Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 588 - Crappy Labs and a Coof Cherry

Episode Date: April 25, 2024

Dr Steve, Dr Scott, and NP Mel B discuss: solar eclipse hasn't happened yet in this universe insomnia ptsd crappy labz tacie has the c0v!D (HA HA!) ashes as ink balance vaccines in pregnancy 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

The average person spends 10 minutes a day moving their bowels, which is just enough time to read the rich Voss book called Everything I Know. For another fact, please say, tell me another fact. To quit, say, stop. If you just read the bio for Dr. Steve, host of weird medicine on Sirius XM103 and made popularly, 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 Zabolevibre stripping from my nose. I've got the leprosy of the heartbell, exacerbating my incredible woes. I want to take my brain out and blasted with the wave, an ultrasonic, ecographic, and a pulsating shave, I want a magic pill

all my ailments, the health equivalent to citizen cane, and if I don't get it now in the template, 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. Dr. Steve. From the world famous

Cardiff Electric Network Studios in beautiful downtown Tewke City. It's weird medicine, the first and still only uncensored medical show in the history broadcast radio now a podcast. I'm Dr. Steve with my little panel, Dr. Scott, the traditional Chinese medicine provider, who gives me street cred with the whack alternative medicine assholes. Hello, Dr. Scott. Hey, Dr. Steve.

And we got N.P. Melby. Hello, N.P. Mal B. Hi. This is a show for people who never listen to a medical show on the radio or the internet. If you have a question, you're in Paris to take your regular medical provider, we can't find an answer anywhere else. Give us a call 3477766-4323. That's 347. Poo-Hillis. Follow us on Twitter at Weird Medicine and at D.R. Scott W.M. Visit our website at Dr.steve.com for podcast, medical news and stuff you can buy. Most importantly, we are not your medical providers. Take everything you hear with the grain of salt.

Don't act on anything you hear on this show without talking it over with your health care provider. Very good. Okay, well, Amazon, we're done with them. So stuff.com still works. but all the only thing that's on there now is the Phoenix penis pounding device and the roadie

the roadie robotic tuner all the Amazon links are gone they can kiss my ass they stole over $1,000 from us and just said yeah we're not paying you and there's no recourse nothing you can do

it's just the most ridiculous bunch of bullshit they can kiss my ass So, you know, if we come up with a different affiliate, we should do Walmart. Do a Walmart affiliate. There you go. You know, what the hell?

Whatever, yeah. I'm with you. Anyway, anybody that has a small hardware store in a small town, that was going to be pissed if we do Walmart. Although our small little one does very well. Yeah, because. People like going there because they can get help without having to ask for somebody. Although, I am going to say the Walmart Plus app, have you used this fucking thing?

I use it always. Oh, my God, you go in there and you want to now, you know more wandering around Walmart. You walk in there and say, well, where's this thing? And it goes, oh, that's on aisle H23. Oh, wow. That is fantastic. I don't even go in that store anymore. No, do you not?

You just buy everything. Pick up. There you go. I still like to walk around it. I don't know what it is. When it first came out, my friend Joe and I would go to Walmart to buy batteries and come out of there with like 50 bucks worth of crap. And that was like 50 bucks.

So this was 20. No, God. Oh, my God. It was 35 years ago. 40 years ago. Yeah. So we would joke that we'd come out with 50 bucks worth of stuff. That's like 200 bucks now of crap that you didn't need.

But anyway, yeah, we went to buy a ski bob once. He had a boat, and it was a pontoon boat. And I could ski behind it because I was skinny. But Joe would get on the damn thing, and he would be up to his waist trying to get the ski up above the water because he was a big guy. So we went to buy this ski bob thing. and we were singing the ski bob song on the way to Walmart. We were going to go buy it.

You know, the ski bob, the ski bob. We were so excited. We were young, and both of us were single still. And, you know, it was just, we didn't have a lot other things to, to, to, this isn't that great of a story, by the way. But it's kind of funny, particularly if you know Joe, which nobody does. But anyway, he's just a big goofy guy, real estate guy. I love him. And so we were all excited about the ski bob.

and he was just had this big, you know, like a kid at Christmas. We were getting the ski bob, and we got it all blown up, which took forever because we didn't have a compressor. We had to blow the fucking thing up with our lungs. And he was just laying on the ground, just wasted after trying to blow this thing up. And then we finally get out in the water. What is? It's like one of those banana boat things that you drag behind. But it was, you know, like a two-person or maybe one or two people.

And we got it out there. and I wrote it and he rode me around and he said okay it's my turn for the ski bob and he gets out there and he gets up on it and then bloop falls over

on the other side and then he gets up and bloop falls over on the other side then he finally got on and he's like and he fell over yes and by the end of it he got back in the boat

and he's like fucking ski bob I hate the fucking ski bob anyway it's just fun Walmart story of how his opinion about this thing

went from zero to negative, about a million pretty quickly. But anyway, so, yeah, Amazon can kiss my ass. Maybe we'll try Walmart or something like that. I'd like to have some affiliate where if we're talking about things like a supplement that people could go and buy them, you know, check out roadie. That's roadie.com for the rody robotic tuner and the roadie coach, which will teach you how to play your instrument. and if you have a birthday coming up for someone who plays a stringed instrument,

it's under 200 bucks of one of the best gifts, and it will be something that they won't be expecting. And the best gift is something that you'd love to have but would never buy for yourself. And this is it. Right here, the rowdie. dot Dr. Steve.com. It's R-O-D-I-E dot Dr.steve.com. Check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyerbils.net.

And we're still doing Patreon. Patreon.com slash weird medicine. They're getting some stuff ahead of time. We're doing some exclusive content. All the normal world stuff will be put there. And eventually, when I get ownership of it back, it will all go on there as bits of their own. And then if you want me to say fluid to your mama, cameo.com slash weird medicine or shoutout.com slash weird medicine. Please don't forget to check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyerbils.net.

That's simply herbals.net. And that's about all I got. Anyway, I want to check. I'm going to put a link on our website at Dr. Steve.com. I did the premiere of my Ask Dr. Steve segment on Normal World with Dave Landau. The first one was, what's the worst way to die? I saw that. That was fabulous.

Spoiler alert. It's Fornier Gangrene. Don't Google image that. And number two, I did one on deviated septum, which if I'd known the first one was going to derail their show for like three minutes, I wouldn't have followed it up with deviated septum. But this week is Vaporlock, aka Penis Captivus. Yikes. That's where the old schlong gets trapped in the vaginal canal.

And when I was, I went, I thought that it was kind of sexist to make it male-centric like that. Like, oh, you're, it's not, you know, the male members being held captive by the evil, you know, vagina. So, you know, I asked the AI, I said, what would it be called if we made this more female-centric and made it fair? And it was like, you shouldn't be making fun of issues like this. You know, vaginismus and other things are real medical problems. And it was just, you know, it was being a whole, basically. Are we saying that this is a bad thing? Being trapped?

Right. Exactly. Well, it's only bad if, like, the woman's husband is coming in. Your husband's coming up. You can't disengage fast enough. Now, dogs, it's different. It's called the, I can't remember, the canine copulatory. seal or something like that.

I can't remember the name of it, the veterinarians now. And they have a bulbous end to their penis. And what being attached together enhances the chance of fertility and sperm staying where it's supposed to be and all that stuff. My dog, whose name was Alpo, by the way, who never had any fun, was out back and this dog in heat came into our backyard, and it was being chased by a bunch of other male dogs. Well, she let Alpo, you know, get all up in that mass.

And he's going at it. Now, the other male dogs show up, and the female takes off, right? And she's running away from, I don't know if she was being coy or she just didn't want to be, you know, gang bang by, you know, 10 different dogs. And she goes running, well, he's got this thing going. on where he's attached to her. And she was dragging him by his cock up this hill. And he was on his side and she's running, you know, trying to scramble and run. And she, and he's yelping and just being dragged on his side by his cock.

Oh, yeah, it was horrible. I didn't get that into the normal world thing. They only give me two minutes. No. I think that's a reasonable part of the conversation. I think you should. They might extend your time. Yeah, well, I'm going to do eclipse coverage in Dallas with them, because that's where they are on August 8th, and I'll be on the show August 9th, and then we'll debrief and all that stuff.

But maybe we can bring up some of these topics that I can't. Fuck off. Can we go? Can I go, please? Anyway. Do I have to have a special kind of license to drive the nerd bus? What, to be on television with comedians? To do the Dallas trip.

That's what that is, though. It's a TV show. Oh, I thought it was just to see the eclipse. Okay. He's just not listening. I'm in trouble. No, it's just, you know, I said, it doesn't matter. No, it doesn't matter.

Everybody listening knows exactly what I said. Anyway, so yeah, so there's that. So watch out for that. It's normal world. You can watch it on YouTube. You don't have to, you know, subscribe to Blaze TV if you have issues with them politically or whatever. You can just watch a show on YouTube. So, like and subscribe on YouTube.

Dave Landau is one of the sweetest, nicest people in the business. And he's going to be in Nashville, March 31st. And I have tickets to that, and I can't go because it turns out that's Easter Sunday. So if someone wants tickets, email me. I asked my patrons if anybody wanted to go and nobody was, you know, proximal to Nashville. But if you're in Nashville and you want two tickets to Zanies, March 31st, 2024, send me an email. And, you know, the first person I can communicate with, I'll send them to them. Cool.

All right. What else? Yeah, that's hit me. Mel B. Do you bring anything for the show today? Well, hell no, I did not. That's a girl. There you go.

Good job. Okay, so let's... Just kind of rolled out of bed and came on over. Well, there you go. Yeah, you've been having trouble sleeping, right? Yes, very much so. Maybe we should talk about insomnia for a minute. Yes, let's do.

It sucks. Well, tell us how it started and all that stuff, and we'll see if we can fix you. Well, once upon a time, my husband left me. Oh, yeah, well. What a dummy. Yeah, well. He must be a... So I think part of it stems from...

I was just trying to get it to just say douchebag. I was just trying to get it to just say douchebag. Dushbag. Yeah. So some of it started. So I'm scared. I'm a big scaredy cat. That's part of it.

I can't sleep because I'm afraid somebody's going to break in my house. Really? It's ridiculous anxiety. Yeah, you know, I used to have that when I had my panic syndrome because I caught somebody breaking into my house, and then I had, you know, sort of PTSD from that. And one of the things I kept thinking about was, you know, that somebody would come into my house and then take my phone off the hook. This is before cell phones.

So I couldn't make a phone call. So a friend of mine who was an electronics guy said, well, we can just put a switch on it so they can't do that. We'll just cut it off and then your phone upstairs will still work. That made me feel better. Wow, cool. You know, you are armed. Yes.

Okay. So, and you have saber-red pepper gel, because I bought you some. Can you lift up your microphone a little bit so that you're actually talking into the mic part? There you go. Okay. And so you have that. So what would make you feel better? Just having somebody there?

Probably. Do we need to do Mel B. Dial-a date? Oh, that would be so much fun. Really? Oh, no. I might be jealous, so. Yes, yes. I don't think they'd go for so well.

Yeah, we did dial it. We did sort of a dating show on this show once. I think Dr. Scott won. I lost. No, I lost. Oh, no, you lost. Oh, no, you lost. Oh, no, it was, traumatic.

It was Magic Mike that won. Yes. One of a date with Big Joe. She chose Magic Mike over me. Yeah. Aw, sister. Well, Magic Mike sounds more of her speed. But for people don't know, Big Joe is my mother-in-law.

And she's dumb. But, yeah, they won $2 off any jello item at Piccadilly cafeteria for their days. But yeah, maybe we could do something like that. There you go. I don't know. Some of our listeners, though, I think you'd be more scared having them in your house at night than worrying about somebody coming in. I was thinking of the same thing.

Good chance of that, yeah. So do you take anything to help you sleep at night regularly? I have tried Ambien. Okay. No, you haven't just tried Ambien. Well, I've been on Ambien. I've been taking Ambien for years. Did it work at one point?

It did. Like, put me straight into a coma. Yeah. And I would sleep good for usually about four or five hours, wake up and then could go back to sleep, though. Yeah. Trisidone. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Scott. Well, I've got some other ideas. Yeah, well, you know, wax eloquent, this is the time to do that. A couple things, number one, I always like to make sure people get their labs. I love to check hormones and make sure that hormones are working properly. Correct. That's one thing I've noticed with me, Mel, is when I have my insomnia, I can tell my testosterone is low.

And if my testosterone is really low, then I don't have a lot of energy during the daytime to burn it out. So I don't have great energy in the daytime, I don't sleep well at night. But if I have great energy in the daytime, you burn it off. Yeah. So a lot of times, you know, are approaching in time. Chinese medicine with herbal medicine specifically when you're talking about insomnia is do I, sometimes I like to give something

like the fatigue we have at simply herbal I give it to boost them up in the daytime. Not a plug though. Not a plug at all. No, just it has a stragglers and some ginseng in it. But it'll give you energy during the daytime so you get more energy and then you sleep at night. And then if that's not the case, if you feel pretty good

and you have lots of energy, then I'll give you a stress list, which is a nighttime kind of for me just to calm the mind. You know, I do that. I take that at nighttime. Sometimes I do melatonin. Sometimes I have some special chocolates that I like to nibble on. Well, Melby doesn't eat chocolate, but I...

You don't like chocolate? I do not eat chocolate. Oh, my gosh. That's not American, isn't it? That's like not liking baseball or the American flag or apple pie or something. I don't like peanut butter either. Or Grateful Dad, I mean, come on. The smell of peanut butter, the smell.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, we need to get her some Reese's peanut butter. Yes, we do. I need to make her my homemade, because I make my own peanut butter. I make my own peanut butter and my own chocolates and all this stuff. Well, that's because you're an idiot. Awesome. That's because I'm awesome. So there are, you know, but if your labs are normal and you've got good sleep hygiene practices,

you've got to bed every night and you exercise and you're doing everything, but you just still can't get a good night's sleep, which is typically what happens to me, then I do go for those supplements. You know, the best I ever slept was after whitewater rafting on the new river. Oh, you just were exhausted. Because you are in cold water. And now you're wearing a wetsuit, but you're still cold. Your body is still having to generate heat, which takes up a lot of energy to do that.

And then you're just, and you're going past the point of exhaustion because it's so much fun. Another one would be snow skiing, you know, because I would do that past. the point of exhaustion because it was just, you hated to stop. And, you know, if they would, if we could find an exercise that was that much fun, I would do it all the time. What I found is when I'm really having a lot of activity during the day, I really do sleep better. Now, are you walking or doing any kind of working out during the day or anything? Not as much as I was. Okay.

Well, that's something you and I could do. I was walking about three, four miles a day. But here lately, I've been lucky to get to. Did you notice that? That helped when you were doing that? Yeah, I did sleep better for a while. But you were talking about the daytime. So this cycle that I'm on right now and not sleeping, but maybe three or four hours,

and it's constant waking up through that three or four hours. That's been going on for about a week and a half. Okay. And I'm just exhausted and grouchy. Well, there is another factor, though. I mean, if you don't mind me saying what medication. we started you on this week. Oh, the steroids.

Yeah. I mean, corticostero steroids, when you're taking those, so many people say that they just can't sleep. Yeah, and I'm one of those too. And that may be all this. When are you going to be off of them? You're pretty close, right? I've got like two or three more days, I think, two more days today and then two more.

Be interesting to see if all of a sudden you're sleeping great. I'm hoping. Now, it was going on before that. That's kind of what led up, I think, and caused the trigger and the need for the steroids. Let's do this. You'll be done with the steroids on Monday, right? I believe so, yeah. Okay, well, let's go walking Monday after work.

Okay. And we'll just walk and walk and walk until we can't walk anymore. And the weather's supposed to be really nice, too. You can get some vitamin D, some sunshine. And that should help too. We can take the Ralphie out too because he'll work you out and walking him. I think that's the truth. Yeah, sleep is a hard thing.

And let's see if that makes a difference, and then we'll report back. Yes, sounds good. But Scott's other magic ingredient where it's legal, is, you know, THC. Yeah. Weird's legal. That's correct. And you want Indica.

And Indica is in the couch, yeah. Pure THC, which is different beast altogether. Indica and Sativas, you know, they have these different balances of CBD and Delta 8 and Delta 9, THC, and all these different molecules that are in there. But the indica tends to be more sedating, whereas the sativa tends to be more wakia. wake your ass up and, you know, stimulating. So that, you know, but pure THC would do it as well. Yes. You know.

But we can't recommend that to you because you live in a state where it's not legal. So obviously, impossible to do. Impossible. Unless you drove across straight lines. No, we're close to the state lines. Yeah, it's still impossible. But anyway, yeah. So there are lots of options, but I think, I think, number one,

exercise I would do first, you know. And I'd save the hypnotics and stuff for the very last resort, I think. Well, all-cause mortality, though, is increased in people that use hypnotics for sleep on a regular basis. And they don't know why. And it may be because people with insomnia have underlying medical problems, or it could be that the sedating medications have something to do with it. But so I really try to get people off of those if you can unless, you know, a lot of our patients are, you know, terminally ill. So you don't worry about it quite as much with them. You know, something that's going to cause a problem 15 years from now.

But I'd love to see you be able to get off of that. Now, I was on Lunesta, which was the, you know, baby sister of Ambien. Of Ambien. And I was on three milligrams of that, which was the max dose. and I weaned myself off of it, three, and then two, and then one, you know, some of these things, after a while will have paradoxical effects as well. Yeah, and I think, and I think you've taken, especially for Ambien, Ambien is supposed to be only taken for a short period of time. Well. It's my understanding.

No, my, I'm just, that's my, no, no, that's, their joke is, oh, take only for a short, but everyone takes them every, you know, forever once they get started on. But that doesn't mean there aren't some other good, some other good, you know, options. Well, and the other thing is, if you had a patient and you told them, or if they told you, yeah, this stuff that I take that I've been taking for years doesn't do anything, what would you tell them? You would tell them, well, let's get you off of it. Right. Stop it and try something different. Yeah. I did try Lunesta once.

Yeah, and? Crazy, crazy-ass violent dreams. Really? Yeah. Like, I was afraid that the kids would just get up and go to the bathroom, and I would incorporate that. into a dream and somebody was going to get hurt. Really? Yeah. I was screaming at one of my kids one night.

In real life? Mm-hmm. In real life. She didn't know what was wrong with me. Wow. Kind of freaked her out a little bit. That's not good. Well, they say once those things start happening, they don't go away with time.

Oh, wow. I've told this story about my friends who used to do this thing called Big Sex Night, and they would take an ambient and then have intercourse, and then they would sleep really well afterward, and they thought that somehow it enhanced their, you know, in sexual congress and one night she woke up after this and he was on a ladder

washing windows on the second floor of their house. Uh-oh. Completely asleep. Yeah. That's a... Now he was awake, but he was not, you know,

after, once they woke him up, he had no recollection of it. Now, I've never done anything like that with the Ambium, but the Lunesta messed with me a little bit. So, I didn't take that anymore. We knew off the Ambia. I think so.

What are you on? You have five or ten? Five. Okay. The doctor won't. That's not bad. That's not bad. That's not bad.

That's easy. Then 1.25 and then stuff. And I have lots of nights where I don't take it. And I don't take it every single night. I'll hook up with some stress less. Yeah. I can probably just not take it. And still not sleep.

And still not sleep. There you go. If it doesn't change anything. Then we could get you on something else. Yeah. I've got stuff. Okay. Well, we'll do the saga of Nelby's insomnia.

Yeah, because there's a lot of people listening have the same fucking problem. Yes, me. Yeah. All right, so we're going to walk. We're going to stop the ambient. Yep. Yeah, and you're going to get off the steroids and we'll see if Monday night you sleep better because we're going to work out. But you know, Melby, she's going to have to do is remind us all because you and I will forget because I still can't remember to use that vibrator on my stomach before dinner.

Oh, shit, I've really forgotten about that. It's been a month. Neither one of us have remembered to do it. I even brought one of my little massage guns home to do it, and it said it on my counter still can't, still can't remember. No, mine's in the closet. So I will, if you remind me on the way out, I'll get it out, and I'll try it today. Ooh, in the closet is, that's a special place. So while we're talking about our own bullshit, not that your thing was bullshit, your thing wasn't bullshit.

You're so sweet. I'm still stuck on the vibrator. I want to circle back. That's my head. We'll talk about that later. Sure. It might work for a woman. It certainly has no benefit for a man, the kind of vibrator that I've got. It's the gun thing with the ball on the end of it. I might be able to jam it up against your coach and turn it on, and you might get something out of it. But I tried, you know, messing around with it. I just couldn't get it. Couldn't get in the right position, Dr. Steve? No, it just wasn't. It just doesn't, it's not amenable to the male anatomy to help it anyway. Gotcha.

They used to have these vibrators that you had strapped to your hand and then supposedly you were supposed to massage people with it, but that wasn't what that was for at all. You're supposed to lube up your hand and then strap this thing to your hand and then just grab hold.

Don't we have some music that would be appropriate for this story? There you go. Oh, my gosh. You know, that song is off YouTube. Somebody asked me where it was and I was going to point them to it, and it's gone. It's gone.

Yep. I hate that. I couldn't find it anywhere. How did things disappear from the Internet in 2024? I mean, I went to try to find my appearance on Jerry Springer, and it was before the Internet really kind of was a thing, and can't find it anywhere. It's nowhere. And you would think that every Jerry Springer would somehow be out there somewhere. That's a bummer.

Yeah. No, it's good. I was there with my ex-wife trying to say I'm how awesome she was and even then I was lying maybe not I think we've all been there

so this is turning into a therapy session instead of a medical show and it's not helping we're just we're just we're enjoying each other's pain and suffering since we've all been there well speaking of pain and suffering so I got a bunch of lab work back

this week that's sucked and you know I've been having I fell down the stairs I think I told that story no yeah I fell down these stairs coming out of the studio landed on my side of my neck and my right shoulder and how well was that about six weeks ago I was it was stupid it wasn't any I was my hands were full and I just sort of missed the missed the top step and I just went head first down and You know, there's a fan at the bottom of the stairs that's supposed to be pumping cold air up here. And I just... Doesn't work?

Well, it's not on, but... You've mashed it. It's better when I have it on than when I don't. But, you know, I just barely missed it. And... But, you know, I've been having muscle pain and neck pain. And I said, well, it's just from falling. You know, I'm lucky.

That's all I got. But it won't go away, and it's just getting worse. And then I remembered that a long time ago, I had this thing called polymyelogramatica, although I questioned the diagnosis even at the time. But I, so I went to my doctor and I go to this place called a Center for Healthy Aging. Anyway, but she's very thorough, and she drew a bunch of blood and shit. I've got like class three renal failure. And it's like, where the hell did that come from?

Where did that come from? Yeah, my liver enzymes were screwed up. Oh, the way that came from. My creatinine was screwed up. Well, that's what I was going to get to. Yeah. And my glucose was elevated. And it's like that's never, you know, I am categorized as overweight, but I'm not obese.

And there's no diabetes in my family. It's like, what the fuck? is going on. Way too many things. And also my muscle enzyme, which is called creatine phosphokinase, CPK, was also elevated, which is a sign of skeletal muscle or cardiac muscle damage. So I started thinking about it, and it's like, okay, well, I think I know where all of this is coming from, and it's all coming from my medication.

I am on a medication for my blood pressure called Losarton, which is known to cause renal insufficiency or to, you know, take your creatin. And creatin is what we look at for renal failure. And it's a molecule that's very efficiently filtered out by the kidneys. So when the kidneys stop efficiently filtering, the creatinine in your bloodstream will rise. So I had elevated creatinine. and I am also on a statin. And the statin, you know, presumably is supposed to help prevent heart attack and stroke, which is in my family.

But it also can mess with your liver enzymes and cause peripheral neuropathy and all that's kind of stuff. Dr. Scott, you know, told me to take it just once a week and I've been doing that, but only just for one week. So that can cause the, and it can also cause the CPK, the muscle damage. So the statin is gone. So the Larsartin's gone, the statin's gone. Now, the last prescription medication that I'm on is a thing called chlorhthalodone, which is a diuretic. It's a thiozide type diuretic as opposed to a loop diuretic like LASICs or Chirozitis. And it can cause elevated blood sugar.

So it's like, fuck this, all my medicine. That's supposed to be preventing disease is killing me. So I'm off all of it. Cool. And, yeah, well, we'll see. Give yourself a bell first. All right, I get myself a bell. Give myself a bell.

And give yourself a chance to reset with the walking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I told her, let me just see if I can do this through lifestyle changes. So I bought a bunch of packs of Tofurkey, and Tofurkey can kiss my ass. It's not awful, isn't it? Well, I got their version of kielbasa, and it's like, okay, I'll just eat tofu. I can eat tofu. I don't want to eat fake meat.

Did you ever see that movie Polar Express? Yes. Okay, well, you know how the faces, this was one of the first sort of CGI animated movies, and the faces are not quite right. It's called the Uncanny Valley, where we're so used to see. seeing faces that if they're off by just a little bit, like if an alien came in here and tried to pose as a human unless they were truly human, you know, just alien brain and a human body, we would probably be able to detect it because we can detect humans and human faces,

even when they're distorted and weird. And we can tell a fake human face. So this was like that. Toferky is like it's in the uncanny valley when it comes to fake meat. Now, I ate it, but I'm trying to be, you know, I've always been a little bit plant-based, but I'm going to be more plant-based. And, yeah, I'm going to walk. I'm hydrating more. I'm going to do all those things that I should have been doing all this time because, you know, I'm 68, still think I'm 18.

And I think, well, fuck, nothing's ever going to happen to me. And all of a sudden I get a big fat dick slap in the face. And it's one thing to go, yo, man, I'm an absurdist and a nihilist. Nothing matters, man, until all of a sudden, you know, oblivion is staring you in the face. And then all of a sudden, ah, so there's a couple of things kind of matter. They have to reevaluate a little bit there. I live long enough to see Superman Legacy, the new James Gunn Superman movie, if nothing else. Right home.

Yeah, and I think, you know, and that's the thing about the medications. I mean, there are so many of those things that are extremely, extremely important. And that's why it's so important that your doctor listens to you when you have those concerns. Right. And I know you don't have time, especially you guys in primary care. I'm not in primary care, but you know what I'm saying. But especially the folks in primary care just don't have the, a lot of times the luxury to sit. They have the knowledge, but they don't have the luxury of time to discuss a bunch of options.

Yeah. And then if, you know, their primary care provider, if it's their nurse practitioner or PA or doctor, whoever won't write them their prescription for statins, then they get, they can potentially be, you know, dinged by the insurance companies. Well, they can be sued. Yeah, and if they don't pick, and if the patient doesn't pick up the medication from the pharmacy, the pharmacist can get, you know, I mean, it's just, it's a really challenging thing for everybody, is my point. Yeah, I agree. I'm not saying, I'm not saying anybody's, I'm not saying anybody's fault, but I don't say it's hard for. everybody. And that's why it's really so important for the guys on the front line to be really crystal clear with their patients to say, listen, you know, there are some evidence for these

things to work. And there are some times to use these medications. And here are some other options. And, you know, it's a big picture. It's not just, you know, lowering a statin, makes you not have a heart attack. Right. You know, there's a whole lot of other things. Right. You can't, we've talked about that a lot. Where when they found the Norwegian study that people who ate a lot of fish had left fewer heart attacks. So the American solution to that is you take a bunch of fish and you put them in a vat and you run, you know, you render

them down to the fish oil and then take it as a pill and then go on doing all the shit you were doing before eating two Big Macs for lunch and stuff like that. So, yeah, you know, I mean, I don't have a grossly unhealthy lifestyle

but it's going to be significantly more healthy and I'm just going to give it a try and see. And I think my biggest component with Dr. Steve forever. My only complaint with him is his lack of sleep. Yeah, I've got to have seven hours night. I'm doing that. I think

that'll help a bunch. I tried to do that today, but I went to bed at one. I woke up at seven, so what am I supposed to do? You know, I had shit to do. I got up. That's the problem. Speaking of shit to do, I went to Johnson City. I was going to meet up with you, Melby, if you were working, but

you decided to sleep in because of your insomnia, which I understand. But I went to my son's place. and he's in college, straight A, senior in college, going to do amazing things. And I brought him some food, and I walk in his apartment. And as soon as I opened the refrigerator, the smell, I was like, dude, there's something that's wrong in here. Something is Dad in the refrigerator? Oh, my God.

Well, Tacey keeps buying him stuff, and he's not eating it, and he's just putting it in there. And even in the refrigerator, that doesn't stop things from, from, from, It just slows them down. Exactly. He had packs of, like, lunch meat, which is like, dude, don't eat this stuff anyway. But he had lunch meat, which is, by the way, highly processed, and it was green with mold. And it was like, bro. So I went through, he had to go somewhere with his fiancé.

And so I said, just let me work on the kitchen. I'm not being critical. I just, I'm worried about your safety. and I went through the whole kitchen and I took out five or six absolutely full garbage bags full of food that was not rotten necessarily

but out of date The last time I cleaned his place up he said well you cleaned my refrigerator for me and I was like sure not knowing what I was getting myself into and he actually had water that was out of date I didn't even think water water had a date on it but he had bottled water in there that was literally

you know, a year out of day. So, son, go put this on the, your flowers or in the toilet. Now, I love, listen, I love the kid and I don't want to embarrass him at all. It's like, he doesn't listen, so it's fine. And he would listen, even if he were sitting here, you would listen. No, that's right. That's right. He'd be watching the Grizzlies.

And if they're not on, he'd be watching the Grizzlies and stuff. But, yeah, it's not that. It's just, it just boggled my mind. And he is such a germ freak, too. He'll call me and say, well, you know, I left something out for 20 minutes as it's still good. And it's like, how can you be a germ freak and have a refrigerator like this? It's just astounding to me. Yeah.

So I told Tacey quit buying him that shit. He'll let him buy his own stuff. And then he'll make a little bit. When you run out, go buy your own. He'll do a little better. It's just all the, it's just maturation. We all. No, I know.

Yeah. Yep. Now, it'll be fine. Listen, he got a 4-0. My problem was I said, academics are your job, and I focused a lot on academics, and I didn't really instill a lot of these things. His home economics skill set. Correct. And the problem is his fiancé, I figured, well, she would go, oh, God, no, she's, he tells me she's the biggest slobber is, if not worse. It's the thing with that generation.

Yeah. Yeah, I tried real hard to not do that with my children. Cleanliness is next to godliness. Yeah, I agree. So did you have home economics when you were in middle school and high school and learn to sew and cook? So there was a class like that. I did not take it. I did.

I still do it. I still do all this stuff. Oh, I can sew a button on. I can sew. I still have the—I can stitch it on, but I can't sew it on. I still have the pillowcase I made in Homeack in the eighth grade. I still have the football I made Homeack in eighth grade. Hey, right here at the school right behind your house.

Can you please stop bullshitting and get to the question. Yeah, Homek was fun. I just did it to be in there with the babes. With the cute girls, right? I did that with typing, too. I was the only guy in the typing class. Still the thing we use most from high school. Yeah.

That's the one thing we use from high school. You know, I am so glad when I see people like my partner or Stuttering John who are, you know, using one finger to type with and they're d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d. And, you know, when I'm in front of a keyboard, you know, before my neuropathy, I was 140 words a minute. And when you learn on a mechanical,

and when I say mechanical, not like a mechanical keyboard like they got now, but a mechanical typewriter. Oh, that's how I'll learn. Yeah. If you get good on that, then you're good. Yeah, great. Totally great.

So, anyway, that's funny. Anyway, I don't know, this is fascinated for everyone. Hey, we've got a good fluid family question. Okay. Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right.

What do you got? So, hey. I got one from Johnny Longfeller, too, that we need to get to. Okay. Well, yeah, Don Phillips is asking, why do some drugs need to be taken with foods while others must not? That's easy. Yeah. Yeah.

Go ahead. But easy for us, not for the lay person. Obviously, Melby, you want to take that one? Some of it has to do with fat in the food. It prevents the absorption. of medications. Give myself a bill. I think that might be my first bill.

Some things have to be absorbed. They will not be absorbed unless they're on an empty stomach. And some actually food can either enhance absorption or can, it doesn't matter either way. And so some of them will say it can be taken without regard to food. It doesn't matter in those cases. So if it says take it with a meal, they're either trying to prevent side effects. Like nausea. Right, yeah.

Abdomal pain, yeah, gastritis. Give thyself a bad. D vomiting. Wait a minute. I'm on a roll today, y'all. Yeah, Tasey would be matter and shit. But, you know, and I think it's really important for people to know the difference between those medications. Because I'll tell you, if I take an insid like Advil or I'll leave or anything like that on an empty stomach, my stomach is just on fire.

So they'll tell you to take that with food to prevent side effects. but you can actually take it without regard to food as far as the absorption. So that's why. So those are the main reasons either it's better absorbed on an empty stomach, it's better absorbed with food, or it doesn't matter, but the side effects will be less than you take it with food. So Ambien is one of those medicines. If you take Ambien with a high-fat meal, it won't absorb well.

Oh, is that right? I wasn't aware of that. So don't late-night snacking. Well, yeah, it should be doing that anyway. That's something that talks about. Miami and it doesn't work. And I said, well, what are you eating before bedtime? Yeah.

A bowl of cereal. And a raster of baking. The rest of my cheeseburger from dinner. Fat back and possum grease. It's good for you. Good for you. Yep. Good for youans.

But don't, yeah, stop eating before you go to bed. Is that good for you? I can't believe I used to eat like bowls of cereal. Now, that is the best bedtime snow. And go to bed. Oh, God, I would be up all night refluxing if I did that now. Well, that happens sometimes. Ice cream.

That's a matter of ice cream. I can eat popcorn before I go to bed. But anyway, oh, let me, okay. Well, I think we talked about my popcorn recipe last time. Yes, we did. We don't need to be doing recipes on this show. All right. Johnny Longfather, Feather asked a question.

We were talking about the CD. By the way, all of our questions this week are about COVID, which is hilarious because the reason Tacey isn't here is because she finally got COVID. She's got the food. After all this time, four years later. Congratulations, Tessie. Welcome to the club. Her little COVID cherry is gone. Yeah. So she is miserable and downstairs.

But, you know, the CDC has relaxed their isolation requirement. They just say now, if you haven't had a fever in 24 hours and you've been getting better for 24 hours, go back to work. And so Johnny Longfeather was like, well, it's because the virus is weakened, right? Not because Fauci's a liar and all this stuff. And it's like, yeah, there's a little bit of the latter, but it really is mostly that it has become endemic. It's not even that the virus itself has gotten, quote, unquote, that much weaker, although it is mutated to the point where it has become a truly upper respiratory. So it's not settling in the lower respiratory tract as much anymore. And it is more upper respiratory, which means that it's less, how can it kill you if it's in your throat and nose for the most part?

But what that did when it did that was it made it more transmissible. So the basic reproduction reproductive number of COVID when it first started was 2.4. In other words, one person could infect 2.4 people in an idealized population. And this, now these variants is like 10 or 12. You know, Omicron was, I think its basic reproduction number was 12, which is right along with measles. So one person can infect 12 people. So, anyway, so it's advantageous for the virus not to kill the host, for the host to live as long as it can, and to be able to transmit it to everybody else as readily as it can. And the easiest way to do that is become upper respiratory rather than lower respiratory.

And there you go. So it becomes less virulent. But all of the coronaviruses have done this. I am convinced, Melby, you and I haven't talked about that. this, but see what you think, that, you know, there are five other circulating endemic coronaviruses that cause colds, and they'll kill maybe 10, 20,000 people a year, usually the really vulnerable, elderly, et cetera. And we, in the old days, we used to just say, well, it was a typical pneumonia or viral pneumonia. We never knew what it was. Now we can

test for all these things because of COVID. But I am convinced that every single one of those coronaviruses, when it first emerged, did exactly what COVID-19 did, was, you know, it caused a lot of inflammation and adults, particularly that never had it before, and maybe a lot of them died. There might have been a global pandemic. And when I say a lot, I mean, you know, compared to who would have died if the thing hadn't happened to them. And but when you're in the age of the plague of Justinian, you know, this coronavirus. coronavirus pandemic is a fucking piker.

You know, the plague of Justinian, which was black plague, but it was a really shitty variety of it, was just horrendous, you know. And then, you know, you even just talk about the Spanish flu, 1918 influenza that caused 10% of people that got it died, but only 10% of the population got it. But it still killed 1% of the world's population. You know, that's a big number. So, yeah, this thing's kind of a joke in that regard. And now what's happened is that it has become endemic like the other ones. And the CDC's like, yeah, you know, we're going to do with it, what we do with RSV. Is if you're getting better, you're fine.

Go back to work. And just fuck it. Just fuck it. That's what they're saying. And so I went to find their isolation requirements because Matthew and the fluid family has COVID, and I was going to show them a link. Well, they've all been archived. I could not find a single thing on the CDC

that specifically talked about COVID-19 isolation. It's all been archived. But isn't it crazy how that is mutated so quickly, but something like measles is a much slower mutating. Well, if it's mutating at all. I mean, you know, when you take a measles vaccine or if you get measles, you are protected for life, True for chicken pox as well.

So it is very interesting. It is interesting. Those things are so ingrained that they, apparently there's not a lot of pressure for them to mutate. Or maybe they're not able to. It may be that they are unable to mutate because if they did, then they would lose something that allows them to infect people. I don't know. That's interesting. It'd be fun to get a virologist on here and ask them that.

Yeah, you're right. There are some really stable viruses out there, measles, chicken pox, lots of other ones that aren't quite as common to us. And then, yeah, and then you got influenza that changes every season. Every time around the sun. Now, they're very close to a universal influenza vaccine, by the way. That would be nice. You know, and that one, you'll just get one shot when you're a kid, maybe a booster or two, and then you'd be done. So anyway, it'd be good.

I'd like, fuck influenza. I agree. I'm done with it. Well, it killed one of our listeners, almost killed another one. They were both friends of the show. And lots of other people and influenza has caused a lot of mayhem over the decades that humans have been keeping track of these things. So it can kiss my ass. So if we can get a vaccine that'll basically put an end to it, I'm all in favor of it.

Right on. All right. Anything else from the fluid family? If you want to join the fluid family, by the way, go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine. You've got a question from Cardiff. Okay. Oh, that's hilarious.

Yeah, we'll do that one on the podcast. Thank you for the $2.00 Canadian. No, 279 Canadian. What's that worth, like 30 cents? I think 35 cents maybe. That's such a hack joke. I think Canadian dollars were about a parody with us, right? I remember I went to a Canadian casino, and I was trading in my money.

I was like, can I, here's $2,000. Can you turn it into 2000 American? And they were like, no. Hey, and I've got a great question. I just saw way back from Live Ween. He was still grateful favorite, your favorite gravely. 0.74 United States dollars. Favorite Grateful Dead songs?

Oh, gosh. Oh, well. Bertha. Bertha. And China Cat Sunflower. What is it? No, what's that one? Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, you know that one?

Yep. What is it? China Cat, yeah. Sunflower. Yeah, they kind of run them together. No, they don't. There's a name for it. Oh, yeah.

China Cat, Sunflower. I love a dark star. Okay. Dark Star. So, yes. But we should do Dark Star. Ooh, that takes a lot of work. Does it?

Does it? Does it? The version they did with Brantford, Marsalis, Beckoning. Back in the good old days where he just takes about a 10-minute run with that sax. You don't like touch of gray. I like touch of gray. I've got a little more of the deadheads hated it because it hit the top 40. Yeah, exactly, because it was a pop song.

Oh, no, people are listening to our band. Right on too. Thank you, Live Wean. Yeah. Live Wean. And by the way, yeah, Carl from WATP and trucker Andy and I are going to Asheville, North Carolina, to see Ween Live. I'm very excited about that. Hey, my little soft cheese is over in Asheville right now.

Is that a band? No, my little. Oh, your daughter, Bree. That would be a great name for like an alt band. My little soft cheese. My morning jacket and stuff like that. My little soft cheese. I love it.

her and her friend went over to eat lunch Oh yeah Well good for them Nobody gives it shit No They're not feeling I'll play they'd have fun though

Oh god Melby Get your hand off my penis Okay No Let's see what we got here Yeah let's do Oh Oh so people were calling in

About what to do with your ashes Oh And we need to do that Let's listen I think I'll answer those questions Yeah but this is These are people who...

Oh, currently have them. No, they're... Okay, they're responding to that. Oh, okay. This is Michelle from Los Angeles. Hey, Michelle. I'm listening to a show right now. I heard the bit about dropping your ashes in the ocean.

That was your bit, right, Melby? Yes. Yeah, okay. Well, there you go. See, people listen to you. Preferred method. It made me think of what my actual desire is. If you've ever seen how people's...

Ashes can become like a part of a reef where basically they drop you, put your ashes into an object that looks as if it's like a reef, the beginnings of one. They drop you in the ocean and then, you know, fish and the natural wildlife of ship builds up. I thought she was saying a wreath, like a Christmas reef. That's what I thought she was saying. No, I'm not doing that. But, yeah, a reef or E-E-F. Now, that's a cool idea. And you've become part of the nature.

I think that's a pretty fucking cool thing. on the whole ocean ashes thing. Wasn't one of yours about making a fish habitat or something, though? Yes, I believe so. You couldn't do that, and it cost a few thousand dollars. They'd make you into something that they could dump in there, and the fish would love you. Okay.

Well, so Michelle, well, we already did that one, but thank you, though. I think it's a cool idea. I would do that one. Hey, Joe from Orange County. What about turning your ashes over to a tattoo artist and getting a tattoo with your loved one's ashes infused with the ink? Later. Can somebody look that up and see if that's doable? Sure.

I'll look at it. Because that's not a bad idea. I wish, you know, Carissa was our tattoo goddess, so I wish she were here. but I don't see why you couldn't do that unless, you know, what are you going to say? And then their ashes would be in you? Yeah, what they're talking about is that you would mix up the ashes with the, like the black ink, I'm guessing. Yeah. And then you'd have to, and then they would, yeah, use it to, you know, you dip the needle in and do your artwork with it.

What's it say, Scott? Yeah, what they're saying is you can actually do that. They're called ritualistic. or commemorative tattoos, you can actually mix just a little bit of the ash in with an oil ink, yep. So you can't do it. I don't think I'd love anyone enough to want their dead carcass inside me in any way. Fair enough, fair enough. That's a little creepy.

It's a little weird. Yeah. Well, you know, I mean, people do weird things when people die. That one woman had the brain-dead husband and she jacked him off until, He ejaculated, which just shows even brain dead, guys can get a rod and, you know, ejaculate. And she did it so she could get sperm and have a baby with him later. And she collected the semen. So people do interesting things when you die.

So that's probably one of the least weird things is making a tattoo out of it. Yeah, probably so I would say, yeah. Now, what would be really interesting is if you hated your spouse, and then when they died you took their ashes and then you turned it into a tattoo of your new like your new squeeze or something like that yeah no no I don't think so

no that's bad mojo is it oh it could be yeah that would be it'd be hard to get rid of okay Dr. Scott so and NPMLB let's let's go through the superchats real quick. Myrtle Manus gave out it looks like 20 Weird Medicine membership.

So when you're in the fluid family, make sure that you turn on gifted memberships and then you can get a gifted membership if somebody does that. And then, let's see here. I saw another one. Live wean, $1.99.

Thank you. Longtime. First time. Thank you. Favorite Grateful Dead songs. Well, we answered that. Very good. and celebrate their first super as on a live stream. Very good. Okay, thank you.

Cardiff Electric, Canadian, 279. How do I cure the virus from the picks of boys who want to be girls that you sent me? Stop it. Cease and desist. Well, wash your hands first, young man. Cease and desist. Watch your hands first.

All right. But thank you all for this super chat. You don't have to do that. Yes. But, yeah, I think Myrtle's going to give out memberships at the beginning of broadcast for a while. So if you make sure you have your memberships turned on, I see Tracy with an eye still isn't a member. And Talia didn't get one. So, but I don't think I can do it.

Anyway, all right. So, yeah, check that. God, I forgot we're recording. All right. couple of questions left here, Dr. Scott. Anyway, if you want to join the Fluid Family, go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine. I was trying to say that earlier.

Dr. Scott got all distracted by Cardiff Electric's Superchance. All right. Let's try this one. Hi, Dr. Steve. I have a question about the Pfizer-COVID vaccine. My wife is currently

17 weeks pregnant, and she was offered through her work to get the Pfizer vaccine. She would absolutely get it if she wasn't pregnant, but, like, there's no data or we couldn't find any. Is there any risks related to pregnancy? Thank you. Okay. I'm not sure everybody's talking about the five-year vaccine.

Is that something? I thought he said Pfizer, but I don't. Oh, Pfizer vaccine. I think, Steve. I think that's what it was. Yeah, absolutely. That's what it was. I was like, is there a new vaccine that I'm not aware of?

So all I can do is tell you what the CDC says. Because if I start spouting out my opinions on this, then all of a sudden we get a warning put on our web page and all this stuff. But the CDC says that people who are pregnant should stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines and get updated COVID-19 vaccines. and get an updated COVID-19 vaccine in the fall of 2023. And then they cite evidence that the MRNA vaccine is safe in women with pregnancy. So it's a study showed no increased risk for complications like miscarriage, preterm delivery, stillbirth, or birth defects.

So what they're saying there is there's no risk to the baby. Is there risk to the mother? they're not saying that there is. So what I did was I went to the citations. And it says here's the safety and effectiveness of maternal COVID-19 vaccines among pregnant people and inferences from obstetrics and gynecology clinics of North America, 2023 in June. And so I pulled up the article that they referenced there. and I looked at it and it is in, you know, a decent journalist in some shitty journal. It's Elsevier Obstetric and Conicology Clinics of North America.

And they said, you know, their conclusions were that MRNA COVID-19 vaccine is similar in pregnant people to non-pregnant people as far as prevention of hospitalization. And we do know that pregnant women are more at risk from. respiratory viruses. That is a fact. And maternal COVID-19 vaccine reduces the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 associated hospitalization in infinites younger than six months. So it is the people that are very old, very pregnant, or very, very young that are at the most risk, even though that's a relative risk. So then I looked at the bottom. So when you look at these studies, you can see who's paying for these

studies. So, you know, if Pfizer had paid for this study, I might have had a little bit more grain of salt kind of thing when I'm looking at this, but this work was funded by the CDC. So now, the CDC, some people look at that and go, well, they've got an agenda,

they are. But at least it wasn't funded by the pharmaceutical industry. Although I think maybe the pharmaceutical industry may partially fund the CDC. I don't know. I'm not saying And I'm just saying some people have said that. So I'm not a conspiracy nut.

But I think that you guys have to make up your own mind. That's the thing with this is I was always anti-mandate. Make up your own mind. If she's at high risk for complications from COVID, that's when the vaccine has been demonstrated to do the most good. You know, Mel B almost died from COVID. And, you know, I'm old. and because of my age, you know, it took out an eighth of my lungs.

So I take the vaccine. That's my choice. People are like, well, you're a sheep. It's like, no, I'm looking at risk versus benefit. That's it. The risk of the vaccine for me is about one in a million. The risk of COVID, something bad happened to me is, you know, might be one in 97, but that's still a significant difference. A huge difference, right?

I mean, the odds are still in my favor if I do nothing. They're way, way, way more in my favor if I do that one thing. So, but that's my choice. I'm not saying that should be somebody else's choice. So there you go. So, all right. But according to all of this data, they're no worse off taking it when you're pregnant and might even be somewhat better off as far as the infant is concerned.

Although, you know, this really is an old and sick person's disease. They're the ones that need to be afraid of it. if anybody's going to be afraid of it. All right. And now we have medication. So if you get it and you're in that risk group, take the Paxlevid. And if you're a doctor and you're not prescribing that stuff,

you can kiss my ass. You can fuck right off. How about that? Sounds good. You know? Yep. For fuck's sake. Yep.

I don't know. I mean, outpatient remdesiv. outpatient Paxlovod, both of those will reduce hospitalizations by 90% in commensurate for death. You know, if you're not going to the hospital, you're not dying. And the fact that these things, they were just giving it away. Somebody I know got Molnupirivir the other day because they're on a million, you know, psych medicines, and they can't take Paxlovod. And they're just like, I'm getting my wallet out.

And they're like, no, it's free. Wow. All right? Cut it out. Stop it. Jesus. No reason for any of this anymore. No.

As a matter of fact, you know what? I'm not answering another fucking COVID question for the rest of this show. We've answered them all. Yep. You know? Make up your own mind. Wash your damn hands. If you're at high risk.

Yes. And, right, and I think, actually, shoot, I just deleted a Stacey question, which was exactly about that. What's the best thing to do to keep from catching out? Hey, Dr. Steve, got a question for you. Wash your hands. I've been trying to avoid the whole COVID stuff for the most part. Yeah, no kidding. The vaccinations are coming out.

Vaccinium and everything. Does that just protects you from catching or contracting the COVID? Wait, is this some old question from him? Like from 1920, I mean, from 2020? It doesn't stop COVID. It's not like it's covered your body in Lysol or something such as that to kill it. Okay, yeah, I think this is an old question. That's funny.

I don't know how that's like in there, but yeah, wash your hands. The one thing that masks do in this age with a reproductive number of 12, masks do nothing. But what they do do is they keep you from sticking your dumb fingers and your dumb noses in your mouth. I used to Our old boss I used to have meetings with her And in the middle of the pandemic She'd be biting on her nails

And sticking her fingers in her mouth And so I cannot believe you're doing that You do that I'm horrible I bite my nails down to quick You're the opposite of horrible though Yeah I'm always touching my face

scratching my eyes Oh yeah yeah well I try to stop I figure what's the point Oh I don't think I've put my finger in my nose since 2020. Just stop that shit cold.

But that's what a mask will do. If you ask me, what good is a mask? I mean, you see Taylor Lorenz with an N95 mask, having a meeting with what's that woman from Lips of TikTok, and she's wearing an N95 sitting outside in an outdoor cafe. You're in, that's nuts. That's just crazy. But if you're real bad about sticking your finger in your nose, maybe.

I mean, it will help prevent that. Don't stick your fingers in your eyes either, because that's another road of entry. Mouth nose, that's how I got it. Mouth nose and eyes. I didn't get it by sticking my finger in my eye. I got it by somebody, you know, spewing viral particles under my face mask and up into my eye. And that's how I got it the first time. Anyway, that's good stuff

All right Let's do it Anything else? No, sir All right, very good Well listen everybody Thank you for hanging out with us Thanks to everyone

Who's made this show happen Over the years Listen to our Sirius XM show On Faction Talk channel Series XM channel 103 Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern On Demand and other times

at Jim McClure's pleasure Many thanks to our listeners whose voicemail and topic ideas Make this job very easy. Go to our website at Dr. Steve.com for schedules, podcasts, and other crap. Until next time, check your stupid nuts for lumps. Quit smoking, get off your asses, get some exercise.

We'll see in one week for the next edition of Weird Medicine. Thanks, everybody. Thank you.