Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 623 - Strep Eatin' at the "Y"

Episode Date: February 13, 2025

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Observing. I'm going to sit here and you two guys are just going to be staring at me. That's bullshit. It's not happening. So, yeah, so listen, here's the thing. This is what Opie told me a long time ago. If you got something, kick in with it, but, you know, you don't have to try to force anything. So you're fine.

So if you have medical questions or anything like that and you have something, just raise your hand, let me know. We're just pop in. But I will fill the silence with my own voice if you don't say something. You know what I mean? So if you want to say something, just pop in. What are you going to say, Scott? Well, it's maybe boring, but dementia, Alzheimer's. Runs in my family.

I'm just curious. Oh, yeah. What are my chances? Okay, so that's a great question. There are familial forms of dementia, but Alzheimer's itself, if it's truly Alzheimer's dementia, tends to be just sporadic. In other words, it's not a genetic thing. If your grandmother had it, it doesn't.

necessarily make you more likely to have it. Now, there are different types of familial dementias. So do you know, did anybody in your family ever see a, you know, a geneticist or a neurologist to see? No. Okay. So really, a familial Alzheimer's disease is extremely rare. It's caused by a mutation in a certain gene called PS-E-N-1, and you can be tested for that. So, and it's autosanolid dominant.

So if you have, if you have the disease, your children have a 50% chance of developing it. So let's say you've got little D and big D as the genes, right? And let's say your parent was, one of your parents was Big D, big D, big D, meaning they had the double dose of dementia. and the other parent was Little D, Little D, then if you only need the one Big D to get all, you know, get the familial dementia, then every single one of their kids will get it. Because if you put that box together, this one will be Big D, Little D, Big D, Big D, Little D, Big D, Little D, Big D, Little D, Big D, right? Now, if one of the parents is little D, big D, in other words, they've got the dominant gene, but they also have the non-dominant gene, and then the other parent has none of those genes. So one is little D, big D, the other one is little D, little D, little D. If you put that in a two-by-two box, then you will have a half of their kids will get the dementia down the road because they'll have little D, little D, little D, little D, little D, and then little D big D, little D, big D, okay.

Prevention? Prevention. Okay, so now prevention of Alzheimer's is something we're still working on, but they think that things like learning a new language. doing Sudoku and stuff like that can stay the ravages of dementia and maybe even delay its onset. So using your brain will have a big impact on that. And then as far as other prevention of dementia, it's making sure that your weight is under control because overweight can increase your risk of dementia, maintaining good exercise, controlling your blood pressure, your blood sugar, all these things that we hear about that are bad for you,

actually increase your risk of different kinds of dementia, limiting alcohol consumption. Uh-oh. Stopping smoking, and then, like I said, staying mentally active and stuff. And preventing head injury. You know, people who have traumatic brain injuries that happen over and over again can end up with a form of memory loss that looks a lot like dementia, you know. Or you can get Parkinson's disease with Louie Body dementia, those kinds of things. So basically staying, maintaining a healthy lifestyle and not smoking are the big ways to prevent dementia.

So do you do Sudoku or anything like that? No. Yeah. I actually picked it up. It's kind of fun. It's actually no math involved whatsoever. It's just all logic. And it's actually kind of a fun thing.

and it's really fun to do on like your iPad or your phone because you don't have to scratch in with the pencil, the numbers that you think it might be. You can just, the computer will do that for you. But anyway, yeah, so there you go. Thanks. That's an excellent question. How about some of the things to stave it off

that people are talking about, like Lyons Main, psilicide, you know? Silicibin, I guess. We heard that couple episodes ago. Yeah, psilocybin. I don't know if there's evidence that that'll forestall dementia, but Lyons Main is thought to help with cognitive issues. I take it every day. It helps with mental clarity and it helps with regeneration of nerves. So, you know, the brain is nothing but a big bundle of nerves. It kind of makes sense. It certainly has helped my peripheral neuropathy, whether it does anything centrally. I don't know. I'm going to look real quick while I'm running my stupid mouth and see if if there's any evidence on Lyons, Maine, and dementia in the medical literature. And, okay, so there is some, this is from the Alzheimer Drug Discovery Foundation, and it says that preclinical evidence in one small pilot study suggested that Lions Main

may provide benefit to individuals with Alzheimer's disease, but the 2009 pilot has yet to be replicated. Part of the problem with this is, how do you raise? How do you raise grant money from drug companies for something that just grows in nature that you can grow in your closet in your house like I do? You know, you can't. So what they want to do is take whatever the active molecule is and then put, you know, put a methyl group here or an extra hydrogen atom here or a hydroxyl group and then turn it into something else. And then they can patent it, but they can't patent this. And if you're going to take Lyons Main for its neuroprotective benefits, make sure it is lion, excuse me, Lion's Mains extract.

So that is dual extracted. It's extracted with alcohol and then extracted in water. And then put back together, they can either dehydrate it at that point or just give it to you in a liquid. Because the fruiting body itself, like I've bought some that just said it's just Lion's Main fruiting body. What they do is they dehydrate it, pulverize it, and put it in capsules. And the matrix that makes up the body of the mushroom is made out of a protein called, or actually it's, I'm guessing it's a glycoprotein. It's got sugar and protein elements called chitin. And chitin is what makes insects their shells.

Their shells are made out of chitin. And it's also in these mushroom bodies. And the problem with it is you can't digest it and it prevents you from absorbing the active ingredients in lions made from the mushroom. So you want to extract it. Just like psilocybin, if you eat the psilocybin mushrooms, you'll get some effect out of it. But you'll do a lot better if you do if you convert the psilocybin to psilocybin to psilocybin before you put. it in your mouth, which people will do that with lemon juice, just any acid and then hot water, and that'll extract it out and activate it, and it works a lot better that way.

I'm just saying, you know, not that I know, but I'm just saying, you know, just from a scientific standpoint, it works better that way. I'm not advocating that anybody go out and eat mushrooms that they don't know what the hell they are. And don't do that. If you're a forager, you need to know what the hell you're foraging. People get sicker than shit or die every year, foraging mushrooms thinking they know what they're doing. So if you don't know what you're doing, don't do it.

But there is a Reddit, subreddit called Mushroom ID. And if you find a mushroom, you take pictures of the gills and the head of the thing and take pictures from a bunch of different angles and then shoot it up there to Mushroom ID on Reddit, and they'll come back right away and tell you what it is. They're real serious about it. There's also a Facebook group that if you're, Your kid eats a mushroom, you take a picture of it, you put it up there, they'll tell you if the kid needs to go to the ER or not. That's pretty cool.

They're really, they have amateur and professional mycologists on there for that reason because this shit happens all the time. My sister almost killed herself. Now, she, my sister has this thing called Dunning Kruger syndrome. Are you guys familiar with Dunning Kruger at all? No. No. Okay, Dunning Kruger is when there's a cognitive dissonance between what you know and what you think. you know.

So that can go both ways. It could be stupid people who think they're smart or smart people who think they're dumb or don't think that their abilities are special. Like my kid has Dunning Kruger, but he learned blackjack basic strategy in a weekend. Some people take months, if not years, to learn it perfectly. He learned it in a weekend. And then he's trying to teach his mother, Tacey, how to do this. And her brain doesn't work that way. And he's just getting frustrated because why can't you do this?

And he doesn't realize other people can't do what he does. And then there are stupid people that think they're smarter than they are. Examples of that, my sister, you know, stuttering John Melendez. You know, it's been, is demonstrated that he has a little bit of Dunning Kruger. So, you know, I'm not saying anything out of school. It's been demonstrated publicly. So it's not necessarily a bad thing. It's just a cognitive dissonance, right?

So my sister, well, I'm smart. I can forage for mushrooms. I know what these things are. And then she ate them and almost died. Stupid. Okay. Yeah. You know, and if you go on the mushroom subreddit or just, well, there's a bunch of them,

but people go, ooh, I found this. Can I eat it? I found this. Can I eat it? It's like, do you have to just shove everything in your stupid mouth? Can you just look at something? and not think, can to do it, can I eat this? See, that's what the grocery store is for, you dummies.

Anyway, yeah, Lions Main, great question. So the data, there is some positive data, but the jury is still out because we don't have excellent data yet. So, yeah, good one. All right. Anything else you guys have? Yeah, how about calcium scores? Yeah.

I got you talking about that the other day. Have you done one? I have. I did one when I was about 49. Okay. And had a 26. Okay. That's good.

Obviously, you want to zero, right? Sure, but 26 is good. And so then, you know, I felt like I tried to get a little healthier, stopped with red meat and sugars, even did intermittent fasting. Yeah. That helped with my stomach problems and my gurd. Yeah, absolutely. Exercise more. All those things, I go back five years later and I'm 104.

Yeah. Well, it might have been 400 if you hadn't done all that. Yeah. Well, so I guess there's theories that it reads the hardened. right calcified stuff and so maybe before it was floating because of that healthy choice lifestyle it hardened up which I guess is a good thing right well right and so I guess the question I have is do you keep should you keep going every five years or do I know that I am now on a bad path and I just need to be as healthy as possible well you know that you need to

be healthy as possible and what the calcium scale let's let's get everybody up to speed if they don't know what a calcium score is. It's just a CT scan. They'll run you between every other cycle. It takes like three minutes to do. And what it looks at is calcium in the coronary arteries of the heart. And then it comes up with a scale with zero being none and over 400 being severe. And so zero to 10 is minimal. 11 to 100 is mild. And then 101 to 400 is moderate. And they really start freaking out. if you if it's over 400 that's when you go to the cardiologist and they'll do things so but what it won't show are plaques that are not calcified so you may have had some non calcified plaques in there and they've just matured and then you haven't formed any other ones and uh it but like I said

if you hadn't done all that it might have been 400 at this point there's no way to know we can't rewind the clock and not do those things and see what your score would have been so um you know Someday, if we can peer into alternate universes, we could find the one where John didn't do all that stuff. He just drank and smoked and then seen what his calcium score was. But until then, we just have to suppose. And still, that's pretty good. I was a zero when I first did it, and then I was a 240, and I was freaking the F out. And then I did it the third time, five years later, the technologist told me I was like $4.50, and I was shitting myself.

It actually turned out that when the radiologist read it, it was actually lower than my second one. Oh, so you were able to lower your score? Yeah, so I lowered it a little bit. Anything like niacin? Is that a good? I do all that stuff. I do, you know. Staten, a good idea to stay on a statin if you're getting a bad score like that. Staten was killing me.

So it was making my, I was destroying my muscles. I had a thing called rhabdomiolisus. Or, you know, they could detect muscle enzymes. enzymes in my bloodstream that was indicative of dying, smooth, or sorry, skeletal muscle. And then I, so I stopped it, but then my cholesterol went back up. So now I'm taking sort of a half dose. I take the statin once a week, sometimes twice a week, something like that.

And that's been better. I don't have the muscle pain, and I'm going to see my doctor tomorrow, and we'll see if the rabdomyalysis and the liver enzymes were back to normal. And, but yeah, that would be a thing. And then I like the, you know, just the diet and exercise type things. Now, you mentioned reflux. A low-carb diet particularly is great for reflux. It's the carbohydrates that seem to kill my reflux.

If I eat bread or something like that, or if I eat anything sweet within four hours of bedtime, I'm going to suffer that at night. but if I do salad and lean, you know, animal protein and stick to, you know, leafy vegetables and broccoli and stuff like that, I don't have any problem with my reflux at all. And I've cured people's reflux doing that. I've cured people's type 2 diabetes doing that. So that tells me that that is a, at least from a lifestyle aspect, it's a healthy diet. Nobody can tell me that a bed of fresh lettuce with, you know, balsamic vinaigret on it and a chicken breast on there is somehow bad. But that's a low-carb meal.

And people go, oh, low-carb. They're thinking of people, you know, big fats I was eating steak with bacon and mayonnaise and cheese and stuff. That's not a low-carbohydrate diet, but that's not what we're talking with. Not the Atkins diet. That is not. Atkins would shit himself if he saw people eating like that, you know. The original Adkins diet was green leafy vegetables, lean animal protein. But anyway, yeah.

So your second score was 104? Yes. So you're at the low end of moderate. So the upper end of mild. So I would just, yeah, you need to check it again in five years. And, you know, now if it stabilizes and you get to be my age, you could probably just give it off, you know, but you guys are young. Yeah, and some of the other things, you know, in the past we talked about fish oil.

Yeah. You know, two glasses of red wine. Yeah. But, you know, I'm reading more and more that alcohol is just not good for you at all. Correct. And so I think people are kind of backing off that right now. Four ounces of red wine is probably good for you. Any more than that becomes neutral, and then a lot more than that becomes detrimental.

And then the fish oil I've heard a lot of it's rancid. And I think the last time I saw my physician, she almost was to the point where maybe you shouldn't be doing the fish oil anymore, try to get it from natural sources. Right. Well, the thing about fish oil, of course, was that they did a study in Norway and people who ate more fish had fewer heart attacks and strokes, right? And so the American response to that is, well, let's just get a bunch of fish and throw them in a vat and render them. and render them down into a pill and then take the pill. But it turns out that maybe what it was was they were eating more fish and less other things. So really, we should just eat the fish instead of worrying about the stupid pills.

But there are some benefits to fish oil. They can reduce total body inflammation. And if you have high triglycerides, it can really help. So there is actually a commercial version of fish oil that they sell. as a prescription for people with high triglyceride. So it's not completely worthless. I've switched over to krill oil. I don't know why.

Just because it looks cooler. It's red. I don't know. The krill are probably less infused with mercury and stuff. So it's, you know, I'm taking food out of the mouths of whales, though, when I eat all the krill. But there's tons of krill to go around. And it raises your HDL, it seems like. When I'm disciplined to take the fish oil, when I go in for my blood work, I'm, you know, 60.

If I get a little lazy with it, sometimes it's down around 50. Oh, yeah. Yeah, interesting. Yeah, yeah. Well, exercise is a big one on that for increasing your HDL. And the four ounces of red wine with the resveratrol in it, you know, is supposed to increase your good cholesterol as well. But exercise is the big one. So what I used to tell people, if you just want to do lifestyle stuff,

is go easy on the carbohydrates because it's those spikes of insulin that really can cause plaques to form. And then do four ounces of red wine. If you're a non-drinker, four ounces of red grape juice. You know, get your exercise, do soluble fiber. And if you can't get enough in your diet, just take citricel. That'll do. And, you know, instead of white pasta, do brown pasta, instead of white bread, do, you know, dense brown. bread, that kind of stuff, brown rice instead of white rice.

And those things all tend to help, and if you can't get it, if you've had a heart attack, you pretty much need to go on a statin for secondary prevention. But a lot of people can avoid getting on the statin if they can just get their lifestyle under control. But you can't beat genetics, though, that's the problem, yeah. Do you have, Dr. Steve, do you have an exercise regimen? Yeah. sit and put, you know, take popcorn and put it in my mouth.

And that's my exercise. Now, I need to be doing more stuff. I need someone to do something with. When I was in the best shape of my life, I had a friend of mine that was a ham radio operator. And he and I would go to the gym three times a week. And we would compete who could, you know, lift the most on the curling machine and stuff like that. And we got to the point where both of us could lift the max on the curling machine. And I was in unbelievable shape.

I was in fourth year medical school. I've got pictures of me holding my nieces up by my guns. You know, they're just hanging on my arms and stuff. And now you look at me now. You'd never believe it. But I needed somebody to just go with me to commit to going. And then we would compete a little bit, just a little mild competition. So I need that.

I don't even get out and walk like I should. I've got a Peloton downstairs. It was a great thing to hang your clothes on and stuff. you know and that's the problem you know and I got my nurse practitioner I got her to buy the same model that I have actually it's a Nordic track

but the same type of thing as a Peloton and I got her to get one and we were going to compete against each other because you can compete on that thing and she hadn't done it the first time spent all that money and just has never gotten on it so that's a thing you know it's a pain

in the ass to exercise I was doing it with VR for a while. I had a virtual reality exercise program, and it was great. It was fun to do, and I was doing it. And then, you know, the statin started messing with my muscles, and then my shoulders were hurting so bad. I couldn't do it anymore because it's mostly with the VR stuff.

It's moving upper body stuff. But anyway, yeah. What about you? Are you doing any exercise? Yeah, yeah, lifting the cup to your mouth. Yeah, that's it. Now, your daughter is doing NASCAR, right? Well, it's a form of NASCAR.

It's a light model. Yeah. Okay, but she could graduate into that. That's her goal. We won't say her name or anything, but I just, I really have a feeling if she sticks to it and gets on the NASCAR circuit, she'll be bigger than Danica Patrick ever thought of being. I really, I think that she's got the personality. You know, she obviously, she got the looks. I mean, you and your wife are, you know, extremely attractive and you're going to only have attractive kids, you know.

And she's going to kick its ass, so we're hoping. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. That's awesome. You know, if she gets on there, we've got to get her in here because people will be fascinated about just how that works and how you learn how to do this and train and all that kind of stuff. You actually have to be in good physical shape to do what she does. Does her coach make her workout and stuff? That was why I was bringing this up, actually.

He encouraged you. It's as well as I do. Yeah. And also, diet's very important. Yeah. You get dehydrated quickly in the car. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't want to be a big fatso trying to drive a NASCAR around.

You don't see too many of those. Too many. Yeah. Just Tony Stort. Is he a big in? Yeah, he's pretty big. I don't know him. Yeah.

I mean, just strapping you in, you've got to be able to strap in and embarrassing if they can't get the seatbelt around you. Like at Dollywood or something. It's just so sad. seeing them kick somebody off the Tennessee tornado because they can't get the seat belt to go around them. They need to get seat extensions like they have on the airplane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know, speaking of Dollywood, and I've told this story before about, if you guys ever been to Splash Country? I have not.

Okay, well, it's a, you know, it's a Dollywood theme park, you know, water park. And they have this one area where you get these inner tubes, right? and there's a sign there. And this is just talking about the obesity problem in the South, particularly. And it says double intertubes are for an adult and a small child, maximum weight not to exceed, 500 pounds. So, you know, if they had to put that in a sign, they had a problem. You don't put a sign up thinking maybe you'll have a problem. You put a sign up like that because you've had issues, right?

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Number one thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. Thank you, Ronnie B. Let's see here. Uh-oh. Oh, of course.

Technical. Now it'll play like three times. Oh, my God. Sorry, everyone. There we go. There we go. It's going terrible. So happy to hear that.

Thanks, man. This is Rob from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Hey, Rob. A while back I had called about how much weight a man has to lose what that ratio would look like for his penis to grow an extra inch.

Right, and that is Dr. Steve's rule. It's 35 pounds. You regain one inch of penis length. Now, that curve is only linear for a certain part of that curve, right? Because if you weigh 800 pounds and you lose 35 pounds, your penis is still going to be enfolded in your fat pad. Right. How would you know? Right, exactly.

So this only works for, you know, between, say, 250 and 175 pounds, something like that. Okay. That's when the curve is linear. I'm curious. Yeah. How much weight would a woman have to lose in order for a guy to shove his big, needy erection further into the woman's vagina? Oh, well, I mean, who cares? Right? As long as it feels good. Now, yeah, I don't know. That's, I've never developed that rule. But the thing is, the vagina doesn't change shape. And actually, the penis doesn't. And either, it's just enfolded in fat, you know, the pubic fat pat. So, you know, there aren't that many women who have so much fat around the perineum or the taint

that it makes it difficult to, you know, shove your member in there. That's evolutionary. It's, we're designed to make that easy. So I don't, you know, it's just whether you would want to, I guess. Go ahead. possible for a man who has Peroni's disease to satisfy a woman quickly to find that, quote, G-spot, better than someone who doesn't? Well, now, true Peronis can be extremely painful, but if you've got a, if you have a curvature in your wrecked penis, that's actually a good thing. Because think of it, if your penis is perfectly straight and it just goes in and out and in and out,

Right? But if it's curved, then when the tip goes in, it's going to hit, let's say, if the curvature is to the right, in other words, the bow is to the right, then when the tip goes in, it's going to hit the left side of the vaginal wall, then as you insert further, then the bow will hit the right side of the vaginal wall. And then as you keep going, then the base will hit the left side again. So it increases your apparent girth if you have a curvature. Now, if you have true peronis and it's bent at 90 degrees, you're not shoving that anywhere. And it hurts like hell. And go see somebody. You know, and if you don't want peronies, don't let the woman get on top when you've got whiskey dick. That's just advice from your old uncle Steve, because that's how it happens.

She's on top. You're only semi-erect. And then she thrust down and you're either she not lubed up or you're, you know, have. half in and half out, and it bends the penis in half, and folds it in half, and that's what fractures out. And when they say fracture, there's not a bone in there. What it really happens is the tunic, you know, that goes around the slightly elastic tunic that surrounds the erect shaft will actually split. And then when it heals up, it causes scar tissue and it'll always bend in the direction of the scar because it's not as elastic as the rest of it. So if you have that happen, get it checked because it can be fixed, all right?

Or it can be improved. All right? Questions, comments? Should have let off with that instead of a lion's mane. Well, why would you unless you actually have that problem? Okay, I don't have that problem. Good, okay. I don't care.

So they're weird medicine, folks. I mean, we go on vacation together. I can't be sitting there with you at the beach and thinking about you bent up cocks. They're weird medicine folks. Hey, man. This is Dave from Rhode Island. Hey, Dave. The Trigger Finger guy.

Yeah, man. So listen, a couple of weeks ago, somebody had called in had chronic back problems. Yeah. Dead for a couple of things. Good Lord. His audio is terrible. He's calling about turmeric or turmeric or however you want to pronounce it. And we had talked about.

Dr. Scott, it talked about using natural supplement called turmeric or curcumin for back pain. And it is an anti-inflammatory. It actually is a cox-2 inhibitor just like ibuprofen or naperson is. So it's nothing, you know, different. It's the same mechanism. So it will have the same problems that those things do. And recently there were a couple of articles talking about liver damage with turmeric. and it was a small but growing risk

and could cause liver injury in very rare cases. These risks are higher for people who already have liver problems like hepatitis or gallbladder disease. And it's considered a drug-induced liver injury and very often can be caused by herbal and dietary supplements and is underreported because a lot of those folks who are taking these don't go to the doctor very often and they don't get their blood work checked. So there's no recommended doses of turmeric. That's part of the problem.

You know, the supplement manufacturers will recommend these ranges, but they're just kind of empiric. And just make sure that you're not taking it in, like, if your doctor tells you, hey, your platelet count is low and you shouldn't be taking a non-steroidal, you probably shouldn't be taking turmeric either. But talk to them about it. Okay.

But that's what that's about. Okay. Sorry, man. audio was just too bad. Hey, Dr. Steve. Hey, man. Good gang here. Number one, your website stinks.

Yeah, I know. I'm completely aware. Thank you. Put your phone number out there more because I'd search way too long for that bullshit. Okay, well, is it not? Okay, you mean this phone number. Okay, I'll fix that. It's supposed to be on every one of the tags for our podcast, but I think it felt

off and I never put it back on. So I will fix that. Thanks. Number three. Of course, we do say it at the beginning of every fucking show, so I don't know what to tell you. 3-4-7 poo head. They brought this woman home from the bar who was voluptuous. Excellent.

She has a nice fluid. Excellent. Anyways, I ended up eating her out. Uh-oh. And subsequently, the days following, my throat is sore. Oh, no. And I have the constant taste of pussy in my mouth.

My question to you is, is there any reason to be concerned because she was kind of gross? And then is that normal or is that all in my head? Thank you. I will listen off the air. Okay, buddy. Thank you. How much did he drink? Yeah, you had the old beer god.

It was closing time. This isn't that uncommon. There's two things. If you're still tasting it, it's probably, she may have had a yeast infection, and now you have thrush. And that could cause a sore throat, and it could cause that taste to persist. Having said that, you need to get checked, and someone needs to swab your throat and make sure you don't have pharyngeal chlamydia or pharyngeal gonorrhea. And if it's just thrush, they can give you some medicine to take care of it. But go get that checked.

And if you don't want to go to your primary care because you think they're going to judge you, which they won't, then go to the county health department. They can test you there. And you can do it kind of anonymously. But this needs to be checked out. All right. Okay. That's all I have to say about that one.

But thrush is just a yeast infection of the mouth and the throat. and that can cause sore throat, and you have a weird taste. Sometimes it's metallic. Sometimes it can even be fishy kind of taste. And then it's very easy to treat. They use liquid nisat, and you just swish it around for a week, and it's gone. But please get that checked. Isn't that what happened to Michael Douglas?

No. Michael Douglas got head and neck cancer from eaten at the Y. And that was from HPV. So HPV, particularly strain 16, it causes head and neck cancer, it causes penile cancer, it causes rectal cancer, and it causes cervical cancer. So it sucks, and it needs to be eradicated. We can pretty much eradicate it if everyone would get, or if, you know, a preponderance of people would get the garter cell or the new HPV vaccine.

And people will go, well, you know, you're giving it to 12. of your old girls, you're encouraging them to have intercourse. It's like, no, dumbass. We're trying to catch them before they're having intercourse. Because if they've been exposed to it already, the vaccine doesn't work. So that's why they're giving the vaccine. And so for the longest time, when it first came out, people like, well, we don't have long-term data. And people were saying that there were all these adverse effects and that was not true.

and, you know, people will report things to that vaccine database, but the vaccine database is just self-reported. You can say anything you want to on there. All that does is send a signal to the FDA, oh, maybe we should look at this closer. And then when they do, they don't see anything on this vaccine. It's a standard vaccine, not an MRNA vaccine for the people who, you know, are nervous about that. And now we do have long-term data. And what we've seen is about a 90 percent decrease. and abnormal pap smears and a concomitant decrease in cervical cancer.

So this is amazing. Cervical cancer sucks. If you don't catch it in time, it becomes an extremely angry cancer. Stage 4 cervical cancer is generally considered to be terminal illness, and I've seen it. In its late stages, it's awful. So anything we can do to prevent it is I'm cool with. What else are we preventing? Not just cervical cancer, but everybody that eats it the wide.

as somebody that's had, you know, the vaccine is not going to get head and neck cancer or penile cancer or rectal cancer from that either. So we're going to be decreasing all of these cancers. We're killing four birds with one stone. So that's a big deal. All right. How did we get off on that? I don't remember. Oh, you were asking about Kirk Douglas.

Yeah. All right. I think I've actually got something useful here. Let me just asking a question. Well, I'll be a real. But we're going to start with a question anyway. Okay. How's everybody doing?

We're doing good, thanks. Anyway, have you ever heard of a male floor pelvic exercise? Yes. Something such as that. It's essentially a men's keel exercise. And I've been doing it for a couple of weeks. Yep, good. You know, we've talked about my ED on the air and cabbage it and everything else.

Yeah. But this right here, the last two weeks, has been pretty much amazing. Well, good. I'm going to be honest and say I've seen about a 25% recovery so far in the last two weeks. Wow. Okay. And essentially, if you can visualize your taint, you know, paint your balls, paint your ass, visualize your taint and the muscles that are there, and you physically pull those up.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you. This is my job, but you go ahead. Figure out how to make a move. I'm sure they don't move just a couple of centimeters. But anyway, I started off doing it 10 times holding it for one second. Now, I'll do it 10 times holding it for about 10 seconds.

I'll do it while I'm driving. I do it while I'm sitting at the desk. Nobody knows that you're doing this work. Oh, they know. And I've done it in the last two years now, I can do it pulling muscles all the way to my hip bone. Yeah. So I think that this might be a possible little non-medical recovery bike. Yeah, and not non-pharmaceutical.

Yeah, absolutely. Cagle, your pelvic floor gets flabby as you get older, and the, you know, women do them to tighten up those muscles and improve their continents, their urinary continents and stuff, and to reduce pelvic pain and men can do it, to reduce pelvic congestion and stuff like that, it may be worth doing. Like he said, there's no downside to it, and you can exercise without anybody really knowing about it if you just keep your mouth shut up. about it. Yeah, I'm doing kegles right now. I am too. See, but that's the thing. See, we're telling everybody that's part of it. But, you know, you want to just start gently and get the right form and don't do them while you're wearing a Foley catheter. So you shouldn't do that when you got a fully catheter in place because it yanks it around. And if it hurts, stop. But other than that, exercising your pelvic floor muscle is probably pretty good for you. And there are some men that swear that if they do, you, you know,

do kegles that it improves their premature ejaculation. My treatment for premature ejaculation is edging. I mean, for real. Edging is a real treatment for premature ejaculation. So you can take medicines and something. You take Prozac. You do all this stuff. But instead, go buy one of the, you know, a flashlight or a gel, you know,

gel version of the flashlight. And basically what you do is you, instead of sitting down and jacking it up and down on your, on your cock, you simulate intercourse with it. So you, you know, fix it to a table with your hand or put a, you know, towel over it or whatever, and then just have intercourse with it, right, standing up. And then when you get close to have feeling that you're going to, you're going to, you know, you know, busted nut, you pull your penis out and you grab the shaft with your hand, and then you put your thumb over the urethral meatus.

Now, if you've gone too far, you won't be able to stop it. But if you catch it at the right moment, it will stop that feeling, and then it backs off, and then you do it again. And you keep doing that until you can have intercourse with this thing for as long as you want to without ejaculate. Now, the second part is doing it with a real human being. So you have to have a partner who is willing to, who understands your problem and is willing to help you. Be patient. And be patient with you and do the exact same thing. You edge.

And then when they get the feeling, then they put their hand around it and grab the end. And you keep doing that until you can have sex with them as long as you want to. And it may take weeks to months to get this, but it is absolutely something that you can train your body to do. so there you go or you can just take a pill but I'm just the pill it's great but it doesn't

you know it does other things to you this just fixes the problem at hand without taking a pill that goes to the tip of your nose and the tip of your toes just to help you not you know sploge too quickly and the definition

of premature ejaculation is that you're ejaculating before you think you ought to that's it there's no there's no metric for it, you know? Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. You had what kind of, do you say, intercourse with a transgender person? Uh, oral intercourse. Oh, oral intercourse. Okay. Now, this call is from 2015. So he may use terminology that is not no longer considered genteel, but we'll just

save some. With transsexual. Yeah. And there was unprotected oil. Okay. But was this a trans male or a trans female? That's the question. And if they were a

trans female, had they had bottom surgery or, you know, were they still, you know, the pre-op, whatever. So we need a little more information, but maybe he'll give it to us. You know, not even for very long. Anyway, since then, I've kind of had like a sore throat, like sometimes swallowing. Oh, God, this is the same, it's a different guy.

This is years apart from each other. Okay, so he performed oral on this purse. And I get, on occasion, I'll get, like, really, like, localized headaches, like, in one, like, certain area of my head. Yeah. And also, I'll get dizzy from time to time. Okay. And I went and got tested and, you know, even asked for them to do an oral swab. Good.

And the results came back negative. Okay, good. And the symptoms persist. And I'm just wondering if you might have any insight into that. Thank you. Well, the key to this is the lightheadedness. I think he's hyperventilating. I think that I have a funny feeling.

This is anxiety. and he's ruminating about this and he's having, you know, and he may be hyperventilating and making himself dizzy. The sore throat could be coming from mouth breathing while he's hyperventilating. It could be something as simple as that. The good news is he got tested. I'm assuming they tested him for chlamydia and gonorrhea and even herpes, and all of those things came out negative.

So that's almost certainly what it is. I would, you might want to see a cognitive behavioral therapist, just to work through the anxiety. Six weeks would be all, and you just need to get it out. Now, this is from 2015. If this person is listening, and you find out something different than that,

give us a call back. But I'm going to guess that's what it was. You guys got any ideas? Those guys are going to the same bar? Yeah, no, I don't know. I mean, it is weird. It's nine years apart on the same show. Hey, hey.

I hope you've got a second or two. do. It's Tim. It's Tim. Hey, Tim. We haven't talked in a while quite a while, and I thought I'd leave a little message to sort of bringing you up the day. I know you've been incredibly busy, and you got that operation work in there and all that stuff. What? You don't have a lot of time to reach out and touch base with the old friends. You know, I haven't seen quite a while, you know? We used to be close, but that's all right. I'm not holding it again. I'm not calling you up to give you a big lecture, but I do.

I am going to let you know what I'm up to because I know you care, and I know you want to know what the hell I'm doing. So I'm going to leave it out here on your machine. This is the same guy that when Big Kev got phone calls from people from my show because we used to share a time slot on Sirius XM, there was this Big Kev's geek stuff, and then there was weird medicine, and the phone numbers would get mixed up. People would call the wrong thing, and so this guy would call and say, yeah, I called that old Big Can, and he kept calling him Big Can, just to fuck with him, but anyway. Well, he needs an amount of time here for me to lay down. You know, sort of kind of bring you up a day here where I've been coming from and what I've been doing. So, you know, just so I don't get cut off in the middle of the sentence here, I'm going to wrap it up real quick, go straight to the chase, and then I'll fill it in with all the details after that. And then that's it.

A little asshole. That's a guy I went to college with, it turns out. I finally figured out who he was. That's what an idiot. Okay. anyway. Thank you, Dave. That's Dave Haynes, everybody. Hey, Dr. Steve, I was wondering if you could talk about H-C-G. Yeah, go ahead. Sorry.

I was just going to ask if he's the one who's running the ramp festival. No. Yeah, right, the ramp festival that has no ramps. I'm going to go earlier next year. I'm going to get some frigging ramps that really pissed me off this year. However, having said that, my Tabasco crop was bumper this year. And I fermented a bunch of tobascoes and made tabasco sauce out of it, and it's the best I've ever made. So, all right. So that was, I didn't get to make ramp salt, but I got the, I have some of the best hot sauce I've ever made. All right.

Let's see here. What does this guy want? We've only got a minute or two. Hey, Dr. Steve. I was wondering if you could talk about HCG for testosterone replacement. I'm using that as a therapy. I know it can cause the testicles to boost testosterone. Yeah.

I've been trying, it seems to be working. Any drawbacks on that? Thanks. Yeah, HCG is human corionic gonadotropin. That is a hormone that increases testosterone levels by stimulating the testicles to produce more testosterone. It acts like a hormone called lutenizing hormone, which, again, stimulates the testicles to produce testosterone. The nice thing about this is it can maintain sperm production. So unlike taking testosterone supplements, which shrink the testicles and shut them down, this stuff may help.

But a lot of people are taking it off label, not prescribed by a provider. If you have a problem with low testosterone, you want to maintain fertility, there is an approved drug for that called chlomaphene that you can get that does the same thing. So the thing is that HCG is derived from the urine of pregnant women and animals. It was used as a weight loss to AIDS for a while. Remember that was HCG diet? They'd put people on 600 calories and then give them a shot of HCG and then charge, you know, 200 bucks. Well, HCG didn't do a damn thing. It was the 600 calorie diet that they lost weight on and the rest of it.

So I'm not a real big fan of using HCG for this. if you really have a problem, it breaks my heart when people feel like they can't go to their health care provider to get help for these things and they just sort of seek help out on the street and there are ways that you can do this without having to go to the street. But yeah, it's okay, but like I said, I'm not the biggest fan of it. All right. So let's do a couple more questions. Here's one on the carnivore diet.

It's apropos to what you brought up earlier, John. So I'm trying to do the carnivore diet. Yes. Where it's supposedly just meat and everything. But I have a serious question about that. Okay, I can understand the whole no carbs. And I feel better and trying to improve my mental clarity by reducing the carbs. But I don't think that meat itself has a whole lot of fiber.

And a lot of the things that. Most of the vegetables would have vitamin-wise. Right. So there's no vitamin C in steak. Six hard-boiled eggs and then lunches, you know, a hamburger with no bread, something such as that. But at night, tell me if this sounds right, a 80-20 split, 80% either salmon or meat, and then 20% veggies, broccoli, things such as that. Give myself a bell. They have lots of sugar based it up.

Right. Let me know what you think. No, I agree. Bye, folks. Yeah. Animal or some sort of protein. It can be vegetable protein. It doesn't have to be animal protein.

And something with fiber, you know, vitamin C, minerals that are not found in meat. You know, there are no vitamin C in meat. And, you know, a lot of other things that we need, you can't just get from eating meat. We are not carnivores. We are omnivores. We have sharp incisors. They're not real sharp, but they're there. And we have grinding teeth, too.

So, you know, herbivores have grinding teeth. Carnivores have sharp teeth like cats and dogs and stuff like that. And we have both. So we were, you know, we were designed, whatever. That's a bad word, but you know what I mean. We were, we evolved to be in an. environment where we could make use of lots of things in our environment. So we could eat meat. We could digest a lot of vegetable stuff. We can't digest grass and things like that that are just,

you know, pure cellulose. We can't digest that. But most everything else we can. So we could make use of whatever was in our environment. And then when agriculture happened, you know, we could grow our own and we could have animal husbandry and all that stuff. And then, you know, now you got civilization going. So that's why I think eating just one thing to the exclusion of other things is never that good because we were designed to eat a varied diet. But you can get by with a purely plant-based diet because you can get protein and you can get all the other stuff that we need to build muscle from plants, but we can't get vitamin C and all that other stuff from just meat.

Okay? So, yeah, I like the 80-20 split. That's fine. All right, and we'll do one more, and then we'll get to the super chats and stuff. Hello, fluid family. This is the Stacey show. I hope everybody's doing good today. Hey, thanks, buddy.

Kind of a silly little question here for you. Yep. Is it possible or probable that your pinky toe can auto-amputate itself? Sure. Well, that's redundant. The diabetes or other reasons. Department of Redundancy Department, auto-amputate itself. It's auto-amputate means it's amputating itself.

But anyway, that's, now I'm sounding like stuttering. Pop that little thing on? This little piggy went to market. Yeah. Yeah. So, yes, I've seen it multiple times. People with very poor circulation can get gangrene of the toes because basically the toes are bum-fuck Egypt to the body. There is far away from the source of vitality that they can get, right?

and they have very poor blood supply at the best of times. That's why fungi can take residence under your toenails because you just can't get good blood supply there and the immune system is pretty shoddy in that area as well. So if they have really bad blood supply to those toes, they can die. And then you get somebody in the office, they come in, they've got a black toe and it's all dried out. They have dry gangrene.

sometimes you can just go over there and go like that and just snap it right off. Yeah, there's another disease where people have inflammation of the capillaries and the fingers, and those will cause the tips of the fingers to die, sometimes the whole fingers, and those will just snap off as well. And they heal up and then they're kind of fine, you know, and there's no pain when that happens. There's pain while it's happening, but then when it gets so far that the, just bone with a little bit of sinew, you know, attached to it, and it just snaps off. There's zero pain with that.

So, yeah, absolutely. That can happen. It's called auto-amputation. All right. So let's see here. If anybody has left a question in the waiting room, I can't see it because Dr. Scott is supposed to be following that, but I can see the super chat. So Radish, thank you for the $2. It says, I've got the little D here, who's got the big one.

I don't know what the hell he's talking. Oh, Big D, Little D. Okay, I got it. Yep, yep. I heard you have the Little D, Radish. I can't remember who told me that. And Dang Lizard, thank you for the 10 euros. Goodness gracious.

So Radish doesn't feel embarrassed. Just kidding. Love the show. Have a great time. So, yeah, he was trying to make Radish feel better about having a little D. Radish, thanks for the 6.22 euros. And he says, whoops. I don't.

And then Radish again. And thanks for another 6.23 euros. It says, sorry, dang, I feel your pain. Pinky Toe is the worst. So thank you all for those super chats. And all you have to do is go to YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine. Click join and click accept gifted memberships and Myrtle sometimes gets in there and gives away 20 memberships because she likes to have a hoot nanny.

and she'll and other people would give gifted memberships as well and then I do put out some stuff for members only and it hits if I put anything on YouTube now it goes members only first and then a couple three days later it goes to the to the public okay

all right very good well thank you all and I want to say thank you to John and faux Dr. Scott, and Tacey just walked in with a bottle of wine for these two. So thank you, Tacey. Thanks to everyone who's made this show happen over the years.

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