Weird Medicine: The Podcast - 653 - Human Touch

Episode Date: March 2, 2026

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Okay. On our Patreon and also in the members-only section of YouTube. So what this is is at DabbleCon 2. Jay Daley and I and with collaboration from everybody

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When my roast set came up, they played something inappropriate that, Finney hit the wrong button, or whoever was running it hit the wrong button. And it played something that Quadfather played on Stuttering John show for a second. And then you couldn't see me, and there were all these technical difficulties. And then finally, about a minute into my set, you know, they, they fixed it for the live stream. And that was the only recording I had was the live stream. So what I did was I took the audio from the live stream, which was fine, and took the original animation and lined it up so that when jokes happen, people are laughing at the right time.

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I had to line all these videos up and get the transitions right and everything so that people could see it the way it was intended to be seen. Because they did not, I spent too much effing money for it to freeze in the middle and people not to get to see the whole thing. Oh. Oh, I was irritated. That's so disheartening. Yeah, it was very disheartening. But anyway, and I wasn't there. That was why I couldn't yell and say, hey, start the shit over.

Oh, no, yeah. Yep, yep. First Dablican, I did an animation for that for the Dabby Awards. but I was there I was announcing it so anyway there may be a boxing match

at DabbleCon or Dabalcon at Hackomania this year and I'm hoping I will get to be well they've said if it happens I get to be the Michael Buffer oh my

now you can't yell let's get ready to our word because if you do he'll sue you oh my gosh really really he's got that trademarked oh my God Gosh. So that shouldn't be trademarkable, I don't think.

Well, it is. I mean, I know it is, but it shouldn't be. That's, you know, what can I say? Let's get ready to rock and roll. Do some math. Rock and roll. Yeah, let's get ready to rock and roll. I think he's got all of that.

If you say, let's get ready to, he's got it. Jeez, voice. So, but Patrick Mountain is smart. He'll think of something that I can say that's legal. that would be still humorous. All right. Yep. So we'll see.

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Number one thing, don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. That's good advice. Always. Dr. Steve, how you doing? All right, man. How are you? Oh, I'm pretty good.

Thanks for asking, man. And listen, I have the King, King Arthur's Court, that's good Yankee question. Okay. So, it's between meds of these days. In other words, if you knew what you knew today,

would you be the most amazing doctor? Could any of us be doctors with just minimal medical education? Yeah. I appreciate your thoughts, sir. Well, let me tell you something. back in the day, surgeons who washed their hands before surgery were shunned.

Their wusses. Yep. They were like, oh, that's bullshit. And it was mainly because the doctors who were not washing their hands didn't want to be criticized by these young upstarts. But then they found that the ones who were washing their hands, before surgery. They weren't using gloves.

They were washing their hands. They had better outcomes. And that was the start of sort of scientific, you know, data-based or metric-based, you know, medicine. It all came from surgery. So now, you know, admissions have become harder. There was a time when there were no. no prerequisites.

He just said, I want to be a doctor, and you went to medical school. You know, if we go way back, like, to the late 1800s, it was a wild, unregulated frontier, and you wouldn't recognize it. You know, it was a trade school. Doctors only called themselves doctor because they wanted. wanted to have more respectability. So the PhDs were all called doctor back then. Okay.

Like if you had a PhD in physics or English or something, you were doctor, so-and-so. And the physicians had to fight to be called doctor. Wow. Because they had such a bad reputation before that, you know, with the bleeding and the humors and all this kind of bullshit. A lot of the medical schools were for-profit businesses owned by local doctors. And they competed for students by keeping their standards low and keeping the length short. So it was like, come on. Wow.

You know. Wow. Now, by the 1800, schools like Penn Medicine began requiring a one-page essay to get in. Okay. But that was the exception. How funny. It usually lasted two years, and the second year was often a repeat of the first year. Oh, wow.

Just because back then they thought repetition, which repetition is. It does matter. It does matter. It's the only way to make sure that the information stuck. They didn't have any science germ therapy was just becoming mainstream in the 1800s. So they learned about humors and symptoms more than anything else. So back in the day, medicine was palliative in the sense that they treated symptoms. Okay.

If you had dropsy, which we now call congestive heart failure, they gave you foxglove, which we now know had digitalis in it, which might have helped some. You know, if you had headaches, they would give you laudanum, which is tincture of... morphine. Okay. Oh, okay. Or tincture of opium. Okay. They would know that that helped, but then, you know, these

ladies with their migraines were getting addicted to laudanum and stuff. So they didn't have legal cadavers. So the students and what they called resurrectionists, there's another term for resurrectionist. Do you know what it is?

Uh-uh. Body snatcher. They would dig up fresh graves to supply these anatomy labs. Oh, my goodness. Now, there was a not too long, when I was in medical school, that apparently the guy that was over our anatomy lab was also a quote-unquote resurrectionist because he owned a funeral home and was using body parts from the funeral home to sell

to, this was the alleged. I don't know that he was ever convicted of it. but like he would take a knee off an old lady to send to some ortho lab that wanted to practice operating on cadaver knees. Wow. Well, wow, whoa. You might look that one up. Look up North Carolina a cadaver case or something, cadaver. Now, the first woman's medical college open in the mid.

to late 1800s, and Johns Hopkins was one of the first major schools to admit women, primarily because they needed a large donation that was contingent on being co-educational. So they got a, some rich person said, I will give you a bunch of money, but you have to become co-ed. Okay. So that was pretty cool. Now, let's see here. there was this thing called the Flexner Report. Flexner Report, okay.

It shut down half of the medical schools in the United States. Oh, no. Yeah, it was in 1910. It was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation, and they visited 155 medical schools in the U.S. and Canada to assess their quality, and they wanted to eliminate what's called for-profit schools and replace them with, you know, the sort of university-affiliated scientific

model. And they standardized the curriculum to a two-plus-two, so you get two years of basic science with two years of clinical training, and they required them to have laboratories and be scientifically rigorous and stuff, which was pretty advanced in the early 1900s. So they had half of the U.S. medical schools either closed or merged by 1935 because they couldn't afford the new standards. But it was devastating for diversity and minority education because five out of the seven existing black medical colleges were closed. only Howard and Meherry survived. So they also recommended closing all the medical schools dedicated to women.

So it sounds like it was a good thing, but it set blacks and women back in medical education by a generation. Now, they did advocate for co-education instead of single, you know, single interest group. So it wasn't all bad. You know, what they did was they encouraged the regular medical schools that survived this thing to take more minority in and women's students. But, you know, there is a, there is something to be said.

I mean, there are still women colleges and there are still black colleges and stuff. You know, this is, there's something to be said for that kind of education, but when it came to medical schools, they were discouraged by the Flexner Report. So, anyway, homeopathy was wiped out during that because they were teaching that in medical school. So, yeah, things have changed quite a bit. Yes. Now, the, you know, in the 1970s, you know, in the 1970s. 60s to 80s, matriculation rates hovered around 45% or about 36% per MD and DO applicants. In other words, about half of the people that applied got in.

Now it's about 1 and 3. Okay. Okay. All right. Interesting question. Do you think the schools have gotten easier or harder? No. Well, it's harder to get in.

I know me as far as the knowledge, the people that you see coming out. Oh, and I see a lot of dumbasses come out. The ones I see coming out. I will say, though, that the quality of medical students since the 80s, I was a clinical instructor in the 80s. Okay, got you. In my residency program, we lost a faculty member in the middle of the year. Okay. And I was chief resident, so they said, you're going to take over this faculty members.

Well, I couldn't supervise residents, but I could supervise the medical students. So we had all these medical students coming in, so I was now over all of them. Gotcha. And I remember thinking there were several groups of medical students that came through. I'm like, how do you not know this stuff? Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, my OBGYNN professor when I was on OBGYN with him, he flunked two people and two medical students. They did an oral.

He forced them to do an oral exam at the end of their rotation because he said they don't know anything. And they didn't know anything. They didn't know anything, right? Yeah. He asked him this question, okay, you have a woman who has 32 years. year old who has bleeding, you know, vaginal bleeding for over

a month and she has to change three pads a day. What would you do? And the guy thought for a second he went and it very confidently he said, I'm going to do a history. Extroth to me. Oh my God. How funny. And I'm like sitting there going oh no, no, no.

Because I had prepped these guys. I knew he was coming after him. And I said, this is what you got to do. You got to learn this stuff. Yep. How funny. Oh, my God. So anyway, now the medical students and the osteopathic students that I see are really almost universally outstanding. Okay, good, good. Really, really good.

Yeah. Like, wow, that kind of good. I've had some from Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine, two of the best medical students I've ever had. Oh, wow. They functioned on the level of a resident. Oh, wow. And just really, really good. So I have, I feel good about this upcoming group of physicians that's going to be hitting the market here in the next few years because they've really stepped up.

Yeah, good. Yeah, because I think they took a hit during COVID. Yeah, especially in the train. Yeah, maybe so. A little bit. Yeah. No, it was huge. Yeah.

I think they should have added another year to their education. Especially, especially the residents that didn't get to rotate through a lot of them. Yeah. Well, they know a lot about COVID. Oh, yeah, that's true. Not that that means anything anymore. But we had a, you know, we had a few cases, but it's become endemic for those who want to know. There were five coronaviruses that were circulating that would cause common colds, but also would kill a few people every year, about 20,000 people would die from what we called viral or, quote unquote,

Atypical pneumonia. We never tested for it, but we knew it was coronavirus. Every once in a while an antinavirus would sneak in or something like that. Well, now they're testing for all this stuff. Yep. We have these viral upper respiratory panels, which we never had before because there was no treatment for any of it. So why would you test them? And, you know, it was just supportive. Yep.

Well, now we do have treatment for at least one coronavirus. And, you know, we've got the influenza test, too, or influenza medication. So they test for all this stuff. But now what's happened is that what the virus that we called COVID-19 has become another one of these circulating coronaviruses. It'll kill a few people. And for the most part, it'll just cause an upper respiratory infection. It's still, probably of the upper respiratory infections, it has the capability of making you feel the worst. Right.

But that's because we still don't have that population immunity. What happens is these kids get exposed to coronaviruses when they're kids. You know, anybody that's had kids knows they come home. They're sick all the time, first few years of school. Oh, yeah. Because they're just passing these viruses. Well, they're passing these viruses. around and they're passing these five coronaviruses around.

Now six. And then when they get older, they get exposed to them again. You know, it just causes, you know, upper respiratory infection. It's not that severe. And so now instead of five endemic coronaviruses, we have six. And so my prediction early on when the R sub nod, if you remember, the transmission number for SARS Cove 2

was 2.3 most people weren't going to get it but now it's like 12 so now it's like measles. This keeps going around and round around. Yeah. Yeah and what that means one person will infect 2.3 with the original virus

now one person will infect 12 people. So now it's yeah that's how it becomes endemic. It's just everybody at some point has either gotten it or will get it. And, you know, it's just, it's evolved to the point where the reason it got less virulent is because, you know, its natural desire, this very teleological, you know, I'm assigning

meaning to, it's not really meaning, but just by natural selection, it wants to be more transmissible. Well, to do that, it needs to get out of the lower respiratory tract. and work its way up into the upper respiratory tract. And once it does that, then it becomes more transmissible. It also becomes less deadly. Yeah. So, wow. All right.

Okay. This is a question for you. So. Gentlemen, question for Dr. Scott. Hey, can you compare and contrast Chinese medicine and Iyerveda, assuming you, you know, you have the capability? Thank you, sir. Assuming you have the capability to do that, Dr. Scott.

I don't know if I have the ability to do much of anything. Well, I can talk a little bit about it because I've studied this at length. You know, I was into Howard Stern and Robin Quivers turned me on to Ayurbatic medicine just when they were talking about, arguing about which one of them was Pitta or which one was, you know, VADA and all this kind of stuff. I don't know it debt to that detail. Yeah, yeah. Well, okay, so you can talk about traditional Chinese medicine. It relies on chi and the five elements. You want to talk about the five elements?

Nope. Nope. Okay. And I'll tell you why it a minute. Herbs. Oh, really? Okay. Well, go ahead.

But there's a difference. Just like in, you know, in alipatic medicine, you have your MDs and DOs. Yeah. There's a little bit of difference with the approach. Okay. And it's very similar in traditional Chinese medicine. Okay. You have the group that does much more of the traditional stuff where they do the five elements

and they do balancing of the wood and the metal and the water in these things. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And how those relate to the organs. That's not the world I live in. Is that right? No, I live in a much more westernized world where, you know, when you come in, and let's say you send me a patient to see and they've got, you know, a bad back because they've got prostate cancer.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. And you're doing things for them, but they need a little bit extra. Yeah. Then I treat that pain specifically. Right. You know, I don't go into, you know, what's out of harmony in their body because we

know what's out of harmony in their body. Yeah. Yeah. They've got plastic cancer. Yeah. They've got potassium. So I live in a much more westernized world where, you know, I was trained to do the, you know, the diagnosis of these woods and these five elements and.

Yeah. And the special little points and things that nature, which I think are really wonderful. And if I think I, if I need somebody with that expertise, I've got a friend that actually does that much more that type of Chinese medicine I send to here locally. Really? Yep. And he's really good with it. Is he a D-O-M? He is.

Okay. And he's really great, but he does it. But anybody he needs, it needs like the electric acupuncture, the pain medicine stuff. It sends out to you. Yeah, the, yeah, the sports injuries he just sends to me. It works pretty well, yeah, works pretty well. So, yeah, that's kind of how it goes. Would you agree with this statement?

Iyerveda assigns individuals one of seven constitutional types called Pekreidi based on doshares or and TCM focuses on diagnosing patterns of disharmony. Does that sound right? I do. I think so, yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of disharmony in what we treat, you know. And you remember 100 years ago, we started to show. And I was telling you that, you know, if somebody comes in it with Gerd, it's, you know, rebellious stomach cheek. Right, right, right.

And it was, and it's from an overactive liver yong and, you know, what does that mean? Yeah, right. And all it is, it's just a pattern of someone that is chronically stressed. Yeah. Too much, you know, food. Probably there. Too much alcohol. There islet sales, right?

There's those islet cells. But, you know, you've got to figure that liver is overacting. Yeah. And it's just causing stress. Yeah. You get some gastritis and you get reflux. So that's how it translates. Interesting.

Yeah. So I do, I do think all of this stuff means a lot. I think Iyer Veda preaches more lifestyle stuff. I mean, that's a big part of it. Well, that's what we should be doing. Yeah, correct. We should be, yeah. It seems like it's more the basis of their comprehensive sort of approached things.

Well, I think that's the good foundational way to do it. Yeah. Is go with the, you know, start with a foundation. Yeah. And then use modern technology for, for labs and for imaging and things of that nature. Yeah. Because that's a really good way to treat people.

That's the essence of integrative medicine. Sure is. Where you're integrating what works in both things. Yeah, but there's a lot of similarities between Ayurbetic medicine and Chinese medicine, much more, which is different than homeopathic medicine. You know, Ayurvetic and Chinese medicine are a lot more similar than homeopathic medicine. Well, yeah, don't give me, well. I mean, I'm just saying there's, we can start about, we can talk a little bit about homeopathic.

medicine, the idea that water takes on these characteristics. And so if you have a fever, you find a medicine that causes fever, and then you put it in water, and then you dilute it. So if you pick up a homeopathic medicine, it says 32x, that means that it's been diluted 32 times. Right. And so you can demonstrate that if you diluted enough times, there might only be one molecule left of that stuff, but somehow it puts the imprint. It makes it stronger. Yeah, right.

Somehow it puts the imprint on the water. Yeah. So now, if someone who practices homeopathy wants to, you know, call in and, you know, expand on that, we'd be happy to talk to them about it. All right. Here's a good question. I hope everybody's doing good, including the fluid family. Kind of have a little thing popped in my head today.

You ever picked up like a piece of paper and you almost instantly realize it is not just one sheet, is two sheets? Yeah. How sensitive is the human touch? Damn good question. How does he come up with questions like that? That's a really good question. And they're all good. Yeah.

But anyway, go ahead. Well, I'll start. My human touch is shit. Diminished. Because I have peripheral neuropathy, but I can still do certain things that still would amaze, you know, a robot trying to do the same thing. Go ahead. Well, but the reason why you have peripheral neuropathy in your fingers and toes is because you have an increased number of sensory neurons. Give myself a bell.

in those fingers and toes. Yeah. So where is the greatest? There's this thing called the humunculus. Have you seen that? Yeah. No, I was just supposed to say. What it is, it's a map of the brain.

Oh, yeah, the humongice. Sure, sure. That shows where the thing has the most nerves and they'll draw a picture of a person with, if there's more nerves there, that body part is bigger. And so the tongue is huge. Sure. The hands are huge. Fingertips. Yeah.

More than hands. Yeah, yeah. Right. So I'll give everybody a little test that they can try it home. If you'll take... Four skins, but, you know, the size of a car. Go ahead. Yes, it is.

That's why they remove it, I think. Anyway, you can take two little needles, and I don't want a sharp needle, like a pencil, tip or a pen, or whatever. And you can take those, and you can hold, put those right together. Yep. And you can fill two separate little pins on your finger

or your, where else, your lips. Yep. Your tongue, genitalia, yeah, toes. Yep. But now. But no, not on your ab. But not, yeah, but not, but not, if you do that on your, on your, on your, on your, on your buttocks.

Yeah. Where you sit all day long or your back where there's always constant pressure. You have to start spreading those pins. Yes. Away, away, away, until you can actually feel too independent. Correct. Stimulations. It's just, it's crazy to think that.

Yeah. Because when you can, you can have those things an inch apart and you still only feel one stimulation. Yeah. Yeah. Finger. can detect surface bumps as small as one micrometer. That's a millionth of a meter. That's about the size of a bacterial cell.

And as Dr. Scott said, the lips, tongue, and fingertips, the most sensitive parts of the body, and there's just so many neurons there. That's why I can still do stuff. I've lost a lot of neurons, but I can still do stuff because of a lot of redundancy. Now, there is some research that suggests we can even detect objects without direct contact by perceiving air pressure and movement like some animals can.

Now, if you want to talk about heightened senses, you know, dogs, tongues and noses and all that stuff, just in their ears are incredible. But, yeah, so there's 10 per square centimeter of receptors on the back. So you would have to separate it by one centimeter to get... Yep, yeah. And that's if you get it in the right spot because that... It's kind of like the weather. You know, it's a 10% chance of rain.

Yeah. Yeah, but just because you hit that one centimeter, you've got it in perfectly because they're not in alignment. Right. Because they're kind of random. Right. Okay, so here's the statistics. Fingertips and lips have 100%.

pressure receptors per centimeter, whereas the back only has 10. Gotcha. Yeah. So that, yeah, Dr. Scott's right again. Makes sense. Yeah. That's amazing, isn't it? Yeah, that's crazy.

Here's a thing from University of California, the amazing sensitivity of human touch. Oh, and here's one. For the most part, and this isn't always true, you can tell the difference between a fart and a shart, you know, a lot. load or even a little bit of liquid in your in your rectum as opposed to gas. And people say, well, how can you do that? Well, fill your mouth up with water. Is it water or is it gas? You can tell the difference.

If you puff up your, so it has to do with temperature. If, you know, fluid will is a conductor of temperature, whereas air is. is an insulator. And so we have temperature and sensation. We have friction sensors. All kinds of shit. It's incredible. Yeah, it is nuts.

Yeah, you can tell the difference between glass, metal, wood, and plastic. Think about that. And they have different textures or they draw heat away at different rates. And so fascinating in it. Yeah, it's crazy. Hey, put some stuff back on YouTube, man. Where's the Ops? I was talking about Opianity.

You have them on your show. What? Have them both on your show at the same time. Okay. Okay. Yeah, I'll have Opey and Anthony on my show at the same time. Do you know how many times people have tried to do that? And, of course, that's the wrong outro music.

Where is our actual outro music? What the hell? Oh, no, that was the outro music. I'm an idiot. Dr. Skyl, I'm losing it. You're losing your shit. I'm going to take. So there is a blood test now looking for beta amyloid products that may give you an early detection of Alzheimer's.

Yes. So we finally may have. It's not a screening test. We're not going to use it as screening test, but somebody has symptoms. we may use that blood test to say, oh, yeah, this may be it. Sure. I just did a thing on YouTube. Go to my YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash at Weird Medicine or our YouTube channel.

I don't want to sound like Howard Stern. I always said, oh, my show, my show, my show. Oh, what is Fred and Robin and Gary are they chopped liver? But anyway, on our YouTube channel, I did a live. and a short encapsulation of a study that showed that people with Alzheimer's don't get cancer. I saw that. And people with cancer don't get Alzheimer's. And what they found was this sort of inverse relationship between the two.

And you can go watch the video. But in short, the beta amyloid that causes problems in the brain, when it gets into the bloodstream, it actually stops T-cells from becoming senescent, in other words, stops them from becoming old and lazy, and they'll go and kill cancer cells. Yeah, if people get a chance they should watch that video, it's very good. Yeah. Very, very good, yeah. So there is a thing called fumaric acid that seem to stimulate all this stuff, so I'm going to see if there's a supplement of fumaric acid, maybe I'll start taking it. Okay.

But anyway. A fumaric acid? Yeah, fumarate. Yeah, I've got some. You do? I can look yet. Excellent. I got some stuff.

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