Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 591 - The F Word Is Good For You

Episode Date: May 21, 2024

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Check out Dr. Scott's website. at simplyerbils.net, simplyherbils.net. And check me out on Normal World with Dave Landau. I were doing Ask Dr. Steve. I got to play one. I got to see it in front of a live audience, what the reaction was when we were at, in Largo, Florida, at the Who Are These Podcasts live event, which was wonderful, by the way. and it's so funny how

you know there's all these people say oh you know Carl only sold 13 tickets and all this stuff and it was huge theater and it was two thirds full oh wow that's good. That's fine there were a lot of seats in the back but that was good for me because I want to take some pictures from back there

and I wasn't bothering anybody but it was we had a VIP meet and greet which is hilarious I mean you know if you're me at one of these things you ain't no VIP Were you one of the VIP? Yeah

I had my own little table and was giving away Weird medicine Chotch keys Like key rings and stuff like that It was fun Signed some posters And you know

It is There were a few Quite a few Opian Anthony fans there That say oh I've You know I've been listening to you since you know 2005 which is pretty cool

So Particularly since we started in what two 2007. No, I'm just about that. I think my first appearance on Opinanty was 2005. Meanwhile, Tacey's at home making poor decisions without a chaperone. Yeah, let's talk about that.

Well, I don't think we need to talk about that necessarily. However, there are wounds. Okay, so Tacey was helping her friend down the front steps. Which are dangerous. Right, because they're steps. And they had a couple of drinks too many. whatever her friend did and her friend fell on tacy and i guess mushed your leg between her and the stairs is that what happened yes but then the others and then the other and my hip is all scraped up too

so she has this giant hematoma on her uh lower leg so we wanted to talk to you for a second about uh kinesiology tape sure so she was at the gym and these people practicing medicine without license went ahead and just threw some kinesiology tape on their saying, well, this will make the bruise go away. I'm struggling to find out what the mechanism would be other than it's putting some external tension on the area. Yeah. You know, I don't know the sports guys.

Yeah, no, I know I'm a huge fan of kinesiotape, but I'm a huge fan of kinesia tape when you have an injury or, you know, somebody has some tendonitis in their elbow. You put some kinesia on there. But for a bruise, I'm not so sure. I was kind of shocked not to just see some arnica, you know, arnica hair on there. Sure. You know. Or nothing.

Or nothing and just let it run its course. But I don't know why the kinesia tape is going to help kind of with just hold tension to the surfa tissue and the fascia underneath. But I'm not so sure why you would want to do that when you're trying to get rid of a bruise. Well, we shall see how it works. They told me to come back in a week. God, you know how long hair on your legs is going to be in a week. Oh, that's true. That's going to be a little.

The older I get, the less hair I grow, so it won't be bad. Okay. The number, I was going to say, my number one thing, any kind of bruise like that. Topical Arnica. Arnica is something they use in a lot of dermatology and vein clinics. And it's a natural anti-inflammatory and a great and great for bruises. I am going to give you and me both one of the. What?

So now this is from Elevate Sport and Spine. therapy. This isn't a study. This is one of the best ways to get rid of a troublesome bruise quickly is to put kinesiology tape on it. Oh, my gosh. And now the So kTtape.com, which is obviously biased.

So we're going to do a, we're going to look and see if there are any studies on this. Elimination of bruising with kinesiology edema taping technique was likely due to increased action of platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule. In other words, PECAM,

one protein filament. How much lymphatic uptake occurs is largely dependent on how the tape is applied. So what they're implying is that when you put this tape on, it opens up the lymphatic channels which then draw off the hematoma. So this is their biased

approach to it. Let's see if I'd have to see a little further studies on that. I really would. Right. Yeah, because the big thing, Dr. Steve, and you know as well as I do, and lymphatic drainage, lymphatic drainage is one of the one of the strangest things you can ever encounter. It's the lightest, most gentle touch that you just barely apply to the skin.

And that helps to stimulate the lymphatics. Anything aggressive to the lymphatics can bruise them and actually makes them more sluggish and slows down the movement of the... Right, because they are, it is a circulatory type system, but it has no heart. And the lymphatic drainage system is very, you know, muscle. driven. Right, and gravity, and gravity driven. Yeah, sure is. And the vessels themselves, I mean, we never even able to dissect them out. They're passive. Right.

I mean, the lymphatics count on all the surrounding tissue, the fash, and the muscle. And again, like I said, gravity. So, yeah, I don't. So I went to PubMed and here we go. Kinesiology tape modestly increases skin blood flow, regardless of tape application technique. In other words, you don't have to put a fancy pattern on it like Tacey has.

It looks cool. It looks like a fan pattern. It was kind of cute. Yeah, it's kind of cute, yeah. Okay, let me see. Forearm skin blood flow after kinesiology taping and soccer players. But is there a single thing?

I put in hematoma and bruising and there's nothing. So I think they are making some claims that maybe they can't necessarily back up. Although I am, you know, I have an open mind about this stuff. Oh, yeah. It's worth a shot. Oh, I think it's going to hurt anything.

My friend is using Arnica. Yeah, I would use Arnica, yeah. For her war rooms. She's got quite a, she's got quite a wound. Okay, so for free of the details, the process, oh, wait, no, wait a minute, okay, is described in simple terms in an article on my clinic's website. Okay, so very good. There's no citation here whatsoever of where they're getting this from.

So I would like to know more. about it. And we have a clinical trial with an N of 1, this is Tacey. And the problem is it would really be better if you had a giant bruise on the other leg and we only taped one of them.

Well, unfortunately, the bruise on the other leg is combined with a giant scrape. So they can't tape that. But it would have been cool if we had a control. Now, what I will be impressed with is that they told you that if

that it will the bruise will only go away where the tape is and then they got to reapply it to the spaces so they made sort of a lattice Now if you come in next week and where the tape was has no bruising and where the tape isn't

they're still bruising then that will be pretty convincing. They said I should see spider veins of bruise within the next couple of days I don't want spider veins and and yeah so I don't know

They were like, why, how'd this happen? I'm like, I'm 50 and I make poor decisions. Correct. That is true. That's why we're friends. So anyway. Well, I've learned that at 68, I may need to make good decisions. So made a couple of questionable decisions when I was at the WATP thing, but there was only photograph of one of them.

Okay. Damn, damn cell phones. Well, I may have performed a lewd act on Royce while he was singing a karaoke because it was so amazing. I mean, his karaoke. Did you get up on a table again and scream? No, it did not. No. Not that you could do whatever and I couldn't say a damn word.

Well, anyway, it was fun, though. We had a great time. I highly recommend if you are fans of old O&A stuff and fans of Jocktober that you go to a WATP live event. It was really fun. There's a lot of just like-minded people. One guy got so drunk he got kicked out and then he's been on Reddit ever since saying that Carl, you know, that Carl's alibi is, and I can confirm this, that he was running a show when this was happening. He never left the stage from an hour before the show till about 30 minutes after the show. So that wasn't what happened.

But I don't think that the guy could possibly remember what happened. Oh, goodness. But, you know, they serve alcohol and every once in a while somebody gets overserved. It's not that big. Well, our babysitter from our kids has agreed to babysit me when you are out of town from the future. Really? Yeah. Okay.

We may have to pick her wear a helmet Well, we're not here Yay! Yay! I'm Tacey! So stupid. We're so proud of you, Tase. I love it.

All right. I love it. Well, so, yeah, so that was fun. I've done my fourth installment of Normal World, and I'm going April 8th to do the clips coverage for normal world and I don't know how we're going to do it

this one is going to be bigger than the last one millions and millions of people are going to descend on the path of totality and they want me to go downtown with this it's like you guys are crazy I've got an expensive solar telescope that we're going to use and I've got the solar binoculars

and I think we could film some B-roll down there and you all can maybe interview some crazy people but I think my part needs to be you know, at the studio where we have control of the surrounding environment. But that's up to them. This is their thing, and I'll do whatever they tell me to do. They're the comedians, not me.

So I did have kind of a germ of an idea because, you know, back in the past and our ancestors thought that the son was being eaten. And then they would do some ritual, some crazy ritual. And then they'd congratulate themselves because they'd make the evil, you know, dragon go away. and then they'd go back to doing whatever the fuck they were doing before. So there's got to be some corollary to the catastrophic thinking of today about certain things. But again, that's just the germ of an idea, let them do their thing on that. Anyway, check out Normal World Day Landau.

It's on YouTube, also on Blaze TV, if you happen to be on that platform. What is this eclipse thing? April 8th, 2024. And you can just say, when's the eclipse? Just Google, when will I see the eclipse? And it will come up. It's going from Mexico to Texas. And if you go from Dallas to Maine and draw a line between there, that is the path of totality.

So it's really bisecting just about all the country. I think there are a few places won't get any of it. And it's like northern Washington State or Oregon or somewhere, you know, and those sort of northwestern states won't get as much. But everybody else gets a little bit, some only 10%. But do not look at the sun and do not use film. We talked about this last time. Totally going to look at the sun.

Get solar glasses. You can buy them at Amazon. They've still got tons of them. They learned from last time. Yeah. And if you have solar glasses from last time, which was seven years ago, do not use those. They're no good anymore.

And you can, people go blind every year with these fucking eclipses. Oh, gosh. Well, because, you know, they think that they can use their binoculars to look at the sun while the diamond ring is still being viewed. And the only time you can look directly at the sun is when it is fully in totality. If there's any bit of the sun, Ed, showing you can't look at it. But you can do indirect viewing. with pinhole

or you know just leaves or any like a colander just take a colander out and project the sun through it onto a white piece of cardboard and you'll see little you know crescent suns and then

if you're in the path totality absolutely look right at it take pictures and just remember how long it's going to be in your area and if you start to see that the side of the sun start to brighten even a little bit, you've got to look away again. All right.

Sounds great. What is pretty cool, though, if you've got a filter, is you can see the mountains of the moon as they, as second and third contact happened. In other words, first contact is when the moon first touches the sun. Then second contact is when it just before it occludes the sun. there's totality, then third contact is when it's pulling away from the sun, right? And at that point, just as it starts to pull away or go to full totality, you'll see a ring of like a string of pearls around the sun.

And it's not even, and that's because there are mountains and valleys in the way. And so you'll see just little bits of sunlight will be visible just before other little bits because the altitude on the limb isn't perfectly, you know, flat. That's pretty cool. Anyway, all right. All right. Let's see here. I had a question here.

Oh, yeah, let's do this one. Scott, you can talk about this one, too, because I want to know what the Chinese version of this is. This is from Todd in Las Vegas. Hey, Dr. Steve, Dr. Scott, et al. This is Todd from Vegas. I've got a question for you. I've been kind of dealing with a little bit more of Restless Lake syndrome.

I usually get between six and 10,000 steps in per day, but I don't really go to the gym all that much, and I'm kind of trying to will myself to do it. I'm wondering if there's either, like, a medication or if Dr. Trapper can maybe recommend a supplement that might be good to use to sort of prevent or curtail. the possibility of my Restless Likes Dendrum at night, I do take quite a few supplements. I take magnesium glycanate, mainly because I have a very hard time being able to sleep at night as it is.

So any recommendations, greatly appreciated. Thank you very much, sir. All right? Yeah. So why don't you, he asked you first. Sure. There's sort of non-pharmacologic things. Do you want me to give sort of a just a rundown of what Restless Leg Syndrome is and then first, or do you want to do?

No, as you'll say, let's first talk about what it is because it can be pretty complicated. Yeah. So it's just a condition. It causes an urge to move the legs. And it's usually caused by this weird uncomfortable feeling in the legs. People have trouble describing it. It's miserable. It usually happens in the evening when they're sitting or lying down, when they're not.

They don't have stimulus. And it can really affect their ability to sleep. The movement eases the discomfort, but then it always comes back. It can happen at any age. It gets worse with age. Like I said, it disrupts sleep. You know, it's also known as Willis Ekbaum disease, but no one calls it not anymore. And the risk factors for having this are hereditary.

You know, some people at times it runs in families. Pregnancy, if you have iron deficiency or kidney failure, Parkinson's disease, you know, that kind of stuff. So anyway, so there you go. Yeah, so it sounds like he's taking some supplements already. The number one thing we typically tell people is to try some magnesium at bedtime. But he's already taking a magnesium glycinate or glycinate, which I prefer. But we don't know how much he's taken, you know, and certainly you can take 200.

I usually tell people to start at 200 milligrams and go up according to whatever the bottle says or whatever the health provider says. That's certainly something. And I know you're going to talk about tonic water in a second, but some other things. I'm not going to talk about tonic water on this one so much. Okay, okay. Well, in some other things. Like grams, yes, but not so much for restless. Well, and some of the things you can actually try.

If it is related to exercise, if it is related to exercise, he can do some increased stretching after he gets done walking. He's walking 10,000 miles or 10,000. steps a day, which is quite a bit. And sometimes it's just an overuse syndrome. Make sure that he does have, you know, good oxygenation. Make sure that his iron levels are normal, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But, you know, sometimes a massage will make a huge difference. A gentle massage before you go to bed will make a big difference with the rest of his legs if it's from overuse.

Okay. So that's the first thing I would do. Yeah. Yeah, I think doing all the sort of lifestyle stuff first helps. Oh, yes. And then and doing things that help you. sleep at night by not like don't drink right before you go to bed alcohol don't eat right before you go to bed all those things don't exercise right before you go to bed don't fall down the steps

don't yeah don't fall down the steps it's true uh-huh so um the uh so let's say if all of that fails then there are pills you can take sure there's some that work on dopamine access in the brain one of those is prima pexole it's sold as mirapex and then there's ropineral and these are, you know, approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat moderate to severe restless leg syndrome. The thing is, is that they're great drugs, but every once in a while, they'll increase, they'll mess with your impulse control, and people will all of a sudden start compulsive gambling on these things. Oh, wow. Because, you know, dopamine's involved in the whole pain and pleasure thing, in the brain, et cetera.

So, and it can, they can make you sleepy during the day. And then sometimes they'll work for a while, then they'll just quit working altogether. Now, there are other medications that I prefer to use for this affecting calcium channels. Those would be gabapentin and pre-gabalin are the two main ones, Neurontin and Lyrica, and those will work for some people. And the nice thing is gabapentin is now generic and it's cheap. And so that may work. There are also clonopin, clonazepam, but it is habit-forming, and once you start taking it, you're going to be taking it.

And every once in a while you get somebody that nothing will help them, and some of the physiatrists will use an opioid, low-dose opioid for this, like tramidol or even oxycodone. But most of the time we recommend the lifestyle changes, the gabapentence, and the pre-gabodal. If that doesn't work, then I would try the dopamine ones. If that doesn't work, then maybe a muscle relaxer just to help you sleep at night. It doesn't really change the syndrome, but you just sleep better. Because that's what people are really concerned about. Right. All right.

So no Chinese herbs or anything for restless syndrome? Surely to goodness they had restless leg syndrome in ancient China. Yeah, but, you know, it's a lot of the stuff that you were talking about earlier, as far as just calming the mind, And just helping people go to sleep. Yeah. The one formula we have is to stress less, which is what I would, which is what I personally take. Just calms your mind. What's it got in it?

It's got, well, it's got a stragglers, of course. Of course. Well, that's because. Oh, go ahead. It's got some oyster shale and some other things. Yeah. But they're old Chinese herbs. And certainly, before I would go to some of these higher, you know, really a lot stronger.

Right. Right. I'd find somebody that does some Chinese medicine and, um, and, um, and, um, and, probably some, some, some, a little more gentle things. Because a lot of them, a lot of times these rest of legs are cyclical, too. Yeah. They will come and go a lot of times. All right.

Yeah, just stick with it. And then make sure there's nothing, you know, there's no stenosis in the lower back. Because sometimes if it's, if it is related to your lower back, sometimes that's stretching again will help. And sometimes maybe an epidural or something like that. Okay. Did we do, I don't think we did this one. And then we're going to get to your stuff. This might be a dumb-ass question here.

What is the difference between a virus, a bacteria, or a parasite? All right. That's actually a good question. So, thank you, Stacey. It's Stacey Deloche, everybody. A virus. So a virus is a machine, a nanomachine made up of DNA and protein, sometimes RNA and protein. that is designed to only affect other cells

and co-opt their internal mechanisms so they can make copies of themselves. That's it. There's no effing purpose to these things other than just pure reproduction. Yep. And they are just little machines. I mean, look at bacteriophage sometime and see that thing is a designed,

machine. I mean, it's amazing. It's got, it looks like something that Elon Musk would create, you know, some little nanomachine. Now, do they have some uses? Yeah, you know, we can co-op the damn things and make them make, you know, deliver drugs or gene therapy and stuff like that. So, you know, when I talk about eradicating pathologic human viruses, I'm not talking about eradicating all viruses because there are some that we can use. because we can't we're not quite there yet where we can just design our own virus

to do whatever we want and if we did I'd be nervous about it because I've seen I am legend so I know you know this shit goes down a little concerning it but anyway but they're using viruses

to deliver as I said gene editing to cells they're using viruses there's viral oncolitic therapy where you use viruses to mark

cells for destruction by the immune system so if you can target only cancer cells with your virus then they and they start expressing their proteins on the surface of those cells

the white blood cells come in and kill them they've done this with multiple myeloma with measles virus so just as an example so those were what viruses are Bacteria are a little more complex. They actually respire. They take in energy and they expend energy.

Some of them have flagella on them that allow them to move. They're motile. And E. coli is one of those. As a matter of fact, I just saw a new catheter that they designed that will keep E. coli from colonizing the catheter and the urinary tract so that it would be a safer, fully catheter. Oh, wow. Yeah. Designed by A. Yeah, and that's something, and it traps the bacteria as they try to work their way up the catheter.

Anyway, but they will have DNA in them, and they also are very smart about learning, well, some of them are, about learning how to become immune or, you know, impervious to, sorry, antibiotics. Right. Because bacteria and fungi are in a constant battle in the real world. And that's how penicillin was discovered. There was a little fungal colony on an auger plate where someone was trying to grow bacteria and they saw all around the fungus. It was clear. Right. And it was killing all of the bacteria around it to protect itself. Wow.

And so these things are in a constant battle, but then the bacteria are like, hey, fuck you. going to figure out a way to get around this. We're going to change our protective shale. That's right. And they can teach each other, too. Once they figure it out, they throw these plasmids out, which are little pieces of DNA. It's just like, you know, if you go on YouTube and you get a recipe from some guy. It's like that.

It's they're throwing out recipes for making yourself impervious. Make your own. Yeah, make your own, yeah. Impervious to this particular antibiotic. And so they, you know, you. That's bacteria. And they divide and they sort of reproduce, sort of. And so there is some mixing of DNA, but it's not sexual reproduction.

And then you have parasites are multi-cell. So viruses, no cells, bacteria, single-cell. And then parasites, by definition, are multi-celled organisms that live parasitically off of us. In other words, they drain resources from us. An example of that would be ascarus or roundworms where they grow inside of us, but they don't do us any good. But they do only themselves good. Is there any research using parasites for new treatments? Like they're like using viruses for cancer treatments or bacteria.

Well, I know people will take tapeworm eggs for obesity. we don't recommend that. And remember that story that we had? I think we did it two different times. Tacey brought it once and Lydia brought it once about a guy that had a tapeworm. The tapeworm got cancer, poor little thing. And then the guy got tapeworm metastatic cancer from the tapeworm.

Golly. So he had tumors all over his body. But none of them were human cells. They were tapeworm cells. God. Cancer cells. That's a stroke of bad luck. Yeah, that's definitely.

Definitely unlucky lottery. Oh, my. Anyway. All right. So did we cover that? Yeah. Yeah, there you go. Cool.

Good question, Stacey. It's Tacey's Time of Topics. A time for Tacey to discuss topics of the day. Not to be confused with Topic Time with Harrison Young, which is copyrighted by Harrison Young and Area 58 Public Access. And now, here's Tacey. Hello, everybody. Hello. I have three topics.

I'm going to go through them very quickly. Okay. We'll take your time. The first one is 10 things you didn't know about the penis. Sent to me by Steve. What? No, I was sent to you by Stacy and I forwarded it. The first erection, even before the moment of birth,

ultrasound scans sometimes show a fetus with a fetus with a fully formed erection. I see. I see why you had trouble with that. Try to say penis. A fetus with a four or four directions. On a fetus with an erection. Yeah. Number two, a penis is twice as long as you think.

A lot of people might take solace in this fact. Penises. I cannot say that word. Are longer than they look. He's got a really long penis. Peaner, peenerish. In fact, around half the entire length is housed inside the body. That's why some people will measure from their

wrecked up from their asshole through the taint and they'll go yeah I got them I got ten inches like no dude doesn't work that way you got to measure from where it first becomes visible stop it number three the shoe size myth

let's slay this one to rest shall we okay there is no correlation between shoe size and penis length okay well that makes sense what about penis girth though Penis penile dimensions are significantly correlated with age, height, and index finger length, but not foot size.

Oh, now, okay. Now you're in trouble. That's the hell of an index finger got there, Steve. I can span an octave and a third. Go ahead and taste. I'm just throwing that out. Number four, morning wood. Most people with penises have three to five erections every night.

Yeah. Mostly during R.E.M. Sleep. Also called nocturnal penal tumessence. And it's not clear why it happens. One theory is that it might help prevent bedwetting. An erection inhibits urination. It does. Yeah, if you've ever tried to... That is true.

To urinate with a raging erection. It's very difficult to do so. Number five, one final erection. So we've established that erections can occur in the womb. And the sleep, but what perhaps even more surprising is did the death erection also called angel lust and happens in the moments after death. Rigamortis is setting in. It just goes to show you that guys will just get a boner no matter. Yeah, rigormorus.

Because we've told this story many times about the guy that was brain dead and the wife wanted to get some, you know, wanted to have a baby. And so she got him an erection and jacked him off until he. completed the transaction, and then she just went on her merry way, and he was brain dead. Oh, goodness. So, well, just, you know, guys can be brain dead and still get an erection and still get it home. I think most of us are probably considered, yeah, brain dead anyway. It's not exactly a higher level, cortical thing. No, that's right.

It's not a surprise either. Number six, the penis can break. The moment of fracture is accompanied by popping. or cracking sound, intense pain, swelling, and unsurprisingly, flacidity. You hope. Usually partial flacidity is what causes it. Do you know what position is the number one position

for causing this taste? No, it just says vigorous sex. Well, it's vigorous sex with the woman on top. In other words, the woman in control. Driving. That's right. No-brainer. Most people with penises have.

very little control over exactly when they ejaculate. This is partially because it does not involve the brain. The signal to ejaculate comes from the spinal ejaculation generator. Which was why the brain dead guy could still get it on. This region in the spinal

cord coordinates the necessary functions. Yeah, you don't have a whole lot of you can, you know, it's just like I can stop breathing. Breathing is involuntary but it has a voluntary component. Right. Like I can hyperventilate on purpose. I can stop breathing on purpose

for a little bit. For a little while, yeah. And then you're going to start breathing again. Same thing. You can start doing calculus in your head, but that's about what it requires. And the spinal cord's still going to go, I'm going to go bust the nut, no matter what. Yeah, spinal cord doesn't care. With your derivatives. That's right. Oh, my God. Number eight, the angle of the dangle. A penile erection can point in virtually any direction. 0 to 30 degrees, 4.9% of participants, 30 to 60 degrees. Seems to be the most popular at 29.6 precipitants.

Participants, 60 to 85 degrees, 30.9% of participants. 85 to 95 degrees, 9.9%. Where are they measuring this from? I don't have any idea. So for anyone concerned that their chap is a big, skewed, don't worry, you are normal. I think it means it's touching your navel. Okay.

Oh, okay. Yeah, I used to do that. It says a curve up to 30 degrees is still considered healthy. Yeah, it's actually better for you, I think. You know, we've talked about curvature of the penis. It increases the apparent girth with the person that you are having intercourse with. If you think about it, it makes sense. So if you have a straight, perfectly straight, cylindrical.

penis and you're going in and out and out. Okay, so you have this sort of feeling of girth from the stretch receptors in the vagina or whatever orifice you're in with whatever partner. No judgment. But let's just say penis vagina for now. Now, if

you have a slightly curved penis, then let's just say that the curvature points to the right. So the tip of the penis will point to the left, so it'll be slightly to the left. And then as you insert it, of Of course, you're going to get this sort of angular insertion that will push the vaginal walls apart, and then you get the tip of the curve, and then you repeat in the opposite direction.

And so it actually feels to the nervous system of your partner that you have more girth because you have more apparent girth. So a little bit of curvature, if you're a guy and you've got a 20 to 3.3. 30 degree curvature that you don't have you know pathologic perone's disease with different thing altogether that's where you have a curvature that's caused by scar tissue caused by a fractured penis yeah because someone was in control that probably you know didn't realize what they that you weren't completely fully engaged at the time when they thrust downward and bent your penis in half but um you if as long as you don't have that if you've if you've always been self-conscious about curvature, actually, you're probably doing better for your partner than

somebody with a perfectly straight member. Number nine. Oh, there's more. Okay. Grower or shower. A study, including 274 participants, demonstrated that there is no correlation between the length of a flaccid penis and its erect size. Really?

Mm-hmm. No correlation. Some start small and end up large. That's a grower, while some are large when flaccid and only grow a little. That's a shower. Thank you for explaining that. And then number 10, corn flakes prevent masturbation. What?

I've never heard that before. Oh, oh, oh, oh. No, this is what Kellogg was trying to do, wasn't he? Wasn't that part of the thing was he developed these flakes? John, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the breakfast cereal mastermind, hoped that they would. He invented corn flakes and other products because he thought that the plain foods would lead Americans away from the scent of masturbation. And didn't he have a camp or something like that? Oh, my God.

How crazy is that? There's a movie about it. I'd never heard that. That's insane. It's called The Road to Wellville. Story about the ins and outs of one unusual health facility in the early 20th century run by the eccentric Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. He must be a lonely man. Eccentric doctors.

Do you know about the doctors? that was involved with the Carter family? No, no. So he was the, I think he was the goat gland doctor. Let me see. Like President Jimmy Carter? Yeah, the Carter family, I'm sorry, like the June and... Oh, the Carterfold, yeah, our Carter family here.

Our Carter's, yes. So his name was John Brinkley. Okay. And our son, Liam, interviewed the granddaughter of AP Carter in this studio and he really needs to publish this thing because she told some crazy-ass stories

and they would take their jalopy and drive just imagine. Drive it down to Mexico where this guy had a radio station but not just any radio station. It was right over the line because

the laws in Mexico were different. He was running a million watts. Now right now the The strongest a.m. radio station in the United States is limited to 50,000 watts. Oh, wow. He had a million watt AM radio station. And so the Carter's would go down there, and people said they could hear radio in their fillings or their fences. Oh, my gosh.

Because the fence would refract. I believe it, yeah. Or what's the word? I'm thinking of it were a diode. It's not refract. But anyway, it would determine. protect radio signals, changes in the amplitude in these radio signals, and it would be translated into audio that people could hear because it was so powerful. And this station could be heard all through the Midwest of the United States, which is why the Carter family became so popular because people would listen to this radio station.

I think it was XER was the call sign. And they had this huge audience. They'd be down there for two weeks, maybe a month, and they'd play every night. And then people were hearing this music that they'd never heard before. You know, A.P. Carter would go up and down the haulers, just collecting songs from all these people just playing music on their porch. And where they were from, there were no paved roads. They were all dirt and gravel roads. I mean, I can't imagine that driving that job.

If you're at all interested in the history of American music, you should. go to Hilton's Virginia and go to the AP Carter store when it's open. Check it out. Just Carter Family Fold to search it on Google. But the stories that she was telling, but that was one of them. Now, this guy, this Dr. Brinkley, was also the goat gland doctor. Wow. And his thing was, because we were talking about erectile dysfunction, he wanted to

do xenotransplantation of goat testicles into humans as a treatment for male impotence. and he got taken down by somebody whose name you've probably heard and let me see if I can find it oh now okay let's see I don't want to

this page is just okay Morris Fishbein he was a famous attorney back in the I think they've made some movies about him as well but 1938 Mo Fishbein entered the picture with vengeance publishing two-part series

called modern medical charlatans that included a thorough repudiation of Brinkley's checkered career. So even back then they were trying to stay on top of quacks and weirdos and stuff. Wow. So goat testicles? Yeah. Isn't that interesting? Makes sense. They didn't know anything about rejection and stuff. I was going to say, yeah, I don't think that would have taken

very long to figure out, though. Oh, right. Can you imagine? Yeah. Topic number two. Oh, there we go. Yay. The first human to receive Neurlink implant says it lets him play civilization. Right. Okay. This is fascinating.

29-year-old Nolan Arbaugh, a quadriplegic, says the brain implant has allowed him to play chess and civilization on his PC using his mind. I'm so freaking lucky to be a part of this, he says. So he received Neurilink's brain implant. It says, of course, it changed his life for the better. And he can use a computer simply with his mind in a live stream on Wednesday. Neurilinth introduced 29-year-old Nolan Arbaugh, a quadriplegic who agreed to receive the brain chip back in January. This is of 2024. He's since been using the implant to remotely control a mouse cursor on his computer.

He lost his ability to use his limbs after a freak diving accident about eight years ago. Oh, that happened to a friend of mine. So he's paralyzed from below the shoulders, and he has no sensation or movement below his injury. And that's something. So this is the beginning of the chips and the head trope, you know, from science fiction. If you want to read a really fun book about the ideas that people have about how far this could go, go read a book by John Scalzi called Old Man's War where all of those people have these implants and they have a computer in their head and they can access data and stuff like that.

So it's fascinating. The implant works by reading the brain signal. from the user and translating them into Bluetooth-based remote commands to control an electronic device like a mouse cursor. Yeah, you know, and this is just controlling a mouse cursor, that's just, that's a joke, you know, 10 years from now. Yeah, this initially involved trying to move his hands, even though he's lost ability to use them. Yeah. So. Incredible.

Wow. Isn't that cool? Yes, that's really cool. Good. And that's Elon Mosque, so people that shit on Elon, he's still doing some interesting work over there. Yeah. So topic number three. Oh, my goodness.

I mean, I know, I know, but people were sending them to me. That's good stuff. Saying the F word and flipping the bird can reduce pain. There you go. There you go. Swearing is not in common when you are in severe pain. Right. You hit your hand and you shout the F and the C word.

A recent study. explored whether saying the F word or flipping the bird affects the experience of pain. And the results show that taboo acts appear to reduce pain perception and increase pain tolerance. And they really taboo? I mean, is it that they're taboo or is there a part of the brain that is stimulated when you curse? The reason I ask this is people who have strokes that affect the speech part of their brain. And they have a thing called brocaze phasia. They know the word, but they can't say it.

many times they're still able to curse. Right. And they go, oh, shit, oh, shit. That comes out just great, everything else. So my hypothesis is that curse words are stored in a different place in the brain. Wow. And it's probably adjacent, but it's not in the same place. And I wonder if that's got something to do with this, that when you do that, it somehow releases endorphins or something.

Pleasure center, maybe. Or maybe it could just be the right, or that. because it is pleasurable to curse, that's for sure. I mean, there's a lot of fluff in this article, but the takeaway is the hypoallergesic effects of swearing or giving the middle finger might be mediated by more effective emotion regulation. Additional research is needed to validate this hypothesis.

Yeah. Well, but go back to the pleasure center, the thing, going back to the penis thing, you know, you talk about after an orgasm, you tend to, you know, let some... What do you do, do you cuss? Salty words. Oh, shit, oh, shit. Oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, shit.

Here it comes, Myrtle. Look out, Myrtle. Here's your clothes. But, yeah, and the other thing that's interesting. Okay, this is an interesting phenomenon. I don't recommend that anybody do this. But if you are stupid kid and the only thing you've got to help you, you know, to lubricate your hand is cornflakes. Cornflake is like Vic's vapo rub that's got mental on it.

Oh, goodness. When you're doing the act, it just is kind of a warming effect. As soon as the transaction is complete, it's abject pain. So there is a switch that goes off in your head. We know oxytocin is released so that the trust hormone for that moment, you have complete regard for the other person, no matter who they are. just for a second, and then you go, oh, shit, what did I just do? Well, sometimes.

And then you have this weird thing with this pain thing that changes. Now, I wonder if women have that. I know a million years ago when we had, when we were cutting up peppers and stupidly tried to have intercourse afterward. Well, someone. It's like, are you, ooh, did you use warming lube? And then it's like, oh, my God. Yeah.

That only happened once, didn't it? No, twice. Oh, she's a fucking idiot. He's a fucking idiot. Yep. Oh, gosh, Tase, you are a trooper. Oh, I don't have to worry about that anymore. Anyway, all right.

So, you got anything else on that, taste? Those are good. Okay, thank you. You get a bell. Give thyself a bag. I would actually agree with that bill for the first time ever, by the way. There you go. All right.

I've got one here that's just labeled body parts. I probably should run the... Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. Let's just do this and see what this is. Now, all right. Come on now. Come on, ever.

Okay. So, powering... This is MT. Daily. I got to cut off before. Oh, sorry. Electricity powering something off of a crematory. Okay, I think we answered his question. It was about cremation before, so I'm going to get rid of that one.

Okay. Let's see. Here's one from March 16th. Don't know what it is. Well, you're here. Yeah, good question. Now, this is from this year. Hey, Dr. Steve, Dr. Scott, Tacey.

This is Tony from New Jersey. Hey, Tony. I love your podcast. I listen all the time. I really appreciate it. Thanks, man. The other day, I was watching a brand-new documentary called After Death. It's about near-death experiences.

And I've seen, read, heard some similar accounts before. But this is the very first time I've ever heard accounts like these from medical professionals. Yeah, let's talk a little bit. We've really, we're running a little bit out of time. Let's talk about near-death experience. common factor in near-death experiences people see a tunnel and a light and they move toward it and then some people will experience they may run into somebody and talk to somebody every once in a while somebody feels like they had a horrible experience that actually went to hell

and this happened enough times that a couple of researchers wanted to do some studies on this. So one of the common things that people say is that they see themselves floating over everybody and they're looking down at what's going on before they float up and go into this tunnel of light. It's a pretty common phenomenon. So what they did was they put a message where only someone floating over the scene could see. see it. It was in red flashing light so you could not miss it. And there was a word on there.

So if you were really floating, you would have seen this and you would come back and say, yeah, I was floating and I saw this word and it said fire truck or whatever. And during the study that they did, lots of people had near-death experiences described the same sort of phenomenon. a single one of them saw the, you know, could tell what the light was or even said that there was a flashing red light or anything. So it is some kind of weird illusion that our brain does. Wow.

Now, could it last forever? Sure. Sure. It could, even if it only in our time lasts a couple of milliseconds for you and perceived time, it could last forever. And that could be, you know, your definition of the afterlife. Who knows? but I'd love to know more

I'm going to find out sooner rather than later compared to the rest of you guys so if I figure out a way to let you know I'll do it all right All right Dr. Scott Well before we get out of here you had a question from the fluid family

and by the way if you want to join the fluid family you're welcome to do so just go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine and also turn on gifted memberships because Myrtle goes in and gives out memberships and other folks do as well. We've got some new subscribers that we're going to...

Well, let's go through those real quick because I see several messages here that we need to attend to. Tickles is a new member. Welcome to the Fluid family. Hey, thank you. Welcome. Myrtle Manus, gifted 10.

weird medicine, Dr. Steve memberships are only 99 cents so it's not actually spent a lot of money. But she's up there in the hall. Boy, you go, Myrtle. And let's see here. And then we had Ordo Monstrum got his comment

deleted. Why is that? I don't know. Ordo Monstrum, thanks for the 499. Dr. Steve feeds me corn flakes, then shows me spicy potato puppet picks all in the name of Science. This is correct. That is true. Oh, my goodness. I do do that.

Yes. All right. And I think that's it. Okay. So, what do you got? Right on. So, hey, Dr. Steve, had a colonoscopy. This is from? This is from the king. King of all diffs? King of all diffs. Okay. Who didn't show up in Largo, by the way? Oh, it was a no show.

Yep. But that's okay. I gave his ticket to the spouse of one of the performers, and that worked out okay. Oh, cool. Because they were real sticky in that place. about letting people in. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was fine. It worked out perfect kings. We'll see it the next one.

Yeah, that's cool. Tabalcon 2 in August in Rochester. Oh, gosh. Go ahead. Sounds like a party and a palis. If you went, you would have a good time. I'm just telling you. Had the colonnostic.

Both of you. Okay, both of you. Lord and lady do you back. We'll stay here and fall down steps. Let me tell you something. every single time some guy drags his wife

to these things and she's like oh yeah he dragged me here and when I see him walking out she's like I had the best time and this time

it was the opposite there were women who were dragging their husbands to this thing and they all had a blast right on so there you go

that's cool yeah so anyway had a colonoscopy yesterday and my colitis has resolved how did this occur well

like anything else I got better It just got better. Good question. Okay, next. No, I don't know. A couple ways, yeah. I mean, colitis just means inflammation of the colon.

Now, if he means he had ulcerative colitis, that is unusual. That's different. But I have seen it completely resolved. And one of the treatments that I've seen that has completely resolved some cases of ulcerative colitis was fecal transplant, which is weird. So they take other, they take healthy stool and put it in. a diseased colon, and sometimes that colon will heal itself. So it's very interesting.

If anyone is interested in that, send me an email. I'll send you some studies on that. Are they using that treatment before surgery? They should be. They should be. But if you have a perforation, you don't want to be putting a stool up there. No, but you know, Crohn's disease

patients, that's sometimes a problem. But real quickly, yeah, but in all seriousness for colitis, that inflammation, a lot Sometimes if you just take away whatever the food is or the drink or beverage. Sometimes it's alcohol. Sometimes it's a food, whatever. If you can take that way, a lot of times, the colitis. And sometimes, Dr. Steve, as we all know, it's stress.

Reducing your stress, a lot of times affects your colon. And that can help your collis. Lots of different kinds of colitis. Does he know, is he still here? Is he telling us what kind of colitis he's got? Because there's pseudomebrinous colitis that's caused by claustridium difficile. It's a nil caused by bacteria. you. There is a single-cellular organism.

That's correct. There's ulcerative colitis, which is autoimmune. Crohn's disease is a form of an inflammatory bowel disease. And then, yeah, there's just infectious colitis that's caused by weird bacteria that your body clears and then it goes away. So I'm glad it's gone. Yep. Yeah, good job. Ulcerative, yeah.

There's some of these things cause the increased risk of having colon cancer and stuff like that. But, you know, if you're at increased risk of colon cancer, let's say you have familial polyposis, you're much less likely to actually die from it because you're aware that you're at high risk. So you will get your colonoscopy so they can treat you earlier. You'll catch it earlier. All right. I'm getting my cardiac calcium score done on Friday because, you know, I had to come off the statins and everything. After all these years of Dr. Scott saying, get off the statins, now I have to.

And so we'll see. We'll, by God, see where I'm at if I'm, you know. Oh, goodness. Yeah. But you've only been off of them for three weeks, huh? No, well, it'd be a little bit longer than that. But, you know, I went down to once a week, and I still had problems. We'll see.

Yeah, we'll see. Anyway, all righty, anything else? Well, do it. All right, then. Thank you, everybody. I appreciate everybody's hanging out with us. Thanks to Dr. Scott. Thanks, Tacey.

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