Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 632 - Return to Hackamania

Episode Date: May 9, 2025

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It's simplyerbils.net. And then check me out adjacently on Normal World with Dave Landau. I just did one on ASP play, and I've got one on Blue Balls coming. No. And then the next one is, oh, shit, I don't remember what it is. is. That's got to be something to do with penises. Yeah, it is.

Yeah. I don't know what's some. It's ejaculation adjacent, if I remember correctly. Oh, my. I don't remember. The Blue Balls one is good, though. Oh, I'll bet. And maybe that's the one.

Maybe that's it. And then the next one I'm doing is I, now I don't remember. I'm doing one on penis enlargement, which we've done on this show multiple times. And spoiler alert doesn't work. Mm-hmm. There is a technique where you have these, what are they called, where you twist the barrel and it makes it longer. Telescoping? Well, it's kind of telescoping, but it's like a latchcock or something like that.

I can't remember. But anyway, I'll look it up before I do it. But you have this thing that looks, it's got Velcro on the base. and right under the glands, the Roman War Helmet. And then there are these rigid-type poles that have threads on them, and you can twist them to make the distance greater between the base and the top of this thing. And that does work.

They use it for people with Peroni's disease sometime to try to straighten out the penis. And they will use it per penis enlargement, but the only statistically significant increase in length is about a quarter of an inch. So it's not worth it. No, not by the discomfort. And women will tell you, and we actually have a woman in the chat room, a girl. A girl. A real girl.

Hello, Amanda. But most women will tell you, and I don't know if they're lying or to make people feel better or if they really mean this, that it's not the length that's the girth. So it's easy to make penises more girthy. You can do it by just wearing a sheath. There are plastic surgery things that you can do that I do not recommend where they take hyaluronic acid like they plump lips up with. Oh, my. They'll apply it circumferentially around the penis to make, like, ribs. Oh, my.

So now your whole shaft is ribbed for her pleasure instead of just having a ribbed condom. And, yeah, so there are things that you can do. I'm not recommending that, by the way. I've seen a lot of adverse events from that. Yes. But girthy is easier than length. Yes. Oh, man.

All right. And Amanda, that is good news. I'm not going to repeat what she said because I don't know how much of it is. But whatever, I'm glad to hear you. It's great news. I'm glad to hear you're doing good. Great news. Absolutely.

All right. Now, you got any topics for today? I don't. No. I got another email about this RFK thing. And I'm going to make it very clear. I'm speaking in a very nuanced fashion when I say things like, you know, vitamin A that he was promoting actually has data to show it. Just the same way that when the I word was being vilified and not incorrectly so for a lot of reasons.

But it was somebody asked us, were these people just assholes? Are they just making it up? It's like, no, there's actual data that shows that. The I-word has antiviral properties. It's got lots of different, you know, yes, it's antiparicic, but it can have other effects as well, just like aspirin is good for a sprained ankle, but also prevents heart attack and stroke. Two completely different things. And so what I'm saying is that when people go, oh, you know, RFK, he just, you know, promotes vitamin A for measles. It's like, well, there is a reason for that.

That it does prevent death in severe cases of measles. But if I can say this again so that it's clear if he's promoting using that instead of the vaccine, which I've never heard him say when it comes to that vaccine. But if he is, then that's bullshit. But if he isn't, this is just a nuanced conversation that, yes, there is data that vitamin A is very effective. in helping to prevent serious complications in kids who have a serious case of measles. He's not crazy about that. If he's promoting that as an alternative to the vaccine, I don't agree with that.

We have said a million times on this show that, you know, I had a friend who died in kindergarten from measles. I am a huge measles vaccine proponent for people. Now, if you have a contraindication, that's... That's different. I totally understand that, and there are some people who have a religious conviction because, you know, if they're testing these things using fetal cell lines and you're against that, I guess I get that. The way to fix that is stop using fetal cell lines in the testing of these, and that takes

away that argument. Yep, yep, yep. But, you know, the measles vaccine is one of the greatest things that ever happened to this country because there are lots of people in this. world who die from measles, but not here because we are almost universally vaccinated. I've also made the argument where people say, oh, well, there's more harm from the vaccine than there is from measles right now. And yes, that is absolutely true.

When you have zero measles, which we had for a while in this country, then, of course, the vaccine is going to have more adverse events because those are actual events. you're not going to have any adverse events from something that doesn't happen. Yeah, yeah. So, yes, I am not a fan of quackery, but I'm also not a fan of just knee-jerk saying somebody's wrong just because of who they are. Agreed. And the problem with RFK is he does say some things that I think are demonstrably incorrect. And then he says other things that are absolutely 100% on the money.

this business with the petroleum food dyes. I can't believe this went on as far as long as it did. No, it's crazy, isn't it? Yeah. So I'm glad of that. But somebody posted a picture of fruit loops in Europe and fruit loops in the United States. And the ones in the United States definitely look better. But we can get used to dull colors on the fruit loops.

Yeah, it's called throwing in a blueberry or two or maybe a raspberry or two. Correct. Yeah, they'll give some color. They'll give some color. Yeah. How about just eat the fruit instead of, eating cereal that's painted like that's painted like food, right? Oh, for God's sakes people.

Just, yeah, it's like the fish oil thing. They found that people who ate more fish had fewer heart attacks and strokes. So what do we do in this country? We take fish and we put them in a big vat and render them down to their essential oil and then take the oil, you know, the pill and figure we can do whatever the fuck we want. So I know I if if anybody misunderstood me I want to make sure I'm very clear particularly about this that I'm interested in the science and I think that we had a pretty good record during COVID of not you know doing anything but the science and no did we get misled by some stuff that we were told abs fucking looting we did um did COVID take a different trajectory

than we thought it might? Absolutely. We did. But I think we were pretty science-oriented. Even, you know, Bollinger, who invented the Bollinger band. So this is a cool application of my technique, you know, which it's used for stock market. But I was tracking the virus, you know, using stock market technical analysis. And, you know, it was fun. That part was interesting. And the fact that there's still sides and all of this. just really kind of, you know, it just bothers me. Yeah, it's hard to believe. I'm interested in the science. I do think that in this country, we, I think someone like RFK, even if he's got some dopey ideas about some things, we got to do something different. Yes. You know, it's like the education department.

It's a hell, you know, but we're not doing something. We're doing something wrong. So maybe it takes just to, you know, somebody that's got some different ideas, when I say different, in quotes, to just shake things up. All right. So that's the last I'm going to say about it. Measles vaccine. Everyone should get it. Unless there's a compelling reason not to.

And yes, if your kid gets measles, then they're probably going to prescribe vitamin A because that part's not crazy. Yeah. Yep. Okay. All right. I just keep saying it wrong because I keep getting emails about it. I'm not saying it right. And I don't know any other way to say it.

And you know as well as I do. Sometimes you just hear what you want to hear. I don't know. I don't know. I think the people are emailing me are emailing in good faith. I just think we're talking past each other. Yeah, it could be. All right.

You want to answer some questions? Yeah, let's give it a shot. One thing. Don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. That's the other thing I've been getting is stop doing all this stuff and talk about and answer questions because that's what you're good at. So the last several shows, I've been trying to just answer questions. And anyway, all right.

Hey, Dr. Steve. Hey, Dr. Scott. Howdy? I've been a long-time listener. I've been to listen to you since all the way back at the beginning with O&A. Wow. Happy to hear you guys are moving on to something new. Looking forward to hearing what that might be, and that will still be able to get to listen to you.

Oh, yeah. Dr. Scott and I were just talking about that. I think there was a time when we did a serious XM show every Saturday, and then every three weeks we would do three 30-minute weird medicine podcast. And they were completely different. And that's what we're going to go back to. We're going to get together maybe once a month, do three shows where we just answer questions and maybe a topic or two.

and then, but mostly answering questions, and then we'll release them every 10 days or something like that. And if we get a fourth show in, even better, that'll be the podcast, then we'll do, after we do that, we'll do a live stream, and then I'm still going to be doing my sort of one-off documentary style stuff.

That'll be fun. So, yeah, I think it'll be good. All right. Thank you. Oh, also, it turns out I am going to Hackamania after all. Oh, yeah, we've got to get to that, don't we? Yeah, well, let's talk about it now while I'm thinking about it.

So I said last week it just wasn't going to happen because it was on Liam's birthday. Well, part of the problem was my show was at 3 p.m. on Saturday. So I couldn't go to a 10 a.m. graduation in Tennessee and be in Las Vegas by 3 p.m. This is not physically possible. So I did that, and then I get this email from Mr. Melton saying, I wish that you had asked me first because now people are saying because you're pulling out that the whole thing is failing. I'm saying nobody would think that. They're just making that up because no one's going to think that because I pulled out that the whole thing is failing.

They're just saying shit. But anyway, I did see the tweets that he was talking about. And so he said, well, let's just do this. let's move your show to, let's do a midnight show. Okay. And you can, we had two things we were going to do. Either I was going to come on Wednesday and do my show on Friday and leave Friday night, which would get me into Nashville at five, and then we were going to rent a Cessna to get me here in time.

But he underestimated how much that was going to cost. So we decided instead what I'm going to. going to do is go to Liam's graduation, Summa Cum Laudey, by the way. Oh, right. And I also, I really appreciate everyone's support of that decision. I got 100% of people who are like, yep, family comes first. You've got to do this. So, but anyway, Melton said what we'll do is we'll move your show from 3 o'clock to like

10.30 after everything else is already done. Cool. And I'll just, it'd be kind of like an annex or a. a midnight show. The icing on top of the cake. Yeah, there you go. So, yeah. So I'm going to fly out from Asheville at 315.

The graduations at 10 gives me plenty of time to see him graduate and then get up the road. And then get to Las Vegas by 6. It would give me plenty of time to get ready for a show at 10.30, Vegas time. Right on. Which is 1.30 hour time. I am an old man.

You are not a spring chicken. That's going to be late. That's going to be late. That's going to be late. I was running rings around those guys last time. They were like, we're tired. I'm like, no, we're going to keep going. So, anyway, all right, so that's the story on that.

So thank you all for the support and thank Mr. Melton for figuring out a way that I can still go. So it would be a very abbreviated trip. What's good about it is I probably won't be spending as much money gambling as I would have. So that's good. That is good. If I had a couple of free days to myself. I was already contemplating calling the bank and increasing my, you know, ATM withdrawal limit for the week. But anyway.

Oh, my God. Here we go. Oh, I heard the word ejaculation. Let me run that back. You can show right now a retrograde ejaculation. And while it's, I don't do it often, I do believe that the pleasure of a retrograde ejaculation. Ejaculation is better than a standard ejaculation. Interesting.

Is there any evidence in the literature to that? Yeah. So what he's doing, I believe what he's doing here is clamping off the head of his penis when he's ejaculating and forcing himself. There are people that do this where they'll force the semen back into the bladder through the magic of hydrostatic, you know, or fluidics. because the path of least resistance then becomes into the bladder rather than out into the real world. And for him, it increases his pleasure. I know some people have what we call anesthetic ejaculations where they know they're ejaculating, but they don't really get the orgasm.

And he's getting that from this. And honestly, I don't know if this is a good thing. I'd like to have a urologist on here, but I guarantee you most of them don't know the answer. No. But when you force retrograde ejaculation, what you're doing is opening up that sphincter to go the wrong way, the sphincter outside the bladder. So there's this sphincter that closes off. That's why when you've got a giant erection, it's very hard to, or it may be impossible, to void your bladder. Right.

And that's because from an evolutionary standpoint, you know, our species doesn't want you ejaculating inside your partner after, I'm sorry, urinating inside your partner after you've ejaculated because it would wash the semen out and therefore it would decrease the odds that you're going to actually impregnate somebody because remember, that is why sex was invented. I mean, we tend to enjoy it without regard to its original purpose, but that's what it is. Now, most health care providers do not recommend forcing retrograde ejaculation, but I don't know that they've got data to, you know, to prove that, you know. But anyway, so I'm, I just looked at that. this up and really found nothing. So the question is whether forcing it increases the odds that you will always have retrograde ejaculation. I think outside the certain medications and diabetes and a couple other things like that, I don't

think there's a huge risk for that, but I don't have data to back that up. You have any? Never. I mean, all I know is like you said, the medications that cause retrograde. ejaculation and the restrictions but I don't know about you know wearing out that that valve

yeah it just says here ejaculation after masturbation is important stopping the ejaculation by covering the end of the penis with the finger of thumb can cause retrograde ejaculation which means semen travels back up the urethra can be forced up the tube that leads to the bladder of the prostate gland

in either case there may be pain and discharge from the penis for this guy says it's all pleasurable So there you go. So I don't, you know, there's a lot of opinion out there that I can find, but I can't find any data. It is hard to fund that study, if you think about it. You know, how are you going to get funding for that? Well, we're going to have a bunch of guys jack off and then clamp the end of their penis, and then we're going to see if they do it 100 times doesn't increase the risk of retrograde ejaculation or other medical problems.

Yeah, I'm not sure they're going to fund that. Now, having semen in your bladder is a really good. culture medium. Yes. Just like having sugar in your bladdered is as well. So I'm, you know, that could be something. You know, but anyway, I don't like that. I'm just speculating, to be honest with you.

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And, like, I guess he was just having a good time. And granted, this was not the 80s. This was, like, 2007. And I guess he just went on a bender for, like, months. And he was doing it all time. And it was just shocking to me because I've always had this preconceived notion that drugs like Coke or heroin or meth, you know, they can get you like they'll kill you and to be honest i i've never really done anything

stronger than than weed but so i don't understand like how that would even work and i'm just curious like if you were to take this is going to sound like i'm asking because i want you i don't want to but i'm just curious like if you take coke or heroin or do one of those hard drugs once can you if it like you're rolling the dice every time you take it could you do it once Could you do it a hundred times? Each time there's a chance that you could die from it is the only death induced by overdose? Like, we have such a drug issue in this country, and I know people get hooked on these things and they do it for years. But I'm just curious if that's how it works or if that's...

Yeah, it's a... It depends. That's the answer. If you're buying heroin off the streets in the age of... um, fentanyl, which is dosed in microgram amounts, which means a brick. Let's just say, okay, well, let's figure it out, Dr. Scott. Let's do some, let's do some ciphon. Some cipher and some gazintas.

Yeah. You know your gazintas, everybody. Three gazenta nine, three times. Thrust. Thrust. Um, let's figure this out. So let's say for an opioid naive person, that taking 100 milligrams of oral morphine,

that would be the equivalent of 10 Lortab 10s, would probably cause some problems, don't you think? Do you want to go to 15? We'll go 15. So that'll be 150 milligrams times. And now, fentanyl is dosed weird. So IV fentanyl would be, if people are going to shoot up,

let's say they're going to shoot up. So it would be times 100 micrograms divided by 30 milligrams, so we're canceling the oral morphine units. And that's 500 micrograms, okay? Now, a kilo has 2,000 grams in it, right? No, I'm sorry, 1,000 grams is a kilogram. Dough, a kilogram, a thousand grams is 2.2 pounds. Okay, yeah.

So how many 500 micrograms is in 1,000 grams? I think I might have to ask. I don't want to sound stupid. She's not working. Is she not working? No, she's got the yellow ring of death on her. Oh, okay. Well, all right, I'll ask Google then.

So how many 500 microgram in 1,000 grams? Okay. All right. And let's see here. It's going to be a lot. Yeah. So convert from micrograms to gram. Okay, well, we can do that.

So 500 micrograms. Okay, get ready. You got your calculator out? I can. Okay. Is he ready? Ready, calculator. So it's a thousand divided by 0.005.

It's going to be a lot. Two million. Yeah. So there's one kilogram. of fentanyl, 2.2 pounds, has got how many? Two million? Two million. Two million potentially lethal doses for an opioid naive person.

So let's just say if someone's opioid tolerant, it's a million. And you have people, and look, no offense to the drug dealers out there, but many of them are not road scholars. And when they're cutting heroin or making whatever they're making their packets of white, powder and they just go, okay, well, you know, let's put another couple of spoonfuls of this fentanyl in there. Then when you get that little packet, it doesn't have the microgram amount of fentanyl printed on it. So, yeah, that is a crapshoot because every once in a while we'll have people who will use

it one time and they die because they've been overdosed by, you know, a dealer that didn't know how to stop on it or they didn't know how to dose it given what they bought. You know, that reminds me of the Lynn Bias. Yeah, Len Bias was cocaine death. Yeah. And my understanding was maybe he had never even done it before. Right. Did it one time when it stopped his heart.

Yeah. Cardinalchrythia. You know, they're going to say, well, it's Len Bias. We're going to get him the good stuff. Yep. He would have been better off if they'd gotten him the shite. The old cheapo, yeah, the old cheapo stuff. I'm looking here.

Another one, we discovered an issue with a drug called Opana. And this was actually reported by our group as we were seeing people come in with kidney failure and a thing called thrombotic thrombocytopinic purpra, which doesn't matter what it is, but it's a blood disorder where, you know, they bleed and have bruises everywhere and all this stuff. And it was caused by something in the branded version of this drug called Opana that they were selling in a town nearby, crushing it up, shooting it. up and then coming into the hospital like that. And we noticed a pattern of people coming in with these two things. And when we asked them, they were shooting up this drug. And so that was one of the reasons by the branded version was taken off the market because there was something in it that did this to people if they shot it up.

If they used it as prescribed, not a problem. But anyway, I'm looking at this is NIH.gov, U.S. overdose deaths for select drugs or drug categories, and it only goes up to 2022. But the number one is synthetic opioids other than methadone, and that means fentanyl. And it is huge. Almost 80,000 drug deaths in the United States. Now, between it and the next highest thing is this huge gap. It's almost half, so maybe 25,000 were psychostimulants, and that would be methamphetamine.

And then you drop down to cocaine is around, well, maybe the psychostimians with 25,000, cocaine with 20,000. And then prescription opioids way, way, way down the list at about 8,000. Now, why is that? Well, because they're marked and people know how much they're taking. And I hate to say that they're, quote, unquote, safer to abuse, but at least you know what you're getting most of the time. Now, there are. And much more expensive, though, too. Correct.

And there's knockoff versions of them now that actually are fentanyl, little pills of fentanyl that are stamped like their oxycodone. And then heroin is way down there and then antidepressants are at the very bottom of the list. Because antidepressants were zero. Then in 2016, 2017, 2018, we're high at around 5,000 to 7,000. And now they're back to zero again. So there you go. So it is, the answer is, is it a crapshoot every time you, it's a crapshoot every time you cross the street? Yeah.

So, yes, it is, but the odds are lower of dying from certain things than others. But, you know, I'm not saying that to encourage anybody to use them. It's just the fact. Okay. All right. Dr. Steve? Dr. Steve. Dr. Steve, you'll never guess it.

a million years buddy you will never guess in a million years and it's not the name that's appearing on it's just I'm using his phone he says hello he said call you wanted to risk you about whatever the thing was you celebrated I don't know what the hell are you went out there and you got your award and babbidi babbidi ma'am you came back and you were a better person for having done whatever the hell you was that you did okay I just want to congratulations hang on okay go ahead oh well that thing you had that's great anyway cutting back to the You know, a couple of important matters, like to discuss with you.

You've got time to listen. I hope your machine, maybe five minutes. I could probably get it all out at a period of time, and I really appreciate you listening. You get 30 seconds, bro. Trying to keep some notes. Anyway, I don't want to come back and have to do this again because it's all in my heart, and I'm feeling emotional. Okay. Hello, all right.

Thank you, my friend. Thank you, but thank you. I appreciate the kind words. All right. Dr. Steve. Yes. Good question. My wife's pregnant with twins right now.

Okay. We're doing these breastfeeding classes. Excellent. And one of the lactations consultants said that she's breastfed her kids past the age of two years old. Okay. Where do you draw the line when it's okay to actually go straight to breast with breastfeeding? Yeah, I don't, listen, everybody's different. In some countries where you have the kid on a sling and you do on-demand feeding, that actually is a form of birth control, it prevents those women from ovulating.

and that's why they're not having 20 kids. They might have three or four if that. But that's because they breastfeed. They have the kid on a sling, and they can just feed whenever they want to. And that nipple stimulation and the milk let down will prevent the woman from getting pregnant. She can have intercourse. And, you know, with this baby there. And, you know, as long as she makes sure that she lets a baby feed right afterward.

And it is a form of birth control. Now, I have no problem. Listen, I'm a huge fan of breastfeeding. You know, back in the 50s, it was like, ew, gross. We're not doing that. So that's when formula came out. And formula was marketed to middle class housewives at that time. You know, that was less gross than that, ooh, that nasty breastfeeding.

And fortunately, we've gotten away from that. I'm just telling you the story. once again, of my son Beck, who would be dead today or severely asthmatic or debilitated if Tacey had not been breastfeeding. And she gave him the virus, which was RSV. But then she saved his life because of it. Because when he went in, he had a fever of 105 at five days old. And the nurses, and then we're saying, you know, we got to tell you, we don't know if he's going to make it.

And if he does make it, he's going to be. Possibly brain damaged. Or, well, lung damaged. You know, he'll have asthma and emphysema the rest of his life and all this stuff. Well, she continued to breastfeed him, and of course she had the antibodies. Her body was developing him. He just sailed right through. He's totally fine.

Totally 100% fine, and it blew their minds. But they didn't realize. And she probably had RSV before, so the breast milk probably would have still helped. But the fact that she was, her immune system was. revving up and producing all these IGA antibodies. That's what those are in the breast milk. And, yeah, kid surprised everybody. Then the next thing he got was rotavirus and had to be put in the hospital.

And I remember sitting there with him and he was on my lap and all of a sudden I feel this warmth and I pick him up. And there's just liquid shit pouring out of the hole in his diaper that they put when they put a wee bag on there to see if he had a urinary. track of perfection. And so it was just pouring out everywhere all over me, all over the floor. And the room smelled so bad that they tried to, I tried to clean it.

They tried to clean it. They just had to bring in an air freshener and just hang it in there. Oh my God. Yeah. That was the same night that Tacey had it too. It was Norwalk virus, is what it was. Not rotavirus. And

she was holding Beck and He puked on her and then she puked on him. And I'm like, what is, what hell? What circle of hell? So I gave her some medicine, took him to the hospital because he was getting dehydrated. How old was he? He was little on that one too. I mean, he's still in a diaper.

And he was not speaking yet. So, you know, he couldn't tell me, hey, dad, I'm getting ready to shit all over you. The way he is right now, he was probably four. old at that time he wasn't talking yet yeah right right he is very brilliant he is something else but anyway um yeah so if look if you want to breastfeed your kid till of their two i've seen people breastfeeding their kid when they were able to run up to the mother and grab you know grab her and stick their head under their her shirt and start breastfeeding and that's like a four-year-old to me i don't know i don't get that but if you're into that and

you're, you know, you're fine with it. I don't have a problem with it. It's good for, it is good for the kid. I also think that, you know, if the kid's in kindergarten and they're just going to get, they're going to be made fun of, pretty bad if they're still breastfeeding in kindergarten. So that, when it gets to the point where the kid is going to suffer because of society, the woman should not care if people go, oh, she's breastfeeding. You know, that's none of them.

their business, you know, and particularly on-demand feeding, you have to do it on-demand. So you're going to be breastfeeding in public unless you're a hermit, so it's just the way it is. So if you think it's gross or whatever, avert your eyes. This is how we were, you know, became human beings for hundreds of thousands of years. So it's a time-honored tradition. So you all do whatever you want, but I'm glad you're going to breastfeeding class. do it even for a little while. If you could just do it for a little while,

the kid gets the benefit out of it. All right. Mm-hmm. All right. I don't know what this is, pirate ship. I don't know what this is. Good afternoon. It's summer.

So the kids and I have been hitting up several fairs and amusement parks. One of our favorites is the pirate ship. You all know it. It's the giant pendulum. Oh, yeah. It just goes back and forth. You sit on it.

Yes. You get a few seconds of first. free fall and then you go the other direction and then you get a few seconds of free fall again and it's super fun but it makes your stomach have this weird feeling of free fall that i it's hard to explain it feels good but it also doesn't and what is that is that just the the fluid inside your stomach sloshing around and touching parts of your stomach that is not normally uh interacting with your your stomach fluids, or is it just something else? My daughter really wants to know.

Thanks, bye. Yeah, it's all of the above. It's called stomach drop. And you experience it during roller coaster drops, other rapid decelerations, free fall. Katie Perry and them did experience this as well. And it's just caused by sudden shift and movement of organs inside the body. That's all it is. And the ones, like the heart, it's got nowhere to go, lungs got nowhere to go.

but the stomach and intestines are very loosely suspended and a matter of fact the small intestine is suspended on a thing called the omentum which is is no that's not right

it's a big old fascia yeah yeah it's just kind of a stalk it comes from the retro periteneum but so it's just think of it as being suspended from behind right and so when they move

you're just going to feel it, and it feels weird. And there's lots of fluid in there to be moving. Yes, correct. And lots of nerve endings to be firing. Yep. And those nerve endings aren't used to firing in those ridiculous ways, too. And the nervous system interprets that as sinking. And so it's sending a kind of an alarm signal to the brain.

Yeah. And some people like it, though. You know, skydiving, they have transitioned from the plane to free fall. It's really kind of more gradual. because the body's already moving forward. So there's less of a sudden shift and more of a floating weightless feeling when they do it.

And there is the friction of the air as well. But I love that pirate thing. Have you ever seen, like Google or go on YouTube and there are some really unsafe pirate things in other countries? Oh, no. And I have seen people on there where they're just people are puking

or falling out and stuff like. that because I don't have seatbelts and stuff. You just jump on it, jump on it and find a place. Yeah. But do you think that if someone wanted to ride the ride but didn't want the feeling they could do, you know, the kind of abdominal tightening stuff like they tell you to do if you're going up in a plane for G-for-G-4 to battle the G-Forces, maybe, possibly? That might help.

Yep. Yeah. Tell me tight. You know, there's this whole relativity thing where you're not moving. with respect to the thing. The thing is, you know, to the boat or whatever the roller coaster is, but you are moving with respect to the earth. Yes.

And that's, you know, it is. And that's what causes that. I would really like to do the vomit comment. I think that'd be awesome. Where they get on the plane, they do a parabolic curve up, and then you're waitless for a certain period of time. And that was the one criticism that Katie Perry. and them got was, oh, they weren't

really weightless. Yeah, they were. They were in free fall. That counts. That's all when you're in orbit, you're not escaping Earth's gravity. You are still captive to Earth's gravity. It's just that you're in free fall and you keep missing the Earth. A perfect

orbit falls toward the Earth, but it's going forward so fast that it keeps missing it. And, you know, but the gravity is what's keeping you in orbit. Right. And if you had a space elevator that went as high as, well, the eventual space elevators will be as high 22,000 feet because they've got to be in geosynchronous orbit, right?

So if you went up as high as, say, the space shuttle, which is in zero gravity because they're weightless, but if you were on a space elevator and you stepped off of that, you're going to fall straight down to the ground. Yeah, yeah. You will still feel gravity. It just won't be as strong, but I don't know if it'd even be perceptibly different at, you know, 100 miles up, right? And another way to prove that is there are people that have jumped out of planes at 100,000 feet, which you can see the curvature of the earth and all that stuff, but they fall straight down. Yeah.

Gosh. You know. So it's like a terrible idea. Yeah. That's wild. That's crazy. It looks amazing. Oh, my.

Oh, my. They go up on a balloon and then they just jump out. Wow. But anyway, so it is exactly what Katie Perry and them experienced is the same microgravity that everybody else does when they're in orbit. It's just that it was, it's free fall without being in orbit. So they're falling. And so, you know, with respect to the Earth, they're in free fall. Einstein said someone in an elevator.

that's in free fall, or, you know, that's, oh, let's put it this way. Someone that's accelerating at 10 meters per second per second in space would be unable to say that they were not in a gravitational field. It's called the equivalence principle. So they were basically in an elevator that was in free fall all the way down until it wasn't, you know, until the parachute opened. And it's the same. It's exactly the same as being in orbit. Yeah. Okay?

Because they're just in free fall. That's all it is. Yeah, yeah. That's crazy. They just have enough forward velocity so that they are falling off the edge of the earth at every inch of the way. Yeah. So that criticism is bullshit. Everything else you want to criticize about that Blue Origin flight, 100%.

Yeah, yeah. But would I like to do it? Hell yeah, I'd like to do it. Yeah, for three minutes of free fall? Hell no. I mean, I went all the way to Dallas to see four minutes of the eclipse, so it would be And that seemed like a long time. Yeah, I think it'd be pretty cool.

Oh, my gosh. It's funny. Yeah. But I wouldn't come out there going, I'm an astronaut. No, no. Even William Chattner didn't say that. He just said it was amazing and I was so grateful for it. Anyway.

All right. We've got a quick question if you want one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, hey, from the fluid family. Oh, excellent. Lincoln is wanting to know some, what are some early signs of liver and pancreatic diseases? Go ahead. So a couple things that you might have early on would be abdominal pain, sometimes

bloating, swelling, for sure. Yeah, unless. Does you have a reason for asking? Because that might be helpful to us. He did not, he didn't say, he just said besides itchiness, which itchiness is another thing that can't occur. That's usually caused by jaundice and the Billy Rubin that is in your, now all of a sudden in your bloodstream at higher.

levels than it should be, will stain the skin, it'll stain your eyes, and it causes itching because it stimulates these what we call peripheral mu-opioid receptors out in the skin, and when you stimulate those, one of the things that will happen is you get itching. And that's why if we have someone that doesn't have pain with this, we can put them on a peripheral mu-opioid receptor blocker, like methyl-noutrexone or other medications like that. that will absolutely stop the itching. It's the only thing that works. In a wild.

Yeah. So, but, yeah, when the pancreas fails, if you have just pancreatic failure, in other words, it's not producing the hormones it should. So there are, you know, there are hormones that it releases directly into the bloodstream, which would be insulin from the islet cells. And then there are pancreatic enzymes, which it secretes insides. into the GI tract to help with digestion. So if that part fails, people will have chronic diarrhea. Yeah, loose stools. And with oil floating to the surface because they're having fat malabsorption.

And it's just like when Ali Wow potato chips came out and they were fried in an indigestible oil, you could eat all you want, but then you would shit out orange or oil. And that was, you know, it was a thing, a weight loss thing for a lot of people, but back then, but they were also shitting out essential fatty acids and something like that, so it wasn't that great. But that's what's happening there. And so the treatment for that would be replacing pancreatic enzymes. And so we'll give, you know, there's creon, or there's the branded name for those, or one of the branded names. And then if the, obviously, if the pancreas is failing to produce insulin, then you're a type 1 diabetic. Now, if you have toxic assault on the pancreas with alcohol or other toxic exposures,

you can get pancreatitis, and that can be caused by a gallstone, sometimes passing through and blocking things up and causing inflammation of the pancreas, or it can be caused by drinking, which just basically damages the pancreas, and you get inflammation. the pancreas, you'll have pain right under the sternum, right under that zyphoid process, because that's where the pancreas is. And it can be excruciating. And then you can get, if you don't stop drinking, and that's what is you can get chronic pancreatitis, you get pancreatic failure and chronic pain.

And in those cases, sometimes the only thing they can do is remove the pancreas, or they can do a thing called a celiac plexus block, which is where they go in with a needle through your back into the pancreas and they instill anesthetic or alcohol. If you're going to kill the nerve, you would use alcohol. If you just want to calm it down for a while, you would use an anesthetic to just calm the nerve plexus down that feeds the pancreas. Now, the liver, you want to talk about that, like cirrhosis and stuff. Yeah, so certainly, and it appears he was asking, but they are alcohol reasons.

Okay. So certainly, you know, a lot of liver trauma can come from alcohol and medications among toxic, other toxic things. But the liver will have a tendency to get some scarring and can develop some fat. And the more bound down it gets, the harder it is for it to heal and to push blood through. If you stop assaulting it, if it is alcohol and you stop assaulting it, a lot of times if it hasn't gone too far, it can regenerate. The liver can regenerate itself. Yep, it's pretty resilient. I've seen people who have donated levers or had lobes of their livers removed because of a tumor or something, and it just tends to, the function grows back.

The whole organ may not grow back, but it'll enlarge, and it'll. And certainly accommodates, and it accommodates, yeah, and that's the biggest thing. And there are a lot of things associated with that. The too much pressure inside there can cause a back pressure in the whole system. And you can have pain. You can actually leach out fluids causing asieties. Right. You know, abdominal

Swinling Inside the abdominal wall You can also The back pressure can cause An increase in Esophageal In the esophagus That can cause

Veracocities Yeah Right Veracil veins Baricose veins In the esophagus God I'm struggling for that word And that can cause bleeding

And they have to go in And destroy those Well you ban those Yep Yeah, there are a lot of, you know, a lot of reasons to, if you're having trouble early, get, you work with it early. Well, if you, if you've been drinking constantly for a long time, seeing a primary care provider, letting them know that's what's going on, and letting them just do some blood work, you may be able to find that the, these transaminases, there are enzymes that are produced in the liver that get released in the bloodstream when liver. cells die, and A-S-T and A-L-T or S-G-O-T and S-G-P-T, they're the same thing. Those may not be that elevated, or they may be elevated, and that gives you something you

can track as you stop insulting your liver with alcohol. And if you are doing that, don't take Tylenol, because Tylenol and alcohol together can cause some real problems. all in large quantities can hurt the liver. So, you know, but anyway, see your primary care. And if you want to send us your lab work, we'll look at it with you. Okay. Yep.

But you can do it. People way less awesome than you guys are, have quit drinking. So you can do it. I know you can. You don't have to be alone, though. All right? Mm-hmm. All right.

Let's see here. Let's do this one. I think I've actually got something useful here instead of me just asking a question. Okay. But we're going to start with a question anyway. How's everybody doing? Okay. Anyway, we have 10 seconds.

Have you ever heard of a male floor pelvic exercise? Yes. Okay. So let's talk about that. His thing is much longer than that. But there are people who advocate male Kagle maneuvers. That's where you just clinch your. taint, basically, for ejaculatory control.

Also, there are people who have male pelvic floor pain, and sometimes those exercise will help with that. Very often, the male pelvic floor pain is coming from chronic prostateic congestion. The answer to that is very pleasurable, is, you know, ejaculating more often. There you go. All right, Dr. Scott, before we get out of here, you got anything? for us. Yeah, the one pun is talking about quitting smoking again.

Okay. And it wouldn't have started again except for all of the stress of the last two years. So I just had a question about, are there any other ways to treat or help calm anxiety without medications? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, that's what meditation was made for before we had medication. I want to also recognize Darth Nuggs, member for 13 months. Thank you. Thank you, my friend.

I had a My My screen name on Xbox was Darth scratchy I was

there had to be one one Sith Lord that was just you know not quite up to the Sith standards that was

Darth scratchy but all right oh he was saying now the long winded collars is what he was talking about

so okay Where are we starting? Let me start with, let me start with the meditation thing. Yeah, yeah. Oh, right, right, right. It's not, non-pharmacologic thing. Yes, let me start because the next thing, the one pun says,

is it might be a little too high strung for meditation. And our, in our, hey, and aren't we all? We think we are. And I like to remind people that you don't have to go live in a cave in Tibet for seven years to learn how to meditate. Correct. And actually, that's too easy. No.

The Somerset mom said it's easy. you to be holy when you're sitting on top of a mound. Exactly. So you want to be able to do this in your own life. In the real world and in real life. Correct. And the first thing I tell people is the first thing you have to do is just be able to close your eyes and smile.

If you'll just close your eyes and smile, that's the beginning of a meditation. Yeah. And you can do that when you're sitting at a red light. You can do it while you're sitting in a drive-thru at your favorite drive-thru restaurant and just sit just for a second, close your eyes, smile. And that's your first breath. And that's your first awareness. of what a true meditation is.

It's just finding a happy place. It's not about having an empty mind. It's not about counting backwards from 10 and not having a thought. It's just about entering a really comfortable place. And it might be, you might be thinking of the beach. You might be thinking of a ride on a bicycle. And it doesn't matter because you let that go and you smile.

Right. And whatever comes in next, you smile and you let that go too. I think the biggest problem that I see, people trying to meditate is they're trying. Yeah. Don't try. Just sit. Just smile.

Find you a nice place to. Sometimes it's sitting on the toilet. If you've got to, you know, kids. Yeah, let's not do it at the red light. I agree with Darth Nogs on that one. What is the red light? Well, you said, you can do it while you're sitting at a red light. And it's like, I know you could.

Please don't. If you are, if you have, if you're not, let's say you're sitting in red light, but you're not driving. Okay. How about that? If you're not operating. Well, if you're not driving, you do it while you're driving. But point being is just finding a place to just sit and smile. And sometimes it's, you know, sitting in a doctor's office waiting on your appointment, time, it's probably going to be late.

Sometimes sitting on a – waiting on a bus or an airplane. Just find time to close your eyes. You can't just sit and just smile for a second. And then – It helps you to slow down your brain. Yep. And look, if you really just can't do it on your own, you know, I'm an advocate of the trip – or advocate of the trip app. It will teach you, I mean, it's a guided meditation.

That's all it is it's a psychedelic experience without drugs. But it will teach you how to meditate so that the next time you can do it without the device. But it's worth the price of a used meta-quest for sure just to get that one app to the point where we're doing a clinical trial on it for chemotherapy-related anxiety. It's wonderful. It is wonderful. You know, and a lot of people don't really. that when you do have anxiety, your whole system's upregulated, and it can be anything from, you know, health stress to life stress, to, again, medications, to drugs, whatever it is.

And all of those things can certainly be huge influencers. So finding that time to just catch a breath. You know what I like to. And make sure you don't have hyperthyroidism, too. I've seen people treated for anxiety for years and it turned out that their thyroid was out of whack. So get tested. Yeah, make sure that you're overall healthy and then find some other things. And, you know, you hear people talking about exercise can be important, but not everybody can exercise.

Right. But everybody can't sit and smile. Right. You really can just sit and smile. Watch something funny on TV, you know, on YouTube. Well, we've talked about the breathing exercise square breathing, too. That will break a panic attack. Yeah.

And you don't, it serves the same purpose of breathing into a bag. but without putting a, you know, if you're on a subway and you're breathing into a bag because you're anxious, you just put a, you know, a target on your back. Oh, God, they're watching me. But you can do this on your own and accomplish the same thing, which was just basically bringing up the carbon dioxide in your bloodstream because when you're anxious, you're blowing off carbon dioxide and it gives you all those physical symptoms.

And then the physical symptoms cause the anxiety to get worse, which makes you hyperventilate more, which gives you more of physical symptoms, the tingling, the heart racing, the numbness of the fingers and stuff like that. So doing square breathing, which we've gone through before, but we'll do it again.

It's never, I don't think you can do it too many times. Taking a breath for four beats, inward, one. So, that's four beats. And then hold it for four beats. Two, three, four. Then exhale for four beats. then hold it for four beats

two three four and repeat now I told Earl Douglas how to do this and then he demonstrated it for Ron and Fez and he went yeah this is how Dr. Steve told me to breathe and it's like no that's exactly the opposite of what I told you Earl would not real good on following directions

like that but that you cannot hyperventilate if you're only inhaling or exhaling or exhaling 25% of the time because 75% of the time you're doing something else. It's impossible. And that will break that cycle. It will break a panic attack. You may still feel anxious, but you will not have those physical symptoms.

And then you can get control of it. It's when you have the anxiety with the physical symptoms. It makes it real that the fear that is unfounded. I mean, let's be real. It's unfounded. Nothing's going on right now to have that fight or flight thing. It will break that cycle, let your conscious brain kind of take over again. But when you have those physical symptoms, it's too real.

It's like, oh, God, this is real. This is something's really happening. And another thing I like to do when it becomes a full-blown panic attack is to just redirect your thoughts. And sometimes you know, easier set than dumb. It's very hard. That's why you want to force yourself to meditate. You force yourself to meditate. But sometimes if you do get that far down the road, sometimes I'll pinch myself just to inflict enough discomfort to change my brain to get it away from this feeling of wanting to freak out to, I'm going, oh, my leg hurts.

And then sometimes it'll kind of convert. Yeah, yeah. It's like when my narcolepsy kicks in when I'm driving. I'll try slapping myself. It does nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my gosh, yes.

But if you're having an idea, now I just hurt. You're like, damn, I'm stupid. Now, McRibbs is saying I was told in a pinch during anxiety situation to put a sugar cube under or on my tongue. That would be a distraction thing, too, to just a counter-stimulus. This happened on the market Friday, so I put a pack of sugar in my tongue instead. Ended up with a sweet tongue, right? Yeah, it's not. It doesn't work for everybody.

And you can't, if you're in the market, you can't slap an oculus on your face. Talk about putting a target on your back. But I can, from someone that was this close to being agoraphobic because of something that happened to me right before I went to medical school, where I, you know, I almost checked myself into a psych ward multiple times because my anxiety was that off the hook. So I can relate. I can tell you that if it happened to you in the market McRibbs, don't let that make you not go to the market. If you do that, that is the road to agoraphobia. It's people, oh, it happened in the market. Well, I'm not going back to the market.

It happened in the movies. I'm not going back to the movies. Oh, God, it happened while I was driving, so I'm not going to drive. Oh, it happened in my yard, so I'm not going to go outside. And now, all of a sudden, you're... Can't go anywhere. Right. Your whole world is in your house.

And even then, those people don't feel good. You know, I've been working, and I'm not saying anything out of school because we talked about on his show. But Lorenzo Ariola, he's on a bunch of medications. He's got some pretty severe agoraphobia. My goal was to get him to come to Hacomania. I'm sorry, Lorenzo, I failed you miserably. I really thought we could pull it off.

But he is still anxious inside his house, just less so than if he tries to go out. It's an awful experience. But it's the best advice I can give somebody that has panic attacks. is don't let it stop you from going. What's the worst that happens is you're uncomfortable. That's it. But the worst that can happen if you give into it

is you end up losing your job and your family thinks you're crazy and all kinds of stuff because now you're agoraphobic. And now you've got to go through a lot to get out of that. It's better to nip it in the butt. Nip it in the bud. All right, man. Yeah, one pun says my anxiety leveled up to the mouth.

when my life crumbled. It's just one of the only things I know anymore. I can, I can, I can, I, I guess I can't relate to the level that you're at, but I can relate to the chronic anxiety that went on for months and months and months that took me a long process to get rid of, but I'm telling you, I was able to get rid of it. I'm not a completely unanxious person. And you are not alone. But as far as being able to go out and do whatever I want to now, without feeling that anxiety, I can do that.

I, you know, eventually was able to enjoy my life again. So get help. Email me. I'll walk you through it best I can. Challenge therapy is what cured me and a little bit of medication that was non-addictive. You know, if you fall into the Xanax and Valium and stuff like that, they work so well that people end up getting habituated. to them and that's an issue but you know Darth Nug says it's hard not to be skeptical with Dr. Scott wearing that shirt except Darth Nugs he's wearing a tie-dye grateful dead shirt and he's

talking about meditation so that ought to give him actual street cred yeah street cred can't hide great passion sense man yeah got sports colors yeah he says most doctors dressed like bankers so I could get used to the tie-dye I had somebody oh it was cold here a couple like a month ago, and I said, fuck it. I'm not wearing my lab coat. It's too cold because I had to walk like a quarter of a mile to get from my parking place. So I just went into the hospital with a leather jacket.

And I had several people go, oh, a doctor wearing a leather jacket. That's pretty cool. And it's like, yeah, I just rode in here on my Harley, bro. It's like, no, I was just cold. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, Amanda says, Fremont Street is no place for an agoraphobic. Boy, that is really true. It's a good place to get cured of your agoraphobia, though.

that's how I got cured I got stuck in a crowd that I couldn't get out of and it was I'm either going to get better I'm going to die right now and I chose not to die anyway what was the email again

I'll tell you what the one pun go to dr.stebe.com and click contact and just make sure you put your email address in correctly and I will get that and then we'll have a two-way

can you walk us through joining the fluid family again from McRibbs yeah you go to YouTube dot com slash at weird medicine click the join button and you can either join it's 99 cents no big deal i do post some things for members only from time to time or you can just click uh accept gifted memberships and myrtle will be going crazy with the gifted memberships once we're just doing nothing but live streams and stuff so look out for myrtle yeah myrtle's on

No, I logged in. Yeah, I wasn't sure I was in the correct place to turn my message is green again. You're fine. You don't have to be a member to. We don't go members only on this thing. Even if people are wacky. Well, you know what? McRibbs, maybe I got demonetized.

Who knows? I don't know. He says he didn't see the 99 cents when he joined. So let me see here. Insert ad. Oh, I can insert ad. I can delay ads. I don't know.

I'll check into it. I'll make sure it's still set up, my friend. All right. Well, you know what? I'll just edit this out later. Or I won't because I'm lazy. Let's just have... Oh, well, I can't do it.

I was going to have My phone died. Okay, never mind. I was going to have Myrtle do some... Give some them fail or some memberships, don't you know? You're not going to want to make. miss me blowing my spot up by doing 10 minutes of Cletus jokes at Hackamania. And poor Mr. Melton is going to go, what in that fuck are you doing? But that's just the way it is.

Okay, Matthew says, what's up with that phenomenon where you forget what you went into a room for as soon as you walked through the door? The other day, I needed to write a check for Tacey. I walked up to the third floor of my house three different times, got distracted. by something else. It was right. I'd just woken up. Oh, I needed to move this at ham radio antenna.

Yeah, the shiny object. Three times before I finally remembered that I went up there to write her a check. And I'd come down and go, wait, why did I go up there? Did you bring me that check? I was like, God, dang it. And I'd have to go back up there again. I got distracted. So most of the time, it's just a short-term memory scratch pad.

thing where an intrusive thought breaks in and knocks the purpose of your visit out. And then you have to sit there and think for a minute. Then you go back doing what you were doing. It'll come to you. And just remember, the opposite of forgetfulness is presence. So being present, you pay attention. And you're in the moment. Give thyself a bell.

Give you a bell for that. When you're scattered, you forget. Yeah, true. True. That's a good point. Yeah, mindfulness is a real thing. It's a real thing. And it's gotten a bad rap because it just sounds so new agey, but it's real.

A bunch of people wearing tight eyes. Live in the present. No, live in the present. No, that's exactly right. You know, the 12-step thing, if you got one foot in the future, in other words, you're worrying about stuff that hasn't happened yet, one foot in the past. In other words, you're worrying about stuff that happened that you can't change. You're in a perfect position to just take a giant shit on the present.

And the present is where we live. So, you know, Baba Ram Dass be here now. Anyone with anxiety should read that book. And, you know, being in the moment, because a lot of things about anxiety is you're worried about shit that is not happening to you at the moment. It either happened in the past

or you think it's going to happen. But you look out the window and it's crickets. So why shouldn't you be able to enjoy that? Right? Okay. Well, thanks, always go to Dr. Scott. Thanks to everyone who's made this show happen over the years. Dr. Scott, this will be our years and my probably last Sirius XM show together.

We'll see. They may make us do a few more because I didn't give them a lot of notice and that's fine. But the purpose is the Las Vegas show is the last Sirius XM show. We'll see. But we'll still be doing stuff. Listen to our Sirius XM show while it's still on on the Faction Talk channel, Serious XM Channel 103. Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern, Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern on demand

and other times at Jim McClure's pleasure. Many thanks. Go to our listeners whose voicemail and topic ideas make this job very easy. Go to our website at Dr.steve.com for schedules, podcasts, and other crap. Don't forget Dr. Scott's website at Simplyherbalst.net. Until next time, check your stupid nuts for lumps, quit smoking, get off your asses, get some exercise. We'll see you in one week for the next edition of Weird Medicine. Thanks, everybody. Thank you, guys.

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