Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 587 - Loganfield and the A$$ Larvae

Episode Date: April 22, 2024

Dr Steve, Dr Scott, Loganfield and Tacie discuss: show origins semaglutide and alcohol pink, brown, white, green noise metformin recall 150 larvae in an a$$ the caliber of a terrde SUPERCHATS! Please visit: simplyherbals.net/cbd-sinus-rinse (the best he's ever made. Seriously.) RIGHT NOW GET A NEW DISCOUNT ON THE ROADIE 3 ROBOTIC TUNER! roadie.doctorsteve.com (the greatest gift for a guitarist or bassist! The robotic tuner!) see it here: stuff.doctorsteve.com/#roadie Also don't forget: Cameo.com/weirdmedicine (Book your old pal right now because he's cheap! "FLUID!") shoutout1.com/weirdmedicine (either one works!) Keep Dr Steve in Ham Radio! Send a TIP here! Most importantly! CHECK US OUT ON PATREON!  ALL NEW CONTENT! Robert Kelly, Mark Normand, Jim Norton, Gregg Hughes, Anthony Cumia, Joe DeRosa, Pete Davidson, Geno Bisconte, Cassie Black ("Safe Slut"). Stuff you will never hear on the main show ;-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your show was better when you had medical questions. AIDS. Can you please stop bullshitting and get to the question? If you just read the bio for Dr. Steve, host of Weird Medicine on Sirius XM103, and made popular by two really comedy shows, Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez, you would have thought that this guy was a bit of, you know, a clown.

Why can't you? Give me the respect that I'm entitled to! I've got diphtheria crushing my esophagus. I've got Tobolivide stripping from my nose. I've got the leprosy of the heartbound, exacerbating my incredible woes. I want to take my brain out and plastic with the wave,

an ultrasonic, ecographic, and a pulsating shave. I want a magic pill. All my ailments, the health equivalent of citizen cane. And if I don't get it now in the tablet, I think I'm doomed Then I'll have to go insane I want a requiem for my disease So I'm paging Dr. Steve

From the world famous Cardiff Electric Network Studios In beautiful downtown Tuki City It's weird medicine The first and still only Uncensored Medical Show In the History of Broadcast Radio Now a podcast

I'm Dr. Steve with my little pal Dr. Scott, their traditional Chinese medicine provider gives me streetcred The Wack Alternative Medicine Assholes Hello, Dr. Scott Hey, Dr. Steve. And my partner in all things, Tacey. Hello, Tacey.

Hello. And back from sabbatical, it is Logan Field, everyone. Aloha, Mr. Hand. He's got his music, he's got him one of them high flute music boxes. I'll play a tune first. I'm a good name. There you go. Anyway, and we think that his girlfriend or significant other, Shelly,

watching. Hello, Shelly. Hope you're watching. Sorry, you couldn't be here. Check out Simplyerbils.net. We'll talk about that a little bit. I guess we never did talk about it, didn't? No, we just jumped right in. Yeah, okay. Well, simplyerbils.net. Simplyerables.net is

Dr. Scott's website. And he's got the CBD nasal spray that cannot be beat. And check us out at Patreon.com slash weird medicine for exclusive content and things that we don't do over here, including live streams and celebrity interviews, stuff like that.

And then if you want me to say fluid to your mama, try cameo.com slash weird medicine or shoutout1.com slash weird medicine. They think they bagged a celebrity over there, and they had me on the front page. They came on Twitter and said, well, you know, come over to our platform. It's like, sure, next thing I knew, they had me plastered on there. Look, who's doing, you know, shout out. It's like, oh, yeah, you're going to be very successful pushing that. Okay, so don't use stuff.

Dot, Dr. Steve.com because the Amazon affiliate program stinks. I gave, someone emailed me and said, can you, what was that book you were talking about? I went, well, I'll get the book off of Amazon. I'll just include the link with it. And I sent to it one purchase. And Amazon says, we can't tell where your links are coming from, you know, where people are clicking on your link and they just canceled our account. No, I mean, I appealed it and never heard another thing.

Wow. Bastards. Yeah. So I've just taken that off. Go to roadie.com. Or roadie. Dot, Dr.steve.com still works. And stuff.

Dot, Dr.steve.com will show you the Phoenix penis, you know, enhancer. which is awesome, by the way. And also, we'll show you the roadie tuner. So definitely use it, but just don't use it to go to Amazon. I took all the links off. I'm pissed at them. If they decide that they're going to change their tune and listen to my appeal, which, you know, we've been doing the same thing for the last 15 years.

Now, all of a sudden, it's a problem. Then, you know, we'll reinstate it. But for now, we have no affiliate program. and they can kiss my ass so there you go. All right. All right. All right. Very good. Uh-oh.

Whoa, what am I hearing there? It's Logan Field, everyone, with Super Android 23. I'm one-16th of Super Android 23. I think there's like 16 of us right now. Yeah, that's true. So this is the TR-8S rhythm performance. by Roland. I got it for Christmas and it is

Oh, you did? Yeah, it is fantastic. It's a lot of fun. It's really intuitive and it's really easy to, for people who don't know a lot about. Yeah. Well, that's one great programming.

Having a groove box is you really don't have to know a whole, whole lot about music to make something that, you know, people can at least dance to. So. that's cool yeah right now i'm i'm this is one of the thousand things that this thing can do all i'm doing right now is i'm just bringing audio in and out it's got a bunch of um now are you doing this at random or is this purposeful i'm just kind of going with with the

groove right now okay okay right on brother are you feeling it so that's uh and you can get this at uh sweet water now they're not an advertiser I think that's where my gal got this from. It was a reverished. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. I'll show you a lot more later. I have all this shit over here. I've got the circuit tracks, and I have the hardest time making music out of it.

You know? Yeah. I mean, I've had this thing for how long have I had it for, six months through a year? I've made one pattern on here because it's, let me see if I can find a well. Is that the grid? thing over there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Let me see if this is one of mine. Hang on. I'm just, no, that's not me. Oh, this is me. Is it Devo? Sounds like the 80s. Yeah.

Welcome to Nerf Radio. I think it's Devo. It sounds like the, it does sound like the 80s. It's like I'm watching Tron. Oh, oh. Where's Donna Summers when we need her? Anyway, all right. All right

Y'all can How stupid All right This is a medical show Believe it or not But it's good to having you here, John I appreciate it Thank you so we need to explain

John looks In certain light He looks so much like Greg Opie Hughes That he's been mistaken for him before I have I have. And you guys have differentiated a little bit now compared to when both of you were younger.

You look a little different. But we tried to get John to go to the original W-A-P-A-T-P thing, and he didn't want to be called FOPI, F-A-U-X. I didn't mind that. I like F-O-Pie. I think he's very clever. As a matter of fact, I just didn't want all the baggage that came on after it with every single caller and ex-writer. and, you know, Twitter just attacking me for the next foreseeable future. Yeah, I understand that.

Yeah, no, I like Opie a lot. I think, yes, of course. I love Opie. I love Anthony. I love all those guys. I don't have a problem with any of those cats. I've been listening to them for years, and they got me turned on to you, you know, for that matter. That's a terrible reason to like that.

But we, yeah, no, listen, we love opium. Anthony. We love Opie. We love Anthony. You know, when mommy and daddy got a divorce, we, you know, shared custody and everything's been fine. Right. The one thing I really liked about both of them when that happened was neither one of them demanded that any of us take sides, or at least they didn't demand that I take a side. And I think that was that's great. I think that was a great way that they went. And I and again, I, and again, I, I, didn't go either way either. I enjoyed both of them immensely, so I don't have, you know, um, an issue with you. I owe both of them a lot. And, um, you know, they, Opie Green lit my show. Mm-hmm. And I think part of it was he figured it was going to be a shit show. And if it was, they could make fun of it. Well, true. Or it would be figuratively somewhat successful. And then they

could take credit for having, you know, the foresight. to approve it. Right, right. So I, but, but then Anthony was there at the first show. I mean, Saturday night, virus. I walk into the big studio. I remember that. And I remember that.

And I'm like, what are you doing here? He's like, oh, I'm going to watch you do your show. It's like I'm, I was sitting in his chair doing my show from his chair with him sitting there. But when I, when we did, Tacey, you might remember this. when we did the very first how to do your own self-testicular exam that night, it was October 12, 2005 or 2007, I heard Anthony going, ew, and then laughing and stuff like that, and I knew that we were going to be okay.

He came up to us afterward, and so that was the best first show I've ever heard, but the problem is we never got any better. So he'd say you heard a lot of first shows, and that was by far the best first show. it's hard to do yourself when you know yeah you know we never did any better that was as good as we could ever do so no well all right very good uh well we have some topics to do i think tacy correct why yes it's tacy's time of topics a time for tacy to discuss topics of the day not to be confused with topic time with harrison young which is copyrighted by harrison young

and Area 58 public access. And now, here's Tacey. Well, hello. Hello. The first topic I have is from Psychiatrist.com and the use of semi-glutide in alcohol disorder treatment. What? Yes.

Okay, because I have a question about semi-glutide myself. Go ahead. Okay, so another potential use for semiglutide, mitigating the negative symptoms of alcohol use disorder, the study presented a case series of six patients whose conditions improved after receiving semi-glutide. Wow. Alcohol use disorder is a significant global health issue.

It contributes to more than 3 million preventable deaths yearly. However, FDA-approved medications for its treatment are still few and far between. Semi-glutide belongs to a class of drugs called glucogen-like, peptide 1 receptor agonists or glp1s which have shown some success in preclinical studies for reducing alcohol consumption is that related to antibuse and all is that one of the same class of drugs or not it's not

antibuse different thing altogether antibuse prevents an enzyme from converting acid aldehyde any further ethanol past acid aldehyde So you accumulate acid aldehyde, which is an aldehyde, and it makes you feel like crap. Really sick, yeah. Yeah. So, no, this is completely different. Do they say what the mechanism is?

Well, I mean, they say, you know, they prescribe between 0.25 and 0.5 of semi-glutide weekly, and it led to a significant reduction in AUD symptoms for every patient. These findings are consistent with previous preclinical data that suggests the potential of GLP. dash 1 RAs in treating AUD. They didn't provide definitive evidence for using semi-glutide to manage AUD, but do suggest the potential for further randomized placebo-controlled clinical studies to establish its efficacy. You know, this reminds me of Viagra. You know, they started using it for hair loss, and there was a side effect.

They started using semi-glutide for... Well, no, Viagra was not a hair loss thing. You're thinking of monoxidil. It was a blood pressure medicine, as was sildenophil, supposed to be. Right. But monoxidil, this sort of other effect was to improve hair. No, I was talking about giving you erections. Yeah, okay.

Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, yeah. So there was a side. Well, you said hair loss, so I got confused. So, yeah, okay. Correct. It was originally evaluated as a blood pressure medication. Okay, got you.

And then all the – I'm sorry, yeah. Those guys in that trial came back saying, well, I don't know what it did with my blood pressure, but, you know, my partner certainly is, you know, happy or whatever. Yeah. The reason I said that I looked that up when she started reading about it, and it said one of the ways they found it out was it was just an incidental finding, people that started losing weight, stopped having a craving for alcohol. Well, that's interesting. Which is kind of cool. That's a lot of – so on that study that you're looking at, if that was a secondary effect, they could not sell the drug based on that, they would have to do a – Another study with that is the primary outcome.

So that sounds like that's what they've started doing. So that's pretty interesting. I would love to know what the mechanism is. The crazy thing is that the body will reuse receptors. It's like why, you know, reinvent a different receptor for every single little thing? It's just like in ham radio, we have these things called Anderson PowerPoles. And it's what you can hook, you know, red to red and black to black. and then you can hook all of your DC powered stuff together using these power poles.

And I may have a power pole for a transceiver and another one for a battery and all this stuff. And they're all the same receptor, but I'm using them for different purposes. The body will do that too. So it will use multiple receptors for multiple things. Yeah, go ahead. I was going to say back in the day when I was just – starting off my clinical research career because that's where I kind of work on the, that's my side gig.

Yeah. And the company that I work for, they actually sponsored clinical trials and they let the employees kind of participate in them first because we, we work there and they were like, yeah, if you guys want to, if you, you know, meet all the inclusion and exclusion. I did an interview study for them. Not that I needed it. I probably did need it, but I was doing it. Was this when you were still drinking?

Oh, yeah. Because you've been sober for. How long now? Over 12 years. Wow. Yeah. And you were a problem when you were drinking. Oh, boy, wasn't it ever.

Yeah. I used to, I called into your show a couple of times way back in the day, hammered. Oh, is that right? I did, yeah. I think I've talked to you about this before. I asked about a couple questions about retrograde ejaculation, I think was one of them. Another one was, I can't remember what a... Did you call in live?

or did you pre-record because we had a guy calling drunk live one time which was the reason why we stopped taking out. I don't think

I was I was close. We had Flash Brown on hold to tell us talk to us about how male porn stars

are able to have you know intercourse for prolonged periods of time and all that stuff by the way

his answer was changed positions frequently and that was one of them anyway and also set of fill makes good

fake ejaculate. So he told us that sort of behind the scenes thing. But, you know, we had just taken a phone call and this guy was inebriated and started dropping N-bombs. And it was like, okay, we're just going to voice. I just don't have a producer. If we had a producer, somebody out there screening phone calls and, you know, knocking people off the air, you know, and hitting the dump button, all that kind of stuff, it'd be one thing.

I do remember questions about. retrograde ejaculation and yeah that was and I called in about planter fasciitis also that's when I started running I yeah I started I was running and I got a a bugger of a case of planar fasciitis I didn't know what was going on and I called you and we weren't we weren't familiar yet I didn't we weren't friends yet and so I was like yeah I'm running every single day I got planar fasciitis and we probably told you just quit running every You did, that was... It's an overuse syndrome. It's easy.

Stop doing it. Just don't run. Docs, when I hurt this, quit doing that, Dad, Bernie. Exactly. Exactly. And you would, I even remember, you would even mention

heel cups, I think, was the... Yeah, Tulee Hill Cups. Scott likes the Chaco's shoes, yeah. Yeah, and it eventually it worked itself out and went away. Yeah, I had it, too. I think we've all had a little touch of it. Watching, you know, those, they make a sock that's got Velcro at the tip, and what you do is you put the sock on, and then you take the tip and you bend the tip of your foot, you know, toward your shin, and then snap it there with that Velcro, and that stretches it out.

It's a decent stretching technique. Yeah, it's a weird indication, though. I've never experienced anything like that in my life. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, it sucks bad. But anyway, Tase, back to your... Number two. Oh, okay.

Or did you have something more to say about that? No, that's all I had to say. Somebody in the... You said you had a simoglutide question. Well, I did. Somebody in the fluid family, which, by the way, if you want to join us, usually at Saturday afternoon, sometimes Wednesday evening, just follow my Twitter at Weird Medicine or go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine and click notification.

Then when we go live, you'll get a notification. But anyway, one of the people in the... in the fluid family, aka the chat room, said, ah, semi-glutide, that, you know, expensive placebo. And so I started taking semi-glutide today. This is my first day.

I got sick of not being able to get this last 20 pounds off, and I have zero willpower. You know, I eat an apple every morning, and then I skip lunch, and then I eat everything and anything at night. and my body thinks it's in starvation mode I know I'm not doing it right and every week

you know I'm creeping up a little bit I hover between 177 and 182 but it's more on the higher side now than it was and I've been up as high as 200 and I don't want to get there again so I went I just said what the hell I'll try it so I got semi-glutide today and when this

whoever it was and there wasn't King of all of Diffs, I'm not sure who it was, but said that it was a placebo, I decided to do some research on it. And I found this study from New England Journal of Medicine, not a, you know, crappy crap journal. Once week semi-glutein in adults with overweight or obesity. Now, I don't have obesity, but I do have overweight. And mean change in body weight from baseline to week six. 68 was 15% the semaglutide group is compared with 2.4% in the placebo group. Nausee and diarrhea, most common adverse effects.

They were typically transient, mild, moderate, subdued with time. And so a change in body weight from baseline to week 68 was minus 15 kilograms, which is multiply that times 2.2. That's about 30 pounds. 32, 33 pounds in the semi-glut type group as compared with minus 2.6 kilograms in the placebo group. So I think it's a little better than placebo. This was statistically significant difference. And so I'm going to try it for a few weeks and just see if it'll kickstart me.

Steve, did they talk to you about to what end? Like you lose all the weight. Then when you're not taking the medicine. Yeah, no, I've got to maintain it. Yeah, you're going to, I mean, I've been on and off these and lost 30 pounds, gained 40 back several times. So, I mean, I've got some in the refrigerator that I'm going to start taking. But I do wonder, to what end? I mean, am I going to be on it forever?

And if so, you know, can I afford that? It's very expensive. What I'm hoping to do with this is I just need to forge some new habit. and this is going to kind of force me into not, you know, doing the 10.30 at night, oh, let's do a whole cup of... binge eating. Yeah, let's do a whole cup of popcorn with, you know, I've got this new butter spray that you can spray on it. It's, oh, my God. It's just chemicals, yummy, yummy chemicals.

That was the wrong one, but this, that's the one I was going. Very good. But, yeah, I do it with cocoa, coconut oil that's butter-flavored coconut oil that I bought. Stop. Oh, my God. I've been driving for five hours. And then you use flavor. There's this powder called flavicle that you put in there, too.

And, yeah, so you heat it up with a couple of kernels in there enough to cover the bottom. and then when those things pop I turn the heat down to five and then dump your popcorn in there and then have the lid so that let's steam escape and when it gets to the point where the next one popping won't kick the kernels out take the lid completely off and then you spray it with this damn butter flavor oh my God

so good And I found that it doesn't cause reflux for me. That's good. So I don't have any reflux with it. So I've been eating that. But it's got to be, I don't know how many calories. Right before I go to bed, it's insane. I wonder if this is...

Semi-glutide will have any effect on your reflux. Yes, it already is. Is it? I'm having horrible reflux right now. But they also said just use some Pepsid. So that's what I'm going to do. Well, just pay attention to when you're full. Correct.

Don't move past that because you will get sick. Right. And that's not a good feeling. There you go. But anyway, I think it is more than a placebo. So at least the data seems to point in that direction. Is it stupid for me to do it? Yes.

Probably. Yes. Probably. Fuck off. Dr. Scott. Here. Hey, Dr. Scott. Get your hand off my penis!

I forgot about that word. Oh, my God. All right. Okay. Our second topic is pink noise versus white noise, your guide to a good night's sleep. Okay. I'm in. Okay, so pink brown and white noise, definitions and examples.

Okay, so pink noise, examples of it would be rustling leaves, steady rain, ocean waves, and heartbeats. It leans more toward environmental noise, so it's no surprise most people prefer it. Have you seen that commercial on television talking about the different types of noises? Yes. And I do like the pink noise the best. You do? Interesting. So a lot of them will say, oh, no, green noise is the best or violet noise. So these are all just different filters of noise. Can you bring up filters on that thing?

Yeah. Oh, gosh. I wish I'd had a high, high pass, low pass. You do? Yeah. Can you do noise? Can you do like a... I got to find it.

I don't know where it is. We don't need any more help putting people to... sleep, I don't think. Oh, okay. Well, I was going to demonstrate. Maybe we could do that another time, but I could demonstrate these different noises using a synthesizer with a high pass and a low pass filter. So was that, I'm sorry, was that for, people say they sleep better with white noise and some

people sleep better. Yeah, it's kind of just different examples of what each noise is in this article. Go ahead. Is it frequency between each noise? Yes. That's what I was saying. Yes. It says here, which I didn't get into, because.

I wasn't realizing who was in the room. But with pink noise, lower frequencies are louder while higher frequencies are more diminished. Correct, and it's linear. If you look at the frequency spectrum, it goes from high on the left where the lower frequencies are to lower on the bottom. And I can play a little pink noise for you.

So it's a very soothing sound. That's pink noise. Gotcha. Okay. Now, that does sound like rain. It sounds a bit like the ocean as well. Go ahead and taste. So let's talk about white noise.

Okay. So white noise is equally spread across the sound spectrum. Correct. And it represents all audible frequencies at the same intensity. And it's random. Yes. So it's completely random. So white noise is the progenitor of all the noises, because if you have a true random generator

and you pass the numbers to sound frequencies and space them correctly, you'll get this. It's just... Yeah. These frequencies are relaxing because they block out distracting and unwanted sounds. See, that's the white noise. Let me see. These people say they have white noise, but it's not really white noise. Well, examples would be like a fan, which we sleep to.

Correct. Because, you know... You sleep too. I get hot at not. Radio or television static, a vacuum or a humming air. Now, that's a box fan. But you can also hear that there are tones in there that are created by the blades and the spacing between the screen. But anyway.

What about binaural beats? Is that the same? Yeah, well, we can do some, no, it's not the same. So binaural beats. It's frequency, but it's one in one ear, one and the other. Two different frequencies. Right. And they're close enough that they're.

They will beat against each other. Let me get you a binaural beat here. Let's see here. Here, this is a binaural beat. That's really hard. Would you hear that? Wee, we, we, we. Those two notes are so close together

that they actually create a beat frequency difference. And all tones do that, but when you get them close, the up and down is actually not in the audio frequency. I mean, it doesn't create a third tone like it does if you play two notes that are far apart. Gotcha. And so you get this sort of undulating as the waveform cancels out and then reinforces itself. Go ahead and taste.

Okay, so the next noise is brown noise, which is deeper and stronger at the low end of the sound spectrum. Unlike pink and white noise, it doesn't contain any high-frequency sounds. Examples of that would be like a low-roaring, strong water, fall. and thunder. Here's brown noise. Now what happens with brown noise is it's similar to pink noise, but it's, I believe, and I didn't know we, I would have looked this up, but brown noise is more exponential decrease from the high to the low, whereas pink noise is linear.

Okay. So, oh. Yeah, go ahead. I was going to, when you said brown, brown noise. Have you ever heard of the brown note before? No. You don't know what the brown note is?

No, what's the brown note? The brown note is, and I've heard about this for a long time, and I don't even know if it's real. Stop equivocating. What is it? I talk a lot, sorry. It's a note that makes you shit yourself when you hear it. Get the hell out of here. Basically is...

Okay, so that would be something like the CIA would use. I guess. Like in a battlefield. It'd be handy, I guess. Okay. The brown note called the brown front. frequency or brown noise is a hypothetical infrasonic frequency capable of causing fecal incontinence by creating acoustic resonance in the human bowel.

Oh, that's awesome. I wish that were true. Hey, can I tell you a story I read about, that, about the brown note about a gentleman that got in trouble with, um, yeah, Myth Busters did this, by the way, and busted the myth. Well, these, no, well, this, this is, this is a true story best I I can tell, but there was a dude who got in trouble with the, after the January 6th thing, and FBI came to pick him up. When they banged on his door and busted through, he shit his pants.

Oh. And they actually took him to the bathroom and said, wash up, put on some new pants, and then we're on our way. Walking your ass up. Yeah. So there's your brown, though. There's the brown. Yeah.

So we know what does exist. I think I would have shit my pants, too. FBI can't imagine about that. FBI agents singing at my front door with the brown. That's a brown note. So some of the benefits, including with these noises, like white noise, mass sounds, so that obviously helps you sleep. Brown noise promotes concentration. So, like, if you need to focus and you're trying to get something done, you know, it can drown out any distractions.

It can also help ease anxiety, especially in a high stress situation. Pink noise is used to reduce brain waves. Huh. Did they talk about green noise in there? That's one that's the middle is peaked on green noise. They do talk about green noise. And they say it mimics the soothing sounds of nature like a forest or babbling brook. Its lower frequencies are calming and grounding perfect for relaxation, stress reduction, and meditation offering a natural escape from urban noise.

Yeah, that's green noise. I just don't know if somebody said this is green noise and this is white noise. I know. I'm not going to know the difference. I'm with you on that. We used to use pink noise to tune rooms when I was an audio engineer. And because you could see, you know, all the different frequencies had different amplitudes. So you would tune it to that curve.

But I think this is very similar to aromatherapy. You know, yeah, sure, lavender smells good. And it's supposed to be something that calls a cause. is soothing stuff. But I think that's cultural and it's cultural within your family. If you were ritually abused by your grandmother who had lavender plants all over the place, the last thing lavender is going to be is soothing to you. And so I think the same thing with this noise business.

Now, my thing tastes, and I don't know if they say anything about that in there, but as humans, when we evolved as a species, we had to find, places where there was running water. Okay. Or water. Sure. And so there would be streams for fresh water and the ocean for salt water.

But when you would hear that, I think that that would be reassuring that that was life affirming and et cetera, et cetera. And I think that's where some of that comes from because, you know, when I love hearing the sound. Who doesn't love hearing the sound of the ocean? I don't know. That's so true.

You know? That's just encoded into your I think it is. I think Steve may be Yeah, there's a lot of stuff encoded in us that we don't even realize. Of course. Oh, God, yeah. Yeah, just like adolescence. You know, we talk about that, why adolescents are not kind to their parents. There's the ocean.

I'd like to hear that in real life, so. That makes three of us before us. We might have to take the show on the road. We'll go back with John today. But I think, where were we? What was I talking about? I said, I got distracted by the ocean size. It works.

We're talking about encoding into the, oh, oh, yeah, adolescents. Adolescence. Yeah, so. Fighting their parents. You know, if you're, if you want your species to be successful, you're going to want to broaden your gene pool. And you can't broaden your gene pool if you're having intercourse inside your own cage.

when you're a cave person and having children in there. So the kids back then who were 12 or 13 or 14 because that's what age people were mating back then would that would go, oh, you guys aren't cool.

I'm going to the cave next door. Everybody's cool. I'm going to Dr. Steve's cave. He's got all the cool stuff over there. Then those people who then bred and brought the gene pool actually had a slight increased chance of passing their that gene on to us after what, 100,000 generations or whatever.

And so obviously not every adolescent is that way. Some get along just fine with their parents, but some of them, you know, going crazy. And we try to make them be celibate, you know, and we try to keep them living in the house until they're, you know, 20 whatever and all this stuff. and we force them to be monogamous or, you know, society tries to force that. And it's against our programming. And they will rebel against it. It also shows why when those kids rebel, a lot of times they'll come back once they're, they have kids or whatever,

because that would have been where they would have gotten the most support would be from their original group of cave people. So that's my hypothesis. Makes good sense. Can I ask a question about cavemen? Sure. Well, I've always been kind of... Your modern technology frightens me. I was, you know how we dream and we always dream about being late?

We always dream about school because we've been in school for years. I dream that I forgot to round on a patient. All these reoccurring dreams. I'm like, the cavemen dream about being late anywhere because they never had to be anywhere. That is interesting, isn't it? Maybe that's why we, maybe that's why we dream about being late to stuff. Yeah. It's that it was, it's alien to our makeup because, yeah, when we were cave people.

You know, they dreamt about saber two tigers and shit like that. Yeah, they were going to eat them snakes and snakes and you would think. Where am I going to get my next club from to beat somebody over the head with? Yeah, or your wife being mad at you because you came home without a, you know, without water today. There you just pissed. Yeah. Yeah. Dreaming of your wife.

That's interesting. Bring her home. Or you missed the hunt. Yeah. You got to. You had a shot at a deer and you missed. That would be a cold. Or they left without you.

You got to get her a woolly mammoth coat to make up for it, you know. Which, by the way, we may be able to do again. They're cloning fucking woolly mammoths. I don't know it. We may have woolly mammoths again. I don't know that that's the greatest idea. Yep. Yeah.

Yeah. Something's gone. know, kind of, we don't need Bruce Willis for the next 200 years. You know, we don't need to. Oh, 12 monkeys. They digitized him, and so now they're going to use him forever because he can't, he's got aphesia, aphasia. Ephesia.

So I just don't know why 200 years from now we need Bruce Willis still walking around. Well, let's do him first and then we'll do everybody. I like him, but, you know, everybody's got a shelf life, you know, like woolly mammoths to have a shelf life. Well, okay, I see where you were getting. Yeah. All right. Fair. I'll give you a bell for that.

myself a bell oh come on man that's a cheap bell Scott's got something to say yeah Longfeather Johnny Longfeather joining the show yeah Johnny Longpether joining the show okay so thank you Johnny oh okay yes we told me to say it

no no no no I just want to okay I'm sorry he chooses me on every day no no no no no during the podcast part oh hellfire well forget you Johnny Johnny Longfeller. Sorry, Johnny.

Sorry, Johnny. Johnny Longfeather, that's a super chat, $1.99 saying love the show. Thank you, sir. I have one more thing to say about noises. Yes, of course. Which I thought was interesting, that pink and brown noise can help tinnitus. Oh. Oh, that makes that sure.

That's nice. So people with who are hearing static in their ears this can mask that if it's driving you crazy. Yeah. Terrible. All right, very good. Very good, Tase. Yeah. Thank you, Tase.

You're welcome. I was supposed to do a thing for EROC show on medical use of noise, and I've got slides on all these things with the spectrum analysis and all that junk on there. Have you ever seen when they take a frequency and they put it under one of those plates that they have the... Oh, like sand and stuff on. Yeah, and it makes the... Big standing waves. And each frequency makes a different design. What's going on with that?

Okay. There's something up with that. No, so what that is, is those are standing waves. waves. So if you have a guitar, for example, and you pluck the string that will have all these different modes, right? The first mode is the whole string is waving back and forth. Now you can go halfway, and then you'll have two wavelengths, right, on the same string. So you'll see an up and a down part of the sine wave everywhere. And if you cause it to, you'll, you'll see an up and a down part of the sine wave everywhere. And if you cause it to resonate, those things will always be there.

This part of the string will always look up to you and this part of the string will always look down. Like use a strobe light or something. Now, you can create standing waves in something. If you vibrated at the right frequency, then you will see troughs and peaks appear in the string that are proportionate to the frequencies that you're, you know, beating the string with. Right. And when you have, if you change the size of that plate, the resonant frequencies for that plate will be different.

So the standing waves will change. So there's nothing inherent in the sound that makes it look like that when you, when you put a transducer on a plate full of sand. Right. It's the, um, the sound wave and how it's bouncing off the edges of the plate of the plate. and then back again and then creating those standing waves. So the high points are just where the waves, the input waves, are reinforcing each other and the low parts are where they're canceling each other out.

The total energy stays the same. Right. But it's dependent on the size of the plate and the frequency of them. And the weight of the sand, too. You got two plates. One's a little bit bigger than the other. They both have the same frequency. going through them, they both have sand.

The standing wave should be different. It's going to have a different design. It should have. It's not the frequency. Right. Well, it is frequency dependent, but it's also dependent on the- surface area. The vessel of the thing.

Sure. Yeah. The length of the string, if it's two-dimensional, or the size of the pan if it's three-dimensional. Okay. Yeah. Well, I know I've been watching a lot of stuff about Tesla and 369 frequency and all that stuff. And it's been really interesting lately. And one of the things that they were saying, the designs that these things make, you can see them in like churches, windows, like in some really old churches.

The designs of these frequencies are in the, they recreate. And so the music in the church and the bells and everything, it has, it's all links on that. It's not really that, though. But what it is is when you're trying to make a pattern out of something, you know, if you're going to making a symmetrical pattern, you will see that in nature, too. because nature-like symmetry and some of these things will look very similar and it really is because the math

is the same. You know, if you're bisecting a square with a compass using a circular compass and scribing out semicircles or arcs on there, if you do it with the right

length, you're going to recreate something that looks like standing waves in a, you know, in a three in a pond or something. Just having them know that so far back makes me think that they knew something was going on. Well, maybe. I don't know. I mean, I have no clue.

It's just really cool to find stuff out. It's fascinating to me, like the golden mean, 1.608 to 1.608 to 1 is makes Greek architecture look really pleasing. But that same ratio is involved in how sunflower seeds are made. Is that fee? Fee, yes, I think that, yeah. The golden ratio. ratio. Right. Yeah. And yeah, so there's all kind of chambered nautilus chambers are in that same ratio as well. It just is a ratio that works when you're dividing something but in half by

itself. Because that's, that's how you get it. You take a rectangle or a square and then you scribe out and circle and you make a rectangle out of that. The sides will be 1.608 to 1. And now you can infinitely subdivide that in a fractal way and you'll get the same dimensions all the way around. And that's what you're looking for. When you're in chamber Nautilus, you're trying to make things all, you know, be equal

so that it would be dumb if they were all random, right, or just random-sized chambers. So it works for it, and it just works out that it's the same ratio. It's pretty cool. I think it's something deeper. I think there's something screaming at us

going here. Okay, like what? I don't know. We haven't figured it, well, I think Some people have figured it out. I don't... Like, well, like what, what, what, I mean, there's one point six, or one point, when people do... 6081 is just a couple of digits. There's not a lot of information that can be encoded in that. Transcendental meditation.

Yeah. They use a lot of these frequencies to get them to a point where they can, you know, go under, however you want to put it, get to where they want to be. with as far as their meditation is concerned. And I think it's, I think music is really, like, when you go to a concert, and I know all this is experienced, like everybody is all, when you're hearing this one frequency band, whatever, the one, everybody in the crowd links up. We're all links up.

Well, sure. We're all, it's almost like, I, I. Well, if your brainwaves go with the beat, then, yeah, everybody. But the question is, so what? Yes, we all respond the same way, but does it do anything? The universal consciousness is what it does. It brings you together. The universal consciousness, that's right.

It's, I feel like frequencies are, we're almost like, I feel like we're walking wireless, you know, routers. And when you come in contact with a router that's on the same frequency or, you know, similar or whatever. And if you're, you, you tend to become attracted to that when you're on the same. He's a fucking idiot. I don't know. I'm just bullshit. Let me add to that real. Because you're an idiot.

Let me add that real quick. This morning, this morning, believe it on the morning news, they had a guy that wrote this book about communicating. Yeah. And his whole thing was that when you have two people that are engaged, like we're talking right now. Correct. We're having a very good conversation.

Sure. Our pupils start to dilate and get the same size. Our eyes flick at the same rate. They actually have done EMGs. EGs. EGs. EGs. Oh, shit, I said EMGs.

EGs. EGs. on the people, their brainwaves actually start to sink up. Right. You know, very much like, you know, two cardiac cells. Think about that, heart cells.

You take two independent heart cells, they beat independently, but when you put them close together, they start to sink up and beat together. Hmm. Wow. Which is partly how a heart beats. Very interesting.

There's a viral beat for you. All right. I knew if John came here, it would be pot talk. Way to go, John. I don't, yeah, well, it's fun. I have to talk about cholesterol all the time. Well, true. Fair, fair point.

All right, you guys want to answer some questions? Yes. Number one thing, don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. Let's do this one. Are we leaving the music on? We aren't. I am.

Why? No. All right. Tacey says we have to turn it off. Oh, here we go. Hey, you got a quick question for you. Yeah. Saw it on Facebook.

I know that's a wealth of information, but got to Google in and everything. Found out that my primary type 2 diabetes medicine has been recalled as of 821. Metformin. This was a while back. What is the protocol when your meds had been recalled? Is it up to the pharmacy to call you up and go, hey, by the way, you may not want to take that? Or is it the doctors or just keep taking it and hope that everything works out okay? Yeah, right.

Looking for a little guidance here. I've got about six months of plastic sitting there in the closet. Okay. Well, first off, I'm not sure why you have six months of your prescription medicine in the closet and tells me you're not taking it. But, you know, there isn't a great, it's not like you're tagged, and the federal government knows that you're taking Metformin and somehow they're going to contact you. We don't have that sort of system. And I think John would be thankful for that because he's also a conspiracy, you know, government surveillance. But, you know, the manufacturer may notify consumers automatically before the pharmacies are notified.

But they, but that doesn't mean that. they'll call you and say stop taking that. They'll post recall information on their website. The FDA may notify patients by telephone, mail, or fax. If a medication has been recalled, a lot of times I found out about mine from my physician's office called and said, hey, you know, you're you came up on some bulletin we had. And so we're just letting you know stop taking that, Losarton, and take this other one or whatever it was. And there is a website for this, and it is, what does CPSC, consumer price something, something, CPSC.gov slash recalls.

Let's just look there right now. CPSC. This is like a Chevy? Never heard of them. Gov recalls. Yeah, let's just see here. Okay, consumer product safety commission. Okay.

And so I'm looking, date from, let's do, I don't know. I think you can put in your medicines in here, and it will let you know. But then, you know, again, that's John will freak out about that. Okay, let's see. We'll apply this to see if there's any recalls from 1124. Polaris recalls matrix snowmobiles. Uh-oh. Oh, damn.

Uh-oh. Spring Spirit play mattresses recalled due to suffocation hazard. Okay, I don't like that one. Here's a biometric gun safe due to serious injury hazard or risk of death. Wow. The biometric lock on the gun safes can be opened by unauthorized users posing a serious injury. Okay, so there's a bunch of... Gun safe stuff on here, but I don't see any drugs right now.

But anyway, check that out. Consumer Product Safety Commission, you can just put in recalls. See if any of your drugs have been recalled. But yeah. Have you ever gotten to anybody call you about a recall? Usually you find out when you go back to refill it. They go, oh, that one that you've been taking has been recalled. I used to work in stability where they stored all the drugs for like years and years and years.

And that's how they figure out the expiration dates for the public. Or they'll put something in a, you know, a freezer for two years. Yeah. And then they'll bring it out and they'll do their thing on it. And they can determine whether or not, you know, how effective, how much active medicine is still left. Yeah. Yeah. And it's really interesting stuff.

Yeah. So my impression is that with the exemption of nitric glycerin that expiration dates on most drugs is just something. They just made up because they're required to have an expiration date. Right. They are forced to have. No, they have, they had light chambers, they had freezers, they had humidity chambers, and they had a staff of people. They would go, okay, pull these drugs today. These come off and send them to the lab and see what they would put them through high-performance liquid chromatography machines.

And so they could tell whether or not the, you know, still had any efficacy in it or not. Cool. All right. Yeah. Let's do this one. I know from Michigan. Hey, man. I have two questions.

Okay. One, have you seen the video from Jacksonville, Florida, of the gentleman with 150 fly larva in his finest cavities? No. Two, what makes poop different lengths? Different lines? Why are some very long? Why are some very short?

Okay. Well, I can answer the second one. Two different. What? Length. Length. He wants to know why when you defecate, sometimes you get a big long, you know, snake-looking thing, and other times you get little chunks. Yeah.

And all, so it has to do with the consistency and the amount of contraction. That's basically it. So if your bowel is contracting efficiently with good peristaltic waves, and you've got a, you've got a, consistency of stool that's high fiber that will hold it together and lots of water then you'll get a long

you know long stinker and then if not then you'll just get whatever the bowel will allow you to evacuate at the time I wish that we had a little bit more control over that it would be nice to say you know I need to take a dump right now

because I'm going to be sitting in a tree stand for the next half a day or driving a car for the six five hours. Or six like John did, and I don't want a shit. And, you know, not a truck stop, but, you know, a rest stop. And with a hundred other people. It would be nice if you could do that.

We just don't seem to have that sort of control. You can sort of force yourself into a habit. Yes. But it's really difficult to just, you know, control that. That's pretty involuntary. So, but if we could, we might be able to. to extrude more formed stools that, you know, than right now you're just taking a chance at it's just whatever, whatever your bowel thrills at you.

Random extrusions. Yep, exactly right. All right. So with regard to the second, or first part of his question, fly infestation is, you know, fly larva are maggots, and that's called myiasis. So if you want to really gross yourself out, Google oral or penile myiasis, but This person had sinus myiasis. You can get bot flies, can burrow under the skin,

and then you get the larvae onto the skin. But, you know, sometimes you can just get it if you're sleeping outside and your mouth is open and fly gets in, lace some eggs, and the next thing you know, you have larvae, particularly if you have poor hygiene to that part of the body. So we've seen people come in with these chronic skin wounds that are colonized with fly larvae. But they do clean, they clean up the area very nicely.

The problem is just getting rid of them after they're done. So, yeah, check out my I-S-S-S-M-Y-I-A-S-I-S-S or don't. Matter of fact, yeah, don't Google image that, telling you not to do it. At work, right? They do it, yeah, at work. You're driving around. Speaking of that, I was on our first installment of Ask Dr. Steve on Normal World. And it was fun.

I talked about the worst way to die, which was, spoiler alert. Fornier Gangrene, do not Google image that. And I was very specific, please don't Google image that in my piece that I did for them. Of course, they all did, and they were all horrified. And it derailed the show for like three minutes. And if I had known it was going to have that kind of effect, I wouldn't have done deviated septim as my follow-up. So I hate that, but Vaporlock is next week.

All right. Let's do, you had a fluid family. I didn't have a fluid family question. It's a great question for Mick. Mick said I had a whole bunch of symptoms. Went for a CT scan of the abdomen. They found a hyal hernia. Any thoughts on long-term management of a hyal hernia?

Sure. Sure. Yeah. You want to start? Well, I can start with the number one. Don't take semi-glutide. I'll tell you that right now. If I make it through the show without barf and I'm going to be.

Don't do that. I'll take the, I'll take the, I'll take the, the more eastern approach to this. Don't forget, your stomach has two mechanisms of action to protect itself. One's motility, which means it moves, and the second's acid production. Correct. A lot of times, as high the hernia is a cost from an increase in acid production. So what you can do is...

Well, the symptoms are. Well, the symptoms, yeah, yeah, absolutely. But that's... The hernia itself is a mechanical problem. But the mechanical problem comes a lot of times from an increase of acid, allegedly, and then it can turn into things. But anyway. Eat warm foods, drink warm drinks, and work on not having things that are going to be sitting in your stomach, especially at nighttime, that are going to cause exacerbations of that.

Carrazic, it's the worst. Yeah, getting up into your esophagus and burning it up. Because then, you know, you don't want to wind up with a bear. It's esophagus. Right. So warm foods, warm drinks, good, healthy bowel movements. It's like we talked about that last question. Yeah.

And the reason for the warm drinks, you gave a really good reason for that. is that if you drink cold stuff, it's going to slow the muscle down. So it's warm things. And then, yeah, I recommend people if they're having mechanical reflux at night to avoid carbohydrates and alcohol, particularly within four to six hours of bedtime. And because they seem to make a huge difference. And when I've put people on low-carb diets, they come back saying,

yeah, my blood sugars are under control, but also my reflux is gone. Right. Yes, yes, of course. Yeah, it's incredible at it. Yeah, a lot of it had done a little pain. Bread, pasta, potatoes, and stuff like that. So you can certainly do it. I mean, a fund duplication isn't something you want to have unless you absolutely have.

That's correct. So what that is is where they actually go in and they tack down tissue outside the esophageal sphincter so that it creates a tighter barrier for things coming back from the stomach up into the esophageal. And it's it is a last resort and we had our gastroenterologist say they only last about 10 years, but then the surgeon said that it wasn't true. So who knows? It just depends on who does it, I guess. Just eat warm foods and drink warm drinks. Yeah.

And remember, it doesn't have to be hot, just not ice cold and especially not just before bed. Right. Yeah. Yeah. The hernia just means that something blooping through a hole in the body that's not supposed to. Yeah. So when you get bowel contact. bloping through the inguinal canal into your testicles.

That's called a hiatal hernia. No. Ingle horny. I'm sorry. Inguinal. I'm an idiot, yes. He's a fucking idiot. So, yes, that's called an inguinal hernia.

Is that the turn your head and cough one? Correct. Yes, and there's direct and indirect doesn't matter. And there are other hernias in the body. Well, a hiatal hernia is where, so the esophagus has to go. from the, between the mouth and the stomach, right? Yes, sir. And it has to pass through the diaphragm to get to the stomach.

So that means there has to be a hole in the diaphragm for the esophagus to empty out into a structure that's below the diaphragm. And that hole is called the hiatus. And when the stomach, parts of the stomach start blooping up through the hiatus where they're not supposed to, then we call that a high atal hernia, and that's what that is. And that's where the mechanical problem is. I was trying to catch you yawning over there at a case on the camera. And then that will cause a decrease in the effectiveness of the lower esophageal sphincter,

which is the valve that's just a ring of muscle that's supposed to keep stomach contents in the stomach and esophageal contents going from esophagus to stomach easily. One way only. Yeah, one way only. It doesn't work very well. It's a pretty piss-poor valve, if I may say so myself. So that'll be one of my questions when I'm sitting in front of my creator. Why the lower esophageal sphincter?

But anyway. And so there are medications that can tighten the lower esophageal sphincter. One of those being metaclypamide, the problem with it is if you take it over a long period of time, it can cause adverse effects like tardive dyskinesia and things like that, which is a motion disorder. So we try not to prescribe that, just on and on and on. And then the rest of it is just if you're having mechanical reflux at night, deal with it mechanically. You know, put bricks under the head of your bed so that your stomach contents are staying in the stomach and drink a floating antacid before bed like Gaviscon. It tastes like rotten fish, but it will float.

and so that an acid part is the part that's coming into contact with the lower esophageal sphincter instead of stomach acid, stuff like that. And sometimes a little warmth on your tummy too. Yeah, yeah, right. Like Dr. Scott said, I think. You just on, you know, like a hot patcher

or I am. Yep. Is there anything to the, where if you sleep on one side or the other, you have a less chance of getting more aspect of us? Yes. Yes. Because your stomach, if you take your left hand, and have it palm up and thumb up and palm toward your body

and then put it right at the middle of your breastbone, you know, where you feel that zyphoid processed on there. That's kind of what your stomach looks like. So you can imagine if most of the stomach is to the right that laying on your right side will be less likely to cause reflux because you've got more space, more volume on the right side of your body, than you do on the left where your stomach is concerned. So lying on, now, I can't do that because I'm facing Tacey.

Because you're left-handed. I'm just kidding. Hey, we have one more. I don't want to see me when I'm, you know. We have one more, one more question. Yeah. And then, and it's from Joe. You can see he's a, he's got the board.

Oh, Joe Oliveira. Yeah. Okay, it's a super chat. Two dollar super chat. Thank you, Joe. I had my gallbladder removed. What should I avoid? Having your gallbladder removed.

Yes. Well, some people have post-colysusectomy syndrome, and some don't. G-Bak did. He had his gallbladder removed, and then he had bloating and diarrhea and all this kind of stuff. And really, all we did was we put him on a resin called colostyramine. And it was a bile sequestering resin, and it took care of his symptoms. So you're not supposed to have to avoid anything, but, but avoiding huge fatty meals

because you no longer have a gallbladder to squirt bile into your bowel. It's just dribbling in a little bit at a time. Yeah, that's what I was going to suggest to. That's the big one. To avoid a lot of fat, yeah. Yeah, I had a relative that had their gallbladder removed, and I don't know what, I'm not a doctor.

I don't know what those little things in there are called the little pebbles or whatever. Oh, yeah, the gallstones. Galston, yeah. So the gaule, the duct. Yeah, the common balddust. One of those gallstones got stuck in. They had to rebuild the whole duct.

Oh, yeah. The whole duct. Well, they can go in, and they've got a scope, and they can go in, and they've got a little, like a microtome that can go in and cut a slit in there. And, you know, then they'll dig out all the stones. And, you know, depending on the. their skill and the technology they have, they might be able to sew it back together, or sometimes they just leave it open so it won't get jammed up again.

They did it robotically. My thing. The robot is the coolest thing. Yeah, yeah. That's pretty cool. Johnny Longfeller, $1.99. Thanks for the super chat, my friend. It says, love the show.

And then we had Nut Cupcakes became a member of the fluid family. It's only 99 cents. And turn on if you're in the fluid family. go up to your settings on this website and turn on gifted memberships. That way, if someone, like last time, vaping so-and-so, gave everybody like 50 people of a membership. So it was relatively Christmas. Yeah, it was like, yeah.

All right. All right. All right. All right. Thank you all, everybody. Thanks, guys. Thanks go to Dr. Scott. and Tacey and Loganfield, thanks for being here, man.

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