Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 615 - Dead Limbs

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

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We were going to talk about our new channel where we're doing a gaming channel. And, of course, he's still asleep. Well, it is afternoon. That is correct. Yeah, it's not quite time to wake up yet. Oh, my God. Well, I remember being 21, and I could sleep till 2 in the afternoon. I love it.

I never. You were up at 6 a.m. No, no, no, no. No. Doing some kind of a chemistry experiment. That's incorrect. Or rewiring some radio. It is.

Don't blind. Or making a little rocket. I fight my nature every single day when I get out, when I roll out of bed. No, no. My normal status was to, you know, sleep and, you know, as late as I possibly could. But you're a night owl, right? Yeah, that too. Yeah, that is true.

I do better in the evening than I do in the morning. But, yeah, I mean, I remember one time, this is so dumb. I fell asleep. I guess I was drinking or, you know, what a surprise. And I slept with my hands behind my head. And my arms went to sleep. And then these people came in my house. Now, it turns out they were friends of my dads.

But did you ever see the kids in the hall thing about that song about the guy who slept on his arms? He slept on his arms last night. He's walking around. He's just got jiggly jelly arms. Anyway, that was me. I could not move my arms. I couldn't sit up. I couldn't do shit.

It was like if they had just come in there, if it had been zodiac, they could have just done me in. What if you do that for a really long time? Can your arms, like, die and fall off? It's weird that they still get some circulation when you do that. What's going on is the nerves are not getting the circulation that they need. And so the interesting thing, and Scott's probably seen this, too, is when you do arm surgery in, you know, the orthopedist or the hand surgeons, they'll put a tourniquet on the arm and they'll cut off the circulation for hours. In total knees, they'll do that too. Yeah, to have a bloodless field so that there's no blood when they do stuff.

And people do just fine. It's crazy. They have this sore shit when they pull that turnicot off. Oh, yeah. And the anesthesia wears off. Oh, yeah. That's what I tend to see the most pain with are the tourniquets on the quads on the upper leg for total knees and the upper arm when they do an elbow or, you know, usually it's an elbow surgery. Have you ever had your footfall asleep in like the movie theater and then it comes back to life and all of a sudden it's just pins and needles?

And if you just touch it, it shoots up into your brain. Oh, yeah. That's called hyperalgesia. Wait a second. Wait a minute. Hyperalgesia. There's, okay, there's aladdinia and hyperalgesia. Okay, let me see.

Hyperalgesia, we'll get a lot of times that people have taken a lot of narcotics. It changes their pain threshold. Well, right, right, right. But it's a hallmark of sensitivity. Of neuropathic, nerve damage and neuropathic pain. And one of them is exaggerated pain response, and then the other one is a pain response to it otherwise non-noxious stimulus. And so that would be aladdinia.

So I misspoke. So aladdinia is because when your foot falls, you just touch it, normally that wouldn't cause pain. But in that situation, it does and it shoots these pain sensations up into your brain until the brain kind of tamps them down. And, yeah, that's called allodynia. That hyperalgesia is when you have an exaggerated response to pain. So now, there is a thing called, you know, opioid-induced hyperalgesia.

That's what you're thinking about. And so some people, let's say they're taking percassette for a bum knee, and then they bump up the dose, and all of a sudden they start hurting all over. Right. and you increase the dose and it gets worse. That's actually where the opioid is inducing pain. Yeah, and it's crazy because even just the slightest touch on some of those people, I mean, they'll, like, scream like, oh, God, why are you hitting me, or touching me so hard? And it's just a bizarre thing.

So, yeah, and then having that. That's always good for your staff to hear outside the door. Well, and then the, and then the, Dr. Scott, why are you touching me? Like that. And then the crabby. part of the discussion is trying to explain to them why they're going to have to come off with the opiates because... But that's what they give me

for pain. Right. Yeah, it's what's making you worse. It's a tough discussion. Yeah, it is not easy. Anyway, well, there you go. Until we get to big bucks. I've already forgot what we were talking about. You fell asleep with your...

All I could imagine was Dr. Steve pulling a big Lobowski when those guys came in saying, hey, this is a private residence man. But, yeah, my dad gave them the key because they were going to do some work on my house or something. And here I am at, you know, one in the afternoon, laying in bed, can't get up because my arms are, I finally wankled my way up. You know, back then I was lighter. I had a little bit more core strength.

And so I could just sit straight up even without my arms and finally just let them lay there until the function came back. That's the worst. Anyway. But, yeah, it's a good question, the lady diagnosis. It is amazing how long they can just deprive the limb of blood supply. And when they're done, they just take the tourniquet off and, you know, see if there are any little bleaters that they missed. Get rid of those. And then the patient goes back to normal again.

So, it's crazy. All right. Very good. So, yeah, so Liam was supposed to be here. And I don't know where the hell are he. I mean, he's a goober. He's like, goober. So I did want to talk today.

We are recording this on November 23rd of 2024, and Trump has nominated RFK as his, you know, Health and Human Services czar. And he knew this was coming because RFK was nominally a Democrat. He became extremely critical of the Democrat Party and then just flipped and supported Trump. Now, I'm sure his wife, who is Cheryl Hines, right, from Kirbyan's enthusiasm, she must be shitting herself. Because if I remember correctly, she is a, you know, a Trump-deranged left-wing type person, I think. I'm not sure. But she must be graphing herself. And, you know, we have all this.

With this, we have people on TV, psychologists and commentators on a certain network saying, oh, yeah, it's fine. If your family voted for Trump, it's okay to just shun them at Thanksgiving. Really? Oh, yeah. No, this is what they're recommending. It's totally fine. You know, you don't have to give them your space. and stuff, and it's like, well, wait a minute, it's your family.

And now you're breaking up Thanksgiving. I mean, at a time when people are depressed anyway at the fucking holidays, just don't talk fucking politics. Exactly. Can't hide class. Jesus. But anyway, so there's an article, and I'm bringing this back to health care because it's really a political show and it's not about politics.

But it says what, this is from the New York Times. What Kennedy gets right and wrong about nutrition. we fact-checked five of his most repeated claims. Well, I mean, there are people out there that are constantly fact-checking the New York Times because their bias is constantly showing. But let's just see what we get out of this. So it says in interviews on social media, Mr. Kennedy has made a number of claims about the country's food supply and eating habits. We fact-checked five of his most repeated refrains.

Okay. ultra-processed foods. Ultra-processed foods are driving the obesity epidemic, and they should be removed from school lunches. Now, the research suggests that many public health and nutrition experts agree that ultra-processed foods, which make up an estimated 73 percent of the U.S. food supply are probably contributing to the obesity crisis in the United States. It would be beneficial to cut back on them. Oh, and now here, but the category is wide-rearing. It's not clear if all ultra-processed foods are harmful.

Just the term ultra-processed. Right. What's that in differentiation from processed? Right. There may be downsides to avoiding some ultra-processed foods like flavored yogurts and whole-wheat breads and cereals. Okay. Are those really ultra-processed? Is bread considered ultra-processed?

I think they're talking about chicken nuggets that aren't identifiable and, you You know, things like that. Right. And ding-dongs and ho-hoes and shit like that. The problem with obesity in this country isn't necessarily the processing of the food, in my opinion, it's the USDA making this food pyramid bullshit in the 60s to sell more U.S. grain. That's why they did that. So they had this pyramid where at the top was sugar and then there was protein out the bottom. biggest part was grains.

And if you take video from people before the food pyramid came out, like at a football game or something, and compare it to video of people now, not that, you know, you can't say necessarily that it was the only thing, obviously, you know, correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation, but it's amazing how obese we've become since the food pyramid started. And we know that all those carbohydrates were not in our environment when we were evolving as a species. And so it was a political thing. And, you know, there were all these nutritionists and politician types who were saying that a low-carb diet is unhealthy when, in fact, we know that we can cure diabetes with the low-carb diet, if done type 2 diabetes. and you can actually improve people's cardiovascular risk if it's done properly.

So if it's more in that sort of paleo-type thing where it's lean animal protein, which is what our ancestors had and green leafy vegetables, and then some grains and, you know, some carbs. But when did our ancestors have grains? When the grains were done, you know, forming, which was in, yeah, It was in the late summer, and then the rest of the time they didn't have it. And if they were hunter-gatherers, they weren't storing it, you know? So they had, and then they would have berries and stuff sometimes,

or if there was a fruit on a tree or something, they could eat that. But that was always just very short-lived period of time. And their bodies were so attuned to storing the carbs that they had that now we are so efficient at it that when we have carbs unlimited in our environment, we consume them, we crave them because of evolutionarily speaking that, you know, that provided us with energy when we had it, we store it so efficiently

that we'd just become a bunch of fatso's, you know? So now, a lot of these, quote-unquote, ultra-processed foods have a lot of carbohydrates in them too. Now, this is somebody from my alma mater. UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health said it'd be transformative to remove ultra-processed foods from school lunches. But they would need more resources to prepare meals from scratch.

No shit. This business of buying food from these services and just, you know, slopping it out there. I mean, hospitals are doing it and schools are doing it. When I was in Vermont, they had a school that actually had a chef. And he went out every day and went to the market and bought stuff and made things. And it was really cool. Like if they were studying Eastern Europe in one of the classes, he would make like Polish food or something. You know, like Polish kibasa and Kalashkis and stuff like that and say, you know, you could do all kinds of interesting things like that if they're not pre-programmed by some food service just bringing them shit, you know, the same thing every Monday and the same thing every, you know, every day of the week.

Yep. It is more work and it probably is more expensive. Well, it is more expensive. But what's it worth to us to feed our children properly, you know? School food is, you just can't eat it. It's disgusting. Yeah. Well, it is here.

Now, it may not be everywhere, but yeah, it's, I know that the boy, we always, for the first, I don't know, six, seven years of them going to school, we packed their lunch every day. And then they started wanting to, you know, they were in high school, eat with their friends and eat what their friends ate. They loved spinach until they went to school. And then, oh, all their friends had spinach is yucky. And so now all of a sudden they think spinach is yucky. Peer pressure. Yes. Tase and I went to the same high school.

And I know that for our lunches it was pizza and fries about every day. Yeah. Well, see, fries is a vegetable. Yeah. And the ketchup was a vegetable, too, thankfully. Yeah. Plenty of vegetables. Yeah, that was good stuff.

All right. Now, here's another one. Food dies. His claim, food dies cause cancer, ADHD, and children. Now, there are some clinical trials that suggest that synthetic food dyes may increase hyperactivity in children. There's no real evidence that they directly cause ADHD, but if they increase it, you know, why would we expose them to that? Now, if you go, my understanding is if you go to Europe and you have fruit loops in this country, they use red dye number 40 or something like that, they banned red dye number three in this country. So we know that some of those dyes were, you know, at least determined to be bad enough that even in the United States, we got rid of them.

But my understanding is, like they use blueberry juice to dye the blue fruit loops and different juices and extracts to color the different colors of, you know, the rainbow colors of fruit loops, whereas in this country, you know, we're using these artificial dyes. So why is it? Is Europe, are they more advanced than us? Are they stupid? I don't think so. You know, some of the greatest science that's going on in the world, it comes out of Europe as well. So I think it's something worth looking at.

And if we have these natural, and you know I'm not one of those guys, but if we have it, why wouldn't we use it? Because it's more expensive. It's a lot easier to just make a dye in the, in the organic chemistry lab than it is to extract it and use it in things. But the FDA is currently reviewing the safety of red dye number three. They banned it in 1990 in cosmetics after research in animals linked it to cancer. And they also said they would work to extend the ban to food and drugs,

but they've not yet done. So, okay, so red dye number three is still on the market. All right. Another one, raw milk. Mr. Kennedy has said he only drinks raw milk and suggested that restrictions on small farmers from selling raw milk should be reexamined. He's not saying that we should convert our whole supply to raw milk. But I would not drink raw milk because of things like Listeria and E. coli and things like that in there because you can't tell if it's in there when you drink it. So I'm okay with pasteurized milk. I don't have a problem with that.

raw milk is risky in people with weakened immune system. So he just says, let's just re-examine it, and this is what I do. So he's a free country. Let him do what the hell he wants to do. Sugar. He's suggested consuming too many added sugars, especially from high fructose corn syrup, contributes to childhood obesity and cardiovascular disease. I wish I had Carl saying no shit Sherlock on him.

here because it's like no shit. Yes, that's exactly a problem. Now, it's not, high fructose corn syrup itself isn't a problem because, okay, so sucrose, which is table sugar, is fructose and glucose molecule

bound together with a covalent bond. It is a disaccharide. So if you have table sugar, it's 50% fructose, 50% glucose. Okay.

Together. And if you broke it up, that's what you would get. High fructose corn syrup is anything north of 50%. So sometimes it's 51, 52% fructose compared to table sugar. So it's not the high fructose corn syrup. It's the problem. It's sugar. Sugar is the problem.

Highly processed, you know, white sugar particularly is easily absorbable. the human body, it spikes insulin levels, which then does a whole lot of things, including increasing atherosclerosis and increasing the storage of energy as fat and turning down insulin sensitivity so that people end up with diabetes type 2, not everybody, but some. And so the research, and then the New York Times is fair on this one. They just say this is correct. Okay, good for them. Let's give them a balance.

South of Bill. All right. Seed oils. His claims, Americans are being unknowly poisoned by seed oils like canola,

soybean, and sunflower oils. Be healthier for restaurants to fry food in beef tallow instead. Okay, does he have

stock in the beef industry? Because this would definitely boost them. Olive oil is also not a seed oil. Right.

So... Coconut oil. And coconut oil, not a seed oil either. Thank you, Dr. Scott, I'll give you a bell for that. Give myself a bell. Look at you.

Now, those oils have been pushed because they have, quote, unquote, heart-healthy, unsaturated fats. But there is this movement about seed oils. And, oops, where I have seen, there's whole subredits about it. Yeah, a lot of people don't like the seed oils at all. Canola oils. So what's the evidence is the question, though, is there evidence? So seed oil toxicity. Let's look at that.

I'm on PubMed.com. I ain't going to no government website. Hereby's too. Yeah. This is just a repository of medical literatures. So, yeah, let me see here. Avocado seed is a sort of, let me see. Safety assessment of oil extracted from lacquer.

Well, I can't relate. Okay, here's some acute toxicity effect of croton penderflores seed oil. Okay. Let's find, can somebody, one of you guys, while I'm sitting here struggling. Swimming upstream. Look at canola oil toxicity. Let's just look at canola oil toxicity and see if you can see. Are you in for a wild ride?

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28-day toxicity studies of canola oil and canola canola meal in rats. This is in rats. It says 13-week toxicity study was subsequently conducted. No adverse effects were noted in clinical observations. These studies support the food and feed safety of canola oil. So I'm not sure where this is coming from. I know that there are, I mean, Vinny Tortorich talked to us about seed oils. Maybe we should have him back on just to talk.

about this one thing, because I know he is not a fan of seed oils. He doesn't like seeds anyway. He's got the no seeds, no sugar, no seeds or whatever the shit he's got. He didn't know what he's missing. Now, here we go. Rape seed, which is canola oil. It's also called

rape seed, by the way. Agravates metabolic syndrome-like conditions in male but not female stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats. So it's a rat model. Here we go. Canola oil influence on azoxy methane-induced colon carcinogenesis, dietary soybean oil, canola

oil, and partially hydrogenated soybean oil affect testicular tissue and steroid hormone levels differently, oh, in the miniature pig. Now, I know that that was one of the things that I believe Vinny was talking about. So we'll look into this. I want to actually do a deep dive on seed oils and see, because listen, this guy, has had a bunch of lawsuits that he has pursued, and he's won a shitload of them when looking at things like this. So he, to a lot of people, he sounds like a lunatic, but that's just because we become inured in this idea that, you know, certain things are true, and he's just an iconoclass.

So I think that's okay. And as Health and Human Services Director, he can't just go, okay, vaccines are illegal. He's not anti-vax. He was, from what I hear him saying, is that he was concerned about the MRNA vaccine because there were harms being done. I mean, we're very aware of myocarditis in young man from the vaccine. He just was saying it hasn't been FDA approved. Let's not mandate it. 100% sure he went beyond that, but we'll do a deep dive on that, too. I just saw this article

today so I could be better prepared to talk about it. But I'm okay having an iconoclast in HHS. We need to do something. The health in this country is not where it needs to be, and our diet is not where it needs to be. But I also don't want to do like Bloomberg was trying to do and saying, well, you could only buy a certain size soda and all that stuff. We need to change how we educate people on eating, let them make their own choices, but have stuff more available that, you know, if we tell people you shouldn't be eating red dye number three for whatever reason, then we need to have fucking alternatives to it. But then they put it in medicines and...

Yes. Right. Is it not toxic in a medicine, but we can't eat it? It makes no sense. Well, listen, they've done stupid or shit than that before with our medicine, but why do we have to be entertained with our medicine? I don't need it to taste like grapes. And I don't need it to be, you know, a pleasing color.

Just make it the color it is. You know, we've gotten used to everything having to, you know, we, American spelling orders a magnitude more than everybody else in the world on just things to make their houses smell better. It's like just clean it better. Yeah. Yeah. But you just put your dirty underwear and a laundry. Yes. It's like, you know, the fish study where people who ate a lot of fish had,

fewer heart attacks. So we just took a bunch of fish and put in a vat and render them down to essential oil and then take the pill instead of just eating the fish. So our houses smell bad because we have too many cats and, you know, or whatever. And like Dr. Scott said, they're not, you know, cleaning their underwear properly. And so we buy all these air fresheners. I'm tired of, you know, when I call someplace, particularly the, you know, Pharmacies, and Tacey, you've experienced this, too.

Like, for example, CVS, at least around here, has the most depressing piano music. It's all in a minor key. And then it just gets ready to crescendo and resolve to the tonic. And then the voice comes in and says, you know, the pharmacist is helping other customers. Your call is very important to us. And then it starts over at the beginning again.

And it's like, oh, my God, I want to jump off a cliff. And I don't have to be entertained every minute of every day. You can just have two beeps that go every 10 seconds just so I know that you didn't hang up on me. It's totally fine. Now, our ear, nose and throat doctor has an old school like a music box. It must have gotten it back in the – and it has this really electronic tinny. music, and it's awful. Oh, no.

Do do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. And I just, every time they pick up, I say, you've got to do something about that. But that would cost money. I just want to slam the phone down. It's so bad. But, you know, but the truth is that every single thing that the kids put in their mouths and adults,

not everything should taste like sugar. You know, you're... Right. It's like I said, your cereal should not taste like your protein bar that shouldn't taste like your glass of tea. Right. That shouldn't taste like your... coffee, not everything has to have sugar

in it. It's like, God, just to start there. That was one of Vinnie's thing is that, you know, these protein bars, they're just candy bars. If you look at what's actually in them and how many calories and how many carbohydrates and compare that to a snickers, yeah. It's about the same. Let's really have a stickers. Yeah, I know.

Yeah, just putting sugar in everything. There's a, so I drive to this place in the mountains to a little hospital up in the mountains in Virginia. And I stop at this, you know, zoom or market or whatever, you know, roadrunner, whatever it is. And I wanted to get tea because, you know, I like iced tea, but I only like unsweetened tea.

Which if you go up north, by the way. Which up north, we just call that tea. They just call it tea. That's right. I discovered that. But I went up there and I was in Michigan and I ordered unsweet tea. And they said, well, honey, that's all we've got. So apparently if you want sweet tea, you have to put.

sugar in it. But here, in the south, they take sugar and water and they concentrate it and they boil it down to a thing called simple syrup and they just dump it in there. And so at this place, they don't have any unsweet tea. What they have is sweet tea and extra sweet tea. Oh, God. Oh, God. And that is one of the things, if I put that in my mouth, it's not being swallowed. I say I have to spit it out. I'm with you there. It's just, it's some so cloyingly sweet. You don't drink sweet. You almost have to chew it.

It's so thick. Yeah, yeah, it's disgusting. It's awful. But, yeah, so Scott's right. Everything's got sugar in it. And even... Even the unsweetened things. Like, what do you mean?

Like, they'll say unsweet milk, and you'll look at the, like, the flavored almond milks. Oh, yeah. And it says... Yes. I'm like, well, why even put unsweetened? Right, because I didn't add as much sugar. As much, I guess, yes.

And you can put zero. zero calories on something as long as each unit is less than three, I think three calories, something like that. Everybody know the answer on that one. I do. So like Tic Tacs can, you could eat a hundred of them. You'd be getting 300 calories, but you'd think you're getting zero calories. So there's all kinds of tricky little things. Now, those sorts of loopholes we can also exploit.

For example, if you extract hemp to. to make CBD oil. They, the states, particularly, let's just use Tennessee as an example, they want to be able to allow people to sell CBD that's extracted from the hemp plant, but they know that you can't extract it without getting a little bit of THC in there. So they will allow 0.3% THC in those products, as long as it's extracted from hemp. So the law is as long as each dose or whatever that you have has 0.3% THHC in it, it's legal. Well, it doesn't say it has to have CBD in it.

That's the thing, right? So what some enterprising geniuses did is they ran this oil through like a liquid chromatography system or something and separated out the CBD from the THC. And now if you put 10 milligrams of pure THC in a gummy bear that is 3 grams, which is a normal-sized gummy bear, that's 0.3%. And now it's legal. So it's a loophole. Better living through chemistry. Never underestimate the ingenuity of people wanting to get high.

That's the truth, is it? Keep a geek in your back pocket. Yeah. Love it. I love it. So, anyway, I think that's brilliant. I love that. Anyway, but so sometimes that loophole can work in the benefit.

Well, funny. There are some differences in dyes used in cereal in the U.S. in Europe. I'm looking at this. Red 40. This dye is used in some U.S. cereals, was banned in several European countries. It's alleged to be linked to hyperactivity and cancer. B.H.T. This is a chemical preservative, but it's banned in several European countries in Canada.

and animal research suggests it may increase the risk of cancer. However, some of these preservatives are actually antioxidants. That's how they work. And some people think that they may actually benefit people. So the research on that one is still out there. But I think it's interesting. I mean, we have to look at all sides of these things. Titanium dioxide.

It's added to U.S. foods. It's hidden in nutritional labels under the terms like artificial color or added color. It's banned in Europe, can accumulate in the body, potentially damaging DNA. Now, it's like a white dye. Back in England, they would take brown bread and put lead in it, lead salts in it, to turn it white. And then they could sell it because back then the people who had less money or, you know, people living in poverty still wanted to eat bread. And they wanted to eat it like the nobles, but the nobles all had this highly. processed white bread, which is actually bad for them.

And then the people in the underclasses just had, you know, rough brown bread, which we now know probably was way better for them. But to make it look like the other, they would put lead salts in it, and then they would get lead poisoning and it would actually harm them. So anyway, so, you know, and back then that made sense. We learned things that we change our mind about them. Low-carb diet was considered a harmful diet. And now we're really, the data is there that says that if it's done properly, it's actually probably pretty good for you.

And a vegan diet even better, you know. So a lot of people just can't do vegan diet and they can't stand vegans for a lot, for, you know, a large part. But the vegan diet's actually got some pretty good data behind it. Here's brominated vegetable oil. This additive is used in citrus drinks in the U.S. But it's banned in Europe. the FDA recently proposed a band on promenaded vegetable oil. Why would they

put the, what's that for? I don't know. It always makes you wonder why they put all this up. But it has to be just to preserve it to last long run a shelf or something. I'll give it some consistency or some damn thing. Or color, yeah. I don't know. Make it pretty. But the things that we used to think were good do sometimes are proven to be

bad. We used to think cigarettes were good for your lungs, you know, And so things do change as data accumulates. We used to, when I was a medical student, if you had someone on who had congestive heart failure, in other words, pump failure, and you had them on a beta blocker, which decreases the contractility of the heart, but does a lot of other things too, it was thought to be malpractice if you had them on that. If they came into the hospital with acute congestive heart failure and they were on, say, metoprolol, it was considered to be malpractice. Now it's malpractice if you don't have them on a bedlock because it actually improves oxygenation and the efficiency of the heart. Well, then that's something so. You know, these things change. Sure.

And that's what science is about. When I have journalists saying, oh, these, he questioned the science. That's what you're supposed to do. That's what science is about. We don't, you know, if we, if scientists blindly followed, quote unquote, the science, we would still be, you know, in my. Marconi's Day. You know, we wouldn't know anything about, about, you know, wave functions and quantum physics and any of that stuff. All of that came about by questioning the current scientific thought. Right before Plont came up with the quantum theory of energy, of light,

there were scientists, physicists back then and said, we're about done. We, there's only, you know, one or two things left to figure out. This weird blackbody radiation thing, that's kind of weird, but everything else we got and figured out. Well, that turned out to be the key to the quantum revolution. So you have to question this stuff. It's fine to question science. Just don't be stupid about it.

Use evidence, though. You can't just go, well, some scientist said that, so I don't believe it. You know, some of the science is correct. It isn't. Every scientist that's a true scientist. does a study knows that it's got to be peer reviewed. Correct. It's got to be proven.

It's got to be reproduced. It's got to be replicable. If you can't do that, you know, you can't just have some shit head. You say, well, that can't be right because such as him. It's got to be proved over and over and over. Yeah. Well, my friend Joey Gay sent me in an article or a paper that a friend of his wrote that was to revolutionize quantum wave theory. and he named it after himself, which is the first caveat, by the way.

If you wrote something called it the Dr. Scott of it, you know, other people have to name it that. You can't name it that yourself. So that was the first thing. But the second thing was, I don't understand. This may be the greatest advance in physics of all time, but you won't know until he submits it to a physics journal, gets it pure. reviewed, let it get published, and then let people try to pick it apart. And if they can't do it, then, yeah, you've revolutionized physics.

I mean, that's what Einstein did. You know, his theory of special and general relativity, which, by the way, he didn't win the Nobel Prize for either one of those. Does anybody know what he won the Nobel Prize for? No, I don't. It was for the

photoelectric effect. So that's what he won his Nobel Prize for. But the which I would love to talk about, but we've gone down too many rabbit holes. But, you know, he published those papers, and then people read them and looked at the math, and then they experimentally confirmed them. Einstein did this all in his head, but Eddington went into a solar eclipse

and took pictures of a star before and after, the eclipse where it was grazing. They knew this star was going to be right grazing the corona, so it was close enough to the sun to show an effect. And there was a displacement of that star that perfectly matched the prediction that Einstein's theory put forth about curvature of space and time around the sun. So, and Eddington sent him, you know, a telegraph, telegram just going, yeah, bro, you're right on the money. But that's how science is done. And we're still questioning Einstein. They're experiment after experiment after experiment looking to see if they can tease out a little tiny effect

that would lead to new physics that would show that Einstein's theory was incomplete and they still haven't been able to do it. That's crazy. It's not reconcilable with quantum physics, which is weird, you know, that you've got this theory of big things and this theory of teeny tiny things and they do not meet.

There's no way that you can reconcile them with the mathematics that we have right now. But it's every time they've looked at it, they even looked at the cosmic background radiation, and it conformed to, there were certain parameters that conformed to what Einstein's theory predicted. And Einstein wasn't even thinking of that. He was just trying to figure out how the moon goes around the earth and why Mercury's orbit. it doesn't quite conform to what we think it would using Keplerian math. And just what gravity was. He was just doing it in his head.

Oh, geez. You know, if you're in an elevator in space and you're accelerating at one, you know, 10 meters per second per second, you can't tell the difference between that and being on Earth. You can't, if you, if there were no windows, you would never be able to tell. There's no experiment that you could do that would say, okay, I'm not on. on a planet, I'm actually in an elevator in the middle of space. And because of that, if you have a hole in the elevator and a beam of light comes in, because you're accelerating, the beam is going to hit the other side of the elevator slightly lower because the elevator's going to have moved in the time that that beam entered the elevator until the time it hit the back wall. So he said, well, okay, so that means light curves in the presence of a gravitational field. and shit if he wasn't right.

All because he was thinking about a guy flying through space in an elevator. That's something. It's pretty impressive, yeah. Yeah. All the experiment's done in his head. Anyway, all right. So, yeah, science changes. It's okay to question science, just, but you can't just say it's bullshit and not have a reason for saying that.

Right, right. You know, when people came to me about the MRA vaccine for the coronavirus, I said, you know, if you come to me, saying I'm concerned about the cat studies that showed autoimmune enhancement when they were exposed to this vaccine so that the next time they were exposed to a coronavirus, they actually died. That would be a valid argument to me to say, hey, I'm a little concerned about taking this. Maybe I'm going to hold off. But just to say, well, just to make up things, that's a whole other thing.

So there were some really good arguments, and then there were some that were just made up out a whole cloth for I think probably for political reasons on both sides you know Stephen Colbert can kiss my ass with just his blind you know

adherence to sort of the party line on that but anyway all right so enough of that you guys have anything I have a question so I was flying and this lady in front of me was trying to go through the what do you call it

where they test you for metal I guess Oh, yeah, right. And it went off. Okay. So they pulled her to the side, and they wanded her, and it kept going off. This woman had on a Lulu Lemon tight. Oh, do you see her breathing? Yeah.

No. Oh. She had taken a probiotic. What? And they asked her, finally, I mean, they're like, we cannot figure out what's setting it up. And they asked her, they said, have you taken it? She says, well, yes. They said, that's what it is.

It sets off the alarm. Have you heard that? No. Anything that would make that true? I'm looking it up. That's crazy. Probiatic bacteria can be used to detect heavy metals. No, let's see.

Metal detectors in food and nutraceutical production. Let's do TSA probiotic and see. Hmm. I've never did. Yeah, they kept her aside, and she was right in front. And they pulled me also, so I was standing there with her. And I looked at her, I said, yeah, what are you hiding in that tight outfit? And she goes, she goes right. And then they finally just said, oh, well, then go ahead and go through when they figured out she'll take in that probiotic, yeah.

TSA screening and medication. I'm going to do a little bit broader search and see. Nope. Wow, and that's something. I thought that was quite interesting, and I'm getting ready to fly this week, so I thought that's just something good to know. Yeah, so they're just saying TSA screening and medication. How about ingested medication? Are you planning something?

Well, it just said that you can bring on, you know, probiotics and they're sometimes good to take before you travel for a stomach upset, which makes sense. I just, hmm. And I don't know if they were just frustrated and saying that so that they could, like, legally let her go. Yeah. But that's what they said, and I've always remembered. Hmm.

Okay. So, Scott, will you send me an email on that? I'll do a deep dive on that one as well. Okay. Yeah, I don't know the answer to that. Oh, where'd Taysco? She got a call. Okay.

All right. You guys got anything? That's all I got. Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. Now, I rambled a little bit long. Dr. Scott, you got anything from the fluid family out there? If you want to join the fluid family, by the way, we generally record around 1 p.m. on Saturdays.

But just follow me on Twitter at Weird Medicine or go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine and click subscribe and the notification button you'll get notified. And if you click join, and you don't have to pay to join, just click join and then click accept gifted membership. Sometimes Myrtle gives away, you know, 10 or 20 gifted memberships every Sunday. Bless her heart. Well, I like giving them gifted memberships, don't you know. All right, what do you got? Yes, so let me go back up here to Drew. Drew was asking, why was Kumin stopped being made?

I take warfarin because I had an artificial heart valve since I was in the second grade. The side effects are far worse and a lot worse with the generic. And he's also wondering, Drew's also asking if, since he's been on blood thinners for 30 years is the alcohol tolerance higher than other people that are not on a blood thinner.

Once you look that one, but branded kumaden isn't currently available on the market. It was a Bristol-Myers Squibb that made it. And they just discontinued. They couldn't make any money on it anymore. And I used to always insist that people take branded synthroid and branded kumaden. But what happened was they came out with these other drugs like eloquists and things like that

that really ate into the Coumadin market because when you are on Coumadin, although it is really efficient anticoagulant, you have to monitor the levels of anticoagulation through these blood tests. And you have to do it periodically, and then you have to keep adjusting it. I had some people,

I would have to adjust the damn thing every single time that I would test them. and if they ate spinach, it would go up and all this stuff. Well, with these new drugs, you don't have to do that. You don't even have to monitor them, and they work just about as well. So anyway, so, yeah, that's the answer. I've got on that. It's not saying anything about alcohol, you being able to drink more alcohol if you're on a bloodthender,

but certainly you could potentially be more susceptible to alcohol because the alcohol will also thin your blood, so you have to be careful if you're on a blood thinner and drinking alcohol because it can make it too thin. Yeah. Yeah, it says here, you know, you should limit your intake of warfarin, and it increases the effect of warfarin, and it raises your risk of bleeding, and therefore it makes it harder for your blood clot properly, et cetera, et cetera. So, Dr. Scott's correct.

So you said alcohol does that as well, so you could drink instead of taking it? No. No, no, no, no. A little different mechanism. Is it okay. Yeah, and it's not, yeah, it's really that the alcohol. is increasing the effect of the war for, and ultimately, it's a drug-drug interaction more than anything else.

That's the way I understand it anyway. Okay. All right. What else? That's all from the flu family right now. Okay. I thought I saw another question on there that somebody asked, and I said, we need to ask this question, Dr. Scott.

I'll go back up on. I'll go back up top. Oh, okay. Oh, here we go. It's Chris Mack. He said, hey, Dr. Steve, I double-checked that thing from last week, and I saw they definitely recommend giving newborns hepatitis vaccine. So I, if you remember, it's been a long time since I delivered a baby, and I wasn't aware of this because I'm an idiot, and I don't do

peds anymore. So I hope I didn't definitively say that. I think I, I hope I said I don't know. But it is true, and I've confirmed this as well, Chris Mag, and thanks for bringing it up, that the CDC recommends all infants now receive the hepatitis B vaccine within 20. 24 hours of birth. And if you remember, we were talking, oh, and we know that they give vitamin K, but I wasn't so sure about that. Now, they usually, it's usually given in a series of two to four shots with the final dose administered between six to 18 months of age. And, you know, 95% of infants develop immunity after receiving the full series. This does, this will prevent certain cancers, hepatocelular cancer, from people that have chronic hepatitis B.

So, Tacey, you got anything for us today? No. You're being awfully chatty, so. No. Are you okay? Shut up, Tacey. I don't know. I haven't given anybody a chance to talk.

I've been running my stupid mouth. All right. What is your show? Yeah, so thank you, Chris Mack, for pointing that out and for allowing me to correct the record on that one. All right. Hello, fluid family. Hey. Everybody's doing okay today there in studio.

Doing all right. Thanks, buddy. See, we ask question here, but it's a question here, but it's a little. Is it possible for your fingernails to build up or to have a memory? And what I mean is, like my thumbnails, I don't care what I do to them, I don't care how close I cut it to the quick or cut the sides of it, the center of my fingernails right down the very center is eventually going to split. And they just has to grow back out and then three or four months later, it's going to split and it's a painful split. And they've done this for probably 20 years. You would think that if you cut that section out.

Well, you could remove the nail if it really bothers you that much. But, you know, split nails can be caused mostly by trauma. But there are other things that can do it as well, you know, just physical stress. But those are people that mess with their nails. I can't stop messing with them. But there are some nail products that will weaken the nail and it will cause it to split. But one that you cut and then it continues to split is all. almost always because of previous trauma.

And there actually is a trick that you could try is by putting a Lee Press on nail to make that nail bed conform back to being sort of, you know, a curve like that. And that may allow the nail to grow out normally again. They can fix that at the nail salon. What can they do? They add fake nail to it. Yeah. And sand it down. And then when it grows, it grows.

It grows back normal. Yeah, it stops. I had a toe that was doing that. Oh, yeah? Okay. I had a case where somebody came in and they had, were using a table saw, and they weren't protecting themselves properly. And when they ran the thing up there, they cut their thumb in half. And it went down not quite to the bone.

So when I say in half, it was just the tip, but it went down pretty far. I mean, the bone is embedded deep in there. It's deeper than you think. And so there was a bunch of men. meat and a nail bed that was split in two and a nail that was split in two. And then you had the meat of it was split in two, too. So it was just forked at the end. So I came up with this brilliant idea.

I sewed up the, you know, after cleaning it out, sewed up the thumb, or, you know, this is what you would do in this hypothetical case, and then took an 18-gauge needle, which is the biggest one, drilled two holes. on either side of the split into the nail. And I took a suture and ran it from the one nail to the other and then tied it to bring the whole thing together, the nail bed and the meat, which I'd already sewed up together. And then after it healed up enough so that it would stay, I put a Lee-Presson nail on there.

Or I would, and like I say in this hypothetical case. And that Lee-Presson-nail would cause the nail bed to conform back to its normal shape. And people go, well, you know, what are you put in, these are for girls and all that stuff. But that's what it's for. And it's like when kids have a square, a flat head, and they put those helmets on them to make their head grow back out into a circular shape. If you know what I'm talking about. Yeah.

So it's the same thing. You're just forcing the thing to grow back. And when you do that, those people's nails will look absolutely normal. It'll take a year. It takes a year for that to all grow out. But when they do, it's totally normal. No split, no nothing, no abnormality, if you do it right. So anyway, all right.

Let's see here. Okay, yeah, I do want to do this one. Hi, Dr. Steve. How are you? Good, man. How are you? I assume everyone else is doing well as well. They're delighted.

I was just listening to an episode where you were talking about, basically ambient light when you're sleeping, you know. Well, we were talking about artificial lights in the, in the room, you know, things that increase, he's right, the ambient light in the room. Like from your chargers or your alarm clock or your television. Correct. And you said that it's best to sleep in pitch black. And I just feel like Dr. Got there is giving you a little.

a little influence because... Dr. Who? Scott. Oh, Dr. Scott. Oh, okay. Our ancestors slept under a sky full of lights. Okay, correct. And I like to talk about how our ancestors, you know, environment affects our environment.

So let's take this further. The stars were much more visible. Right. They're also not nearly as bright as an LED, but let's go. I don't think that we're meant to sleep in pitch black. And I don't think that these small lights really affect our sleep as much as people like to say they do. I hear what you're saying. There is some data on this, but really what people are looking at is more of a hypothetical thing.

That there is this night-day circadian rhythm. And the pineal gland is definitely involved in this sort of sleep, wake, cycle, light, dark cycle. And we have these internal clubs. that sort of govern our bodies. And what I'm talking about, more than just the LEDs, although that's something, too, is people sleeping with their TV on or with their tablet on, and it's this bright light,

and it's going through their eyeballs or their eyelids, which is going to their pineal gland, that's telling them it's daytime out. That's the problem. I think if your room is basically very dark, and you've got, you know, a red LED somewhere, that's not a big deal. The blue ones are more of a concern, but even then, just a little bit is not a big deal. It's people that are never getting full dark, you know, that difference between the light and dark.

And so, you know, there are, I have some studies here that we can look at. I hear 22 sleep researchers at Northwestern Universities, Feinberg School of Medicine found exposure to even small amounts of amorty. Ambient light during the night can harm cardiovascular function while sleeping and increase insulin resistance the next morning. The study demonstrated even a single night of exposure to moderate room lighting while asleep can impair glucose and cardiovascular regulation, which are risk factors for diabetes, heart disease, metabolic syndrome, and obesity. They looked at night shift workers and they found a relationship between exposure to light at night and dysregulated glucose. we've seen this in the hospital when you have someone in the ICU and there's someone always visiting with them, you know, very, very conscientious family members will sit in the room with the patient and they'll take shifts, and the night shift person is, you know, sitting up reading or something, and the lights are never turned off in the room completely.

And those people are more prone to delirium than people who get eight hours of darkness in their room in the ICU. That's been demonstrated as well. So I don't disagree with them. We can't go too far with this. It doesn't have to be absolutely pitch black, but we are sleeping with too much ambient light according to these studies. And obviously everybody's different, too. If you're having a problem, try it. and see if it helps.

And I'm not a, have you ever tried the sleep gogg things that you put over your eyes? I know there are people that sleep with those. No, I haven't. Have you ever, either of you guys ever slept with them? I started wearing the, what do you call them, just the wraps around your head. Yeah. Yeah, because you told me this. So I started using those.

Do you think it makes a difference? I mean, that's an end of one, but. I mean, it seems like I'm sleeping okay, but I was sleeping okay before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I don't know. I would, I want to, when I. I opened my eyes, be able to see what the hell's around me. I think that would freak me out.

If I woke up and I opened my eyes and I couldn't see anything, I had to pull this thing off. I guess you get used to it. Well, you feel it, so you know it's there. I hear you saying that, but I don't feel my CPAP or my bipap all the time. I'll wake up and say, oh, my God, I must have taken my bipap off. And then I go up to scratch my nose and there's a big, you know, face mask there. Very sexy face mask, by the way. It's very attractive.

But anyway, yeah, so I think, yes, of course, like everything else, we can go too far. A lot of our ancestors slept in caves, but a lot of our ancestors did sleep with a fire going. But I think that's mostly red light as opposed to the sort of artificial light and blue light that we have now that is demonstrably different. And I think sleeping by a fire is probably good for you. But it's still light, but it's, you know, the embers particularly are more radiating in the infrared and the, you know, far red part of the visible spectrum. All right. Very interesting. All right.

Let's see here. Let me do this one. And then we go out of it. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, yo, yo. Okay. Okay.

I think that's his John Field. He's baked again. Hey, I got a question about testosterone. Do you tell me what kind of, I know you were talking recently about what testosterone you used, now you changed how you've administered? Yeah. Are you trying the cream or a pellet or what are you trying? And your personal opinion, not your educated.

Correct. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm with you. Yeah, my personal opinion is I don't know what it's doing for me, to be honest with you. I know that when I took too much, it made me a pure son of a bitch. But I've never, since I started it, had the balls to just stop taking it altogether. So, you know, I'm relatively young for my age, so I think something's helping. And I feel like the testosterone is probably helping in that regard.

I do the gel. I put the gel on my chest and shoulder every morning. and I do two pumps. When I was doing four pumps, it was just too much. And I was very argumentative and prickly. More so than normal. I get it. I'll say it before you asked us.

We would never say that. Never. Never. I never said that. I saw how you were looking at me. I knew it was funny. You're precious. Yeah. You're sweet. He's a sweetie pie.

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