Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 568 - Fooled Again

Episode Date: November 30, 2023

Dr Steve, Dr Scott, and Tacie discuss: We got fooled again by the "large breasts = exercise" story. AGAIN. I think I just wanted it to be true also dextromethorphan and athletics natural variation in human genomes cure for swampa$$ balanitis (inflammation of the "roman war helmet") fun facts and more! Please visit: stuff.doctorsteve.com (for all your online shopping needs!) ed.doctorsteve.com (for your discount on the Phoenix device for erectile dysfunction) simplyherbals.net/cbd-sinus-rinse (the best he's ever made. Seriously.) RIGHT NOW GET A NEW DISCOUNT ON THE ROADIE 3 ROBOTIC TUNER! roadie.doctorsteve.com (the greatest gift for a guitarist or bassist! The robotic tuner!) see it here: stuff.doctorsteve.com/#roadie Also don't forget: Cameo.com/weirdmedicine (Book your old pal right now because he's 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

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So, well, we can talk about it now, actually. So I was at my wellness retreat. This is the first time we've gotten together since I went to my wellness retreat. Right. And it was actually quite delightful. I went to a place called Skytera Wellness in Pizga Forest, North Kakalak, Alaska. It's right between Asheville and Brevard, which is where I grew up. I mean, I grew up in Cashers, North Carolina.

It's not cashiers. If you say cashiers, we know you're a fucking tourist. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Now it's cashers. So if you ever want to go there and not sound like a tourist, pronounce it correctly, thank you. It's just like Bahama is pronounced. It's spelled Bahama, but it's Bahama. No, it's not.

Yeah. Is it really? Yeah. Well, that's a good thing. I've never been there. They kick me out as it. They sure would. I mean, well, my God, I've made it to the Bahamas.

Right. No, it's Bahama. And then we have Buck Cannon County here. It's not Buchanan. Buck Cannon. That is very true. Buck Cannon. Okay, Tase.

Well, Tacey knows how to pronounce this, but H-A-Y-S-I. Just how would you pronounce that? That is a town in Virginia. Hey, sir. Correct. Yes. Give myself a bell. I was giving the audience a minute.

Yes. You're correct. It is Haysai. When I first thought it, I saw it, I thought it was Hasey or something like that. Yeah. Haysah. Flat eye. Hesai. Yeah. Used to be part of my territory.

I know. That's how I knew you would know. But anyway, yeah. So, yeah, sometimes we pronounce our town names in a way to distinguish ourselves from people who ain't from around here. That's a little bit of code word. So just so you know. All right. But anyway, yeah, my CBD story.

So I'm at Skytera Wellness, and you check in, you do all this stuff. And then the first day, I'm going to a fitness class. And it was called Outdoor Circuit, where you did all these different things for X number of minutes. And they were basically trying to kill you. And the first exercise of the first day, the first actual kick, and what we had to do was, we were just warming up, we weren't even doing the exercises yet, where you had to see if you could kick your ass with your heels, right?

So you're jumping up and down, and I tear my soleus muscle. Oh, the soleus muscle for people who don't know is a muscle behind the gastronomias. And the gastronemias is named because it looks like a stomach. It's the big muscle of the calf, the belly. That's right. It looks like a belly. And there is a muscle nestled underneath that that helps to point your toes and do some other things.

And it's called the soleus muscle. and I ripped, did a partial tear of it. Basically, we'll call that a strain, but that's what it is, is you're ripping muscle fibers. How did I know? Because I've done this once before. And I asked him, you know, I was proud of myself. I didn't just lay down and go, oh, you know, I hurt myself.

I pushed that fucking sled, and it had like a 200-pound weight on it or whatever. It was this big giant dumbbell weight that they put down on it. and he had to push that back and forth. And my partner, his name was John, and he was a monster. This guy, it's like, why are you here? He runs 5Ks. He was just, you know, he does all this physical fitness stuff. He's in the gym all the time.

I was like, dude, why are you even here? But so he was a monster. And then we had to do those damn battle ropes. You ever done those frigging things? Yep. They suck. It looks easy. It's like, oh, you just do a rope up and down?

It's like I... It seemed pretty heavy. It was horrible. Yeah, man. And I found that if I leaned back and just kind of move my arms up and down, I could make it look like I was doing something. And, of course, they caught me. It said, no, you got to, you know, bend your knees and do it just with isolate your arms. Tighten your abdomen.

Good posture. And then we were doing the Batman thing from Batman v. Superman, where Ben, Ben, Affleck was taking these giant tires and flipping them over and stuff. So he had to do that. And then there were some other things. But I was in 10 out of 10 pain that whole time. I mean, it was awful. But I wasn't going to stop.

I still had function, so I knew I hadn't completely ripped all the way through. And so here's where the CBD comes in. So that evening, Tacey had gotten me for my birthday. And thank you for this because you saved my life. for my birthday had gotten me a massage. And I go in there, and I'm limping in, and I tell this lady, you know, I'm miserable. I ripped a muscle in my leg, and she said, do you mind if I work on it? It's like, please do.

And she got these, you got me down doing massagey things, and then she's going to hit that leg, and she got these hot rocks. Now, when you look at the pictures, the pictures are always static. They just have the hot rocks laying on you. I always thought they took hot rocks and just laid them on your back and just left them there. Yeah, me too. Well, no, they mush them up and down like you do with your cupping and stuff, where you move the fash around. Yeah, sure.

And so she said, do you mind if I use some CBD oil with this? And I'm like, believe. Mine. Yes. What's right? Yes, of course. I would demand it. I thought you'd never ask.

So she put that all over my leg and just wanked up and down just as hard as she could. And she's like, does that hurt? And it's like, yeah, it hurts real good. And I was, I've never really had a massage. I guess Tacey and I did a couple's massage a million years ago. And I don't remember anything about it. This is the first massage I've had just by myself. And I was very impressed.

It actually was therapeutic. I walked out of there, not pain-free, but not limping. And then the next day I saw the physical therapist, and what did he do, Scott? He dry-needled me. Of course he did. And you do that, right? I do, yeah. And he dry-needled it and put some electricity on it.

I put on my Twitter video of it where you could see my toes twitching every time the electrical impulses would hit. And then he, so she got it from what was about an eight down to a four, which was perfectly, manageable and then he got it from a four down to a one and I was good the rest of the time oh cool so yeah I'm a believer in massage therapy now as long as you get somebody who knows what the hell they're doing yep and that dry needling really you know just to break up because tell tell them what happens when you do something like that you get inflammation and then what happens and then tell them what the dry needling does go ahead yeah so you've got inflammation and the muscles are not moving normally through their normal space.

Correct. And anything that's in anything you're trying to move past that joint, which is your foot, you know, makes it really painful. And you get a little micro adhesions. Yeah, micro adhesions. You have tears. You have microedhesion. A little scarring is occurring.

So the benefit of the, of this fascial kind of movement that she was doing with hot rocks. Very similar to the, what we, you've also heard the term guasha, which is where they take out. Oh, I've never heard that. Yeah, it's an instrument. Yeah, it's an instrument. It's a scraping. The boomerang. It's like a scraping tool.

It has a name. I just thought it was a little boomerang tool. It's guasha, it's the technique. But you're actually scraped the muscle in the fashion with the skin. I told them that. That's very similar to what you're describing. My physical therapist before did that, and he went one of these, and he pulled that out and did that shit, too. Yeah, so it's a...

Guasha, how do that? Guasha, it's a pretty, it can be pretty uncomfortable. No, it hurts good. Yeah, but if it's, if it hurts so good. How do you spell that? G-U-A-S-H-H-A, G-G-U-A-G-G-A-G-G-. Is it one word? Yeah, no two words, guasha.

Oh, this is, okay. So, yeah, so what you're doing is you're trying to. Here's a white jade guasha gem from Herbal Academy. Well, there you go. Oh, hi. I have your white jade guasha jam. Oh, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

White jade, $40. I'll take plastic, please. Oh, here's a glow one. Yep. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. the shapes and sizes. Quasha, traditional Chinese healing method,

which train professional sometimes, uses a smooth edge tool to stroke your skin. Stroking would be a... The motion raises small red rash-like dots that show under your skin called patechiai. Wow, that means they really hit you up pretty hard. They've hit you hard, yeah. When you do it, do you bring up patiquiae?

Depending, yeah, depending on what I've done. doing and what I'm trying to accomplish. And if it's something that's really super acute like what you had, so in other words, you just had the injury, then what we would do is be a little bit more aggressive and try to keep those adhesions from occurring to stop the muscles from developing little scars to stop your range of motion from being impaired. So I think, and just guessing, but what they're trying to do with the dry kneeling and the stone was to get the inflammation out of you, number one, and to stop the adhesions from occurring

or mobilize adhesions that were already starting. Right, yeah, just don't let them get any worse. Or mobilize fluid. And that should help with the pain ultimately. Because I think that's one thing, it becomes a little trouble to explain is that we're not necessarily when you're talking about getting rid of inflammation. People say, well, I want my pain gone.

Well, we want the pain gone too. But before the pain goes away, sometimes we have to increase range of motions and sometimes we have to decrease scarring. We have to do these things. So the amount of pain that they induce It actually, I mean, it felt good. It's weird. It's weird to say that.

Well, and, you know, Dr. Stephen, from a different kind of a different physiological approach on that, too, would be that causing an extra amount of pain is going to override the pain that you're currently having, which gives, it's called the fatigue gated channel theory. But you're, that's one of the theories behind acupuncture, too. Yeah. And, yeah, and so what we're trying to do is stimulate enough information to the spinal cord says, hey, sorry. Yeah, I can't. There's nothing. I can't. You guys turn that off because it doesn't matter anymore.

Yeah. And that's, and that may be kind of what they're doing, too. But, you know, the dry-nadling and acupuncture are similar. You know, dry-nealing is acupuncture without electrical stimulation. Yeah. It's pretty much what that is. And what you'll do in dry-en-ing-well, he did electrical stimulation, though. So just to some of them.

Just to stimulate the muscle. Different states, different laws. Okay. Some states, the physical therapist, cannot put electrical stimulation on a needle. Well, is that right? Because then it's not dry- needling anymore. Now it's electric acupuncture. Oh. So, so I'm

not saying they did anything wrong. I don't know those, the law. He didn't get it. He was awesome. He was awesome, yes. But I mean, that needle went way the hell in there. Actually, it threw the gastronomius end of my soleus muscle. It's got to go deep. Yeah. And I mean, you know, I've got some of three and four and five inches long. But, you know, once you get through the, once you pierce the skin, if it didn't hurt, then you're probably not going to have much discomfort until you hit a

trigger point. And then then you're going to feel this, this, this explosion of of energy, this muscles because the muscle goes, hey, what the hell is going on here? Okay. And then with the dry needle, what you'll see sometimes is they'll twist the needle or spin the needle because it turns those muscle fibers

deep inside and causes them to get really tight, and then you jog it in and out a little bit. It releases. Then turn it back the other way and you pull it out and it kind of releases the muscle spasm. Well, it really worked. Oh, heck yeah. No, I think it's wonderful. So I was very happy. The guy's name was Lee and he's a physical therapist from

Asheville, North Carolina, and I really appreciate it. Sounds like it. I mean, and to be honest with you, Dr. Steve, you know as well as that of getting to some of deeper muscles is a real art. Yeah. Because unless you've got ultrasound, you know, guidance or something. No, he knew as an anatomy. That's what I said, you have to know your anatomy. I mean, that's why it's so vital to have some money that's really trained

and knows. The other thing that was cool was I knew this trick, but he knew how to isolate my soleus muscles so he could tell the difference between the gastronomiumius and the soleus by having me bend my leg and putting certain amount of pressure on my on my foot and it's like no that's the and that's why I love physical therapy yeah yeah that's why I think physical therapists have such

a great knowledge of of anatomy and certainly much more so physiology yeah yeah then the rest of us have yeah yeah yeah which is what they do they should know about that it's very impressed so that's pretty awesome by the way I got you and me a gig playing music for the Friday night bonfire there one night if we want to it's you know it's a two hours each way because this include a couples massage? No. Dang it. I was going to say if there was a couples massage, I'm in, man.

Damn it. You got a fucking idiot. Why didn't I think of that? I know it. Damn, man. So we get a double time to know. We can have a couples massage and then play some music and out by the bonfire.

Yeah, that would be fun. With the afterglow. Yeah. I think it sounds great. Yeah, it would be fun. The place sounds pretty special. Yeah, it was pretty cool. That's good stuff.

I'd love to give something back. They do a podcast. too. So I'm going to talk to one of the guys about doing a podcast with him on virtual meditation. Oh, yeah. Through the trip app. By the way, I did use my trip app when I was there and it was amazing. I demonstrated it for a few people. I had this lady from New Orleans and she was 70. Didn't look anywhere close to 70, but she was very progressive in her ideas and she wanted to try it. So we sat outside of my place. had internet out there because with the virtual reality helmet it's nice to be outside because

you can create a really large area that you can walk around and stuff cool and and she did it and you know I did it for two or three people just wanted to try it and yeah it was pretty neat that's awesome it sounds like so yeah I would love to go over there and play that sounds like a whole lot of fun yeah it would be fun so do you have like your own little apartment or a little hotel room Kind of house. Oh, house. Wow, okay. Yeah, there's a bunch of duplexes, and it looks kind of rustic from the outside.

But when you go in, even Tacey would go, hey, yeah, I could stay here. Oh, wow. It was really, really nice kind of, because Tacey's picky about her lodging. Oh, yeah. She's a glam. It was great A. Glam. Glam queen.

And the food was amazing. Not just tasty. It really was, but they turned me around on some. things. I realized that I've been protein deficient all this time. Because a guy, one of the nutritionists had us calculate how much protein we're supposed to be getting every day based on our basal metabolic rate. And it was like, oh, crap, I don't ever come close to that. So, what really suggesting as far as adding proteins? What kind of proteins? Well, you know, it depends. If you're pescatarian, you'd have to add fish. But he said, listen, a lot of people have

trouble. So he recommended some way protein supplements. Okay. You know, I'm cool with chicken, and I'm cool with red meat every once in a while. So, you know, first night back I made Tacey their flat iron steak recipe, which is pretty fabulous. Yeah, it was fabulous. And, you know, I made scallops last night and stuff, and, you know, just kind of changing it up. Because what was happening was we were, and we'll move on to questions here in a second. I know everybody's bored with this, but what we were doing is I was cooking the same. same shit every night and we were getting bored

of it. It's like, oh, let's just, let's just order out. And that is a death terrible idea. Plus, I, you know, I got a minimum of 10,000 steps in every day at that place. Isn't it wonderful, though? Yes, and let me tell you what, here's the thing. But it takes time to do it. That's the

problem. I don't even care about that is I had a purpose because I was walking from my house to the clubhouse or clubhouse, you know, where all the activities were back to my house, back to the clubhouse, down to the the swimming pool, which they called the natatorium, up to the, you know, outdoor aerial yoga place and all this stuff. And, you know, I had places to go, and then I had to be, you know, and I didn't mind it because I had a purpose.

Well, I realized I can't stand is going to the track and walking around and around and around eight times. That's bullshit. That's tough. I get one done, and I'm like, you know, are we done yet? So I'm going to start playing tennis with Mike Archdeacon Okay Chef Mike for those who would go way back That was lawyer bitch's ex-husband

Now ex- Or lawyer's bitch Well that was her name That was her own name for herself Oh it was okay I'm sorry No no no I wouldn't just call her that Yeah I thought you were just making it It's like me calling your ex-wife the doctor bitch I wouldn't do that

Oh she would agree I wouldn't have her permission mission but no lawyer bitch they were going to do a podcast lawyer bitch and the chef and then you know things oh i love it no but anyway um yeah so uh so i'm going to do that because that i'll do there's a purpose to it i can schedule it it's fun i'll take the dogs for a walk i took them to you know anyway nobody gives a shit um what i'm what i'm up to but anyway but yeah so it was fun but the CBD was amazing. So thank you.

Oh, gosh. Oh, I've already forgot her name. Tacey? No. Oh, that's horrible. Diane, Diane. Different Diane. All right.

Now, what we were doing back in the day before I left. Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. And we should probably talk about ketamine, too, at some point. I talked about it every night on my, on my, um, live streams so you can go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine go to live streams I live streamed every night from there

tried to get the coyotes on video could not get it done every time they would start their shit I would run out and they would shut up oh yeah I just couldn't I couldn't fool them but anyway Tacey's got some topics we can talk a little ketamine and then we're still back in 2014 clearing up old phone calls and we're going to get up to where COVID

starts and I'm deleting all the COVID calls. Yeah, that sounds good. But at 2014, we know there won't be any COVID calls. Right home. All right. Okay, here we go. 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. Well, hello, everyone. Hello, Tacey. Doctors say looking at Busty women for 10 minutes a day is good for your health. Wait, looking at what kind of women? Busty.

Hmm. Okay. Staring at Busty women can lengthen your life. A German study published in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that staring at women's breast for a few minutes daily is better for your health than going to the gym. Excuse me, this was in the New England Journal of Medicine. That's what it says. What? And I just paid all this money to go.

to Skytera, I could just be looking at boobs. Yeah. Well, you do that anyway. It's as good. No, I don't just stare at them. What, um, what, how many minutes of gym time is it like? Well, just 10 minutes of looking at the charms of well-endowed females is equivalent to a 30-minute aerobic workout. Yeah.

Wow. I'm in. The research teams, who saw that going on? Spent five years monitoring the effects of this unique discovery. The men who were told to stare at bosons daily I'm going to guarantee you it was a bunch of guys did to study. I'd like to see who did to study. Yeah. Had lower blood pressure and lower breasting pulse rates and also decreased their risk of coronary artery disease.

Did you say breasting heart rate? Because I think you did say that. I might have. There is no question. Gazing at large breasts makes men healthier. Nice. Men over 40 should spend at least 10 minutes daily admiring breast. size D cup or large

What the hell? That's okay So the doctor set up Oh my gosh Okay So where? Just anywhere? Should I go out in the

In public? I mean you've got them right here Mm-hmm YouTube That's true That's true Topic number two Hmm

That was the end of that I guess How much exercise Do we not have to you know? 30 minutes That's okay Of aerobic activity Huh

Yeah I think that's pre-reduction mammoplasty taste No it isn't I wish that were true Tacey's the only woman that had a reduction mammoplasty Her boobs grew back Oh geez They're still not as Ginormous as they were

Ridiculous Okay Topic number two Scientists discover path to treating pain Without addictive opioids Okay Stare at boobs for 10 minutes today. So just bear with me on this one.

Instead of taking a 10 milligram hydrocodone, you can just stare at boobs for 10 minutes. Yeah, there you go. Perfect. Sounds very similar to what I just said. Yeah, we can test that. Overdoses, including prescription opioids, heroin, and synthetic opioids like fentanyl, killed more than 80,000 people in the U.S., and nearly 88% in 2021, and nearly 88% of those deaths involved synthetic opioids.

opioids in the journal neuron from the university of chicago suggests scientists may have taken a step towards finding one when they have not developed any new drugs they are looking into new pathways right that's in mice they identified there are more there's more steps to this pathway than just the opioid receptor that's the problem tramadol was a non-opioid medication everybody's like well it won't be addictive because it's not derived from the opium poppy, it still stimulates the mu-opioid receptor and therefore no one should have been surprised when people got, you know, habituated to it. So anyway, go ahead.

In mice, they identified an alternative signaling pathway in the brain that alleviates pain. This was a case even in animals that have a tolerance to powerful drugs. Good. When taken through this pathway, pain relief did not result in withdrawals. It also did not trigger reward systems in the brain. Wouldn't that be nice? So take the pain and pleasure, center out, just turn the pain signals off. Meaning a small, smaller risk of, what do you call it?

What? Addiction? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Well, there may be no risk. I mean, you could just turn those fibers off, and there may not be any downside to it. I could imagine a circuit that is downstream from the muo-opioid receptor.

You just turn it off. So that would be amazing. We need a new paradigm for pain. Well, if you think just the peripheral nerves, the peripheral nervous system, if you can keep the pain signals from getting to the spinal cord, that's kind of what you want to do. Right. And now you don't have to involve the brain so much.

Right. Well, that's true. Yeah. Maybe that's part of it. You can not send the signal to the brain. Or you can halt it on its way to the brain. It's kind of the same thing. Or you could turn off the brain's response to it.

In other words, somehow tell the circuits in the brain, just ignore these impulses. Accept this. Don't do anything about it. So capsaicin, for example, is a substance that's in red peppers that if you put it on the skin properly, compounded, it can deplete a thing called substance P, which is a pain transmitting

neurotransmitter. And so it'll deplete it so that those fibers can no longer send pain signals to the brain. Right. That's the, anyway, the hypothesis behind that. So what Dr. Scott does is that gated, you know, overload

therapy. Yeah, fatigue-gated channel. Yeah. Fatigated channel thing. which is another way of telling the spinal column don't send these pain impulses to the brain. Antidepressants will do the same thing. They decrease signals in the dorsal horn of the spinal column to decrease those pain signals go into the brain. I'm interested to see what pathway this is.

Do they name it, Tase? The ventrilateral paraclytel gray. Yes, so this is actually in the brain. and so that's that next thing that we were just talking about. Above this moment. Turning the brain, telling the brain just tell that signal to go fucking itself. That's interesting. So it's peri-aqueductal gray matter.

Yes. They found that pain relief through this circuit was not associated with withdrawal effects, commonly associated with opioids. And it also talks about the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and how it's involved in these circuits, and it can change pain responses. Sure. Those receptors usually generate more activity in the nervous system, but when a drug was injected that targeted this receptor in mice, it relieved pain for several hours.

So do you know how they tell that in mice, it's horrible? No, I don't want to know. They'll put them on hot plates and stuff. Oh, that's awful. That was the old way of doing it again. Huge and extremely unexpected outcome. They did not expect this at all. Do they say what the drug is?

No, there's no drug yet. Well, they said they injected something. I don't know. It said we did not see evidence of tolerance to the pain relieving effects. They're just talking about messing with the pathway. It might have just simple saline. I mean, they may have just, you know, or it may have been a mixture, like you said, the capsaicin. You know, because you think.

Boy, I don't want I'm injecting capsaicin into my brain. No, no, no, but, you know, I'm just saying. Well, maybe they were just interrupting the pathway, like, I believe so, because it says we are exploring the mechanisms underlying the change in acetylcholine release in the brain area during painful experiences. We want to find other ways to recruit or activate the system for relieving pain, and that will keep us busy for the next few years. Well, you know, the other thing is could be like a deep brain stimulator. They could have done a little DBS on those mice. We'll talk about what that is.

Yes, sometimes what they'll do with a deep brain stimulator is run an electric probe into the brain surgically, of course, a certain specific space and they'll do this, they originally started doing this for movement disorders. Correct. So people that have Parkinson's own end time. Right. Treatments done that way. Right. Yeah. And they make these fancy little slits in the skull

and drive these rods down through there. Then you have a remote control and you can kind of turn on the impulse or turn impulse down depending on how much information you need. You know, they've got that and then the spinal cord stimulators, they're called dorsal column stimulator. The DCS is.

They'll put anywhere in the spinal cord, and again, it interrupts those pain signals. Right. So they're not to do anything. The signal is still being generated. It just interrupts it on its way to the brain. Right, yeah. And it kind of floods the system with information so that you

don't. So all that pain coming from your foot or your leg, your ankle, or anywhere is not able to go all the brain. Kind of like your house is being bugged and you turn the TV on real loud so that you can have a conversation. Because you still got the pain. You've still got the pain.

You've still got the pain, but you're not having the pain. Your brain is not perceiving the pain, so you're not suffering as much. Correct. Yeah. Interesting. It's kind of cool. Yeah. That's a good one, Tase.

Good job, Tase. That is all I have. That's all you have. Okay, very good. So, hey, we've got. You deserve it on now. That was a good one. So who said, I think it's like a hickey, he said,

would it be interesting if all these male doctors that did this research were boob guys or ass guys. What happens if they're ass guys? Yeah. I thought about that. Is it the same if you're an ass guy? Right. Yeah.

Did they isolate their bias? Just breast or could it be anything? Toes. Yeah. It's a very short article. I wonder why. It was in the New England Journal. Yeah, they couldn't finish it because they had to go beat on.

Oh, gosh. Okay. All right. Let's do this. Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. what we got here. Now, these are, we're just doing these

at random, okay? And let me see what we've got here. All right. I have no idea. Hey, gosh, Steve. This is New York. This is April 26, 2014. I'm so sorry, it was nine years ago,

plus some change. Dexterment Thornton. I know it gets a bad name, you know, it has its piece of properties, whatever. But I firmly believe that, like, if it's taken in the right dose for each individual, you know, you get a tractor, you know, kind of works best for you. I think it can be used a performance enhancing drug, you know. Okay.

Yeah, he's asking about dexter methorfan as a performance enhancing drug. Now, dexter methorfan is the right-hand molecule of levo-mothorfan. Leo-o-mothorfan is one of the most potent opioids that's not even sold in this country right now. And dextramothorfan, because it's, you know, a right-handed molecule, and levomothorfan is a left-handed molecule. What I mean by that is the stereochemistry of these things is such that if you line them up, the molecule will wrap around your right-hand if your thumbs are up. So you put your thumbs up and curl your fingers around. That's your right-handed molecule, stereochemistry, and then the left-handed molecule be the other way. with your left thumb up and your fingers curled toward you.

And when I did organic chemistry, half of it was stereochemistry. Okay. And so when you hear dextro and levo or, you know, words like that, that's what they're talking about. So you've got dex methamphetamine. Mm-hmm. Okay. And then you have, you know, levo. Levo thyroxin.

There you go. Lebothyroxin. You know, you've got, but you, like, if you have methamphetamine, if you want to try to fool your doctor, if you're doing meth, you go, well, I'm doing a bunch of vix inhalers, because if you look at the vix inhaler, at least the old ones, I got a stuffy does, doc. That those things actually had methamphetamine in them. Oh, my word. But it was L. Methamphetamine, the Levo, the left-handed version of methamphetamine. Street methamphetamine is D methamphetamine. Now, if your doctor's dumb, they'll just go, oh, okay.

But if they're smart, they will do a stereochemistry analysis where they break it down into what's the percentage of D methamphetamine versus L methamphetamine. Okay, well, anyway. So, and then if it's all D, then you're lying. If it's all L, then you are doing VIX vapor, or not Vick's VATO rub, but VIX nasal inhalers. And I actually have seen that before back in the day when we first started doing those analyses every once in a while you got somebody on their drug screen and show meth, but they were actually, it was all L, and it was coming from a Vicks inhaler. I believe that they have different active ingredient now, but it was always kind of weird to look at the active ingredients and methamphetamine on it. But anyway, dextromathorfan is the D, the right-handed version of Levo-Mothorfan.

Okay. And as far as it being a performance-enhancing drug, I'm not aware of that, are you? I don't think. I've ever heard of it being used for that purpose, but I'm a former athlete. I'm not as a... Well, I wonder what performance they're talking about.

I don't know. I'll look it up. So I have here effective a single dose of dextrafen extramathorfan on psychomotor performance and working memory capacity, and it said there was significant deterioration in three-back working memory task with a, but it was statistically significant and no other significant changes were seen. So it had no offense on tension and arousal, but impaired the working memory capacity. So in that regard, it's not performance enhancing Matter of fact, it's just the other way around.

Now, I'm looking at supplements that pro athletes take, and I'm going to just do a quick search for dextramathorphan. I cannot imagine what benefit you would get from that. Well, let's see what they say. I'm going to think that they're going to say because it's an expectant or a cough suppressant that may help them with their breathing. Okay. But says performance-enhancing drugs like dextramathoraphate.

doxillamine, succinate, pseudoephedrine, chlorphan-ehramine, and all of these chemicals are typical ingredients in over-the-counter cold medicine. So let's see. Yeah, but it doesn't say what dextramathorphan could possibly be

enhancing. Here's a prohibited list of drugs. I wonder if it keeps them from getting tired. I don't know. Why would it, though? I mean, it does hit the opioid receptors, but it hits the non-kiral ones or the right-handed ones. Right. Okay, here's intelligence bulletin from the Department of Justice on dextramothorfan, and it just basically says when ingested at recommended dosage levels,

dexstermothorfan is generally safe and highly effective. However, when ingested in larger amounts, it produces negative physiological effects. So abusers ingest increasing amounts of dextramothoraphan based on their weight. The first plateau is inebriation. Second plateau is like alcohol intoxication. Third, an altered state of consciousness. And the fourth is an out-of-body experience comparable to the effects caused by ketamine or fennicycladine or PCP. So, you know, you can overpower that sort of stereochemistry.

thing by just giving enough of the medication. So don't, let's not do that. But I don't see how it's performance enhancing, do you? Do you see anything? I've seen anything at all. Yeah. Unless it's like it says, it's non-drowsy, somebody just gives them, it's kind of like speed. Well, it's non-drowsy, but it's not speedy, though. It's actually

you know, an opioid analog, so I just, you know. I have to do a little digging of that. Okay, yeah. Don't, I'm going to come up with a... We're not giving a yes or enough. Musted on that one. Okay. This one is from June 3rd. 13, 2015.

Hey, Dr. C. This is Doug in New Orleans. Hey, Doug. I wanted to ask you about narcotic pain medication. Okay. In my life, I've found that Vicodin and its related drugs do not really affect me in any way, shape, or form. Okay. There are people like that.

Some of them are simply fast, ultra-fast metabolizers. Some people just don't seem to have the opioid. receptors everybody else has. You know, if you have just a single molecule off and your genetic makeup for those receptors, these medications may not work. I've been prescribed them before, and I just feel no effect. On the other hand, stuff like Percocet and the oxycodone family, I do get pain reduction from. So my question is, is that typical?

Is it normal for somebody to have no other? effect from something like vikidin and a full effect from parkasad? I don't think it is typical, but there is a difference between hydrocodone, which is Vicodin, and oxycodone. Hydricodone primarily stimulates the mu opioid receptor only. The oxycodone stimulates mu and cap up, so it actually hits a different opioid receptor. And so there may be some people that are mu-deficient, but have plenty of cap of receptors. Maybe that's it.

Maybe they have to have the signal from both of them. Methadone hits the mu and delta receptor, plus it antagonizes another receptor called N-Methyl deaspartate, which just basically, oh, I know, I know, you should be impressed, deals with tolerance and neuropathic pain. So these things all do different things. And if all of us were exactly the same, we'd only need one drug. Yep. We just need morphine or hydrocodone or hydromorphone. Those are the big mu opioid receptors, then oxycodone, percocet, oxycontin, extamps of those things are mu and Kappa.

And then you have fentanyl is pure mu. So I've had people that, you know, you put a transdermal fentanyl pack. on them and it does nothing. And you just go up and up and up. And then if you convert them to another opioid based on that dose, this is an art of medicine thing, my friends. They're in big trouble because it wasn't working and you can't convert someone from that really high dose

where you just cranked them up. And they weren't getting it or whatever was happening. Their skin doesn't... It's kind of like a stereo you turn way up and don't realize it's on mute. Yes, and then you get the new button. Thank you. I'm going to give you a bell for that.

That's a great analogy, and I'm going to use that in my talk from now. Yeah, thank you. That's a good one. Certainly. All right, but anyway. So, yeah, it's not the norm, but it's not unheard of. Okay, here's one from June 13, 2015. Hey, Dr. Steve.

So my question is, what can call? a very stinky asshole now I'm asking the question because sorry this is 10 years ago he's hopefully figured it out I tend to have I have this smell that fucking follows me around right and I swear

it's my ass and like I wash regularly like twice a day and I wiped my best you know best possible extent that I can I feel like it just always stinks and it kills me like I you know I want to be out in public or something and I can smell my own asshole and I'm

just like, well, you know, shit, I imagine. Have you ever had just a smell up in your own nose, and you thought that you smelled, and you are smelling, but it's your noses smelling something that's not, no one else can smell. Everybody else can smell my asshole as well. God, I wish me to answer this. So, you know, I'm just wondering, like, what could cause that? What are some things that I could do to maybe try to prevent that? Okay.

So I have some ideas. It is a great question. You got any ideas for them? I have some ideas. Well, I've got a couple. You know, at first, I'd want to make sure it's really his asshole. Right. Has anyone else complaining about this?

Yeah, to say, to me, that would be a big, pretty big stretch to identify that because it could be anything from your nose to your fucking toes. Correct. It has to be the first question. Yeah. You've got to have somebody close to you even have them put their nose down there. Do you smell anything? Yep. And if they say no, then it's in your nose.

In which case. A staph infection in the nose. Right. Right. Yes, that's a good one. I'm not giving you another bell because Tase you'll get mad. That's true. That's true. But get a navage. Right.

Or you're simply herbal nasal spray. Or simply herbal's nasal spray. Yes, of course. Well, do both. With the CBD, of course, yeah. Do both. By the way, that CBD nasal spray has the most delightful, earthy, cannabis-type smell. It's really good.

Yes, thank you. Anyway. But, yeah, get a nabage, netty pot. use Dr. Scott's stuff, you know, do both and see if that makes a difference. If it does, then it was something up in your nose. Get an ear, nose and throat person to look up there or your primary care if they know what they're doing.

You may have a deviated septum. He's got some fungus growing up there. You know, you just don't know. And you would want to know that sooner than later. Correct. Correct. Not 10 years later. So the other thing, now if it is your ass,

if it is your ass, now what I would want to know is do you have any pain? Because could you have a fistula? Yes. A fistula, basically being a communication from the inside of the colon to the outside of the skin of the ass that's not the asshole. Okay, it's a tunneling thing. It's a chronic infection. It smells like hell.

And if you don't have that, then maybe you just need a bidet. Well, he can have a little fungus if he's got a really sweaty nuts or something like that. I mean, he can have anything. Look, look. Do you see redness there? Get a black light out. If it glows a very beautiful salmon pink, you have erythrasma. We had somebody in the last year that took a black light to their junk, and it glowed salmon pink.

And it turned out they had erythrasma. They went to their doctor, and they said, I think I have erythrasma. And they were very impressed that this person came in there. They knew it. It's probably the first time in the history of medicine someone went into their doctor. doctor and said, I think I have erythrasma out of the blue. But anyway, erythrasma being not a fungus, but a bacterium, a carini bacterium, that causes a jock itch-like rash, but it will not go away with antifungals. Right.

You've got to treat with antibiotics. But anyway, so, yeah, there's all of those things that this could possibly be. But the bidet, I'm telling you, there's no reason not to have a bidet anymore. Mowen sells a bidet toilet seat. You don't need electricity. Now, it's going to be water temperature that's in your toilet. But it's, you know, it's not that cold. It actually feels good.

You take a nice big, giant, hot, you know, greasy, you know, bowel movement. And that cold water feels good. Oh, my God. That feels good. So, but there's a bunch of different toilet seats that you can buy now, and they're under a hundred bucks. I used to push the tushy attachment

but I'm thinking the toilet seat's the way to go because it's all just integrated. Agreed. Yeah, very easy to install. Just get a damn bidet. If you've been thinking about it, you need to get one. Just back up a little bit, let it wash your nuts while you're at it.

Just because it might be that. You can give yourself, if you get one of the ones that's got the high power, you can do a little mini-anamo while you're in there, get a little bit, you know, a couple inches cleaned out. inside. It's awesome. I love it. No more skid marks, no more itchy ass,

no more hemorrhoids, no more proctitis because you're wiping and wiping and wiping. Tacey's mom uses like a roll of toilet paper a day. And it's like, what are you doing? She's like, well, I want to be clean. It's like you're not clean. You're just irritating your ass crack. Make it worse. We need to give her that damn. extra bidet seat that we have

Well, I don't know if it would work because she has one of those seats that stands tall. Oh, yeah. The extender's got one of them. Hers probably lifts her up like a lift chair. I don't know if it does.

I don't know what it does. Anyway, but that's the protocol. First thing you do, if you think your ass is smelling, as embarrassing as it is, ask somebody else if they smell it. Okay. I think they don't have to stay in there for long.

No. All right. Okay, we just have a couple minutes, but I think we can do this one as a short question. I hope everything is well. I have a question. What do you do and how do you figure out whether you have balantilantis? No, balanitis. B-A-L-A-N-T-I-S.

How are some ways to figure out whether if you have it and if you do have it, how to treat it. I have red spots all over my penis head and I don't understand what. Okay. Now, balinitis is. is inflammation of the head of the penis, yes, but this person sent this in before Google image existed. So all you've got to do is just Google Image balinitis, but it's inflammation of the head of the penis,

the glands penis, the Roman War helmet, and not just little dots usually. I mean, it is really inflamed. And little red dots often can just be, Overuse syndromes? Yes. It could be overuse. Could be fungus.

You know, could be, you know, just bacterial. Or just an irritation. Right. Now, do you know what it's called when the foreskin or the prepuse is inflamed? No. It's okay. It's postitis. Postitis.

Yeah. P-O-S-T-I-T-I-S. And so, and then balanopopause. postitis involves the glands and the foreskin. And that will occur in approximately 6% of uncircumcised males. Now, if GVAC were still here, and I can just hear him right now, saying, so you advocate circumcision, right, Dr. Skin, Dr. Steve, Dr. Skin. I'd like to be Dr. Skin.

Yeah, and he'd always try to get me in trouble with the intact of this. Yes. Anyway, all right. He was quite the instigator. Yes, he was. I'm quite a delightful young man. All right. You got anything from the waiting room we have about one minute left?

Well, it looks like Hickey said that her son did a report for school to argue against not washing your jeans every time you wear them and found out that the average person farts between 11 and 15 times a day. Oh, okay. There you go. That is true. And I think we talked about the overall volume. of flatus that someone does in their lifetime and the amount of gas we pass through our bowels

is huge. There's nothing as prodigious as cows. No. Because people are still saying, oh, cows are the reason we have, you know, a CO2 problem and all that kind of stuff. And that's just a way to thin out. I mean, well, you're just going to kill all these cows? I mean, if you're an animal

lover and you don't want people eating cows, I can understand that. Then what are you saying when You're saying that cows are the number one cause of global, you know, of CO2 retention in the atmosphere. You want us to just kill the cows? You wouldn't just murder them? Don't be a cow hater.

Cows are cute. Cows are cute. And they're ruminants. Yes. They do funny things. And they're tasty. They're awful tasty. Anyway.

Yeah, I don't understand that one. But anyway. All right. We're going to, we still have, how many phone calls do we have from 2014? We have hundreds of them, and we're going to get to all of them eventually. What about the ones that are coming in now? Well, we'll get to those, you know, in 2033. Well, okay, so we'll do the, I'll do some alternating.

I think that's the correct way. When we get up to 2021, then delete. Then I'm going to delete everything that says, yes, as the word C-O-V-I-D on it. But, yeah, no, we'll alternate starting. It's just kind of fun. going back. I had no idea that we hadn't answered questions that went back 10, 11 years.

That's ridiculous. I know there was a period of time there where I kind of got, I just got behind. There's just nothing I can say. Other than that, I just got way, way, way behind. And I apologize for that. And if you hear yourself, 10 years later,

give us a call, let us know, hey, I finally heard my phone call. Well, thanks, always go to Dr. Scott. Thanks, Tase. Thanks to everyone who's made the show happen over the years. Listen to our SiriusXM show on the Faction Talk Channel. SiriusXM. Channel 103, Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern,

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