Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 599 - Protect Your Liver (and Your Pen15)

Episode Date: July 11, 2024

[NOTE: SORRY ABOUT THE AUDIO - THE AI DOESN'T WORK - BETTER NEXT WEEK] Dr Steve, Dr Scott, and Tacie discuss: Balanitis Phimosis Priapism Peyronies’ disease ED PENILE CANCER Does grapefruit juice affect clomiphene? Do apples affect serum glucose levels? Holy Basil See the study here Aquagenic urticaria Asthma 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. Hello. Today we're going to talk about penis disorders. Yay. Uh-oh. I feel like we've talked about penis disorders many, many, many times. But since it seems to be the favorite topic of the listeners. You can't talk about it too much.

Now, that could go both ways. that means you should not talk about it too much or it's impossible to talk about it too much. It's like you can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor. It's like, what do I do? Do I put more in or do I not put more in? Anyway, all right, go ahead. So we are going to go over disorders for the 120th time.

Okay, very good. Balinitis. It's swelling redness and infection of the head of the penis. mostly seen in uncircumcised men. Oh, here we go. Now, that's Tacey saying that. The intactivists out there are going to come after me again. Thanks, Tase.

I said it and I meant it. Okay. Hypersensitivity to products, STIs, diabetes, and poor hygiene are the causes. Many of these causes of these disorders are poor hygiene. I was just going to say that. Clean that pecker. There is a common thread in almost all of these. Mm-hmm. Cleanliness.

Treatment. Appropriate antibiotics or antifungals. Good sugar control if you're a diabetic. Circumcision may be suggested if it's severe. Yeah. If it's, right, if they're uncircumcised and they have balinitis, that they can't resolve, which is, you know, it's redness, swelling pain and exudate of the head, the glands of the penis. And, of course, good hygiene can help.

Prevent recurrence Correct Second one Famosis Did I say that right? Yes you did Oh Okay

Well I'm not on that screen Oh I knew it damn it Well she was asking for it That is true I didn't ask for shit That's a tight Now what now Of the penis

I don't remember asking you A goddamn thing That's because I didn't The cause is a birth defect infection, scar tissue, poor hygiene. What is phymosis? You're talking about fimosis again? Yes.

Top foreskin of the penis. Right. That's also known as Sam Roberts' disease. Yes. Right. And it requires immediate medical attention. And that includes gentle stretching over time, steroid ointments, separating the foreskin, or, of course, circumcision. Yay.

That's why I don't get in trouble. Number three. Intactivist. Anyway, go ahead. Paraphymosis. Correct. The foreskin once retracted gets stuck behind the head and cannot return. That's right.

If you ever peel your foreskin back, or if you are like a CNA and you're peeling the foreskin back on someone to insert a foli catheter because they can't do it themselves, make sure you always unretract the foreskin. because if you don't, what's going to happen, the head of the penis is going to sluff off. That's terrible. Now, this can occur after an erection during sexual activity. The treatment is to apply ice or pressure to the glands to reduce swelling, medications to drain the penis, or circumcision in severe cases. It's not treated immediately.

it can lead to serious complications such as gangrene and may require amputation. That's terrible. Okay. Priapism. Did I say that right? No.

Priapism. There you go. Very good. A persistent, awful, often painful erection that does not go away or last more than four hours. In Greek mythology, Priapus is a minor

rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens, and male genitalia. He's marked by his oversized permanent erection. Oh, my. Yeah. Gave rise to the medical term. It can be caused by drug abuse, certain medications, spine disorders, injury to the groin, anesthesia, blood diseases. If not rigid or painful, may require urgent treatment.

Eschemic priapism requires immediate treatment to avoid permanent damage. So you can treat it, but draining blood from the penis, medications to shrink blood vessel, surgery, or blood transfusion. Yeah, there are medications like pseudofed. If you've ever taken pseudofed and tried to have intercourse, you can see why they use it to relieve priapism. Yes. Because it's impossible. And it constricts the arteries going into the penis. so there's less blood flow and it resolves it.

The, yeah, priapism kind of sucks. If you just have an erection that won't go away and, you know, if you bust a nut and it goes away, then you don't have to worry about it. But if you start having pain or it's turning blue, that is a medical emergency. And again, you have to have it taken care of because you don't want your penis to sluff off. Is there a real thing, Salt Peter that was used for? Yeah, Salt Peter was, wasn't that, like, magnesium sulfate or something? Some kind of medicine he used to give, I thought, for Priapism.

Well, we used to, okay, so I went to a boys boarding school for a while in high school. And, okay, it's potassium nitrate. Okay. And that is Salt Peter. And we were informed that they were putting Salt Peter in our food to keep us from being, you know, horny. Overly horny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm looking just to see if there's actually anything, I doubt it.

I think that was just like Spanish fly is a myth. Got on. It has no effect on carnal or, okay, here we go. Okay, you found it. McGill University says there is no effect. effect on carnal urges. There you go. Okay, good.

Moving right along. Thank goodness. Yeah. Peroni's disease. Oh, here we go. Sorry. In folklore, potassium nitrate was once thought to induce impotence, still rumored to be in institutional food as an anaprodisiac.

I didn't, oh, that's a good one. Afrodisiac. Anafrodisiac, right. So if you put the Greek an in front of it means not, so it's not an aphrodisiac. No scientific evidence for such properties. Gotcha. There you go. Who's thinking?

Shoo. So Peronis is bending of the penis during an erection. Correct. So it doesn't require treatment unless a man wants to have penetrative sex. Okay. So I guess I don't have to get it treated. That's right. Tee-hee.

Non-surgical treatment options include injecting medications into the plaque to soften tissue and correct bending. Right. Surgical treatment options include removing the plaque. and placing new tissues or removing or pinching the side tissues of the penis to straighten the penis. Penal implants may be required for achieving or maintaining normal erections. That's a last resort. But, yeah, the new elastase injections are much better than the old verapamil injections. That's actually an enzyme that can help to loosen up or a scar.

because scar tissue is not elastic but the sheath of the penis has a certain amount of elasticity to it and when you have an inelastic scar on one side of the penis because somebody folded their semi-erect penis over during vigorous intercourse and kind of missed and that these things happen then when the when the erection occurs

the normal side will inflate normally, but the other side will not be able to because of the scar. And so it will curve toward the side of the scar. And it can be severe. Sometimes it can be so severe that's painful for the person to get an erection. Yes. Okay. Those are the ones that need to get fixed.

Yuck. All right. What else you got? Erectal dysfunction. Anxiety, stress, depression, certain medications, B.D., heart disease, medication, side effects, alcohol use, surgery, unhealthy habits, lack of exercise. Okay. Smoking.

Smoking. I think, was smoking on there? I think so. It didn't say so. I didn't think so. Okay. Smoking is the number one cause of, the number one reversible cause of erectile dysfunction in men over 40. And that's what made me quit smoking.

The cancer, you know, I was too abstract. Heart disease. had dissected a orders of people in medical school that had smoked and had these big giant chunky plaques. I mean, the a orders were just hard and crunchy. And

that didn't scare me. But as soon as I learned that men over 40, you know, statistic with smoking, it was like, yep, I'm putting these fuckers down. I think I told you, too, the reason I quit chewing Copenhagen, and dipping, you know,

or chewing tobacco and dip in Copenhagen was because it wasn't from the mouth cancer, my teeth falling out, because I was afraid if something happened to my face, I wouldn't get another pretty girl. Oh, well, there you go. That's another thing. You had to stop chewing tobacco. Particularly back then when you got oral cancer, they

would just dissect your face away. They don't do that as much as they did before, but... Yeah, my dentist told me I was starting to get some elephant skin in my mouth. Oh. Elephant and light skin, I thought, well, shit, that's got to be bad. Yeah. It's not good. So I quit. Yeah, leukoplakea, maybe.

may have been, which is, you know, changes of the squamous cells in the mouth. Did I ever tell this story, I don't want to do it now, but I ever tell the story about my E&T professor that was showing us the slides of people with their faces dissected off? Oh, I don't think so. I need to tell that story. No, I don't want to interrupt Tacey's thing. Remind me someday to tell that story because it's, I have to, I have to mask the person's name. because it would be, they're still in practice, but it was one of my colleagues in medical school.

But anyway, go ahead, Tacey. It's a little teaser for the future. Okay, so for erectile dysfunction, you can take oral meds, Kegel exercises, penal implants, penis pumps, and testosterone therapy. Okay, very good. If you have low testosterone. One last thing. Okay. Penal cancer.

Penal cancer. Okay. You're from bad to worse. Not having a cause Can be not having been circumcised HPV infections Smoking, Famosis, unhealthy habits psoriasis treatment medications

Constant exposure to ultraviolet light Being over 50 Yeah so being a nudist is what they're saying I guess so Severe sunburns On the skin can lead to Cancer down the road And that's sensitive skin too.

Yeah, yeah. So if you're running around, if you fall asleep on the beach on a nude beach and you get your junk burnt, it'll heal, but it does put you at risk for cancer down the road. Yep. So treatment is surgery to remove the cancer using wide local excisions, removing only the foreskin using a microscope or laser surgery. In some cases, the entire penis are part of the. the penis may need to be removed along with the lymph glands. Radiation and chemotherapy may also be used. Yeah.

So HPV is the preventable, particularly preventable one. Kids under 12 are recommended that they get the HPV vaccine. It only vaccinates against the cancer-causing strains. And cancer-causing strains, particularly HPV strain 16, can cause head and neck cancer, obviously oral cancer, tonsular cancer, rectal cancer, penile cancer, cervical cancer. And getting the vaccine, the Gardasil vaccine, can prevent that. We're already seeing a decline in abnormal pap smears in girls that had it, you know, when they were 12. And that's not been around for...

No, it's not been around that long. That's one of the things that people were saying is, listen, we don't have long-term data. How do you get long-term data? You've got to have people that try it. And so we're seeing good results from it. Cool. And, yeah, very good. You can still get genital warts, but it'll help prevent the ones that are the really dangerous ones.

So that's cool. Good. All right. That it, Tase. That's it. All right. Nice job, Tasey. Very important, though, always.

Until next time. Very important. Until next time. We'll do equal time. We'll do vaginal disorders next time. There you go. All right. Sounds good

Okay, thank you Number one thing Don't take advice From some asshole on the radio Let me get my clock out All right Okay Actually we're not going to use the clock this time

Because I did a deep dive on a couple of these And I want to go through it all You want to start with the... You know what? That is so unfair and not fun You'll do Chris's first For the fluid family Okay, yeah if you want to do that

Start the timer Okay Okay okay okay hold on All right, Dr. Dave, we do have a good question from the fluid family here. Chris Mack. Hey, Dr. Steve, will grapefruit juice negatively affect clomid absorption? I know it can potentiate some medications and nullify others. Not sure where Clomid falls in this kind of category.

Okay, well, sometimes they will use Clomid. with this drug called or bexarotene and you know that one food helps with the absorption

and grapefruit juice during treatment can increase the blood levels of that baxarotene but that's not the problem I do not believe that Clomit is affected by that

yeah I couldn't find it so yeah I I'm looking Clomid. I don't see anything. I see a whole bunch of tyrosine inhibitors that it interacts with, but I don't see anything about grapefruit juice. Grapefruit juice is weird. It's an inhibitor of this cytocrine P-450 system

that a lot of drugs are metabolized through. And it will cause some great difficulties if you take it in, you know, regularly, you think, oh, grapefruit juice, good for you. It's citrus and all that stuff. It's good in vodka. It is. And people who are taking things like statins that drink a lot of grapefruit juice and particularly in vodka can get a double whammy to their liver.

Oh, wow. So, yeah, go easy on the grapefruit juice if you're on medication. At least find out which medications are a problem. Check them all out there. Thanks, Chris Mack. Thanks, Chris. I will look into that further and just make sure that I'm not missing something, okay? Yep.

All right. Cool. Oh, one minute and 18 seconds left. All right. Timers off for this next one. Okay. Yeah, I just found something else on Clomafine, but no, we're good. Okay.

All right. Here we go. All right. Hello, fluid family. Uh-oh. Anyway, I'm going to touch your quick. then seeing more and more about do apples affect diabetes and blood sugar levels and most of them are just saying about how these sugar of apples doesn't really affect your blood sugar

but fuck it let me try this goddamn colleague you what okay all right all right in take two and you're all sitting in studio quick question for you have seen more and more stuff about do apples affect diabetes and blood sugar levels and how apples might actually be used to help reduced diabetes effects. Have you heard anything about this? Bye. I have. Oh, so, yeah, that was so much better the second time.

I think your first one was fine, dude. Yeah, so apples and diabetes, you know, I've become one of those people now that I realize that my medication was killing me. I was talking about this on a show the other day where, you know, half of the things that I'm taking now are supplement. Well, actually more than half. We were already taking, you and I were already taking the anti-aging supplements like phosphatylsterein. Yeah, phosphatil serine and rhibicide nucleotide.

I can't take the taurine. It makes me crazy. Oh, does it? Yeah, I like it. I tried it, and that was a huge mistake. But you can get taurine and other things. So, you know, I am very interested in these things. I take beetroot for my blood pressure.

My blood pressure is doing fine. I'm not saying anyone else should do any of these things. I'm just saying I have to do it because for whatever reason, I'm sensitive to the standard allopathic medications. So, yeah, so I was interested when Stacey called about this apples and diabetes thing. And it turns out that there are these molecules in other fruits but also in apples in pretty large quantities called polyphenols. And these polyphenols can actually reduce insulin resistance, which is the problem in type 2 diabetes.

So I found here's current topics in medical medicinal chemistry. Bioactive compounds are effective against type 2 diabetes. Melodice systematic review. And what they found was there are all these polyphenols and antioxidants like quercetin, rosemarinic acid, cyanidin, and other things. Routin. And the major source of these were citrus fruits, grapes, onions, berries, cherries, broccoli, honey, and apples.

And then there's green tea, ginkgo-beloba, St. John's Wart, stuff like that. Cucumber, spinach, even black tea. So there's a whole bunch of things that, and those are all things we consider. to be mostly healthy things to eat, right? So after I read this, I did some more research, and I found that apple polyphenols,

not other polyphenols, but apple polyphenols, induce browning of white adipose tissue. Now, do you know about white and brown adipose tissue? I don't think so. Okay, so we're talking about fat tissue. Yeah, it's your fat. White fat is the bad fat. Okay.

And brown fat is good fat. It actually helps you burn calories. It is thermogenic. In other words, it helps you to keep your body temperature up. And so by doing that, it's burning calories. Gotcha. And so apple polyphenols will induce this conversion of white adipose tissue to brown adipose tissue. All right?

So I thought that was really interesting. and I do like, oh, and by the way, the number one apple brand that was beneficial in these things, honey crisp apples, thank you. There you go. It's my favorite. That is your favorite. Yeah, I've been eating those anyway. So something in my body must have understood that or something.

I don't know. I don't think that's what it was. I just like them. I like kind of sour stuff. And then here is fruit consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes, results from, three prospective longitudinal cohort studies. So this is one where they didn't go back and look at charts. What they did was they followed people over time at a starting point in the past.

They followed them forward. And they had 66,000 women from the nurse's health study, 85,000 women from the nurse's health study two, and 36,000 men from the health professionals follow-up study. They were free from major chronic diseases at baseline. And so what they were looking was, is there a statistically significant difference in diabetes between the two? And so a greater consumption of specific whole fruits, particularly blueberries, grapes, and apples was significantly associated with the lower risk of type 2 diabetes. So this, you know, that may be a lifestyle change that you can make if you're at risk.

risk for type 2 diabetes. In other words, you've got it in your family or you've got some known insulin resistance. And Tacey won't eat them because they're sour. But wouldn't that be great to prevent the oncoming diabetes because your dad had it? And you've had, you know, conditions that that make you glucose intolerant. Yes. So, you know, it might be something to think about. Now, apple juice does nothing, and it actually makes it worse. So you have to actually eat the apples. And then, and now, so that's kind of the polyphenols and stuff. A 2019 review of studies indicated eating apples and pears was linked to a decreased risk of cardiovascular problems and also diabetes melanus.

And, you know, these antioxidants, which we found we were all excited about in the 80s, and then found out that. that if you take antioxidant supplements and you smoke actually makes things worse because you need those oxidants to kill cancer cells when they're forming. And so antioxidants weren't great. But if you don't smoke, antioxidants in your diet can protect your body from certain chronic diseases. And significant amounts of quercetin, chlorogenic acid, and fluorizen, which potentially slows down sugar absorption and lowers blood sugar levels were found again honey crisp apples there you go thank you all right so there you go so that's my deep dive on apples and

cancer dr scott may add to that too of course just my a1c had climbed it just a teeny bit yeah and i was just a little concerned and i kind of did a little bit of research on this too and i started two things believe or not and i never told you this but yeah eating a red apple every day because of the red flesh seems to be better for you. And I take a supplement, this is just me. But there is some research on Holy Basel. Oh, you started me on that. I started a Holy Basel.

And the last time we checked my A1C was below five. Wow. I thought the Holy Basel was for cholesterol, though. It's for both. Okay. No, honestly, it is. That's interesting. Astralogos.

It's not quite as great as Estragals, but it's pretty close. But, yeah, so my levels of my lipid panels were profoundly lower. Yeah. This is just me. There is some research showing Holy Basel or Tulsi. What is it? Tulsi Basil is the other name for Holy Basil. The hell is Holy Basel.

How's it different than regular basil? I don't know. T-U-L-S-I-Tolsi-Basol is the other way, but it's been shown to lower serum glucose levels and in cholesterol, lipid levels. Wow. Yeah. Now that's, and there, I mean, I'm not saying the studies are perfect, but, I mean, heck, if it doesn't hurt you and better than some of the other shit you can take. Occamum teniflorum plant native to India. Commonly used in traditional Indian medicine system, Iyerveda.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'm going to do a deep dive on that. Well, you should do it if there's data that shows. I mean, it won't hurt anything. I don't think unless there's drug interactions with it or other toxic effects. but, yeah, we'll do a, I'll send me an email on that. I'm going to send you the thing from PubMed. Okay, all right, yeah, yeah, I'm going to look at that.

I got it. Yeah, we'll check out Holy Basil. Well, here's Healthline. We might as well, what the hell. It's a green leafy plant. Okay, it's also known as Tulsi, as Scott said, so he gets a... Give myself a bell. Many studies support the use of the entire plant.

of Holy Basel for human use and its therapeutic value. Nutritional value is also high. It contains vitamin A and C, calcium, zinc, iron, and chlorophyll. It says, oh, all parts of the holy basil plant act as an adaptogen, which a natural substance helps your body adapt to stress and promotes mental balance. Well, okay. There you go.

I need more. And as Scott said, there is some data on this stuff. I've got clinical efficacy and safety. of Tulsi and Humans, a systematic review of the literature. Now, this is in evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine, but, you know, this is a journal that actually looks at the evidence for this stuff. And they found 24 studies. All studies reported favorable clinical outcomes with no studies reporting any significant adverse effects,

but I don't see what kind of studies these were. So if they were, you know, observational or decent studies, A lot of the studies in that literature are not that great. So, you know, we want those clinical trial, double-blind placebo-controlled studies. And they are hard to fund because who's going to make a million bucks or a billion dollars off of selling holy basil? But it would be nice to have that. So we'll look at that. And I will give you a report next time.

Okay. Very good. All right Anything else, Dr. Scott? I eat two apples a day on my way to work And then is this okay When I'm done and I've got the core And I'm in my car to toss the cores out for the deer

The deer and the ants Yeah, I mean That's not really littering, right? I do the same thing I just kind of wait until I'm going around a curve And nobody's looking at me too They don't think I'm throwing trash out Exactly

I'm worried that they're going to think I'm throwing trash out But it seems to me that throwing an apple out, the apple core out, is okay. Yes, absolutely. Okay. Good. Well, at least I got, I got validation from the hippie. Right, from the hippie acupunctress.

All right. Hey, I just have a question that not a lot of people have been able to help me with. And by the way, this one is from 2015. Okay, this one is three minutes. Whether it be a pool, a saltwater pool, a chlorine pool, a salt water pool. or even the ocean, after I get out, within about, I'd say, within about 24 hours, I'll get massive rashes on both sets of my thighs, my back, my, you know, the inside of my elbows, anywhere that kind of, any joints or anything like that.

I've seen a dermatologist about it. He said he didn't know what it was. What? Come on. And they just tell me to take Benadryl and such. Is there anything I can do about it? about it. How do I know what this is and the dermatologist doesn't? That's crazy. Do you know what this is? Contact herbatives. It's called aquagenic urticaria. Yeah, but it's aquagenic urticaria. It's very

rare condition, which I can understand maybe the dermatologists hadn't seen it, but they ought to know about it. Right. But they get red, itchy rash after exposure to water. There's about 50 cases of the condition reported in the medical literature. So if I saw this person, I would write them up. Oh, well. Because I've done that. When I have something that's extremely rare that I see in my office, I'll write up a case report and a review of the literature

so other people will recognize it. Maybe this guy's dermatologist. But anyway, they can, you know, the itching can last 30 minutes to two hours, and there are some treatments available. But what happens is skin contact with water causes these itchy things because of release of histamine. And it is treatable. Nobody knows why certain people have it.

Is it an allergen in the water rather than the water itself or is the water interacting with something on the skin? Does it happen when he is in the shower or does it only happen when he's immersed in water? There could be a psychological aspect to it as well. Or maybe you can only get triggered if it's your whole body. then what I would do is put the person in a bathtub and see if it happens then. Okay.

So they do this water challenge test to confirm it, and they just apply a cloth dampen with room temperature water, the skin for 20 minutes. That's why maybe they have to have longer exposure than you would get in the shower to have this happen. Gotcha, got you, got you, got you, okay? So anyway, antihistamines are recommended, so I agree with the dermatologist on that.

We like the second generation H1, antihistamines. That would be not Fomodidine. What's the, what is Allegra? Oh, that's a low paramey. No, it isn't either. Golly, I'm having a senior moment right now. Well, anyway, Allegra, Claritin, Zyrtec, those kinds of things. Saterazine is Zyrtec, right?

Anyway, that stuff used to just trade. off of my tongue and now I'm having a problem remembering it but anyway but get the the second generation antihistamines if you know you're going in the water take it though you know most of those last 24 hours or at least 12 hours so take it a couple hours before you get in the water if it's localized you can use topical medication but it's all over your body nope and there you go so anyway and then people will ask well how can you shower well well Well, if you have to be in the water 20 minutes before it happens, then you get out. Shower quickly.

I forgot about the timer. Shower quickly. Yeah, shower quickly. All right. All right. Hey, Dr. Steve. My name is Brian. Hey, Brian.

I'm 28 years old male. About 6.1.180, relatively healthy. Been healthy pretty much my whole life. I got a question about asthma. I've had asthma since I was born since I can remember. I've had friends that have told me, oh, you know, I've grown out of it. I'm like, oh, well, good for you. I still have.

It's still the same issues. I mean, I've never really seen any relief from it. Really not that big of a deal. I take an albuterol inhaler pretty much every day to daily stink. Not that big of a deal. It doesn't affect my life that much. Um, just kind of embarrassing, you know, when you get done, uh, fucking year old lady, you got to roll over and take a couple puffs. Yeah.

Look like a nerd. But, uh, anyway, so I, you know, I've read about asthma. I guess I kind of have an understanding what happens, but I'm kind of curious to know, is there a genetic, uh, you know, factor to that? Is it something that runs, you know, genetically? Is that the reason I got it? None of my siblings have it. My parents don't have it.

I have an uncle that has it, but that's it. Yeah. And then secondly, is there any treatment for it that doesn't involve albuterol or I know there's ad bear, but it's pretty damn expensive. But are there any other alternatives? And I can ask Dr. Scott, too, although I tend to think that Chinese medicine, herbal people are kind of full of shit. But I'll give it a shot. So if you got any suggestions, Dr. Scott, that would be great. Yeah.

See, there's no atheist in a foxhole. And so when you're desperate, you go, you'll do about anything. Even stuff you think is maybe bullshit. And in my case, I did that, and it turned out pretty well. So let's just talk about asthma. About 6.1% of male adults have asthma. This kid, or he had it since he was a kid, it's possible that he had a respiratory sensual virus as an infant. And some of those kids will have asthma their whole life.

and there's nothing you can much you can do about it except treat it. That is RSV. Our kid had it at age five days, fever of 105. When we got him to the hospital, I remember the nurses say, if he survives, he's going to have damaged lungs. And we're what? What? What do you mean if he survives? Well, this is bad.

But he sailed right through. Why? You want to explain why? Restfeeding. Yes, very good. Thank you. Tacey was breastfeeding, and she gave it to him. She had a cold, because RSV tends to be a cold in adults. And our hypothesis is, because we didn't test for it back then.

We do now, that Tacey had it. He got it from her somewhere around, you know, the day of birth, and she had antibodies to it in her breast milk, which are IGA antibodies that are secreted in breast milk. And her feeding him through the, you know, her holy bosom caused him to survive and not only to survive, but to thrive and never have any problems with it. He just sailed right through. He was totally fine. So thank you, Tacey, for that one.

You're welcome. Give myself a bell. Oh, well. Well, this is going to take a little bit longer than three minutes on this one. It is asthma. It is asthma. There are other treatments. If it is mild asthma, he may get by with a leukotriane inhibitor like singular.

That's possible. There are these long-acting beta agonists where he could just do it once a day. It's like an extended release albuterol. Some pulmonologists will. recommend that he take an inhaled steroid to prevent the constriction of his airways because they feel that down the road that will prevent him from developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. So I would see a pulmonologist for this. There are new medications out there. Yes, all kinds of stuff. Yeah. And I'm sure he's

seen a couple since he's had it since I hope so. But he may be just seeing his primary If he's just doing albuterol, though, there's more out there. And there are rebates, too. Correct. That can cut the cost. The one I really, that worked for me is the trilogy, but there are others that work really well. I tick Bres Tree, and it is a long-acting beta agonist, something to reduce mucus, and then a steroid. And you go, well, steroids, but if you're inhaling it, it's actually maybe beneficial.

So, but just check. It may be that he started albuterol when he was a kid and it just stayed on it all this time and there's other stuff out there. Yeah. All right? Yeah. And can I say real quickly?

What was that? Go ahead. Yeah, there is some research on the use of acupuncture for treatment of asthma. Yeah. What it does, it helps to calm down the inflammatory response number one. But the other thing I do. Hmm.

Okay, go ahead. I'm going to just do a pub med search on that one. The other thing that I do, and I could because I see it, every single day, either asthma or COPD, is by stimulating the muscles, the accessory muscles. Yes. Talk about what accessory muscles are because people don't know what that is. So real quickly, the mechanisms of breath, the diaphragm moves, the muscles in between the ribs move, which will be the accessory muscles, and then the muscles in the neck and shoulders actually have to move the upper party ribs.

And when they all move together in unison, that helps to create this vacuum that brings an air into the lungs, because the lungs are passive. And if there's inflammation in there, then it makes it all really challenging or if there's scarring or any kind of disease. So what I can do with the acupuncture needles is stick the needles into the muscles and stimulate those muscles to help them either move normally

or to calm down any kind of spasms or incline. If you're right on the verge and getting something that will give you a little bit more optimal breathing, I'm in favor of that. And it certainly isn't going to hurt anything. As long as you're not doing that, And to the exclusion of... Yeah.

And I never said it. I never said, no. Yeah, but the other thing I will tell you, too, there's some osteopathic manipulations and maneuvers to help the ribs move a little more freely and help the diaphragm move more freely. So finding a good DO that has some skills and some knowledge about treating asthmatics could be really beneficial because we employ those guys too. DOs are physicians who went to osteopathic school rather than allopathic medical school.

And they basically, these days have exactly. the same curriculum, except that they have this, you know, OMT classes, these manipulation classes. Osceopathic manipulative therapy. There you go. So they do a little bit more manipulative. And I have, and again, I am not saying at all. Because the new medications for asthma are really incredible. Yeah.

But in a conjunction with those, find some other things. I did find a Cochran database systematic review. Cochran is very highly respected journal and group. that looks at data to find evidence-based approaches to medicine by through systematic reviews. In other words, just taking all the literature, putting it together and seeing what the answer is. Now, I will say that their conclusion with acupuncture and asthma, this is for chronic asthma, not enough evidence to make recommendations about the value of acupuncture and asthma treatment. there were some studies that showed a positive effect.

And the ones that didn't show a positive effect, Dr. Scott, the sham acupuncture was actually in places on the arm where they actually treat acupuncture or asthma with real acupuncture. So those studies were pretty invalid because if they put the needles in the same place that the acupuncturist is, it's not really sham acupuncture at that point. So anyway, all right. So that remains to be seen. Try it if it works fine.

Sure. Acupuncturists tend to be cheap and it's not going to hurt anything. Again, as long as you don't do it to the exclusion of it. I may be easy, but I ain't cheap. Well, inexpensive. Inexpensive, compared to. Anyway, all right. Easy and cheap.

You are cheap. Hi there, Con from Canada. Hi. Question. My mom recently found out via ultrasound that she's as a moderately fatty liver. Uh-oh. She had blood work done that initially showed elevated ferretin and ALT.

I think her ferretton was about 5.17, and her ALT was 43 micrograms. She does pick meds for cholesterol, blood pressure meds, and osteoarthritis. And she does drink wine. She drinks probably about six to eight glasses a week, I'd say. there's a reason why I ran this one today shut up she's been a bit freaked out about this so she did decrease her alcohol

I would take she's fairly healthy I was just wondering what else she could do to improve her liver health Dr. Scott do you have any natural remedies that you'd suggest absolutely he does so for a long time

we used to call this non-alcohol fatty liver disease or alcoholic fatty liver disease. And this is, you know, a range of things that develop when too much fat is stored in the liver cells. And it causes inflammation and damage to the liver. Unfair. And can end up being cirrhosis if it isn't under control. Now, we're not going to call it that anymore.

We're calling it steatotic liver disease because non-alcoholic reference doesn't capture the cause of the disease. And fatty is considered a negative connotation. You know, this is that euphemism treadmill thing that we used to talk about a lot where things that were medical terms became pejorative terms like idiot. Idiot was at one time a medical term, Dr. Scott. Dr. Scott, you know, his IQ is 60 or below. He's an idiot.

And now, and then people started using that term. He's a fucking idiot. And then all of a sudden we can't use it in medicine anymore. and it becomes pejorative, and then we have to change it to something else. Okay, so that's the case when it comes to fatty liver. Now, Tacey, can we speak candidly about your situation? Yeah, whatever. Yeah.

You know, Fez-Watley used to be called fatty pneumonia, and our sort of joke is that now we can call Tacey fatty liver, but it doesn't really work. Faddy pneumonia was funny. Fatty liver just doesn't, you know, it's people are like, what? So, because it's a real condition, that's the actual name of the condition. But it can be absolutely genetic. Tacey has insulin resistance in her genetics, probably on both sides, but certainly on her father's side.

And that can lead to fatty liver. you can have increased alcohol intake. It's called M-A-S-L-D, in other words. Which I may or may not do. Right. And then alcohol-related liver disease is ALD. And then there's these specific, you know, drug-induced liver injury, liver disease from celiac disease and malnutrition and stuff like that. And then we always have cryptogenic steatotic liver disease, which just means we don't know what the hell it caused it.

So, you know, some people will get this, and it's very severe, and then they get scarring and inflammation, and then they get cirrhosis, and other people just have it, and they just have it, and they'll get mildly elevated liver enzymes, that all that is is the liver cells that are being pushed aside by the fat cells die. Oh, Tom. Yeah, but we're talking about you, so you don't have to do three minutes on this one. The liver cells that are being pushed aside by the fat cells die, releasing enzymes that are inside the cells into the bloodstream, and you can detect those. So high blood sugar can cause this, or be a risk factor, high levels of fat in the blood, particularly though triglycerides, not so much cholesterol. So eating fat. I remember I got my cholesterol checked one time and I'd eaten Italian sausage on the grill the night before

and we did it in my lab in Vermont and I watched them spin it down and the serum which normally is a clear straw color was just pure white. And I said, go ahead and send that in. It'll be fun. I want to see what it is because my triglycerides are normally normal. It was like, you know, 1,100 or something.

It was some crazy high number. And that actually, some damn insurance company got a hold of that and doubled by insurance rates for a couple of years. Yeah. So be careful playing with your lab work. But so high triglycerides lowering the amount of actual trans fats that you're eating will really help a lot. And so anyway, what can you do about it? So Dr. Scott, you want to talk about what you would do? for somebody like that.

I would just tell them get their blood sugar under control, eat a healthy diet and exercise. What do you get? Exactly the same things in addition to. There are some herbal supplements

that can help with fatty livers. One of them is goji berry, which has been shown to help some with fatty livers. Of course, Straglus is always a good. Jesus. Believe or not,

it's actually pretty good. Um, the, um, I can't, it's hard for me to say that with a straight face. I know. Resveratrol. Oh, yeah. Antoxidants can be really good. And where do they find that? Um, well, in any kind of healthy, yeah, yeah, it red wine, yeah.

And a lot of foods with, with, and I personally take a resveratrol as a supplement just so I can get enough. Okay. And then, of course, green tea. What do you think about milk this? Milk thistle's been shown to help some, too, with liver health. I think that's reasonable. I think that's reasonable. So, yeah, and these things are all pretty safe for, as long as long as long as

you're not allergic to them and talk to your primary care don't do it because we set it look do some research and see what somebody has some knowledge about herbal medicines not just but she she did ask about you know if dr scott had anything so i do yes so try those things uh a plant-based diet may help as well yeah right on so anyway all right protect your liver drinking alcohol puts extra stress on your liver it doesn't mean you can't ever have any but uh avoiding it is typically advised for people with liver disease and have a good clean penis Well, right. Right.

That's right. All right, Dr. Scott. Avoid liver. Keep your penis clean. All right, Dr. Scott and Tacey, we do have some super chats. Darth Nugs. Thank you for the $2 super chat, my friend. Be sure to drink plenty of fluids today. Yes, fluids.

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as a matter of fact. I hope to see him at Dabalcon 2. I'm working on my roast. I said I'd never do another one again. Oh, no. Here we go. But this will be absolutely the last one. No, no, no, no. I'm telling you, it's probably going to be my last live event.

So, for real. He's calling it his swan song. Well, it's a swan song. So it's probably going to be my last live event. You know, I'm getting too old for this shit, the stress. I mean, I'll still go and be a fan, but I don't think I'm I don't perform anymore after this. I really enjoy doing

the things like I'm doing for normal world where I can sit in front of my green screen. If I start hacking and coughing, because of my stupid COVID-related bronchiectasis, I can just stop it and edit it out. And I can, and those things

they're more concise. You know, I am a-concise in real, I am not concise in any way. And I get distracted, so I can edit all that shit out and I can I'm a lot funnier when I'm writing

than I am when I'm just sitting here talking and trying to come up with stuff. So I think I'm going to go more toward the produced video things and I'll contribute stuff like that for Carl's live shows. He's been kind enough to run some of those and they've gotten

really good reactions and the grosser, the better. So yeah, we'll continue to do those. So that's kind of where I'm going with that. But anyway, so I'm going to, he asked me, I agree, this is the absolutely the last time. If I do it ever again,

you have my permission to do something horrible to me. I don't know. Chop my nuts off or something. I will not do it again. But I want this one to be good. So I've already started writing it's six weeks away and I'm already writing and trying to

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All right. The first one would be from Old Top. Hey, Dr. Scott and Dr. Steve, what are some causes of heat intolerance? I know that UV exposure can trigger autoimmune disorders or disease, but can heat also trigger even though you're wearing UV protection? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. UV protection keeps you from getting burned. It doesn't keep from overheating.

UV doesn't make you hot. The infrared waves coming from the sun is what transmits heat. So, yeah, you can still get hot Even when you're doing that And the number one Cause of heat intolerance is Tacey, you know the answer to this No, I don't

Oh Okay, you do Thyroid disease Oh, so is that why I get so hot? Only when you're taking too much of your Thyroid medicine It tends to be people who have an overactive thyroid will have heat intolerance

whereas people with hypothyroid is will have cold and the other one as far as autoimmune disorders think about lupus you know so SLE people are really sensitive to the sunlight yeah multiple sclerosis ms yeah overweight because they can't radiate out enough heat you know you only have a certain amount of surface area and if you've got a lot of mass it's hard to get rid of all that heat you know diabetes high blood pressure

lower levels of physical fitness that kind of But, yeah, sunscreen will not prevent you from getting hot. Now, there are medications that cause heat intolerance as well. And number one is amphetamines, which people aren't doing as much street amphetamine, like speed. You don't hear about it as much anymore. But they're taking a whole lot of folklin and Adderall and concertin and stuff like that. And those things can cause heat intolerance. Caffeine can do it.

And some antibiotics, correct? Correct. Some antibiotics. And antidepressants. Yeah, okay. You know, antipsychotics, that kind of stuff. All the good stuff. Overactive bladder medications because they are anticholinergic and it makes those people sweat less.

Yep. So there you go. Ooh, I need that. No. You've been on them before. Yeah. I have not. Yeah.

Yeah, you took, anyway, you took medications for those things. She's tried them all. Hey, another question from WTF, get over it. Good morning. Good morning. My elderly parent refuses to eat. What can I do to, so their appetite can increase? Yeah.

They only eat once a day and very little. Okay. So that's a pretty, pretty good question. It's a very good question. I deal with this every day in my practice. There is one thing for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. The way we left this world was he took to our bed and we stopped eating and drinking. Right.

Now, we have technology now in the last 50 to 100 years to put tubes in people's stomachs and put food in their stomach when they're not asking for it. Well, that's not what they're asking about. They're asking, how can I stimulate someone's appetite? You may or may not be able to do this, but there are some, Dr. Scott, you want to talk about the number one that we use now. Well, yeah, it's THC, CBD, increases your munchies. Yeah, so it is sold.

in all 50 states as drinabinol. The problem is there is a shortage of drinabinol in the, and the reason it's FDA approved is because it's synthesized in the lab. It's just delta 9 THC synthesized in a beaker and then put into pills. And that's why the FDA could approve it, because it has a standardized strength and a standardized concentration inside the pill, and it comes in 2.55. 10 and those things are within certain tolerances.

It boosts appetite in people with cancer, but also in people with anorexia due to HIV, AIDS. But also, we've used it in the elderly. The problem is that can increase confusion, dizziness, drowsiness, stuff like that. So you want to start at the lowest dose and see if they tolerate it okay. But there is a national shortage. if you live in a state where pod is legal, you may be able to go to the dispensary and ask them for pure THC. And I want, you know, 1.25 to 2.5 milligrams to start.

Start super low, yeah. Yep. And, but then there are other drugs. There's one called Megastrol or Magistral acetate. And it's Megase is the brand name it's sold under. Okay. It's basically a progesterone-based medication sort of it's hormone. and you can use it for people with anorexia due to cancer, HIV, AIDS, that kind of stuff.

The problem with it is that it can cause fluid overload, and there's a possibility of it causing blood clots. So if you've got the patient who is immobile, or I hesitate to use it in cancer patients sometimes because they can be hypercoagulable. There's an oral steroid. called oxandrolone that helps people gain weight you know some people abuse it to gain weight in the gym

but it can cause acne and you know androgenate boy what's the word I'm looking for not feminization but androgenia shoot what is it what is it when it makes you have

it makes you take on male characteristics some doctorate yeah it's androgenic something like that so but that's That's not the word of thinking of it. I don't know. Anyway, as George Foreman said, as you get older, you lose your quickness, you don't lose your power. So I'm going to take that.

So the power is still there. The mental quickness. Eh, not so much. So anyway, and then there are some other medications. You know what we used to use? And this was my favorite thing back in the day before we had all these drugs was a thing called elder tonic. Hmm. And my patient said, well, you do you?

Do you have that elderly tonic? And what it was was sherry with vitamins in it. Okay. And you would give them a tablespoon before meals and they'd eat like crazy. It stimulated their appetite. So a little bit like an aperitif would do, you know. And something that, you know, a little alcohol that you'd take before you eat can stimulate your appetite. So if they're a teetotaler, or if they have a religious objection to drinking alcohol, or if they, you know, they're sober because they had a problem, I wouldn't use that.

but in the typical elderly person, a tablespoon of elder tonic, sometimes will be very effective. I've had people come back saying that was the greatest stuff they ever used. And it's cheap. So there you go. All right, you got anything else? No, but Nick did pipe in and hit us with a little love. Yeah.

Oh, is that right? No. Well, let me see. Scroll up a little bit, you'll see it. Oh, yeah. Nick Illig. Okay. Hey, Nick, we're going to be in your neighborhood.

Hopefully this time your brother won't hog all. of the attention we can hang out with you as well. So his brother is Captain Mike Illig in Awendaw, South Carolina. If you want to do a charter, if you're in Charleston area. Oh, cool.

And you want to do the greatest charter in the world. Captain Mike is a naturalist. Oh, cool. He even brought us chanterell mushrooms one time. Yeah. And, you know, he can teach you to catch your own bait if you want to, or you just go out and fish for it. He knows

where all the different kinds of fish are. Remember we went out and where was it? We got mackerel out at the jetty that time. We took it in and had them cook it fresh. Yeah, that's nice. It was amazing. We had a big redfish that we took. His company is called avid angling.

Correct. Avid angling and you can find him on Facebook and the internet. But this is Cap Mike's brother, Nick. Thank you for the $5. I quit boozing. Wow. Cool. And have been drinking 20 sparkling waters a day. Hey, could this be bad?

Maybe too much acid, happy fourth. Okay, well, Nick, are you sure you're not drinking? It's actually the seven or the sixth right now. But anyway, I'm glad. Hey, congrats on your sobriety. No kidding. And the problem with seltzer waters, the carbon dioxide can leak calcium out of your bones

and make them weaker over time. And it can also add, and it makes CBO a little worse. They've shown sometimes that extra. We'll tell them what gas is. A small intestinal bacteria overroval syndrome, yeah. And it can actually be made worse with carbonated drinks, believe it or not. The gases helps carry the CBO down the colon further and spread them. Nick, email me and I'll see if I can find a sort of LD50 for carbon dioxide drinks.

And if you get something that have less carbon dioxide in them as well that are sparkling but not carbonated, carbonated, that might help. And then you're going to want to find some things that, I'm assuming that he's drinking sparkling drinks because he was drinking beer. Yeah, and you want that feeling. But you might transition every other one instead of 20. Or cut it. Be good to cut down to 10, and then every other one drink something else. Or cut it, or cut it each sparkling the water with water, get halfway through it.

Yeah. Just add water to it. Yeah. Just to make it even worse. But anyway, it's like tasting. But anyway, Nick, email me. you have my email and I'll see if I can find some information on that for you okay all right I think that's it thank you guys thanks always go to dr. Scott thanks tacy thanks to everyone who's made this show happen over the years listen to our serious XM show on the faction talk channel serious XM channel 103 Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern on demand and other times at Jim McClure's pleasure many thanks to our listeners whose voicemail and topic ideas make this job very easy go to our website dr. Steve.com for schedules podcast and other crap. Until next time, check your stupid nuts for lumps. Quit smoking, get off your

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