Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 597 - Flatus for the Win

Episode Date: June 26, 2024

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Well, hello, everyone. Hello. This episode is all about farts. Okay. There you go. I have three separate articles sent to me about farts this week. Really? Just by coincidence? Just by coincidence.

I know my niece Holly was one of them. Yeah. She is the fart lover. She does, does love her farts. God, she's the one that sent us the book on farts, is a matter of fact. Interesting. Very interesting. So this article is entitled, South African pastor, Farts on People's Faces to Hill Them.

Yay. Of course. Okay. Chris Penelope farts on congregants claiming that it's a process to heal people. A South African pastor reportedly farts on people's faces as a healing process to cure all spiritual and physical problems. Pastor Christ Penelope of sevenfold Holy Spirit Ministries in Cian Danny Village when Popo, South Africa, has created a buzz online for his unorthodox method of healing people after a photo of him sitting on the heads of people. Apparently farting on them went viral.

I wonder how he controls that, though. I don't know. Do you think he's got like a Will the Farter sort of sphincter where he can suck air in? I mean, you have to be able to do it on come in. I don't know, and I don't think it says so here. An intending visiting the church complained, when we come to church, it's because we need prayers not to be farted on. However, the pastor has defended his methods insisting that he has simply demonstrating the power of God.

It started with Master Jesus when he stepped on Peter. It is demonstration of God's power. Wow. The Bible doesn't say anything about Adam saying, God, you are hurting me. The pastor told South African Drum magazine. According to the pastor, farting near the person's nostril is important so that the healing power can enter the body to do its work. He said when they wake up from the deep sleep, they will tell you that they didn't feel anything. It is showing the power of God and those who need healing are healed afterwards, and others get to manifest at that moment.

Remember when people try to tarnish your image, that is when he shows his glory. As long as souls are won into the kingdom, he who sits on the throne laughs at his enemies. That's what he said. I don't even understand. Well, you know what, though? I'm going to tell you this. It's less dangerous and probably just as effective as giving an antibiotic for a cold. Well, you know?

That's true. Yep. So they get better the same amount of time. And you're not exposing them to antibiotics that are, you know, the bacteria are going to become. resistant to. So good for him. Many people wait up to two months to meet him to get farted on.

Okay. Wow. I would do it. Some even collect his farts in containers. That, okay, that does nothing. We're done. Well. And so then here's this one guy saying these are exactly the deeds the Bible warned us again. So it said that at the end of the world,

there be people who do things that will shock us. My advice will be for people to make their raise way white with the Lord for the end is near and then he consistently says he farts on people he doesn't just fart heels so there you go there you go well like I said 90% of our patients would get better if they never came to the time so he probably has a good 90% efficacy rate and a little bit of placebo effect too Scott also sent me an article but it was it was I want to read the title, but it's very, it's very sciencey, and I don't want to read the article.

Flatulence's surprising role in human production and women's mental health. So that's it. Say it again. Flatulence's surprising role in hormone, hormone production, and women's mental health. Okay, just read the conclusion. Well, there's not one. It just goes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This sounds so good that you.

Yeah, I did read it. Okay. I did. I read it, hello, which is why this... It's a legit article, you know. Okay. Summarizing the findings and simple terms, Deblan explained, we found that bugs make drugs. That is, we found that bacteria and I got produced...

Oh, here we go. Allopregnolone. Okay, it's a progesterone. Also known as Brexanelon or Zulresso. FDA-approved drug to treat, postpartum depression. Yeah, I've got here changes in estrogen and progesterone levels can cause flatulants in women. But this thing is saying if they have flatulence, that it's doing something positive for them? I mean, I don't know.

Yes, I think so. God. So, anyway. I think the take-home message is a healthy gut. Yes. It creates a healthy mind. Oh, did it? He wants him about.

Look who wants him about. So this is my part of the contribution for today's topic is. Lord and lady, do you should buy. Everything you wanted to know about farting. Yes. Okay. So what causes flat? Now we're on to something.

It's a normal physiological process occurs when the bacteria in the large intestine metabolize things in our diet that we can't metabolize. If we didn't pass gas, we would explode, and that's a gastroenterologist with Houston Methodist gastroenterology associates saying that. Good for him. Our bodies have two processes to remove gas, belching, and flagellulums. Correct. You can absorb it, too. When I had...

But not as quickly as you can get rid of. Well, it depends on the gas. So, you know, they used to use carbon dioxide when they did colonoscopies, and you don't readily absorb that and you could have these thunderous farts afterward because they blow up your colon like a balloon and it's got to come out. Well, I took a fletus flute when I had my last colonoscopy and they used nitrogen. And there was nothing. The guy said, oh, no, you're not going to have any flage. I said, I brought this this whistling butt plug so I could record it with a real, you know, thunderous, flatus,

and there was absolutely nothing because I'd already absorbed the nitrogen into my body. But anyway, go ahead. Okay, why do fart smell so bad? Most gas past during flagellants goes unnoticed because there isn't a cell. It may contain odorless gases, such as nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide,

and methane, but a small portion includes hydrogen sulfide, which causes it smell right. I'm going to give myself a bell. Right next. No, for God's sakes. No, I said hydrogen sulfane. Yes, very good. That's the rotten egg smell.

Yes. So what food? People think it's methane. Methane does not smell, nor does natural gas. The reason it smells in your house is they actually introduce an agent so that you will smell natural gas if it's leaking in your house. That's my understanding. Gotcha. That makes sense.

So what foods and drinks cause gas? I know, but go ahead. Sugars, beans, beverages. such as apple juice and milk, dairy products, fruit, sugar alcohols commonly found in sugar-free candies and gum. If you've ever made that mistake, you sure do know it. And there's a fiber supplement called Inulin, or I think it's the same as chickery root. And it's the one it's in, well, I hate to say in a brand name, but Benafiber, it's the one that you can dissolve in water and it's clear.

Okay. And it is the most flatogenic substance I've ever seen. And we've talked about this before when they were going to do the fart contest at Opie and Anthony, I had to come up with some way to make people fart because there's no fun having a fart contest if everybody's just sitting there going, well, you know, I'm fine. So I was going to give them two tablets of inulin the night before and then two, you know, about an hour before the show, and they would have been farting like maniacs. Oh, God.

Yeah. How to turn out? Well, they never ended up doing it. And I actually made a device for smelling them, and it had a face mask on one end, and then ventilator tubing, and then another face mask on the other end, and you'd put the one

face mask up to your ass. That just makes me want to vomit. And then they would fart into it, and then there's video of it. And I remember sending it to them, and then I I remember being mad because they didn't give me credit for the fart smelling machine. But that was for the fart contest, which we ended up never doing. Nor did we ever do proctopalooza.

I'm still a little pissed about that. But anyway, maybe we'll do it at Dabalcon. Well. So if you are eating something and it tastes really good and it says it's sugar-free and it includes sorbitol, manitol, or dolitol, be careful. Oh, my God. Or you will poop your pants. The first time I went low carb, I went to GNC and I found these candy bars and they were zero carbs, zero net carbs, and they used sorbitol. And I know better.

We use sorbitol as a cathartic in the emergency realm, you know, to get people to just get poison out of their system sometimes. There are certain ones you can give them sorbitol and it will just pass through real quickly. Well, I ate, like, I hadn't had anything sweet and forever, and I ate like three of those things. And on the way home, I just about soiled myself and filled the car in liquid stool. That's how bad it was. So be very careful. Casey's 100% right. So vegetables and whole grains.

Now, foods, if you want to have some smelly gas, you need to eat asparagus, beans, cabbage, coffee, dairy, eggs, onions, or prunes. Really? Yes. So if you stay away from those, your fletus will not be smelling? Well, I mean, it just... Because that's interesting because I have noticed that I have zero... I can fart all day and nobody would ever know it if they were silent. But they're not.

Well, you really don't eat any of that stuff. Yeah, no. You remember the joke about the guy goes to the doctor and says, you know, I just, I keep having these. silent gas eruptions from my rear end. It's just constantly just silent gas eruptions. And, you know, I could be sitting in church and it's just, I have these silent, you know, silent farts. And right now I'm having silent farts.

And the doctor said, well, the first thing we've got to do is work on your hearing. Now, when do you see a doctor about flatulence? When it interrupts meals. Well, it changes in the amount and frequency of gas pass as well of abdominal pain, then it's time to talk. Okay. What conditions can cause excessive gas? Lactose intolerance, Civenact disease, other conditions such as abdominal adhesions, abdominal hernia, dumping syndrome, which would explain a lot in our family. Yeah.

Cause changes in how gas moves through the intestine. You probably got to explain that. Well, our son has dumping syndrome. Let's explain what that is. It's where undigested food is dumped into the intestinal tract before it's ready. And when you do that, if you don't let the saliva starts to break down starches, there are enzymes in saliva that will start that process. If you put a little piece of bread in your mouth and leave it there for a minute or two,

it'll start to turn sweet. And that's the starch being broken down into sugars. Right, right, right. And so you've got to break this stuff down. If undigested food or, you know, food unprocessed by the stomach ends up in the bowel, then all kinds of bad things happen. The bowel wall gets colonized by bacteria. You'll get cramping because the bowel is, you know, it just can't absorb stuff and it gets pissed.

It gets irritated. inflamed, you'll have voluminous, smelly flatus on top of everything else. Lovely. Diabetics can develop gastroporosis, which causes abnormal functioning of the stomach. One of those symptoms is excessive gas. Yeah. And then side effects of medicine sometimes. Sure. Metformin being one.

Why does having gas hurt? When people feel bloated and experienced gas pain, it is not necessarily caused by a person having more gas, but by the gas becoming trapped and able to move through the intestines properly. Correct. Can you hold in a fart, or is it bad for you? Oh, yeah. I remember Lady Diagnosis asked this question. Yeah, it's going to come out one way or the other, it says.

Holding in gas because you're in public only causes it to build up resulting in abdominal distension. I just had a memory. What? I remember, and I remember all of a sudden, it's as clear as day my mom sat me. down and said, now Stevie, she called me Stevie, if you have to pass gas, either hold it or go out of the room. Now, for her to have to sit me down, to tell me that means that there was a problem. And I remember saying, well, if President Kennedy comes here, do I have to, you know,

go out of the room? She's like, yes, yes, yes, you do. It's a dumb question for a kid to ask. It's also like, you know, so you know there had to have been a problem. I don't remember the problem, but I remember her trying to come up with a solution. Yeah, I'm sure there's a incident there. To the, um, uh, uh, uh, my favorite sign at Dollywood Splash Country, which I just said before on the show. It's got, it says double inner tubes are for an adult and a small child, maximum weight not to exceed 500 pounds. Jeez. they couldn't get up the hill they couldn't walk up that hill

if you have to say that an adult and a small child not to exceed 500 pounds it means that they've had that problem why would they put the sign up no you're right yeah we speaking of flatlets in public places we when we were up in bar harbor yeah at a restaurant out on looking out over the ocean sitting there eating lobster there was there's this lady just and I don't know if she was hard of hearing or what but she did the same thing, just leaned over, cocked her hip up,

just let one fucking rip right on the, right on the damn, it was hard, you know, door chair, you know, and so it was an awful. Rob looked at me and she goes, what the fuck? My partner was British, and he would fart all the time, say that it was just normal. I don't know. When we were in England, I never noticed anybody else passing guys.

I think it was just him. Bizarro. just bizarre but to hike your hip but to raise that attention to you that's saying

something that's saying something does the act of farting spread germs in case you were worried about the internet

removers let me interrupt you for a second Scott just reminded me of something I have a friend I will just say his name is Kirk

and he was 10-time indoor national archery champion and they he was a machine. He didn't miss an X

for 10 years. Wow. And, you know, he was very, people were very intimidated by him. He's a big guy. And he had perfect form and he could reproduce it every time. He never missed. So at the very

finals of that tournament in Las Vegas, they'll go, they'll put 16 people up and then eight and then four and then two and then, you know, the winner. Okay. And when they had, and everybody draws at the same time and then they have to shoot, right?

Well, all the 16 were all in a row, and they're pull back and they're ready to let fly. And Kirk lets out the biggest, most disgusting fart you've ever heard. I mean, it was just massive. Oh, geez. And all of a sudden, you hear all these. bow's going off. And you hear arrows hitting the ground push. It was hilarious.

And then you have some guy like five people down from him just yelled out, some nasty son of a bitch. So. What happened? What happened with the shot? No, they, he made this. Oh, how funny. How funny.

That is hilarious. I would see people when they'd get up to four and people who had never missed an X, all day would start hitting in that eight ring and stuff. And it was just nerves. Yeah. And he would come back to me and say, you know, it's all mental game. Yeah. But anyway.

So in case you're worried that you can catch COVID-19 from a fart, you cannot. Correct. I talked about that back in 2020. Remember when it was just you and me? No. Okay. There's no evidence that you can spread germs through flagellants unless feces is present. Fun fart facts.

Right. You have to be... You have to be a wet, wet. Really would. Fart where actual fecal matters is being sprayed in your face. That's the only way. Women may actually fart more than men. However, they are typically more discreet about doing it.

Farts can be flammable. We all know this. According to an NBC new report, news report upon release, farts can travel about 10 feet per second or 6.8 miles per hour. Let's talk briefly about lighting your farts on fire. Some people can and some can't. And it's because of the production of flammable gas, mostly methane. Not everybody produces that.

And it's not because their body doesn't produce it. It's their colony of bacteria don't produce it. And so everybody has a different microbiome in their bowel. And I did a whole thing. Well, like I said, on fecal transplantation for a normal world, talking about how fecal transplantation can actually affect people's mood in a positive way. So, but anyway, yeah. Okay.

And if you're a scientist and you study flatulence, you're a flatologist. Nice. And the oldest recorded joke is an ancient Sumerian fart joke that dates back to 1900 BC. What was the joke? They don't say the joke. Oh, bummer. Okay. Bummer.

Do you know what the name is for people who get sexual, you know, sexual excitement from phletus? No, I do not. It's called eproctophilia. It's a parapheria. Okay. Purpose is excitement when you hear or smell a fart. Wow. Can you imagine?

No. So anyway, all right. That's good stuff, Tais. that it that's it that was good thank you i'll give you a bell for all that's okay give myself a bell let's be nice whatever who cares stupid bell all right you want to take some calls yes absolutely you do it number one thing don't take advice from some asshole on the radio all right thank you ronnie b that's exactly hello everyone hello quick question let me some help okay not long ago, I had some pre-admission testing.

I'm getting a shoulder replacement done here next week. Okay. My liver enzymes are elevated. Okay. It's big it's because of the Percocet that I'm taking. I don't know. I think it's because I die. But I've been Mark Hort's Tito for the last two years in March.

My wife passed away. Wow. And since then, With the in-law drama, I haven't been... Oh, no. He has in-law drama? No, how does that happen? Oh, I'm sorry.

It's bad enough if your wife passes away, and then you have to deal with some sort of drama with the in-laws. I'm sorry, man. Yep. So do you think it's the extra sugar that I'm eating that is causing fatty liver? You know what? I'm going to give him a bell.

Give thyself. Because a lot of times people don't think about carbohydrates when it comes to their liver. But we're going to talk about that in a second. I don't know. I got to call my doctor and they told me to call the doctor and stop the percocet and change it to whatever the medication that's in percocet without the Tylenolone. Oxycodone. Okay.

That'd be the correct thing to do in that situation. So they told them to stop taking percocet because that's oxycodone. codone and acetaminophen or Tylenol. Tylenol just stresses the liver. Okay. And, you know, too much Tylenol can actually kill your liver. So that's why they did that. So they took out the Tylenol part and just gave him the oxycodone.

But now the question is, why does he have elevated liver enzymes? So Tacey, you and I both have had episodes of transient liver enzymes. enzymes elevated. I'm pretty sure I'm going to have elevated liver enzymes at the end of this week when I get my blood work done. Well, mine was caused by medication. Mine will be caused by one. Okay. Well, right. So there's lots of different things. The liver only has really one or two ways to react to stress, and that's by cells dying and them releasing enzymes. That's, they're that were inside the cell body that now are leaching out into the bloodstream and can be detected. So there are a bunch of things that can cost.

It's about 30% of the population has non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. And it just, it's genetic very often, but it can be associated with high carbohydrate intake. So high carbohydrate intake causes increased insulin levels, and you end up with a liver that's packed full of glycogen, you know, storage, and you can end up getting fatty infiltration in the liver because the body's got nowhere else to store this stuff. Associated with like insulin resistance as well? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So he's been on low carb, ketogenic diet.

But most of the time, if I have somebody on who has fatty liver, I'll try them on a lower carbohydrate diet. And a lot of times they can turn it around or arrest its development. But then, you know, he's been in mourning, so he's been eating lots of carbohydrates and stuff, and his liver may be reacting that way. There's also a thing called refeating phenomenon where you have someone that was starving. and then you refeed them and they can have liver damage as well. So other common causes, alcoholic liver disease, medication associated liver injury, statins and drugs like that.

And that's what I had, viral hepatitis. And then there is another syndrome called hemachromatosis. Very rarely, you'll get someone with a genetic thing called alpha-1 antitripsin deficiency. So the medical students and the residents out there, if you have someone with elevators, liver enzymes, always ask them, did they have somebody in their family that had emphysema at a young age or something like that? Because they may be a carrier for this alpha-1 antitripsin deficiency. Around here, if I test word about one time out of ten, I'll pick it up. Wow.

And it's good for them to know. Yep. You know, and then there's other stuff that can cause it. So what they need to do is they do, excuse me, a fasting lipid profile, glucose. serum, iron, and ferretin to look for hemachromatosis, total iron binding capacity, and then hepatitis viral panel. If all those results are normal, then lifestyle modification should be attempted. And you stay off the Tylenol, stay off the alcohol, go easy on the carbohydrates, and see how things go.

Do all those things. Yeah. Well, and then they can do other stuff. They can do a liver ultrasound. They can measure for alpha-1 antitrips and stuff like that. So, okay. So there is a workup for it. The first thing you do, though, when you get an abnormal test, and this is just general medicine, is repeat it.

Sure. Because if you get a surprising answer, if you repeat it, it may do a thing called regression to the mean. In other words, the second time that you do the test, it may actually be normal because those were just flukes. Got you. Okay. All right.

Well, this is a good one. Tacey, you'll like this one. Hi, Cuthers, Evan from Michigan. Hey. I remember when I was in biomedical engineering school where you did a study about using halioronic acid to replace the nucleus pulposis in herniated vertebral discs.

Yeah. He's talking about injecting herniated discs in the back with this stuff called hyaluronic acid, which would be used for other things. And it's a ubiquitous molecule under the skin. It makes skin supple and stuff like that and does all kinds of things. They also use a filler. Not nearly as neat is the newest use I've heard for it.

Correct. No enlargement. Correct. Just thought to have something right up your guy's alley. Take a look into it. Yeah, absolutely. So I'm looking at an article. in the annals of medicine and surgery,

2023, and the title is efficacy and complications of hyaluronic acid for penile augmentation, a systematic review and meta-analysis. So long-time listeners to the show know that a meta-analysis where you take a bunch of studies and you mush them all together and then they need to, you know, like dissolves like.

So they got to be similar studies. and then you can tease out more detailed statistics out of that because you've got bigger numbers. Well, anyway, they had 283 research subjects, and they did penile girth enhancement, and they found significant results compared to the placebo group, but there was no difference in the level of satisfaction with penile appearance four weeks after penile augmentation in the hyaluronic acid grew. And now, hyaluronic acid was significantly superior in sexual satisfaction, 12 weeks post-penile augmentation, with an insanely significant p-value of 0.0004.

So it means four times out of 10,000, this could be a random, event, you know, that this would have happened by chance. No difference in the incidence of pain versus placebo. And so anyway, their conclusion was differences in the efficacy of penile augmentation, superiority of hyluronic acid and increasing penile diameter and post-augmentation sexual satisfaction compared to this other stuff called polylactic acid. I don't want anybody injecting polylactic acid into my slong. Now, what they're doing, though, they can't make the length bigger, but they can make the girth, girthier.

And there are some guys who are taking this stuff and just, you know, doing circumferential ridges to sort of make like a French tickler out of their penile shaft. And, you know, so anyway, so it is a thing. And you can get some doctors to do that to you. I'm not sure it's worth the amount of the effect that they got, but, you know, maybe. No, but, you know, I've never heard of them doing those interritorial disc injections. Right. Well, they studied it.

Yeah. Actually, I'm not sure if anybody's actually doing that. No, I've never seen it or heard of it, but it said, I was reading some articles right then. They said there is some benefit to it. Sure. And some small studies. Yeah, hyloric acid is very well tolerated. The body does not, you know, make an inflammatory response.

That'd be a great other option to treat back pain for sure. Yeah, yeah. All right. Good deal. Cool stuff. Excellent question. Good question. Yeah, I had a question about my testicles, I guess.

Okay. Excellent. Masturbating. It's pretty off the flow of my email, I guess, so that I don't make a mess, I guess. And I wanted to see what the after effects or physical effects. physical problems I might have when I do that, but I do that a lot. So, thanks. Yeah, so he's squeezing to induce retrograde ejection.

I missed that part of it. So what he's doing is, and this is not an completely uncommon procedure, I've heard, and other people have called about this, too, so they're jacking it, jacking it, jacking it, You know, and then when it's time to complete the, you know, the session, they put their thumb over their urethral meatus, aka. Cockhole. Thank you very good, Dr. Scott. Give thyself a penny. Suck, yeah. And then through fluid dynamics, which fluids will go to the path of least resistance, the ejaculate will actually go back,

retrograde into the bladder. So a lot of people will do the sort of squeeze method to delay ejaculation, but when you actually do it, it's inducing retrograde ejaculation, as I said. I'm not aware that there are long-term effects to doing this other than you are sort of loosening up that sphincter. It's meant to not allow things to leak through. It prevents a barrier so that the path of least resistance is back out through the urethral meatus. So I'll have to do some research on that.

I thought I had an article on it, but this is actually about premature ejaculation rather than, here we go. Are there any harmful effects to the stop-squeeze method? And I don't have anything really interesting. A lot of people think it's uncomfortable, and the pleasure will be diminished, but this guy isn't saying that. So these are people, this is Quora. People on there just spout off. They don't know what the hell they're talking about. So I'll do some research to see if there's any permanent damage being done to that,

but I really can't imagine that there's much. I can't even because it's not like you're passing that much fluid anyway. Correct. And that sphincter only closes down just enough to make sure that the path of least resistance is through the urethromeatus, which has very low resistance because it's wide open. So I feel like he probably doesn't take that much to overcome it. but there is something about feeling that sort of great emptying, you know, people who have retrograde ejaculation because of medications or they've had prostate surgery or whatever will tell you that they have the orgasm, but nothing comes out, and that seems strange. They feel somewhat lacking. So I would wonder, you know, what's the problem?

Just have tissues. And some medications can cause their retrogate. But why not just have tissues there and just jerk off into a tissue? Yeah. Just clean it up. I don't understand. Right. Men are funny about cleaning things.

Oh, my. Anyway. All right. Oh, my. All right, my friend. Let's see. How about this one? This is a little different question.

Dr. Steve, I've got a quick question about rheumatoid nodule. Okay. I've had them taken out about four times. times, and each time that I have them removed, they grow back bigger. Sure. I was just wondering if you've had any kind of answers on that. Thank you so much. Bye.

Yeah, absolutely. If they truly are rheumatoid nodules, and Tacey, your mom knows a little bit about this. Yeah. They're firm. They're skin colored, and they appear under the skin in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. And they are the number one manifestation of skin complications. from rheumatoid arthritis, they usually found on pressure points, like elbows, heels,

fingers, knees, sure. Yeah. And they can be tiny or they can be as big as a golf ball. And those are the ones that sometimes you have to remove. They can, you know, they don't always require treatment, and I usually recommend people don't remove them because you can cause more problems than it. But if they're big, goobery things and you can't put your elbow down. I guess you've got to do something. So, but the treatment for rheumatoid nodules is to

treat the rheumatoid arthritis. So disease modifying antiromatic drugs. So when we say disease modifying, those are ones that actually change the course of the disease. For example, ibuprofen can be given for rheumatoid arthritis and it helps with the pain, but they still end up with the damaged joints and all that stuff. So there are disease modifying. anti-rematic drugs. The early ones were things like gold and metatrexate, and now they have the biologicals that have their own unique downsides, but are miracle drugs for a lot of people who have rheumatoid arthritis. So injections of corticosteroids will sometimes shrink them. And then again, if you do surgery, they're most likely going to come back. Right. So all right. So there you go.

Oh, and by the way, if you have rheumatoid nodules and you have a chest x-ray and they go, oh, gosh, you've got a, you know, this place in your lung. It may be a rheumatoid nodule. You can get them in your lungs, rarely, uncommonly, but not unheard of. So, all right. To see, that question, sometimes I feel like I have to urinate and I don't have to urge to you. urinate, so I have to, like, force it out. It's a very painful problem, but I'm starting what could be the cause of that. Thanks, Dr. Steve.

You want to take it, Dr. Stey? The first thing I'd say, check your prostate. Okay. Yeah. If you, if you, you know, that's one of the questions we ask people, if, if you start having changes in urination, you feel like you need to go and you can't go, or you're trying to, you have to force it to go. Sometimes the prostate will swell up a little bit and just a little bit of swelling in your bladder. You, you wind of figuring up the muscles in your bladder because trying to force urine through. So check your prostate first.

Yeah. That's what I would do. Yeah, I would do that for sure. Could have a, if he's young, it could just have a prostate infection. Sure. Could be inflammation of the urethra, which could be, you know, it's not impossible in STD or something weird like, you know, there's urea plasma is a strange sort of not virus, not bacteria that can infect the urinary tract and cause a feeling of urinary urgency. So the question is, when you feel that as your bladder full, what they can do is they can do an ultrasound. Oh, let's say, ultrasound first.

Yeah, no, so what they do is they have you, they do an ultrasound, they have you piss, and then ultrasound again to see what your post-void residual is. Now, if it's normal and you still feel the need to piss, it's not your prostate. and that or, well, it's not prostate enlargement that's causing the problem, you know, blocking it off. If it's not a mechanical problem, it's an inflammatory problem. And the other thing is, if it's just every once in a while, you know, we've talked about people who have that sort of burning urgency after they have intercourse and then they urinate and it causes spasm of the urethra. So what I'm going to recommend that he does on top of everything else that we've talked about, obviously get checked, is when he has that feeling, take his giant member. and give him the benefit of the doubt, and take his giant member

and dip it in a cup or bowl of warm water, not hot, warm, but warm to the touch. And every single person who's ever called here that has the problem of urethral spasm has, when I've given them that advice, they have 100% of the time call back and say that fixed it. And I discovered that when I was much younger just because I, you know,

You know, I would beat off with a full bladder or whatever is stupid. Don't do that. And then try to pee afterward, and I would get this horrible sort of burning, urgency feeling in the urethra. And just out of desperation, I dipped my junk in a glass of warm water. And then, you know, handed it back to my girlfriend. Here's your drink. Oh, my God. I didn't.

Come on. And then, but it went away. You know, immediately, like magic. So. Unbelievable. Not dissimilar to Dr. Scott's yellow mustard for GERD. You know, it seems unlikely, but yet it works. A wonderful way.

All right. Hello, Dr. Steve. Hello. Last week you spoke of a friend of the show, Lady Die. Yes. Like a prominent brain damage from drinking alcohol. Correct. And specifically the cause seemed to be the loss of a vitamin called thiamen.

Correct. When you drink alcohol year after year. So my question is, why don't we just add thiamond in the beer? This is such a great question. Wow. We talked about that back in the day. We had a lot of winos that were having Wernicke-Korsikov syndrome, which is a, And there's, you know, there's Wernicke's syndrome and Korsakov's dementia, but we'd just call it one sort of spectrum of disease, Wernicke Korsikov.

It's basically brain damage caused by thiamen deficiency. So when people come into the hospital, we will give them thiamen and, you know, in the hopes that we could turn some of this around. And the original hypothesis was, well, alcoholics aren't, or people with alcohol addiction. are not eating properly. You know, they're malnourished. But it turns out that they also can't absorb thiamine. So there's two reasons why we can't put thiamine in cheap wine and beer and stuff like that is because, number one, and this is what I was told 30 years ago,

the federal government won't allow it because then you could market it as saying it was, quote, unquote, good for you. It would have a differential. manage, even though it would save lives, God forbid that some company could put thyaman in there and say, well, ours is quote unquote better for you, you know what I mean? And then number two, that people really need intravenous thiamine, if they get really bad, because the alcohol syndrome causes their body to be unable to absorb thiamen. Gotcha. Okay?

Pretty interesting question. but the political question is the one that pisses me off. Yep, yep. Now, I saw Dang Lizard. You want to read his super chat? Let's see. Dang Lizard, thanks for the five euros. Go ahead, Scott.

Go ahead and read it because it's apropos. Can old people not hold their farts or do they just not care anymore? I say I'm looking forward to not caring anymore. There you go. Fair enough. Dang lizard. Yeah, that bang lizard. I love it.

He's from Germany. Okay. It's one of our European listeners. But so I, yes, you always hear this term, old fart. I don't know if you have that in German, German language, but we have these old guys walking around with their hats and stuff. You got, look at that old fart. Well, that's where that comes from, right?

Oh, how far. And there is some decreased tone in the sphincter for sure. Yep. And maybe because of aging and changes in their diet, they may be passing more phletus. Or they just can't hear it when they do it, like the lady or the guy in the joke. But, yeah, it does seem to be a true phenomenon. I mean, cliches come from somewhere. Yep, yep.

And, yeah, old farts. I love it. Thank you, dang lizard. Yep. And it could just be, they don't care. I know my partner from England, just didn't care. I'd be walking behind him in the hallway in our office, and he'd just be passing with these large voluminous fletus.

It wasn't like he was trying to hide it in any way. Alter fuse. I think his thing was just, why hold it in? It's bad for you. Yep. All right. You got any other questions from the fluid family, Dr. Scott? Not yet.

No. Okay. All right. Well, let's answer some other questions. Okay. I think we answered this one or we had a story about it, but it's a good one to read. Hey, guys, how we usually move these P-FOS and T-FOS and B-T-A, all these little micro-toxins from our body? It gets in our stream.

Yep. It builds up somewhere, maybe clack. I've heard distilled water is helpful. Maybe homeopathy, maybe supplements, all these maybe. But we, as a nation, we like science and like to rely on facts. And that is a challenge in itself. Yep, agreed. So this is a great question.

We did have a story on this. And so I'm just going to answer it with the answer we had then is, you know, these perflual alky. substances or P-F-FAS, they're synthetic chemicals, they're resistant to grease, water, heat, and oil, they're forever chemicals, they're man-made, they don't break down easily, and they end up in our ecosystem, and then they end up in our bodies. And by the way, did you see the thing where they biopsied a bunch of penises? I saw penis biopsies, and there was micoplastic. Plastics. I said, I have macroplastics in my piece. I don't know about you guys.

But anyway, and then somebody asked me, how did they find that? It's like, well, they were chopping up penises. It's the only way they could do it. Slide studies on post-mortem studies on penises, I guess. Had to be on, on, yeah, post-mortem. Exactly. Very good, Dr. Scott. So anyway, back to the Phaas. avoiding them is difficult because they're in our environment but you can eliminate them from your system

if you've been exposed to high levels of these things or you can get tested and if you have high levels of them there's a drug called colostyramine. Colostyramine is not an active drug it's a resin that goes through your system and it adsorbs molecules onto its surface. And one of the things that it will absorb with high affinity are these Phaas.

And once they are adsorbed onto the surface of this resin, you just shit it out. And they are no longer in your system. And after, I can't remember, it was six to 12 weeks, 60% decline. So it was a half-life of around, I can't remember, six weeks, I think. I'd have to look that study back up again. But that means that if you go three half-lives, you've got almost all of it gone. So, you know, you decrease by 50% after six weeks, and then 25% would be remaining after another six weeks, then 12.5. After that, you know, if it's 50% each time.

So, colystyramine is a real step forward, and that's an off-the-shelf drug. We've had it forever, and we used to use it for cholesterol. We don't use it anymore. Yes. Pretty inexpensive, too, isn't it? Yes. Yeah, that's what I thought, yeah. It's very inexpensive.

We use it for post-colysisctomy syndrome, people who have diarrhea after having their gallbladder removed, stuff like that. So check that out. All right, Dr. Scott, before we get out of here, you have anything from the fluid family? Good old goody-to-shoes wants to know if. peeing after sex really does help clean out the pipes. That's a great question. I don't recommend it.

Now, for women, if they can void after sex, because their urethras are so small, you know, there's a very short course between the outside world and the bladder. If they can void their bladder afterward, they are less likely to develop a urinary tract infection. I wonder if women who have coital incontinence, which, by the way, I'm going to be, like I said, I'm going to be covering in my next normal world piece because there is female ejaculation and there is coital incontinence where some women develop a large amount of almost pure water in their bladder during sexual stimulation that will leak out and sometimes gush out during intercourse, I wonder if they're less likely to develop. up urinary tract infections. And there may be an actual evolutionary advantage to that type of squirting, you know. So interesting. But yeah, if you can void your bladder afterward now for guys, you know, the urethra is longer than the urethra of a female. And there's not a whole lot of advantage to cleaning out the pipes. And as a matter of fact, for me anyway, it causes a

irritation, I don't know why, but it causes an irritation in the urethra that requires me to dip my junk in warm water, as we already mentioned. But yeah, there's not a whole lot of advantage to doing that for guys. As a matter of fact, if you orgasm on a full bladder, it's not as pleasurable as if you orgasm on an empty bladder. And that's been demonstrated. All right. Live wean.

Thank you for the $2. Thank you, sir. Thanks, y'all three fluid family chat, Myrtle Manus, and Cletus. Oh, Cletus. Oh, Claytis. Well, he works for Travis Tritt, don't you know? So, good Lord. And Cornediff, good Lord, Cornediff.

Thank you for the $9.99 super chat, my friend. Felt a tiny bump in my beard yesterday. Thought I had an ingrown hair, but what I ended up pulling out looked like a grain of rice. What the shit was that? Sounds like a grain of rice. Yeah, it probably was a blocked follicle, or he may have had an epidermal inclusion cyst or some sort of cyst on the skin. And what happens, the skin only has a few ways to respond to inflammation. And if you have skin growing under the skin, it's going to just form a cyst.

And sometimes if you're lucky, it'll be very, the, the, the, the, the, really. roof of it will be very thin. You can just pop it out. But yeah, it was either an inflamed, an enlarged follicle that you pulled out, or just a little cyst. All right. If you have pus that stays under the

skin long enough, it'll solidify as well. But if you just noticed it, it shouldn't be that because you would have noticed it before. You would have had a zip there that'd be persistent for a while. Okay. All right. Thank you, Corny.

Cornediff, again, is from, I don't know, I don't want to docks him, but he's not too far from here, and we need to get him in the studio, and my understanding is he's a decent guitarist. Oh, wow. So it might be fun to have him in. We'll play some tunes. All right. Cool.

All right, my friends. I have nothing else. Do you have anything else? Wrap it up, baby. All right, let's wrap it up. Thanks, always go to Dr. Scott. Thanks, Tacey. Thanks to everyone who's made this show happen over the years.

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