Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 596 - Nocturnal Carbon Emissions

Episode Date: June 20, 2024

Dr Steve, Dr Scott, and Tacie discuss: congenital insensitivity to pain alice in wonderland syndrome progeria black urine disease parasitic twins sleep sneezing wet dreams in an adult vasectomy after effects bro with 3 testicles (sort of) poison ivy castleman disease chronic pain "all over" mouth ulcers saw palmetto Please visit: simplyherbals.net/cbd-sinus-rinse (the best he's ever made. Seriously.) instagram.com/weirdmedicine (instagram by ahynesmedia.com!) x.com/weirdmedicine stuff.doctorsteve.com (it's back!) 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!") GoFundMe for Brianna Shannon (Please help Producer Chris' daughter fight breast cancer!) Most importantly! CHECK US OUT ON PATREON!  ALL NEW CONTENT! Robert Kelly, Mark Normand, Jim Norton, Gregg Hughes, Anthony Cumia, Joe DeRosa, Pete Davidson, Geno Bisconte, Cassie Black ("Safe Slut"). Stuff you will never hear on the main show ;-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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No, sir. Oh, and by the way, oh, are you okay, buddy? It sounds like we're in a TB board all of a sudden. It could be the cordyceps mushrooms, and I'm growing in here because they've got to be a certain temperature. And so I am... Yeah, normally don't get scratchy throat. Now, you use cordyceps in your practice, don't you? And the Chinese medicine uses cortisept?

If you want some of these when I'm done, I mean, they're not magic mushrooms, but they have magic. magic, yeah, medicinal powers. What do you guys use them for? Inflammation, specifically. Yeah. And we have a couple different formulas for inflammation. They're supposed to be good for cognition and stuff too, so.

And also for really for inflammation and pain. Yeah. Yeah. There's one formula we actually have is the main ingredients, cortisol, it's for pain. Is that right? Well, I'm going to be making some extract. I bought a vacuum filter device.

Oh, cool. And you dehydrate them. And then you mix them with grain alcohol and agitate them, you know, for two weeks or whatever. Then you pour it through this filter to get out all the solid matter. And the suction device, you know, obviously add suction that gives a downward pressure to the, you know, the suspension that you put in the top. And then the only thing that will end up in the bottom Erlenmeyer flask is, filtered alcohol and then you mix that

that's called a tincture at that point and then you can mix that with or is that an elixir, damn it, what's the definition of a tincture? Definition shit. I don't think of tincture or lynxures are pretty much as synonymous. Well I know that one

just has alcohol and the other may or may not. Let me see. Tincture is okay is dissolving a drug in alcohol and then an elixir may be the other thing that I'm making that has alcohol but has other things in it too oh no it's just a magical potion

well there you go okay it's a particular type of medicinal solution so this will be a tincture that is actually an elixir of water extracted and alcohol extracted corticeps and lion's mane so it might be pretty good so I'll let you know how that goes

we have really good results With the lion's mane, I have not tried the cordyceps yet. Outstanding results with the lion's mane to the point where you and I recorded my very last time of playing piano that I thought because my neuropathy had gotten so bad. And that's on YouTube. I played Philip Glass's opening. I played two-thirds of it anyway. And I think I could play the whole thing now. And more.

I mean, my dexterity is back. So it's amazing to me. That's good stuff, yeah. That's an end of one. Maybe it would have happened anyway, but it is coincident with me starting the Lionsman. Anyway, all right, I wanted to have a shout out to Dang Lizard and Live Ween and some other folks in the Fluid family.

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at simplyerbils. That's simply herbals.net. And, you know, Jim and Sam have entered the dabbled verse. Ooh, cool. How exciting for them. Well, Rich Voss made the mistake of making a joke on Twitter when Chad Zumach and Stuttering John were talking about gigs. And Rich said, I thought you guys were enemies. I can't keep track of all this middle drama.

Now, when you call somebody a middler, that means, you know, they're not a headliner. That's somebody that goes between the host and the headliner. And John got extremely offended by that again to the point where if this had been the original thing, we'd be talking about the middle verse, not the dabble verse. But, yeah, he got mad that, you know, I've been headlining. And he started showing Rich, who was just being an ass. He does this everybody. He calls everybody a middle.

John started sending pictures of him headlining at all these places. Of course, they were all from 10, 15 years ago or whatever. And Rich was just laughing. So they talked about it on. My wife hates me, which is still one of my favorite podcasts. And then Rich was on Opie or not Opied Anthony, Jim and Sam, sorry, Jim and Sam brought it up, said you're in the Dabbleverse. It turns out that Sam, Roberts, knows pretty much everything about the Dabbleverse. He's been following it all this time.

So he's too highfalutin to, you know, to go on maybe WATP or something like that. but we might be able to get him on our Patreon show as, you know, one of the exam room guests. He's not too big for that. And wouldn't it be fun if we could get him to Rochester for Dalcon too? So we'll work on that. But anyway, it's so now the Dabbleverse has expanded to these other things. I'm going to be at Hackamania, May 31st through June 2nd. Check out your tickets there.

It's hackamania.com's offer code Cardiff, I believe, is the correct offer code for that. So anyway, all right. You got anything for us today, Dr. Scott? Nope. Tacey, you're ready for some topic time? Sure. All right. 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 to the most boring part of this episode. That's the things that are coming out of your mouth. Babbling. Insanity.

Yeah, okay. So that's enough of that. So I'm going to go over a couple of weird diseases here. The first one is congenital insensitivity to pain. This disease is present from birth, which inhibits the ability to perceive physical pain. It is caused by mutations in specific genes, particularly in an autosomal recessive pattern, which is two inherited gene mutations, one from each parent. Right.

Both parents have to have the gene for this to be expressed. Yes. People with this condition can feel the distinction between a sharp and a dull object and something cold or hot. However, one cannot sense that the hot beverage is already burning their time. tongue. Unfortunately, there is no known cure for this condition yet. Do they say what the mechanism is for this? No.

They just say symptoms include loss of smell and decreased ability to sweat. Okay. Because wouldn't, okay, so yeah, a lot of these genes do lots of different things. But if we could harness this, you know, I could maybe stop prescribing so many opioids for cancer pain. If we could figure out what it is about those people and they're rare that causes them to not perceive pain because, you know, that's a big part of my job. And then the opioids are, you know, they're an issue. We have lots of chronic pain patients out there that are having difficulties with, you know, getting opioids and stuff like that. if we had something like this that was, say, non-addictive, but allowed patients to live their life without feeling pain.

Now, my question, taste, does it say anything that those people walk around with wounds all over their feet because they can't tell? No, it doesn't say. I read you everything that is said. Okay. Because, you know, people who have neuropathy that cannot feel pain, say, in their feet, get these things called charko joints. and it's just a cumulative number of micro fractures because they can't tell that they've injured themselves so they just keep injuring themselves.

That's a different thing. These people can actually tell the difference between sharp and dull. So I suspect they're walking around not having a bunch of wounds. I've never seen anybody like this. It's so rare that it's just not something and they didn't teach us about.

But I'd like to learn more about that. Will you put that down for research for next time? Sure. We always say we're going to do that. And then we never do. And then we never do it, but we... You know, I was thinking, too, though, what would be really, really, really interesting is if it were, if they don't or do feel visceral pain.

Right. Because that's one of the hardest things that we treat. Right. You know, organ-related pain as opposed to, you know, a stab or a cut or a broken bone. You know, but organ-related pain is really kind of challenging to treat. Yeah, and that's... Okay, now this person, okay, here's case presentation, a 12-year-old boy presented with... chronic osteomyelitis.

So that is infection in the bone. He was the fifth child of a consanguineous couple. That means they were related. You know, they say Upper East Tennessee is a senator of tranquility and consanguinity. Yes. In his birth, history, he had a low AFGAR score, blah, blah, blah. Okay, let me see. I had no reaction to pain, could not feel pain or heat.

Brain CT and lumbar puncture findings were normal. they did a bunch of things, different tests. He had some mental deficits, you know, deficits, yeah. So, but he had an infection on the sore, on the heel of his foot that was wide open. So this guy, at least, had a wound that he couldn't feel. And so he was just walking around on this giant wound. Now, here's somebody with. A 13-year-old girl had a deep sore in the heel of her foot.

I'm translating from medical terminology to a normal human speech. And she suffered from absence of normal reaction to pain. She occasionally had convulsions, high fever, and et cetera. So she had this harmful deformity in her heel, and antibiotics were ineffective. they did an amputation. So, yeah, some of these folks that have this have fractures and things that they're just walking around on. So it's not a great thing at all.

And it's called CIPA, as Tacey said, congenital insensitivity to pain and anhydrosis, meaning that they don't sweat, which also puts them at risk for heat stroke. Because if you don't sweat and you have very little mechanism for cooling your body down. If you're out in the heat, you can die from that. All right. It says here, yeah, they must regularly visit their doctor to receive a full workup to be sure that they don't have any insensitive internal problems, as Scott was saying. So I'm going to give both of you a bell on this. Give thyself a bell.

That can be fatal. It doesn't matter. It's even now. There's 60 documented cases in the United States, so very rare. Wow. That's pretty rare. That's crazy. Yeah, the reasons for death among patients with this condition are things that could otherwise be treated. A heat attack is much more dangerous for them because they don't feel it. And they often experience trauma, bony fractures, and osteomyelitis because of insensitivity to pain.

So, yeah, that's unfortunate. It would be nice. But still, if we could turn on an insensitivity to pain, if we could figure out what the mechanism is for people short-term, either post-operatively, or people with cancer that have severe debilitating pain, that would be a great thing. So these folks are a topic for research, for the research. All right, very good.

That's a good one taste. What else you got? Allison Wonderland syndrome. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. This neurological syndrome is called the Todd syndrome. It usually presents migraines that can distort a person's body image, including the size of the hair, hands, and feet.

Patients can also experience hallucination. and the feeling of time passing by either slowly or quickly. Sadly, Alice in Wonderland syndrome has no proven effective treatment yet. However, a treatment plan consists of migraine prophylaxis and a migraine diet may help. Hmm. Wow. Yeah, they're saying the most common treatment for this is a migraine diet. What hell is a migraine diet?

I don't know. No chocolate, no good, no red wines. You know, all the good stuff Probably would eliminate alcohol and everything Well, that's this, okay, half your grains should be whole grains Vinnie Tortorich wouldn't like this Fruits and Vegetables, Healthy Fats, Magnesium Rich Foods Reduced Red, Processed Meat, and Carb Intake

Yeah, okay, interesting. All right. Very interesting. That sounds, I bet that's pretty half-assed and it's, you know, in its response to Alice in Wonderland syndrome, but anyway. Yes, they could have come up with a better name, I think, to make it sound more. Well, but I mean, this diet, it's just a normal diet.

Yeah, a healthy diet. Well, it is true if the rest of America is like our child, then he is not eating a normal diet. Right. Crazy. I mean, Zaxby's, we should buy stock and fucking. Axpies. Oh, I know it. I know it's insane. Yep. Liam, the little kid from the Ashley Madison commercial is now 21. Mm-hmm. It's nuts. It's hard to believe, is it? Yeah.

Mm. All right. Okay. Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome. Okay. It's an extremely rare condition wherein a person goes through a rapid appearance of aging beginning in childhood. Oh, are these these little people they used to put on talk shows. Yes. Okay. It occurs in one in four million with more than 131 cases reported in scientific literature globally since 1886. Hmm.

They have alopecia, aged looking skin, brittle, fragile bones, kidney failure, joint abnormalities, loss of eyesight, and loss of fat under the skin. No cure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's a rough one. They don't live very long either. Yeah, this says there is no cure. However, in November 2020, the FDA approved Lonepharnib, a drug that can help reduce the risk of death due to the disease.

Really? Mm-hmm. Okay. I'm going to look at that. While I'm looking that up, I was going to, since it is Liam's birthday, I thought playing his Ashley Madison voice track would be. When my mom is a bo-y. My daddy goes at esleymedicin.com. There he can f*** lots of other women.

When I grow up, I'm going to be an Ashley Madison man. Because my daddy's raising me without any moral compass whatsoever. Ashley Madison, find your lovers here. Why exactly are we singing this? Daddy, what's a road history? He was a good boy. He was a good boy. He was a good boy.

Back then, he'd say anything I told him to say. Back then he was good. Not so much now. And he, there's one bit I'd love to play is the feud between him and Dave McDonald. But it got out of hand quite quickly. It got so out of hand because they were doing sort of a wrestling thing. And I look here, McDonald, if you, because it started with Dave McDonald saying that Liam kept touching his daughter's head when they were here. Stop touching my daughter's head.

So then Liam did a response and called him a do-do-head or something. And then Dave was like, no, you do not call me a do-do-head. You can call me and then all these horrible things, but not a do-do-head. And then it was off to the races. And Sam and I was talking and said, this is a really kind of a fun bit. We could do some stuff with this. And then all of a sudden, on one of them, Dave on his show, which I think was, was it special, what was it called? Special Delivery.

I don't remember. started saying, you know, Liam, have you ever had sex? Now, at this point, Liam was seven. And he was talking about how the things he was going to do to Liam that were in a sort of sexual, you know, realm. And it was like, Iraq called me, said, you got to stop the bed. I mean, Dave ruined it. And, yeah, it got really bad, really bad. It got really bad, and it was, I was getting calls on it, and I'm like, I don't have anything to do with it.

Right, right, right. But, yeah, Tacey's friends were calling her. It's like, what the hell is going on with this thing? So, yeah, we had to stop. Yeah, we had to stop. It got, it just, you know, he was seven. Anyway. Well, and, you know, Dave should have known better.

I don't know what he was thinking. He was being funny, and he is funny. I just talked to him the other day. He's doing very well. Good. And he got invited. He's a smart man. He's got a real job and, you know, doing radio in a real market.

And he was invited on some show. And he was like, you know what? Nah. You know, I'm kind of out of that business now. I've got to be an adult now. And so he is. So I'm very proud of him. Good.

Yeah. Dave, there are times that he's made me laugh harder than any other human being on this. Yeah, he is quite funny. So. I've got two more real quick ones And then I've got the thing you sent me But I feel like we've gone on a little long Yeah, okay, that's fine

Alcatonioria What? Alcaptonuria Also known as black urine disease Inherited disorder that results in a buildup of chemical called hemogenetic acid in the body Staining the tissues dark Are you talking about al-captop

Phineuria? Yeah. Okay, very good. All right. In addition, the condition prevents the body from entirely breaking down two amino acids called tyrosine and phenylalanine. Phenalanine. Phenalanine. Yeah.

That are responsible for body pigmentation. Sadly, there is no treatment cure for this condition yet. Hmm. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a deficiency of the enzyme homogenesate 1-2-D2. dioxygenase. So there you go.

And it's just weird. You know, we have all these enzymes. If you're missing one, it'll have these effects, and this is the effect of this one, is it gives you black urine. Are there any downsides to having black urine taste? No, but there's no treatment for it. I know, but do we care? The reason is there are some long-term effects of this. When people with Al-Captanuria get into their 30s, they start having joint problems.

Okay. And so they'll have blowback pain, stiffness, and then their hips, knees, and shoulders. And, you know, you see people with osteoarthritis at a young age. I've never asked them if they have black urine, but I would assume that they would have told somebody. But it makes their cartilage brittle, that is what it does. Now, they may develop brown spots on the white. lights of their eyes. That would be a way to pick that up.

So if you're looking in someone's eyes and you see a brown spot on the sclera, the white part, you could say, you know, hey, is your urine weird? Yeah, yeah. Yep. And the earwax would be black. Oh. Yep. They may have, because the bones and muscles around their lungs become stiff, they may also end up with trouble breathing. And then they can get, have discolored sweat that stains the clothes.

and they could have blue places on their skin. There's all kinds of stuff just because of this one enzyme. Jeez. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. Okay, the last one is a parasitic twin. That happens when one of the fetuses stopped developing during pregnancy. The parasitic twin is attached to the other fetus and can grow fetus and can grow recognizable body parts.

To this date, there are still rare documentations of this phenomenon for researchers to study. Well, I was trying to think of twins. twins that I could make a parasitic twin joke, but I couldn't think of anybody. You hear of twins absorbing the other twin. He's a fucking idiot. They're not twins. Yes. Say that again today, sorry.

You hear of one twin absorbing the other one. Correct. And that's actually inside their body. Now, I think there was an ex-file about that one time. Really? Oh, yeah. Yeah. And that one was controlling the other from the inside.

And it was pretty cool. The cold's coming from inside your body. It was pretty cool, yes. It actually would crawl out of the dude. Oh, really? Yeah, and we'd go around wreaking havoc. And we'd crawl back in and be like, who's, you know, it was like part of a freak show. Who tore up to the bathroom last up?

Well, I don't know. And then, yeah, and then it's, if it's an identical twin, it had the same DNA, so the guy would get blamed for. He was blamed for it, so what happened? He was blamed for. Yeah. It was crazy. It was cool. That's funny.

All right. Well, are we ready to do some phone calls? Yes, and I'm ready to time you. Oh, shit. Number one thing, don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. We can do it. Okay, you ready? We can do it.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No, I'm not waiting. Okay, let's go. Hey, Dr. Steve, this is Bill in Texas. Hey, Bill. I talked to you in the past about my kidney stone. Yes, sir. And you're a very big help to me, and I appreciate it.

But I've got a serious question. Do we sneeze when we sleep? Thank you for your assistance. I appreciate it. Have a good day. That is a good question, and I know the answer to that. Do you have any insights on this stuff? The answer is we do not.

For the most part. Okay, so during REM. Kind of an answer is that. It's partially right. That's a partial. That's more of a bill than you get to see. So in other words, the answer is. I get a farce of mail.

My God. Yes. Lord and lady do you back. If you're in deep sleep, you do not sneeze. Blah, blah, blah, blah. See, that's the things that are coming out of your mouth, child. Babbling, insanity, delusions. So, yes, people probably do sneeze in their sleep.

I did a little research on this. But Scott is correct that during REM sleep, we probably don't sneeze, which is odd. If you need to sneeze at that point, you'll wake up. but um i think your brain wakes ship if you're going to sneeze but you don't sneeze while you're sleeping and stay asleep i don't think yeah well okay so i'm looking at some research here and says you may have no recollection of it but there's a chance that you've sneezed in your sleep before sneezing in your sleep is possible may occur at any stage but there and there aren't that many studies i mean why would you fund a study on this right but some evidence suggests suggests that sneezing is most unlikely to occur during rapid eye movement sleep and i do have a reference on that. And that's because of that phenomenon known as muscle atonia where you're paralyzed during REM sleep. And, you know, people move between different sleep cycles when they sleep so you can sleep in other, you know, at other times.

Now, I'm looking here. This is, and the page is not found. Okay, boo. Have you ever heard of a sneeze while they're sleeping now? I don't think I have, ever have. No, but. Nothing that I know of, of course. If I'm sleeping, I wouldn't.

Yeah, if you're asleep, you wouldn't know it. That's the thing. I guess, yeah. Unless it's the hell of a sneeze. I cough a lot in my sleep. Yeah, or you can have post-nasal drip. It can cause you're choking cough. Sure.

I'm coughing a lot. But you know, if in bed, there's still going to be pollen and shit flying around. Yeah, of course. And you can breathe in the should make you sneeze, but you don't. Yeah, this person says no specific sleep stages prohibit sneezing. However, during REM sleep, muscle activity is inhibiting. is inhibited to stop us acting out our dreams as might affect intensity or frequency

of sneezing. So that's why it's generally thought sneezing during REM is unlikely if not outright impossible. But again, who in the hell is going to fund this study? Yep. You know, to what end? So there are

some things we'll never know conclusively because there's no data. Why would there be any data? The only way it's going to happen is if, you know, like Taylor's Twift or somebody starts sneezing in their sleep and then we would know yeah then we'll do some studies or something all right very good somebody important okay doke Tom perfect yay hey hey dr. Steve uh yes this is the topic I

know you've talked about a lot over the years and that is the nocturnal emission or wet dream and I probably had one or two in my teen years none none at all in my 20s now I'm starting to get them frequently. And when I mean frequently, I'm talking about like three times a week. I live with my fiancé. We have sex regularly, you know, one to three times a week, I would say. But it's still happening. I don't know what it is. If you can give me some advice other than, you know, maybe beat off before bed or whatever. But this is happening and I'm kind of getting concerned because I'm not sure if it's correlating because I'm also getting I'm also not lasting very long in bed either interesting again stamina pretty good in my teen years and my 20s

not so much in my early 30 because yeah so I'd love some advice if you can dr. Steve in the panel and mainly because I'm a little tired of washing sheets for a couple of days thanks oh just don't wash them a little crusty sheets one difference is that make it's sterile yes it's clean it's protein yeah so uh here's a thing he's right you i've never by the way i started beating off at such a young age i've never had a wet dream in my life never not one so um practice dr steve practice and i never completed the transaction in my sleep either whenever i started having a dream where i'm getting ready to have intercourse it always ends just as things are getting ready to happen.

So that pisses me up. Dreams kind of emulating real life. Yeah, maybe so. So, you know, the ability to maintain an erection wanes over time, the refractory period increases over time. And generally, people will have reduced number of nocturnal emissions as they get older. However, there are a couple of instances where this is counterintuitive. intuitive. If they start increasing frequency in adulthood, it could be a reflection of a potentially significant sexual stimulation prior to sleep. So he said he's getting it a lot. Maybe this is a new partner. And if he's getting aroused, you know, when they go to bed, even if they don't have intercourse, he may be completing that transaction during sleep. But what I'm also going to say is this can be a sign of hormonal changes as well.

Well, so I would get that checked and make sure that he doesn't have some sort of, you know, a condition that's causing a dramatic increase in his testosterone or dramatic decrease in other hormones that are, you know, counter to testosterone. And so he needs to get that checked. Just in case that's the only sign that he gets. Now, there was a weird study in 2020 that showed that those who watched more than three hours of TV today were. more likely to experience nocturnal emission. And what the hell that has to do with anything?

I don't know. Hey, another couple questions, Dr. Steve, is maybe what is he wearing or not wearing to bed with his fiancé? So, I mean, maybe if he's changed from his old cotton reefs to some sexy silks or something, it's rubbing him the right way, or maybe they're just sleeping, you know, maybe they're sleeping in a nude. They used to wear, you know, underwear and just having that little bit of, um, stimulation for a man in age.

That may be what it is. Yeah. 41.8% of women report having at least one wet dream in their lifetime. In other words, having an orgasm in their sleep. And the other ones don't admit to it. Yeah. Now, regular sexual activity should decrease the likelihood of having a wet dream, but you can't definitively prevent them happening that way.

And should increase is stamina, you know. Yeah. Optitiveness. Tom. Damn it. Oh, God. I was just starting to watch that's poetic. Tad!

Good look, buddy. Check your hormones. Lord. Hey, Doc. I'm 33 years old. 185 pounds. I've just recently started to no sugar, no grain. I'm all 10 pounds in one month.

It's great. Yeah. So it's not bullshit. The question is, about a phagectomy, thinking about doing that, unfortunately. And my question is, is that going to affect any of the hormones in my body, you know, to turn me into a fat ass or to slow down my metabolism or anything sexual? I don't think it's going to affect my testosterone.

I don't think. Right. Any insight on that? No, if it's going to affect anything at all, it's going to affect. you psychologically, but when they do a vasectomy, they are tying the tube going from the testicle to the mechanism where sperm is mixed, admixt with seminal fluid that comes from the seminal vesicles and the prostate. And so sperm cells can't get in there.

So when you ejaculate, you ejaculate cell-free semen. sperm, the stuff coming from the VAS deference is 2% of the volume. So if you had, you know, 100 ML, 100 ML ejaculate, which would be a lot, and it would just be 98 ML. So you would never notice the difference. And it doesn't change your ability to lose weight. It doesn't change your exercise tolerance. And the only thing, if you had a complication and you had pain in that area, then, yeah, that might affect your ability to exercise for a while until you've got it resolved. But other than that, no.

Yeah. Yeah, it should be totally fine. And anymore, they're doing them so quickly in like minimal. Yeah. Even no non-cut kind of stuff like laser. And the, yes, and they still cut. That's the thing. Well, they cut going in, yes.

They say no scalpel. Then they do a laser. And it's a lie. They'll say no scalpel. And, I mean, technically it's true. But the no scalpel, vasectomy uses really sharp scissors or a laser or any of these things. They're still cutting the scrotum. They're just not using a scalpel.

The physical tool that looks like a knife. But they're still using a knife. They're still going in. Yeah. So don't be fooled by that. And it's going to hurt a little bit. Yeah, well, yeah, mine was fine. I highly recommend go get a pitcher's cup.

For real. Yeah, those things can be handy. Yeah, you get a pitcher's cup and you wear it and then your nuts will not touch anything. And it's fun. You can walk around the hospital or whatever and just take your fist and pound into your crotch. Which he did. And freak people out. And they hear like that when you do it.

It's funny. I did do that. Oh, my goodness. You get your scrubs. How'd your vasectomy go? And I'm like, boom, boom, boom, just punching my crotch. I can't feel a thing. Oh, my word.

And no seeds, no nuts will probably help as well because there are phytointh in seed oils and Benny Tortorich has taught us that over the years. And what they're concerned, okay, I'm going to ask for an extra minute because I'm doing another thing. The common omega-6 fatty acid, linoleic acid, they feel is converted into arachidonic acid in the body, and that may increase inflammation in the body. So that's why Vinny pushes the no-seed oil stuff, so, you know, canola oils and stuff like that. There are a lot of health warnings regarding that. A lot of the latest research doesn't necessarily back that up.

But what the hell? I mean, there's a whole subreddit decrying the use of seed oils. I think it's fine. It's not going to hurt you to avoid seed oils. And the no seeds, no grain thing is a decent way to lose. You know, it's a decent lifestyle that you can keep up to help lose weight. It's reasonably healthy if you do it right. Okay.

I relinquish my time, Mr. President. Thank you. Sixteen seconds left to go. Oh, yes, Dr. Steve. I was trying to call and talk about my three testicles. Okay. I have three, count them one, two, three testicles. I was born with three testicles.

I was wondering if you ever heard of anyone. Of course. It had three testicles, such as myself. apparently you're too busy playing some music. What? Wait a minute, what? Hang on, don't start the timer yet.

You're too busy playing some music. Okay, I don't know what he's talking about there. All right. The presence of three testicles is called trichordid, or tri-orchidism. Orchidism. Yeah. So if you have orchitis, then that is inflammation of the testicles.

And so three orchids would be tri-orchidism. Okay. Yes, that's right. Tri-Orchidism. Good Lord. So anyway, it's, there is a whole group of these conditions called polyorchidism. And these are people that will have more than two testicles. It's rare and it's caused by an abnormal division in the genital ridge when we are a fetus.

Now, I challenge him to determine whether he really has three testicles or what he has is what double vasectomy Todd had, which was a spermatocil. He had a cyst that was filled with vesicle or a vasdeferins fluid that looked and felt like a testicle, but it was not actually testicular tissue. Now, a lot of times these people have inguinal hernias. They may have a testicle that doesn't descend properly. They can have torsion. They can also get hydroceals, and then they can get hypospatio. which, if everybody remembers, that's what Bobo had, where the urethra doesn't open up at the end of the penis.

It opens up on the bottom side of the glands. Okay. And usually these people have a mass in the scrotum, and they do an dopper ultrasound, and then you just avoid surgery. You know, they should be followed up yearly by ultrasound for life just to make sure that something else hasn't happened. Can'ts or something.

But, yeah, if it's a hydroceal is filled with fluid, clear fluid, also can sometimes feel like a third testicle above one of the testicles. And then the spermatoc seal is filled with fluid, but it's, you know, it's, yeah, it's Vaz deference fluid. Okay, doke. Yeah. So get a, you, if you haven't done it, you need an ultrasound of the scrotum and then go from there. Well, and I'm going back place me. music. I guess you're too busy playing music.

At least he called it music. Yeah, that's true. Yes, yes. Oh, I guess maybe he's talking at the end of our show. For those who are not aware. About to rock. We play something that we refer to as music at the end of the YouTube recording, which you can join us at YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine.

And if you see it live, you can see the music there. Otherwise, it's on our Patreon so I can just torture the poor people who actually pay for content. And I send that stuff over there and call it the dregs. And I'm sure that just seems disrespectful. But it's, you know, it's content that nobody else can see. Anyway, but yeah, do check out our Patreon. We're doing some other things there as well, not just throwing shit that we don't want other people to see. Really what it is is we get these copyright strikes, and then we can't monetize the regular video.

So we're not really doing a video podcast, but we do a radio show that we record, that we, you know, turn the cameras on some people can sort of see behind the scenes. So we're not really trying to do a live stream sort of situation. But anyway, but you're welcome to join us. Okie doke. Next. Hey, Dr. Steve, Dr. Scott, Tessie. What's up? You guys are doing a great job.

I really enjoyed the speeded up comments. I still think for Tacey to enjoy it, you need to get like one of those bells like the... Oh, did we do this one before? I think we did this one. About the organ donation? Okay. All right. Yeah.

Okay. Sorry. Well, anyway. All right. Oh, yeah. We did this one. Two unlimited funds. white blood cell.

Okay, let's try this one. Hey, Dr. Steve, it's Dr. W. here. No, we did this one, too. Dammit. Oh, way to go. I didn't delete any of these from last week. That's what I did. I'm just glad he wasn't suggesting give Tacey a taser.

Or a little put a little electric shocker in our ankles. When I was a kid, there was a movie called The Tingler. And it was a Vincent Price movie about this thing that would get in your spine. And what they did, the gimmick was they put this thing in everybody's seat in the theater.

And during certain parts of the movie, they would hit a button and everybody get a shock on their ass. No. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, my word. Yeah. Kaylee, from once over with Kaylee, did a thing about it. And I told her I was probably the only person that watched that video of hers that actually sat in the theater. And if I can, I can't remember what they called that.

that device. But what if we got something like that? Oh, my God. And then you could shock us. I'm afraid she would probably abuse her privileges. Yeah, let me see.

I think she would enjoy way too much. I do like to yell Tom. The creature earned its name by making the spine of its host tingle when the host is frightened. And let me see, released in the United States,

a tingler received mixed reviews. Yeah, it was pretty terrible. But it's gone. through critical reevaluation is now considered a camp cult film. And I'm just trying to find here if they showed where that thing,

what that thing was called. But anyway, okay, gimmick. William Castle was known for his movie gimmicks and the Tingler featured one of his best. It was called Percepto. Previously, it ordered a thousand dollar life insurance policy against death by fright for macabre,

which was a movie, and sent a skeleton flying above the audience. heads in the auditorium and House on Haunted Hill. Wow, the gimmicks for the tingler increased the films cost from 400,000 to a million. The gimmick was called Percepto.

And they attached electrical buzzers to the underside of some seats in the theater where the tingler was screened Percepto with an exclamation point after it. Things were just so much simpler back then. That's pretty cool.

Anyway, okay, this does not count Where were we? Oh, okay. Well, we're not answering our question. All right. Let's do this one. So maybe we could consider that. We could do something.

That would be a consequence. If we go along, Tacey pushes a button. Instead of just screaming, ta'am into the... I think she enjoys the yelling time at us. I could give you a stream deck over there where you could push different buttons and do buzzers and stuff, too, if you want.

Okay, all right. Hey, long-time caller, first-time listener. Wait, that's backwards. Anyway, it is getting into poison ivy season. Oh, bites are dirty. I just hate that shit. Yeah, it makes three of us. What's the best course of treatment for dealing with poison ivy

other than just keeping your ass away from it? Well, that won't even help you because poison ivy is caused by a volatile oil on the surface of the plant. And on a still day, if it's hot enough, that oil, will, you know, turn into a gas. And if you walk through that cloud that's just sitting there on a very still day, you can contract poison ivy. Because it is, it is dosed in parts per billion. Now, people will think that they scratch it and it spreads. That's only true if you haven't washed yourself in the last week.

Because soap will get rid of the oil. It is so soluble. But what really happens is if I have 10 parts per billion on my wrist and one part per billion exposure on my shoulder on my elbow, for example, then the 10 parts per billion area will come up first. It's called a delayed type hypersensitivity reaction. Okay. exposure was all at the same time. So if you know you're exposed, washing, and they used to say octagon soap, it doesn't really matter. Any soap will do but wash yourself thoroughly.

And then if you do contract it and it's severe enough, it's blistering and the blisters are bursting and you just can't stand the itching, then your primary care provider or a dermatologist or really anybody could prescribe a steroid dose pack. that really the first time I had a steroid dose pack for a poison ivy attack it was like sweet sweet relief within a day the itching was gone and now you're tempted to stop taking medicine don't you got to finish it and you know by the end of it it was completely dried up and done so that's really the thing but prevention is the key and don't burn the shit no hail though I've seen places where you know at can't campfires where people were burning poison ivy, don't wipe your ass with it. So you, which means you, number one, it's 2024. If you're going camping, bring toilet paper with you. Don't be wiping your ass with leaves anymore. First off, you're just leaving stuff behind.

Bio-degradable toilet paper. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly right. Don't camp. Or don't camp. I like that. And I used to have a sun shower. It's just, you fill it up with water, and you set it out in the sun. it's black, and then you have a nice

hot shower, and you could actually use it as a bidet if you really were smart and figured out how to do that. Just do a handstand. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. Okay? All right. Ten seconds left.

Good job. Hi, Dr. Steve. It's Ardy from Pennsylvania. Let me tell you one problem with this taste is we need a shitload more phone calls if we're going to do one every three minutes. That's all I'm saying. I like the format, too.

but it We're going to have to have more Tacey's time Yeah, give us a call 347-76643-23 Leave your voicemail questions I don't care how stupid

they are We need a lot more questions We will answer them Less than three minutes If Tacey is going to enforce this Bullshit policy It is all right

I have this pressure beneath my eyes And the bridge of my nose And We did this one We did? Yeah, last week Okay

Damn it Okay Yeah, we'd like to have a follow-up on that guy, though, to see how you'd be able to go E-N-T or whatever. Okay. How about this one? Hi, Dr. Steve. My name is Jeff. I've been diagnosed with Castleman's disease, and I'm not really sure exactly what that is or what I should do more about it.

I've had surgery on my neck to remove the lip node, and nobody around in this area that seems to know anything about it. Just be interested in your opinion on it. I appreciate it. Thanks. Okay. We usually try to avoid rare diseases and stuff on here because it doesn't have a real, you know, general interest. But in this case, particularly Casamund disease is an extremely rare disorder

but causes lymph nodes enlarge. And these people will often think that they have lymphoma or something like that, but they actually don't. And sometimes you can have just one lymph node in the chest or the abdomen. And then they'll have this thing called multicocentric Casman disease. It's lots of lymph nodes throughout the body. And now if they have lots of lymph nodes, lymph nodes. They can have fever, weight loss, fatigue, that kind of stuff, all things that, again, would make you worry about having lymphoma.

This isn't contagious. It affects people of all ages. And there is a treatment for it called psiltaxamab. And it takes care of the majority of cases and induces remission in almost everybody. So check that out. You would still want to see a hemorrhap. because they're really the only ones that that deal with that stuff with the monoclonal antibodies and there you go.

So there you're a Castleman disease. Pretty interesting syndrome. But they usually do very well and if you have the unilateral or the unicentric one where you just have the one lymph node. And they remove the lymph node you're fine. Oh good.

All right. Okay. It does need to be treated in really bad cases, it can lead to some problems down the road, including infections, organ failure, stuff like that. So, get a treat. Suppressed immune. Yes. All right.

Oh, one minute, six seconds. Hey, Dr. Keith, how are you? I'm in my late 30s now, and everything hurts all the time. I'm ignoring you, Tacey, so. I'm not complaining, you know, that much, but the question that I have for you is, Why is testosterone, HGH, why are these things illegal? Bodybuilders get it all the time. Okay, we've answered this question before, but it's a good question.

And the reason, they're not illegal. They're just illegal to obtain without a prescription. And the reason is that there are downsides to it. You know, testosterone is a schedule, is on the DEA drug schedule. It has to be prescribed. And, you know, I've seen people that did the cycles for bodybuilding and then ended up with a testosterone of zero. Literally zero. Jeez.

Because I've never, I mean, I've never seen it in anyone other than somebody that was juicing. Right. And they end up with a suppression of their, of the, of the shit. And we don't use this one on our shorts. They end up with a suppression of the testicular function, and the testicles just shut down. They go, why are we even here? There's plenty of testosterone in our system. And so they just go to sleep, and then sometimes they don't wake up.

Testosterone of zero. So you can imagine we talk about low testosterone on the show, what a testosterone of zero would look like. So you don't want that. And there are other things like, you know, roid rage is a thing. Acne is a thing. Increasing your risk of heart attack and stroke is a thing if you get those levels too high for too long. So, I mean, we can argue whether people should have agency to do what the hell they want to with their bodies. I'm in favor of that, but I'm just explaining why these things currently are illegal.

Okay. Yeah, did he say anything else about why? has aches and pains all over? Oh, yeah. No, I'm wondering if he thinks he has low testosterone. You know, it's perfectly legal to treat that. Right. If you have low testosterone.

That's a pretty easy test, too. You go get tested and you get treated. And if the prescription stuff is too expensive, go to a compounding pharmacy. They can make you testosterone after shave and all kinds of stuff for about 50 bucks a month. All right, Dr. Scott, let's check in from the, fluid family. Myrtle Manus. Who? Gifted 20 weird medicine

Dr. Steve memberships. I wonder who she is. It's my girl. See, that's the things that are coming out of your mouth, child, babbling, insanity, delusions. Oh, God. Okay, SG fanboy gifted 10 weird medicine

with Dr. Steve memberships. Thank you, my friend. This is not how sane people, no it's not but thank you anyway and what do you got Dr. Scott I've got a question from Diesel Child okay I've got one from Larry Salty

at 113 p.m. as well that's so we need to make sure we get to that one okay well you do that one I'll do Diesel Child okay well it's hard for me to read and be on mic at the same time so I'm reading and be on mic Diesel child Okay, look at Look at the way

You're fucking looking at that And look at the way I have to read Oh, Mike positioning It's all about mic positioning. Oh yeah, what a weird concept. Diesel Child Can you talk about How taking Saw Palmetto

Helps with urine And prostate issues? Yeah, sure. How close is it to the actual prescription medications? Okay, go ahead. I know what the Urologists tell me, go, you talk.

Well, I mean, the supplement has been used for many, many years to work with urine and make it easier for you to urinate and hopefully shrinking some of the prostate. It's got some anti-inflammatory effects and it's also got some anti-androgenergic effects like you would use on somebody that's got like an overactive bladder. Yeah. So there are studies. It's pretty safe. I mean, if it's used as directed.

Right. Yeah. There are studies that show that Saw Palmetto is as a. effective in treating symptoms as fanasteride, which is proscar, without side effects, such as loss of libido, which unfortunately you can, can have with fanastride. About 10% of people will, because fanasteride blocks testosterone at the level of the prostate and also at the level of the hair follicle. But it's not supposed to do it everywhere else, but in some people it does. and there are some studies that suggest Sal Palmetto may actually shrink the size of the prostate gland

and this is coming from Mount Sinai.org. I'm not looking at the original studies. I'm just looking at their analysis of it, but, you know, Mount Sinai is not some a bunch of lunatics, well, maybe, but they may be lunatics, but they're relatively empirically oriented. So, yeah, Sal Palmetto's pretty cool stuff. I'm not sure what the mechanism is.

do you? Well, I think that's what they're talking about. It acts very similar to some of the pharmacologicals. Inhibition of, let's see, it's got anti-adrenergic effects. It's got anti-prolipers. Okay, so it does block testosterone. And it's a five. Okay, five alpha reductase enzyme.

Okay. So much like blocking the testosterone production. Yeah, that's interesting. So maybe it's just slightly more specific than vanastro. Yeah. You know, there are, we have, you know, histamine blockers. Some of them are specific for H2, which would be acid in the stomach type stuff, and some are specific for H1, some are nonspecific.

So it may be that if, doesn't Phanastroide work by blocking 5 alpha reductase? I don't know. Okay, well, let's look it up real quick. Well, you have 37 seconds. No, no, no. We're in the second. Oh, we made a new rule. Finasteride is five alpha reductase inhibitors.

So it may be that Sal Palmetto is simply more specific for the prostate. Or maybe Finasteride, they took and made it out of Sal Palmetto, they teased it, which is possible. Let me tell you, the other thing, though, because Finasteride works on hair follow rules, and I've never heard anyone using Sal Palmetto for hair growth, I'm going to bet that Sal Palmetto, that we're right, it's simply more specific for prostate tissue than finasteride is. So there you go. Okay. Good. All right. Fair enough.

Can you read the one from 113 p.m. by Larry Salty. How are you seeing the time on these things? Well, okay, it's... All right. Hang on. Hi, guys. Question for the show. My wife has a clean bill of health

regarding her vagina. Nothing wrong, according to her gyno, but every time I go down on her, I end up with ulcers in my mouth. This could be he, okay, I wonder what kind of ulcers, if they are aftus ulcers. It may simply be a pH issue. And so one of the things that he could do is when he's going to, you know, go eat at the Y, then afterwards, word, he can rinse his mouth out with or eat yogurt even. Okay. But he could, the pH of the vagina, let me see here.

I'm trying to remember the pH of the vagina. I used to know this by heart when I was delivering babies. Okay, it's between 3.8 and 5.0, so it's very acidic. So what he could, I'm going to give him an idea. Take, say, a quarter teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate and put it in eight ounces of water. Okay. That's going to create a very basic solution with a pH of around 8 to 8.5, maybe even higher. And after he goes down on his wife, he is to then rinse out his mouth with this, don't swallow it, just swish it around,

Rinse it really good for like 30 seconds and spit it out. Let us know if that works. Okay? I'm very interested. Is he still in there? Send him a message, will you and see if he's still in there? Larry Salty. Oh, Larry.

You can't see that question? Okay, let me see. Are there any other questions in here because Dr. Scott tends to miss them. Okay, live wean. Hey, Dr. Scott emailed the customer. song parody you requested to Dr. Steve. I did not live wean. I don't think I got a song parody from you.

When was this? When was this? Let's go gmail.com. Let's see if we can find that. Uh-oh. From live wean. I'm going to see if it's from live we. I'll play it right now.

By God, I'm not going to hide it. Let me see. Nope. I don't, I have nothing. I have a 2002 Tibetan Buddhist study. Oh, that's the guys that were changing their heart rate and stuff. So I'm not sure what Live Ween is talking about. But if you want to send it to me again, if you want to send it to me right now, I'll stall and we'll play it, and I'll just edit this part out.

Let's see if there was any good comments. Does he know which email do you use? Or you all get them all? Yeah, DR Steve 202 at gmail.com. That's fine. Live wean says, in all seriousness, my father had three testicles. I never saw them.

I hope not. But my mom's brother, who grew up with my dad, said he used to get them out on the bus and let them sit there until you saw them. Good boy. Well, I'm just going to get my scrotum out and see if anybody notices. Okay, apparently he trolled his friends by displaying all three testes and then just waiting.

Good. I like that. All right. Anything else in there that's interesting? Nope. Okay, the crem de la creme of the dabblerverse is now tuning in to Steve's live streams. Who is he talking about? I don't know. Okay. All right, my friends.

You got anything else, Scott? Nope. Tacey, you got anything? Nope. Well, this ended like a, with a whimper rather than a bang. Bang. It's all right. Time.

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