Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 572 - Why Do Humans Have Butt Cheeks?

Episode Date: December 29, 2023

Dr Steve, Dr Scott, and Tacie discuss: keratotic hair follicles hair splinters cursing lines home treatment of glaucoma epistaxis, recurrent splooge issues cracking your neck why do we have butt cheeks? Restless Leg Syndrome Athlete's Foot Please visit: stuff.doctorsteve.com (for all your online shopping needs!) simplyherbals.net/cbd-sinus-rinse (the best he's ever made. Seriously.) tweakedaudio.com (use offer code "FLUID" for 33% off!) 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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Tacey, you weren't here last week, so everyone's been missing this. It's Tacey's time of topics. A time for Tacey to discuss topics of the day. Or to go potty. 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. First of all, I would like to apologize for the breast staring equals exercise.

Oh, yeah, we covered that. We covered that last week. We fell for that. And I am glad that it's not true because I was really thinking the other half of the world was a bunch of pervert. That's true. That has nothing to do with that news story. The fact that men, Ogle women's, you know, mammaries, you know, if you think about it, what is the deal?

I mean, it's like, that's where you, you know, if you were a kid, not in the 50s, where, you know, breastfeeding was gross and they would, you know, gave us this horrific formula, what is it about boobs that are just so fascinating? That's a good question. I don't know. I don't know either. I don't know. It's kind of a weird question.

It's some, it has to do with procreation and all that stuff. And it's like, why are we, half the problems of the world are that our ancestors couldn't figure out the world so they had to. to come up with some framework to make the universe make sense. And we call that religion, and now we've got all these different religions. And so because of geographic separation, we have problems with each other because of that. And that's the old joke of the, you know, don't, they go by the room in heaven and there's all the Baptists in there. They don't tell the Baptist, they think they're the only ones here, that kind of stuff. There are no denominations in heaven, certainly, right?

So we have those divisions. And then the other divisions that we have in this world is the fact that we have this binary existence where we procreate between people with X, X, X, X, genes and people with X, Y genes. and that procreation drive is, it's nuts. And so, you know, yeah, I love seeing a large breasted woman with a small waist and that tit-to-gut ratio and all that stuff. All right, then. So let's go ahead. Fuck off.

You're not the hole on the show. You're our partner. You're the expert in things. Yes, you're the expert on that. You're the one with those things. But who, you know, where does that come from? Yeah, that is a good question. If you really think about it.

I've never thought about that a single time. Yeah. Well, same goes. I mean, you know, what do women look like? They don't look at our shoulders or hair, you know. They look at our shoes. Yeah. And you know how I know that?

Uh-huh. Because at my wedding, my best man forgot his shoes. And I said, they're just black shoes. We'll go to Kmart. Yeah. And, yeah, we'll go to Kmart We'll buy a pair of black shoes You only got to wear them once

So we show up at the wedding And his wife Sees him and without skipping a beat Where'd you get those shoes? Oh, for God's sakes It wasn't... She hadn't seen him five seconds She already knew that the shoes were not the shoes

That he was supposed to be wearing. Oh my gosh. That's got to be some kind of... Tacey, you can speak to that. That's a whole other evolutionary kind of thing. Well, your shoes were pathetic when we met. They were really awful. They were not.

They were unbelievably terrible. He had great a few shoes, as I recall them. How can shoes be? The tassels were gone. I took them to the shoe place for him to fix them, and he looked at me like, what do you want me to do? And I just said, do the best you can. And they still looked like shit.

And he did the best he could. And so we went on a shoe journey We've been on a shoe journey for 20-something years Shoes I was trying to think back all those years ago I guess you were tennis shoes around The old clinic That's after the tassel

That wasn't a kind of tassels They were removed because I probably Yanked them off of there Because who wants tassels on their shoes Nobody cool If they're supposed to have tassels Then they need to have tassels I will say that one time I was walking in Chapel Hill,

and I used to drive my mom crazy because I wear these loafers until they were, like Tacey said, they had holes in the bottom. And I wore these shoes. This is so bad. And I was walking to a bar in downtown Chapel Hill on Franklin Street. And I remember this like it was yesterday. I was walking past the radio television and motion pictures building where the RTVMP department was,

and the front half of my shoe just fell off. The whole underneath the soul was so big that the whole thing just broke off. And he probably wore them the next day. No, I couldn't wear them. I was like, fuck, what am I supposed to do? I just walked around barefoot for a little while, and then I bought some new shoes.

So that's what you're supposed to do. You wear them until they wear out. Well, when you were streaking, you didn't need shoes, so I can certainly appreciate that. No, that was the one thing you did have. That was, it was weird, too, because if you're running in loafers and then knee-high socks and you're naked from the knees up, it kind of looks stupid. And then, of course, I had on people who know this, listen to the show, I was also had on a tie and a Groucho Marx mask. Anyway. All right.

Yeah, so, yeah, Tacey, we did the Mia Kulpa for that one. And the other thing I wanted to tell you guys was we almost didn't get to run either one of those shows as podcasts because I have a cleaner that says, do you want to get rid of large files? And I was running out of space. And I looked at them and was like, yeah, we're not going to use any of those. So it deleted them all. Well, shit. Oh, gosh. It was the last 12 shows that were.

We haven't posted yet. But for people who listen to the podcast, we haven't posted on a regular basis in some time because I'm trying to get out from under the laugh button and get out on our own. Gotcha, got you. And I didn't want to give them any more shows than I had to because they were putting ads on them that I didn't agree to and stuff like that. So I'm finally got our podcast hosting company to transfer us out onto our own so we get to keep the revenue, what such as it is, and then I can start putting their shows up. Well, I went to put one up the other day, and I couldn't find it, and then I couldn't find it, and I couldn't find the one after it, and the one after it, and they had all been deleted.

So I was freaking out So last week's podcast Was just cobbled together from the files that I did have left over That was basically a published show And I was like I guess we're just going to have to do that for a while Because I really did want the breast story And then our retraction to get out there And then thank God for Dropbox

Because Dropbox was backing everything up And when I deleted it, it went into a deleted file. And they're like, you know what? If you delete something, we're just going to hang on to it for 30 days. Just in case you fucked up. And I was like, thank God because they were all in there. So people who listened to that show, I'm going to put a preference on the next, or a preface on the next one saying, I think everything's going to be okay.

So thank goodness we got all those shows back because I've been holding them back for a reason. And I didn't want to not ever publish them. So anyway, all right. Well, thank you. Okay, so, Tase, what do you got? German swearing hotline lets callers blow off steam. Mm-hmm. Two German entrepreneurs have devised a way for passive-aggressive citizens to blow off some steam.

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today. Is that all you've got? The service costs $1.49 per minute, and they feel that's completely justified for getting everything off your chest. It's a bargain. Wow. You know, I've been just listening to some of those people constantly would be hilarious. Especially in German.

You know that's funny. Yeah. Yeah, here we go on seeing. That is fun. That is fun. I want to have you the time with spieling. Let's start at a fat-up, that's spiel. Oh, she sounds pissed.

Starte? Let's play, you know, the one son. It's a kid playing a video game. He's pissed. He's probably saying German gamer words, if you know what I mean. Oh, boy, that's funny. So anyway, I wish we had one of those here. That is great.

We could, well, we do. 347-766-4-3-3-2-3. Feel free. Call poo-head. Yeah, yeah. Weird health news. This woman's hair follicles sprout fingernails instead of hair. Hmm.

One day three years ago, this lady named. Some kind of carotosis. What's that? Chenay isum had an allergic reaction to steroids. She'd been given after an asthma attack. The next day, she had a debilitating disease. that was eating away at her skin, and experts had no idea what the disease was.

They still don't know what it is, but they know what it's doing to her. And what is it doing to her? Okay. Well, let's get there. For some reason, she produces 12 times the number of skin cells per hair follicle. It suffocates her skin and makes her follicles

grow hard fingernails instead of the usual hair. This disease has been crippling, and she now has to get around using a cane. Luckily, doctors have been able to control her symptoms, if not solve the mystery. Right now, she's the only person in the world with this illness. Wow. And she's facing the bills to prove it. Her in-state insurance only covers some of her medications and the medical treatment she's received locally.

But she has to travel to Johns Hopkins in order to get specialized detention. As a result, she's now a quarter of a million dollars in debt. She set up a foundation to help defray the cost and says, if my condition means me dealing with this to help someone else I'm willing to go through it. Wow. Jeez.

Well, that's insane in the membrane. And that concludes time of topics. Very good. Thank you. That was a good one. Very good. I've got something that's sort of similar to that except different. Same set different.

Yes. There are things called cutaneous hair splinters. And what this is is a fragment of hair penetrating the skin can grow under the nail and these people have hair growing under their toenail

and it comes out at the end of the nail. They got a hair follicle, they got turned down and then started growing under the between the nail bed and the nail. So how do they take care of that? Well, you have to remove the nail and get rid of that hair follicle if you want to get rid of it. Cutaneous hair splinter.

Think of that. Isn't that wild? There you go. Never heard tail of itch. No, I ain't never heard Taylor-Such. All right. You want to answer some phone calls? Yeah.

Yeah, and I've got a fluid family question. Okay. Oh, yeah. If you want one, it's pretty good. It's actually a good one. What you got? Yeah, so I've got an ophthalmology question. Can I reasonably lower my inner eye pressure through diet and exercise, et cetera, without surgery?

I guess the ophthalmologist is wanting to do an erotomy with laser to lower the pressure. Yeah, wow. So, well, I was going to say diet and exercise has been shown to help with eye. health but not necessarily I've never heard of it lowering intraocular pressure but eating it's talking about glaucoma for a second okay so it is increased intraocular pressure you can be caused narrow angle or wide angle there's two kinds of glaucoma just depending on the mechanism what's causing that and really there are eye drops for it and there are oral medications but I'm not aware of any lifestyle changes that'll fix

that not fix because it's kind of a mechanic problem more than it is anything else. Well, in my understanding, you can lower pressure just a teeny bit with like elevating your bed like 20 degrees. Sure. And like I said, exercise and not eating diets high in sugars and, you know, processed foods can help with eye health, but I've never heard of lowering, actually lowering the pressure. Yeah. So, you know, this is certainly going to be, or it sounds to me like a medical thing with the,

the medications, drops, and possibly surgeries. Yeah, and you really don't want to dick around with it because when glaucoma causes damage, it can't be reduced. Yeah. And so there are different eyedrops that you can use. One of them is a prostaglandin eye drop, and that increase the outflow of the fluid in your eye that reduces eye pressure. So those are like xalotan and loom.

again and those things. There are beta blockers. They reduce the production of fluid in your eye, and that would be like Timalol that is sold as Timoptic. And then there's the alpha adrenergic

agents. These reduce the pressure of the fluid that flows through the inside of your eye by increasing, again, the outflow of flow of fluid into your eye, so to get rid of the fluid. And that is like brimonidine, and that's alpha-gan.

Then there are other things, carbonic anhydrase inhibitors, and they reduce the production of fluid in your eye. Azoct would be the one that is most, you know, most people are familiar with. And then the one that came out since I've been doing medicine, the Rho-Kinase inhibitors, and they suppress this enzyme that is responsible for increasing the fluid in your eye. And it's called Rokinase, and it just suppresses that.

So if you need Rokinase to make fluid and then you block the enzyme, then you don't make any fluid. And, you know, there are some of the old pylocarpenes and those things. Those can only be used in certain types of glaucom. And some of these eyedrops are, you know, absorbed into your bloodstream, et cetera, et cetera. You know, there are oral medications. And the main one is that carbonic anhydrase inhibitor. And that can cause, you know, diureasis, you know, frequent urination, tingling in the fingers and toes, stomach upset and other things like that.

So, yeah, it's kind of poop. And then, so then the treatments, you normally would do laser treatments called laser triculoplasti. It will work if the eyedrops don't work. And they just use the laser to improve the drainage of the tissue located at the angle where the iris and the corneum meat. And basically just putting a hole in there so that the fluid can flow more freely. And then, you know, then there's the more high, flute and stuff. So now, if you have angle closure glaucoma, that's a medical emergency.

And that you can't dick around with. Okay. And these people have this thing called a peripheral erudomy where they put the hole in the iris. And that's an emergency. Those people will lose their eyesight if they don't do it. But those are the minority of patients. Yeah.

All right. Okay. So, yeah, just. don't fuck around with that. If they're recommending that you do something, then, you know, please do it because the glaucoma isn't something to goof around with. You know, if you have open-angle glaucoma,

you won't have any symptoms in the early stages. They will notice it when you go in to have your eye exam, which is why you need to do these. And they do a thing called tonometry, where they either, you know, hit your eye with a puff of, air and look at the resistance or the, you know, the amount that comes back, you know, obviously if your eye is more gushy, then less will bounce back, right? Sure.

And then, or they will numb it up and actually put a probe on your eye and feel it. Gotcha. And then as it gets worse, you'll get patchy blind spots in your side vision, you know, your peripheral vision, and then as things get worse, then you get tunnel vision. Now, the angle closure glaucoma is the one where you'll get a severe headache, eye pain, nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, halos around. You'll know that you have it. You'll know your trauma. And sometimes this will happen when people take certain drugs and they didn't realize that they were prone to this.

So, okay? Great question, man. All right. Yes, very good. Anything else from the family of fluids? And if you want to join the fluid family, we usually record Saturday at 1 p.m. on Eastern, but you just got to follow our Twitter at

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Cool. All right. And it's a very cohesive group in there. Nothing else from them, because we've got some voicemails. Yeah, no, voicemails sound good. Okay, sounds good. Number one thing, don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. Hello, Dr. Steve. This is Mike from Buffalo.

Hello, Mike. I have a question about nosebleeds. Okay. So I'm 42 now. I've been having nosebleeds since I was in the fourth grade. Forget how old that is. Okay. Well, depends.

It depends. For you, maybe a little older. Nurse or whatever because I didn't know what's going on. Just take your grade and add five. That'll get you. You will have been that age at some point during that grade. So if you're in fourth grade, you'd be nine. Story short.

A few years later when I was in ninth grade, I had such a bad nose bleed. Four pain. That I wouldn't stop. I had to go to the emergency room, that I went to a specialist, and a near-nose-and-throkeye. They told me my issue was too close to the brain to be quarterized. Wow. So this was when I was probably about, this is when I was in ninth grade, so whatever, however all that is. Okay.

Yeah, I'm 14. And then, so they put tubes in my nose for like a month. I was taken out of school. I had these tubes in my nose for literally a month. And they took them out, and finally it stopped bleeding. Okay. So, long story short, my whole life, they always told me to... Okay, he says that, but that's already not true.

When my nose bleeds, stop it with a tissue, and look up, like lay down and look up. and eventually it would stop and I've never had a bad nosebleed ever since that when I was in ninth grade that however many that many years ago well sometimes I still get them now as an adult and one time I got him in a bad situation I was actually had a wrestling pay-per-view um when I got the nosebleed so I had to go into the bathroom and you know it was I really wanted to get back to my seat so I said fuck it went to the stall and I blew my nose for the first time when it was bleeding okay and I didn't know if that was going to do anything back and long social with that, it stopped bleeding. Whenever I got out, I got out in like 30 seconds, and then I was able to move on with my life. Okay. So now every time my nose bleeds, I just blow it out. Okay.

And it stops within 30. Like I said, the however long it takes you to blow everything out, and then it stops. Okay. I don't know. I mean, this guy's having what sounds like posterior nosebleeds. You know, so there are two kinds of nosebleeds. and we call that epistaxis. And the anterior ones are in the, obviously, in the front of your nose on the septum.

Okay, that's the thing that separates your nose. And there's these capillaries there, and if they get dried out, particularly they will crack and the mucus membrane will bleed, and you'll get a nose bleed. And kids have this more than adults do because their septum is smaller, and they're gross and they're picking their nose and all this kind of stuff. Now, the posterior nose bleed is deep inside your nose.

That's why he was saying that they said it was too close to his brain. And it will drain down your throat. And so people sometimes will cough up blood. They'll get heavy bleeding. There's lots of blood supply back there. And so when they put the tubes in his nose, they did what they did to Tasey.

You remember when you had your thing taste? And they had to take these gauze pledges and basically just shove them up there. And we have these things for posterior nosebleeds that you put up people's nose and it just expands and puts pressure on it. And then, yeah, you've got to leave it there for a long time. And it has to be a material that isn't going to then be stitched into the nose. Stuck to the nose. So gauze by itself is a terrible idea.

because, you know, the blood clot will form into the matrix of the gauze when you pull it out. It'll just yank everything out and it'll start bleeding again. But anyway, so they'll sometimes use vaseline gauze or they'll use plastic tubes. There's all kinds of things that they can do. But why, when he blows his nose, it goes away. I don't know. He needs an ear-nose-and-throat person to look up into his nose and see what in the hell is going on up there. And he may just have a deviated septum.

Now, that usually causes anterior nosebleeds. But if you think about it, so you have the nasal septum, right? It goes straight back. If you think of a chimp nose, a chimp nose, if you look at it, they don't really have a nose. They just have a hole in their face, and there's two holes that go straight back and a cartilage separating the two. That's the septum. Now, in humans, our septum is pretty long. dogs, it's even longer, a lot of dogs anyway.

And if you get punched in the nose, the septum is going to wrinkle. And so it'll be an S-shaped. So it may be S-shaped toward the right or the left, you know, the first curve and then the second curve will be, you know, behind it. So it'll curve one way for half and one way for the other. Stoleolus of the septum. Yes, it's a S-shaped septum. So when you breathe, when you pass air, pass a curved surface, if you remember your Bernoulli's principle, there will be decreased air pressure on the side of the curve. There will be more rapid airflow because it's got to go a further distance.

It has to go a further distance in the same amount of time. And what that does is it'll dry out the septum on that side and then it will crack and it'll bleed. So those are the, if you have a deviated septum, you may be more prone to nosebleeds. Now, maybe his is curved far in the back, and that's why he's having these posterior nosebleeds. But he needs to see an ear, nose and throat doctor. Let them just look up there with a fiber optic scope. They'll spray cocaine in your nose, so that's good. Great.

And you'll breathe better than you've ever breathed in your life. and then they can look up there and see what the problem is and see if it's something that needs to be fixed. You could have a polyp up there or multiple polyps. You can have all kinds of crap. Yeah, as I was going to say, he might just have something that's genetic causes his... Yeah, just he's got a plexus...

Very superficial blood vessel. They might be able to... Blood vessels, they could just cauterize it now. Maybe back in the day, they couldn't... They didn't feel comfortable, but now they can. Whatever, however old he was in fourth grade. So recreational drugs can do this. Sure.

Cocaine will constrict the blood vessels of the septum to the point where if you use it every day over and over and over again, the septum will just die because it has no blood supply. And when that happens, you get a nose in your septum. Those people can stick their finger in their nose and have it come out the other side. They can do all kinds of stupid stuff. So they'll end up with an actual hole in their septum. chemical irritants, high altitude, where the air is just drier because it can't hold moisture like it does down in, say, New Orleans, where it was when I lived down there, as soon as you walked outside, you were soaking wet in the summertime. And then, like I said, the deviated septum. And then nasal sprays, certain nasal sprays like aphrine and stuff like that will dilate those tissues.

and constrict the blood vessels and can cause nose bleeding as well. So one thing that you can do with this is just get some simply saline. I love simply saline. It is salt water that's buffered for the nose, and it's under pressure. And you put your head down, stick this thing in your nostril and spray, and then snort it back. You'd think it would be really uncomfortable. Because it's properly buffered, you can't feel it at all. You know there's fluid going up there, but it doesn't cause burning or anything like that.

And then you can just keep everything moist up there and then blow your nose and get all the lovely, you know, allergens out of there and stuff. It's very helpful for chronic allergies, too. All right? You like that one? That's good. All right. Good. All right.

Let's see what we got here. Okay. Okay, this is from 2021. Okay. So I'm going in reverse order. We still have some from 2014 to do, if we want to do them. Hey, Dr. Steve, this is Boone. Hey, man.

It's kind of curious about whenever, I guess you say, ejaculate or whatever. Yeah. You see it a lot on, you know, porn or whatever websites, real white. Mine's somewhat yellow-yellow-ish looks like. Yeah. Didn't know just what it was landing on or whatever, but I'll are back 903. Oh, okay. Hey, man.

Yeah, so ejaculate in porn films is often not actually even ejaculate. We had a male adult film star on this show. that told us a secret that they sometimes use set-of-fill to simulate ejaculation, particularly when they're doing like Bukaki shots and stuff like that. And that stuff is just whiter than white. Now, if you have yellow semen, you may just have old semen. You may need to just clear out the pipes more often. There is a protein in semen called semenagellin that will, what it's there for,

is to gel semen once it hits the inside of the vagina around the cervix. So we very often forget that the purpose of intercourse at one time was to procreate. And so when you ejaculate into a vagina and there's a cervix there, the semenageline is supposed to gel and cause the semenagin to be more visceral. so that it won't just drop out when the woman stands up. And if you leave it in the seminal vesicles long enough, it'll start to gel in there, and it'll turn kind of yellowish color,

and you may see things that look like tapioca when you ejaculate, and that's just basically coagulated semen. So that could be what's going on. Did you find anything else out on yellow semen? I mean, I guess you could have an infection that could cause yellow semen. Yeah, that would be my only other prostate infection. But you would think that you would have some other symptoms with that. You know, prostateitis, some sexually transmitted diseases, urinary tract infections will turn semen yellow, but you'd have symptoms with that.

So if you have fever or pain when you urinate or when you ejaculate, see somebody. But other than that, it's probably just due to end. aging. All right? Oxidation. Yes. All right. Good one.

I like old boon. He's a good. Here's a, uh-oh. Here's a Stacy Deloch one from 2021 that we never answered. Let's see. I'm just doing these blind. Hello, Dr. Steve. Hey, man.

Hello, Dr. Scott. Mr. Casey? I may not have enough information for a good question here. Well, when's that ever stopped? Every once a while. I can turn my head and my neck will pop. Oh, that's a good one for Scott. Is that nothing more than just like me popping my knuckles or popping my toes?

There you go, Scott. That's one for you. Well, it's probably because his head is so big and full of all those brains. He's just an enormous amount of weight. It's to answer the question. Jesus. I can't say something smart-ass. No, you can.

Anyway. So what it sounds like is that when he's moving his head from right to left, He could have just a little bit of arthritis in his neck. He could have some really tight muscles, and tight muscles will pull those vertebrae closer together. So when you move your head from side to side, don't snap, crackle, and pop. Now, rule of thumb.

What do we call it? Not always 100%, but. What do we call it when it makes that sort of grinding? Gronding, grinding, grinding. Crepidantz. Oh, well, I was going to do that. Well, no, I thought that was grinding. But that's what they call it.

That's a traditional Chinese medicine. But, you know, rule of thumb, not 100% of the time, but as a general rule, if you move it once and it pops once, that's normal. If you move it and it continues to pop every single time, then that could potentially be something to be concerned with. And certainly, if you do that and you have shooting pain, that's a major. Well, my thing is always, when I crack my neck, it's always my thing. facet joints. So the facet joints in the neck are where the back of the vertebrae

joined together and they just sort of little platforms where they sit on top of each other. And there's the smooth service on the end of that and it's covered in cartilage and then inside that is synovial fluid just like every other

joint has, you know, there's a clear, beautifully clear fluid. It's unbelievable how clear it is when it's healthy. And then when you rub together these things and you can pop, put enough pressure on them to actually release dissolved gas and it releases all at once into a bubble and then it gets resorbed, then that's like cracking your knuckles, popping your neck.

Same thing. That's the way I envision it when you hear that pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop when you move your neck. And it's not an incommunctuary for those facet joints. Because those facet joints approximate, they just, they keep the vertebra in a relative line. Correct. And it's not uncommon for them to get just a little bit out of alignment. And when you turn and they either pop back into alignment, which is, you know, it feels good, too. It can feel great.

That's why chiropractors, you know, have jobs. Oh, yeah, it feels so good when they do that. No bone crackers. I want to do a quick shout out to my buddy B. Dabler. He's also known as El Hribly. And he does a show on YouTube on Sunday nights called Tuki Soup. That is, I can't miss it. It's one of my favorite things.

And Bdablin Live, trucker Andy from WATP said Bidablin Live, which is at 10 a.m. Eastern on YouTube is like what is adult Saturday morning cartoons. So check out his YouTube channel, and he's in the fluid family right now and sent us our first super chat, so that's very cool. Not asking for super chats.

I'm just giving a shout out to a friend. Got to hang out with Mr. Bdabler. Mertl calls him, she calls his show, but it doesn't know to turn a radio down, and there's always a horrible delay and nobody can understand anything

and she thinks it's Swamp Shop. Anyway, she's trying to sell her items. But she calls him Mr. Bedazzler. Oh, my God. He surely do have a good show. So anyway, yeah, so check out his web page or his YouTube channel. And I got to hang out with him and with Mr. Cardiff

in Detroit. It was the highlight of the, the trip, to be honest with you. And, all right. So anyway, all right. Who? Neck cracking. Nick cracking.

Here we go. Let's see. Okay, now that's another Stacy one. We'll save that for next time. All right. Here we go. This is another one from 2020. Hey, Dr. Steve.

It's in Connecticut. What's going on, man? Hey, man. How are you? Yeah, chilling, chilling. Good, good. Listen, this might not be your immediate expertise. But I was thinking, why the hell do we have butt cheeks?

every single other animal on the planet just has an asshole in the open sky and we've got these two meaty things that are paying the ass to clean get all swampy and itchy what the hell are they doing there thanks bye well one difference is that we walk

on two legs so you need those muscles to help hold us stay up right gluteus maximus attaches to the upper part of the pelvis which is called the Ilium. And that allows for stability and helps keep us balanced.

And then the other benefit to it is we can sit and we've got some cushion that we can sit on. And as we're sitting in. Yeah, I think we're the only animal that mostly walks on two legs but also just sits, sits on our asses. I must feel weird for a chimp though because they do sit

and they can walk a little bit on two. legs. They don't like it. They like to walk forward with their hands. But it must be weird just to have your asshole just sitting right on the ground. He's right about that. They have a tail, too, so sitting chimps don't.

I was just thinking monkeys. Oh, yeah, well, monkeys, too. But monkeys don't sit on their tail, though. They'll sit on a branch with their tail behind them. Kind of flopping over. Yeah, it's not like they curl up their tail and go, ooh, I'm going to make

myself a cushion. A little spring. Yeah, we have big butts. It helps us stand up right and helps us balance when running and walking. And the other benefit is that, yeah, we have a few more muscles, I guess, to allow us to be continent. And there's a survival advantage when you're trying to avoid saber-tooth tigers that you're not just dropping loads. Everywhere you walk. And they can just track you because of your stupid, you know, bowel movements.

flopping out on the ground. Hmm. I guess. That's, you know, but yeah, that's mostly because we walk upright. Tacey, you got anything? Nope. Okay.

Now, I'm looking at an article. It says, which came first, the big butt or upright walking? Well, there are other, you know, primates that do do some upright walking. So I would say that, you know,

that we evolved from something that was, walking some of the time and this this researcher says if big butts had come first they would have actually impeded the act of walking early hominids would have to start walking upright before developing big butts so well that makes sense yeah and then the irony is that even though we sit on them for alarming amounts of time during the day that they developed so that we could stand up straight.

So there you go. Wow. All right. It's a good. Word whilst it. All right. I'll give the listener a bell for that one. Nobody's kind of...

Give myself a bell. I forgot about bells. Yeah, I did too. All right. Here's another one from 2021. Hey, Dr. Steve. This is John from Rhode Island. Hello, John.

How you doing today? Hey, doing okay, man. Oh, that's a shame. Maybe tomorrow will be better. Oh, okay. Wait a minute. Let's hear. We'll do that again.

Hang on, if I plucked that one up. This is John from Rhode Island. How are you doing today? I suck, man. Oh, that's a shame. Maybe tomorrow will be better. Listen, I have a question about restless leg syndrome. Okay.

So I'm not sure if I have it. I've never been diagnosed with it. But I do get this weird sensation in my legs where I feel like they can't stay still and I have to move them. Yeah. And I get like pins and needles. And from what I've read, that sounds like restless. leg syndrome. Sure does.

And I'm curious, is there anything at the moment I can do to alleviate it so that I don't have to deal with it all night? Thank you. That's the worst. It's awful to have that. Yeah. Now, you had it during pregnancy, right? Yeah, you want to talk about it?

Well, I took Benadryl. Okay. Okay. You took Benadryl and it caused it, or you? It took care of it. Okay. All right. So talk about your symptoms taste.

Yeah, you just can't, I mean, you can't sit still, you can't, you're laying there and you can't not move them and pins and needles, exactly how he described it. Yeah. It's miserable. Yeah, and you only get relief with movement, like stretching, jiggling your legs. Now, there is a thing called periodic limb movement disorder that's kind of a, it's related but different. You can get nighttime leg twitching, and it's described by people as kind of, it's related, but different. And it's described by people as compelling and unpleasant. That's the thing.

It's usually bilateral, in other words, both sides of the body. It very rarely affects things like the arms. And people feel crawling, creeping, pulling, throbbing, you know, tingling, as you all said. And a lot of times the sensations are difficult to explain, which actually helps you to make the diagnosis, you know. don't know what causes it, might run in families. Pregnancy absolutely is a risk factor, and when you deliver, it tends to go away. And, you know, it is very difficult to deal with. So what you can do is, you know, if you treat an underlying problem, it could fix it.

So pregnancy is one. iron deficiency is one so iron supplementations help some people who have iron deficiency have mostly be women with heavy flow and that not so fresh feeling but then you take iron and it

helps but there are medications well before you get to the medication because another supplements too sometimes magnesium can help a little bit sometimes like a B complex if it's a mineral deficient exercise. And don't

forget to, sometimes it can be a spinal thing, like a spinal stenosis, so narrowing of the canal can give the same restless leg syndrome. Sure. You would think they would have other symptoms for that, like pain down their leg or something, but maybe not. Maybe not, yeah. But yeah, you want to

get seen. And I think that's the key to treating it is do your best to identify what the actual cause is. But you don't always get to figure that out too. Right. So fatigue worsens it so you have good sleep hygiene

go to bed at the same time every day get up at the same time exercise not right before bed though and don't overdo it and again not too late in the day and then no caffeine at night and maybe cut out

caffeine altogether you can use a foot wrap they have vibrating pads that you can buy for this you could take a hot bath before you go to bed you know, don't be ridiculous. I mean, don't burn yourself, but warm bath. You know, heat and cold packs may help. And just don't resist the need for movement.

That's going to make things worse. So, and then just get help. But, yeah, Scott, so any sort of needling that you can do for these people? Yeah, you know, sometimes actually acupuncture can help. Just doing the needles down on legs will stimulate blood flow. It will help to calm down the rest of the legs at night. Sure. Sure.

Yeah, and so, and then there are medications. Sure. So there's one called Pramapexel or Mirapex. There's several other ones that we can use. You can use Lyrica or gabapentin. Those affect calcium channels, and those are known for neuropathic pain. It kind of makes sense. Some times they'll give them muscle relaxers like Clonopin or something like.

that, but those are habit forming. Opioids can be helpful as well, but those are also habit forming, and that's a dead last resort because you're going to end up with other problems with that. So anyway, but yeah, get some help for that, you know, three years later. All right. That was from 2021. Let's hit one. You got anything else from the fluid family?

No. Okay. All right. Let's run down to, let's go turn. I need one of those drops with the harp, so it sounds like we're going back in time. Let's go back in time to 2015 and see what this guy's going on.

I have constantly athlete's foot. I have your issues or I scratch it until it, you know, it's bleed. Okay. He's got athletes foot, we're running out of time and his audio is terrible. Athletes foot very often caused by a fungus, refractory, athlete's foot might not be athlete's foot. It could be psoriasis or something like that. So if you've tried the over-the-counter antifungal creams and try two or three of them, There's ketoconazole, but there are other ones.

There's terbenophen and sold by different names. And if you don't get any relief from that, see a dermatologist or even a podiatrist, podiatrists are pretty good at this stuff. But, you know, Scott, you got anything for athlete. You were an athlete. Yeah. We're wearing the right kind of socks. Keep them dry.

Keeping them dry, not let them get moist. Get wicking, white socks and wear those. anything else you can think of on that yeah not wearing sometimes you have to wear sandals into the shower you know yeah so that you don't write it up yeah you know picking it up and then and then for god's sakes don't wipe your feet and wipe your junk because then you're going to transfer your fungus yeah you know what among us give thyself a bell okay tacy you get a retroactive bell for uh oh myself a bell that's terrible there you go all right well thanks always go to Dr. Scott. Thanks to everyone who's made

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