Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 593 - Have You Ever Seen the Raine?

Episode Date: May 29, 2024

Dr Steve, Dr Scott, Raine and Tacie discuss: nasal spray human super powers memory loss intermittent fasting thigh pain v@ginal health repeated bone surgery polymyalgia rheumatica screening for Huntington Disease spore-based probiotics and more! Please visit: simplyherbals.net/cbd-sinus-rinse (the best he's ever made. Seriously.) stuff.doctorsteve.com (we're back, baby!) 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!") Help the Daughter of Producer Chris! (join the fight against breast cancer!) Most importantly! CHECK US OUT ON PATREON!  ALL NEW CONTENT! Normal World pieces, classic appearances, 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

You get nothing. You lose. Good day, sir. Man, you are one pathetic loser. Well, that's because you're an idiot. If you just read the bio for Dr. Steve, host of Weird Medicine on Sirius XM103, and made popular by two really comedy shows,

Opie and Anthony 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 rest of? I expect that I'm entitled to! I've got diphtheria crushing my esophagus. I've got Tobolivir, stripping from my nose. I've got the leprosy of the heartbound, exacerbating my incredible woes.

I want to take my brain out and blast with the wave, an ultrasonic, ecographic, and a pulsating shave. I want a magic pill. All my ailments, the health equivalent of citizen cane. And if I don't get it now in the tablet, I think I'm doomed, then I'll have to go insane. I want a requiem for my disease.

So I'm aging Dr. Steve. From the world famous Cardiff Electric Network Studios in beautiful downtown, Tuki City, it's weird medicine. The first and still only uncensored medical show and the history broadcast radio, now a podcast. I'm Dr. Steve with my little pal, Dr. Scott, the traditional Chinese medicine provider, gives me street cred the wacko alternative medicine assholes. Hello, Dr. Scott. Hey, Doc Steve. My partner in all things, Tacey. Hello.

And new to the studio, it's rain, everyone. Hello. I'd still think of a radio name for you. Tacey goes by Tacey. That's true. She's no fun, but let's see. How about fog? That's really a good in fog.

Oh, my Lord. Precipitation of some sort. That's the show for people who never have a show on the radio Or the internet, if you've got a question, you're embarrassed to take to your regular medical provider. Or if you can't find an answer anywhere else, give us a call. 347766432. That's 347. Poohead.

Follow us on Twitter or Instagram at Weird Medicine or Twitter at Dr. Scott WM, D.R. Scott WM. Visit our website at Dr.steve.com for podcast, medical news and stuff. You go-bye. Most importantly, we're not your medical providers. Take everything here with a grain of salt. Don't act on anything you hear on this show without talking over with your health care provider. All right, very good.

We're going to have a new affiliate agreement pretty soon. You can still go to stuff.do.com and get the Rodey automatic tuner and the Rodey coach, which I'm very thrilled with. Do you play any instruments, Rain? No. If I got you, I've done this twice now. If I got you a Rode coach, would you, do you have a guitar? I own a guitar, yes. But you don't know how to play it.

I know a few chords. Okay. If I get you a Rody coach, will you do the program and then come back and show us that you actually learn something? Maybe. Okay. Oh, okay. Should I just say yes? I love free stuff.

I mean, I can get you a, what this thing is is you clamp it very non-traumatically to your guitar. So it can listen to what you're doing. And it will also, it can listen to you sing, too, if you want to. But you don't have to. have to do the singing thing, but it will, and it can tell you if you're on pitch or not. But it will with the app and your guitar and this

thing listening to what you're playing, it will help you get your rhythm and get your chords and teach you songs and teach you how to play your instrument. And it's very inexpensive, and you can go to Rody R-O-A-D-I-D-I-E. dot Dr.steve.com or just go to stuff.com.com. You can see

the tuner, and I'll put up a video of the coach. If I get you one and you you know, and you come back, because you're going to be coming back like every three or four weeks, I guess, right? Right? Yeah, I'm down. Yeah, you're on rotation. Okay, I'll get you one. Check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyerbils.net.

We'll talk about it in a minute. Patreon.com slash weird medicine. Put up a bunch of stuff about the eclipse. We can talk about that in a minute and some other things. All the normal world content will eventually go on there before it goes anywhere else on my channel. And then if you want me to say, you know, fluid to you, mom. I did a couple of these during Eclipse Day. I did some cameos from the site of the eclipse in Dallas, Texas.

Cameo.com slash weird medicine. That's fun. And they're cheap. All right. All right. Perfect. I've got to adjust my camera because our new media person is going to curse at me for having poor framing. We have A. Heinz Media.

It's A-H-Y-N-E-S-M-M-E-S-M-E. media. And what he's doing is taking clips from the show and then putting them on Instagram because I'm too stupid to do it myself. And, you know, it's funny. But check that out. Check out our Instagram at Weird Medicine. And Andy's doing some cool stuff there. And then we've got some YouTube shorts and stuff. So check out our YouTube channel at Weird Medicine. Kind of a, you know, a pattern there. But I was in Dallas for the Eclipse.

Oh, yeah. And with Dave Landau in Normal World, and we did this sort of one-off, just goofy video where we're all looking with our glasses, with our eclipse glasses. And Dave is like,

oh, I just have my hand. I'll be fine. And I'm like, I looked over at my mind. Yeah, you'll be all right because I wanted to look at the sun. I wasn't even paying attention to him. and then it sort of fades out and then comes back and he says oh that was cool and he turns around and his eyes are just bleeding and he's completely blind and uh Bryce and I are still looking at the sun they're showing we're completely ignoring him while he just stumbles around it's pretty funny it is pretty funny 136,000 views on that how do we miss that right on on Instagram well you don't follow me on Instagram but anyway so yeah That was fun. Cool.

And what you can't hear in my best line is, he'll be all right. Because, of course, we have to watch the eclipse, right? But if you go, I have eclipse videos and photographs that I took with my telescope. You can see a really cool sunspot with an umber and penumbra there, which is kind of a misnomer because they're not really shadows, but they look like them. But you can see structure in the sunspot. I shipped my telescope to Dallas, and then I put a solar filter on it, and it was tracking the sun the whole time. And I did kind of, you know, science time with all of the staff of normal world and there were a couple of celebrities there and stuff.

It was fun. Yeah, I got to be the science guy. I didn't have to talk about medicine. I just got to talk about celestial mechanics for five minutes. Did you actually see the – because we didn't see it here. Oh, my God, did we? No, we see that. Well, you really don't follow out anything that I do, do you?

It's fine. No, I'll show you the pictures later. They're incredible. Yeah, so I've got the pictures of the moon, eclipsing the sun, and then I took my 35-millimeter camera, and I bracketed, and I got pictures of the total eclipse, and I'm going to put those into Photoshop and see if I can take the under-exposed ones and the hyper-exposed ones. and, you know, stack them together to get some more detail out of it. Do you know anything about celestial mechanics or were you just riffing? No, yeah, of course. Yeah, I mean, who doesn't?

Keplerian orbel elements and stuff, of course. Would you like to tell the story of You'll Be All right from the England Hotel? I have told that story on this show before. But let's say that for another time, but it is a, It's a, well, it's fine. I mean, Tacey wants to humiliate me, but I'm not humiliated by it because when you're under stress, you find out what kind of person you really are. And, Susan, you'll be all right. I'm a piece of shit.

Okay, so we're on our honeymoon. Oh, no. We're on our honeymoon. And every night at one in the morning, the fire alarm would go off. And you'd hear, and then the TV would come on and it would go fire, fire, fire. So we'd have to go outside. and all of us at the Thistle Victoria Hotel were standing outside in the middle of the road

and this bus comes by and he's like honking at us and pointing like get out of the road and this was funny one of the guys that was there just banged on the side of the bus you know it's a bloody fire you tart I can't do a British accent

it was pretty funny it's a bloody fire you tart and that stuck in my mind Well, the fourth night of this, it goes off at one in the morning. Oh, no. And we're like, they made us go down the stairs. And so we're going down the stairs. This time, I smell smoke and I see smoke.

Oh, no. And it's like, oh, shit, this place is. So we start hauling off down the stairs. This poor little old lady, little fray lady. And she kind of stumbles, and she's, like, hanging on the banister. Like, oh, and we went from a house. We went running by, I went, ah, you'll be our. What a piece of shit.

Just remember, just roll when you hit. Now, listen, that's stuck in my head. If I'm ever presented with something, it turned out to be nothing. It was somebody was smoking. But if that happens again, I will not behave that way again. No, listen, it's been 22 years for me thinking about this. That really pissed me off that I behaved like that. Oh, my God.

It's been 22 years that Chalka got married. Yeah. Damn. Yep. 2001. Ooh, taste. 23 years. It's been a long run.

Yeah, it's enough. It's long enough. Anyway, but that, yeah. So anyway. That's cool. There you go. I'm not humiliated by it. It was a real moment and I was a piece of shit.

And I've changed my ways. But I'll turn it well. Well, I'm a different person than I am than I was then. And I just, I said, that surprised me. Well, you were young and immature at that time. I was, but I always thought that I'd be, you know, I wouldn't be. A hero. Yeah.

Well, we had terrible weather here, man. I mean, all we saw was clouds and rain. Yeah, it was awful. It was awful. I mean, it kind of got dark, but. That's it. And not really that dark. You know, it's funny you bring that up.

I guarantee you that's why I said that during that skit. I know. It is why you said that. Oh, you'll be all right. It was stuck in my head. Yeah. And I just looked at the. And somebody said, well, nobody says anything about the guy looking at the eclipse with fucking binoculars, because that was the shot, was one of the guys had binoculars.

But they were solar binoculars, but it's funer to think that they were just, you know, burning all their eyes out. But anyway, so that was fun. Check out the eclipse stuff on our Instagram at Weird Medicine. Check out Dr. Scott's website at simplyherbils.net. That's simply herbals.net. And he's got the CBD nasal spray. rain will be processing the orders, I guess, right? I package all of those.

So if you're the person that I sent your order to a different country, my bad. I'll apologize for that now. Did that actually happen? I've sent many orders to the wrong address, yes. Oh, okay. Yeah, the best ever was we had one. Elaine isn't here because she's a genius. Hey, we had one like from Hawaii and one from Boston, and she flipped them.

I'm like, and are you going to pay the cost of those? No, I'm good customer service. So I'm sending out emails like, just keep it, girly. Send him the right one now. Do you need some swag, by the way? We'll take some swag. We'll always need swag. We send out swag with that stuff.

Okay. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, guys. I wonder what the people who order from your website who are not weird medicine people think when you're sending them all this stupid weird medicine shit. We will only send you swag if you leave a note. If you ask for it. Oh, that says, okay. Yeah, because we're sending them.

don't want somebody to go away like... Oh, okay, so you're not putting it in with every order, right? Who are these crazy fools? Okay, smart. Okay, very good. All right. Those are my topics, I think. That's it for today.

Let's do Tacey's Time of Topics. Hang on. And then we have a special thing we're going to do. It's Tacey's Time of Topics. A time for Tacey to discuss Topics of the day. Not to be confused with Topic Time with Harrison Young. which is copyrighted by Harrison Young and Area 58 Public Access. And now, here's Tacey.

Well, hello. Hello. I have one very quick story sent to me by Scott. And it's how researchers find that superpowers are real. They're just not what we expect. And scientists have found that evolutionary adaptation and mental conditioning in humans, maybe the closest humans will come to what we consider superpowers. and it gives two really cool...

Until we augment our genetics somehow. Examples. So the first one... Hold on. Oh, these are good. These are good. It's worth the wait. It's worth the wait.

Okay. Let's see. He's the fucking idiot. That wasn't the one I meant to it. You get nothing. Like the Sharpa people in the Himalayas. Okay. To the Bajou Si nomads.

So, the Tibetan tribes' resilience, okay, they found out that, oh, crap, we should start this over, that their ability to withstand low oxygen levels, like they can maintain low levels of red blood cells relying on cells mitochondria to process oxygen in a way that doesn't require as much power or energy. Interesting. Who are these? That's the Sherpas. That's the Sherpas, yeah. In the Himalayas. Now, do they have high levels of red blood cells or low?

I would think that they would have high. I think they've made higher. When an average person experiences a drop in oxygen as they climb in altitude, the human body tends to overcompensate by producing more oxygen-carrying red blood cells. Oh, I see. So they do it without doing that. So over-producing red blood cells leads the blood to thicken and can potentially cause altitude sickness or death. So the Sharpe's ability to produce fewer red blood cells isn't impacted by their external environment. Wow.

And their bodies can produce less no matter what altitude they're at. That's a adaptation. Yeah, those dudes are living in 10, 12, 14,000. It's crazy. Living there. Yeah. I went there once and about killed me. You know, I, at 9,000, you know, we were in Breckenridge.

I spoke at a conference there. And I was like, God, that was about to die for three days. Yeah, 9,000 feet. I was at Snowbird at the top, I think, is 11,000 feet maybe, if I remember correctly. And I've told this story, too. I mean, I think I've told every story. I mean, after 20 years of doing this, wow, how many stories do I have left? But I went up there with this little snow bunny.

And she's like, well, I don't really know how to ski. And, you know, will you go up with me? And she was at the same conference. We were at a, you know, it doesn't matter. We were at a conference together. And so we get up to the top of this, and I see it's double black diamond. And I'm like, oh-oh. And I'm like, I'm going to be in trouble.

She's really going to be in trouble. And she went, okay, see it at the bottom. She's lying little piece of shit. I get up, I'm about waist high in powder. Now, I grew up skiing in Michigan. We didn't have a lot of powder like that. And I wasn't used to it. And so I got up to there and I couldn't move.

and I couldn't get my skis up and I couldn't breathe and I said I'm just going to die here Oh geez So obviously I didn't In this universe There may be a universe Where I actually died at the top of that hill

But I eventually unhooked my skis Rolled over onto the snow So that my surface area was a little bit larger So that I could lay on it And then I reached down and grabbed my skis Because I'd rented them But I didn't want to pay for them And just sort of slid down the hill

until I got to a place where I could start skiing on my own. That was awful. So, yeah, it's bad. I heard about these monks that can, like, change their breathing to melt snow. So if they were, like, trapped in an avalanche, they could just breathe a certain way and just melt the snow around them. I'd like to see some evidence of that. So what they would have to be doing is increasing the chemical energy in their body

to increase their core temperature. And I would love to see documentation of that way. I think I know what she's talking about, because I think I've seen the same things. They'll actually take those monks while they're meditating and lay frozen towels over them. Oh, I see. And they literally sit there and breathe until those towels just literally start to kind of steam and they melt. Yeah, and I saw photos. I'm not saying it.

I'm not saying it was scientific, but I'm saying. Well, that would happen. I think their superpower there is not being super hot, but rather being able to sit there with a frozen towel until it melts. But I've seen photos where they like will sit on the snow and then after so much time. like a circle will melt around them. This one I doubt, but I have an open mind. I'm willing to be convinced that I'm wrong. But that sounds like who do you?

It sounds like a semi-superpower. Maybe just good Photoshop. Yeah, maybe. That sounds awesome, though. One other ethnic group. I have a superpower. I can put everybody to sleep just by talking. The Baja, is that how you told me to say it?

I don't know, Baja or Sajai, A-J-A-U, people of the Philippines, Malaysia. They can notably dive deep into the ocean for longer periods than most humans with no scuba gear necessary. Yeah, it's amazing. They can stay underwater for 13 minutes diving to depth up to 230 feet. It's crazy. Now, this is 13 minutes. This is the mammalian diving reflex. All mammals have this, but only really whales and dolphins use it on a, and manatees, use it on a regular basis.

They have larger spleen, which can restore. Damn right, they do. A reserve of oxygenated red blood cells that can be injected into the bloodstream when the organ contracts as the person dives. I think I do good about two minutes holding my breath. 13 minutes, can you imagine? God, I can't even. Well, you know, it's not even just the depth, the time, but you're going that deep knowing that you've got to get back up. And you can only go so fast you get the bins.

Right. So it's not like you can scramble up super fast and then die on your way up. Well, they get the bends if you're breathing nitrogen, nitrogenated oxygen, right? If you're scuba diving, if you're just holding your breath and you come back up, well, you still don't know, Steve, that's a good question. I think you still have to take breaks. If it's just you, no oxygen, I think you still have to acclimate. Deepest dive by a human is 1752 feet, achieved by Comax Hydra 8 dives.

Oh, wait a minute. I'm on a deepest dive by a human without oxygen. Yeah, unassisted. Yeah, okay, hang on. That was stupid. Okay, this is what I thought it was. French free diver Arnaud Girol holds the world record for deepest dive without oxygen, reaching 400 feet. Took three minutes and 34 seconds.

And, yeah, wow. Diving to such great depths without scuba gear is incredibly dangerous, requires years of training and experience. and I'm going to try it today. Anyway, there's one more. That's amazing. Oh, one more. One more. One more superhero.

Yep. Power. And this is from rock climber Alex Honnold, who has famously undergone some of the most dangerous free solo of America's biggest cliffs. They did an MRI scan on him, and it indicated that his brain may process fear differently than the average person. As he was shown, graphic images used to trigger a McDowellion. amygdala.

Amygdala. A structure in the temporal lobe responsible for... I'm going to get Scott to repeat what he just tried to say. Producing reactions to fear. Honnold's amygdala didn't respond. It was notably silent. Wow. Did you see the movie with him where he climbs those rocks?

No. You got to watch it. It's the most ridiculous. I'm not watching that. It's crazy. No, it is the craziest thing I've ever seen. I'm not watching that. I just watched a guy free climb something and he's just doon, doon, you know, like...

There's a guy that does it on skyscrapers in big cities. So you'll just be at work. You're on, like, the 80th floor, and then you look at the window, and there's just some guy, just bare handing his way up the side of the building. You know, Carl Willenda was well-trained and, you know, expired doing that. You know, some tragedy is going to happen. I'm wondering if it doesn't happen. Most of them die like that.

All of the, like, free solo. And there's also slacklining, like highlining where you just tie a rope, like over a canyon. and people will do that. Or between two buildings. Yeah, and people will do that with no support, and a lot of them die like that. Wow. Nope. Hey, I'm sorry.

Go ahead. I'm just going to, but the truth, in the movie, they actually show the scan of the guy's head, and his amygdala is almost non-existent. I mean, literally, he doesn't have, he doesn't have one. Yeah, okay. So he doesn't have a fear. So, like, when we're sitting there watching him climb a rock going, what the hell? He's like, this is Tuesday.

He's like, doesn't even, yeah. Just keeps up. That's bizarre. Okay, that's really interesting. I'm wondering what he was like as a kid. I bet he drove his parents crazy. Oh, no. He was a hale again. Oh, yes. Oh, Lord. Now, I'm going to just talk about the free diving again because I found something. It says the body goes through several changes when free diving. The heartbeat slows by 25%. And experienced divers can reduce their heart rate to more than 50%. To cope with the pressure of the body allows vital organs to keep functioning properly by moving blood to the most important parts. This is known as peripheral. vasoconstriction. People who listen to this show for a long time know about that. And it's fascinating. So we were talking about mammalian diving reflex. It's like, why do we have that?

Whales do this when they dive down. That's how they can hold their breath for hours sometimes, I guess. As they go down, their heart rate slows and their metabolism slows and they're able to function. But at a very low metabolic rate so they don't have to get that oxygen back into their system. We have that. I have

used the mammalian diving reflex in the hospital in the 80s before we had adenosine and other drugs. We would have people with a thing called superventricular tachycardia. And these are people with really fast heart beats that are caused from

the top part of the heart. And we would try different drugs and stuff like that. Well, one of the things that you can do is you take a big tub of ice water and you tell the person you know you gotta give them informed consent and then you shove their face

in the ice water and you hold it there as long as they can stand it and when it come back up their heart goes ding ding ding ding ding and then it stops and then it starts beating normally again it's crazy but that's the mammalian diving reflex that's doing that

it's putting a tonic influence on the note of the heart that just says slow down because we're diving. Why do we have that? Stimulates to Vegas, I guess, we want to assume, yes. There's so many things that go on. Yeah, that's true. That's true.

During the diving. But why do we have that? It means to me that this is a, that we, at one point emerged from the ocean. Had to have something. Why would we, or either that or mammals are just made this way, and it just is by chance that, you know, whales and, you know, whales and. dolphins could use it for that and manatees. But anyway, it's pretty interesting. All right.

You got any other superpowers taste? Those are good. Okay, I'm going to give you a bell. Give myself a bell. I'll share that bill with you, Scott, since you... A team bill. Very good. All right. Number one thing, don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right, so this is

a suggestion that I concur with if I can get it to actually play. So while I'm temporizing, How is everyone today? Jesus, come on. Okay. Hey, Dr. Steve, Dr. Scott, Casey, you guys.

Just another suggestion. I know you just have a world of information about all kinds of things. Okay, so what you do when you want something from someone is first say something positive. Yes. So this is empathy and validation. It works every time. so I am attuned to, oh, he said something nice. So, whatever he says, I'm going to do.

Get on a topic, just like most people, you tend to digress and talk for a while. But I was wondering, you know, there's a sports show on ESPN where the broadcasters are held their two minutes per topic. Now, I could just see Tacey being the great timekeeper cutting you off. No shit. Just try it for a couple of shows. Okay. Set a timer. on your phone.

Okay. I think our topics need to be three minutes. Okay? She is. We'll see how many questions you can get answered. I'm with you, buddy. No, you're right. We need to do, so we're going to do speed round.

Three minutes? Yeah, we'll do three minutes. Start. All right, here we go. Hey, Dr. Steve. My father. It shouldn't count the question, though. No.

I mean, come on. It's specifically going to hear it. Yeah, started at the beginning. getting. I don't even know how to do that. Okay, rain, we'll show you. That's why we have a 20 years. Okay, and then I'm going to, I want a timer in our clinic, Scott, because sometimes you ramble. I know.

So you are correct. You are correct. All right. We ready? Yes, sir. All right. Dr. Steve, my father is getting up there in the years. He runs a building.

He's got to keep his head in his job. But I noticed that his memory starting to slip. Is there anything that you or maybe Dr. Scott could recommend. some crazy medicines or tinctures or powders or potions or some kind of voodoo. Yeah, all this unproven, you know, the prevision and all the stuff on the market that I don't know. I don't want to turn to something. I trust your opinion. Yeah, okay.

Start it. Okay. Talk about memory loss. Yeah, well, first of all, memory loss can come from about a thousand different things. There you go. Correct. Work it up first. Correct.

Make sure there's nothing really crazy going on. Yeah. Yeah. So if there are tests that can be done, some of them are very simple where they just ask questions and he answers them and then they score them and they can see if it's the onset of dementia or is it depression? Is it anxiety? Anxiety causes short-term memory loss because the intrusive thoughts will knock out, you know, your short-term memory. If you're trying to remember where your keys were and you're thinking about somebody tried to break in your house last night and you're anxious, it's very easy for that. scratch pad memory to be erased. So sometimes these things are benign. If you want to try a tincture while you're waiting, I'm a big fan of Lionsmane for stuff like this. The other Lionsmane mushrooms are pretty decent for cognition. There's some data on these. If you email me, I can send you some

of the clinical studies and Corticeps mushrooms as well. And so I'm a big fan of kind of the fungal stuff. It's closer to our physiology than, say, you know, you know, plants and bacteria and stuff. I like the taurines. I like the phosphatotidicerine. Yeah, phosphatidyl syrin. It's been proven to work, yeah. Been proven to work.

So, well, you've got to define what work means. Some of them improve executive function. That may not be this problem. Bottom lines, make sure you're healthy. Yep, yep. Okay. All right. How'd we do, taste?

One minute, 25 seconds left. Okay. Reset the clock. Yeah, we can wax more eloquent on that. Okay. I was talking too fast. So we stay in with the three minutes? Yeah, let's do, yeah, let's do three.

We need some, some things take a little bit longer. Okay, let's try this one. Oops. I'm calling because I have a question about intermittent fasting. I know you're not in nutrition. You said that before. But my friends talk about it all the time. They do it.

I always give them shit because I just call it starvation. Because you don't eat. for periods of time, and then you do eat, but you don't really eat a lot. So obviously, it's going to work because you're not eating anything. And I'm just curious if that's just an ignorant point of view, like intermittent fasting, starving yourself. I understand it's not a total starvation, but, you know, I just wanted to get your take on it if you had one.

Thanks, Dr. Steve, for everything. Thanks, man. Thank you. All right. I'll start out on this. Intermittent fasting, the theory behind it is that when you go a certain number of hours without food, people will go 16 and 8. You know, they'll fast for 16 hours. Of course, you're sleeping, hopefully eight hours of that.

So, you know, you only have to add another four and four, four at the beginning, four at the end, and you've got your 16. the body exhausts its stores of free sugars and starts burning fat, and it's called metabolic switching. So that's really what the hypothesis is. Now, there have been lots of benefits. Because you're somewhat ketotic, it can improve your thinking and memory because ketosis has been shown to improve that. You know, if you've got a high insulin level and you're gloggy, you just don't feel very bright and smart. There has been some data showing that young men who fast for 16 hours maintained muscle mass while losing fat. And mice who were fed on alternate days as a mouse study had better endurance.

But there are some downsides as well. You know, children should not be doing this. People who are pregnant are breastfeeding need a constant supply of calories. People with type 1 diabetes who take insulin. There's just not any studies done in those. Type 2, yes, type 1, no. And if you have a history of eating disorder, going on a quote-unquote diet is really kind of the worst thing that you can do. There may be some other effects as well.

You know, anxiety, headaches, thyroid issues and stuff like that. be careful. You've got anything else to say with that. And I would think, too, if someone suffers from hypoglycemia, or they have trouble, they're balancing their sugars out, they can really start with. And, you know, the other thing is intermittent fasting is like any of the diet we've seen, Dr. Steve. Sometimes it's dieting daily, you know, just not 16 hours.

Sometimes it's eating normally for five days a week and then dieting two days a week. It's a five-two method or whatever they call. Yeah, there's a hundred different things. And if you're going to try it, I'd say make sure your personal, you're healthy. If there were one way to do. that we knew this correctly, we would already know it. Brain, you got anything to add to this?

Yeah, I've got two things. One, isn't it worse for women? She's exempt from the three-minute clock. Well, we got 30 seconds. All right. Talk quick. Is fasting worse for women than for men? I feel like I've heard that. Well, define worse.

Like, women shouldn't do it as much. If you're pregnant or breastfeeding, you shouldn't. You really shouldn't do it, in my opinion, just because you don't know how it's going to affect the fetus or your production of milk. But other than that, you know, I'm not aware of any real gender differentiation with intermittent fasting. I can find out, though. I would love that. My second thing is I also heard that when you fast for a long time, you end up killing your microbiome.

That's the downside that I read recently. And it definitely alters. Okay, well, she asked a question. So that's a new question. I got in right at the bottom. New three minutes. It's, it will alter your microbiome. I think it still remains.

to be seen, whether that's positive, negative, or neutral. And the study I saw showed that it definitely changes it, but it didn't really say whether it was good or bad. Interesting. And that research is still ongoing, you know, the whole mind-gut thing. We know it's real. I drink kombucha every day, and I swear it helps me, but that's an end of one, you know, it's not a good clinical trial, so, so, but yes, it does alter the

the microbiome remains to be seen whether that's a good or bad thing or if it means nothing. Interesting. Yeah, excellent question. Good question. Lucky. Give thyself a bit. Oh, hell no. Oh, I got a bounce.

Oh, hell no. I got a bounce. Well, Scott gets something, too. Get your hand off my penis. Okay, doke. All right. Let's see. Let's get rid of those questions and let's try this one. This one for Dr. Scott, I think. Sorry, my earbuds keep messing up, I guess.

That's okay, buddy. I've had this incredible leg pain from my knees up for the last almost two weeks. It seems to come and go, but the only thing that seems to make it feel any better is incredible amounts of water. I don't think I'm dehydrated because I'm drinking so much. water down to keep it away but it's just a huge knee and thigh pain

it sucks sorry man why okay I have some I have some ideas but go ahead you start the clock taste go go go scott well that's a pretty weird question

so it's both both legs bilaterally it's both quads in his knees right so you could have arthritis in his knees causing it, he could have some kind of, he could be dehydrated, but if he's drinking so much, he could get in hypokalemia, you know, if he drank that much, it would be too, it'd be too sick. But, you know, if, if it depends really, my next question would be, is it worse when he's sitting or standing? Right.

So as his quad, or his thigh muscles firing if they are, if they're not getting enough oxygen to them. Right. So that could be one of the things, or it could have like a big disc like you had. You know, you can have a central stenosis in your lumbar spine, the thing slides forward. Pinsches the nerves in your stenosis, meaning narrowing, and it's pinching on the nerve roots. There is a thing called Muralgia Parasthetica. And what this is is a nerve impingement syndrome that causes severe pain burning, numbness, and tingling, and down the lateral.

In other words, the outside part of the thigh. So that would be the first thing I would ask him is, where is it? You know, when you have pain, you always ask onset, you know, how did it start? what's it like is it sharp dull burning stabbing you know if they need a paragraph to explain the pain it's probably nerve pain you know because if it's something else you go it hurts right here and it hurts like somebody's stabbing and it's got a bruise yeah and then what makes it better he said water yeah what makes it worse and then you know are there um there are any other factors involved in that so yeah there's a lot going on yeah there's a i would get that checked the fact that it's both sides tells me that it's probably something metabolic, but if he is a bigger dude and wearing his old skinny clothes, those are the people that get

Moralgia Parasthetica or people that are wearing tool belts. Yeah, the contractors out there, Karen his big heavy hammers. It's also known as lateral femoral cutaneous nerve entrapment syndrome, but that's, you know, anyway, it's just... Yeah, he could have a great big, he could have a

great big belly pinched on some... Yep. Mentioned on some nerves and some blood vessels. Yeah, and it hurts like an M. F, too. Yeah, and if he could be, if he wants to call back in and give us a little more specific, we'd be happy or go see his primary care. Yeah, yeah, do that first. All right.

All right. Are we done? Yep. 39 seconds. All right. Roll. Here's one for Tase. Uh-oh.

I don't like that. Hi, in Spokane, Washington, it's Jethro. Hey, Jeffroo. What is everything you need to know about vagina health? All right. Catch you on a good side. Bye. There you go.

Okay, Tase, go. Yeah, I don't know. Go what? All right. Yeah, I mean, I really don't know. So I can say a couple of things. You start in the timer? Yeah, it's already started it.

I've heard it self-cleaning. I don't believe that. I also heard that. I heard it as long as nothing crazy is going on, leave it alone. Yep, exactly right. Don't fix it. And, yeah, if it don't stank, you know, don't put things in there other than things that need to go on. There's got to be around, but I don't know what it is.

But, yeah. duches and all that kind of stuff unnecessary. What you don't want to do is have intercourse with your tampon in because you're on your period and push the tampon in, which is fine. That part's fine. But then forget that it's there and leave it there for two to four weeks. And then go to your primary care saying that, oh, you know, I've got this weird odor down there. And when you pull that thing out, it's gray and covered in, I can't even describe it. and sort of this grayish slime that is just unbelievable.

And it's all anaerobic bacteria that love just growing on there. And it puts you at risk for toxic shock, too. So please don't do that. Ladies, if you're going to have intercourse on your period, I mean, who doesn't like, you know, ketchup on their French fries? I get it. You know, that's totally fine. But remember to take it back out.

Right, right. Please. Right. Okay, so that's one of the big ones. Now, if you have bacterial vaginosis, that's caused by a bacteria called Gardnerella, you know, I've said this before. One of the bits of evidence that our creator has a sense of humor is that the bacteria that makes the vagina healthy is the same bacteria that makes yogurt. Lactobacillus. So if you, there are people who will advocate putting plain yogurt in the vagina if it has bacterial vaginose.

That's the fishy odor with a clear discharge. No, if the discharge's got any color to it, you've got to go see your OBGYN. But if you've had this before and you know that's what it is, you can use yogurt to just repopulate the vagina with lactobacillus. Make sure it's cultured yogurt and it says, live cultures on it. I have a funny feeling, and I'm not sure, that if you go to this chicken place that's very popular all over the country, and they have yogurt there, I can't imagine there's actually has a live culture in it. So don't use that. It has strawberries in it, too, so don't do that. Unless you're just, you know, doing it for fun. Chicken place. Yes. The chicken place

that sells yogurt, that's extremely popular, that when you drive through, you have to wait, you know, 20 minutes because they're just printing money in there because it's always packed. Yeah, well, I was just bullshitting at that point. Thank you. All right. We'll move on, though. Let's see.

How about one on messed up surgery? Hey, Dr. Steve. This is Rob. You just replied to my email. Of course. I just wanted to chat. See, wanted to discuss what happened to me, you know, on your podcast or just personally or whatever. Sure.

Well, tell us what it was. I'm getting my terrumphes and then infection and then the wrong side implant put in me. So now I'm going to have to have a fourth surgery, which people are telling me not to because I risk getting, you know, another infection. Okay. Let's talk about that part. So this person, it sounds like an orthopedic implant. Okay. And it got infected and they take it out and they put the wrong size in.

You know, post-op infections usually are not actionable. putting the wrong thing in sometimes can be. So I'm going to let him deal with that. But if the infection is completely cleared, and that's very difficult to clear an infection in the bone, it can be done. The reason is they don't have good blood supply. They're bone.

You know, you look at a bone. You just, I mean, there is blood in there, but it's very hard to get antibiotics into an area that's basically solid. and cut off from the blood supply on purpose. So it can take six to 12 weeks sometimes, but if they really feel like they got it under control, the risk of having another implant. Right.

The risk of infection with having another implant is the same as the first one. So if it was one in a thousand, it'll be one and a thousand the second time. It may even be a little slightly less just because you had that and they're going to be super-duper cautious. Right. Possibly. No, I completely agree with you. Again, if you know you're at risk for something, you're less likely to have it happen to you.

A good example, I was talking on El Hariblae show today about people who get colonoscopies every year. We have a friend who gets a colonoscopy every year because they have familial polyposis. And they were like, why would you get a colonoscopy every year? Well, because he's at extremely high risk. of colon cancer. Gotcha. But he's at very low risk of dying from it because he gets his colonoscopy every year. Right on.

You know, they're going to catch it. You know? Okay. Yeah. All right. One minute, nine seconds slip. Okay. Well, so talk to them.

I think that if you, if it is affecting your lifestyle, the risk of having it as long as they've cleared the infection is the same as anybody else. And it might be worth it. And with a new surgical techniques, If we're talking about a total joint, this is to say that maybe that's what we're talking about. Yeah. There's new technologies. There's new ways to make these new caps.

Like to say, if it's total near or totally up, it might wind up being a whole lot better the last time. Okay. Yeah. The newer search is. Hope so. Good luck. Let us know how it goes. Yeah.

All right. 30 seconds. Yes. Here we go. Hey, Dr. Steve and crew. Amen. Long time, first time. Hey, thanks.

I was listening to one of the shows recently, and you brought up the two of suffering or have suffered from polymyalgia rheumatica. This is correct. So back in the day I started having muscle pain. This is part of the question still taste. Don't start to think of it. No, this is part of it now, fuck off. This is part of the question. I'm just explaining

what he's talking about. I had proximal, in other words, pain close to the midline. So in my shoulders and in my hips started just having muscle pain. And they checked my blood work and had elevated enzymes.

level called CPK that's secreted when muscle cells die and I had a mildly elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate which was indicative of inflammation in my body. Everything else completely normal. So the way that you test for this is you put the person on a very low dose steroid like prednisone 5 milligrams if it goes away then you've kind of made the diagnosis. So that's what that is. And I had that and then I went off the in his own after about six months and I just wore it out and it went away. Well, shit, it's come back. So this is one of those things that just sort of, for me, apparently is waxing and waiting. The thing is, normally little old ladies get this. So I am an elderly woman and when it

comes to my disease processes. But anyway, okay, so we're going to get back to the question. And my father was recently diagnosed with that. Okay. And he's come a long way in terms of pain and having to deal with it, but I'm sure like any polymology rheumatica suffer, he has flare-ups from time to time, and he also has what Dan Patrick called a brain fog, and I just wanted to know how you deal with that on a day-to-day basis and kind of a better idea or a better understanding of how that works on the body, and what someone can do for flare-ups. Sure. Yeah. Okay. You ready?

So I have some personal knowledge of this. I had a professor in medical school and he had an IQ of 220. I mean, it was the highest IQ of anybody I've ever heard of or seen except for Marilyn Voss Savant. And when he got dementia and he couldn't name things anymore, he was still a genius. You know, because he went from 220 down to 160 or something. So, you know, he called a deck of cards, a concentric stack of thin laminates because he couldn't think of the word deck of cards. I mean, it was crazy. So, you know, for me, my brain fog, you know, I've got an IQ at 165, it takes me down to 130.

I'm still pretty good. But what I've found helps the best for me is getting regular exercise, which I don't do enough, but I do try to walk. And I feel more alert and oriented and not sleeping. too long by getting enough sleep and then again the lion's mane has helped me cordyceps helps always check if you're going to take a supplement

talk to your doctor and those things and then when he has a flare up of the myalgas which just means pain in the muscle he needs to get back on the low dose prednisone for a short period of time well but there are other options

to steroids I mean well I mean that's okay in allopathic medicine And the treatment that we use is prednisone, you know, if everything else fails. So go ahead. Well, I was going to say if everything else, but you don't want to continue to have people on steroids if you don't have to. I mean, certainly there are times for that. Hence the phrase for a short period of time.

Well, but, okay. Go ahead. Go ahead. So turmeric. Tumric or curcumin is another good. And it's been shown to work about as well as steroids, too. As far as it's an anti-inflammatory. It works like an inset.

It is an inset. Well, but it works just like steroids without a lot of the side effects as far as affecting blood sugars. And it has good results in polymology room out. And not only ex-husband's sleep. Sleep hygiene is very important. Yeah. You know, and so if you're not getting sleep, that's going to give you a lot of aches and pains. And the other thing is just to remember, sometimes dietary changes.

I mean, if you eat certain foods, they can cause inflammation. Sure. I mean, it can be anything from meats to chicken to shrimp to whatever. So if you, I mean, maybe they ate more chicken or more shrimp or something like that. On an anti-inflammatory diet. Do you ever recommend that? Oh, God, every day. We'll tell people what to tell.

Anti-inflammatory diet is just a lot of times you don't even know you're allergic to something until you stop eating it. So it winds up being an elimination diet. So people with headaches, people with chronic pain syndromes, a lot of times we'll start taking them off of foods. And believe it or not, one of the main things I take people off of is chicken. Chicken has big protein molecules that causes a lot of arthritis in people. I wonder if organic chicken would be different than they don't think it's just chicken. It's a protein molecule. Tom.

Damn it. I was going to say, it's like shrimp in purines. Okay. Yeah. Damn it. Turmirk can cause acid reflux and it acts as a blood thinner too. Yes, that is true. That is true.

I'm just going to say this and this isn't part of the time. This is a general warning. You are always saying this is not part of the time. Obviously it is. No, this is a general warning. If you are on supplements, tell your doctor that you're on supplements. Especially, and you don't want to take that before a procedure. Correct.

Adderal or surgery. Right. And lots of other things, too. So make sure that everybody knows. Okay. All right. We got more. All right.

There should be a wiggle room in the thing is. No. No. No. See, this is Phil from Tampa Call on it. I'm calling because, I hope you guys are doing well. I'm calling because I was in class tonight and my professor was talking about different genetic disorders. And one disease came up called Huntington's disease.

Oh, yeah. He made it sound like. the worst, the worst thing known, I mean, one of the worst diseases ever, to the point where he made the comment that if he knew someone who was pregnant and somehow knew that the child was predestined to have Huntington's disease, that he would recommend as a person get an abortion. Oh, okay. First off, for the YouTube algorithm, that's him saying that, not us. That is not us. I don't, I'm not expressing an opinion on that, but anyway. I feel like you guys have talked about it on the show.

before, but I was curious if you could talk a little bit about it what causes it and what are the symptoms and what it does to the body. It just sounds terrifying. I know the point where I don't want to Google it, but

I tell people don't Google image stuff all the time or Google things all the time because you can just drive yourself crazy. I did a ask Dr. Steve for a normal world and the very first one was, what's the worst way to die? And I started off saying, don't Google image this. It's called

Fornier Gangrene. If you Google image it, you will agree with me. It is the worst way to die. Medically, you know, burning and drowning and stuff like that doesn't count. But let's talk, do you want to talk about Huntington's disease or do you want me to No, go ahead. Do you explain what it is?

Yes. Well, that's the first thing. Korea is basically a stereotypical kind of movement of the limbs. And so Huntington's Korea, the people start having, they get the weird motion disorders. So we have these circuits in the brain that are always firing,

and then there are inhibitory circuits that stop those things, those circuits from being translated into action. But they can disinhibit to activate certain movements. It's a weird way to make this work, but that's how our limbs work. is these sort of circuits that are constantly firing these motor impulses, and then there's inhibitory impulses that stop them, but then disinhibit to allow certain movements to happen.

And when you do that in a coordinated fashion, you can play the piano, you can do all kinds of stuff. Well, if those inhibition circuits turn off, then all of a sudden those underlying circuits start firing, you know, are turned into action, and you'll get these circular motions and things. And you get these weird body postures, behavioral changes. They have difficulty communicating.

Mood swings, depression, memory lapse. Now, then they get problems swallowing and stuff. Woody Guthrie had this. And he's the one that I can kind of think of that had Huntington's Korea. The problem is it starts at about 30 to 50 years of age. So a lot of people have already had their children. And then they don't know, but they don't screen for it unless you had a family member with it. If you had a family member with Huntington's Korea, you do want to get screened to see if there's a chance that you can pass this down to your children.

And then you may make a choice, you know, to adopt or, you know, not do that. But that's your choice. The reason we don't screen for it in the general public is, number one, it's rare. And number two, we can't treat it. And part of screening things is not just to find out stuff, but to find things that we can treat and provide. vent disease. That's why we do screening. And so, but if you've had it in your family, you need to get a genetic screening. It's very inexpensive. Your primary care provider can do that for you.

And then you know, if you're not carrying the gene, then just you can carry on. Go do your thing. Yep, carry on. All right. All right, Dr. Scott and crew, before we get out of here, let's go through the superchats, et cetera, et cetera. You can go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine and join the fluid family. And when you do that, make sure you turn on your gifted memberships

because gifted memberships will allow you to accept a gift of a membership, hence the name. And Corn Def joined the Fluid Family. Thank you, sir. I need to have some sound effects for that. How about this one? He's a fucking idiot. No, corny is not. And he's from Tennessee, and so we're going to try to do something together at some point.

Corn Diff gifted 50 weird medicine memberships. Holy moly. I don't have a sounder for that. You see? You see? You're stupid minds. No, no. Don't call him stupid.

He's a fucking... No, no, no. Well, that's because you're an idiot. No. There you go. There we go. How about this? Give myself a bell.

There you go. All right. Thank you. Corn Def. And, yeah, you can see the stream elements are doling out at random. All of the, and it'll do it to people who aren't here who have only just visited the channel. So all of a sudden, they're going to get an email saying Corn Def. Oh, Lord.

Gifted you. Oh, my God. It'll be funny. All right. And then Radish, not one to be outdone by Corn Def, gifted one weird medicine. membership, thank you. It's fine. We don't demand that you do any

of this, but thank you. We encourage. And then Van Hammersley, gifted five weird medicine with Dr. Steve memberships. Thank you, Van Hammersley. Delightful. All right. I see Old Top has a question. I donated blood the other day and felt better than normal after my

vision was super clear and sharp for the rest of the day. What's up with that? That is a real phenomenon. people feel lighter on their feet. A lot of people will donate blood because they feel so good afterward. And I don't know the answer to that if it's cortisol is released because the body thinks it's bleeding and that's a stress hormone. Or if it's just that you now are injecting new red blood cells into the, you know, into the, into your, you know, from your bone marrow, into the blood supply that can, you know, from your bone marrow, into the blood supply that can,

carry oxygen more efficiently. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I have experienced that myself. Out with the old and with the new thing. Yeah, a little serotonin-stimulated way you're giving it. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, but that's a real phenomenon. You're not alone in that.

Cool. Scott, you had one. Yeah, Longfellow was wanting to know. He's on an antibiotic for tooth infection. What else is being killed in my body besides the tooth infection? Well, some other things like your gut, Flora, possibly. Yeah.

Just depends on what he's taking and how long he's saying. So what's the actual question? No, he said what else is being killed inside his body beside the infection? Because he's taking antibiotics. Yes. Oh, no, absolutely. We see people who take antibiotics who will have a huge, you know, a complete kill of their good flora in their gut. We'll have to give them probiotics and we give them bacteria and yeast, which is why I like kombucha,

because it's a, you know, it is a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast. And it's a good probiotic. But these people will kill out all the good bacteria and all they're left with is shit bacteria. I mean, by shit bacteria, I don't mean those that make fecal matter. I mean, they're bad bacteria. And one of those is Clostridium difficile or for some of the purestridium difficile. But it will cause a thing. called pseudomembrinous colitis, which causes voluminous diarrhea, and in the elderly infirm,

if they get it, it can actually result in death. So it's a bad one. It has to be, unfortunately, treated with yet a different antibiotic. Oral vancomycin is the one that really works the best, although you can take oral metronidazole as well, aka flageal, but then you've got to repopulate with good bacteria. Okay, so if you take an antibiotic and then you... take a probiotic to try to counteract that. But then you have to take, I assume

you don't just take one antibiotic. So is it, the next time you're taking it, are you just killing? Yes. So what's the point of the probiotic? Right, I would take the probiotic after. After you finish the course about it. That's how I dope it out. The head cannon for me is that I'm doing it after.

After. And then, what do you think about spore-based probiotics? Yeah, no, that's fine. You're talking about like... Like mushroom spore probiotics. Yeah, I mean, I mean, we don't grow a whole lot of mushrooms in our gut. Hopefully. Hopefully.

I'm bigger on yeast than I am on spores, but I have not, listen, I'm a big fan of mushrooms, medicinal mushrooms. They've got, there's some really interesting properties. And obviously, you know, the mushrooms have some, you know, interaction with our nervous system and other things. I mean, look at psilocybin, for God's sake. we're going to be using it as an antidepressant very sooner. Or they'll change one atom, one hydrogen atom so that they can patent it. But, yeah, I mean, it's going to happen. It's coming.

But I'll do, I'll, Scott, will you write that one down? Sure. Let me Google spore-based probiotics. I have never seen any data on that at all, either positive or negative. Who's selling that? I mean, I have not heard of that. Well, I have one at home. It was recommended by the internet, but for like women's health issues, like trying to fix like PCOS and stuff.

Okay. So how would you know if it actually helps? You would do a double-blind placebo-controlled study, right? You define your end point. So what's your thing is that, you know, you have PMS or something. Let's just say it's PMS. First off, you've got to be able to measure PMS. How do we measure that?

Well, I don't know. miserable, so maybe we could do a quality of life scale. Well, I'm pretty sure they're pretty descriptive when it comes with. Well, that's fine, but you've got to have, you have to have a way to validate that. You know, you just can't say, well, I felt better. To do a scientific study, you've got to have a validated instrument. So you might do health-related quality of life or abdominal pain or mood. You know, there's different mood questionnaires, stuff like that.

And then you give a thousand people this whatever. and then a thousand people a placebo and nobody knows which is which and at the very end of the study you see you

do your validated instrument based on your endpoint that you've chosen now that drug may be making a really beneficial change in something you're not studying that's how Viagra happened

right they were studying it for pulmonary hypertension and these guys just got a whole bunch of raging boners and then they had to go back and redo the studies with that as the endpoint because they couldn't use that. Well, anyway, so you look at your endpoint. Can we demonstrate that PMS is improved

with taking this and that there's a statistically significant difference? If you can, then you can make that claim. Otherwise, it's just bullshit. Or it's anecdotal. You know, if you have 300 people on your website say, well, this made me feel better, that's 300 pieces of anecdotal evidence. It doesn't add up to being something just. generalizable because I could have 10,000. We've talked about this before. If I send out a thousand pills and I get 50 people say it was great because the placebo effect is, you know, 50 out of 1,000. And I get 950 people say this stuff's bullshit, didn't do anything.

Well, I just post the 50 on my website. And it's page after page after page of testimonials saying this stuff's great, you know. So you can't rely on that. So anyway, so that's, we'll look into that. Very easy to do is see if there's studies that have been published on using, you know, actual fungal spores as a probiotic. So, okay. All right. You had another one?

That's all of them. Okay, there was another one. Where? Down at the bottom. Oh. That was a long pillow. Oh, said, the bag. My husband.

No, look at Barb Parrish. Oh, Barb. My husband does a lot of hiking and gets altitude sickness a lot. He's in shape, but sometimes can't go as high as the others. What's up with that? I'm doing a three-minute thing. Start the timer.

This is a different part of the show. I mean, you can do the three-minute if you want to. I'm going to. Okay, well, we'll just see. But, you know, that's just natural variation in people. And there are medications that you can take for altitude. sickness as well so he may want to talk to his primary care about that but it's just everybody's different yeah and sometimes it's just hydration simple hydration could be and could be genetic yeah could be

genetic yeah could be he's not in great shape well she says he is in great shape but he may not be in great shape for that every day we all have different things that's what keeps one thing from wiping us all out yeah all right all right any other ones good i think you're missing some scott i'm finding other things here. Yeah, Scott. For fuck sakes. I see the bigerent hypertension. Says here, I'll have you know, Dr. Scott.

This is from Diesel Child that I just applied my normal morning three blasts per nostril of the world's best CBD nasal spray. Oh, there you go. My shnauz feels awesome. Now, how could you miss that? Maybe because I was typing notes of the show, possibly. Well, that's okay.

Here's one. Thank you, Diesel's child. By the way, I was about to take my wife to test for sleeping with the pool cleaner, but you have granted me much-needed perspective. What the hell is that? It's just part of the maintenance package.

Okay, well, they're having a side conversation about Live Ween's wife having a dalliance with the pool cleaner. And I'm assuming it's not the robot pool cleaner with the vacuum and stuff. It's actually... It's the greatest invention ever heard, I'm telling you. Anyway.

All right, we got anything else? All right. Thanks, always go to Dr. Scott. Thanks, Tacey, the Timekeeper. That's right Thanks to rain Hey and enjoyed having you here So we're going to put you in rotation

You want to plug anything You're a comic You've been doing comedy for two years Right? Yes Yes If you're local to this area Come check out the Blue Ridge Comedy Club

Okay very good We usually don't tell people where we are But that's fine I'm just kidding I'm just kidding Yeah We had Mark Norman there And when I say we

It was a joint venture and between E.T.N. Comedy and Blue Ridge Comedy Club. And that was an amazing event. And I really like the club. It's small. It's intimate. But I love what they did in there. It's really just a cool vibe in there. It was very nice. And Mark was extremely impressed. Awesome. And he did two killer shows. Yeah, he was only going to do one. He sold out the first one in five minutes. and then the owner, Sean, added another one. It sold out in like five minutes.

And there were still people coming going, can I get in? Can I get in? Oh, yeah. So we've got some others that we're going to bring down, too. And they do a competition there. Like the funniest fucker of Tri-Cities that we did a million years ago. It'll be like Blue Ridge's funniest or Bristol's funniest. Well, we might be able to get Shully to do that.

if he if you look up there the new comedian showcase over your right shoulder there's faces there that you know that have done comedy in your club one of them being Brian Morton and the other one Jennifer McKinney but anyway we did an American Idol style

show and I knew Shulie would be really good at just wrangling comedians particularly if they were weirdos which in this area, if you're trying to do stand-up comedy, they were probably going to be. And he was great at it. It was so good. And he was sort of

the Ryan Seacrest, and then Tacey and I, and then Mike Milhorn were the judges. And Shulay just kept fucking with Mike Milhorn the whole time. It was just claiming... Amazing. And for all the people out there that say Shulie isn't funny, I'm just going to say this

right now. He did 30 minutes after the show, after the competition was done. He said, you all want to hear more comedy? And people were like, yeah, yeah, you know. And it was packed way over the fire marshal. We were, I think we were supposed to have 175 in there.

We had like 2.30. It was just packed, truly standing room only. People were freaking out. He got us, well, a lot of people were already standing already, but there were people in seats. He got a standing ovation at the end that would not stop. until he left the stage. Wow.

We had to actually just go, surely just go to the green room, which was in that place where we had it, was just a place where they stored plates. It was the most cringy green room I've ever put a comedian out. But were you with that? Scott.

That was amazing. It was really a great event. So anyway, thank you for being here. Thank you. Do you want to plug your Instagram or anything? I'm okay. Okay, fair.

That's when when they say, Dr. Steve, you want to plug your show? It's like, nah, nobody wants to. Nobody cares. All right, very good. Well, maybe what we'll do sometime when you do, when you open for somebody will critique you on the show. Love that.

Okay, that'd be fun. It'd be fun to do. All right, my friends. Thanks to everyone who's made this show happen over the years. Listen to our Sirius XM show on the Faction Talk channel. Serious XAM channel 103, Saturdays at 7, Sunday at 6, on demand and other times at Jim McClure's pleasure. Those are Eastern

times, by the way. But really listen to it on demand. Many thanks to our listeners whose voicemail and topic ideas make this job very easy. Go to our website. Dr.steve.com for schedules, podcasts, and other crap. Follow our show, Instagram, at Weird Medicine.

Until next time, check your stupid nuts for lumps. Quit smoking. Get off your asses. Get some exercise. We'll see you in one week for the next edition of Weird Medicine. Thanks, everybody. Thank you. Thank you.