Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 576 - Ghost Hand and the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

Episode Date: February 8, 2024

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And check us out at patreon.com. Patreon.com slash weird medicine. I'm still working on my live stream studio. I can't get anything working in there. And I'm just having a hard time because I want it to be. This shit with these cameras is really, I'm going to talk a little bit more about it later. But I bought a real, you know, premium camera for the love. live streaming studio, can't get it to work.

And I have emailed Opal Camera, and I went on Twitter and complained, and they said, oh, we'll get right back to you. Somebody did email me, but the advice they gave me didn't work. And so it's, yeah, anyway. And then I tried hooking up my DLSR. I've got a nice Canon T3I DLSR. Well, the software that Canon provides to turn it into a webcam, which would be, you know, 4K plus doesn't work with that particular camera. So everybody can kiss my ass who makes cameras.

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So, you know, what the hell? Give them a shot as well. And I've had both of them do cameos. By the way, let me just throw this out there. This is new. Camio has a thing called collages, and so it's our son Beck's birthday. And I had Cardiff Electric, Tuki, Vinny from the Creepoff because he's, Beck's all about the Dabbleverse stuff. And Dave Landau do cameos for him.

And they all come into this collage thing. And then you can send them a link to that. And you can see all the, and you can put pictures on there and put your own wishes and stuff. Tacey, I sent you the link. And you can do that as well. and you know anybody can do that and it's really neat and then they've got this neat gift

where it's a whole bunch of cameos or videos and videos from people that they know so anyway you sent me a link on that I did yeah and you said I don't know what to do and it's like well just click on it you'll see you can do anything

you can just write something hey Beck you know congrats on turning 20 or whatever 19 all right sounds good okdokeamio.com slash weird medicine oh and Scott

we got an email from Adam Hucker. Yeah, Adam Hucker. And he has an apprentice that's been working with him that is a fan of our show. Yeah, that he did not mention the kid's name, unfortunately, but we're glad he's a fan of our show. Yes. And evidently, Adam really likes this, too, because the kid evidently is an exceptional young man

and works like hell for him. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Adam, you're a lucky man. Yep, and thank you. And thank you for being a friend of our weird medicine. And they listen to philosophy stuff. I recommended that they listen to Alan Watts, Myth. of myself, which I recommend anybody

to, if you're interested at all in thinking about things a little bit differently than you do just going through your normal life, just walking around. And read the Dow de Ching. Yeah, there you go. All right. So thanks, guys. Hey, thanks. Thank you. And I'm very distracted today

because I mounted all of the cameras on booms to get them out of the way and it was supposed to be awesome and I bought these 16-foot cables that are USBC on one and USBA on the other and a nice expensive USBA hub for it to plug everything in and none of it works.

Oh, shoot. One camera works. So now I've ordered, you know, for sake, you know, it just, you know, these are expensive cameras too. And, you know, the computer was not cheap and everything is, you know, reasonably, you know, high, not high class, but highfalutin. Highfalutin. And it doesn't work. So

now I'm going to have to use up all my USB ports on my computer to run these stupid-ass cameras because that's the only way that you can run them apparently if you run them through it anyway and nobody cares but it just pisses me off. I knew there wasn't a reason to shower yet.

Good. Right. No one can see you where he just got one camera that works out of all of them. The other one works, but it works about one frame per second. Oh, wow. And then the third one doesn't work at all. Oh, for goodness. And they all worked fine before. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Asholes. Until somebody started messing with it. Anyway, if you want to watch us do this abortion, it's YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine. Usually 1 o'clock on Saturday,

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We did have a question from the fluid family. It's from Dennis Dunn. It says, now good doctors. Is there a medical name for the explanation for people who dread the holidays

and cheer once they're over and all the decorations are taken down? Yes, that's called Dr. Steve syndrome. The Grinch syndrome. Happy holidays.

Yeah, it just really is just your bah, humbug, your Scrooge. But this made me think of something that I heard about, which is there are Christmas phobias. Oh, okay. There's one called cellophobia or celophobia, S-E-L-A-phobia. It's a fear of flashing lights. And these phobias sometimes develop through a negative association. And a person with celophobia may, for example, experience migraines or seizures from flashing that's not really a phobia if you have seizures from it.

Or they may trigger traumatic memories from childhood or perhaps even military conflict. Then there's cisanophobia. This is a person with cisanophobia would prefer to take their chances refusing a kiss beneath the mistletoe. This is a fear of kiss. missing beneath mistletoe. Oh, my word. It's less likely to do with the mistletoe more about being grabbed and kissed by a stranger. I don't know why anybody would not like that unless, I mean, I guess.

That's so weird. Yeah. And then syngenesisphobia. Singenessophobia is called familial phobia, as refers to a fear of relatives, which can include close families, such as siblings or more distant relations. And then melagrissophobia is a phobia of turkeys, fear of turkeys. Well, just don't cook turkey. Cook turkey for Thanksgiving.

What are we doing? My turkey for Thanksgiving this year was amazing. It was. So what are we going to do for Christmas? Standing rib roast. There you go. That's right. Excellent.

Phonophobia. This is an aber. an aversion to loud noises and some people absolutely fear them. This is also known as Ligerophobia or sonophobia as a fear of loud noises and

this would be, you know, if you're doing cracker pulls or you've got a whole bunch of people in your house, that might be, and this might be a Christmas-related one. And gab phobia. I don't know. G-H-A-B-H-Pobia.

Gab-phobia. Why is that extra? H in there. It's a person with social anxiety who hates the attention placed on them once they receive a gift. Everyone stares at them as they unwrap their gift. This is followed by the need to smile,

appear happy, and possibly answer questions. Oh, is the liver a mussel or an organ. I don't want to answer any questions today. Answering questions. Shut off. Well, then this is, okay, you've got to be

It's careful how you pronounce. This is P-H-A-G-O-Fobia. It's phagophobia, not what you were thinking, Dr. Scott. As everyone gathers around the table, the person with phagophobia starts feeling very nervous. It's a fear of eating or swallowing. I was thinking phagocytosis. Well, right. That's where that comes from.

That's what I figured. So P-H-A-G-E, phage is a Greek subversive. prefix for eating. So phagocyctosis would be eating a cell. Yeah. On one cell eating a different cell. Okay. Now this one I'm going to have trouble with.

Christogeniotica phobia. Christogeniotica phobia. This is a Greek word, it looks like, a full-blown fear of Christmas itself. The phobia typically develops in early childhood may overlap or include some of the phobia's previously listed. Fear of Father Christmas or Sinterklaus is Santa phobia.

Parties Symbosophobia or Christmas rituals can all feed into the general phobia of the Christmas season. So that might be what Mr. Dunn is worried about.

And then ecclesiophobia. Can you figure out what that might be? Ecclesiophobia. Nope. Yeah. It's someone who fears church. Oh, well, yeah. Could be fear of the church building or what the church represents. And then, let me see, here's the last one is, oh, just a little, no, treatment for these phobias would be cognitive behavior of therapy, hypnotherapy, and counseling.

And lots of presents. Yeah, I guess. If you give them a lot of presents, they'll start loving it again. Unless they have that present phobia. Oh, yeah, that's right. Then you're just being mean. With an extra age of that. Then you're just rubbing it in, right?

Anyway, well, there you go. There's my answer to Dennis. Well, we forgot to talk about Scott's website. Good question. About Scott's website. Oh, yeah. Did we forget to talk about Scott's website? Yeah, we went straight to the question.

That's okay, though. Okay, well, yeah. Check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyerbils.net. That's simply herbals. You're right, I did. I went straight to talking about Yeah, I was so excited. You're so excited about your answering that question.

Your phobophobia, the fears of fears. Do you ever get any orders that's simply herbal stuff? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I do. All right. Are you still sending stupid chotchkees out because I've got some stuff? Absolutely. I have some stickers that you can throw in with that.

Yeah, that'd be great. Anything you've got, it would be wonderful. A big pile of shit in here. That'd be fabulous. Thank you. I will have. I need some of that. Okay.

A pile of shit also. Okay. Yep, I'll give them to you. All righty. Sounds good. Let's do. Let's do Tacey's Time of Topics. That sounds good to me.

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. Well, hello. Hello. Feel free to use the bathroom. Okay.

Okay, so I think we've gone through this, some of these before, but it's been a long time. So we're going to go over. I want to do the Frenchman one for sure. A few weird but real medical conditions. Okay. And the first one is called the Jerusalem syndrome. It occurs when a visit to the Holy Land triggers obsessive ideas about religion and even messianic delusions. The condition can affect anyone regardless of religion.

religion. Symptoms include compulsive cleaning and grooming, wearing right robes, white robes, white robes, and ceremonizing. Suffers without a pre-existing psychiatric condition typically return to normal within five to seven days, feel some shame, and recover completely. Well, you know, what's funny is that it's not dissimilar to if you get in a wreck and you survive it and you go, oh, I'm going to change my life. I almost die. That literally lasts for five minutes. Yep. That happened to me once. Yeah. I got it a bad wreck and I was like, oh my God, you know, I almost died. I'm going to really change the way I am. Nope. Nope. Now, there are different types of Jerusalem syndrome. Did you know that? No, I did not. There's three types.

Okay. There's Jerusalem syndrome imposed on a previous psychotic illness. So that's someone who's psychotic that goes and becomes, you know, has messianic delusions or whatever, yeah. And then type two is Jerusalem syndrome superimposed on uncomplicated by idiosyncratic ideas. This could be someone that has a, you know, is eccentric or already has some sort of idiosyncratic beliefs. It's not really a psychotic thing. It's just maybe an encapsulated psychosis. And then type three is Jerusalem syndrome as a discrete form, uncompounded by previous mental illness. So this would be someone that was previously, quote unquote, normal, who went to the Holy Land and then came back Messiah.

Wow. Yeah. That's interesting. All right. Topic number two. Yes. Walking Corpse Syndrome. Ooh.

Otherwise known as Kotard syndrome, it is a neuropsychiatric disorder in which a person believes they are dead or missing their soul, organs, blood, or certain body parts. Can you imagine? That would be just horrendous. Yeah. Because this condition is so rare, it has been difficult to pinpoint the mechanisms that cause it. Huh. Do they say any more about it? No, just that patients can spontaneously experience a complete recovery, even in some. severe cations. Oh, really? That's incredible.

I'm trying to find somebody who might have that on YouTube, but no, it's just a bunch of people talking about it. Oh, here's a teaching interview. Okay, major depressive episode with congruent psychotic features now. Never mind, this isn't going to be any good. All right. I should have done a little bit of show prep on that one. Maybe. Okay.

Third topic, foreign accent syndrome. Yes. Remember when we were playing that game, Secret Hitler? Yes. And everybody was using a German accent. Yes. It is kind of like that. Secret Hitler is a great game, by the way.

Never heard of it. It's fun. It's basically you have a bunch of people who are trying to vie for control of this government. and the one person is Hitler, but they have to act like they aren't, but they have to put forth certain policies before the parliament. And they've got to get enough of those without anybody accusing them of being Hitler. And the first time you play it, it's like, I don't know about this game. And then by the third or fourth time, you have people standing up, screaming and pointing at people,

Hitler, they're Hitler, don't, you know, don't allow them to, to progress any further. And so it's fun. Yeah. I just like to pretend like I'm Hitler. Yeah, she did that the whole time. And then when she really was, nobody guessed it. Oh, how funny. Foreign accent syndrome.

Yeah. This rare condition causes people to develop a foreign accent. The disorder is caused by damage to a part of the brain associated with speech. Stroke is the most common cause, but trauma tumors and other neurological conditions. conditions, such as MS, may also cause patients to begin speaking with a different accent. So what it is, it's not really a foreign accent, isn't it? It's just a different accent. Yeah, the accent usually isn't very good, it says, and native speakers can recognize that it's not authentic. Speech therapy may help, but symptoms can last for years or become permanent.

Here's a person, this is from CBS News. Rare Syndrome makes Texas mom speak with foreign accent. Let's see. They always are asking me how my mom got that accent. Lisa Alamia. Oh, I'm not from England. Sorry. Is 100% Texas. People who don't know me that, hey, where are you from?

I'm from Rosenberg. Oh, where's that? I'm like, we're here, Rosenberg. Oh, you're from here. How did you talk like that? So that's when the whole story comes up. Isn't that interesting? Now, you would know if she was phony baloney if she started saying things like in it and, you know, oh, look at the

that bloke and stuff, right? Or get in, get in. Or are you taking the piss because someone from Texas would never say that, but someone from the UK would with that accent. So if she says, right, yeah, pants. Oh, my cake is pants. Now she said that, then you know she was phony. Because she has a foreign accent doesn't mean that she's going to speak a different

dialect. Right. Use different words differently. So I don't know, but that's really interesting. She still sounds like a... She uses Texas Hillbilly language with an English accent. That's right. That's how you would know that it was real.

That makes sense. Okay. I'm with you now. That she wasn't watching the British baking show and just decided that she's going to... Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's hilarious. The next one? Jumping Frenchmen of Maine.

Okay. This condition is named after a group. of French-Canadian lumberjacks who worked in Northern Maine in the 1870s, also known as hyperplexia. It involves an extreme reaction to stimuli that causes uncontrollable jumps and startle-induced falls. Most people first experienced symptoms right after birth, a condition referred to as stiff baby syndrome. The syndrome can often be effectively treated with benzodiazepines, a drug class used to treat anxiety. there you go it's got to be related to like fainting goats yeah because fainting goats when you startle them they'll kind of jump and then they just faint yeah that's a funny thing yeah

that's all it says about it's a startle reaction is a natural occurrence it's normal rapid involuntary response to sudden or unexpected stimulus the jumping Frenchmen of Maine were different. They had, they wondered if it was an extreme condition response to a particular situation but it was first identified among these late 19th century

people in Maine and Quebec among an isolated population of lumberjacks. So I just wonder if it was genetic. Yeah, interesting. Almost that day you'd think. It's a one group of culturally specific similar disorders called the Startle-Mam.

Matching syndromes. There you go. What about that? Interesting. This next one sounds pretty cool. Dr. Strangelove syndrome. This condition involves uncontrollable hand or limb movement. The condition is also referred to as alien hand syndrome.

From time to time, when the other hand is engaged, the effective hand may hop in and try to interfere with that hand to do something to counter it. How can you imagine? That happened in Dr. Strangelove. That's crazy. The AHS is usually the result of a tumor, stroke, or surgery that affects the corpus callosum. Right. That's the group of nerves that connect the right side of the brain to the left side of the brain. And damage to the right hemisphere impacts the left hand and vice versa because one side of the brain controls movement of the body's opposite side.

Yeah. Yeah, here I'm looking at an article from, what is this, from procedures of Baylor, University Medical Center. 77-year-old woman presented with a complaint of observing her left hand, moving without her knowledge, while watching television. It stroked her face and hair as if someone was controlling it. Creepy. Movements only last a half an hour, but on recovery, she had left hemiparysis. In other words, she had weakness on the left side.

So it happened just for about a half hour, and then she was paralyzed on that side. So it's probably a prodrome of a stroke. Right. And, but alien hand syndrome, yeah, a phenomenon in which one hand is not under control of the mind. It is, but it's not under control of the integrated mind. So the other hemisphere is just doing stuff on its own. Do you remember that video they had years ago in abnormal psych that they showed some people that had terrible seizure disorders? Yeah.

And they had cut the corpus. commosome and they're showing the one gal that was going into her closet and she thought she wanted to wear a red dress or whatever it is but every time she picked up her left hand her left hand would be like nope picking the blue dress

wow and then if she went with the whichever side it was I can't remember the other hand yeah but the other hand would pick out the dress she was thinking but the other side of her brain was trying to say no this looks better on you yeah and that's something god it's great yeah if there's all kinds of weird effects that can happen when you break those

because the left side of the brain is where language is. And the right side of the brain is mute, but it processes things. And it has other, it's like you, you can draw with the right side of the brain. And almost anybody can be a really good artist if you can learn to turn your left brain off. There's a book called Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain for anybody's interested. I did that class. And it was cool. I drew, I can't draw, but I drew a photorealistic picture of my,

right hand left hand but it was such a pain in the ass i never wanted to do it again but it was cool knowing that i could but anyway um the uh if so you can show a picture just to the right side of the brain and because the eye is divided up that way too so you can you can create a device that will show a picture only to the right side of the brain let's say it's a horse and then you ask the person what they saw and they can't name it but as soon as you show them pictures of a bunch of different things

they can pick out the picture of a horse wow yeah it's really interesting isn't that incredible yeah yeah so that concludes Tacey's time of topics very good that's it those are the only ones you liked out of that well I mean I don't want to waste them all on one show oh okay

that's okay we're just killing time I'm sure the listeners appreciate Yes. All right. Well, thank you. That's good stuff. That's good. Thank you.

All right. Well, let's take some phone calls. Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. So, yeah, there's a little backstory to this one. Hey, Dr. Steve. Hey.

I just want to piggyback your little fight with Gino. Okay, really. So, yeah, he's talking about Gino Bisconti, who we've had on this show. And I've been on his show. We're fine. He, I guess, just got wound up because I showed a picture of my partner's COVID-19 test that was positive. And we were in the same room, like this size for eight hours. And I just posted it.

You know, don't post anything about COVID. No. Because I posted it on Twitter. I said, well, I guess we're going to see if this vaccine works. Well, what everybody knows, I took the vaccine, the booster, and why I did it, Gino doesn't know any of that. And he just starts sending me all these articles about why the MRNA vaccine is bad. And my stance has always been. I'm not pro-mandate.

I'm anti-mandate. It's not been approved by the FDA. And but I think it's a matter of choice. for me, because it took out an eighth of my lung before, and I'm at old, I'm at extremely high risk of any upper respiratory virus. So for me, the benefit outweighs the risk. For other people, you've got to talk to your health care provider about it and figure out which risk is. Then you just decide. It's, you know, I couldn't be more libertarian on this, but he doesn't know that.

But he doesn't listen to me. And so he just saw me do that. And it's like, you know, he started just with the typical screed, you know, the anti-MR&A vaccine screed. And that's fine. And I just said, I don't know, Gino, I don't watch what the hell you're talking about. Well, anyway, once he sobered up, we were fine. He's like, hey, buddy, come back on my show anytime. So, but that's what he's talking about.

Okay. And what it was, the thing that really set Gino off was there was an article in a, in a, in a, a magazine or an online site called the Epic Times. And I just made a joke saying, oh, that great medical journal, the Epic Times. I see how do you feel about the new DNA contamination they're finding in the vaccine? Yeah, let me know your thought. Yeah, okay, so I will. So what he's talking about is that the Epic Times had an article saying that they found

DNA of this monkey DNA called SV40 and the let me see if I can get the full claim. Okay. So on June 11th,

2023, Epic Times republished an article by Joseph Mercola, who is well known in these circles about this stuff, which carried the headline monkey virus DNA found in COVID-19 shots. The article claims that a group of scientists had found massive DNA contamination in the MRNA COVID-19 shots, including Simeon virus 40, promoters. That SV40 has been linked to cancer in humans.

The finding of DNA means the MRI COVID shots may have the ability to alter the human genome. Okay, so this same article was republished. This is a pre-print article, and this is a study that's not been peer-reviewed. It's authored by McKearinen et al, and they're a group of sciences at a place called Medicinal Genomics. It's a company that offers nucleic acid sequencing services. In the pre-print, they claimed that they detected DNA in the Pfizer-Bio-N-Tech COVID-19 vaccine, and in particular, a particular gene sequence originating from the simian virus, SV40. This is known as a promoter which can enhance expression of a gene that is located after the

promoter. And they explain more about promoters. It doesn't matter. And that's the finding that forms the basis for the article's claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could modify DNA and increase cancer risk. Now, one of the most significant problems with this article is that the vials tested were of, quote-unquote, unknown provenance. In other words, the authors explained the vials have been sent to them anonymously in the mail without cold packs, but that the vials were unopened. Okay. So whether the vials were actually MRANA vaccines or not is questionable, and they admit

that in the original article. So, you know, the other thing about this SV40, it's known to cause cancer in certain animals like hamsters. Epidemiological studies don't find an elevated risk in cancer in people. Now, let me just give you the nail, and that's not a nail in the coffin, but a very important piece of information. SV40 DNA was found in a polio vaccine. long, long time ago and a certain proportion was a polio vaccine

administered between the 50s and the 60s were contaminated with the virus, the actual virus, not just the gene, the actual virus SV40. And they followed these people. That was my generation that got the polio vaccine. I may have gotten this exact vaccine.

They followed people over time have not detected a higher risk of cancer. answering people who receive the polio vaccine during that time period. So listen, that's the science. We'll see. Let's see when this article is actually printed. If it makes it through peer review and ends up in a journal, then people will be able to look at it and maybe reproduce it. But if it is true that this vial came to these researchers, who they are a DNA sequencing lab,

and it can't be identified where it came from. Well, that's easy. Just take, you can buy Pfizer-M-R-N-A vaccine at any pharmacy. Right. And let's do the sequencing on that and see. Okay. You know? So I'm withholding judgment on this until I know that it really was off-the-shelf vaccine that anybody could have gotten.

Yeah, that's a good point. And listen, I have an open mind about this. I'm, again, I'm not a mandate person. This stuff has not been, you know, approved by the FDA as approved on emergency use authorization. I think people need to use their own choice to do these like everything else. You know, my body myself. I chose to do it because the risk for me of any virus. If they come out with a rhinovirus vaccine tomorrow, I will take it.

Rhinovirus causes calm and cold. I will take it because I am at risk of any respiratory virus because of my stupid bronchiactuses. All right. That's why. All right, Gino, Jesus. And I would, yeah, I will talk to him about it. But, you know, this thing has been, this article in Epic Times has been, been, has, has been shared on social media tens of thousands of times.

And when the actual article hits the journals, if it ever does. Now, if it doesn't, because journals say, listen, this isn't quality research. You don't know where this file came from. Then there will be a conspiracy that they're suppressing it. But this is a very simple study to do is just go buy. It's not like this stuff is hard to find. It's in every pharmacy in the United States. States.

Pull some have provenance where you've got, it's, you know, you have to have signatures all the way down the line from the factory to the truck, to the distributor, to the pharmacy, and now you have people sign off on that bile when you get it from the pharmacy or the distributor, and then you do studies on it, then we'll see. And then it has to be reproduced. Yep. Just to eliminate bias, it has to be reproduced by two or three. different labs.

And then, yeah, then we'll talk about it. What are the ramifications of that? The good news is we have an example of SV40 in the vaccine supply from the 1950s, and we've followed those people over time and there hasn't been an issue. Do we want our vaccines contaminated with DNA and virus, you know, semi-environ. No, hell, no, we don't. But I don't understand where this would come from because the MRNA is made in a vat in a lab. It's not made from things, living things.

So anyway, we'll see. All right. So that's my take on this right now where we are is we need a whole lot more information. Okay. Okay. And hopefully the YouTube algorithm is smart enough that it understands that we're having a scientific discussion here and doesn't strike our channel like it did when we spoke about that other medication. Yes, that was bad.

When we were just saying there are studies out there, there's 70 studies that people are looking at this stuff. So they're not idiots by thinking, well, maybe there's something there. Good God. When did this become so polarizing? It's very sad. Yeah. It was extremely mishandled for us to be worried about even being.

able to talk about this stuff. Yep. All right. Hey, Dr. Steve. This is Bill in Texas. Hey, Bill. I got a question for you. Everyone told me to get with you because you have accurate information on any diseases coming up.

Okay. President Eisenhower put out a message about this new thing we need to get shots for called polio. Oh, that son of a bitch. Wondering what you know about it. I'll be waiting for you because I hear you. reply in a timely matter. I'll be waiting by the radio. Appreciate it.

You take care now. You know, people do not remember what it was like before we had the standard vaccines. You know, I was, I'm old enough to remember, and I've said this before on the show. You know, we had a whole classroom in my school that had all the, the polio kids in it. Yep. You know, in wheelchairs and stuff. It's hard to believe, isn't it? Yeah.

And one of my classmates died from me. measles. So, you know, in kindergarten. So we were all happy to take back the vaccines at that time. Now, those were different types of vaccines. They were more standard. But still, there were issues there, you know. There were negative consequences to all of these things. But the benefit far outweighed the risk, you know. So there you go. What are you going to do? There is a super chat there, Dr. Scott, from Cardiff Electric. Yeah, I saw that. Yeah, I think we're a little too late.

Why? Well, because Cardiff Electric, evidently, has sliced his femoral artery. Not real sure how he knows that. Okay, well, thank you for the super chat. Canadian 699, which is 84 cents, U.S. Go ahead. So should we only read half of the? No, no, you can read it.

You can read it because he's a friend of the show. He sliced his femoral artery. When I was slicing a bagel on his lap, what should you do? longtime first first caller loves the show Wait he He's slicing a bagel in his laugh Yep

Yep And he severed his femurrilare Yeah it's too late Yeah so It's too bad He could have given us another A couple of those superchats Yep that's true

Well when you I tell you what Mr. Cardiff When you go to the emergency room Make sure you tell them Get your hand off my penis All right Thank you sir

And, yes, all, we don't beg for super chats like some places do. But if we see one, all of those questions will get answered, no matter how ridiculous they are. All right, very good. Lesson learned. Don't slice a bagel on your lap. Yeah, please don't do that. Slice away from yourself. That's right.

And the image of trying to slice a bagel in someone's lap. He's lucky it was just his femoral order. I'd rather go out that way than chopping my, you know, Johnson, my junkle region. Dr. Steve, Matt, and Charleston, I have a question for you about smelling salts. Okay, smelling salts, yeah. What are they, what are they really doing? What benefit could they possibly be specifically looking at the Juji Mufu smelling salts is crazy? I don't know what that is.

A super pit guy selling smelling salts and a bunch of other stuff for fitness. Oh, for fitness. Okay, well, now listen, the smelling salts. that I'm aware of is or ammonium salts and they put them in it. It just smells to high heaven. I mean, it's a really obnoxious,

sharp, painful odor. And so when you crack the vial and you put it under someone's nose, it just gives them a really nasty, noxious stimuli. Do you know anything about using smelling salts for fitness? What is this guy?

I don't want to blow up. I mean, I'm not going to crap on anybody's brand name. No, no, no, no. So, do you know anything about this? No, and I was going to look at it, but I couldn't understand what the brand name was, but the only time I've ever seen smelling salt used in for athletic performance were during boxing matches or football games when somebody gets knocked out cold. But I would assume it being a stimulant, it would be some kind of a way to stimulate the brain, stimulate energy. I don't know.

Yeah. If anyone has ever tried those smelling salts, it's not something you would want to do much of. Yeah, normally smelling, so I'm looking in an article here, and they agree with us. It's a combination of ammonia, water, and ethanol, and the ethanol just makes it even more volatile. Right. And it could also be a mixture of ammonium carbonate and perfume, but again, the perfume is going to be because it's got alcohol in it. And it makes it, when you open it up, it's going to go into your nose more easily. And it irritates the nasal membranes and the lungs, causes them to breathe faster.

Some people use smelling salts to counteract the impact of head trauma and get in the game sooner. Do not do that. There's a protocol for head trauma now that we have to follow. And let me see here. I'm looking at, okay, research from 2014 on athletes using smelling salts as a performance booster noted no positive effects from their use. This indicates smelling salts may offer a placebo. effect. But there was another study that found that the use of ammonia inhalants did have a positive

effect on peak force development on one strength test. And they think it's increased psychological arousal from the inhalants. So this might be someone that's powerlifting and, you know, they do the smelling salt and they can maybe do 10 more kilos than they normally would have been able to. Okay. And, you know, they don't know what they're going to. the short or long-term side effects are. These things have been around forever,

but nobody knows what the shit they're doing with them. They just seem to be annoying. Why don't they just tase themselves as they want to get better? That might work. As they're trying to run a hundred-yard dash tasing yourself in the ass as you're running. Yeah, just to run away from it. Yeah, there you go. That might work.

That's our next invention. This says repeated use of smelling salts in this way can put them at risk for future injuries. Really? Why? While smelling salts have no recorded negative effects, the addictive use of them for a sports boost could be hazardous and open the door for future substance abuse. Well, I think it could do that just psychologically, you know, that I'm looking for some performance in answer. But also, if you are using it and you get this psychological boost and you're lifting an extra 10 kilos, you may be opening yourself up to end. injury. So don't do that. All right. Here we go. Well, hey, Dr. Steve. This is Rob from Virginia.

Hey, Rob. To be exact. First, I want to say, I love the Rodey bass tuner. I have nine bass guitars myself, and this thing is a champ when it comes to tuning all my bases quickly and accurately. Great recommendation. Love the product. Okay, cool. Yeah, I didn't realize this was going to be an ad. But, yeah, go to rowdy.com. You can see this thing. Or you can just go to stuff.

Dottercom and scroll down. The roadie tuner is incredible. It will tune Dr. Scott's mandolins and also tune my bases. And you just pluck the string and it twists the knobs for you. It's really, it's very cool. But anyway. I hope that they continue supporting you guys for as long as possible. Thank you, my friend.

So here's my question. Is there any truth to, if you lose, for every 35 pounds that you lose, you gain an extra inch in your penis? Yes. The answer to that is a qualified yes. The relationship is only linear for a part of that curve. Because if you think about it, if you weigh 1,000 pounds and then you lose 350 pounds, well, I'd say 700 pounds. You're not going to gain, how many inches would that be? 700.

That would be a lot of it. Anyway, well, wait a minute. Okay, it would be 20 inches. You're not going to have a 20-inch penis at the end of that. So think of it this way. If you weigh 1,000 pounds and you're at a negative. And then you have to get down into a range of around 275,300. Then for every 35 pounds you lose, you will gain an,

inch of penis length until you get to around 150, and then after that, you're just going to become emaciated. So it is only linear for a short range of weights. But in that, it's pretty dang accurate. I remember double vasectomy Todd lost 70 pounds, and he measured two extra inches of penis length. But it's because you're losing the fat pad in the peasant. cubic area.

And I'm going to test this my damn self because I just noticed I'm grotesquely, you know, blobby. And I'm going to lose, I have got to lose some weight. I've got to get my eating under control. And, you know, I did Noom and I did so well on that. And then for some reason, I'm just like, well, I got this and just quit doing it. And that was stupid. But I am more motivated these days because of my psychotherapy and my. a pharmacologic psychotherapy.

I'm more motivated to do stuff. So I'm going to be hopefully testing that rule myself. So, but anyway, that's, yes, there, that is a relatively reasonable rule between that range of weights. All right. Coup. Dr. Steve. Yes. It's your old friend Terry.

Hey, Terry. AKA the booedmaster. The bood master. I am. He checks into our Patreon. Check us out on patreon.com slash weird medicine. Whenever we do a live stream, Terry, we'll jump in. I'm hoping everybody is well and came through Thanksgiving well.

Yes, thank you. I have something I want to talk. Sorry, Terry. It's something I never knew anything about. My little sister was brought to the emergency room and put them on. hospital because she had lost the use of her left arm and the left leg and almost entirely that of her right arm. Oh, my goodness.

She, uh, but she still was clear and able to speak. Okay. Originally they thought it was a stroke. Yeah, but, um, wait, did, which arm did he say that she lost? Left arm, left leg and right arm. Okay. Which is, that would be weird for a stroke. To cross.

And now, if it is your left arm and left leg, you would very often, if it were a stroke, still be able to speak. If it's on the right, then you're at risk of developing a speech disorder called aphasia. And there's two kinds, Broca's and Wernickees. And because the speech center is on the left side of the brain, which controls the right side of the body. So let's see. Seven or eight MRIs later. Seven and apparently a spinal tap. They believe it's spinal lesions.

Spinal lesions. Like an MS. Never heard of spinal lesions? Yeah, it sounds like MS. Yeah. And what I would do is give her steroids first. Not VIGs. Yeah.

And there's all kinds of stuff they can do to treat multiple sclerosis if that's what it is. Especially if it's acute onset like that. Yeah, and it has very, very, very, very, Typical sort of plaque-like lesions on your MRI. Lesions before. I've tried to do some of my own research. Okay. Anyway, yeah, I think, Terry, that's the likely thing just from what you're saying.

And it can happen suddenly, and it can be progressive or it can remit. Relapse and remit. And we have some people that just comes and goes and comes and goes, and it never gets worse or it gets If it does get worse, it gets worse very slowly. But let us know what they find out. There's some tests that they can do on the spinal fluid. There's a typical appearance on the MRI. And then you do some treatments, and if she gets better, that kind of makes the diagnosis.

I hope that she gets better quick. All right. It's good. All right. Let's see. Yeah. Hey, Dr. Steve, I got kind of a strange question. I guess it's relative, considering the tenor of your program.

I suffered from kidney stone that was one of the worst things ever happened to me in a long while. And it got at a point where the pain subsided and I could feel it. It was in the pipe ready to come out. But I noticed, well, I put this delicately, I was self-pleasure. and it seemed to me that the ejaculet had been stopped by something. I'm assuming it was the stone. Wait a minute. He had a kidney stone and beat off while he had a kidney stone?

Evidently. Holy crap. Now, that just shows you guys are different than women. I really wanted to get that done. If you had a kidney stone, can you imagine, you know, masturbating taste? Of course, maybe he thought the Ejacul would flush it out. Yeah, maybe. Do all things come through the same pipe?

Yep. Well, eventually, eventually. Thank you for your detail answer to this question, and I do believe it all men and brothers as well. Oh, yeah, very good. Thank you. That's my sign-off on my email. Time, long time.

I think Tutti Womini Siano fraternity It's Italian It says I believe All men are brothers Except Gina

When he's Jerking my chain On the internet But anyway, yes So these things All do pass Through a common pathway Which would be the urethra

So you would predict a stone distal, in other words, on the other side of the bladder sphincter, where all of these things are mixed together, because urine comes from the kidneys through the ureters, which are tubes that go to the bladder, from the bladder to the urethra, and out the end of the penis. Well, the skeins, glands, and the prostate, and the seminal vesicles, which you know, produce, so you've got sperm, prostatic fluid, and fluid from the skeens glands.

Or not skeens glands. Shit, the seminal vesicles. Sorry, that's the skeins and girls, yeah. That's the, the skeins glands are prostate analogs and women. Right. Sorry. Sorry. So the seminal vesicles, the prostate, and the vast deference all mixed together. to produce semen.

And there's two kinds of fluid, the sort of watery prostatic fluid, the more milky, you know, more, you know, velvety, seminal fluid. And then 2% of that is from the sperm cells from the seminal, from the Vaz deference. So all of these things mixed together kind of in, you know, a turbo mixer, where they all become one fluid, then are ejected through the. the urethra, and you have to have proper fluid dynamics for that to happen, because if you don't, if the fluid would have less resistance going into the bladder, it'll just go into the bladder.

Instead of come out to have the penis, right? Right. So you have to have a nice tight sphincter at the end of the bladder so that semen doesn't, you know, go backwards because you can't. X and only. It's an ex and only, that's correct. That's correct. And so, yes, if you had a stone in the urethra that was big enough and below the prostate, correct, right.

Well, yes, right. That would be implied by that. But you're right, Dr. Scott, to reiterate that, then, yes, when you ejaculated, it could have been obstructed by that. But you think at some point you would have had to pee that stone out and it would have been pretty quickly. And you would also have a lot of trouble peeing. If that stone is there And is that large enough to block your Yeah

You know your fluid Ejaculation But it just goes to show you I mean guys are just different Because they will masturbate even when they're suffering from kidney stones And you know what

Somebody asked me Where that song comes from And I got it off of YouTube It's gone It's nowhere to be found Anywhere on the internet I wonder if that guy had like a regular job or something and something happened. He scrubbed the internet.

I can't find it anymore. So I'm glad I have it. What were you going to say? I'll just say Loganfield's got a question for us. Okay, well, we have one minute. Okay. Have you heard of castor oil in the belly button therapeutically? I've never heard of that.

And the other part was, what's your opinion on? Therapeutically for what? It might make your navel feel good. No, it just says it's all that says is therapeutically in a belly button. He can clarify because he's still on there. Well, Tacey, you're raising your hand. What did you find on that? I just found that it's a TikTok trend, and proponents claim that applying oil to this area can improve many health concerns, as well as promoting weight loss and stress relief.

Experts, however, say there is no scientific evidence to support these claims. Now, they're also... It's Ayurvedic, is what I'm seeing. Okay. And it's fine. Look, if you think it helps, it isn't going to hurt... It's not going to hurt anything. A dermatologist...

Unless you're ignoring something. It says that oiling the belly button may help loosen up any crud, making the dirt easier to clean. Well, there you go. Now, that I absolutely agree. So, at the very least, you'll end up with a clean umbilicus. Umbilicus. Cha, cha, cha. All right.

It's called Pachote. Yes. Putting castoril in your belly button. Okay. Well, there's a name for it. It says here, the Ayurvedic, you know, tradition. feels that it relieves menstrual pain, improves sleep quality, gives you glowy skin, I believe that. Because it is connected to the uterus, this says.

Well, that's not even wrong that, I mean, not even completely wrong. You have a thing called a Eurekis that goes down and it was the, what it is is the, it's a remnant from when you were in your mother's, your mother's uterus. and it's part of the, you know, rudimentary blood supply from when you had an umbilical cord. The claims just don't end. Yeah, no, they never do. It's fine. They're really easy to do double-blind placebo-controlled studies on these things, and nobody ever does because it's so goofy. And number one, nobody can make any money off it.

Castor oil's dirt cheap, $18, $7 at CVS, you know. But what is castorail, though? Do you know? No. It comes from a castor seed. Yeah, castor beans. You know, what the hell is a castor bean? I'm looking it up on, I'm going to that excellent scientific journal, Wikipedia.

It's a vegetable oil pressed from castor beans. Colorless, pale, yellow liquid with a distinct taste in color. Huh. Yeah, it's a well-known source of ricinolac acid. Uh-oh. Is that like where ricin comes from? Ooh. I don't know.

Punishment. Here we go. Since children commonly dislike the taste of castorail, some parents punished their children with a dose of it. Physicians recommend against the practice because they did not want medicines associated with punishment. I agree with that. I remember when my previous, when my wife's kids, who I raised were in middle school.

I remember they were in assembly and I came there to pick them up and I heard the gym teacher yell at them. If y'all don't, if y'all ain't quiet I'm going to assign you a 750 page book and I was like and I can do it too and I'm like asshole

don't use reading as a punishment you fucking tool. I make y'all read 775 foot. The broad and paper. Mm-hmm. Shut up. Mm-hmm.

Anyway. Heavy dose of cast royal could be used as a humiliating punishment for adults. Colonial officials used it in the British Raj to deal with a recalcitrant servants. Yuck. Yuck. The most famous use as punishment. came in fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini. It was a favorite tool used by the black shirts

to intimidate and humiliate their opponents. They were force-fed large quantities of castor oil so as to induce bouts of extreme diarrhea in the victims. Well, you know, they did that to No Filter Paul and Opion Anthony, but they used Fleet's phosphosoda. Did you ever hear that bit? So he was a guy, he was British, he did T-shirts for Jim Norton. I think.

And, you know, he fancied himself to be, you know, a humorist and stuff. And they were like, okay, so here's what we're going to do. They put him in a diaper in the studio and set him on a kitty pool and made him drink a three-ounce bottle of fleets phosphosota, which we used to use for bowel prep. And it just rumbles through your gut like a tsunami, empty you out. and they put club soda Kenny at the door

and said you can leave go to the bathroom if you can get past Kenny and of course he didn't even try and it was just horrendous

the results so anyway all right that's one you might be able to still find that on YouTube if you look for

no filter Paul bowel prep maybe all right we got anything else no crystal William became, oh, welcome to the Fluid family. Yeah, the Crystal Williams.

And Loganfield, yeah, thank you for the super chat, my friend. You didn't have to do that. We don't beg for super chats. I'm just telling you, but we'll answer any superchats. All right. Okay, well, let's wrap this thing up. You're about ready to get out of here? We'll do it.

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