Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 583 - Mel B Toast 2

Episode Date: March 21, 2024

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But it's good for you. Yeah. According to Dr. Scott. Only for me, it's right. There you go. Anyway. All right. Good. Well, N.P. Melby, you're back. Last time you were here, we got a YouTube strike for me putting your surgical pathology up on the thing.

Yeah, apparently you're not supposed to do that. I don't know. Did they say it was gross? Yeah, it was just triggering or something. It was too graphic. That's okay. It was just barbecue chicken. That's what looked like, didn't it? It's pretty impressive. of raw chicken sort of parts

with barbecue sauce on it. Yeah. Yeah, so how's the post-thyroidectomy thing going? Yeah, good. Yeah, your voice? I sound like you did. It's getting better. Yes, my voice is getting better.

I have, every once in a while I get this virus where I get laryngitis and my voice will drop by an octave. And this is the voice. If I had a. a voice. I could work with this. If I had this all the time,

I could mold it into something that would be a much better radio voice than the one I actually have. This is definitely the male version of the fun girls. Yeah. Hello, doll. I masturbated doll. For those who linger longer, Mel B

doesn't know what I'm talking about. No, and that's all right. Yeah, I dated the fun girls. Yes, we've talked about this. Okay, you know that. Okay, all right. From Andy Griffith. That's right. That's exactly right. Yeah, and the younger one was the one that I actually, anyway, had intercourse with. And she said, oh, I'm Bernie.

Hello, Bernie. And then the older one, hello, doll, was the one that I, that's my biggest regret is that I did not stay and have intercourse with her. I was 17. It was my first experience. First experience with a woman. Oh, man. That's my biggest regret. I got out of there so fast.

And I understand that you had a life before us, but that story is so bothersome. Well, now that you have kids that are in that age group, it's creepy. It's terrifying. Yeah. And, yeah, but anyway, well, don't you just stick around, doll. Oh, my God. Hey, dog, can you get me another one of those cigarettes? Yeah, and she takes a glass of water and dumps it on her chest and goes, oops. And then took my hand to rubble.

water off of her chest. I was freaking the F out and I, it's, oh God, anyway. T.MI. That's worse. That's worse. That's worse. That's worse. That's worse. That's worse. That's worse. That's worse. That's worse. Yeah. Just a little bit. Really? No, yeah, that's the thing. I can tell that story.

And I get, no, no problem. Yeah, no problems. Show a picture of an actual thyroid. Yeah. And it's just like the laws. For example, we deal with the state of Virginia sometimes. And when you do a medical advance care plan, if I'm a notary, I've taken the oath, I took the class, I paid the fee, I've got the stamp, I'm bonded, and I'm insured. Someone signs a medical advanced care plan in the state of Virginia, and I notarize it. It's no good. It's not legal.

But you get two crackheads literally cooking meth in your parking lot and bring them in. to witness it, totally fine. Oh, my gosh. Totally fine. Lord. Yeah, it is. It's an interesting thing. You're a fucking idiot.

Oh, no, that was the wrong one. Well, that's because you're an idiot. And that is the law. If that is the law, then the law is a ass. Anybody remember where that came from for a bell? Name the author. If that is the law, then the law is. a ass.

William Shakespeare. No. Take a bell away. Dickens. Oh, damn, that was my third guess. Oh. All right. Well, Tacey, do you have topics today?

I sure do. All right. Well, let's just get into it. 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. I have one smart article. It's a little too smart. And then I have one really dumb one. Excellent. So let's start with this. Save the best for last, do the dumb one last.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. So let's start. This one is from Stacey Deloche, everyone. Okay. Right. Energy-starved breast cancer cells consume their surroundings for fuel. Yes. Breast cells ingest and consume the matrix surrounding them to overcome starvation.

And this is according to a new study published in the Open Access Journal, PLOS, Biology. The finding elucidates a previously unknown mechanism of cancer cell survival and may offer a new target for therapy development. Now, Steve, is this any news to anyone? Not really. I mean, we know that cancer cells recruit their own blood supply, and if they outgrow their blood supply, then the tumor will die, and that's what causes necrotic tumors. But, yeah, if cancer cells are going to, they're like everything else. They want to live. I mean, that's a teleological explanation.

They don't want anything, but they are dismal. designed or programmed or whatever, their mechanism wants, you know, to persist, so they'll do about anything that they can, and including taking energy away from cells around them. Well, then I'm not going to read it because it's a lot of gobbly gook. It's a lot of what? Gobbley gobbly gook. Gobbley gook. Gobbley gook. Okay.

Okay. So, yeah. So, I mean, was there anything else? and there, did they identify anything interesting? I mean, no, not from what I remember. It was just like, and the pooh, pooh, pooh, and it goes into the la la la, la, and then they eat. And I just, I don't. So, I mean, it was just.

You see? Your stupid minds. Stupid. Stupid. I mean, I don't want to put people to sleep. I appreciate Stacy's input, but it's like this is not a show for. Yeah, advancements. and unless there's something stunning.

Or advanced physicians. I mean, not even the regular doctors, like the smart ones. Yeah, we're not cool enough for the oncologist to be listening to us. Yeah. They ain't paying attention. The researchers, certainly. Okay, so here's the dumb one. You do have editorial authority.

You don't have to just throw everything up that's something. Well, I thought about it, but then as I was reading it, I remembered how smart it was. And then that's why I asked you that question. Yeah, fair. Okay. So, eight mistakes people make when they're getting sick. Okay, so everybody's getting sick. So listen up, people. Let's go. Don't try to power through it.

Don't keep up with your usual routine. Your body needs energy to fight off that cold or flu virus. So make rest a priority. A lot of people don't do that. Well, make lemons out of lemonade. When my voice gets like this, I call all my friends and do phony phone calls. Why? Why, because Myrtle sounds way more authentic.

When I got the way, I was just going to go, you can see if you're all right. That's way more authentic than when I normally do it. Anyway. Do not ignore flu symptoms. You usually don't need to see a doctor for a run-of-the-mill cold, but call them if you have signs of the flu, like a high fever, body aches, and fatigue. They can give you an antiviral drug such as Tamiflu or Relenza. Yeah, Raleenza's the, that's the kick-ass one. That's the hard one to get a hold of, though.

It is hard to get a hold of, but I prefer it. Tacey can't take Tammy Flew. Throw up all over everything. But Rolenza, no problem. Rolenza's inhaled. It's an inhaled powder. Tammy flu, like, I get no warning. Like, I'd be sitting here talking to you and just,

vomit everywhere. It's very attractive. It's crazy. Driving down the road, it happens to me. Like projectile vomiting? Projectile. Awesome. Yeah.

Yeah. No warning. No warning. No warning. Protect all of them. Awesome. Yeah. So, um... Tell me more. Tell me more. You know what? You had your story. I have mine. If you take one in the first 48 hours that you're sick, you can ease your symptoms and shorten your illness by one to two days. Yeah.

You skimp on sleep, not getting enough weak into your immune system, which makes it harder for you to battle that infection. One study found that people who get less than six hours of shut-eye and I, are four times more likely to get sick than those who log at least seven. So go to bed early and take naps during the day. Yes. And if your symptoms are keeping up, sue the nighttime cough with a little honey and rum, a humidifier to help you breathe easier.

I thought you said honey and rum, not run. Well, I would say both would work. I like to run, unless you're sober, in which case. Then just honey. Then just honey. Are we acknowledging the new presence in the room? No, I was going to. I was going to wait for a natural break, but I guess that's when.

So, hello, everyone. It's our buddy, Stacey DeLoch. Stacey Looch in the studio. Hey, hello, buddy. Yeah, we just shit on your question that you sent to Tacey. You missed that. It was just too smart. It wasn't.

You did a great job. I was listening to you when I was driving. Oh, you were? Okay. Well, if you want to grab a chair. She's a natural. She's a natural. and just sit next to Mel B there.

She's a natural. She's a natural. She did a wonderful job. Okay, number four, you bug your doctor for an antibiotic. Stop doing this. That prescription won't make you feel better. Antibiotics only kill bacteria, and colds and flus are caused by viruses. And as Steve always says, viruses got to live too.

Well, and the thing is, is that people, you pay good money, either you're paying a copay or you're paying. money to go see a provider, and then they tell you, well, you've got a virus, go take, you know, go take NyQuil. People get pissed. So the providers are under some pressure to give you a prescription for something, and that's where this antibiotic abuse came from. Yeah, it says nearly one-third of them are unnecessary.

Yeah, I totally agree, totally agree. And, you know, unless you've got evidence of pneumonia. or a true sinus infection. So many people are called sinus infections when they're really just a viral upper respiratory infection. You know, it can also raise your risk of side effects like diarrhea and allergic reactions.

You get the green apple quick step. Yeah, there you go. And then also, then you have the whole antibiotic resistance problem. Correct. That's the bigger. That's the bigger problem. You can get bacteria that are resistant in your own body

We did an experiment in medical school where you took your own shit. And, of course, we called it fecal matter. But you took your own shit. And then we analyzed it for antibiotic resistance. And we found we could isolate the plasmids that were bacteria. One form of bacteria will teach other bacteria how to be resistant. to things. And I had taken, I think, amoxicillin for acne back then.

And the professor was really, it was like, he was pumped. It's like, oh, you have amoxicillin resistant, you know, bacteria in your stool. And it was from taking that. So it is, we have had to fight bacteria in hospital back in the day. everything was sensitive to penicillin, now very few things are actually still sensitive to penicillin. One that is

is Group A strep though. It's crazy. Group A strep is so dumb, knock on wood. It's never figured out how to be resistant to penicillin. One of the reasons for that is that just a couple of doses will kill all of it. Gotcha. And that's where

resistance comes from. Let's talk about that just for a second. Well, Melby, you want to talk about that just for a second? Well, Melby, you want to talk about how things become resistant, how you get a resistant population. She's saying no. That's fine. So what people often will do is they

take half their antibiotics and they feel better and then they quit taking it. And what happens is let's say you have a million bacteria but now you're going to have hundreds of billions of bacteria.

But you have a million bacteria. and 10% of them will, let's say even 1% are resistant. So you kill all of the bacteria. And you've got that 1% that have slight resistance to this antibiotic that you had. If you'd kept taking it, they would have eventually died, but you didn't. And so now that 1% doubles and then doubles again and doubles again. And their doubling time is measured in minutes, not. days and weeks.

And the next thing you know is you have a whole population of bacteria that are actually resistant. They don't respond to that antibiotic. Same thing with cancer. I mean, that's what happens is, you know, you kick back cancer, but 1% of those cancer cells are resistant to what you get. Because natural variation, that's what protects us from all dying from one virus is we have this natural variation. Well, cancer cells have that too. bacteria have that, et cetera. So what we've done in this country is by overusing

anti-bacterials and people not taking their medication all the way to the end to kill all of the slightly resistant bacteria as we've got this problem of resistance where we have multiply resistant bacteria in the ICU. We can't kill them. There's no antibiotic that will kill multi-drug resistant acinidobacter.

Yeah, what were you going to say? Nothing. I thought you were waving. Okay. Anyway. Take all your antibiotics. Yeah. Yeah.

So if you are giving antibiotics, take them all. Right. Anyway, go ahead and Taye. Sorry. You don't drink enough. When you're throat aches, it's not easy to gulp down liquids, but when you stay hydrated, you can thin your mucus and break up congestion. Please don't ever tell Tacey that. You don't drink enough.

It can also. That's not wine, Tacey. It's water, not wine. It can also fend off head. eggs make sure you drink plenty of water for extra relief sip a warm beverage like a herbal tea or broth research so that it can help ease cold symptoms such as fatigue or so throat sore throat okay yeah is that gobbly gook what was it that you said golly golly gook golly gook I can't even say it right gobbly good drink more water is my answer to every

yeah drink more water my kids call me they say I don't feel good I'm like you should drink more water. My ex-wife, when her kids would get sick, well, I remember when they were like five or six or something, and she'd say, what's wrong with them? What's wrong with them? I said, it's a virus. I remember stomping up the stairs going, that's your favorite word. So, because most of the time, that's what it is.

Most of the time it is. And most of the time it'll run its course. Yep. Don't forget to eat. That's a pretty easy one. Don't smoke. Smoking damages your lungs and irritates your throat that can make your cold symptoms worse. That's a good answer to about everything. Don't smoke.

That's a pretty good answer. Don't get stressed out. A hormone your body makes when you're stressed is hard on the immune system. It also increases inflammation. What is this, cortisol? Yeah, that is true. Which can make your stuffy nose even worse. Make an effort to focus on relaxing and recovering.

So if you're sick, just be sick. Cortisone is an anti-inflammatory, but it also, as being an anti-inflammatory, it can reduce your immune systems, you know, vigor when it's trying to fight something. That's a good one, yeah. And with everything going around right now, just use the vampire cough. Yeah, cough into your elbow like Bella Lagosi did in Plan 9 from outer space. So you're not like snotting on your hands and then rubbing him on everything. So taste, does that mean you should, the old wives tell you should starve a virus and feed a? I mean, no.

It wasn't. In other words, you feed it and you drink it. Yeah, feed it and drink it. Feed it and drink it. Anyway, well, good. That's a good topics. Excellent. I should have followed some of that advice probably.

I got COVID and then I turned around and got pneumonia and then I've got this damn. Well, the problem with. And I got tested for, you know, everything. I got tested for RSV influenza and COVID, and I don't have any of that. It's just some dumbass shit-and-ass virus. The problem with professionals is they feel like they can't stop and take time to be sick. Yeah. And it makes things worse.

Well, I did this last time. You know, the first time I got COVID, I got Delta, and it was bad, and I never missed a day. This time I was like, you know what? I'm using my sick PTO, and I didn't work. and do anything. So that concludes Tacey's topic. Okay, that's a good one.

Thank you, Tacey. It's very timely. All right. Do we have any questions from the waiting room from the fluid family, Dr. Scott? Okay. Not yet. Well, let's, you guys want to do.

Stacy, what's going on with you, man? Passing through, headed to New Jersey. You forgot to stop and harassing. So talk into the microphone and tell us some maritime news. Let's talk about something. experienced a couple of months ago.

Okay. We're talking to the microphone. Okay. I'm used to looking at you while. It's okay. No, don't do that. Yeah, don't look at him. I just drew a blank on it.

Oh, man. For my sake. And it was so excited. Cabbageet. What is it? The Arretel just function will you stab yourself in your journey? Okay, yeah. Okay, let's talk about it.

Let's talk about it. It is scary at first. So, Kaverject is, Alprostadil. It's a prostate gland and that is injected into the base of the penis. Which is scary

to think that you're going to stab yourself. Yeah. Now you use a 30-gauge needle like a diabetic needle. It's a little bit thicker than a human hair. But it's about three times as long as like the ones that come into Zimpic.

Right, right, right. Because it's got to go all the way in because you've got a big meaty, you know, package. No, that's why I'm taking it. Right, fair. So, yeah, tell us the story. So you had erectile dysfunction and you were taking everything, right?

A little bit of everything, a lot of herbal stuff, everything I could try. Well, you try it. And then you tried the biagoras and the... And got massive sinus headaches and panic attacks and all kinds of stuff when it wouldn't work. Yeah. And so I came to you about it. Several years ago, there was Muse, which was a urethosupport. Right.

Mews was an Alprostadil urethral suppository. Which seems worse than a shot to me. That seems worse. It's a little pellet on the end of a thing that looks like a benzene ring, kind of. It's a hexagon. And you would put the little pellet. It's a little tiny pellet. Yeah, it was about the third of the size of a grain of rice.

And you would jam it into the urethra through the urethral meatis, aka the cockhole. And then you would click. There's a little plunger on the backside. correct and you push the plunge on that you know left the little grain up in there took about 10 minutes do you pucker you puckered when you get that little after the first time you do it it is so impressive oh the results it's worth it okay got you so long to it last about 45 minutes is that right what damn it was enough that there was long enough for the

preload it's just enough it was long enough that was pseudafed standing by Because Sudafed, you know, Sudafed will kill it. Correct. So, yeah, there was emergency Sudafed. It was impressive. Wow. It's the only time that the ex-wife tapped out, that's it, no more. Can't stand it.

Wow. Well. They don't make it anymore. Yeah. It was too good. Yeah. So the new thing, my biggest- Well, everyone had the same reaction that everyone, other than you and me had, is like, I'm not jamming something up my cockhole.

So it just didn't sell. Nope. You know? It was impressive compared to the new stuff. I had. Not if you've had what, not if he's. But you all have been traumatized. Sweet and love it.

I had patients that loved it. You have to come in the first time. And it's a little bit embarrassing. You have to go to the provider and they have to show you how to do it actually on your junk and make sure that it works before they can send you out. Right. So it was a real process. Yeah, I bet. Now, this is also true of the injection.

Yes. If it's done right, you have to come in to the provider's office, let them do the first injection and show you how to do it. That's how good. You're a friend, Steve and ours. He's held my junk and stab me. Well, that is true. That's what you do. That's what you do for your friends.

But my biggest fear was, I hate needles. Yeah, yeah. You know, the hardest thing I ever did in my entire life when I was in law enforcement, I went to EMT school and I got IVOS because I was going for a paramedic. And you had to start five lines on your partner. You had to start five lines on your partner. lines on yourself. Oh, yeah, yeah. And just so I developed such a fear of needles.

Yeah. That's the reason why COVID vaccine, you're not stabbing me. Yeah. It ain't going to happen until this stuff came out. Yeah. And it's interesting that, yeah, you wouldn't take a vaccine to, you know, maybe save your life, but you'll have one for a woody. Yeah.

It's a matter of what your value is. That's such a boy thing. Yeah. Well, it's like I wouldn't quit smoking because of lung cancer and heart attack. I quit smoking because I heard that it's the number one cause of erectile dysfunction and men over 40. The amazing thing about this, though, now, I got like 75% quality out of it. Out of. Out of the injection.

Okay. You know, when I actually tried it. But the amazing, like I said, my biggest fear was stabbing myself. Yeah. Well, you came into my office. I did. And so I wrote the prescription. And you came into my office.

And then I had to give you the injection. and show you how to do it and then you had to wait there and tell me say he wasn't going to help on the best part when he says you have to massage it I don't even massage it for a while

he's a fucking idiot bad joke you gotta have a little bit but anyway but the thing was is I didn't realize that inside the penis there's no nerve endings

so other than just like taking your finger pushing against your hand once you get past that once it breaks into the skin there's no feeling in there yeah it's kind of pressure

breast tissues It's kind of the same way. It's pressure, but not nerve, yeah, not sensory nerve. If you're doing a needle body biopsy or draining a cyst in the breast, you would think that it would really be painful. But once the needle goes in, every woman that I've ever done that on has told me it's just on the skin. After that they didn't feel anything. Right. So that's what amazed me about this is that, you know, I thought it was going to be, I was going to be leaning on the floor, screaming and crying.

Yeah. So, and to be clear, with most needle sticks, that's the case. Right. If you miss the cutaneous or superficial nerves, then a lot of times once you get through that skin inside the muscle tissue, muscle tissue is primarily pressure and not pain sensors. Right, yeah. So that's why, you know, even, you know, sometimes when they do surgeries,

they can, once they get you numbed on the outside, the inside is not, you know, that's true. Yeah. So that's not uncommon. Okay. Yeah. But, you know, this here, I can dial from a 2.5 to a 5 to a 5 to a 7.5 to a 10. Uh-oh.

After you played with it for a little bit, and you figured out if you needed more juice or less juice. So you can kind of dial it in. Or there's another one, which is either a 10 or a 20, you know, for volume. Mm-hmm. But I was glad that I've got insurance. Mm-hmm. Because it's going to be like $750 for two of these.

What? For two of what? For two of the syringes. Is it, and is that two injections? Oh, you got the brand name one. Okay, now you can get, okay, let's talk about this. So you got caverjacked. Yes.

I got what my. My friend wrote me. Well, because your insurance were covering. But Caverject is the branded version of El Prostadil, and what you're paying for is this delivery system. Because like he said, you can dial the dose, and then it gives a meter dose. Now, there is a way for people who you trust to do it properly to get generic alprostodil, and you just draw it up and inject it yourself. That can be done.

there's nothing preventing you from doing that's that's very inexpensive to this one here I actually had to gel break it we're not going to talk about how you did it no I did it or anything but to get to a higher dosage with it oh my goodness oh no hell no here we go we're going to be banned again I don't know anything about it but my biggest fear though was the size of the needle you had to go in either if you picture okay I have to quit using this phrase because when I was teaching maritime schools and everything I would say clockwise, counterclockwise. And my

little children would just look at me and just kind of what? Oh, because they don't use a dialogue. They can't read an analog watch or a clock or anything. But it either goes into the 10 o'clock or the 2 o'clock position. And my fear was, as long as the needle was okay, what if it goes inside

of my uretha? Oh God. Well, don't stick it in that far. Well, yeah, but look at how long the needle is. It's kind of, we're going to give just a shot and see what happens. But I wanted to thank you. It's impressive. Oh, good, good, good.

I'm glad. So you've been using it? You got 62 years old, and my girlfriend is 30. Oh, wow. Oh, I mean, see, in there. I mean, lots of cute those sounds there. But it's because you're an idiot. And luckily, with my insurance, it says $750, it's $45 for $2.

Wow. Yeah, you don't want to through and through with that puncture. Now, you did a lot. acoustic shockwave therapy, too, right? Did you get anything out of that? Nothing. Nothing. How much did it cost?

$850. Ha ha! Wow. Really, you got no benefit from it at all. None. Yeah, it's one of those things like, you know, if people use rogain, right. 33% will get nothing.

33% will get to keep the hair that they have, and then 33% will grow. So about a third do really well with it. it. And so, yeah, you pay the $800, and sometimes it helps. It's a roll of the dash. What you're really doing with the acoustic shockwave therapy is inducing microtrauma, which induces stem cells to regenerate the spongiform tissue in there. Speaking of which, this isn't the perfect time for it, but did you see the newest study

for getting into the brain without surgically doing is through ultrasounds and exactly what you're talking about, the sonic therapy? Oh, really? So what do they do with? To allow medicines, they'll actually put people in a scanner. Yes. They'll put them in a scanner and they stimulate it. It allows the medicine to get through the blood-brain barrier.

We talked about this, I thought. I think we were going to it, but we didn't get to it. Was that one of your, one of your? I mean, something like that, yeah. Where they, there's medications that won't pass the blood-brain barrier, but what they can do is they give those medications and then hit them with ultrasound at the, you know, at the, you know, at the, layer of the menageal lining, and it will actually allow those medications through.

And we talked about that could be bad because the blood barrier is there for a reason. And as long as it's temporary and only happens while they're doing that, it might be a really good thing. Well, that's what I was reading earlier in a week, and I had actually seen a little bit of it on television. But they're using this to actually treat brain-specific injuries, strokes, Alzheimer's, the menses and things of HMS, you know. I'm really hoping for some, you know, the last big frontier is the neurologic system. You know, repairing spinal fractures of the cord like, you know,

Christopher Reeve and, you know, other, obviously, lots of other people who have had spinal cord injuries. And also figuring out, I mean, we don't know what consciousness is, so how are we going to fix it when it gets, screwed up. Just obviously, just dumping buckets of serotonin into people's brains works for some people when it

comes to depression, but lots of people just doesn't work. Well, it's the neurological thing, too, it's not just the central nervous system, the peripheral nervous system. Because, you know, we all see people all the time with neuropathies. Yeah. Or, you know, after they've had a, you know, a surgery on a knee, and now all of a sudden they get a

neuropathy in their foot, and we can't get that pain to calm down. They get dropped foot, you know, things like that. Complex regional pain. Yeah, CRPS, I mean, it's just getting the nerves is really the next big thing. The supplement, I have peripheral neuropathy, just came out of nothing, and I feel like, do you know how you feel when you play, like when you fingerpick the guitar or you're on the fretboard all the time, and you get that little callous on there, and you lose some fine, that's how the tips of my fingers feel all the time. I have to see something or I can't manipulate it anymore, which is kind of sad. I went through a bout where my hands would just

This is right I post You know After I had my little mini stroke and everything 2017 My hands would just stop working I would just have to smash them into the table Wake them up Look now we're working

There's like a shortage in there That's when the ED started and everything What's kind of is a shortage That's exactly Just the nerves are not communicating normally Sometimes it's in your brain Sometimes it's in the periphery Yeah right

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I texted earlier that I matched my number one. for surgery, which I'm very excited about. Excellent. So what happens, it's sort of like the military in a way that they tell you where you're going to go. You get the highest place that ranked you the highest. That's how this works. You have a list.

They have a list. And the computer matches you up with the highest place that you ranked, that ranked you the highest. Thank you for the years of my random texts and give me information and guidance. I like you say, the beneficiary is those who have called. come before me and great mentors, and it was a great thing to have folks that you look. I just reach out to. Hope all as well.

Have it going. Yeah, you too, man. So he would be a second year or third year surgical resident now. So had to do all his training during COVID. That's always lovely. I really feel bad for people who started their training during COVID, don't you? That's when I started. Yeah.

Well, that is true. Well, you were a nurse before. I was a nurse before. But, yeah, you did your all-in-nors-practitioner stuff during COVID. I finished my master's program in 2020. God. And my last semester when all those really important clinical hours take place with you and a couple other people got cut short. And I didn't even get to finish my hours.

Is that right? Well, we finished technically the hours. Okay. But it was done through continuing education and online classes and CMEs and things like that. Well, in your case, it worked great. the one of the best you know advanced practice providers I've ever worked with so yeah for real

yeah NPE Melby is no bullshit she's the real real deal yeah all right hey it's Pat what is the composition of vaginal fluid and what is everything you need to know about vagina health

okay thanks for thank you very much for being on the radio. Hey, thanks, Pat. I mean, much for the serious X-M. All right. I can do a Tacey's time of topic on that if we would like to. Do you have it?

I mean, ready? Already ready? No, I don't have it already. That would be awesome. Yeah, I thought you were saying, well, wow, I was going to be very impressed. I still will be impressed. But I'll give the Reader's Digest version, and then maybe next time you can do, because we did do fast-fagg facts with D&P Carissa.

Yeah, we did penis health. Yes, which was really a good topic. Yep, yep, that's right. We were very interested in that. It was so not. It was perfect. Let me answer this particular question about what vaginal fluid is supposed to be. It's mostly water because our bodies are mostly water.

It's got some salts. It's got a little phosphate in it, a little sodium chloride. There's some organic compounds in there because it is mucus. And there's some fat cells and amino acids. There's antibodies that float around. in there that help the body reduce the risk of infections and stuff, and then there's old cells. Dead skin cells? Yeah, dead, you know, vaginal skin cells and uterus and cervical cells.

Now, when naughty bacteria get in there, then that changes things. So you can get a thing called bacterial vaginosis, that's where the sort of fishy smell. comes from. And we actually will diagnose it that way. You do a thing called the WIF test, so you can take vaginal fluid, put it on a slide, and then add potassium hydroxide to it, and then you smell it. And if it smells like fish, then that is suggestive. Now, you want to look under the microscope and see what are called clue cells, which are white blood cells with bacteria all over them. And when you see those, then you can make the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis.

And then all you have to do is replace those bad bacteria with good bacteria. So one way you can treat it is with plain yogurt. Okay. Because one of the evidence that either the SIM programmers that created this universe or the creator of the universe has a, a sense of humor is the fact that the bacteria that make the vagina healthy is the same bacteria that makes yogurt yogurt so I think that's but so you can take plain yogurt you can use that or you could take a medication called metronidazole which also you cannot drink with

because it acts like a drug called antibuse which it makes you extremely sick if you drink while you're taking it so wouldn't you try the yogurt for yogurt first I mean ideally yeah yeah now how do you get it in there well don't use fruit on the bottom yogurt use plain yogurt then don't not a frozen popsicle yogurt no no well that might be no that would be bad that would be terrible turkey baster yeah kind of you want a sort of a turkey baster kind of thing you could take a monostat applicator yeah which is basically just a hollow really large bore syringe kind of thing not a needle but and you just draw it up in there and then squirt it

on in. If it doesn't work, then you can always do the metronidazole. But if you don't know what it is and you are having vaginal problems, go see your OBGYN. Don't listen to me. Right. Right. Merely suggestions. That's right. We're just giving you

things that we might tell people to do. All right. Then there are the other bacteria like gonorrhea, chlamydia, and stuff like that that cause other problems. And the problem with chlamydia is that can be asymptomatic until it's not. A man can have asymptomatic chlamydia, give it to a woman.

Then the woman can get a thing called a tubo ovarian abscess from that, which can cause infertility and all kinds of stuff. So when they want to test you for this stuff, just let them do it because it's so common and they're actually pretty easy to treat. So, ok-do. All right. Let's do, how about this one? Hey, Steve Irino, everybody.

That's not my name. Hey, man. Anyway, sorry I did that initially. That's fine. Hey, Steve, what's going on? It's totally fine. Jesus. Oh, my God.

Get to it. The clock's ticking. Okay. Oh, wait. Oh, wait. Something that may be helped. Sorry, let me. Because I'm at the vitamin shop, and you hear these zinc supplements maybe.

Yeah. Helped a little in the fight against COVID once you have it. But what about some preemptive measures? Maybe taking some zinc now. I mean, what harm could it do? I remember the ADAC, vitamin ADE and K, so don't do those. Those are fat soluble. Very good.

Give thyself a bell. He remembered ADE. E and K are fat soluble vitamins and there's been paying attention. Yeah, very good. Don't, don't overdose on those or don't megadose those drugs. Anyway, what about the zinc and do you recommend any other precautionary measures maybe? Sure, well now I'll talk a little bit about zinc and common cold and then if you guys want to talk about preventing, you know, viruses, that's pretty, pretty easy stuff. But so there have been therapeutic trials of zinc.

This is why people were pushing zinc for, you know, the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-Cove 2. Because other coronaviruses have been shown to respond to zinc. And so, you know, people were like, well, people were crazy thinking all the, you know, zinc and all these other medications, you know, the eye. drug and all that stuff, but there were reasons why they thought these things, and wouldn't it have been nice if we had something off the shelf that we could use? Well, anyway, 10 studies reported on durations of symptoms while taking zinc. They were taking 10 to 24 milligrams of zinc gluconate, Alazans, taken every one to four hours during the day for three to seven days, and six.

of the studies were similar enough to allow for pooling of the results. So, you know, they did this meta-analysis of the data. And the pooled results showed patients who took zinc had a shorter duration of cold symptoms compared with those

on placebo. Now, it was pooled results from five trials revealed that zinc significantly reduced the severity of symptoms by a standard effect size of 0.39, which is considered a small to moderate effect. So it has some effect. The zinc nasal spray was shown to be effective for the

cold, but it also was shown to cause anosmia or loss of this sense of smell. So those were taken off the market, but the zinc lozenges still seem to have some efficacy when it comes to the common cold. Now, I have no data that shows that if you take them while a cold is going around that, it'll prevent anything. Go ahead. days. Every time you come home from the hospital with some disease, my friends are like, do you have echinacea on board? Do you have vitamin C? Do you have all this other stuff? You should be taking it right now. Is that bullhockey? So they're all prescribing, you know, practicing medicine without a license.

Yeah, J.C's friends like to do that. And yeah, vitamin C not really shown any efficacy that I'm aware of. What about echinacea? Scott. Well, I was going to say what I would suggest, seriously, what it's been proven is you salt water and gargling will kind of help keep the virus from getting in your mouth and throat. And CBD nasal sprays will help blood. I've got evidence. I've got evidence. Where's your, okay, if you have evidence, I do want to see. I've got evidence.

I've got evidence. It's been shown CBD. Cannabinoids have been shown inside the nasal passages to block certain viruses from being. Send that to me. Yes, I sir will. Okay. By gosh. All right.

So I'm just looking at the date on echinacea. There is some data that says it might slightly reduce your chances of catching a cold, not been shown to shorten the length of a cold. Zinc is the only thing that I'm aware of that's ever shown any efficacy. What about Sambuca or elderberry? Yes, they all antiviral. They say elderberry too. Natural antiviral.

Allegedly. Oh, let's see, Elder Barry. Oh, here we go. Well, I'm in trouble. Hurry up. Calm and cold. Clock tick. Tick, tick, tick.

Okay. Participants suffering from a cold episode while taking Elder Barry would on average experience a two-day shorter duration of the cold would experience lower symptom severity. I don't. So let's see what kind of study this was. This is...

No. Fuck off. You want to. in trouble. You want to know if the data's good, right? Of course. Okay. You need a bell for that, don't you? I should have got a bell already, right.

Eat shit because it was a, it was a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled clinical child. So I can endorse Elder-Bronary under those circumstances. It's not going to hurt it. So my friends that practice medicine without a license are actually correct. Well, you know, a clock is right twice a day, even if it's broken. Unless it's a digital clock. Yeah, unless it's a digital clock in which case it's black. I always lie to them and say, yes, I've got it anyway.

No, I've got no problem. This is a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial of 312 economy-class passengers traveling from Australia to an overseas destination aimed to investigate if standardized membrane-filtered elderberry had beneficial effects on physical, respiratory, and mental health. Wow. There you go. What a crazy study, though. It was kind of crazy. Yeah, placebo participants had a significantly longer duration of cold episode days. Okay, so in Poole, it was 117 versus 57, and on the average symptom score of those days was significantly higher.

So that's pretty interesting. Now, we've got to look at this. This has to be reproduced, right? I'm just looking at one study. There are ways that a study like this could be biased very easily if the, you know, if the treatment group had more comorbidity or fewer comorbidities than the other group and all that. So you always got to look at that stuff because we want to really know things. I don't want to take elderberry for a cold if it's just bullshit because I'm just wasting my money.

But this is, I mean, at least it's double-blind placebo-controlled. They showed statistically significant results. If somebody had a cold and they took zinc and elderberry, I would not make fun of them in any way for doing that. I think they would have a reasonable reason for doing that. So anyway, what were some of the other things you were talking about? But can we just talk about the number one thing is don't stick your fingers in your mouth. Don't stick your fingers in your nose and wash your hands before you eat. And vampire cough.

Yep, and vampire coughs. All right. Very good. Excellent. All right. And this is sort of along the same way. Hi, I have a question. Okay.

This is Alex. Hey, Alex. I was wondering if allergies could trigger sinus infections if they're not treated properly. I wanted to know if sinus infections could be triggered from allergies. Absolutely. Absolutely. You want to talk about that a little bit in PMLB? Well, the bacteria gets into your sonuses.

and doesn't get out and bacteria multiply and grow. Sure. As they multiply and grow, your symptoms get worse. Right, because of the allergies, you have bigger tissues, and bigger tissues means less free drainage, and less free drainage means, you know, pooling of fluids and the next thing you know. And a lot of times your sinuses are crack. Well, then your sinuses get dry and crack inside.

And then the bacteria grows in there and they produce more mucus and it's just a constant. Yeah. So, yes, treat your allergies. Absolutely. And one of our favorite things is N.P. Melb's favorite thing, which was the Navaj. If you go look on our YouTube channel. Yes, my very. It's one of our featured videos.

You were here that day. I was there. Was N. I was there? I kept trying to get you doing this right here. Yes. Using the Navage nasal irrigator. basically in front of the inventor.

Yes. Yeah, because Martin Hoke was there. He was on the phone. He was with us. But anyway, she hates to put things in her nose, but you got a free nivage out of it. Have you ever used it since then? I've tried to use it twice when I've been really sick, and I'm mainly just gag.

You still can't do it. Yeah, I do recommend for other people, you know, if you've got a netty pot, if you've got a way to push your sonuses. Do you have good batteries in that thing? I do. You've got good batteries in it. You just can't do it. No.

It worked wonders for me. Yes. I was still going to press with it. I went to bought one. Yeah. I was amazed at the gunk that came out. And your nose feels so good after. And I did.

When I finally was able to relax enough and do it, it got so much stuff out. And I felt so good. My head felt wide open. Amazing. And I was breathing well. I probably need it now. Why do you think you were able to do it that day? just because we were encouraging you?

Yes, peer pressure, and I also knew that if I started to drown, I had people surrounding me that would save my life. Okay. Well, next time you feel like you need to do it, just come on over. I'll just come on over to the show and we'll do it. I'd be happy to help you out of that. All right, before we go, Dr. Scott, you got some questions from the fluid family. And by the way, if you want to join the fluid family in the waiting room,

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But feel free to join us any time. Cool. All right. And we have some new. It looks like Joe Dicker joined the Fluid Family. The Fluid Family, that's correct. Yeah. And you can gift memberships and you can do, you know,

if you go to tips. You go to tips. You can do super tips, which you can say anything you want. It shows up on the screen, supposedly. I haven't figured that one out yet. but yeah we have I love being part of the fluid I love being part of the fluid family

I don't want to name your fucking Yeah well take it No you have to do it online I'm on tip what is it 99 cents No it's Don't worry about it You have to do it online Because if you give it to me

Then they don't know that you're going to give it to Tacey and y'all don't go have dinner Then they don't get the They don't get the memberships I guess you and I are just Give it an LB We're SLO We're going to start

Anyway so that's the deal So anyway so what do you got Yeah, we've got a question from Carl's cotton mouth. He says every time he gets off of an elevator, he still fills off. It's weird. It's like I'm on the elevator still, even after I get off of it. Yeah, you want to talk about it. I was going to say, yeah, it's the little fluid inside the semi-circular canals, right?

Give thyself a bell. And with the motions, it's the three little fluid-filled tubes inside of your ear that. are filled with little hairs, and when that fluid swirls around there, it tells your brain where your body is in space and time. That's right. Those are your accelerometers. Inside that. You have pro preception that tells you where those are, it's like derivatives or velocity and acceleration, right?

So the, you know, there are two, one is rate of change, which is acceleration. and velocity is, you know, well, it is a rate of change, too. But pro-receptive nerves will tell you where your joints are in space. Fingers, hands. Yeah, so I can point at you because I have this mental map and my joints tell my brain where they're pointing and the brain says, okay, well, you need to move over a little bit to the right to point at Scott.

Now, if you have, but they won't tell you, acceleration. So the semicircular canals in the brain will tell you where your body is with regard to the rest of the universe as far as rate of change of velocity. So when you

get on a bar stool and you spin, those things will the fluid will start to spin and then it spins in the direction of the spin. And then when you stop, it continues to spin in there. And that's what makes you feel

dizzy. Like, and you feel like you're still on the, on the, because you feel like you're still on the bar. Or still in the elevator. So it's the same thing. Yeah. When you're going up, you know, the semicircular canals work in three dimensions, and one of those is up and down.

One is left and right and one is, you know, in and out. That would be a compression. Correct. Yeah. So it can, it can detect a lot or acceleration in the direction toward the ground. And it can detect acceleration going the other way. That's what free fall is. when you're on a ride that goes up

and then you're sort of weightless for a little bit, it's detecting that as well. So it's the same thing. And his just is very sensitive that it just continues to send those signals to his brain for a little bit. Yeah, and I think we've got an expert in here that can talk a little bit more about that,

being on water, you know, being in boats. Oh, yeah. Once you get your sea legs and then you get off, tell us about that. And that was my question, too. Do you get more acclimated after you've been on the water for longer? so like you know if we go out on a boat and it's wavy we're going to get off and be sea sick

right but you but no i get off i'll be on a ship sometimes for 60 days oh wow and then at least i used to and then you get off and you still feel or i would still feel it for about 48 hours wow wow wow it would always be after you it'd go away after you laid down went to sleep wow and that interesting when everything had a chance to settle down yeah but like we just had several guys come through a you know 12 to 16 footers come around the tip of Florida the other day. Yuck. And, of course, everybody's...

Beat him to death, yeah. And you're out there, you had no choice. You're going to have just, you're going to ride it out. I've never gotten seasick, but when we were on a bus... And you don't know what you're missing. As soon as you start to feel it, best thing to do is just... Yeah, let her rip. Right.

We were on a boat and that this woman got so seasick as soon as we hit the open seas. And do you remember that taste? Yeah. She, I thought she was going to die. And I'm the only doctor on the boat. around the boat. So I just had to sit there, but I was helpless. I couldn't really do anything, but just, you know, hold her hand and go, you're going to be okay, you know. Let me ask you a quick question, though. So somebody like that after you've been on the boat

and you want to get over this faster in 48 hours, would Valium help calm that down? Maybe. You know? How does drammamine affect your inner ear? Because, you know, we used to tell people all the time, take Dramamine. Yeah. I was, we were getting ready to go. I was taking the ex-wife on a cruise years ago. I was in Alaska. 24 hours to fly here from Alaska. By the time you, from the part of Alaska, I was in, I'm telling her four days ahead of time,

are you going to take Dramamine? No, I'll be fine. Okay, I talked to her the next night, you know, like three days before I fly in. Did you take any Dramamine? What are you going to do? What the F do I do for a living? Of course not.

What are you thinking? But, you know, this goes on until I get there, and we don't even go home. She meets me at the airport, jump on the next flat flight flight of Fort Liquor Day. get on the cruise ship there I register in with my Merchant Marine credentials and my passport

because we get professional courtesy like that. Get a call from the captain. Can you please stop bullshitting? You know I can't hear you. Okay. I don't have one headphone. That's why I didn't put them on. But the captain calls it tells that the fence stabilization system is not

working, which is an amazing thing on big ships. It's like airplane wings. They literally swing up on the bottom on either side. And so it takes It slows the roll because that wing has to go down. Like that rigors a little bit, sort of. And so as you roll back and forth, it slows the roll to everything. Except for ours wasn't going to be working on the porch side and you can't deploy one side.

Yeah. So he's telling me it's going to be snotty. He's kind of cool, cap, me I appreciate it. And the wife's going, what do you say is he? We're going to be Bahama mamas and we're going to the top deck. I got a new J.A. J. J.A. J. J. You did that just to torture. That's why we're divorced.

Yeah. It's, well, that's one of the reasons I'm sure. I'm sure there's more than one. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's just a symptom. It's just a, yeah, it's a very much. I poke peekable with a stick for the fun of it sometimes. But, yeah, it's, so the reason, I'm not sure anybody knows why they work.

Antic colonergic medications like mechlazine, which is basically what's in drammamine now. There are other versions, but they're all work on the same mechanism. They give you dry mouth. They make your heartbeat fat. but they also are pretty good for reducing nausea from motion sickness. And we'll use it in people with vertigo and things like that. But the best one for vertigo is a prescription medication called diazepam, which is Valium.

And it is awesome. If you have someone who has refractory vertigo and they're pukin all the time and they're just constantly sick or they're just spinning and they can't stop, diaspam actually works. That's why Scott was asking if you have someone that's got, what do you call it when your sea legs are still working on land? You still have, you know...

Just persistence of motion. Motion sickness, I guess, yeah, persistence. But they're not sick, though, but you just feel like you're still but I wonder if diazepam would work for that. That's a good question, interesting study. The biggest thing I tell people, whenever they first come on the boat, like the first 24 hours, I think I'm going to get seasick.

Go throw up. Make yourself throw up. Get it out of your system. You'll be fun afterwards. Yeah. Because now you're just going to be fighting it. It's going to happen. You're just going to torture yourself.

I'm just glad I don't ever have to worry about that. Because I love going out on the ocean. Why are you shaking your head, Malbid? Are you a seasick type person? I've been on two cruises and both times got very, very sick. Really? And stayed sick for about two weeks after. Oh, God.

Did you use scopolamine? I tried it the first time. messed with my vision. Yeah. I couldn't see, and that was giving me migraines, so I took patch off. No. So I found the second cruise I took. I found Zofran during the day.

Yeah. I took Mechlazine around the clock. Took Benergin at night because it made me slept. And then I just woke up and drank tequila. I said, did you consider Bahama Mamas? Yeah, I just, the bartender would come in and he goes, what you want with your tequila today? I would have orange juice. orange juice, yeah, because it's breakfast.

That's always bad. I'd have, like, whatever, he'd make me drinks all day. And then I just, I kept, well. Could you enjoy it? I did. I just didn't give a shit anymore that I felt bad. Yeah. So, and then I stayed sick for two weeks.

I'd walk down the hall at work, and the floor would be moving in a wave. It was awful. And it lasted probably close to two weeks, so no more cruises for me. Yeah, don't blame you. Now, going out on the boat, like on a lake, doesn't bother me. I've been deep sea fishing, like on a smaller boat. That didn't bother you? It did.

Yeah, I think so. And the captain of the boat, thank you. The captain that we were out with, every time I'd start getting queasy, he'd have me stand straight up and look as far. Look at the horizon. And he's like, just focus on that. And he'd tell me he'd take slow deep breaths, and then it was fun. You know, the crazy thing with that lady that had the worst sea sickness.

I've ever seen on that boat that we were on. As soon as we entered calm water, she was totally fine. It was totally fine. No. Good. You wife, it was more mental. Yeah. Well, I don't know.

She is. We were on the cruise supposed to take off at like 5 o'clock. It was 4.15. And we were doing something, maybe getting unpacked in the room or whatever. And the person I was with, I said, we're moving. He's like, no, no, we're not. I'm like, yeah, we are. So we walk around the boat.

I'm like, we are moving. I'm ready to. to throw up and got up to the top sure enough we'd taken off a little early and I immediately was sick I tried the throwing up thing I did that multiple times every day it never helped yeah but yeah you're just sensitive to me yeah I'm just I'm tender just little she's just weird all right you got anything else Dr. Scott all but all right well thanks everyone for hanging out with us today we really appreciate you and listen to our serious X-M show on the Faction Talk channel, SiriusXM Channel 103, Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern,

Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern on demand. And other times, at Jim McClure's pleasure, many thanks to our listeners whose voicemail and topic ideas make this job very easy. And it looks like Barb Parrish got banned. Why did she get banned? What did she say? I don't know. It couldn't have been, it's hard to see. I was looking, but I couldn't see.

Well, it just says, let me see here. She was timed out by steam yard or something. Can someone explain memberships on this channel to me? I have subscribed to the channel, but don't see anything about membership. Okay, yeah, so Barb, you have to go down to where the dollar sign is and then click join, I think. I'm not 100% sure. There should be a... And why did Steam Yard ban her for that?

I don't know I do. That's a perfectly... Perfectly valid question. I'm sorry, Barb. But anyway, I'm going to have to fix that. We have a rogue robot in our... It's a sensitive bot like Melby. All right, very good.

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