Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 598 = Mountain Oyster Atrophy

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

Dr Steve, Dr Scott, and Tacie discuss: DVT SVT motorcycles and thrombi memory diabetes and dementia somogyi effect half life of psilocybin smelling smoke (phantosmia) HRT and testicle atrophy Summary from the AI (HAHA): Speakers discussed the Fluid community's generosity, with viewers gifting memberships and super chats. They reminisced about the positive, fun atmosphere at the recent Hackamania event, where podcasters who mock others off-air were actually very friendly and welcoming. The speakers also mentioned upcoming events like DabbleCon, where one will be the announcer for the Dabby Awards When it came to addressing viewer questions, there was some back-and-forth, but they ultimately provided advice about tapering off gabapentin for a herniated cervical disc. The speakers discuss the different grades of spinal disc herniations and the various treatment options. For mild herniations, they suggest trying epidurals, gentle stretching, and neck exercises However, for severe herniations, they note that surgical intervention may be necessary. The speakers also address a question about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare prion disease that can sometimes be transmitted through medical procedures, but is extremely uncommon. They reassure the listener that the risk of contracting CJD from their father's condition is very low The speakers discuss the potential risks of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare and fatal prion disease. They explain that while CJD can sometimes occur sporadically or be inherited, it is unlikely to be spread through casual contact. The son is concerned about being tested, but the speakers advise that a genetic test is available if desired They also touch on the topic of sweating after exercise, noting that the body needs to dissipate the heat generated during physical activity. The speakers discuss the importance of sweating as a way to cool the body and regulate temperature. They also engage in some lighthearted banter, making references to their podcast and upcoming guests The speakers encourage listeners to take care of their health, such as checking for lumps, quitting smoking, and exercising regularly. Overall, the discussion provides practical advice while maintaining an entertaining and engaging tone. 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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Hello. And Stacey. So, this is a show for people who would never... Hey, hello, Stacey. For people who had never listened to a medical show on the radio or the internet. If you have a question, you're embarrassed to take to your regular medical provider. If you can't find an answer anywhere else, give us a call 347-7-66-4-3-23. That's 347.

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working. Okay, good. And so I'm going to start populating it with more stuff. And so we don't, we're not an Amazon affiliate anymore. We are now a Walmart affiliate. But thank you, Walmart. They're a lot less stuffy and dickwadish a lot about their affiliate program than Amazon is. It was just unbelievable.

You know, they're just, you're doing it. Didn't do anything different. For 15 years, somebody asked me, how can I, get this book. And so I went to the website and it, when you are an affiliate, if you take a link, you can tell it to do an affiliate link. Well, I don't know if I did it on purpose or if I just clicked the button by accident, but I sent it to them.

They bought the book that way. And the next day, Amazon said, we can't tell where your links are coming from, where your referrals are coming from. So you are done. And they kept our money, too. What? But then they effed up and they paid us another two months. So we finally got our money back.

So I'm not as pissed about that because they told me any money that we owe you, we're not going to pay you. Wow. I know some dicks that work at Amazon. Well, yeah, I know. Well, but I can't live without Amazon either. Shout out. Yeah, shout out to the dicks today.

I can't live without it, you know? Yeah. I mean, we literally cannot live without. without it. Yeah. Although, I'm going to say this. And we were, Tacey and her friends were at the pool, and they wanted pool noodles. And I didn't, and I'd had a drink or two.

And I don't drink that much anymore. So, you know, I was, I was not fit to drive. Yeah, but it was just a nice day. It was the first nice day. And, you know, it was hard not to just have a couple of beers. But so I got on my, a Walmart app. And I said, please, you know, click, click, click, click, deliver these now.

And within 30 minutes, there was somebody coming to the door with these stupid pool noodles. Now, that was pretty cool. That was pretty cool. Okay. Expensive to do that, by the way. It was a treat. But it was a treat, yeah. And I got one of them, hey, Scott, you'll like this because you competed for her affection.

One of them was called the Big Joe. Oh, my God. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go back and listen to. who episode 100 prepared to be disappointed where we did a Big Joe dating game. And it was like,

what kind of foundation do you have on your trailer? She did not choose me. Yeah, that's the hilarious thing. She chose Magic Mike, who his claim to fame on this show was that he took such a horrific shit in the person's room or house

that he was working and that it flooded the basement that they had just finished free forever. wishing, and they had to do it all over again. No, she's not ready. She has to permit him. Yeah, I just get queasy with poop jokes. But it was, oh, okay, well, you'll like this. They had all these champagne glasses out and wine glasses and all the shit water.

Just filled them. Filled them up. It's awful. Yep. And then we were drinking out of those same glasses later at a party. No, you weren't. No, well, they cleaned up. I mean, they wiped them.

That is a throw. Wives them out. What do you got a dishwasher for? Paper towels. They were fine. So, anyway. Beautiful. Yay.

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All right, PA, Lydia. So everyone really enjoyed your erotic massage story from last time. It was brutal. It's not so erotic for me. I know. I know. I like everybody enjoyed it. It's erotic for somebody.

Everybody else enjoyed it. No, you, I mean, you were basically assaulted. So that's not, that part's not. We'll just bury that part. There is. Yeah, we're burying the lead with that. But anyway, yeah, so you were a big hit. So thank you for coming back.

Sure. And you're going to be here more often, I hear. Yeah, not as much travel, hopefully. Yeah, that's exciting. Going down to one job. Okay. That's awesome. Cool.

And if you can get just a little bit closer to the microphone, that would be fantastic. Thank you. We're working on PA Liddy's mic technique, no problem. And Stacey, what's up with you, Matt? Passing through. Yeah, passing through. Good to see. You came in on your bike.

Yep. Came through on the newer Harley that I've got, so riding up to New York. From Knoxville, Tennessee. Oh, you were in Knoxville? Yep. It lives in Knoxville. I work out of Louisiana, but what am I going to say, Louisiana, 11 miles of a straight road and an alligator.

Right, right, right. So I'll leave them up here in East Tennessee where the mountains are. Okay. Got a meeting in New York on Monday, meet the new boss. And you're going to ride a motorcycle all the way up there? Well, I don't know if I like this bike or not. Okay. It's like, okay, if I were to give you a new gun or a new bass guitar or anything else,

you're not just going to instantly love it. Right, right, right. And so I bought this bike, I threw it in the storage unit with the other bikes, and now I've got a little bit of time, so I'm going to take a few days and just enjoy it. Okay. see if I like it. I know nobody listening to this gives a shit about any of this, but I am very curious. What's to love or what's not to love?

Open freedom. I go where I want to go. No, I'm like. On the bike, in the wind. You know, I listen to what I'm, it's just independence. No, I know. But you said, you don't know if you love this bike yet. Right.

So what's to love about it? What's to love about a new bass guitar? Okay. I hear it. I mean, I can answer. answered that. You're answering my question with a question, but what's the difference between one bike and another, I guess, if they're the same, you know, engine size? Horsepower, the performance of it. Like, I've got two which are just about alike.

Yeah. But this one I've got right now feels like it needs another gear in it because the engine's not as good as the other engine. But it's more comfortable. Yeah. It's got a better stereo system on it. It's got a better cruise control system. It's actually a what's called a ultra-limited, and it's a Shrinder's edition. Like, you see the performance bikes of the Shrinders at Christmas Priests. It's also a police-based bike.

Okay. But it's had on extra, you know, the seat actually has airbags in it for better suspension in it. Okay. Things such as, I'm trying to see if I like it. It's all the shit that actually doesn't matter when it comes to a bike. It makes it comfortable for it. Right. And then if I don't like it, I'll sell it.

Yeah. Well, there you go. I just, I've never, I mean, I had a mountain bike, you know, a rough road bike when I was. 17, and there were a lot of – you know, I grew up in the mountains in North Carolina. I had four miles of dirt road going to my house, so we had all kinds of places I could take that bike. It wasn't roadworthy, but nobody gave a shit. I was on the highway anyway in my area because, I mean, it was so rural. But they – I cannot imagine sitting on that thing for what is it going to take you to get up for 12 hours?

Ten hours. Ten hours. I'm going to make it halfway tonight. I've got a half a million Hilton points. I'm going to stop and get a Hilton. See what the weather looks like. And it's not a big rush. I don't know if I could do five hours. I'm just not a biker. This one is this one you can. I mean, like I said, it's got airback suspensions in the seat. Yeah. You know, it's got lumbar support in it. I've got cruise control. I've got 3,500 songs loaded on it plus like five books on tape. Is there a lot? Okay. That's that's pretty cool, actually. Is there, um, Is there any association with motorcycle riding and deep venous thrombosis? Anybody know?

I don't know. I haven't seen a motorcyclist in clinic. I've never seen one. I would say no because the gas tank's not big enough to go far enough to have DVTs. Oh, that might be something. It says here, motorcyclists may be at risk for deep venous thrombosis and adema if they ride in the same position for long periods of time. I know if I don't ride for like two or three months because of work and I come up. If I go hit the Blue Ridge Parkway, my thighs, my hips and all that will just kill me

because I'm out of practice from my weight balance ratio and throw it in the curves. And I'll router my, you know, my thighs almost clamping around the gas tank and everything. Yeah. So let's talk about what I, why don't you talk about what a DVT is while I'm researching this, PA, Lydia? Yeah, so that is a clot in a larger vein. So it's the deep vein of system. Right. We don't care about clots in the...

Superficial plots that you can just see and that are painful sometimes. So why do we care about a clot in a vein? So we talk about the clots and the deep veins because those clots can break loose and travel to vital structures in your lungs and cause a pulmonary embolism, which could be fatal. That's correct. So the sort of classic presentation, this is someone has swelling in their leg pain. in their leg and they've been on a plane or, you know, it don't have to. If they have cancer, they have increased risk of coagulation anyway. Recent surgeries.

Yes. And then, or, you know, just prolonged periods of immobility. And there's every once in a while you hear about somebody on an airplane that's going from New York to Los Angeles or one of those transatlantic or even trans-Pacific ones where they'll have a pulmonary embolism or a deep venous thrombosis afterward. And so the thing, if it cuts loose, it's just basically a fibrous bullet that goes up the leg and then up through the thing called the Superior Vena Kava and then into the right side of the heart. Now, the right side of the heart pumps used blood into the lungs through the pulmonary artery because artery just doesn't mean fresh blood. It just means pumping away from the heart.

And then those things can lodge in the heart. And if you get a big enough one, it can kill you within a couple of minutes because now you cannot, the lungs become nonfunctional. They can't transmit oxygen from the outside to the inside. And that's at these giant saddle embly, these big giant ones. Did you see that picture of that guy that puked up a? I did. So this is a completely different thing. This guy had bleeding into his long.

Okay. And it clotted, and he coughed up a, basically a mold of his bronchial tree. Oh, shit. I thought it was bullshit. Beautiful. When I, right, it was gorgeous. And first off, how did that just not break into pieces when he coughed it up? And how did he coughed that up?

I mean, can you imagine? How big was, I mean, about the size of his long. The entire. Yeah. Fibron. Oh, I thought you've thought you've been just. a little part of his bronchial tree. You're talking the whole thing.

Yeah, the whole thing. And when somebody sent it to me, I said, that's got to be bullshit. It's got to be bullshit. And I looked it up. It was from, like, JAMA, Journal of American Medical Association or New England Journal of Medicine or something. That's crazy. I've got a great, I didn't think that was possible.

Got a great quick question. How do, Donna's asking, how do you treat superficial clot? Yeah. Oh, well, go ahead. Go ahead, PA, lady. Sure, so, the clot master. Yes, a clot master. Erotically said that.

We call her clotting. Well, first you lay down and they slide down your. So there's a little clotina. Clotana stars, don't you know, Chase it again. So the body will typically self-resolve them, but they can be painful. They can sometimes cause a lot of inflammation. So redness and swelling and pain. So the mainstay of treatment is warm compresses.

Correct. You can't. There is some evidence that you could do like a low-dose aspirin. You can have inseds, but that won't really. treat the clot itself, it will just self-resolve over time. So warm compresses is the mainstay. What about like a gentle, kind of lymphatic

drainage massage kind of thing? Okay. I mean, I don't know. Yeah, if they're small. Yeah, if they're superficial. It might make it feel better. A DVD, no. Now, some of the superficial clots are problematic. So sometimes you do have to do a short course of anticoagulation

if they're not resolving. And they can also be a representative of an underlying condition. So, that's It's called superficial or wandering thromboflobitis where you have one superficial claw in one place. Then another one pops up in another. That's usually indicative of some underlying process. How does that relate to like varicose veins? You would be.

Well, so varicose veins are torturous, meaning they're not a straight, yeah, twisty and turny just because of gravity and lack of musculature support around the vein. And so you can get pooling of blood in those, which can sometimes thrombot. I've never seen a varicose vein through a boast, though. I think they're big enough. You know, the veins and the leg, particularly have valves in them. Right. And when you constrict your muscles, blood flows up, but it can't flow backward for the, for the electronics people up there. It's like a diode.

It's a choke veil. Or that. Yep. Or like on a lock. Right. You know, the boat's going. Yeah. So the blood is always going in one direction.

But over time, because gravity is trying to oppose that flow, you have tension on the wall because you've got, you know, pressure going up and pressure coming down and the pressure going up wins, but that puts a lot of tension on the wall. And if that wall starts to expand, once it expands to the point where the valve no longer is competent, then the blood will rush down into the leg and blow that. vein out and that's what causes a varicose vein and they get a double load on the vessel that's right and then a triple now you're just hoping now you're just hoping that forward pressure will pump that blood up and that's really inefficient so those veins will get big and that's when you see people wearing support hosed and stuff right to help restore that normal pressure and tell them back up and if you know if you notice if you're on your feet all day you work at you know with 7-11 or you're in a factory or you know sometimes us you know we're on our feet all day

sometimes. If you can buy these things and a lot of pharmacies will have them, but if a pharmacy has a durable medical equipment associated with it, or you can just go online to Amazon, get the medium strength support hose. You don't have to get the TED hose, you know, those white ones that just, those are therapeutic for people already have a problem or they're really trying to prevent a serious problem in people who were in mobile. But if those medium strength support hose will apply external compression. When you do that, that helps to oppose that outward tension on the veins, and it may decrease at risk of having varicose veins. In my world, we refer to that as hydrostaticated pressure.

Well, there you go. It's what it is. Correct. It is the same thing. And I've been getting shit from Andy Hines, from A. Heinz media, who's been posting our shorts on TikTok and stuff, that I'm not changing the camera enough. So what we need is a producer in here. I've got to stop, you know, doing all of this by myself. It looks like Rick, right, right. I'm like the great and wonderful eyes.

Yeah, exactly. Ain't no attention to that man behind the monitor. Now, that's literal right now. So when my motorcycle, right, it is. Yeah, you can't see me. When motorcyclists ride in the same position for long periods of time, they are going to be at risk for deep venous thrombosis, if you can't straighten your legs or move your hips, riding in that position for hours on end, and then wearing snug-fitting, you know,

drawers, riding pants, increases the risk as well. So what they just recommend is that every couple of hours you get up and stretch your legs, walk around, and then get back on your bike and go. I actually have highway pegs so I can stretch my legs out. There you go. Let the wind blow up my pants, legs, and everything else. Does that help? Yes.

Get rid of the sweat. Yep. Let the wind blow up my pain. Hear things out naturally. It's a good thing. What if a bug just flies up there? Oh, I've actually got steel guards over my grips and stuff because I've hit a June bug, you know, at 80 miles an hour. Yeah.

It comes up over the fair and I can bust you right in the knuckles. Yeah, I put steel. People don't know what a June bug is. It's a flying beetle, and they saw their whole fucking hard. They have a kite-ness. exterior exoskelyle, which is weird that chyton is the thing that gives beetles their hard shell and other insects and shrimp and lobsters and stuff like that. It also gives structure to mushrooms.

And one of the things that happens with mushrooms is there's so much chitin in there because mushrooms are about 90% water. So to have that structure, they need a purpose. protein in there that's going to really, you know, be light, but hold them up. And when you have something like a lion's mane, for example, and you just eat the mushroom or you grind it up into powder, the chitin can prevent the beneficial molecules from being absorbed. So whenever, just a fun fact for everybody, or a tip from your old pal, Dr. Steve, always if you're going to take mushroom therapeutically, make sure it's extracted. It's got to be mushroom extract.

And from fruiting bodies is best. A lot of the cordyceps that are out there in pills are actually grown in a fermentation. They're just growing the mycelium and the individual hyphae of the cordyceps. And they're not actually planting, you know, planting them on rice. You know, fortified rice and letting them grow. So I'm not sure that's as good, to be honest with you. But they say it still has as much cortisapen as, you know, the fruiting bodies do. I don't know. I sort of like having the fruiting bodies.

But anyway, that's just a little life hack. I hate that term. Life hack. They're not hacks. You're taking supplements. It's not a hack. Can I play off of this for a second? Yes.

Because you said lines main. I've been looking at that for my memory and everything. Yeah. Yeah. So memory is something that I have been scary worried about. Sure. It's 62 and diabetic and everything else. And the only way, how's the best way to associate memory?

Because the only way I can think about it is like a computer. Yeah. To where you have your random access memory, you know, so much ramp or quicker memory, and then you have your hard drive. Right. For some reason, I can remember riding a bicycle, my first time. I'm on a Harley, you know, and everything else. I actually have, for some reason, to show how you, whenever I'm tuning my hair and radio up, I have some memory of being down at Corpus Christi.

Every time, it's just a flash. Association. But, you know, 15 minutes from now, I'm not going to remember what we talked about. Right. I never remember what I talk about on the show. That's why I have to have Scott write it down. For real. Right.

But that's, Ron Bennington said he had the same thing because you're in the moment. Right. if you're doing it right, you're in the moment, then you don't remember a lot of the things that you said. But I don't, no one knows how consciousness works. How can this, what's the average weight of a brain? Somebody looked that up. Five pounds.

Okay, so thank you. All right. I'll give you a bell for that. I don't even know what's true. Give myself a bill. It is. I'll look you do. But, so in this three to five pound thing, depending on the person,

How can it store something like a Rock Mononoff third piano concerto? And that kid, Yuchon Lim, which by the way, just Google or, you know, search for him on YouTube. If you want to see a true prodigy, he blew the Van Clyburn away. People were shitting themselves. This kid was so good. He was 18. Wow. But inside his brain is all 12 list A-2s.

etudes, which are considered the most difficult pieces of music ever written for the piano. Rock Monanoff's third, all this Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, so it's all in there. It doesn't get mixed up. In the middle of Rock Monanoff's third piano concerto, he doesn't start playing, you know, a Chopin etude, for example. How the fuck does that work? Where is that in there? No, that's bizarre. And which is that place in there where I can remember walking.

down the stairs in my parents' house when I was three, and my brother had a haunted house down there for Halloween. And I remember seeing a guy dressed up as a ghost, but what it really was, they were so cheap. It was a guy who had taken a laundry, one of those big, long, clear laundry bag things, whatever it's called, that you get at the, from the laundry matter, the dry cleaner, dry cleaning bag. Oh, okay. And he just put one of those. just put one of those over his head and was walking

around. You could see him through it, but it was dark down there. It was scary, but I was three years old. How funny. I remember shitting in my crib. Stop. And wondering why my mom was mad because I thought I was doing something really cool. And I now, you know, I was nonverbal at the time. Right.

I don't believe it for a second. So the whole memory is nonverbal. It was visual, but I understand why chimps. We were at Bush Gardens one time. And we were watching the chimps, and one of them shit into his hand. And then the other ones came up and it's like, what do you got?

What are you got? And they're all poking at it and stuff. Look, look, look. Look what I made. I made. And that's how I felt. That's my first gift I were created. Yes.

And it made sort of a nice spiral sort of design in the crib. And I couldn't understand why my mom was so pissed. I thought she would think it was cool. Now, that's my adult mind. But that was the sort of a moment. that I had at the time. But how does that store, in this liquid chemical thing that's mostly just fat? Nobody understands.

I've always thought it's a lot like a wormhole kind of when you start going down. Right. And you kind of, all these memories, they start to kind of add up and they pull in and take you down to where you. Right. And that's how they don't mess up those songs. Sure. Some of it's fragments, too, and the brain will recreate the image from the fragments.

That's why people who hear static in their ear. for example, will sometimes their brain will interpret it as music. Well, you know, speak about this, guys. So, and now I lost it. But there was a study done trying to figure out where old memories are stored in there. So they took 12 men and they did functional MRI. So they were doing MRIs of the brain while they were asking them to recall. And they're in real time.

They're in real time. And they can give them an injection that will light. up in places in the brain where it's being used. So go ahead. Yeah. So I was just trying to think. It seems that most old memories over 12 years old were stored in the frontal cortex. Really?

And then that's weird because to me it feels like it's coming from the back of my head. Yeah. And then the activity in the hippocampus and the amygdala reduced when we're calling old memories. Is that right? Which is interesting because when we think about the amygdala like activation or opening, it's usually associated with heightened awareness and heightened anxiety, probably for the moment. So that might make sense why that would be a more short term.

You would have to turn that off to see something from the past. Well, and I was going to say the reason it makes sense if you think it's coming from a back your head, your visual cortex is in the back. So you might, you know, just all this stuff is stored in the back part of your brain. You can kind of see it. Does that why you look up and to the left when you're trying to recall a memory? No. Okay.

And looking up. Do you know the answer to that? Yeah. Well, looking up to the left and looking up to the right, different sides of your brain, you know, as far as the mathematical side or the artistic side. And you can actually, you can actually ask people questions. And if it's a mathematical question, you can watch in their eyes will roll up to one side where if you ask them like to sing a song and they have to think of it, it'll roll to the other side. Really? Yeah, because I remember that from law enforcement, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to know if you're lying to me if you're trying to create something.

Right. Well, that's interesting. You're going to tell me what they, for the most part, what the factual acts are. And if they look up, and you know that they're looking, if you're looking left or are you trying to think of something or are you trying to remember something? Wow. That's a pretty much. I'd like to see a study on that to see how accurate that is. I'll bring a test.

I've actually done that test before, but actually a little test we can do, and we can watch, like, your eyes. We'll just ask you the questions. Okay. Me like, I'll be fun. Yeah, let's do that. That'd be easy. Because ever since I had my little brain event, you know, years ago, that's just been fascinating because, you know, Yeah. There was a book about a guy who couldn't forget anything. Do you ever heard of this guy? It was the mind of a nemonist. And it's a great book. It's also written by the same guy, I believe, that wrote the man who mistook his wife for a hat. Right. Yeah, Oliver Sacks.

Yeah, yeah. So he wrote this. I think you remember things too. I think it was Oliver Sacks that wrote the mind of a neemonist. I'm going to have to look it up now. But the thing about this guy, was he could not forget anything. And they would give him lists of 100 objects. And he would recite him back. And then they would come back years later and say what was on that list. And he was able to recall those. Now, one time, he missed one. And I'm sorry, the mind of a nemonist is a different guy.

It's Jerome Bruner wrote that. But they're in the same sort of. category. So my brain lumped them together. There you go. See that association. But he forgot something. It was a candy cane. And they said, why did you forget the candy cane? And he said, oh, yeah. I was walking past the brick wall. And I had leaned the candy cane up against it. And when I walked past it, it blended into the wall and I didn't see it. So remember where you lifted it and everything else. Yeah, he had to go back. He had to go back. And then he found it in his memory bank.

Isn't that crazy? Yeah. I have been wondering, is that some of this related to, you know, type two diabetes and sugar level? Hmm. So if you have an uncontrolled blood sugar, Dr. Stevie can correct me, but you would be more likely to have, like, microvascular comparison.

You would think, you know, actually, you know, explain how that is. Good, because I'm lost this last year's Easter. That we just threw out some jargon. So, a microvascular disease, just small, tiny blood vessels in the brain that can become affected by high blood pressure. Just like your whole blood sugar. Just like your feet. You know, people with neuropathies and things of the nature, or your eyes, you know.

Type 2 diabetes increases your risk for strokes and heart disease. It also increases your risk of dementia. But what kind of dementia is the question that I'm having? So they did a newly published study. examine this association between the age of onset of diabetes and the development of dementia. And they did a large ongoing cohort study. There was 10,000 people, aged 33 to 55, and 33% were women in London. And data on diabetes, including fasting glucose, was obtained at ages 55, 60, 65, and 70.

and dementia due to any cause was the primary outcome measure. So it could be microvascular, could be multi-infarct dementia, could be frontal, you know, front of temporal dementia or Alzheimer's disease. And they looked at age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol, and other things like that. And what they found was there were 1710 cases of diabetes and 639 cases of dementia. and for every thousand people, the rates of dementia were 8.9 and those without diabetes at age 70. And if they had diabetes, it was 10.0. And then 13.0 for 6 to 10 years of diabetes and 18.3 for more than 10 years. So it did increase their risk.

But I'm going to bet they didn't really talk in here, whether it was multi-inpart dementia. But, you know, the diabetes. Very close enough. You said multi. The multi-infarked dementia is from, you know, little mini-strokes, and it's just ticking off parts of your brain. Now, people with Alzheimer's will tend to march through the stages of dementia. There's seven stages of dementia with six and seven having multiple sub-stages.

And most people will start at stage one and work their way. down to stage seven and nice and easy and it's kind of an inexorable decline, but it's a decline. And it's a smooth curve for the most part. People with multi-infark dementia will have a stepwise decrease. They'll be okay. And all of a sudden, they've got a little memory loss, and then all of a sudden they're eccentric, and then all of a sudden they get lost outside and it happens suddenly. They'll go for long periods being okay, and then boom, they'll have a decline. And when you do an MRI on them, you just see lots of little imparts in there. A little infarct just means, you know, tissue that died because it didn't get blood supply.

Okay. All right. Because this resting glucose thing is just weird. Well, yeah. So you can cure type 2 diabetes often with lifestyle, but not always. Because I've started wearing the glucose monitoring. Yeah. And I hate this thing, just because I don't want to be tracked by everything.

And that's what I feel like. Here we go. I'm an independent redneck hillbilly. Is it one that is continuously reading a report out, or do you have to swipe your phone? I have to swap my phone to it. Okay. Do you, if you, when you do that, can you get a real? Exactly.

The government somehow monitoring his blood sugars. I worry about my insurance. They don't give a shit about you. They, you know, they do monitor whether you wear a CPAP at night and your insurance stops paying for it if you're not. That is true. That is true. So there would be.

You know, it's a valid concern. Not a realistic one, but that. Well, yeah, and if you are a diabetic, you know, the biggest, you're right. Your providers get reimbursed more of your diabetic than if you're not diabetic. Because I'm getting right to go see the endocrinologist first time. Depends on their payment. Scott, that's not always true. Okay, okay, yeah.

But I'm going to go see an endocrinologist in August and finally agreed to go do that. Okay. Because I'm scared of death that it's related to memory and everything else. Just trying to get a great phone. Well, and neuropathy, you know, visual loss people. Visual is starting to. Yes, it fucks up everything. Everything, yeah.

You've lost weight, though. Have you been losing weight? I have. That's good. That will help. I had to quit doing one of the jabby, jabby weight loss things because, hey, I couldn't get it. Then when it became available, I did it whenever.

Some of my gluteide, do you mean? Whatever. Yeah. I had an up a rest before at the same time, so I didn't know which one it was, but when I went back on it, every night, when I start coughing, I start throwing up for about a week until this stuff got out of my system. So I've quit doing that. There is one tersepotide, which in the clinical trials did not have the GI side effects

that semi-glutide have. That's the one that's almost impossible to get, though. It's listed for diabetes. It's Monjaro. So what I've done is to pretty much screw the system. I started eating a salad at night with chicken salad on. top of it or something like that or salmon or instead of McDonald's and everything else. Well, I've started losing weight there.

Let me tell you what I had to do. I got, I was at 200 pounds at one point. I got down to 160. And then, and I maintained that for a long time. I went to the beach one year and I just ate and drank whatever I wanted to. And when I came back, I was 174. Yes, I gained 14 pounds. I was there for 14 days, so I gained a pound a day.

And I'm like, that's no big deal. I'll just get rid of it again. And then I got up to like 186. I said, oh, shit, something's going on because my dad was obese. And my brother is not. And I'm not a big guy, but I was carrying a lot of weight that a lot of more weight than I should. So when I got to 186, I went to this online sort of program that they've got two of them. and they're kind of like reflect your gender.

If you all can figure it out, I'm not going to say the name of them. But they got one for men and one for women. And they put me on because my problem is I can go all day without eating. I can eat a salad for lunch. If I do eat anything, as soon as I get home, all the carbs start going into my mouth. I cannot stop. I can't stop. So what they did was they put me on Naltrexone.

which is an opioid blocker. And what they're trying to do is decrease the pleasure syndrome or the pleasure center in my brain. And so because they use it for alcoholism and you can use it for opioid addiction as well. And so it's kind of interesting. I haven't, I'm still ramping up so I haven't noticed a huge effect yet. But starting Monday, I doubled the dose in the evening and we'll see. Because I was 280 for years. And then they started doing the stabby, stabby in the stomach and everything.

I got down to 235. Yeah. What do you weigh now? 240. Okay. And I'm not done stabby, stabby in probably four or five months. Now, you're tall, though. Yeah.

You're six three. Six three. I would guess six three. I'd be good at the carnival if I'd get fired for my job. The issue with this continuously glucose is, I take scotry. advice you know I don't eat or drink anything four hours before bed yeah it's mostly a salad and you know some type of protein in there with it and I don't very rarely do alcohol my big thing that was just ice water and I'm happy with

that yeah and then I go to bed I'm gonna get up you know four times a milanaut to take a piss yeah but usually about three or four in the morning I'm gonna check my glucose I check when I go to bed it's like on the phone's like 120 to 150. No, I won't. Not until I get a bail. And how many years I've been here? I got one bell.

But I'll check it like at three in the morning and it'll be 350. At three in the morning? How the hell does it double when I'm asleep? I have a question for you. Yeah. No, never mind. Keep playing sound effects.

Never mind the medical stuff. No, no, no. Okay. So Stacey asked, he finally got to a good question, which is, in the middle of the night, he checks his blood sugar, and it's crazy elevated. Now, we know why, and P.A. Lydia's going to answer this question, because she wants a bell. Well, there are two possible reasons.

So, number one would be the Samogi effect. Give thyself a bell. Which is actually a bit rare, and I'm not convinced you have it. So the Samogi effect is in response to a hypoglycemic event. In other words, if your blood sugar goes down because of whatever you're doing to treat it, and then in the middle of the night, you get rebound high blood sugar. It bounces back, and it bounces back higher than that. So the question would be whether your monitor is tracking that you've had a low event, if you can see that.

Do you keep it on all the time? Yeah. You do keep it all the time, okay, even though you're worried that the government is tracking your blood sugar. I can't turn off my phone and I'm always on call. So if you notice that you're having a low event before. it's going high, then one of the things we were taught in school

to recommend was to have a little bit more of a carbic snack before bed. So like a handful of blueberries or... Is it a chel-in-pound? No. See?

Give them an inch. A carb with fat, right? So it's a slower burn. If you combine fat with carbohydrates, you burn them a little bit more slowly. Yeah. So when I'm enjoy. Peanut butter.

A good scoop of peanut butter. Yeah, that would do. Yeah, so the other possibility, which is much more common, is called the Dawn phenomenon, where you have an increase in your hepatic gluconeogenesis. So your liver starts releasing more sugar into the bloodstream during that time, and your tissues are a bit less sensitive to insulin. And if you are not producing as much insulin because of your any pancreatic dysfunction, then you will be more likely to have an elevation sugars in the morning. Yeah. But, you know, normally I think of that as like six in the morning, but he's got a weird schedule. So it could be.

Can I help? Can I help with that? Yeah. That's 3 a.m. is considered the liver time in Chinese medicine. That's when the liver is the most active. It is. It is. So what you'll see is you'll see people wake up at 3 a.m.

Because, you know, their body is stressed. And, you know, sometimes it is associated with hyperalicemis and higher cortisol, all levels, et cetera, so, et etc. But that's a liver time in Chinese medicine. Well, isn't that interesting because the glucose, meaning sugar, neogenesis, meaning new making of, in other words, it's making sugar from the starch that's stored in the liver called glycogen. It does happen at that same time. So that is kind of interesting that they figured that out. Yeah, it's funny. And then the first thing in the morning is the large intestine, time for the colon,

Which we always tell people to take your, you know, if you're trying to have a, you know, regular bowel movements, take your magnesiums and stuff at bad time. And then hopefully first thing in morning, you get up, get moving and have your, you know, normal constitutional first thing in the morning because it's a liver. That's large intestine. And the other thing we probably should be talking about is the hormonal changes in the morning as well. And that probably prompts the dawn phenomenon to some, which is cortisol. And that's why a lot of heart attacks happen at six in the morning as well. cortisol is a stress hormone. Apparently, the brain is preparing the body to wake up and get ready to go,

and it starts secreting this. And doesn't testosterone spike also in the morning? I don't know if that's true. I'm not saying it is. I just don't know if that's why I wake up. Exactly. No, I don't think that's it. I'm just kidding.

I'll look at. That's called a kickstand. Now, we have a bunch of questions. the one we get to some of them here number one thing don't take advice from some asshole on the radio as fascinating as this is um okay i like this one let's do this one real clear oh if we can get to it okay now we're going hello a question about my three lions mane cordyceps My girlfriend is

Good job They're coming tough Excellent We endorse Okay He's talking about a different kind of question So I don't know

So much For her degree And he's concerned That I'm not I think I have a problem what their surgery, so he's a little bit paranoid about it.

And she's wondering if you have to delay her surgery or if it's not the only affected. So wondering, you know, what is the amount of time you should not do mushrooms between doing the mushrooms and a surgery like that? There's online really because every time you ask a question, just there's just respond with You should be doing it. Right, right, right. Correct.

Correct. Hey, thanks, man. And good luck with the surgery. So the elimination half-life for psilocybin is about two hours. So if you take a dose of psilocybin and it is converted to psilocybin, and then it starts to degrade in the system. So two hours, you've got half left. Two hours more, you're going to have, you know, 25% left. Another, by six hours, it's 12.5, et cetera, et cetera. So two months out, you're going to be fine. She's paranoid because she used up all the serotonin in her brain doing the psilocybin,

and that's one of the side effects. She wake up the next day with regret or paranoia or anxiety and stuff like that. So you got anything to add to that, PA, Lydia? No, so then the issue is that she wants to do it again between now and the surgery. We would say at least wait, what, three to five days? Yeah. Well, we can't say even that. Just, you know, I would go into surgery as straight edge as I possibly can.

Absolutely. I have no evidence that psilocybin is a problem with anesthesia. But you know what? Thanks to Timothy Leary, you know, popularizing psilocybin in the day and the government saying, you know, F you're not going to fund any more research for the next 40 years. We don't know. We don't know. Yeah. We don't have enough research on this stuff to tell us. So it's an unknown.

So I wouldn't mess with it. I don't think it would be a problem. But I would just go in straight age as you can. Absolutely. And then, you know, anyway. All right. Okay, just to be safe. Well, we want those boobs to be luscious and perfect and not to have any problems, right?

Okay, here we go. Hey, Dr. Steve. About three or four weeks ago, I started to smelling smoke all the time. It would be in different rooms, in different environments outside. It didn't matter what. I occasionally just smell smoke. Not all the time, but a lot of the time. and uh sometimes sometimes it just comes out out of nowhere uh also this hold on a second okay

sorry no problem i did have covid about i don't know four weeks or four months ago yeah and they did lose a lot of sense of smell but it came back it was fine suddenly i just smell smoke all the time. And it was really weird to this girl I occasionally banged a strawberry baits. And it smells like cigarette smoke to me. What's going on? Do I have a tumor? Am I dying? Let me know how that you? Yeah. So, anybody know the name of this? Hypnagogic hallucination. No. That can be smell. Yeah, no. Miss nausea. Hypnagogic is during the induction of slate, though. Instead of anomias, misnomea. No, it's phantasmia. No, it's phantasmia. Oh, man, I necessarily think of it for making up a news.

And a ghost and osmia meaning smells. They don't know what it is, but it is weird that he lost his sense of smell with COVID. And then after it came back, now it's distorted. So there may be some inflammation in there, which may mean that it's possible that he could reverse this. They mostly don't know. It's tons of conditions, traumatic head injury, upper respiratory tract infections, aging. and then some of the more, you know, sinus infection, and some medications even can do it. But, you know, low thyroid has been associated with it, but also temporal lobe seizures, which I don't think he has.

I think we would know if he had temporal lobe seizures. So those are really interesting seizures, by the way, where people all of a sudden will think that they're in ancient Rome and stuff like that. But, you know, I'm looking at a study from, what is this, from the National Library of Medicine. It just says most often, it's idiopathic, which means the doctor is an idiot and the patient is pathetic. No, it means that we don't know what caused it. And so it's either peripheral or central. And that is difficult for us to determine whether it's in the nose or in the brain. but an ear, nose and throat doctor may be able to figure that out.

So it was a study that about 6% of patients polled who had COVID-19 had developed phantas. Is that right? Does it say the timeline? That's okay. Now I'm in a larger study. It just cited that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got you.

That's very interesting. So I think the two may be related. And if you went to an earnose and throat physician, they may put you on a nasal steroid just to see it. if it calms things down. I do know that there were a couple of pieces of data out there that suggested that if you get COVID and you spray your nose with a nasal steroid, which you can buy over the counter, while you had COVID, you're less likely to lose your sense of smell. I will say, and this is anecdotal, this is just me, that I took that advice both times that

I had COVID, and I never even lost my sense of smell or taste to any degree that I'm aware of. So, all right. See an ear, nose and throat doctor. And let us know what they say. Okay, I'm very interested to hear what they say. All right. Let's do this one. That's a good one.

Hey, man. Hey, man. Doing well first, I guess. But the question is I've been on testosterone replacement therapy for about a year and a half. And I was just wondering how long will the testicles continue to atrophy? So a year and a half in, it's definitely happening. They're way smaller than what they were.

I feel like is there a headroom there? Does it just stop at some point? Yes. Or do they atrophy to potentially nothing? So I guess I will wait to listen closely for a response. Appreciate it. Thanks. Yeah.

Testosterone definitely tells the testicle, hey, bro, we got you. You don't have to work anymore. You can rest and just take it easy. You can retire. And so when it does that, because a testosterone, The testicles are producing testosterone in response to a hormone from the pituitary gland. And when the pituitary senses that there's enough testosterone, it just stops sending that signal. You know, it stops placing orders for testosterone.

And think of it that way, that the testicles produce a product called testosterone, and the pituitary gland is placing order. orders for testosterone. When it gets enough, then it says, okay, we're good for a while, don't send it anymore. And so you get this undulation, then it drops again, and it starts sending the signal. You get this undulation up and down and up and down that's there all the time. So many of our hormones and other systems in our body work this way with this sort of tonic feedback loop. But if you start taking testosterone therapy, The pituitary says, hey, we're good.

We don't need anymore. And so the testicles stop producing and they start to shrink in atrophy. Most of those people no longer produce sperm. So I think it's probably, I don't know how long he's been on this or how much his testicles have shrunk. They will shrink, but they shrink down to, you know, where there's just matrix and then they stop shrinking. But if you don't want to have your testicles shrink and you might want to. continue to be fertile, there's another option. It's called clomophene. And clomophine actually is a drug that stimulates through, sort of indirectly, but the outcome is that it stimulates the testicles to

produce testosterone. So you're- Sounds like a better option. Yeah, you're increasing your own testosterone production in the testicles so they don't shrink. As a matter of fact, I'm guessing they may enlarge a little bit. And if you stop taking it or if you, at any time in there, you'll still have live sperm in your system. So I've got some people that, you know, they have low tea, but they want to still have some kids. Sure.

So they could jerk off into a cup and save some, or they can take chlomaphene and they can just, you know, impregnate somebody the old-fashioned way, the more fun way. all right how does a hormone transport oh through the bloodstream okay yeah it's just seeps into the bloodstream and and you know there's receptors there waiting just for that one thing right it's crazy and there's jillions of them i said there's got to be so many things going through this it's so much shit going on in your body you can't even believe it right just one time go and look at a youtube and google mrna transcription It's the craziest fucking thing you've ever seen.

I'm onboarding with the new company now. Yeah. And I'm going through that transcription and translation and just looking at everything at a DNA to protein level. Our bodies going back millions and millions of years, maybe even a billion years, figured out how to create a set of instructions that are not too dissimilar from punch cards in a computer to make things happen. happen. Or like the jaccard loom, that was one that they could program. You know, one of the first programmable devices in the world was the jacard loom. And they had, you know, little cards with punch things in it and it would make patterns with the loom. So Babbage was making his different differential engine from that, the first mechanical computer. Anyway, it's insane what's going on inside your body and you don't know anything about it. Just grow, how you grow your hair or your fingernails, much less all the other stuff like reproduction and everything else that's going on. All right. Well, anyway, I'm enough. Check your stupid nuts for lumps, quit smoking.

Get off your asses, get some exercise. We'll see you in one week for the next edition of Weird Medicine. Thanks, Lydia. Thanks, God. Thanks, Stacey. You're going to be. Oh, Oh!

Oh! Thank you.