screeching halt.

It's all good. There was a clickbait article that I want to talk about real quick. Okay. And the thing is, is it's clickbait in the, you know, this is a medical website. This is Medscape. So, you know, we use, people look at this. And actually, this one, Medscape owns WebMD now. So this was under WebMD.

And it says, possible by valent vaccine link to strokes and people over 65. So you go, oh, here we go. There's another thing. and here we get, we'll have to do another hour with Gino Bisconti and our Patreon. By the way, you don't want to go miss that. Go sign up for our Patreon just for that. Okay, okay. It says here, a vaccine database, and that's always the first thing, found a possible link

between the Pfizer-Bio-N-Tech biobalant COVID-19 vaccine and ischemic strokes in people over 65 who got the shot. The CDC and the FDA said in a joint news. release. The release did not recommend people change their vaccine practices, of course, they never do, saying the database finding probably didn't represent a true clinical risk. The CDC said everybody, including people over 65, should stay up to date on the COVID vaccine, including bivalent booster. Okay. That's, by the way, me saying that keeps us on YouTube. The news release said the vaccine safety data link, a near real-time surveillance system, raised a safety concern about the Pfizer-Bio-N-Tec booster.

Rapid response investigation of the signal, the VSD, raised a question of whether people 65 and older who have received a Pfizer-Bio-N-Tec COVID-19 bivalent. We're more likely to have an ischemic stroke in the 21 days following the vaccination compared with days 22 to 44. Okay, now, let's talk about this just for a second. By the way, if you've had your booster and you're worried about it and it's been more than three weeks, you're good, okay? Now, let's see here. No higher likelihood of strokes had been found by Pfizer themselves, duh, but the Veterans Administration, the vaccine adverse event reporting system, which has all kinds of shit.

That's one where you can, Stacy could get on there and just say, you know, I have. had 20 strokes. Makes some claims, yeah. Right. Now, but I'm going to just go to the numbers on this, okay? So I crunched the numbers on this and just you guys follow along with me and see where I'm wrong on this. It says 550,000 seniors got Pfizer byvalent boosters were tracked by this thing. 130 of them had strokes within three weeks of getting the shot.

None of those 130 people died. Okay, so you go, God, 130 people had strokes after they got the vaccine. Well, okay, you know, people over 65 have strokes. So how many should have gotten the stroke? What's your sample then? Well, it's 550,000 people that got the thing. So what about what's just the normal incidence of stroke in people over 65? In other words, what are the odds that someone, remember we talk about this,

of people that get infected by influenza. On Wednesday when they got their shot on Thursday. That's right. On Wednesday, they get their shot on Thursday. And then you can't go, oh, God, I got the flu from the flu shot. But they actually, you know, anyway, didn't get it from that. They were already going to get it anyway. So if you take 130 divided by 550,000, that gives you the odds, right, of one person having a stroke in the first three weeks.

and the number is 0.00-236 okay now I had to fiddle with some numbers so I'm going to rustle my papers around here a little bit to get the incidence of stroke in any three-week period so I had to do a little bit of mathematical fiddling so this will be plus or minus okay but there's 800,000 strokes per year in the United States okay 75% of those are in people older than 65 so in one year it's approximating or these numbers approximate 600,000 strokes in people over the age of 65 per year okay and if you divide that by 52 that'll give you the number of strokes in a week and then we're going to multiply that times three to get the number of strokes in three weeks it's 34,000 okay now there are 54 million over the age of 65 in the United States so if we We want to know strokes per person.

We're going to take 34,000 and divide it by 54 million people over 65. Am I right so far? Okay. Well, that number is 0.000629. So you have more people having strokes without the vaccination than you do with. And this is Stacy saying this. And I'm special. I mean, even, okay, so yeah, so I'm not wrong about that.

Yeah, I'm running these numbers in my hedgecock. Yeah, you have more people. people have strokes without the vaccination, without the booster. And that's if my estimate is right. And we could, you know, argue that. We could find a better estimate of how many strokes. You're within 60% of the old numbers. That was 0-002 and you're 0-006.

Right. Yes. Thank you. Yeah. When did you start paying attention? Whenever I'm sitting here and I have to look at him. That's true. He'll get you.

Normally I can just do phone calls and walk away. He'll get you if you're not paying attention now. Well, so, of course, the medical, quote-unquote, journalist that wrote this article didn't bother to run the numbers. Did the FDA and the CDC run the numbers? You know, they are bound by law that if they see certain signals, they have to report them. But how about giving people a little context? Yeah, yeah.

That makes sense. No, that's why it's clickbait. It got you to click on it. It did. And they got to say all the ads about foot cream and eye cream and everything else. I did see a bunch of ads doing this. I will, you know, I will always click on those because I want to talk about them. But I put the numbers on Twitter and ran through it before, and then I did it again, and I had Alexa help me, and I had Siri help me, and I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't wrong about this.

So, you know, it's pretty crazy. Pretty ridiculous. Yep. Anyway, all right. So we'll try to find out, maybe if I can find better numbers on the actual incidence of stroke in people over 60. and then we can compare better numbers. But it's not going to be much different than that.

So anyway, all right. That's all I have. You guys got anything? Oh, wait. Oh, you know what? We have a new bet. You ready? Yeah, let's do it. Here we are. I'm scared. It's Tacey's Time of Topics. A time for Tacey to discuss

topics of the day. Not to be confused with Topic Time with Harrison Young, which is copyrighted by Harrison Young and Area 58 public access. And now here's Tacey. All right, Tacey. Well, that would look very good.

Yeah, I didn't hate that. Look at me doing homework. What do you got, Scott? I don't have nothing. I'm not going to get a bell anyway, so I quit. I quit trying. I didn't get a bill for agreeing with Steve. I know. Not even a have a bail. I think if you're his wife, you have a little bit better chance. Well, yeah.

Just a little bit. All right, here you go. Give yourself a... Oh. You got a half a bell. I got half a one, yeah. Close enough. I still more than what Scott got.

So I have three boring stories. They're not very exciting. Uh-oh. Yeah. Well, it was a slow news week when it comes to health. So this is from the Guardian, and it's kind of old news. U.S. government scientists found people. exposed to the weed killer chemical glyphosate.

Oh, yeah. Have biomarkers in their urine linked to the development of cancer and other diseases. Yeah. Study was in the Journal of National Cancer Institute, and it showed up in farmers, and such high levels of the pesticide were associated with signs of a reaction in the body called oxidative stress, which damages DNA. They're talking about hematological cancers like lymphoma, myeloma, and loom. leukemia.

Glyphosate-based, oh, I don't even produce, I don't even know what this word is. Oh, and I wrote it. Glifosate-based something are the most heavily applied herbicide in U.S. and globally. Oh, organophosphates. Was that, it's an organophosphate. No, the word that I wrote here starts with a P and produces. Glifosate-based produces are the most heavily applied herbicide in U.S. and globally. Okay. Wow. Yeah, it's a weed killer. It is an organofosophosphate. Those things are always a little bit nasty, and you always worry about them. You know, when I was a kid, you guys, Stacy, you're old enough to do this. I don't know, Tacey and Scott, if you were, but they used to go through our town spraying DDT.

Oh, we used to run behind it. And we'd run behind it. Yeah, we'd go through there because it smelled. It's a cloud. Yeah, it was a cloud, and it smelled weird, and he couldn't see anything in front of you, so we'd run right behind the DDT truck. We were going to see my dad's parents down in Mississippi, and they would come through there, spring of that, and then there would be another truck coming by intentionally dropping diesel fuel on a hot steel plate to get the smoke coming out of that also, because that settles on the water. They said it killed the mosquito eggs. Yes, yes, yes, yes.

But everything got coated with a diesel fuel. Oh, geez, Louise. Nice. So you had DDT, then you had diesel fuel on top, but we would run through both of them. That's why I'm special. We used to take oil and spray ponds and standing water. We would stand in the back where they were growing soybean with a crop dusters would come over. Woo-hoo!

DDT's considered a possible human carcinogen, but even after all this time, it's still a possible human carcinogen. So I'm kind of hoping that it falls on the other side. Didn't they outlaw that because they used to use it. it in oils, especially on transformers, because it worked as far as keeping the heat down. Okay. But they did the research on bald eagle

eggs. I think that I think that's right. It wasn't because people are getting sick from the DDT. Right. It was because the bald eagle, their population was dropping off and they discovered that the eggs were just fracturing whenever the mother said on it. They linked that to DDT. Oh, wow. I think if I'm

right. I could be wrong. That makes sense. It makes sense. It's potential to increase breast cancer and stuff, but still the risk is not definite. No, worth it. No, I'm saying it's not definite. It may be worth it. Oh, okay. If the numbers are low enough, then you have to make this sort of calculation that how many, if you're in a malaria area, how many people are going to die from malaria and how many would be saved by DDT?

Oh, got you. Then how many would die from the DDT itself? And you hate to make those kind of bean-counting calculations when it comes to human beings. But, you know, if you're going to save more lives than you don't save, then, you know, you kind of got to go that way. Yeah, totally. It's a tough one. I'm not going to ever admit to taking a used motor oil and dumping it on the pond to get rid of the mosquitoes. Well.

Never going to admit to that. And doing things like releasing sterile mosquitoes into the populace and stuff so that, you know, those don't. That's not going to affect anything. The bats can eat them. They're not poison. They just are sterile and they'll mate with the females and then they just won't produce offspring. Have you heard it? I don't mean to interrupt Tacey's story time.

No, that's what that's about is supposed to stimulate a discussion. So you're fine. MNRMNA. What? Message RNA? Yes. MRNA? Yeah.

Them altering chicken feed. Because now all of a sudden chickens have stopped producing eggs. here recently and supposedly they've altered the chicken feed. I don't know. I'm trying to stimulate it. You don't know. You don't expect me to do research. You certainly don't know.

You're right. I'm not going to admit it. I'm looking at that right now and seeing absolutely nothing, but let me see. But I saw it on Instagram. It has to be true. I'm looking at how chicken eggs can help end the pandemic. They do grow. grow viruses or, you know, viral particles and, you know, vaccines on chicken eggs.

That's flu. Yeah, influenza is one of those. If you have an egg allergy, you have to take a different version or don't take it at all. So, but anyway, yeah, I'm not aware of that one. So you're worried that they're putting MRNA in the feed and then chickens are eating it. And that's changing their genetics because if you eat, a glob of mRNA your body

will digest it as soon as it hits the stomach it will change into the constituent

nucleotides that sounds awful fancy that's good that's what you get the acid for that's right

all right what else you got taste okay this one is kind of a duh it's like a big duh

and it's only I love how she starts out saying this is gonna suck it is gonna suck it's only for like three

three of our listeners, because it's basically a woman's topic. Oh, no. We, by the way, we got a bunch of e-mail saying we really like Tacey talking about women's topics. Okay. And a couple of those were women. Okay. Well, so a lot of women get their gel nails done, and they use UV lamps for these manicures. And they could have harmful effects.

it could potentially damage DNA and cause mutations that could increase the risk of skin cancer. It's like a small tanning bed, and when you have it done, you know exactly what's happening. You're frying your fingers, and if they over sand it, it hurts. Really? Yeah. Well, these little many tanning beds, if you will, have not been studied for safety. And this is published in the journal of Nature Communications, so I don't know. No, that's a good one.

Okay. So if you do it for a single 20-minute irradiation caused the death of 20-to-30% of cells, while three consecutive 20-minute exposures caused destruction of 65% to 70% of cells. Jesus. This does not reflect actual conditions of a jail manicure because exposure is between 30. 120 seconds and sometimes even less than that. But it is, you know, you can't feel it. They're using UVA or UVB in that?

This says UVA. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So you guys probably have nothing to say about that. No, but that's, I mean, I always kind of wondered about that. That would be easy to fix. If you put ultraviolet absorbing chemicals, which many of them are very benign, in the nail polish,

and then you would just have a little thing to shield your finger, that you know, that you'd put your finger in where the nail would be exposed and they would paint over that. And then that's what you would put in the ultraviolet thing if there's really a problem. Now, yeah, interesting, theoretically, it makes sense that UVA and I'm surprised that nobody's looked at this. this before. But does it actually end up as a true clinical outcome? Because that's what we're interested in. Does it cause skin cancer or does it not? They're an increased risk in people doing nail stuff than if they didn't do it. And that would be a really easy study to do. You start with a retrospective study. Just find a thousand women that go regularly to the nail salon. and say they've been doing it for 15 years

as they're an excess number of skin cancers in the hands in that group compared to the people who have never gone. I mean, it really hurts when they over sand and then put the gel on and then you've got the UVA light hitting your nails. It really hurts under the nail. It's like, how? Because, you know, they're...

At that point, it's penetrating through the nail. It's penetrating through the nail. Exactly. You could make a... So they're burning the nail bed? You feel like you're getting sunburned of your nail bed? It's worse than that. It hurts.

Because I could see you've done making a weak vinyl solution and outlining around the quick, you know, to protect the skin there. Right. And that way, when you get done, you just peel that off. Well, that's what I'm thinking of. It's something that, or like a little lid, just a glove that's got the... But everybody's got different shaped nails. So you can literally just paint a light vinyl, coating little red scratch it. off and everything. But if it's burning

through the nail... Then there's really nothing you can do. Well, unless you put some UV-absorbing chemical in the nail polish itself, they'd have to sell it that way. This is opaque to ultraviolet light.

And that wouldn't be that hard to do. Well, it's not available at this time. According to this article. Maybe we need to patent that. That would be a good way to make some money. The third topic I have is not as bad as that first two. I thought the first two were good.

It's a little more interesting. I'm still reading this damn article. What's the best of y'all? Cancer diagnosis increases suicide risk by 26%. Individuals diagnosed between 2000 and 2016 compared to general population. Oh, I must have been drinking when I wrote this. Going to go in the club. Well, statistically, that's probably true.

Yeah, I can see that. No, I mean that she was drinking that she wrote it. I was thinking of this. Yeah, I can't really read my writing. Ethnicity is contributed to increasing the risk. Poor prognosis increases the risk. The highest risk seen first six months after diagnosis, risk decreased from six. $1,790 in 2000 to 16% in 2016 due to increased use of psychosocial, palliative care, and advances in symptom management.

There you go. Well, I think that we're approaching cancer a little differently now. We are getting closer and closer to a generalizable cure. That kind of word is getting out. So, you know, it used to be, I bet the suicide rate back in the day was really high because when you got at Cobalt, treatments back then and chemo. I just remember people just puking and puking and puking for two weeks and then they died anyway.

And what I'm looking here, Tase, is over the last two decades, suicide rate in the United States has been on a grim, steady march upward, but a new study highlights an encouraging exception between 99 and 2018. The rate of suicide related to cancer actually decreased. Now, there is risk to it, but that's rate, so there's still risk. And I think the two things are, those two studies go together, that there is an increased risk of suicide, but that risk is declining over time. Your risk increases if you're Hispanic, if you're Medicare, uninsured Medicaid patient or VA patient. Hmm.

All those come with extra stress. Now, why individuals living in counties with high poverty rates also had an increased risk? Yeah. Wow. So. So what I want to say is if you have a new cancer diagnosis and you're thinking that the future is just there's nothing there, that's not necessarily true. And I want you to talk not only to your cancer doctor about what the path forward is because we teach people don't just deliver bad news. You deliver bad news and here's what we're going to do about it.

It's kind of yes and it's a little bit like improv in that way. But if you could take something away from someone, you better give them something of value in return. You'll take it away and take tough shit, man. Yeah, yeah. We'll see you. It sucks to be here. Yeah.

Well, and I also tell the residents that there are ways that you can take an emergency call like this one. Where's my fucking phone? But you can take a call. During a breaking bad news, if it's an emergency, but there's one time you cannot do that. And that is when you just delivered the bad news and you're just getting ready to transition to, and here's what we're going to do about it. That is the worst time that you can be interrupted. And whatever it is, you just click off and call them back later because you have to deliver that part of it. Part of the responsibility of breaking bad news is here's what we're going to do about it.

And if you are newly diagnosed with cancer and you're starting to feel these kind of feelings, talk to the palliative medicine people in your practice. If they don't have one, complain, number one, that they don't. But there will be somebody that they refer people to for palliative medicine. Palliative medicine is a sort of partner to oncology. And, you know, 40% of what palliative medicine providers do is nothing but oncology. than 60% is everything else, but they can help you to understand that you're not going to have to suffer that there is adequate symptom management out there, and they will talk

to you about goals of care and things like that, make sure that everybody's ducks are in a row. And that is a really relieving thing. And talking about these things, even if you're going to talk about end-of-life stuff, doesn't increase your anxiety actually decreases it. Yeah, you're getting it off your chance. And finding out if there's another path out here. It's the 800-pound gorilla in the room.

And, you know, when you start talking about it, it starts to disappear. The, you know, I'll walk into a room sometime and the family will grab me. And it's somebody that's got a little old lady with cancer or something. And the family will grab me and go, come out in the hall, come out in the hall. Don't tell mama she's got cancer. Because if you tell her that she's got cancer, she's going to give her. up. Now, what do you do in a situation like that? Particularly, now if mama has dementia or something and doesn't have capacity to process that information, I don't, that's fine. They're probably

right that it will increase that person's anxiety or they just won't be able to process it. So, you know, in that case, you identify a surrogate decision maker and then you talk to them. But if mama has capacity, that's a problem because now they're putting you in a position where you're They're asking you to violate her human rights of autonomy. So one of the pinnacles of Western medical ethics is that patients get to make any decisions that they want to make about their medical care. Really? Yes, yes. That's not what the government said.

Well, you see, that's where I have a problem with the government. I'm just picking it. No, don't pick at me. I'm an anti-mandate guy. I understand. And that's a whole other discussion. again, go listen to the Gino Bisconti Patreon show.

It was fun. Go ahead. I didn't mean or... No, it's okay. And so, but you have the right to choose and accept or reject any medical treatment that's offered to you. And, but to do that,

you've got to be able to understand that. Yeah. You know, if you go to a French restaurant and the menu is in French and you don't speak French, you're going to end up ordering liver on snail potet and say, you know, it's just crazy. So they've got to explain the menu to you.

So anyway, you've got to be able to understand what the menu is. And to do that, you have to give the patient informed consent. Well, now this family is asking you not to do that. So this is what I do. I will go, I will talk to the family and use empathy and validation. Hey, I understand why you feel this way. You know, you're just advocating for your mom. I think a lot of people feel the same way.

That's the empathy and validation part. But the pinnacle of modern medical ethics is that patients get to make their own decisions. So this, I'll make you a deal. I'll go in and ask her if she wants to know. If she doesn't, she can defer decision making to you and I don't have to tell her anything. But I will ask her if she wants to know everything that I know about her care. And if she says yes, then I have to tell her. Do you agree with that?

I've got to get their assent before we go in. And so they always agree to that. So I'll go in and I'll say, well, ma'am, there's two kinds of people in this world, people who want to know everything about their medical care and make their own medical decisions, maybe with the help of other people, but they want to be the boss on that. And then there's other people who are okay if someone in their family has more of the information than they do, and they make the decisions and just to, you know, let them know what they are. Which one are you?

Well, I want to know everything, okay? and then I just look at the family. I kind of give them that knowing shrug. You know, like, here we go. And then I tell her. Now, who in that situation, and Mama always does fine. She always does fine. Who in that situation actually had the problem?

Oh, it had to be the family member. The family. They were the ones that were having trouble coping with it, which is why I brought this up, because it was the 800-pound gorilla. They had secret arcane information that Mama didn't have. And they were keeping it from. her and it was causing stress.

At the minute that you break that ice, it all gets better. So anyway, so that's my spiel on that. No, because I was going to say, just, I wish that they were learned proper terminology. Just use simple, as far as medical care provider in general. Oh, God, yes. Don't use jargon. Because the other day, I'm driving up here from Louisiana. Yep.

Getting ready to, you know, head off on the next big adventure. I called my internist office down there because I'm supposed to be going for blood work next week. I won't be there. I call up and I tell the nurse or whoever is answers the phone, can I go ahead and do this while I'm in town? Yeah. And she said, no.

I said, why not? Because they're going to run the analysis on it. They're going to put it on a piece of paper and the computer. He can read it and that's going to be a baseline. She said, no, because your labs are going to expire. I said, how do my labs expire? Because they're going to run the analysis. They're going to write it on a piece of it.

a paper, you're going to tell me the paper's rotting away? She goes, no, it's going to expire because they need to be done before you see him. I said, no, this is done for a baseline. They're going to write it down. They're not going to expire. The paper's not going to rot away. The computer's not going to crash. And she was swarping now that my labs were going to

expire. No, you're using the wrong terminology here, and I'm not medical. Right. Well, that's that. I'm sure she was thrilled with that whole conversation. I made her But somebody has to sound the alarm. You're stupid. I think that medical jargon is a problem.

And we've talked about this maybe a time or two on the show. There's two words that we use in medicine, completely the opposite of what our patients use. And those two words are... Positive and negative. Oh, there you go. Give yourself a bill. A whole barrel. For that answer, you need a bag of a bag.

I was looking at you to give you a fucking bell, Scott. I brought three stories in God. Jack, shit. Well, you get, okay. What do I get? You get bells for, if I ask you a question and you get it right, that's when you get a bell. You just want a cookie. Give yourself a bill.

You, uh, there you know. Oh, damn it. See, it doesn't mean as much. Oh, yes, it does. She still likes it, though. I was looking at you to answer that question and then, you know, knuckle ahead. Well, because I'm the guy that brought you the story about my mother-in-law getting the phone call, the voicemail about Hey, you tested positive, and she's like, woo-hoo!

That was you. I still tell that story. Yeah. Yeah. That was my ex-mother-in-law. So for people to know what we're talking about, you know, if you have a positive balance in your checking account, that's good. If you've got a positive attitude, that's good. If you have a positive biopsy, that's a really bad thing.

Bad thing. And it does cause confusion. Yes. I've had people, I've seen people come out of the oncology office crying because they told them that they're Ced. scan was negative and they thought it was a bad thing. It's, you know, maybe 1%, but this is avoidable. It's important. It's a normal and abnormal.

Yeah. So what happened with your mother-in-law is they called her and said, your influenza test was positive and she was thrilled by that because. On the voicemail. Right. On the voicemail. There you go. Okay.

See, when I tell this story to residence, when I give lectures about it, I'll tell him, you know, I had a friend who was, you know, I thought it was their mother, but Anyway, I'm not going to change it. Mother called said that the test was, influenza test was positive. Isn't that a great thing? And I'm like, what doctor's office just calls and says, well, your test was positive? Click. And without giving any contact.

Yeah. That's some, yeah. So anyway, that kind of stuff. So we try really not to use jargon to use plain language. And it's hard if you're talking to other health care providers all the time to not slip into that. Sometimes you've got to catch yourself. Yep. Yep, yep, yep.

Anyway, all right, anything else? That's it. Tacey, excellent. Good job, Tase. She's mad because she didn't get a bell, but she got her own theme song. It's Tacey's Time of Topics. A time for Tacey. All right, anyway.

Did you notice how you almost dragged out, Tacey? Oh. No. No. The only reason I do this is he made the mistake of telling me that his spine crawls Every time I go, Ticey! Oh, God, it's doing it now. And that's the only reason why to do it.

It's doing it now. Man, you are one pathetic loser. Number one thing, don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. We might as well just... This one's going to be a bummer, too, so... But it's an important question. It's a good question.

My question is about hospice. We had a good friend in the hospital that was very sick. and the family brought in hospice, and he died within 12 hours. So my question is, did hospice do anything to promote his death? Nope. And I know exactly what happened in this situation. I wasn't there. Don't know anything about the case.

I know exactly what happened. One of two things happened. Either the doctors waited too effing long to send this patient to hospice, and they waited until they were basically actively dead. dying or the family was resistant to hospice until there was a crisis and then they need to come in. Now, when I tell people about hospice is it's not for the dying, it's for the living, it's for people who are no longer choosing curative or life- prolonging treatment for whatever reason and have an illness that will take them out of this world if it ran its natural course in

about six months. And you don't have to die in six months. You can be in hospice for years as long as you continue to meet that criterion. And their job is to make you comfortable until you leave this world or until you get healed, one or the other. But their job is not to dope you up, and they're not going to give you medication against your will and stuff like that. They're not going to take your regular medications away, and you don't have to go somewhere. You can do it at home.

So it's just a federal program if you're a Medicare patient that pays for, medical equipment, medication, and nurses who are specialty trained in symptom management to come to your house. And on top of that, you get chaplains, you get bereavement care for the family, you get all kinds of stuff. And it's all paid for 100% by Medicare, not a penny out of your pocket. Now, this has been an issue for a long time that there are myths about hospice where the families or the patient don't want it because they think that they're going to come in and

kill them or, you know, dope them up and, you know, take away their medicine and stuff, or where the physicians just, you know, have an unrealistic idea of their own capabilities and they don't send patients to hospice soon enough. So you want, what I tell people is, you qualify, if you're not seeking curative treatment, then go ahead and get hospice, even if you don't need them. because if you qualify for it, when you do need them, it's going to be an emergency, and now you're going to have strangers

coming into your house. If you get them early, now you know these people, even if they come once every two weeks. I've had two family members that went on the hospice, and me from an engineering standpoint, was absolutely amazed by them.

Two different people, two different organizations, but both of them came in like 96 hours before the passing actually happened. And they said, you know, from their experience, like 72 hours, and both times we use that to circle the wagon. Well, right. To get every family member in that wanted to get there. Don't wait three weeks waiting on a cheaper airfly. Right.

If you want to be here, you need to be here. Yeah. And we, you know, both times, it was an amazing thing. Yeah. And I was actually thankful for it. I mean, it was a bad situation, but I appreciated them being open and talking about it. Yeah. It really was.

Yeah. And then everybody else just had a heart attack and died's kind of like, oh, shit, look. Dad's on the floor. Well, that's it. Yeah, my dad died in his sleep and my mom, you know, died over a period of two years. And either way, it sucks. My dad didn't suffer, but I didn't get to say goodbye. And my mom, you know, I got to say goodbye, but all she did was suffer for, you know, two years.

So, yeah, she didn't really, you know, where she was, they didn't have hospice care. But she is why I, you know, took that on as a profession. But anyway, all right. Let's see if I can find something here. There's a drippy penis one, but we've only, oh, here we go. Let's do this one. Oh, Dr. Steve. Oh, God.

Oh, God. You don't want it in real life? God's sake. Yes. Hey, okay. Oh, my God. This actually was an accident, but just tell the story. The Cialist saves lives, right?

Because we've got about 30 seconds. I heard something watching Fox News the other night, and they were talking about. That famous medical journal. Oh, yeah. Yes. But they were talking about how they've gone back and been looking at Cialis and other ED medication, and it has reduced recurring heart attacks on men over 65 by about 44%. That kind of makes sense. Scott, will you put that on for next week and we'll pull the actual study? Because I'd like to look at that. I've got it already pulled up. Maybe I ought to get on some of that stuff. That's what I'm talking about.

Well, what did we do today? We talked about suicide and cancer. We talked about hospice. What else do we talk about, taste? Constipation. How your colon works? Oh, man. The only thing we missed was the droopy penis.

Yeah, well, we can do that. Well, that's what we got to see Alice for next week for. Oh, that's right. No, drippy penis. Wait a minute. Let me rephrase that. It's going to bring it up next week. Troopy penis.

I think it was drippy penis. It was droopy penis. Drupy penis. is a completely different. So, Dr. Scott, you got anything from the waiting room over there? We can answer some regular medical questions. I do have one. Yeah, what you got.

So Renee was asking, saying that I guess she used too much of the beta-metazone cream on her skin. Oh, and she's got a temple? Well, no, it has been numb for weeks. And was asking about that. Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too, when I read it. if it would subside. I've never heard anybody have numbness associated with that cream. I know that if you put it on, say, strong steroids on the face or the genitals,

it can actually cause thinning of the skin and it can be noticeable. Well, that's why you can only use it for like two weeks. I mean, they don't want you to use it for too much. Yeah. But I've never, yeah, Renee, I've never heard of. Well, I am looking at numbness. I'm looking at numbness here. Are you okay?

Yep, it's a rare side effect. Let's see here. Numbness. Okay, less common. Burning, crawling, itching, numbness, prickling pins and needles or tickling feelings. And I, yes, a rare chills, cough, fever, hoarseness, and that's just with topical. Goodness gracious. Isn't it wild?

Okay. Yeah. So if it is. very localized, I would expect that to go away. You could get a compounded cream that has gabapentin and some other things in it that you could rub on there to just make the pins and needles go away. If it is truly numb, meaning you can't feel anything, it will take up to two years for peripheral nerves to grow back. I would definitely report that to your primary, for the prescriber. make sure they put that on your

allergy list and then if it's widespread enough they may want to do a nerve test on you and just make sure that it's really what that was. The cream right. That's those those things because it's not impossible you can have a nerve compression at the same time around the same place and you

associate the tube but they may be unrelated. That's an interesting one. So okay I learned something today. You know we just write that stuff and never even never hear back about it. No, never even think about it. How often do you actually realistically get a compliment for doing something such as that? Just somebody call back and go, Doc, I want to tell you, I really appreciate this.

Well, I tell people that we like good news too, but I get it more than most because of what I do. You know, a lot of mine is I go in on Tuesday and someone is, you know, in agony. And then on Wednesday, I walk in there sitting up reading the newspaper. They'll usually give you props for that. In primary care, the ones that you get the most props for are thrombost external hemorrhoids because they come in with 10 out of 10 pain and they leave with no pain. And then ingrown toenails. Yeah, I can see that. If you know how to do it, they come in and they're miserable and they walk out and they're fine. And let's see what else.

You know, splinters and sewing people up and stuff like that, but those are the big ones. Now, if you get somebody that's really rewarding is the one person in 100 that actually follows your instructions on their diet when it comes to type 2 diabetes and you actually cure them. I'm looking the wrong direction there. You can actually get them off all of their medication. Yeah, Stacey is not one of those people. I'm trying. That's all right. I'm eating lots and lots of salads.

I'm bored with it. I'm going to do this question. this will sort of change the tone of the show and I think in a good way and Tacey, tell me if we've done this one before because you will remember this one if we did, okay? Hey, Dr. Steve, this is Tony in Oregon and I was wondering how many holes do women have

because I've only ever had sex with one woman and she was only believed in vaginal intercourse. So, like I said, my question is... And again, nothing wrong with that. We've not done this question, right? No. Somehow I got lost.

How many holes do women have? Because I don't know. As I said, because I've only ever had sex with... Well, okay. And then he called back. Let's see, here. Tony, number two. Hi, Dr. Steve.

This is Tony in Oregon again. I'm sorry. I should call... It's okay. To call you right back. But I just wanted to make sure you knew that. I was, what I, what I, you'd understand what I was, my question, it was, um, my question was, um, my question was how many holes do women have in their body?

Yeah. Um, because, uh, like I said, I've only ever been with one woman and she only believed in, um, vaginal intercourse. Okay. So then he called back again and I will just do his, all of his calls and then we'll answer his question. Hey, Dr. Steve. It's Tony and Oregon again.

Oh, sorry. I'm going to, I'll go away after. No, you know, you're fine, dude. You're fine. call home and go away after this. Totally fine. But I just wanted to call and say that, yes, I do have sex in the vagina. Yes.

I just didn't want you to think that I'm a retarded. No. I just want you to believe that I'm retarded. So I'm just going to call you back. Like I said, tell you that. No, okay, well, wait. Yes, I do have sex in the vagina. Well, that's awesome, man.

There you go. Tell you right now. He gets a bill. Give yourself a bill. He's good. Everybody except for me. He's doing better than I am. So, Dr. Scott, why don't you take this one?

So we can, now, the question is, are we talking holes you can have intercourse with or just holes in general? So why don't you count up all the, well, just count up all the holes in the human body. And then we'll talk about which is the ones you could actually put your penis in and, you know. I say nine. Well, we'll name them. Yeah, both eyes is two. Eyes? Well, the other holes.

Okay, well, that's not a, I don't consider that a hole. You couldn't. That's an eye socket. I consider it a hole. But there's an eye in it. Well, not for everybody. Okay. All right.

Okay. So we'll put an asterisk by that one. Ears. Yes, two. Nostles. Two. Mouth. One.

Mouth. There is. Pooper hole. Yep, yep. The pee-hole. There you go. And then vagina. Vigina.

That's what I was calling is people old. Well, but they have a urethritory. They have two different women have the urethryth. I'm aware of that. You understand. There's one, yeah. There's kind of one common opening. So I guess after the branches into separate holes in.

That's eight. See there. Give yourself a bell. That's why I wanted you to do it. So you get your stupid bell. Geez. I got one, Sean, mark it down, maybe. I was counting ears as two because one on each side.

Me too. Yes. I used one on each side. Did we not? nose was counting as one because it goes into one oh no it should be two it should be two yeah I said nine originally I said nine originally yeah you did yeah you were right

you were nine so two ears you can keep two nostrils one mouth anus and a urethra and a vagina and it's still eight so we must have counted right the first time

one two three four but the non I can't I care the nostril it is one because it goes well I call that that would be seven I count the urethro opening and the vaginal opening as one. Right, but I'm saying it's two because it really is two different holes. I mean. Okay, can I play up with that question for a second?

Oh, the eyes, and then the eyes, it makes 10. Okay. There you go. It's 10 with an asterisk. No, I agree it is. Because the eyes have eye, eye sockets have eyes in them. Something that you've never clarified here. I mean, if you want to talk about other holes, there's ostea in the sinuses and all that stuff.

Oh, yeah, no. You know, there are lots of other. There's two eustachian tubes in the back of your throat. Yeah, but that's internal. Yeah, well. You've got to go through the mouth to get to it. Yeah. Or go through the nose.

There's still holes. Yeah. Oh, my God, we'd be here all day if we talked about inside holes. Yes. That's true. I got a wine delivery. There's the sphincter of Odie. Okay, how about a quick clarification?

As far as women squirting, is it out of the vagina or is that out of the ureiza? Okay, so. That's one of your favorite topics. It is one of my favorite topics. But there's never being clarified. The white milky fluid comes from the Skeen's glands, which are around the labia and sort of in that region under the hood, sort of. And then the clear hypotonic fluid comes from the urethra because that comes from the bladder.

So it comes female ejaculation comes from the skein's glands and coital incontinence comes from the bladder and urethra. So I wanted Tony to get some more information because that's a whole vagina information.

Yeah, yeah, no, Tony, we'll give you all kinds of information. Okay, so he asked about how many holes so we count 10 plus minus a bunch of other stuff. But the ones that you normally would have intercourse with would be the mouth vagina and rectum, although I've never done that myself.

I'm not, I always, whenever I had a new girlfriend, I'd always reassure them. And I never had one and go, well, God damn it. Well, that's a deal breaker. Yeah, it's a deal breaker. See, I've got such a joke about that, but I'm not going to do it. You've done your quote of jokes for the day. I'm ratcheting it back right back. But there are other places that you can, you know, achieve pleasure.

as well. And, you know, she's got two hands, two feet. You know, a boob job is also always, you know, kind of a fun thing. If she's able to do that, some women can, some can. So, you know, there's all kinds of stuff, Tony. Just, you know, enjoy yourself. Go easy. And, you know, if you're uncomfortable doing something, talk about it. And, you know, you may become comfortable with it later or you may not. It may just not be your cup of tea. I tell people learning to ride motorcycles, go comfortable plus 10%. There you go. Yeah, comfortable plus 10%.

Then you'll make a little bit of progress every time. Every time. Yep, very good. All right. Anything else, Dr. Scott? That'll wrap it up. Appreciate it, Tony, calling in with that. Amen.

It's an excellent question. You know, not everybody knows every damn thing. All right. Okay. Well, let's get out of here then. Thanks, always go to Dr. Scott. Thanks, Tacey. thanks Stacey DeLouch

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