Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 618 - Sundial Pen15 Burnz

Episode Date: December 20, 2024

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It's Tacey's Time of Topics, a time for Tacey to discuss topics of the day. Not to be confused with Topic Time with Harrison Young, which is copyrighted by Harrison Young and Area 58 Public Access. And now, here's Tacey. Hello, everybody. I think we can, hello. I think we can probably get rid of the disclaimer. One of these days, I'll shorten that. You know how it's always sunny in Philadelphia had that big, long theme song, and then by the end, it was just like,

like two cords. Yep, yep. So we'll do the same thing. Anyway, what you got? We need to finish that, by the way. Yes, we do. Yes. The first one is about

Celine Dion and her battle was stiff person syndrome. Slim Dion. Slim Dion. Selim Dion. Excuse me. I've had a couple of mimosis. Okay.

Slim Dion. A rare autoimmune neurological disorder. SPS causes muscle stiffness, painful spasms, and coordination issues while incurable treatments can improve quality of life. Yeah, I think a lot of people were confused about what's going on with her if they think about her at all.

But they know that she's been ill, and I've heard that some people thought she had cancer. Other people thought she had Parkinson's, but it's not actually correct. She has stiff person syndrome. So tell us about that. She just described the condition as feeling like somebody is strangling you and affecting her daily activities, including cooking and singing. Cooking? Yeah, right. You think she does her own cooking?

Get out of here. She doesn't eat. A team of shows. Well, she may now do her own cooking. SPS impacts Diane's throat and abdominal muscles, even breaking a rib during one severe spasm. Oh, God. The condition has significantly altered her life and career. I want to make fun of her about her cooking like a little piece of celery for, you know, calling that cooking.

Exactly. But I can't make fun of her now because this is horrible. It is terrible. Dr. Scott Newsom from Johns Hopkins Medicine explains that SPS results from a high excitable nervous system. Diagnosis is challenging, often requiring specialized tests and neurologist referrals. SPS typically develops between ages 30 and 50, causing muscle stiffness, painful spasms, and mobility issues.

Symptoms may include irregular gait, postural changes, and increased risk of falling. Emotional distress, anxiety, and depression are common. Dr. Newsom describes SPS as a spectrum disorder with symptoms evolving over. time. Variations include classic SPS, focal SPS, and SPS with cerebral ataxia. That means, or it's probably cerebellar ataxia, and

those are people who can't walk. Right, balanced. Yeah, they have no terrible balance, and they're just, you know, walking around like a dr. conjugate gate. Correct. If they're even able to walk at all.

Dr. Newsom describes SPS as a spectrums. You got that for discontagate gain. I already read that one. Oh, you did? Yeah, well, the exact cause is unknown. Scientists have linked SPS to an antibody called GAD 65. Right.

This antibody targets glutamic acid decarboxylase. Yeah, glutamic acid decarboxylase. And, yeah, it's an enzyme that, you know, decaboxylates glutamic acid. And if you don't do that, glutamate builds up. between the nerve endings, and you get these problems. My question is, why they say they're not sure if the antibodies are clinically relevant, but it certainly makes sense. You know, we have the same sort of thing with ALS, too.

There's some, you know, glutamate issues. It's pretty toxic if it's toxic if it builds up. Why not doing a study on a monoclonal antibody that attacks the anti-GAD-65 antibodies? And just see, surely to goodness, they've, I mean, I'm not the first person who thought of this. No. It's such a rare disease that they're not, you know, just pouring. But, you know, we were talking about a Canadian treasure, you know, they should be. Says it makes patient sensitive to triggers like stress and loud noises.

Treatment for SPS involves a multi-pronged approach. Immunotherapies target the immune system while medications like benzodiazepines calm the nervous system. physical intervention such as stretching, massage, and yoga can help with pain and mobility. This combined approach can improve quality of life and potentially slow progression. Celine Dion's public diagnosis has raised awareness of this rare condition. Yeah, it's sad that you have to have somebody famous to, you know, Ronald Reagan had his colonoscopy. You know, he had colon cancer and they found a cancerous polyp, I guess, if I remember right, I just remember he had a colonoscopy, and all of a sudden, people were aware of colonoscopies.

It's like, why did we need that? Yeah. Now, I have some other things here, Tastes. It says intravenous immunoglobulin. So I give myself a bell for that. That would be groups, you know, other people's antibodies, basically. They say it's safe and effective treatment for a stiff person syndrome uses the antibodies to help reduce the stiffness and improve balance. In this article, it doesn't say why, but it was.

be because they're probably blocking those other antibodies. Gotcha. Gotcha. But anyway, so IVIG can help with reducing stiffness and decreasing falls, et cetera, et cetera. Plasma exchange is one, an oral immunosuppressant therapy. So I'm, you know, she certainly can afford the best doctors in the world, so I'm assuming that she's doing all these things too. Yeah.

She just doesn't want to docks herself with all this stuff than she's doing. Yeah. The stiff person syndrome, there's also a. Stone Man Syndrome. Correct. And that's not the same. We've talked about before on this show, but it's been a while. Okay. A 10-year-old Pakistani boy presented with painful lumps on his back, stiff shoulders, neck, and left hip. He underwent surgical excision of the left hip ossification, which worsened the condition. Radiological examination revealed widespread heterotopic ossification while blood tests were normal. The patient exhibited multiple swellings on his

back, shoulders, hip, and knee. Painful mass was noted on his left arm. All visible masses were tender and abdominal and paris spinal muscles were stiff. Shoulder movement was severely restricted. The boy had bilateral halix, valgus, a limited mobility. Okay, we should talk about what. Okay. So the halix is the big toe.

And valgus means that, okay, so varis and valgus and valgus. Valgus means that it's pointing away from the midline of the body. So it's just a, you know, it's a crooked toe, basically, is what that is. And when you're talking about ossification, what they're talking about is bonification, not that kind, Dr. Scott, that you're thinking about. Of course. Bonification of tissues like joints and muscles. Right. There's boneification where there shouldn't be bones being laid.

New bone being laid. Correct. Yes. Lab results were normal, but genetic testing wasn't done. due to financial constraints. X-ray showed widespread heterotopic ossification. Previous surgery on the left hip initially improved mobility, but led to worsened ossification.

The patient received symptomatic treatment and counseling as family was educated about the disease and advised to prevent trivial trauma. Yes. Hygrisplasia. No. That's a big word. I said it right. Ossifican's progressive.

The. Ossifacan's progressiva, or progressiva. Progressive. Also known as Stomann syndrome is an extremely rare genetic disorder. It causes progressive bone formation and soft tissues, leading to severe disability. It affects one to two million people worldwide, soft and misdiagnosed, resulting in unnecessary and harmful interventions. It sounds like everything you do to try to help this makes it worse. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's a rough one. Yeah. It says early diagnosis through clinical examination, radiological evaluation, and genetic testing is crucial for proper management. The disorder typically begins in the first two decades of life with no demographic preferences. It's characterized by abnormal big toes and progressive ossification of connective tissues. And it's also a rare disease, so that's the other problem with it. Yeah. Causing permanent disability.

Yeah. FOP is caused by mutations of the ACVR-1 gene. Physical therapy for FOP patients should focus on improving daily activities while avoiding passive movements that could trigger flare-ups. Yeah, so again, one of these things that maybe CRISPR in the future may solve. You know, we've got a Huntington's disease to be a good one. This is one, you know, if we could just go in and change their genetics, We couldn't reverse the problems that they already have, but we may be able to stop.

Yeah. It says trauma, including injections and dental procedures, can cause flare-ups. Right. Patients may be at higher risk after flu-like illnesses. So subcontaneous flu vaccines are recommended, especially for those with chest-wall restrictions. So, yeah. So there are other things like this. So people who have psoriasis will notice a thing called Kebner phenomenon.

And what that is, is where they get a little bit of trauma to the skin. All of a sudden, a plaque will grow. And you can draw things on someone's skin, and it'll make psoriasis plaques. I mean, it's not a fun game or anything, but you could do that. And so, like, if a cat scratches their arm, they'll form those plaques there. So it's the body's response to trauma. And in this case, instead of making a psoriotic plaque, they form bone. Blame down more bone.

Yeah. Yep. Corticosteroids are used for flare-ups affecting major joints, jaw or submandibular area, but not for back neck or trunk flare-ups. Insets or Cox to inhibitors with leukotrin inhibitors may be used when stopping prednisone. However, these treatments didn't halt progression in our patient. Okay. It's incurable. Yeah.

You got anything else? I have a couple of really boring ones. Okay. We'll do those next week. Okay. We already did too boring. I thought slim deal. No, that was very interesting.

Well, I mean, there's one that... That old slam deal on. What are you up? Did you hear about the millions of Americans to see reduced medication cost in 2025? No. A new AARP report reveals that by 2025, more than 3 million Americans will save over $1,000 on their prescriptions due to the Biden's administration inflation reduction. Oh, I see. Okay.

Inflation reduction, where they play. where they plowed more money into the economy. So, yeah, you can't, listen. We're going to get in trouble. I don't care. Okay. This is a thing that has to do with medication and playing politics with people's medication. It's no coincidence that this is coming out in an election year.

And listen, I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, but I care about our patients, should be a given, so I can't virtue signal on that. I don't want to sound like I'm virtue signaling on that. But this could have been done, what, four years ago? Why is it being done now? Four 15. And why are we hearing the candidate now saying they're going to fix all this stuff when, you know, you're the one that's in, you're in the incumbent, basically.

So why didn't you fix it while you were the first four years? A $2,000 out-of-pocket cap instituted. Yeah, that's not. not reducing inflation. It's reducing cost. It's not the same thing. And it's reducing prices. It's not the same thing as reducing inflation. Because when you do that, if the pharmacy now can't charge you anymore, what they're going to do is they're just not going to carry the drug or they're only going to carry generics or they're just going to go out of business. That's all they're using anyway right now as generics.

Yeah, unless they have to. care patients. Yeah. But, you know, if they can't, look, if they just artificially cap costs, then people are going to go out of business, people are going to lose jobs. Yeah. Drug makers are not happy with this and argue the law will hurt consumers. Yeah. Well, yeah, because they're not going to eat it.

No. No, we're going to eat it. That's the problem. I mean, you know, there's a lot of shit to go around. But these sort of artificial policies like that. You know, and look, I want everybody to make a ton of money. One of the things that they've seen in California is the loss of entry-level jobs because this is what I understand from my friends who live in California that entry-level jobs

are disappearing because of the minimum wage has been raised so high. And those are jobs for people like our kids who have not had a job before that need to just get started and learn some things. Learn how to be responsible. Learn how to show up, learn how to do a bunch of different things. Intended to be career jobs, but I know they can be for some people. And I, you know, there's got to be some sort of middle ground there. My thing is, and then I'll shut up, I would not own a small business if I didn't give my employees a piece of the action.

Right. That's how you do this. Now, you can't mandate it, but I think you're crazy if you own, let's say, a shop where you're, You're making candles. And it's just, it's not a franchise. You make them in the back and you hire, let's say, a college student and you pay her $12 an hour, which is not, I mean, here, what's minimum wage here? Like eight, something like that. So it's a little bit over.

But other places are paying 15, starting at 15. Why would you do a good job? Why would you care? Yeah, right? You want to keep your job. So you're just going to do the minimum to keep your job. Whereas, hey, if, you know, I do a survey and everybody says you were really nice, you know, to them and they were felt happy to be here, I'm going to give you, you know, a bump. I'll give you a bonus.

Or how about this? If we sell a shitload of candles because you're out there barking at people, you know, to get them in and selling them candles and giving them deals and doing all this stuff, I'll cut you in for, you know, 5% of the profit or something. And the other part of that is reducing over. head, you know, for the, if the people realize if they work harder, maybe they don't throw away that paper. Yeah. I mean, they don't throw that extra tape in a trash or whatever. Give your employees a reason to want your business to succeed.

Yep. And when you do that, it solves 90% of these problems. Totally, totally, totally. I would never own a small business without giving my employees a piece of the action. Yep. Even a big one, I think. Yeah. Yeah, I think any kind of thing.

Well, a lot of the big, big ones have profit sharing. But I think even on a small level, you can do that. Oh, heck, yeah. Yeah, I agree. But anyway, all right. I'll shut that. I'll shut up. I'm an idiot.

All right. Okay, we done? I mean, I have other boring ones, but they're really boring. Okay, well, all right. That was a good one, though. That was a good one, taste. Yep. All right.

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So I finally have quit smoking, but I substituted it for this vapor thing. Okay, yeah. So it seems to be kind of all the rage, and I love it. I don't wake up with a 25-pound weight on my chest anymore. Right, I hated that. I seem to think it's working because I can know the milligram of nicotine that I'm taking, and I've weaned myself down to about 1.5 milligram. per dosage, which is approximately 10 milliliters or something like that.

Anyway, I wanted to see what your take was on the whole vapor thing. Thanks. Yeah. And before I get to that, there's some comments in the chat room. By the way, if you want to join the fluid family in the waiting room, ugh. I'm not saying yuck to the fluid family. We love them, but it's just stupid names. Go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine.

turn on the notifications. And when we're recording live, then you can join in. And there's some really good comments here. Talk like a hick to you says they're hiking prices now. So if they quote and reduce it later, it'll just be back to where it was. Like stores during Black Friday sales. And ORS at the movie says they do that a lot. Hike the price and reduce it.

It's still above where it was. but they claim they lowered the price. So there you go. You know what? Yeah, that's – I suspect that that's true. I wonder what the evidence is. I don't know. It certainly seems true.

Well, if there's a $2,000 maximum limit on what they can pay, then – Yeah. Well, true. Yeah, that's a good point. They're not just saying – they're not cutting it by 10%. They're actually capping. And that is a little bit different. But still, I see these things.

I like it when they go, oh, well, you know, buy two, get one free. So you're buying three for the price of two. How about you just sell me one for two thirds the price? Yeah. And you could just do that anyway. But it's some sort of psychological thing. And I think it's a psychological thing for them, too, that, oh, well, you're, you know, you're moving more product, but you're making less on it. So, but I guess, you know, volume really does matter.

My dad used to tell a joke about a guy that had a business, and he said, I buy these widgets for $10, and I sell them for $8. And, you know, I sell a lot more of them. They said, well, how do you make any money on that? And the guy who goes, volume. Yep. Right? So think about it just for a second. But anyway, yeah, if you sell a lot of, anyway, I don't have to explain it.

You guys are smart. All right. So vaping. Let's talk about vaping. So we have talked about this before back in a few years ago. There was that scare where they were using apparently like vitamin E or something, liquid vitamins to solubleize the vape with. And people are getting horrible lung diseases from this. But that, I haven't heard about any of that in quite some time.

I think it's all settled down. But there's a lot of studies that show that e-cigarettes with nicotine may help adults quit smoking compared to e-cigarettes without nicotine or no treatment. We still don't know what the health effects of e-cigarettes are long-term, but we believe that they are less dangerous than smoking. Smoking, you get carbon monoxide, you get tar. Tar is what causes the cancer. The nicotine promotes the cancer. and also is a vasoconstrictor, so it promotes heart attack and stroke.

But if you're just getting the nicotine with the goal of getting off of it. So Rich Voss, our friend, which, by the way, gave me a really good joke for my roast that I used to, it's on our YouTube channel, I think. I'll put it up there at some point. I know it's in our Patreon channel.

The Roast of the Dabbleverse. I recorded mine remotely, but Voss gave me a good joke about Shulia. Well, I'll tell it now. It said, Shulie Agar, a comedian, is at war with Kevin Brennan. Who was the other one? Oh, Kevin Brennan, Patrick Melton, and Stevie Lou. And I said, even Netanyahu told him to slow it down.

I delivered it much better. that day, you know. Anyway. So the e-cigarettes, pretty good. Voss got off smoking. He used to smoke, and he no longer smokes. But he got off of cigarettes with nicotine gum. And he still choose it. I mean, I heard about this one. It's been for years. Yeah. I heard about this one the first time he was on Opium Anthony. That was like 2005. So yeah, it's been decades now. that he still does the nicotine gum. So that's still safer than smoking, and that's probably safer than vaping, but there's still nicotine in it. And it still constricts the blood vessels and is a tumor promoter. You know, I have a lot of patients in my practice that say, well, now I have stage four cancer. Why should I quit smoking now?

And it's like, well, if they are terminally, I mean, close to the end, it's like, well, I'm not going to take anything away from you that you enjoy. But if they are engaging in treatment, then there is a reason to stop smoking. And it's because nicotine promotes an enzyme called protein kinasee. And protein kinasee, C is activated by nicotine, and protein kinasee promotes tumor growth. So in a lot of tumors. So there is a reason to smoke. And you feel better, too.

All right? All right. FDA is approved medication to help people quit smoking. They're mostly safe and effective. One of them is not, you know, one of the oral ones is not allowed to be taken by airline pilots. That would be chantics, by the way, because it causes dysphoria and weird dreams. Is that the same as Welbutrin? No.

That one was Zell Norm, I think, was the name that the, no, Zyban. They used to Zyban was the, and now it's just, it's generic. Well, Butrin is bupropion. It worked wonders for me. I was just looking for a pill. You know, I could quit smoking for six weeks, 12 weeks, you know, even a year. But I'd always start back up again. And I just needed a pill to help me, you know, I think some of it was psychological.

Yeah, get over the hub. But, yeah, I started taking bupropion back. in with a day it came out and I never looked back and I haven't smoked since. And that was over 25 years ago, I think. So there you go. Whatever it takes. But if you want to quit smoking and not vape, then we've, Scott used to, it was a tobacco addict, but he dipped, but he'd slip a little twigs cheek and gum.

Right on, right on. But I would quit and counsel people if they don't want to take a pill or they don't want to do patches or all that stuff. Rather than to quit by number, in other words, some people would put 19 cigarettes in a bag and then 18 and then don't do it that way. Do it by time. So I would smoke two before I hit the shower every morning. So the first day, I didn't smoke those.

And the head of my cock was very thankful because when you're flicking cigarettes between your legs, sitting on the pot. then you're burning, you know, the top of the Roman War helmet frequently. So it was pretty stupid. And how many times you have to do that before you figure out that's a bad idea? Oh, and it didn't matter. It doesn't matter. The smoking, that's true.

Seriously, you know, it didn't matter. Yes, I did it for years. And it happened, you know, once a month or something like that. And so it didn't stop me from smoking. Nothing stopped me from smoking except cancer didn't stop me from smoking. Heart disease, stroke, none of that. It was when I finally learned. the statistic that the vast majority of impotence in men over 40 is caused by tobacco abuse.

Boy, did I pay attention then. But, yeah, so the first time, I didn't smoke those two. And then the next day, I didn't smoke on the way to the hospital. And then I started doing it by time. So 9 o'clock, 10 o'clock. And then after you hit 10 o'clock, if that's your day, you can smoke as much as you want to. And then 11 and 12, and you just march around the dial. Now, you can stop on a time for a day.

That's the rule. If you have a bad day, you can stop at six and then the next day still do six, but you can never go backwards. That's the rule. And you keep pushing it until the first day that your time to smoke is after you go to bed, now you're done smoking. Okay? And that gives you time to think about it.

But that allows you to smoke as much as you want to after the time. But you can't smoke an infinite number of cigarettes. So when it gets, you know, if your bedtime is at midnight and the time you can smoke is 11, there's a limited number of sigs you can smoke. So it gets you acclimated to not smoking. And then you're sleeping through that first big block of time when you're not smoking. You wake up the next day, you throw all your paraphernalia away and start acting like a non-smoker. If you fake it till you make it. And the first day, you can go by.

all those people in the middle of February in Minnesota that are sitting outside the hospital, shivering, smoking cigarettes, and go, what a bunch of dumb assholes. And that used to be you yesterday, but it isn't today. So you can feel superior to them right now. It's very. And also think, think of all the R.J. And I don't want to, you know, the tobacco big, big wigs in Durham, North Carolina, who go, ooh, yeah. You know, every time you buy a pack of cigarettes, who we got them to get. another one you know right well yep we got them now we hooked them yeah so I love it

they're happy they're happy when you go and buy a pack of cigarettes so remember that when you give them your money they are thrilled mm-hmm so maybe that'll help anyway all right okay don't that one multiple times but I don't think it's too many times you can talk about smuggling my name Sal I'm having trouble with my ball sack okay scrotum yeah we know what a ball sack is or walking. Is anybody ever had a surgical lift? Yeah.

To, I seem to have to lift my scrotum. So you don't sit on it. When I'm in bed at night to feel better. Or like I said, walking, I have to pull them forward. Oh. I've never heard of it. What about sitting on the pot and it gets between the seat and the, can you imagine? That would hurt so long.

Anybody having surgery of having them? Absolutely, my friend. It's called scrotoplasty. There you go. It's a surgical procedure. It repairs or creates a scrotum. And it's also known as osceoplasty or a scrotal lift. Ooh.

And it can be performed for a number of reasons. Some of them are serious, like birth defects, injuries, stuff like that. Or cosmetic reasons, such as scrotum skin tightness or a too floppy scrotum. Yeah, saggy scrotum. Gravity. And they remove the sort of elongated skin tightness. tissue and then close the incision to create a smoother, more youthful appearance of your scrotum. So, I mean, there's nothing worse than having that sort of saltwater taffy in the sun feeling that, you know, against your thigh.

You know, just rubbery yuck. All right. So then they'll put you in a jock strap afterward and you're back to work in a day or two. And an ice pack. Yeah. And an ice pack. That's right. All right.

That's all I have on that. What do you got? I don't have anything on that one, Tice? No. Okay. Now, I mean, there is a female version of this as well. I mean, you know, there's labiaplasty for women that don't like the appearance of their labia. You know, Jim Norton used to describe it as like a, you know, a roast beef sandwich, you know,

Explo an M80 or something like that. Oh, my. And, but you can have that repair. If you would like. I'm not sure too many women really care too much about that. I know people who make a living off the appearance of their genitalia may care more about that than anybody else. And you can have vaginoplasties and, you know, there's all kinds of things you can do. Sure.

So, all right. It's not just man having to have this done. All right. Let's see here. Okay, this is a good one because I've been wanting to talk about this for a while. Because when we first started talking about this subject, we didn't have long-term data, but now we do. Oh, cool. Okay.

Hey, Dr. Steve and all the rest of you. I had a question. I know I've called you a couple times so far. Remember on Gilligan's Island, they'd say, you know, and the rest at the end, after they would do the professor and Marianne. And then after a while, they just said, and the rest. So the professor and Marianne and Ginger and all them were just and the rest. I asked about some other issues that I had. But I had another question that came up.

I have a son and daughter, both 13 and 15, who had their physicals recently here. And the doctor inquired about HPV, you know, the HPV shot. Wondering that there are any risks to it or, you know, long term, short term, whatever. And I know you've talked about this on the air about, you know, the HPV. Yeah, but you didn't pay attention until it was your kids, and I understand that. I'm the same. I'm the same way.

God, but I wonder if there are any side effects or any risks involved. Yeah. Yeah, this is definitely a good topic, you know, that you may be able to bring up on your podcast. Yeah, man. So the good news is, is the HPV vaccines are one of the most effective vaccines that we have. They're close to 100% effective in preventing infection. of the cervix with the bad human papillomoviruses, particularly HPV strain 16.

And so for the longest time, people are going, well, okay, but we don't have long-term data. Well, now we do. All right. So a study of 1.7 million women found that the vaccine's efficacy or the effectiveness was particularly pronounced among young girls vaccinated before the age 17, which makes sense, and that really doesn't have that much to do with their age.

It has more to do with them being sexually active, and, you know, more and more women being sexually active as you get over 17, and some of them already been infected. But during the 11-year study period, there was a 90% reduction in cervical cancer in this group. Wow. That is a big deal. cervical cancer sucks and it is if you don't get your pap smears you still have to get your pap smears you still have to get your pap smear if you have this shot by the way because there's still you know it's not a zero percent incidence and it's not all 100 percent caused by this particular HPV or some people have genetic predisposition so it still get your pap smears and but it back in the day particularly and people didn't get their pap smear and they let it go and, you know, they got

cervical cancer and then it became metastatic. In other words, it spread. It was horrible, horrible disease. So I love the fact that this thing is kicking its ass. We have a couple other cancer vaccines. You know, one doctor

took me to task when I said this is the only one that we really have, but hepatitis B vaccine is actually a anti-cancer vaccine because people with persistent hepatitis B are at risk for, you know, liver cancer. Okay, yeah. And then Tacey talked about the lung cancer vaccine that's coming. And so, you know, I would love to see more of this immunologic approach to eradicating cancer.

But anything we can do to get rid of, you know, this horrible, horrible cancer I'm in favor of. Now, when he talked about side effects, this one, Pretty safe, too. Not only, well, I don't want to just say pretty safe. It is extremely safe. The majority of the adverse effects are local, you know, pain at the site. Of course, no treatment is 100% perfectly safe. So let me look at the incidents.

I had this up and I've missed it or I lost the. the thread here. Okay, let's see here. Scientific research shows the benefits of HPV vaccine. Yes, of course. They can't have some side effects. 135 million doses of HPV vaccine have been distributed since 2006. Most common side effects were mild, included pain, redness or swelling in the arm. And they go through extensive safety testing. I'm just looking to see if there's fainting can occur after any medical, procedure. So there was a certain percentage of people who fainted after that. And so they recommend that you give this vaccines to the patient when they're seated or lying down. And there you go. So I'm not seeing anything particularly scary with this.

And to demonstrate that we put our money where our mouth is, we had our kids vaccinated with this one. Yes. Yeah. Okay. All right. Any other questions about that? Okay. All right. Let's talk about a guy that never sleeps. Hey, Dr. David, Mike from New York. Hey.

I was reading the esteemed and medical journal, also known as the New York Post. Correct. And they speak about this Japanese guy who claims in the last 12 years, he only sleeps 30 minutes per day. Yeah. Now, I smell bullshit, and that can't possibly be true. But if it's in any other literature, if you could take a look and give us your opinion, it'd be greatly appreciated. Yeah.

Thanks, man. Yeah, the one that there's a bunch of people in the media that have claimed that they never sleep. The one that is the most study that I could find is a guy named Ty Nock or Ty, let me see, if it's win. It's probably Ty Walk. It's N-G-O-C. He's Vietnamese. So if N-G-U-W-W-N-W-N-W-N is actually when, I would assume that this guy's name is Ty Wok. But anyway, yeah, he's been pretty extensively studied, and he had a problem with a trauma, I believe, during the Vietnam War.

And since then, he has not been able to sleep. Like a head trouble or PTSD trauma? Yeah, it was more of a physical trauma. Yeah, I'm sorry. I didn't. If I remember correctly. And I think that, I mean, some people went to see him and monitored him over time and he kind of lays down and his eyes are open, but he doesn't actually sleep. And he said if he drinks enough wine, he can fall asleep for an hour or two, but that's the most he's overdone.

Now, for most people, lack of sleep. causes things like dementia and hurt disease. Crankiness. Crankiness, yes. Yeah. I'm, what are you saying, Tays? Nothing. So, yeah, I sleep.

I don't sleep enough, and it's very difficult for me to stay asleep. I woke up at 5.30 this morning. Couldn't get back to sleep. And, but, you know, there are cardiovascular problems, increased activity of the sympathetic nervous system, that's the one that produces adrenaline, particularly as associated with sleep deprivation as substantial long-term consequences for adults and adolescents. So these kids that stay up all night playing video games and then get up at 6 to go to school,

they're at risk too. Sure. People who experience sleep disruption have elevated blood pressures and increased risk of developing long-term high blood pressure. and the relative risk is like 20%. And so there are a lot of things that lack of sleep can do, but these people, if they can be believed, don't suffer from those things because that Thai walk guy is 86, something.

He's in his 80s, I think. I can't find that article, so I'm just talking out of my ass right now, but he's elderly. And so it's, there is a huge spectrum of human behavior and things that humans are able to do. And, you know, Tacey talked about true human superpowers and stuff like that on the show before. So I'm not too surprised that there are some people that sleep 12 to 14 hours a day. Sure. And people who sleep, you know, an hour a day or 30 minutes a day.

And the problem is that they're so rare that nobody's really paying a lot of attention to them. So I can't say conclusively that this guy isn't just making this up. The reason I say that is there are people out there called Bretherians. Have you ever heard of them? Okay. So Bretherians say that they get all of their nutrition from the air. Oh, okay. And that is, poor shit.

Yeah, I don't, and I'm sorry if you're a breatharian, I mean, you can tell me. You come and I'll do a clinical study. I'll put you in a room, give me a week, and I'll pay you money, but we'll see how long you go without eating. I think one of the guys, and I tried to find this article, I've been terrible with my research this week, was actually caught eating cheeseburgers, but I don't know who that was. So, but it was somebody that was claiming that they never ate. But breatherianism is, you know, something that people talk about quite a bit. In certain circles, it's almost considered a, are you looking at it now? Is that what you're looking at?

Okay, you're over there typing, so I thought you're looking at breatherianism. But the breatherian thing, it makes no sense. Let me say that. I don't want to say that there's a reason you eat and during their quacks or anything like that. I'm not going to say that. I learned that from Penn & Teller. You can say somebody's an asshole or you can call bullshit but don't, you know, attack them personally. But what I can say is it makes no sense from a physics standpoint that our bodies run off a chemical energy,

which means that they need energy to do that or they will run down. And people who don't eat, we have studies on this. That if people don't eat nor drink for seven days, they will die. If they only drink, they will live about 60 days. And I'm talking water. Yep. Now, you could live off liquid things, like insure. You could live off of that.

Or oatmeal porters. Yeah, and stuff like that. I'll live for a while. I don't know. That's more carbs. It doesn't, you know, those high carb low protein diets, People died from those when some of these weight loss things first came out. They were high carbohydrate, low protein, and people were, their bodies were just eating up their muscles to the point where they got a thing called rhabdomiolysis or rhabdomiolysis, where their muscles were being torn apart to create energy so that their body could live.

because you got to have protein and then it would affect their kidneys and they died of kidney failure or other complications so what they learned was on those high carbohydrate low protein liquid diets they had to supplement those people

with amino acids and then they were okay they could do it for longer and without adverse consequences so that tells me I mean if we see people starving to death all the time in this world how the F are they starving to death,

but the breatherians are just walking around saying, oh, I never eat, I never eat. Right? And if they have found the way, why aren't they taking that to places where starvation is rampant? I mean, how about helping your fellow man? Oh, it's all about you.

And getting in the New York Post, I found articles in New York Post and CNN, you know, a couple gets by, you know, eating, liquid air and stuff like that. And if by liquid air, you mean milkshakes and french fries, then I believe it. But anyway, so if someone has any evidence to the contrary, but that's my question. It's the same question that you take to psychics. Oh, you're a psychic.

You can tell what happens in the future. Where were you on 9-11? Where were you at Hiroshima? Where were you at Pearl Harbor? Or, you know, any earthquake or any natural disaster. where the fuck were you yeah so with you you know yeah jeremiah in the bible was revered because when he said a bunch of bad stuff was going to happen and happen that's why we that book is in the bible because there were lots of other prophets they were all saying crazy stuff but what he

said came to pass so that was why so uh if you know the first person that says hey this is going to happen without some connection to it you know saying that someone's going to be I don't know, kidnapped or something like that. Well, they may have something to do with it. You know, you can't prove that they didn't. But to say, you know, lightning is going to hit the Eiffel Tower and it's going to cause a fire on the second floor or whatever. I guess there's floors on the damn thing like all.

I don't know. I've never been there. Now, that, and it's going to happen on Thursday at 8 p.m. Now, that would be something. Yep. But, you know, it just doesn't happen because the future does not exist. I'm sorry. It doesn't exist.

But it's coming. Yeah. Well, it exists in the sense that time is relative for everybody. So my future is different from somebody that's circling a black hole. But it's not a place we can travel to unless we travel the normal old way one second per second. We travel through time at one second per second, which is, by the way, we travel through time the same speed that light does, which is an interesting concept. I believe we've gone off on a tangent. Yeah, of course.

All right. And speaking of tangent, somebody sent in an AI song for Dr. Scott. Oh, no. This one was in the manner of Ben Folds. So let's listen to this real quick. Oh, Ben Folds is my favorite. I know he is, but you won't like this. Oh.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. With a ponytail swinging, he's having a ball. His needles are sharp, but his words are too clear. Says that's how they pronounce it We all share a cheer Oh my gosh He's got that charm

In his quirky way Dr. Scott isn't quack But he's a pretty good feller With needles and charms He's our health propeller That makes no sense See the AI will just Ramp any two words

He's a pretty good fella He's our health propeller That makes no sense Got a nice ringer That's all that thing he can't pronounce right But we all know he's got healing in sight That's right, there you go I'll put that on our website somewhere

Oh, that was facial Yeah, it almost, you could see it almost Kind of been foldsy Yeah, kind of, but not really But not really And then there's a country one too Oh no, this is the jazz one. Oh, yeah, jazz is just a bunch of

notes floating around I love it I love it I can't stand it Dr. Scott in the corner There you go

Tall and thin With his ponytail swaying Where do I begin There you go That's what I'm going A black coat But a heart made of gold

Healing the weary Yay There's a winner there He stumbles on words But they roll off his tongue That's how they pronounce it In China He's some

Oh my goodness Oh my God I'm wondering who put this AI to task Long-term listeners Who put the information there We got one more here While we got this one

Let's try this one here This is not a song Hey Dr. Steve Hey I tried that sundial trick To measure my dick Circumference You know what

It stood out there all day With my dick on a sundial Well, the neighbors called the police, and all I handed up lived was a sunburned pick. Thanks for the good idea. All right. See you. Thank you, old buddy. What is he talking about?

Did we tell people to use a sundial to measure the circumference of their penis? I mean, I don't think it was a sundial. A little though. He's misremembering something. Maybe we are. Maybe we are. Maybe we are. Now, you can make a sundial out of your erect member, but you'd have to keep it wrecked for a really long time.

Yeah. There's a way that you can, if you can put a stick vertically and you would do that by hanging a rope from a, I mean a rock from a rope and then seeing and then lining it up with that because if you're on an angle, it's hard to understand where verticality is. But you would do that and then you watch it over time and mark it at different areas. And when you mark it between, I think, dusk and dawn and you mark between those, that'll be north. and then once you know north, then you can figure out what time it is. Once you figure out where noon is, when the sun is directly overhead.

So anyway, you could do that with your dick, but I don't recommend it. All right. So Dr. Scott, I'll go through the superchats here. It looks like Myrtle Manus gave five weird medicine with Dr. Steve memberships. If you want to get a membership to the channel, I do put up some members-only content from time to time.

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from Golden George. Let me see. There you go. Okay. I think it was just because they were commenting on the last story about dick bites and stuff, or, you know, having your rocking out with your cock out to make sundial. And the AI didn't like that.

So anyway, what do you got, Dr. Scott? So let's see. Old Top, truly weird medicine question here. Yeah, good. Has any crazy person ever used livestock emasculator bands to emasculate themselves? I wonder about this. Every spring bending baby calves. Sure.

Well, you want to talk about what that is, Scott, because you know what that is. Well, you take a rubber band and put it around there. Nuts really tight until they chokes off the blood and they atrophy and then fall off. Yeah. So, you know, there have, like, there are people that don't like this. Yeah, sure. Particularly places like a greener world and stuff like that, they say there's wounds observed and 14-month-old bull calves that are castrated using these emasculator bands. But let's see here.

I'm looking at a Quora, and that's not a great medical journal. But it says the elastrator tool puts a green band around the scrotum and the testicle band is pulled in place. And they're saying banding is really better for a castration play, not actual castration. And they said, if you really want a castrate, by the way, don't do this. I would suggest burditso clams. So we've got to look that up. Oh, geez. See what that is.

Look that up. B-U-R-D-Z-O. Either way, if you go with an elastrator, your balls just die and dry. up, and ideally they fall off after a week. They might not, though, but with Bredito clamps, your body absorbs your balls. Why that's why that's better. Oh, my God. This sounds horrific.

Yikes. So, yeah, please don't do this on humans. It's not fun. And if you really, for whatever reason, feel you need to be castrated, please go see a medical professional. Did you find out anything about Berdito? Yeah, they look like professional, like clamps that you would clamp some testicles. off with it and then probably snip them, yeah.

They look like real deals. Oh, my goodness. Yeah, that's got a hurt. Castration device employs a large clamp designed to break the blood vessels leading into the testicles. Once the blood supply, oh, okay, once the blood supply is lost, the testicular necrosis or dying of tissue occurs that testicles shrink, soften, eventually deteriorate completely. Okay, so that's what they're talking about in that post.

They kill the blood supply, and then the testicles just shrink and stop. functioning. Yep. But they die. So you've got dead tissue in there. Don't do this. We are telling you do and you know sometimes I say hey don't Google image this and then I'll spell it so you can go. I'm not kidding. Don't do this. Absolutely not. All right. It's insane. I'm not sure why we have to feel like we have to repurpose everything to, you know, for sexual purposes, you know. I don't get that part. I mean, I do get it, but we should stop doing it. All right. You got anything else? I'll do her, Dr. D. D. Okay, very good. Thank you guys. We appreciate y'all. Appreciate you. Appreciate you. Thanks, always go to Dr. Scott. Thanks to everyone who's made this show happen over the years. Listen to our Sirius XM show on the Faction Talk channel. SiriusXM. Channel 103, Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern, Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern on demand and other times at Jim McClure's pleasure.

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