Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 544 - "Covert" BJ

Episode Date: March 14, 2023

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You know, I want you to think about my parents and then think about my voice. And then think about how lucky I am to have it. This is true. Yeah. Well, see, without your parents, you wouldn't have any voice at all because you would not exist. I'm just saying, I'm lucky to have the voice. She got vague joe shay top. That I've been given.

Yep. Considering. Right. You've got your dad's vocal cords in a woman's body, and then you've got all 40. You need to just stop right there. 42 years of conditioning of your mother. Yes. Okay, fair.

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You know what time it is, Tase? All right. 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. Hello, Tacey. Hello, everyone. So I have an article about penile length and is an increase in penal length,

cause for concern. Why would it be? I have no idea. So now male fertility has been declining over time. It's interesting that as male fertility is reported to be declining, it's really sperm count that you have a story that shows over time male penis length has been increasing. So let's hear that. Okay.

Sperm quality and testosterone levels have decreased over the last few decades. Okay. Well, very good. Okay. And in a study published February 14th in the World Journal of Men's Health, they compiled 75 studies conducted between 1942 and 2021. Okay. Of penis lengths? They found, let me get to it.

Oh, okay. The average penile length of 55,761 men increased by 24% over 29 years. Wow. Could be due to environmental pollutants or an increase in sedentary lifestyles. Both sound – it sounds great. These could be causing – Oh, you know what it is, Scott? It's that damn DDT that we used to run there it is.

That's what did it for you. Made our painish longer. It's saying it could be causing reproductive-related changes. Now, I've had wine, so just bear with me. Okay. What were the motivations behind the study? You know, the sperm counts and testosterone levels have been declining. Also increasing rates of male congenital birth defects.

I don't like that part. No, I don't either. A erect penile length is getting longer from an average of 4.8 to 6 inches in over the last 29 years. None of that. Please, sir. Thank you. Okay. What are the health implications and factors at play?

Hmm. Well, deeper penetration, I would assume, would be one of them. They're not going with this sex-wise, unfortunately. What else is there? From Penthouse. Could be chemical exposure, pesticides, or hygiene products. Pesticides. Okay.

I'm going to do this for myself. Give thyself a bell. Chemical exposure has also been, I don't know this word. Okay. Posited, posited. Posited. Yeah. In other words, they're putting that, flying that,

as an idea. Okay, never heard that word before. For a cause for going into puberty earlier. So what do we need to look at next? So if people are going into puberty earlier, they have more time to grow their penis? Maybe the time of puberty is longer. See, if you were a woman,

you would know people were going through puberty earlier because women are going through puberty early. That's right, but guys are like hiding it. I remember when I was in the shower and I had pubic hair and nobody. else did and I remember somebody saying ooh you know I almost

said my name ooh Steve you know nice forest down there and I was like oh that's cheap number one he peaked early gross yes why are you looking and number two why are you commenting

good lord so we need to take a look it's an icebreaker yeah look at my hair guys yeah you take a look at the pediatric

population and to ask if there are similar changes according to women's reproductive organs. Interesting. So bigger clitoris, are you saying, or something like that? I just, I meant what I said, to ask if there are similar changes occurring to women's reproductive organs. Okay, that would be a similar change. Is bigger external janitalia. They did not mention a clitoris anywhere in this article. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Do you have any other topics? No. Oh, this was

Tacey's time of topic. Yes. So, yeah, when I remember thinking, when I was a kid, I went to a

Boy Scout camp and we had, oh, by the way, did you ever have a Kaibo at your camp? No. We did.

It was called the Kaibo, K-Y-B-O was keep your bowels open, and it was basically the latrine, right?

And, but I remember that a walking by and seeing one of the adult counselors taking showers with the other kids. And I thought, when I'm older, I'm going to have this big giant penis that actually sticks out from my body, right? And the shower water will drip off of it.

Oh, goodness. Oh, no. And looking back on it, this counselor was in there with a big old hard on. Oh, that's really terrible. I know. Isn't that strange? You ruined my topic. Well, no, your topic time is over.

I'm just telling fun stories from my youth. Dr. Stephen's flashbacks. Oh, God. We're all going to be jaded from that story. That guy's stupid cock is burned in my brain from my brain from when I'm. I was like seven, seven, eight years old.

Lord. Oh, man. So I'm sure he was thinking about something else. Okay, well, moving on. I was on a show this week called Mom Swipes Left.

And it's two women Jen and Carol from Maine. And they have a somewhat fanatical audience. They've got this guy that's a, potato like Cardiff

As a matter of fact That's where Cardiff got the potato from But he's a potato underground And he does an after show to their show Called Palm Swipes After And then Cardiff started doing the potato Because he would do an after show To Palm's after show

Because Palm is just French for potato And he would do Palm Swipes After Palm Swipes After and then he kept the potato, and then the potato became Cardiff Electric, and now everybody thinks of him as the potato. But the truth is, Palm Swipes After was first. But anyway, fanatical fan. And I had a lot of fun on their show because they asked a lot of weird medicine questions. I mean, stuff that we used to get way back in the day,

back when this show was really weird medicine before COVID ruined it and it became a little bit more serious. And I've been wanting to kind of get back to doing more dicks and nuts and that kind of stuff. And it was basically an hour of those kinds of questions. So it was a blast. And they were really funny. And I think more people should probably be listening to them, at least listen to my episode, which will be up. Which will be awesome.

Which it should be up by the time you hear this. But anyway, so I said, why don't we do? do a bit where you guys call in every week and or, you know, whenever you have a notion and call in a weird medicine question and we'll plug your show and it'd be good for everybody. Cool. So it's, where did I put this thing? Okay, here it is. Here's their sweeper that I made this morning.

It's very rudimentary, but it'll just have to do. It's time for Mom Swipes Left has questions with Jen and Carol from the Mom Swipes Left podcast. Hey, Dr. Steve. Hey, Dr. Steve. It's Jen and Carol from Mom Swipes Left. We have a question for you. How common is it for a man to ejaculate with a little bit of blood in it? Like, is that a terrifying thing?

Wait, wait, wait. Pause. Yes. What? One time, someone in my life ejaculated and there was a little bit of blood in it. It's pinkish. That is nasty. Okay.

Okay. Let's not shame. I'm wondering. Yeah, let's not hematose spermia shame. I wanted to wait for you to be here since you and I have common interest in this question. How common that is, because I would imagine that if you get like smacked in the nuts or you move a wrong way, there's a lot of blood vessels in your in your nuts and stuff. Are nuts that sensitive? I think they might be.

That's what I'm asking you, Dr. Steep. How common is it for that to have? happen because most men ejaculate into a mouth or an ass or a pussy in that order. So you would never know. Right. Huh. Thanks, Dr. Steve. You're the best. No, thank you. That's a great question. So Tacey, you probably remember when this happened to me. Nope. Do you not? No. Wow. You really don't pay attention to you. It's okay. We were in Jamaica. And we had had Oh, I do. Okay.

Now you're, we were in Jamaica and we had had a session, if you know what I mean. And I noticed that there was some blood that was just sort of dripping into the turlet at the time. And I ended up, that's when I ended up having to have the fibro optic scope. Yes. So it is called hematospirmia, Dr. Scott's had it too. Did you, is that why you had it? Did you have hematospirmia? Why did you have the scope done?

Well, prosthetitis. Okay. Just to rule out any kind of prostate or blood or cancer. Yeah, but I certainly probably had some of that, too. Yeah. The good news is that the condition is usually benign. Yes. You would think blood in the semen would be a sign of something bad.

But you do have to exclude the bad things first. Yep. You do a physical exam, you do some laboratory eval. And then every once in a while, you get the old fiber optic tube shoved up your urethro. Sweet mother of pearl. Now, what my friends are telling me who have had this more recently. Uh-oh. Amber alert.

Yep. Okay. In another city altogether, so I hope the kid is okay. Pick him. The urologists are a little bit better about doing these things than they were when you and I did it. Because when you and I had it done, by the same guy, and I might have just been him. It might have been this technique, I'm thinking. Yeah.

And his desire to inflict pain on us, I would agree. He was a funny sort of guy that way. And he took numbing gel and put it on the end of this fiber optic tube. It was probably the size of maybe a cocktail, a cocktail straw. I was thinking more like a small finger. Oh, it's like that's what it felt like. It does feel that way. Bales, Jr.

You have a lot of, there's a whole lot of nerve endings in that part of the body. Yes, it was not fun. But it was, yeah, so, you know, you got a cocktail straw sort of flexible fiber optic scope. and he put numbing gel on the end of it and then just jammed it in my urethro through my... It takes 20 minutes for numbing gel to work. Thank you.

Give myself a bell. Son of a piece. How am I down now? That is correct. Well, I've got one. You won last time. That's true. Damn it.

But you... Yes, it doesn't... Absolutely nothing. It made them feel better. It doesn't make us feel better. And to the point that... that I was in so much discomfort. Now, again, Scott and I have talked about this before,

but we don't want to dissuade anyone from having this done. No. So it wasn't that bad, but it's fun to talk about how bad it was. But it was bad enough that when I left that place, I backed into somebody's car and I got out. And it was like I couldn't wait to get home because I felt like my urethra had razor blades, was lined with razor blades.

And I got out of the car, looked real quick, no damage, took off home. And then about an hour later, I got a knock on the door. And it's this police officer saying, did you hit somebody in the parking? It's like, yeah, but there wasn't any damage. Looking at that later, I think that somebody saw me hit the car, get out and look at the thing, and then take off. And then they told the person whose car it was, what my license was. And then they went, oh, yay, I can get this other light.

on the wrong side fixed by this guy's insurance company because it was the absolute there's no way in hell I could have hit that side of their car with my car but anyway so but I digress so and then it was it was totally normal so in men younger than 40 without risk factors and the risk factors would be history of cancer any sort of known problem of your Eurogenital system or any bleeding disorders, and in men with no associated

symptoms whatsoever, which was me, you know, hematospirmia is self-limited, requires no further evaluation. Every once in a while, they'll put you on an antibiotic just to make you feel like you're doing something. And, you know, many cases are attributable to sexually transmitted infections, but that wasn't my case. So it was just one. It was one and done.

Well, I mean, you know, Tacey's pretty... I was playing. Tacey's pretty clean. Yes, yes, yes. Anyway, so yeah, now if you have fevers or chills or bone pain or anything like that, then you've got to do something else. And, you know, but yeah, it's not that common, but it ain't that uncommon either. And to answer our other question, are the testicle sensitive the answer to be? Yes.

Yes, okay, well. Give ourselves a bell. Oh, there you go. Just to clear that up for, if there's anybody. Well, I think what she was saying is if you got kicked in the balls, would it make your sperm bleed? And the answer to that is most of the time, not. Most of them, no. Now, if you get kicked in the balls, it could give you epididymitis.

And that sucks. That sucks. That's why I had to stop bodybuilding because I started getting epididymitis. And every time I would lift and do the, you know, the Val Salva maneuver. Those 12-ounce curls were killing. Go fuck yourself. I was, I'm taking a bell away. No, no, no, don't debil me.

You see, you're stupid mind. Dang it. Stupid, stupid. Dang it. No, dude, I used to go with this guy. His name was Gary Lattah. He and I were both ham radio operators. He was in Durham, North Carolina.

And we would compete against each other at the gym. And we got to where we were curling the max on the dang machine, dude. And that's when we had to go to freeway. So I've got that, listen. I know you can't tell. You've got the 24-inch guns. I had, there's pictures of me holding my nieces up by my guns. And they weighed eight pounds each.

Exactly. Okay, all right. Okay, so we know there's no part of the story except for the, that could be true. Two ham radio operators lift weights, not a chance. One maybe, but not to. Oh, he deserves the bell for that. In the same city. Oh, man, you can't go back to my last show.

You can only take away from a few. future show that. Okay, whatever. All right. That was hilarious. That is true, though. We were in anomaly. But true, no, but true.

Whitelifting can certainly cause bleeding down there. Well, it certainly caused epididimitis for me. So, you know, I just got this horrible pain like I'd been kicked in the balls. Every time I went in and started lifting, you know, so, awful. There's this guy at the gym today. I'm going to start lifting again just so I can prove it, because I should pump back up pretty quickly, given that it's only been 15 50 years since I since I did this.

Let me tell you about this guy at the gym today. Okay. Yeah. He was doing dead weights. Yeah. Way too much weight. He couldn't handle it. Yeah.

Spitting everywhere in the middle of a pandemic. Spitting? Yeah. Like. Oh, you mean he was getting it up there and Yeah. Yeah. Spitting.

Just, and it was going miles. Oh, geez. So I probably have COVID now. And this is a chain. No, goodness sakes. Hmm? And this is a chain place. It's not some.

No, it's not a chain. Oh, it isn't? No. Okay, okay. Well, all right. I don't want to say the name. No. That's pretty gross.

Listen, if you're going to deadlift and stuff, stay within your weight. And don't spit everywhere. And then you won't spit. Yeah. You know. God, have you ever seen these monster dudes in the Olympics? Oh, gosh. It's amazing.

It's incredible. I love watching the strongest man in the universe contest where they carry those damn boulders and stuff. It's like, holy moly. Yeah, or logs. Or logs or whatever. Who cares? It's like cars. I couldn't move one with a fork truck.

I know, I know. Holy mo. It's amazing. It's like those guys are different species for most. Yeah, really. All right. Here's a good one. Tacey, you've got some ability to answer this one.

Oh. Hey, Dr. Steve and Dr. Scott. What's happening? What's up? Good to see you. We'll say how to Tasey. Hey, I have a question for you. Well, not COVID related.

How about that? Oh, thank you. So I was wondering, I have really bad GERD, and since they removed Vantac from the... Okay, when he says GERD, he means gastroesophageal, reflux disease. Most of the time, people, it manifests as heartburn. So, okay. Shels, or Rinnitadine. Yep.

I haven't been able to find anything that works. Do you know if they're going to try to bring that back without the cancer? Or they work on anything that you know of that you've seen in your journals. Hall of back. Hope you all are doing good. Thanks. Bye. Do you have any start?

Yeah, go. Please. I'll take the first. I'll take the first thing we always tell people is with GERD, any kind of heartburn. Start warm foods, warm drinks. You want the stomach to be warm. So the food moves through your stomach more quickly and less acid is produced in the stomach. So that will cut down a little bit.

And that's number one. Number two, for acute cases, or if you have it occasionally a little shot of mustard, down the old hatch, does help a little bit. Which is crazy, but I can attest that he is not wrong about this. It's not a cure, but it is a, it is. Give myself a bell. Yes. I'm only negative one now. Yes.

Back to a negative one. Oh, you're at zero. But so there are a couple things you can do, you can do to hopefully not have to take the medication. But sometimes you do have to take those medications. Yeah, yeah. And Dr. Dave, you got some of those? You know, well, Zantag was rinididine. And in like 2020, the FDA issued a recall of the over-the-counter versions of

renitadine, a generic name of Zantag. And I'm going to keep saying that because there's a reason, and you'll see in a second. They were, it didn't matter what company produced it. And the FDA said that there was cancer risk on all the versions that were out on. on the shelves. So they come out with a new name, Zantac 360, and it's back on the shelves. Oh, is it?

Yes, but... Did not know that. Zantac 360 is not rinididine. It is Fomododidine. Oh, Pepsid. So it's extremely deceptive in a way because Fomotidine is Pepsid. And did you just say that?

Yes. Did you just say Pepsit? Give thyself a... Okay, there you go. So... But he's taking H2 blockers when he could be taking an entirely different class of medication. Harken to thine inner voice and give thyself a bell.

Oh, another one. Suck it. She's on a roll, baby. She's a roll. Why don't you talk about that for a minute? By far more effective. And it's called a proton pump inhibitor. Yes.

Now, why is it that I'm going to pimp you on something about H. two blockers. Why is it that someone will take them and then they just find that they don't work anymore? It just gets tachyphylaxis. Harkin to thine inner voice and give thyself a bell.

Wow. Dang it. That is absolutely right. That's exactly the right answer. Hang it up, baby. Tackyphylaxis. It only blocks histamine, whereas a propon pump inhibitor blocks all three of them. Okay, I can't give you any more bells. You're absolutely right. Is you belled out?

Tacey Wands. All three of the acid producers in the stomach. Right. So there are pumps. There are quantum devices because a naked proton is a quantum object that is consisting of three quarks. And it's two up and one down or two down and one up. I can't remember. And I used to know that cold, but it's a positively charged quantum object.

Then those things are just basically waves in there. It's crazy that we have a device in our stomach that can take a quantum object before we even knew what the hell that was and move it from one place to the other the way it wants to do it. And when you pump protons into the stomach, you drop the pH. And so when you block those protons, you raise the pH and you decrease the amount of acid in the stomach. And the thing about them is, and Scott is not a fan. and I'm kind of not either. I wish I didn't have to take them. But once you get on them,

it is harder in hell to get off. It really is. You absolutely can't. And why is that so hard taste? There's a phenomenon. Because the relief is, I mean, they're just so effective. Well, that's true. And also, when you stop taking it, you get the rebound effect.

Well. Okay. Well, right now you know something about this. So tell me, is that a myth? I mean, we, we, I can't really. talk about that. Well, you, I mean, I'm not. Is there data that shows that the rebound phenomenon is not a real thing?

Because, you know, you can talk about that. No, I can't. So, I'm just saying. Yeah, go ahead. Don't be uncomfortable. Just say what you can say. It's fine. There's a reason why Tacey has to be careful.

Yeah, I do need to be careful. And I would say, though, if you are taking any heartburn medication at all, Yes. And it's not working for you. Try taking it 30 to 45 minutes before you eat. Okay. Because you need to fire those pumps up. Smelling the food, fires those pumps up.

You get more pumps alive. That's more pumps you can kill when you take the medication. Okay. Very interesting. So that is a lot of times patients medication would not work, and it's because they weren't taking it properly. Right. Right.

And that makes a big difference. The other, timing is everything with some drugs. Statins are that way. If you take a statin during the day, it won't do anything. It blocks statins block... Except for giving you neuropathy. Statens block a drug, an enzyme called HMG-K-A reductase, and you only produce that at night when you're not eating.

You know, it's when you don't eat that you produce that, and you want to block that to stop, making cholesterol. And if you take it during the day, because you're eating all day, you know, it doesn't work. So, so timing is, is very important. Timing is everything. And if he has not tried nexium or previsid or... Protonics? Is it over the counter? Yeah, pentoprasol. Yeah, there's an over-the-counter. I haven't paid attention. There's Lansoprosol, Pantoprasol, and Omeprosol. I don't know if ESOmeprazole is on the over-the-counter. Do you know? I guess it is.

Next him, yes. Yes, it is. So, but those doses are half of the doses that were prescribed. Correct. So, but, you know, you need to talk to your doctor before you take any of this stuff. Because you're only supposed to take it for a shortened amount of time. God, you just stole what I was going to say. And.

Keep going, Sister Preach. They take them and they take them and they take them and you can't get them off of it. And there could be something else going on. Right. So you need to talk to your doctor. Yep, I was waiting to zip in and say, if you take these for a short period of time and you continue to have symptoms, you've got to get checked out. Read the label, do what it says. Our thing used to be we would give it to people for six weeks, and if they still had symptoms, they had to get scoped.

Now people take these things for years and they don't tell their primary care that they're taking them because they're not prescription drugs, it's up my bottle, you know, at Walmart. and they forget or they just neglect to tell their primary care that they're taking those. Yeah. And so it's not on their med profile. Yeah. So they think they're fine. And if what you're taking over the counter is not working and you are taking a proton pump inhibitor, you need to go see your doctor because you can get a stronger dose of that.

And if it is working, you need to tell them that you're taking it. Exactly. When you go to see your primary care, you've got to tell them every single thing that you're taking, including supplements, because sometimes, like, any of your supplements or, you know, your traditional Chinese medications interfere with regular medications. Oh, they can, sure, can. Yeah, absolutely. Give us an example of that. Well, you know, they've shown tumor, curcumin is a little bit of a blood thinner.

So if somebody's going in for a spinal, like an epidural, pardon me, or a surgery, I'll have them stopped that before. Yeah. Just like you would have an aspirin. Yeah, they've got real physiological effects. Yep. So, yeah, tell them everything. All right. Hey, and I've got, I've got diesel. Diesel Child's got a good question that kind of parlays on to this subject.

Okay. If you're ready for one. Sure. He's just asking about his supplements. And the reason this does matter is because he's taking some astragalus black current oil and some other vitamins that you, the Dr. Steve, talked about for neurophton. He's wondering, does it matter if you take him at certain times of the day or evening, doesn't matter?

Just like we're talking about with regular medical prescription. medication, and the answer is, yes. Well, okay, well, some of yours, maybe. Yeah, certainly. Now, it depends, like the alpha-lipoic acid and those things for neuropathy. I've not seen any data that shows it matters when you take it. Yeah. The reason that you have to watch it for certain things, some medications are affected by food in the stomach.

Yes. And they won't absorb. Like a thyroid medicine. Okay. Yeah. And some antibiotics and stuff like that. So you, you know, if it says take it with food or take it in the absence of food, pay attention to that because that actually matters. Now, the other thing is, is you want to take your medications.

If there isn't any caveat against taking it with food or taking it at a certain time a day, you pretty much can take it any time you want with or without regard to food. But you want to take it at a time when you know you're going to, by God, actually. take it. And my thing is I take, if I have to take a twice a day drug, I'm probably not going to take it. I take all my medicines at night. My supplements, everything. I've got it once a day, that I can do. And I can be consistent with it. And that's funny, I'm the exact, I do all my 100% in the morning. Yeah, well, there you go. It's just all do it. And see, it doesn't matter. It's just do it the way that it's going to work for you. And I finally got one of those damn organizers because I got sick of opening up each bottle.

Oh, yeah. I take way more supplements than I take actual medication. Oh, me too. And so I put them all in one of those organizing, just plop it out in my hand and do it all in one fell swoop. So anyway, all right, very good. Did we answer that question? Who knows? Solidly?

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are you? Good. How are you? I'm good. Thank you. Oh, I'm glad. I have a medical question for you. Okay. Since all experts agree that laughter is the best medicine, would you be able to write a prescription so that my fans, I mean, patients, can send my Patreon bills to their insurance.

Patreon.com slash Cardiff Electric. Very good. Thank you. I'm in favor of that. I do think laughter is the best medicine. It certainly helped me with my depression in the past. And, you know, there's, you ever heard of Norman Cousins? He was a journalist.

And he wrote a book called Anatomy of an Illness. and what this deal was is, I think Norman Cousins had ankylosing spondylides. You want to tell people what that's... Well, angloosing is an arthritic condition where a lot of the bones in your spinal column and your ribs

and even your sternum will fuse together. Yes, that's exactly right. And they become one big, hard bone. Just, you give yourself a bell. People are going to get sick of me. You're playing it. Bail. That's exactly true. No, you have to play it. Okay. I'm still losing. Give myself a bell.

Yes. Thank you, Dr. Steve. Thank you. All right. And so he couldn't sleep. And so what he started doing was watching 10-minute intervals of things like the Merck's brothers and things that he found funny. And he said that laughing for 10 minutes would let him sleep for two hours at a time. Even with that terrible pain. Even with the terrible pain.

Yeah. As early as the 13th century, doctors used laughter to relieve pain during surgery. I'd like to see. We're going to do treffination now. And by the way, you know, knock knock. Treffination, by the way, is where they would relieve migraines by knocking a hole in your head with an axe. So it's very delightful. Let's see.

Try not to move. Try to hold still. Right. We don't want to miss. Yeah. And then, you know, at pediatric hospitals, they've got people. people running around and doing jokes and stuff. And when I do my, I do living wills with patients and stuff,

medical advance care plans. And a lot of times they dread it because they think it's going to be morbid and we're going to be talking about death and dying. All of my patients leave laughing at some point. And then they'll go, wow, this was way better than I thought it was. You know? And so it goes by faster, try to lighten it up. It's not like I'm, you know, making stupid gallows joke.

It's just trying to be naturally like we are with everybody, just joking and making it a little bit more lighthearted because it actually is just to just normalize it. And I think that works in medicine. Most of my patients appreciate the fact that, you know, I'll goof around, but I'm serious when I need to be serious. But we'll goof around a little bit too. And if nobody's ever seen it, there's some great YouTube videos, laughing yoga classes. Oh, really? For people who really don't feel well, there's actually laughing. yoga classes and I'm pretty sure it's laughing yoga it's it's almost impossible to watch

it and not start laughing really yeah well you know laughter does have physiological effects sure and one of the things is is it lowers cortisol levels and cortisol is a stress hormone so lowering it decreases your body's blood pressure and if you do it long enough it can decrease fat in your abdomen and stuff like that I'm not saying laugh to lose weight but And there is some evidence that laughter strengthens your immune system because it increases the production of antibodies in saliva, you know, and that's pretty interesting. Yeah, yeah, pretty interesting. They have a little bit of help, Dr. Dave. So very good.

Tried to derail my show, Mr. Cardiff. Good luck. But the laugh is on you. Yeah, the laugh is on you. Because I turn it into a serious answer. That's right. Wait a minute. That's okay.

I fucked up. Okay, there we go. Dr. Steve, I have a COVID-related question for you. Okay. My wife tested positives for COVID. We're doing our best to quarantine from one another. Yes. But she's craving some personal contact.

Okay. So can she get me COVID from a blowjob? Oh, she's craving personal contact. Mm-hmm. Tacey, have you ever craved personal conduct so much that you wanted, you just couldn't wait to give a guy a blowjob? No, I have not. But, you know, we're all different. Okay, so yeah, I guess maybe it's possible that she's really craving to give him a blowjob.

But the only thing we can do is give you the new updated rules, because I'm not going to say yay or nay to this other than quoting the rules. because if I do anything else, then we're going to get deplatformed. And really, I could give bad advice either way and then have there be a problem. So, you know, if you test positive, you have to follow isolation, recommendations. And you can see this at cdc.gov slash coronavirus.

So day one is the first full day after you had symptoms. if you had symptoms. Otherwise, day one is the first day following the day you were tested. So day zero would be the day you tested positive. I'm sorry, that you were tested, and then if you tested positive, three days later, like if you did it at CVS, you get the result three days later, day zero is still the day that you got tested. Okay?

Does that make sense? Am I making sense? You go through the line at CVS on Monday. You get tested. You don't get the results back until. Thursday, day zero is still the day that you got tested, not the day that you got the test back. But if you have home test and you test positive, it's pretty easy. So day zero is the day you were tested if you took the home test or any day that you take

any test. And then if you have symptoms, day zero is the day of symptom onset. So either the day you got tested or the day you had symptoms. symptoms. So let's say you had symptoms on Monday, but you don't test yourself until Wednesday and then you're positive. Day zero is still the day is still Monday. Okay. Now, if you test positive for COVID, stay home for five days and isolate from others in your home. We did that by, I put up a barrier in our guest room and I had a bathroom and I had you had access to the studio. And I had access to the studio as well.

And so that was great. And then you're likely most infectious during those five days. So if you have to be around others, wear a high-quality mask. Don't go to places where you're unable to wear a mask. And don't travel. I mean, come on. Stay home, separate from others as much as possible. If you can, use a separate bathroom.

And don't share a personal household items like towels and utensils. Okay. Now, monitor yourself, make sure you're not getting sick, sick, because then you've got to go to the hospital. Now, you can end your isolation. If you had no symptoms, you end isolation after day five. If you had symptoms and your symptoms are improving, you end isolation after day five if you're fever-free for 24 hours. Okay. Now, if they're not improving, you've got to continue to isolate until that is true when you're fever-free for 24 hours and your symptoms.

are improving, okay? And if you had moderate illness, you ended up, you know, probably going to the hospital. You got to isolate through day 10, and they'll tell you that at the hospital. So, okay. All right. So there you go. And I did you notice that blowjob isn't in that equation. No, it's not anywhere. No. So that's the best I can tell you, dude. You guys got to do what you got. I'm just telling you what the CDC says. All right. Here's an interesting one. I think we've got time for this.

Oh, well, let's do this one first. This one's important. I just call them to say, I really like Stacey Deloch, and I like him to keep my own calling. I was just calling a few weeks ago and said, they're not Stacey Deloach, but I like him. I want to keep my calm, have him on the show for more, and I'll watch you know. Well, there you go. There you go. There you go.

Stacey. Stacey. He always says that we always just only played the bad calls that don't like him. I will play 100% I have played 100% of the calls that call people say that they like Every single one

Every single one Every single one That's just every single one Way to go Stacy There you go But we like Stacy He's forgiven He was very naughty

And he has paid his penance But he brings treats so it's okay Yes and he does He's a good boy So all right Steve, Rob, from Akron, Ohio once again. Hey, Rob. I got a question.

I was traveling this week, and, oddly enough, I met two individuals who claimed their wives had got new cancer, breast cancer specifically, and then instead of going to chemo, they chose to go with the control. Did he say they died? No. They got breast cancer. Okay. Cancer, breast cancer specifically.

Oddly enough, I met two individuals who claimed their wives had gotten you cancer, breast cancer specifically. And then instead of going to chemo, they chose to go with a controlling with diet. And if they're healthy and they're in remission, that's great. Oh, okay. What got me to think, like, is there odds of someone being diagnosed with, say, a breast cancer, and then not doing any treatment or changing lifestyle and recovering?

Because there seems to be a causal if they're obviously better. I'm happy for them. Yeah, me too. Was that something that could have happened without the changes in diet? Oh, no. Also, is there any evidence that diet changes, like reducing the sugar? and things like that. Is there any study that shows it, I guess,

is a positive outcome that actually makes it meaningful? Yeah. Okay. So we've got to be, first off, there's lots of data that shows that Western medical approach to cancer care, although it can suck, has a decent, and particularly the earlier you catch it,

decent track record at producing cures if you catch it early. We're working on what happens if you catch it late with this car T-cell therapy and stuff like that. But let's just talk about catching it early. When I am concerned about, when I hear these stories, people go, well, I feel better. And they probably do feel better if they're eating better and all that kind of stuff. But is the cancer smoldering and they're not aware of it? Are they keeping up with surveillance?

So if, listen, it's a free country, you do whatever you want to do, there can be consequences both ways. If you don't do well or if you've got a genetic predisposition to doing poorly with things like five fluorolyuricil and things like that. Yeah, for medication, sure. Then you wish that you'd never seen the chemotherapy suite. But those people are few and far between. It's, you know, it's so rare that I've only seen that. twice in my career. But it's free country just as long as you know the risk benefits and alternatives and

know what the odds are. So now, let's do talk about how you can improve things if you get cancer by doing some lifestyle things and standard treatment too. And again, prevention is the key and catching things early is the key. So if you're a woman, examine your breast, get your, PEP smear's done. If you're 45, get your colonoscopy done. We're going to be talking about Tacey's colonoscopy next week.

And those kinds of things. So, okay, that out of the way. Dietary saturated fat from high fat dairy products is associated with increased breast cancer mortality. So if you want to decrease your odds of mortality from breast. Breast cancer, avoiding those things may be the way to go. Soy products have not been found to increase breast cancer recurrence and may actually reduce it. People are worried about soy because there's, you know, it has estrogen in it. That's not true.

They have soy isoflavones, which have some estrogen-like activity, but they're not estrogen. And actually, the studies that I've looked at show that those things do not increase your risk. and, again, may actually decrease your risk of recurrence if you've had, like, stage two breast cancer, gone through the red devil treatment and lumpectomy or mastectomy, whatever you had, and then, you know, and then did surveillance after that. So soy products probably, you know, are beneficial. Western-style diets, high-in processed grains, processed meats, processed meats, and red meat, and prudent diets. that's high in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and chicken had similar rates of breast cancer recurrence. So you're really just switching to a more, more what, quote, unquote, healthy diet may not be enough to do it, you know, but avoiding dietary saturated fat, which sucks because one of those is butter. And increasing soy products may be helpful.

physical activity can reduce breast cancer mortality by about 40% and has the most powerful effect of any lifestyle factor on breast cancer outcomes. Tacey's the strongest woman I've ever met. If breast cancer comes within 10 feet or her, it might as well just run. She'll knock it out. She's going to beat its ass. They'll knock it out.

Now, they do recommend 150 minutes a week of physical activity and less than 13% of patients with that. breast cancer actually get that form. And weight management. So patients who are obese or overweight at breast cancer diagnosis have a poorer prognosis. There are some cancers that being overweight is actually beneficial. Well, beneficial, they live longer. Okay, okay.

It is possible for patients to attain meaningful weight loss, but there's a few data on whether this actually improves breast cancer outcome. So if you're already heavy when you get the breast cancer, there's not data showing that if you then turn around and lose the weight, that's going to fix things. Gotcha. Now, they do know that weight gain during or after breast cancer treatment increases the risk of recurrence, reduces survival. And that is irrespective of baseline body mass index.

So if you get breast cancer, one thing you really don't want to do is go, well, hell, I can just, you know, I'm just going to. Smoke it up, eat it up, drink it up. Yeah, do what you can to not gain weight. You don't want to lose a lot of weight either, so it is kind of a fine line, but that's an interesting study. And anyway, obviously smoking sucks, and if you smoke, you're more likely to have reduced long-term prognosis with breast cancer. and those who quit smoking after a diagnosis have higher overall survival. So if you smoke and you get breast cancer, we've talked about some things you can do.

A big one is quit smoking. So exercise, oh, quit smoking. Oh, you know, check your stupid nuts for lumps doesn't apply, but all the things that we talk about, get off your ass and get some exercise. And we'll see you in one week for the next edition of weird medicine. So all of that makes a big difference. not a lot of consistent data on alcohol. So, you know, limiting alcohol consumption, however, to one or fewer drinks a day reduces the risk of a second primary breast cancer.

Well, you haven't had the first primary. So, you know, God forbid, if you had a primary breast cancer, then reducing your alcohol consumption to one or fewer drinks a day will reduce. the risk, doesn't make it zero, but reduces the risk of getting a second breast cancer that's independent of the first one. All right. And then moderate increases in dietary vitamin C may, may reduce breast cancer mortality, but that was a non-randomized trial, so we're looking for randomized data on that. Vitamin E doesn't seem to have any effect.

and again, low levels of vitamin D at diagnosis are associated with a greater risk of breast cancer mortality, but this may be a marker rather than a cause because there isn't any data that shows that if you take vitamin D supplements, that it seems to make any difference. All right, you got anything else? What are you guys looking at over there? The end of the show.

Whispering amongst yourselves. The end of the show. Did you think we would make it to the end of the show? How many times did we get interrupted? I mean, a million. Yeah. Hopefully it's not too painfully obvious to those listening. Well, it looks like we've got one more in the waiting room.

And actually, it's Patty. Let's listen to this one. Hey, Dr. Steve, it's peppermint Patty. Wait, we did do this. How are you? Good. How are you? She's got yo-yo.

Yo-yo. Y.C., how are you? And P.A. Lydia. Hello. Hello. Hello. I have a question. Pardon me. I've had two severe close-set injuries and headaches that don't stop.

Certain medications I've been able to manage those. However, I do get from time to time these splashing light ribbon of light type things that aren't always preceded with a migraine. often they are but not always here is my question I looked up to see what this was about and what I read on Google

I don't know how you say this so pardon me while I butcher this the bitcher virtuoshas oh yeah I'm sorry vitreous yeah vitreous clearly here's my question because a lot of people deal with headaches.

When do you know, like, okay, not to worry about this, and when do you know to worry about it? Yes, excellent question. Because if someone who suffers from headaches and migraines, a fairly consistent basis, most of them, I don't worry about it, but I'm like, when do you worry about it? That's a great question. So, when do you worry about something like this? I don't know. So if you've had migraines your whole life and you always get the ocular migraine, which is the flashing sort of marquee lights in the upper outer quadrants of your vision, whether it's associated with a headache or not, sometimes it will be, sometimes it won't be. And it's thought to be decreased blood flow to certain parts of the brain where the visual cortex is understanding signals from the outside.

And when you get spasm of these arteries and then you get dilation of the artery, that's when the artery starts to relax, that's when you get the pounding headache because the arteries are dilated and the body thinks that they're ripping, even though they're not. And that pulsation that you get from the heartbeat

causes a pounding headache. But sometimes you just get the ocular, flashes and but you don't get any headache with it. And if you've been having those since you were 18, the first time it happened, you probably got checked out. Yes. I remember seeing people that were 17, 18 years old that had numbness in their left arm, and that could be associated with migraine as well.

And so once they figure it out, well, that's just my migraine. And take their migraine mess. But if you have something different where you get a flammal, you know, that's just my migraine. You know, shooting light in your eye, one side or the other. That can be a sign that the vitreous, which is the gel-like, very clear jelly that's in the eye that transmits light from the outside to the inside to the retina, has pulled away from the retina, and it's actually tearing the retina. If you have that like lightning flashes, especially when you move your eye a certain direction, that is an emergency. get that checked out. So the big thing is, is it different? Is it something that you've had checked out before? And now this is different or is it the first time you ever had it? So we used

to talk about sex headaches on this show back when we did interesting questions. And not that Patty says, I don't mean that. I'm talking about it in general. People would call in saying every time I bust a nut, I get this horrendous headache. Well, you know, we're always told when you the worst headache of your life, you need to get it checked, right? And then after that, if it happens every time you bust a nut and they've told you this is a sex headache, you can ignore it after that to the best of your belly or take the medication that you're supposed to take to prevent it. So same thing with blood in the stool.

If you see blood in your stool, Dr. Steve's rule of blood in the stool is the first time that you see it, you got to get it checked out. It's the first time you have blood in your semen, get it checked out. The first time you have a bloody nose as an adult, get it checked out. Make sure that it isn't anything more serious. And then once they tell you, no, it's your hemorrhoid, or it's totally benign and then you hit somebody's car and the cops come after you, or you know, have whatever test and they say it's completely benign.

You don't have to worry about it. then you can ignore it. So that's the answer, is if you don't recognize this symptom and it's something weird like that, get it checked out. And if it's something you've had over and over again, then you feel pretty confident.

That's what it is that you can ignore it if you've been told that you can ignore it. Okay? All right. All right. Anything else? No. No.

Excellent question, Patty. Sorry it took a long for us to get to it. Thanks to everyone at in our shit. Thank you.