Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 584 - THC Lubricant and Deadman's Virus

Episode Date: March 28, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:00 It's mucous membrane, bro. I don't care, I don't care. My jokes don't go over, I don't care. Everybody! If you just read the bio for Dr. Steve, host of Weird Medicine on Sirius XM 103, and made popular by two really comedy shows, Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez,
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Starting point is 00:03:52 We're doing live streams. Tacey and I are going to start maybe, we've got an exam room that we need to do with a celebrity. Pertie guest. Oh. And also a cameo.com slash weird medicine. I will say fluid to your mama for very little amount of money.
Starting point is 00:04:10 And all of that money goes to a very good cause to me and my ham radio account. I have a ham radio account in a different bank where I can't touch it until my buddy Dale and I decide what we're going to buy for our next ham radio project, which still is. moon bounce. It's just it's too damn cold to get out there and shoot signals to the moon if we don't have a real good odds of hearing them back again.
Starting point is 00:04:38 So we're going to wait until it warms up a little bit. Anyway, all right, anything else? Nope. I think that's it. All right, very good. Don't forget to check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyherbils.net. That's simplyherbils.net. I'm down a bottle of CBD nasal spray,
Starting point is 00:04:58 Dr. Scott, because we had a friend over yesterday who probably doesn't want to be named, who's having some anxiety and panic and stuff. And she was like, do y'all have any gummies? It's like, no. No, I don't have gummies. But I do have CBD nasal spray, so I gave her a bottle of it. Thank you. She at first said I didn't do it anything, but then she was totally fine.
Starting point is 00:05:24 So I think it helped quite a bit. She brought it down a couple levels. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I tried to get her to do the trip app and she wouldn't do it. When she had too much anxiety to do the trip app. Yeah. Yeah, she just doesn't like putting stuff over her face. That is a problem with that.
Starting point is 00:05:39 If you have issues with putting, what we're talking about for people don't know, it's a virtual reality app that is a everyday changing virtual meditation and mindfulness environment. And it is the coolest frigging thing. It is so, it's unbelievable how cool it is. It is, and it's too, it's so incredibly accurate, you know, like the one where I was walking to plank off the side of a building. No, that's not what I'm talking about. See, that's what she said. Oh, shit.
Starting point is 00:06:12 She said, oh, I don't want to be walking out on a two-by-four on a building. That's Richie's Plank experience. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm talking about the meditation one. Right, right, right. And you've got Nanaia Reeves or her AI equivalent. reading a sort of a lesson for the day on how to be more mindful in your daily practice. You can turn all that stuff up, or you could do the whole thing.
Starting point is 00:06:36 And it has breathing. It helps you very hard. And you're concentrating on your breathing, and it's got blue sparks going in and rust-colored sparks coming out when you breathe. And, you know, there's all these beautiful virtual environments. Then you do the first lesson, which is like three minutes, and then you rise up in the air to the second one. And then the third one, you're floating in space. And, you know, we're all one and all that stuff. It's amazing how much your anxiety could start at 10 and end up at about a four.
Starting point is 00:07:07 That's exactly right. It's exactly the opposite of the walking out on a plank. Yes, right. Sorry about that, guys. Yeah, you can do that first and then do Trip to calm down. Yes, don't listen to me. But if you have a virtual reality console, particularly a meta quest, check out Trip, TRIPP. It's in the app store.
Starting point is 00:07:26 You can go to t-R-I-P-P.com or you can, there is an app for your phone, too. But anyway, and then, yeah, don't forget to check out Dr. Scott's website at Simplyerbils.net. All right. Very good. We had a couple of people send me text messages through the voicemail line. And you could do that. I prefer to have you call in, but this person said I got some nitrile gloves from Harbor Freight, and they hurt my hands
Starting point is 00:07:55 a week later any idea of what I could use to make it better well nitrile gloves are supposed to be the ones that are hypoallergenic and they suck latex was awesome
Starting point is 00:08:11 and all of a sudden we had a few people with latex allergy turned out that for in some people it was serious you're doing surgery on somebody with a latex allergy with latex gloves and they're having anaphylaxis and you don't know it and all that stuff.
Starting point is 00:08:24 But I wish we had a test so that for the vast majority of people who don't have a latex allergy, we could use latex gloves. They're a million times better, and you cannot take these nitral gloves and put them over your head and blow them up like Howie Mandel used to do. And I used to do. Yeah, they just tear. Right. Well, they don't, and they're awful.
Starting point is 00:08:48 Yeah, yeah. You can't feel what you could with latex. They're not as form-fitting and they're relatively inelastic. They basically suck. Well, the positive was that people aren't allergic to nitrile. But this guy says I got nitrile gloves from Harbor Freight. Of course, that great medical supply company Harbor Freight, they hurt my hands that are still hurting. So I asked her, I see allergic to latex, and he didn't really understand the question,
Starting point is 00:09:27 but I said he was on the bottom of his hands, not the back of the palm. And I said, nitrile's not latex. I was going to say, if you don't have a latex allergy, they're much better if you can get them. Then he said, they say nitrile on the box, so that's good. So I wondered if the brandy had some kind of powder on it or something else, you know, that he was working with affected his skin. He said it started right after I used them. it's almost like a burn
Starting point is 00:09:53 and so I told him get a bigger size because the small size could be causing some problems with his skin and use some hydrochortazone and lanylin because those are over the counter I can make that kind of advice
Starting point is 00:10:08 and you know OTC stuff because anybody could recommend that to you and I said if you don't get better see your PCP said I'm not using them again and then he wrote me back and said, the hydrochloric acid cream really helped. It was like, oh, that's not what I said.
Starting point is 00:10:26 It was just a typo. He said he's going to give the nitrile gloves away to somebody he doesn't like. But he said it was like a miracle. Yeah. And then his final thing was I'm going to give those gloves to a serial killer to use so his hands will hurt and he can't murder people anymore because so many serial killers use nitrile killers. He's nitro gloves. Cover their tracks. Yeah, you know, but depending on the source of the...
Starting point is 00:10:56 If you know a serial killer, just turn them in. Yeah, yeah, you don't just give them gloves. Don't sabotage them. Right. So they'll have a minor annoyance the next time they kill somebody. Just make them mad when they'll be killing somebody. Oh, God, that's funny. Yeah, but you know, and some of the sources, like you said, Dr. Steve,
Starting point is 00:11:15 some of the sources that gloves may not be exactly the nitral that they're saying they are. Depending on the source that's making those gloves. Yeah. You know. Right. We had that, Darren COVID, you know, getting some of those hand sanitizers from certain places. Some were better than others in some, you know. There were some distilleries that just repurposed themselves to make hand sanitizer.
Starting point is 00:11:39 It was kind of cool. I like that kind of stuff. Yeah. Yeah, that is good. But, yeah, we don't know where these gloves came from or what was on them or what was in them or anything. Right. You can put anything on a box. I'm not saying Harbor Freight is knowingly doing anything.
Starting point is 00:11:54 And it doesn't have anything to do with Harbor Freight. He just mentioned it. It has everything to do with things being imported into this country. And sometimes, you know, every once in a while, the FDA goes and looks at, there was a case not too long ago of cockpills that were being sold in natural food stores and stuff in natural pharmacies that said, that said, you know, for good for erections or whatever. And when the FDA, you know, they'll randomly pull some stuff off and run it through the GC mask bag.
Starting point is 00:12:33 That stuff actually worked. You know why? Because it had Viagra. Yes. And they can't, you can't do that. You can't just put Viagra in your natural supplement and then sell it with, because that has. has to be sold by prescription because there are some real legit, what if someone, and this is why the FDA has some benefit in this country for sure, is what if the FDA had, or what if someone had been on nitroglycerin? And their doctor told them they couldn't give them sylidephyl, the active ingredient in Viagra, because it would lower their blood pressure to the point where they would be at increased risk of having.
Starting point is 00:13:18 myocardial infraction, which is true. And so this person goes to their favorite, you know, whole food pharmacy, where they spell it F-A-R-M, oh, come on. But anyway, they go there and they see these dick pills and they try them, but they have sildenophil in them. And they're still taking their nitriclycerin. So that's why people crap on the FDA all the time. Listen, they have their fault.
Starting point is 00:13:48 But they kept sildenophil, not sildenophil. They kept thalidomide out of this country back when thalidomide was a thing. And any American kids that were born with birth defects from thalidomide was from thalidomide that was smuggled into the country. Wow. And that was because of the FDA. And then they, you know, they catch stuff like this. So, you know, I'm okay with them being there for sure. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:14 All right. Well, anyway. All right. All right. Let's see. What else we got? Oh, okay, yeah. Then I had somebody else email me about this thing called biophilia.
Starting point is 00:14:26 And I'm not going to talk about the product itself or the brand name, but they asked me, is this BS or not? And what they say, this biophilia thing is a concept that all of our organs have different quote unquote frequencies and that you can detect these frequencies with a, a machine that's hooked up to the brain. And if you have certain parasites or Lyme disease or something like that, that that will change frequency. And then they can then, and he sent me a, this printout that had all these different frequencies and it says, less than 0.425 bad, greater than 2, good. Okay, first off, bad and good are
Starting point is 00:15:20 Those are value judgments. You know, normal and abnormal would be preferable, but anyway. So they have dyskinesia of the gallbladder, 0.246, duodenitis, 0.342. Everything on this guys was bad that I'm reading here. Giardia, 0.207. Well, that's bad, right, because it's less than 0.445. Didn't have a single thing that was good. Anyway, it says, our specialty is Lyme disease care,
Starting point is 00:15:52 cardilovascular support, spelled incorrectly. It's close. Methal genetic nutrition, homotoxicology. Well, we're not biased, you know, in that way on this show. Psychosomatic energetics. Well, okay, psychosomatic. I'll believe that.
Starting point is 00:16:17 Temperamental character assessment. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I need it. It's part of your psychosomatic. An intrinsic data field assessment. Do you know what that is? Read it again.
Starting point is 00:16:29 Intrinsic data field assessment. Data field assessment. What's the intrinsic data field? God. This sounds like bioenergy stuff to me. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The main modality used are...
Starting point is 00:16:43 The main modality used are Electrodermal Screening, okay, A.k.a. Viga test. Okay. An approved biofeedback FDA machine. Is that true?
Starting point is 00:17:00 Maybe. Yeah, I might be able to help you with that a little bit. Okay. All right, let's look that up. I want to see what the FDA actually approved. Mm-hmm. Because you could get some stuff approved. I mean, your CBD nasal spray
Starting point is 00:17:13 is not exactly FDA approved, but it's approved by some certifying body, right? And what is the certifying body? Well, the state. I mean, they qualify the... No, but there's some agency that has to look at it and say this is a qualified organic or something like that. Well, yeah. Qualified nutraceutical.
Starting point is 00:17:33 You told me about this once before. Yeah, especially like for the stress less than the fatigue of fatigue. There's a whole bunch of governing bodies, and you have to be that's tested from everywhere from the growers, the manufacturers, to the ship. But you have to put a stamp on yours, or you do put it to enhance your saleability, right? So what's the stamp? Well, the stamp is good. There's a good food.
Starting point is 00:17:56 Gee, let me look it up. Okay, God, I don't know. No, I don't know. I'm sorry. I'm looking up what is IDF technology, and it's really boring. And it says it has its roots in the fields of psionics, psychotronics, Plus radionics, which are fields of study that were developed in the 20th century, designed to interface intent with electronic technology. These subtle energy fields contain intrinsic information necessary to create the blueprint for the organization of matter.
Starting point is 00:18:33 And then it goes on and on like that forever. In the year 2000. Developed in the 20th century. Come on. Oh, my gosh. Okay, psionics. Do you want to know what the definition of psionics is? Let's hear it.
Starting point is 00:18:53 The practice of extraordinary psychic powers. Come on. Come on. Hey, that's right. That's right in my lane. I have extraordinary psychic powers. Okay. They're extraordinary.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Characters who have psionic powers are psionicists or wild talents. So, listen, I want to believe in this stuff. I do. I've just got to see it actually demonstrated that it works. So how do you do that? I can tell you right now how you can do a simple study to see if these machines can detect, let's just pick out one. You have to define your endpoint. Lyme disease.
Starting point is 00:19:36 You get 50 people with known Lyme disease and 50 who don't have Lyme disease, right? Yes. And you test them using our methods. Right. Now you run them through this thing. And if they can pick out the ones, statistically significant difference between the pro and con that correlates with positive tests using the gold standard, I'll believe it. Now, what they're going to say is, oh, no, but we can detect ones that modern science can't detect it. Prove that.
Starting point is 00:20:11 Prove it or go F yourself. Yeah. And a lot of this came from early Germany, where the Rife, you know, the Royal Rife studies on frequencies. Yes. And a lot of that's where these transdermal things came from. Now, you have some experience with us. Yeah, I do. And measuring the electrical conductivity of different things.
Starting point is 00:20:32 So what Dr. Rife did back in Germany was studied the resistance of tumors, resistance of skin, resistance of healthy bone versus disease bones with frequencies. And then he developed and he developed this machine, the Royal Rife frequency machine to stimulate these things. If it's a pathogen, if it's a bacteria or virus or a, you know, a worm that you could shoot a frequency. into this pathogen and light of frequency. Audio, radio, what?
Starting point is 00:21:06 Electrical. Okay. Sending electrical frequencies through something. Okay, so it's electromagnetic. Electromagnetic. So what they're doing now, and now fast forward to today,
Starting point is 00:21:15 the NIH actually uses this for research on glialblastomas. They use it. They're studying this type of radio frequency on glial or electrical frequencies on glial bastomas. Okay. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:28 It makes, listen, MRI works by, looking at the frequency of electron flipping based on what those electrons are attached to. And that can include tumors and stuff. So you can see blood, you can see tumors, depending on the way that you tweak the microwaves that are going in. So I don't know if people are familiar. I'll give you the real quick how an MRI works. You put somebody in a strong magnetic field, and what that does is it takes the magnetic dipoles of the hydrogen ions and they're associated electrons, and they start precessing.
Starting point is 00:22:15 And now when you put in microwaves at certain frequencies, as those things absorb those photons, they'll go into a higher energy state. Well, that's not stable. So eventually when that frequency passes as you're sweeping these frequencies, those things will flip back, releasing a photon at a specific energy level. And then there's detectors to detect all that. And then you use a computer system to reconstruct an image from that. But what's cool is, like if you have a T, I don't know, T2 flare, then you, and that's just basically a configuration of the microwave energy that's being said, fuck off. When you do that, it will show changes in, say, blood flow in the brain, stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:23:06 Right. So, yes, I agree that you, certain things have resonances, but what I'm concerned about is people just learn that. And they go, oh, well, there's resonances. We can use frequencies. And they start throwing out the pseudoscientific bullshit. Right. No, true. True, very true.
Starting point is 00:23:25 So I would be very interested to know. if there is a resonant frequency, say, for hepatitis B virus, that you can then somehow detect, not in an MRI. But with a skin test. But with an electrofoil. Well, that's what they're talking about. I know. Is it skinned a durable testing? They're holding a probe.
Starting point is 00:23:47 That's what I'm questioning. Okay, yeah. Well, I'll do some research because I've got some experience with that. Well, you had an anecdotal experience, so I'm okay with you telling the story because, you know, listen. I do have an open mind, but I have an open mind in the sense that I agree that I don't know everything. As a matter of fact, I don't know the vast majority of what's going on in this universe. So there are things that sound stupid like bacteria causing ulcers, which we thought was insane. And then, you know, H. Pylori was discovered and the guy had to really push it before people accepted it.
Starting point is 00:24:25 and now it's accepted part of medical science. So, but that sounded crazy. Well, we had a president, one of the early presidents, die because his physician did not believe that if you couldn't see a bug, that it existed. It didn't exist. So we wouldn't treat him with a bacterial infection. He wound up dying. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:42 I'll look that up. Yeah, but anyway, real quick, we had a very dear friend of mine had a nasty cancer that was considered not treatable, and they gave him about six months to live. And we found that we found a naturopathic. doctor out in Texas. Which, by the way, the only crystal ball we have is statistics. Yeah. So when they say stuff like that, that applies to a large population.
Starting point is 00:25:05 You're talking about average. It doesn't apply to the individual. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah. Well, what they did, they thought he may have had a bad gallbladder, and they opened him up. And when they saw this cancer, it was completely all over his abdomen. Yeah. It was appendicil musinose adenocarsinoma.
Starting point is 00:25:20 Okay. So it has spread from his appendix out through his entire. Amazing. You're able to say that correctly. sadly it's practice which is the shitty part of it but I'm sorry but no but you know but the bottom line is it it's considered
Starting point is 00:25:36 to be a very aggressive and poorly you know with a really poor outcome so we started looking at other things and we found a naturopathic doctor out in Texas that did this dermal testing and he had electrode that he would touch your skin and it would run into a computer and it would give you resistance for an
Starting point is 00:25:54 electrode, and it would be processed, just like an MRI, you know, kind of configures these readings and prints out something that we can, we can interpret. That's kind of what this machine did. It was really, it was pretty cool. Okay, so you got that, so. Yeah. So what happened was he gave us a bunch of different formulas to take, which he did. He sell them to you.
Starting point is 00:26:15 Oh, yeah, Lord, yeah. Yeah, this shit's not free. Right. Well, the shit you do is not free either. Oh, I know. I don't make any money off of the drugs that I prescribe. But anyway, go ahead. No, you don't.
Starting point is 00:26:25 But anyway. I don't make any money off the test. No, you don't. No, you don't. No, I know you don't. Well, but this person did. Well, yeah, we sold it to you. Yeah, I make money off the shit.
Starting point is 00:26:35 I make, too. Okay, I'm just asking. I don't make any money. Do you make money if you sell kisses, Tacey? She probably makes a lot of it. 25 cents a kiss. Anyway, so what we did, we bought, and he did these herbs, and he did this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, frequency machine on the tumor. And when he wound up having to, about three years later, having to have surgery for an obstructive colon, the surgeon goes in.
Starting point is 00:27:02 And when he was looking at it, and he's one of the very few doctors in the entire United States that does a specific surgery. Yeah. He said he'd never seen that cancer melt away. Yeah. Because normally what it does is when it wraps around organs, it's like the roots of a tree that kind of dig down into the ground, but it digs into your liver and digs into your colon. Yeah, looking for blood supply. Right, and that's why it's so challenging to tree because you can't just go in there and take it out because when you start pulling it out, it pulls everything else out with it. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:31 And he did, he lived a little over three years, and most of it was a pretty good life. Yeah, but I'm not, but Dr. Stee, it's a good anecdote. Yeah, but I'm going to tell every Western medicine, we fall in every Western medicine. Agreed. I get it. I get it. This was not, this wasn't in lieu of Western medicine. And I'm not saying that that didn't help him.
Starting point is 00:27:53 What I'm saying is you can't then turn around and generalize that that it's going to help somebody else. No. And if they have this scary, amazing thing, where are the double-blind placebo-controlled studies? Either there's one of two things. Either they don't want to do it because they know that we, if it really works, we'll start using it and that'll put them out of business. But then that means that they're more interested in themselves. Yes, that's true. They are in wider adoption of this if it's so scary, great.
Starting point is 00:28:24 Or number two, they're pretty sure it doesn't really work. It's one of the two. Either one of those answers is not a good look for them. No. So, but anyway. Well, the other one is just into, you know, and we've talked about this a thousand times, but just getting something, getting anything tested through the FDA, and it takes hundreds of millions of dollars.
Starting point is 00:28:45 Yeah. I mean, it's a real challenge, yeah. curing millions of people of cancer, that's worth a few bucks, you know, to put into it. That is true. That is true. So I, that's, but I'm glad that your friend lived way longer than they thought it was going to. Yeah. And please understand, we're not, I'm not, I'm not, there's no way that I could tell his family, and I wouldn't even want to.
Starting point is 00:29:11 Yeah. What I, you know, a lot of this has to do with belief and stuff too. Oh, sure, sure, sure. But to tell them, well, he was probably going to do that anyway, because it's just like the person with influenza who gets influenza the day after they get the flu shot, you'll never convince them that the flu shot didn't give it to him. And in that case, I would want to try to disabuse them of that. But in this case, there's no point in it. It doesn't serve any purpose. But I'm glad he did well.
Starting point is 00:29:41 Yeah, no, yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Anyway, so, yeah, let's look into that. see if there are any studies. And, you know, I'm willing to be convinced. Oh, heck, yeah. Anything new, you know, as long as it's research.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Yep, absolutely. And they tease it out. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yeah, yeah. They've got some really fancy looking websites. Yes, they do. Really fancy looking websites. But, you know, when you and I first looked at, what was that, Stivex or whatever that thing, was that what it was, Stivex?
Starting point is 00:30:13 Yep, yep. And the reason that the federal government wouldn't pay for it is because it's sold as what's called orricular acupuncture. So what it is is it's a device that stimulates the earlobe. And it sounds like horseshit. And they sell it for chronic pain and claudication, which is pain caused by bad circulation in the legs when you walk. And I've just been reading all kinds of studies that auricular acupuncture has been demonstrated time and time again. to be effective for certain pain syndromes. Yeah, especially post-operative pain.
Starting point is 00:30:50 Yeah, and it was for post-op pain. And the hypothesis is that the vagus nerve has a branch that goes to the, it isn't really the ear lobe, but it's the outer part of the ear. And it has a branch that is accessible there and so that you can stimulate the vagus nerve from outside the body like that. And we did a few of them. and never could get paid for them. That was a problem.
Starting point is 00:31:17 And so we quit doing the proprietary one, but that is something just a regular acupuncture that you can do. I sure do. And so things that sound like horseshit, sometimes are not horseshit. Yeah, and sometimes they are. I did a whole live stream, which will go public in about three or four days, just where people were calling in, again, talking about the I-word.
Starting point is 00:31:40 And whether there was, it was complete, you know, know, horse cocky or not, or horse paste, don't you know? Anyway, all right. So I'll put that up in a little bit. Okay, Tacey, you got some topics? I sure do. All right, let's do it. Here we go. Oh, well, 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.
Starting point is 00:32:21 So today I've got two topics. The first one is from MIT News, and it came from Scott. Hey. And it's about how engineers have developed a vibrating, ingestable capsule that might help treat obesity. What? So what you do is you swallow this device before a meal, and it can create a sense of fullness tricking the brain into thinking it's time to stop eating. And then you shit it out and you have to do another one, the next meal?
Starting point is 00:32:50 I guess so. Just wash it off and pop it back in your life. It could be affordable for people. How does that work? Well, when you eat a large meal, your stomach sends signals to your brain, of course, that says, hey, I'm full, and then you stop eating, or are you supposed to? A stomach full of liquid can also send these messages, which is why dieters are often advised to drink a glass of water before eating, but they've come with this new way to take
Starting point is 00:33:18 advantage of that phenomenon with this capsule that vibrates. And these vibrations activate the same stretch receptors that sense when the stomach is distended. This actually sounds right. Horshit. In animals who were given this pill 20 minutes before eating, the researchers found that this treatment not only stimulated the release of hormones that signaled satiety, but also reduce the animal's full intake. I knew what it meant. I just don't know how to say it.
Starting point is 00:33:55 Also reduce the animal's food intake by about 40%. So if you could eat 40% less, I mean. That'd be nice. I would do this. I do it right now, yeah. When can we get them? I'll try it and I'll let everybody know. Well.
Starting point is 00:34:08 Give you anecdotal evidence. It's, I mean, it's, then they go on to get into the science of it. If I swallowed one of those, like, cock rings with the vibrator, it's got the little vibrator in it. I mean, I guess that might work, Steve, but, I mean, you know, do what you want. Don't try this at home kids. Yeah, no, that bad, bad idea. When the stomach becomes extended specialized cells called mechanoreceptors, sense that's stretching and send signals to the brain via the Vegas. nerve, hormones such as C-peptide, PY-Y, and the GLP-1 that we're hearing all about with these
Starting point is 00:34:49 G-L-P-1 medications right now that people are having a hard time getting or are spending $500 a month on through compounded versions. All of these hormones work together to help people digest their food, feel full, and stop eating. And at the same time, levels of G-H-R-E-L-I-N, a hunger-promoting hormone, go down. Are you doing that on purpose? Yeah, I wanted him. It was because you were talking about the Vegas,
Starting point is 00:35:24 I was going to do Viva Las Vegas by Elvis, but it didn't work. I'm sorry. Really didn't. So that's that. Let's see. Isn't that well, though? That's a great story. It is a great story.
Starting point is 00:35:42 Yeah. So they're talking about how the behavioral change in animals is absolutely profound. Say it again? The behavioral change in animals is absolutely profound. Yeah, I'm going to try this. This makes sense. It's non-pharmacologic. If the pill is constructed properly, you just, you know,
Starting point is 00:36:07 poop it out. Now, I wonder how long it vibrates. Does it vibrate in your small intestine? It says it has the potential to overcome some of the challenges and costs associated with delivery of biologic gas by modulating the enteric nervous system. The current version of the pill is designed to vibrate for about 30 minutes after arriving in the stomach. But the research plans, researchers plan to explore the possibility of adapting it to remain in the stomach for longer periods of time, where it could be turned on and off wirelessly. Yes, with an app or something. Here comes another stimulator.
Starting point is 00:36:42 I can already see it. Wait, it's going to stay in the, I don't like that. Well, I mean, they're just looking at it. Okay. So, um, it's, you know. If you take, um, semi-glutide, downsides, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, constipation, stomach pain, bloat, you know, emmating. Emis's heartburn, even running, you know, running nose and sore throat.
Starting point is 00:37:09 Cost and weight gain when it's over. Yeah. And this thing might be the real deal. Kind of interesting, isn't it? Scott sent this to you. Yes, he did. He was very good. I'm going to give you both a bell.
Starting point is 00:37:22 Give thyself a bell. You know, and it talks about how GLP1 agonist aid in weight loss, but most of them have to be injected, and they are unaffordable. Or you can't get them. These MIT capsules could be manufactured at a cost that would make them available to people who don't have access to more expensive treatment options. Well, wait a minute. It does sound like they're reusing them. I don't know about that.
Starting point is 00:37:49 You have to dig through your stool or they either have to be fabulously cheap. I'm sure not. So anyway. That's a lot of, I mean, it isn't a big deal. All it is is a little motor with an awes. off axis cam on it. And that causes, you know, a regular motor with the cam on the axis will just spin and there's no vibration or very little vibration. You put the cam off to the side and like a washing machine with, you know.
Starting point is 00:38:19 But you don't want vibrating like that. Right, right, right. That's got something too heavy on one side of it when it's spinning. So that could be done pretty inexpensively. It's still a bit of technology, particularly if you put Bluetooth. in that thing. Yeah. So I'm voting no Bluetooth.
Starting point is 00:38:37 Keep it simple. Yeah, just do it temperature. When it hits 90, you know, 6 degrees or pH, you know, then just turn it on. But so they're planning to explore ways to scale up the manufacturing so that they can do clinical trials in humans. I wonder if external vibration would do. I was like the same thing. Could you get one of those vibrators? I got you one, not one of those kind, an actual muscular vibrator, the gun-shaped thing with the ball on the end.
Starting point is 00:39:11 I wonder if you put that up to your stomach before you ate and gave it a good go, if that would do anything. It would increase the resonant frequency of the stomach if you drank water, too, if there was something, you know. It would vibrate to water. Yeah. It would move the water. So if it was empty, it wouldn't be moving anything. I was thinking of that. And I was also thinking just like a standard tension, you know, depending on, you know, a lot of this would certainly depend on the amount of, you know, adipose tissue between the skin and the actual stomach organ itself.
Starting point is 00:39:42 Yeah. That would certainly be an issue. We'll have to come up. I'm thinking, you know, or those little, well, those little things you can, you swallow and they start popping in your stomach. Oh, pop rocks? Maybe that'll work. I'll try those. So the second story I have That's a good one
Starting point is 00:40:02 Is I'm looking for external vibrator And I see nothing at all We may have just come up with something I have a Volta Different kind of vibrator That came up That's a long way to reach to the stomach Yeah
Starting point is 00:40:18 If you go that way So External concrete vibrators No thank you There you go All right we're going to try it I have I know where that thing is We've never used it for anything.
Starting point is 00:40:30 We'll get it out, and before we eat, we'll drink eight ounces of water and direct the vibration into the stomach under the sternum. We'll do it, too. Do you have, like, is it a massage gun you have? Yeah, it's a massage gun. We'll do the same, because I've got this too, yeah. We'll do the same thing. All right, we'll try different frequencies. So the second story came from a friend of mine out of Charleston.
Starting point is 00:40:55 Okay. And... He's been on this show, Adney. Monkey goo. I don't know if monkey goo's ever been on the show. Okay, well, shout out to monkey goo. Shout out to him. It says, I tried cannabis lube for sex, and now it's my vagina's cure-all moisturizers.
Starting point is 00:41:11 So this is something you could think about, Scott. Well, this is all right up my alley, too. Well, actually, it says if marijuana isn't legal in your state, don't purchase THC-based products unless you have a medical card. So it's not up your alley. So, um, we have a couple of states nearby that do. Yeah, pretty close. Yeah. Um, so this, these people were in a relationship for four years and of course things weren't as hot and heavy as they were before.
Starting point is 00:41:40 So, um, they decided to call this project, Project Spice. Mm. And they experienced, you know, experimented with everything. And, um. with matching panties and bras. I didn't read this really. So I guess that's two women. So I don't.
Starting point is 00:42:05 Oh, okay, okay. Maybe. But the Louvre is coconut oil-based infused with tea tree oil. Tea tree oil, wait a minute. Tetrahydrochidone cannibal T.H. Right, tetrahydrocanab. Now you got me doing it. It's the psychoactive component of canvas.
Starting point is 00:42:24 Tetrahydrocanab. Right. Oh, God, now I'm having a senior moment. There's cannabidial, which is CBD, and THC is tetrahydrocanabinol. Okay, shoo. But wait a matter. Tea tree oil. I mean, I don't know. That's the stuff that we have talked about using on people's feet for smelly feet.
Starting point is 00:42:49 We've talked about using it for 48 weeks to cure toenail fungus, but Vicks. vapor rub and the prescription stuff, they all work as well, and it's all 48 weeks. So that's a whole other story. I would not think that tea tree oil would be a good vaginal supplement. Well, it says right here, titriole is what makes this lube considered a vaginal health supplement. Really? Okay. All right.
Starting point is 00:43:14 The oil's antifungal and antiseptic properties may help prevent urinary tract and yeast infection. It's what they used to use a tea tree oil infuser at the Don Cesar in seeing. Pete Beach, when you walked in there, you got this smell that every time you walked in there, all the feelings would come back. Because aromatherapy really does work, but it is specific to your own experience. To your own frequencies? Yeah. It's to your own experience.
Starting point is 00:43:43 Lavender may be relaxing for some people, but if you were ritually abused by your grandmother who had lavender all in her house, it's not going to be a, you know, a relaxing scent for you. So it has to do with your own experience. But, you know, so I guess if somebody had that in their vagina and it reminded you that Don Cizarra, that would not be a bad thing. But anyway, go ahead. Okay. So at first, she said the application felt cool and refreshing. Ten minutes later, she noticed how lubricated she was.
Starting point is 00:44:18 And in terms of sex drive, she felt stoked to get frisky about 30 minutes after. application. Really? I've used other loops before that made me just as wet, but none have made me this eager to get it on. Let's get it on. So applying THC topically doesn't result in the same feeling one might get from inhalation or food intake. So it's like her vulva and vagina didn't necessarily get high, but everything was much more sensitive. So, anyway.
Starting point is 00:44:55 Okay. Where can we buy this stuff? Well, I've got the name brand. I didn't know if I needed to say it or not. Well, who's stepping on who here? I'm stepping on you. So who, do you want me to say the... Yeah, sure. Yeah, I think it's okay. It's... It's...
Starting point is 00:45:17 Quim rocks intimate oil. Okay. And the word quim is 17th century slang for a vagina. Yes, right. Yeah. So. Yeah, what up, Clem? Clem.
Starting point is 00:45:30 Okay. Now, can you buy this anywhere, though? If it's got actually THC in it, I'm going to say no. I mean, it says not in states where it's legal. So I guess you've got to go to a website and get it. Okay. Now, they do have CBD versions. That's where Scott can get involved in this.
Starting point is 00:45:51 I think that might be something for you, Scott. Well, you know, the tea tree's probably a stimulant, you would think. And the THC is certainly, yeah, THC would be one thing, but I don't, you know, CBD is legal in all states, right? It does say here that, you know, as somebody who's anxious and constantly in their head, this feeling helped her focus on her body and not her thoughts. Well, you know what else is good for that as well as oxytocin nasal spray? and that is obtainable without a prescription in most states that I'm aware of, and you could just go to a compounding pharmacy and just buy it. Oxytocin is the trust and love hormone.
Starting point is 00:46:40 And if you're having problems with intimacy, then, you know, that can make you feel closer to the person that you're with. But that's interesting. You know, they're talking about how it's part of good health and not just good sex. Yeah. Now, here they have, I'm looking at the, their website. They have one called Smooth Operator. Great name. Intimate serum, and it's CBD, and latex safe. So it should be water-based lube. To increase blood flow, promote pelvic relaxation,
Starting point is 00:47:13 and decrease inflammation pain. Again, got to see, you're making claims that I would need to see the data. Well, this says keep in mind, since the intimate oil's made with coconut oil, you should avoid using latex condoms during sex, which I... Right, but these here are say that they're latex safe. And the, oh, yes, THC-infused one is available in California only. They have latex safe serum, and then they have an intimate oil that is not latex. Yes, it does say later that Quim's Rock intimate oil is only available in California. Correct.
Starting point is 00:47:53 Damn California. They got all that. Well, they got a lot of bullshit. At least they need to be able to have something that's possible. We'll give them that. That's true. But, yeah, Dr. Scott, I think intimate oil might be on your radar. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:48:11 So that concludes Ticey's time. Outstanding, Tacey. We have very little time left to take any questions. But let's do that anyway. Let's take some questions. Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. There we go.
Starting point is 00:48:29 Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Come on. Hey, Dr. David, it's Mike from New York. Hey, Mike. I was just prescribed metformin. And it says, take with food. What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Starting point is 00:48:44 Don't take on an empty stomach. I'm a fat fuck with diabetes. That's why I am on metformin. I don't ever have an empty stomach. Right. Well, good. Thank you so much. Okay, the reason that you take metformin with food is to reduce your bowel side effects.
Starting point is 00:49:04 That's it. And it's the first few weeks of treatment when you start taking metformin, which is a drug for diabetes. It's one of the essential drugs for diabetes, really for type 2. That it reduces bowel side effects. People can have voluminous, you know, diarrhea that can just come on. and you're out in the middle of nowhere or you're at the mall and all of a sudden it's an emergency. So taking it with meals should help reduce that.
Starting point is 00:49:36 And the good news is, Mike says he never has an empty stomach. So it's no problem. He's complaining about something that doesn't apply to him. It's funny. He might have an empty stomach when he takes that nose. Yeah, that's true. He will after him. At least for a little while.
Starting point is 00:49:52 Yeah, that's funny, though. Yeah, stick with it, though, because those side effects, they generally go away. Yeah, yeah. You've been, you've taken metformin for some time, right? Not because of diabetes, though.
Starting point is 00:50:03 So she has another insulin, syndrome of insulin insensitivity. Gotcha. All right, let's see here. I wish Chanda were here for this. This is Steve from New York. I have two questions. Okay.
Starting point is 00:50:19 They're going to make my wife really proud. But, first one, I know you used to be Undertaker and fuck around with dead bodies and shit? No. But I never was that. That was Chanda.
Starting point is 00:50:31 Cereal, killer, no. But I, I mean, I did dissect dead bodies in medical schools. What, what COVID, if somebody dies of COVID, right? Right. What kind of precautions does he Undertaker have to take like when messing
Starting point is 00:50:47 with that body? If the body is dead, let's say he's newly dead, can they catch COVID from a newly dead person? That's a really interesting question. Years ago, I had a little tiny... Oh, that's a different question. Haio hernia.
Starting point is 00:51:03 Dang it, I can't... But I want to know how can I give myself a bigger high-eo hernia. What? And or an umbilical hernia. Why? Don't worry about that question why I'm asking it, but... Don't worry about why. You're asking for a friend.
Starting point is 00:51:21 Right. Oh, well, you can make a high... hernia bigger by belching, you know, by ingesting air. I used to be able to do the whole alphabet by swallowing air, and then I would, you know, blast it out in a long eructation, and I could say the whole alphabet, A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I dig it. And I got to the point where I had opened up the area between my esophagus and my stomach to such a point that I started having really horrible refurb. flux, and I have a hyanal hernia.
Starting point is 00:51:57 So that would be one way. As far as the umbilical hernia, lifting heavy weights without an abdominal belt, we'll do it, but don't do that. Stick with it. Lift heavy enough. What we're saying is these are ways, things not to do to prevent those things. You do whatever you want to with that information. As far as the coroners, just think of how you get diseases, particularly COVID is respiratory disease. So they would have to get live viral particles in a form that would get into their body
Starting point is 00:52:32 in such a way that they would get infected. So if they stuck their finger in the lung or in the oral cavity right after the patient died and then stuck their finger in their nose, yeah, they might be able to get it. But those bodies aren't respiring. And the virus will die pretty quickly. It needs a living host. If you remember, they did studies where they were spraying COVID vaccine on dead things and seeing how long you could still detect it. And detectability isn't infectability. So, but there are some cells that are still alive in the body when you die. I mean, they... And the mucus until it dries up, yeah, still would be a viable. Yeah, so I've never heard of a coroner getting COVID-19 from a dead body. But I did
Starting point is 00:53:20 get COVID from somebody and I was completely PPE'd up. I had an N95, a face mask, you know, the blue dress, the devil with a blue dress, and, you know, head dress, gloves, everything, and got it anyway. So I guess it's possible. I had looked this up to see if I had ever heard of anybody getting it, if you want to look and see. You don't think you got it in the changing room before you went in from one of your other providers? No, no, because I remember coming out of that. room and this person was yelling, so loud that I could feel the air going up under the mask. I could feel the wind on my face.
Starting point is 00:54:01 And I came out of there saying, if I didn't get it then, I'm never going to get it. And I was four days later got it. So I'm quite sure that's what it was. So anyway, yeah, before we go, we've got a couple of questions. One or two questions from the fluid family. And you can join the fluid family at YouTube, at YouTube. dot com slash at Weird Medicine
Starting point is 00:54:22 and I need to tone down the chat bot because poor old Teddy two guns everything he puts in there even if it's just hello gets deleted I don't know what the chat bot's doing it just doesn't like him for some reason but if you do that and then click on either join
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Starting point is 00:55:07 That might do something for a week or something like that, so they get a sneak peek. But anyway, you could do that, but click notifications, and then you'll get notified, follow us on Twitter at Weird Medicine. and then I usually will put up a notification there as well. And you can just hang out. It's just a, you know, if we get 50 people watching a whole show, we're lucky, and then maybe 200 will watch it delayed. And we're not pushing the video side at all, except when I do maybe like a live stream or something like that.
Starting point is 00:55:38 So it's cool. We're not a video show or a radio show. We get all of our lessons through podcasting on serious and on serious X-M. But anyway, So, what the hell was I going to say? I don't know. Okay. Who knows?
Starting point is 00:55:53 I'm an idiot. No, I had a specific thing that I was going to say about, oh, oh, yes. So this camera that I've got now installed is my close-up cam. Tacey gifted me this for the holidays. And it is an Osbot AI 4K camera. It's really actually a very high-quality webcam. I've been using it for live streaming. And I put it in here because I was on WATP yesterday.
Starting point is 00:56:24 I didn't want to be a million miles away like the regular camera is. And what I found on WATP, Carl gave me a show to review, and I clipped. Cardiff Electric helped me do some of the clipping, and I clipped up some stuff and had lines and had things to say about it. I knew the show. And then they go into all the other stuff. And I'm sitting there during a Leslie Jones, Bill Maher segment that I didn't know anything about.
Starting point is 00:56:54 And then a Stuttering John segment that I didn't know anything about. And I did have one good line in there, which I will leave for people to check out. It had to do with Vinnie Paulino. It was at his expense, unfortunately. But I think what I need to do is I'm not a funny person. Every once in a while I'll say something that's funny. but I'm not a funny person like these people are. And I can't really swim in that pool very well.
Starting point is 00:57:22 So what I need to do is, but if I prepare, I'm okay. Do you prepare? Anyway, that's a new joke. Okay, well, Scott prepares. Yes. So if you, so I, you know, what I need to do is I need to do my segment and then get the hell out and not ruin the show. Because I always feel like I ruined the show after that. Now, the one I did with Dick Masterson several months ago, I loved that.
Starting point is 00:57:51 For some reason, it just clicked. I was, you know, Dick and I had good chemistry together, and it was the things that we were covering were just fun and silly, and I enjoyed that. But this was a little bit more heavy. There's some stuff going on in the dabblerverse that's kind of unsavory, and I'd like to, you know, support them behind the scenes, but not, you know, I just can't.
Starting point is 00:58:15 I can't do it. I'm not quick enough on my feet. So I'll leave that to Carl and Shulie and Bob Levy and those guys. But anyway, I, but it was fun. And check that out, WATP, the, you know, the first third of it when we were talking about this show called the bombing run is mostly entertaining. It's just the second half where I dragged the show down. But anyway, in my opinion, Carl always says no, but I don't believe. believe him. But I do enjoy hanging out with those guys. And I will be in Tampa, March 22nd,
Starting point is 00:58:50 for WATP Live. Whether I get up on stage and do anything, I don't know. I will be at the VIP meet and greet. If you come to that, I'll have Chotchkes. We have pins now, right, Tase? I don't know. Oh, the kind you like lapel pins? Yeah, we have the lapel pins. Everybody's going to want one of those. Yes, they will. Stickers, all kinds of cooler stuff. I've got two different kinds of pins. I've got poker chips, all kinds of stuff. I got Tacey's 50th birthday poker chips. And it's a very hot picture of you, by the way.
Starting point is 00:59:23 So I'll give the rest of those out. Several years old. That's all right. Several, several years old. So we have that. Okay. All right. Enough of that.
Starting point is 00:59:34 What do you got, Dr. Scott? Real quick question. We've got one from Brandon Robinson. He's talking about, he said he knows we've covered it before, but are there any procedures? Or things they can do for the floaters in his eyes. Yes. There are. Well, yeah, you can ignore it if it's...
Starting point is 00:59:49 The first one is ignore it. Yeah. If you've made sure you don't have any other eye diseases. Right. You've got to obviously get your eyes checked. I had a vitreous detachment and it caused a thing called posterior uveitis where it actually caused inflammation in my eyes. So the vitreous is like clear jello. You think it's just fluid, but it's really clear jello.
Starting point is 01:00:13 It's gelatinous. And when it separates, as we get older, it starts to shrink. And then at some point, the tension becomes critical, and it will actually separate from the retina itself, pulling a bunch of retinal cells with it. And then those will fill up the fluid between this now contracted jelly and the retina causing floaters. And it's at the back of the eye so that things that float to the bottom of the eye will appear in the top of your vision. Now, you, I saw a doctor, my vision because of the oveitis went from 2020 to 2,200 in the space of one day. Yeah. And they, I went to this guy who is my hero, ophthalmologist, he diagnosed it, sent me directly to a retinal specialist who is also my hero, who stuck, and this is on our website, or our YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash.
Starting point is 01:01:12 at weird medicine, there is a video of me getting a needle stuck in my eyeball for this. And they did it four different times. Two in quick succession, but my eyesight went from 2,200 back down to about 2030, 2040 within a day. And it's back to, you know, I can, I mean, I'm, what, 20 years older than Tacey and I can read things that she can't read even with her readers on. So my vision is back to normal. But then it was like once a year for two, three years. Right at springtime, whenever the pollen or the allergens come out, it would kick back in again. And then one year, it just didn't happen.
Starting point is 01:01:52 It's never happened since, knock on what. But so one of the things I, the reason I'm going through all this, not just because I'm a narcissist, like to talk it because it's all about me. But because I did ask him, can I get rid of the floaters? And they said, yeah, you can, but we don't recommend it. What they can do is a vitrectomy. They will suck all the gel and the fluid out of your eyeball and they will put sterile saline back in there. At least you hope it's sterile. Because if there's one bacteria gets in there and the inside of your eye gets infected, you lose your eye.
Starting point is 01:02:27 And that was the thing is that even if that was a one in a thousand chance or even one in 10,000, I wasn't willing to take it. If you hang in there with the floaters long enough, your brain won't. erase them from your vision. I don't notice them now unless I'm glad I'm not a pathologist because if I look in a microscope, it's all I see is a multitude of floaters. And they can also do some
Starting point is 01:02:50 laser therapies. For floaters though? Yeah, there are a couple Yeah, there are a couple little. Go see an ophthalmologist. Yes, exactly. Or a retinal specialist and ask them about that. I wasn't aware that they could do lasers on them. That's cool. One more little quickie. Yeah. From Saxon,
Starting point is 01:03:06 needs a new primary care doc. Any tips on how to find a good one or red flags? Yeah, a word of mouth. Yeah, word of mouth, number one. That's the mess way. You can go on health grades, and one day I'll tell you a story about health grades. That's quite humorous. I might even do that as a live stream because the big reveal at the end is quite funny.
Starting point is 01:03:31 But you can go to health grades, but they're bullshit. If they get one bad review, and it's usually the bad reviews because you wouldn't give them Lord to have when they wanted or something they go on or your staff was rude to them or whatever, then they will spam the review section so that it dilutes that out. So if you get, let's say you have five reviews on them. One of them is bad. So you've got 20% bad reviews. They'll hire a company to go in and do like 200 reviews, and now you have one bad. add one. Yeah, because you don't have to go see that. You don't have to...
Starting point is 01:04:08 No, anybody can put anything on there. And there's companies that that's what they do, the reputation restorers or reputation builders. And you just pay them and they've got rooms in some location on this planet with people that just sit there and
Starting point is 01:04:24 put in positive reviews for people. Yeah. So... So, yeah, word of mouth is the... Yeah, word of mouth. Number one way to do it. Yeah. Talk to your friends. Who do you go to? Who have you heard it sucks? What happened. Well, I wouldn't send my dog to that. Well, that's, you know, if you hear that twice, then that's usually
Starting point is 01:04:40 pretty good that that's correct. Can you get in when you need to, when you call the office, how the office treats you. Got to have a solid office. That's a good triage. When you call them, are you comfortable with the procedure when you call in? And you know as well
Starting point is 01:04:56 as I do, the front office that's, and it's also pretty, pretty indicative of what the back office is going to be like. Just like coaching, you know, a coach's personality, the players tend to have advice first, and it's the same thing in our offices. Well, you get somebody's got a good office manager. I will agree with that, but you get some providers who just don't pay any attention to what's going on up front. Okay, yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:21 And then you will get front office people who think that their job is to, quote, unquote, protect the provider from this, that, or the other. Maybe they get stressed out or whatever, and so now they're going to, quote, unquote, protect them. And it's like in Jonathan Swift's and Gulliver's Tales, remember they had to go to whatever land it was where you had to go through the flappers? Do you remember that? And the king... Nobody read that book. The king would sit there and you'd ask them a question, and then these flappers would take goat bladders, if I remember correctly, and beat them around the mouth, and then that would tell them that they needed to talk. And it was, really what it was was a satire about bureaucracy.
Starting point is 01:06:01 But there's bureaucracy on the small scale in these offices, too, where the front office people become the flappers for the provider. And a lot of times a provider doesn't know anything about it. And you go to your provider and say, well, your front office staff was bullshit. And they go, oh, God, I didn't know. Because they really are just trying to practice medicine. We start getting told, well, just don't mess with that because you're an employed physician now.
Starting point is 01:06:26 Almost everybody is. So we'll take care of the front. You just see patients and they don't pay attention to it. Yep. So, but they, you know, you can't separate mine from body, you can't separate the front office from the provider. No. So I agree with Scott. You got some responsibility to make sure people are talking the right way. My office is in such a position that when one of my nurses is talking to a patient, I can hear them. And particularly in the beginning when they were getting started, I would stick my head out after they hung up and sort of offer very gentle and constructive criticism on that might have gone.
Starting point is 01:07:01 gone better if you had said it this way instead of that way, that kind of stuff. And you should have a just say yes policy. Even when you're saying no, no, we can't do that, but this is what we can do. You're saying yes to something. All right? Anything else? Nope, that's it. All right.
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