August 6, 2025 • 31 mins
We fell in love with Guy Gansert on The Golden Bachelorette, but Ben is moving on from matters of the heart to our overall health!
Dr. Gansert lends his medical expertise to help answer Ben’s burning questions, like the importance of sunscreen, the dangers of processed foods, and which type of cancer you should be extra vigilant about.
Additionally, Guy offers some tips on which foods to avoid when hosting a gathering.
Ben's also getting an update on Guy's new relationship post-Golden Bachelorette!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome back to the Almost Famous podcast. It's been coming
to you from beautiful Lake Tahoe. It's always good to
check in and get some doctorly advice. That's we're here today.
Summer is in full swing, and while we're here in
Lake Tahoe, I've got some questions that I think only
a doctor could answer. The doctor is in and we're
here with golden bachelorettes. Guy answer guy. This is a
(00:28):
like a health focused episode. There's a lot of questions,
especially as we're kind of in the hardest summer with
people having family gatherings and cookouts, and sometimes I don't
know if you feel this way, guy, or if you
notice this when you practice medicine, but in the summer,
I kind of forget about my health. Like I mean,
I get outside a lot, but I'm just like kind
(00:49):
of always so busy that I don't really take time
to be like, hey, am I feeling okay? Like why
am I a little more sluggish and normal? So we're
here just to throw some questions your away.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
If that's okay, absolutely, I will put out a disclaimer
that some of the questions may be out of my
scope of practice per se, but I do have an
interest in a broad array of topics in medicine itself,
not just emergency medicine, which was my specialty or is
my speciality.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Sure, Well, if there's anything here that comes up there
you're like, hey, I don't feel comfortable by asking this.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You should ask. You should google it, like every.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Good, good person does.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Doctor Google, Doctor Google. We're gonna start with allergies here.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
We have a big group.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We're at an almost famous pickleball tournament in Lake Tahoe.
We have a big group of people here. I am
preparing right now for evening spread. But one thing that's
come up over the years of doing these events is
there's always allergies that I have to be careful from.
(01:52):
Is there any types of food just off the bat
that stand out to you that I should stay away
from tonight as we plan this dinner.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, I guess you know. There it's you or just
the general population. There's certain foods that are commonly no
or more commonly known to cause allergies. Certain fruits like strawberries.
People have a lot of insensitive cities too. Nuts are
a big one where that's peanuts, different types of nuts,
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and then really you know, in you can have an
allergic reaction to anything under the sun. As I used
to tell patients, is anything can actually cause an allergic
reaction anywhere from food to environmental you know, stimulants to
you know, temperatures outside a lot of almost anything can
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cause it. Most of the time when we see somebody
with allergic reaction, because I'd see them often in the
emergency room, I'd say that ninety percent of the time
we never figured out what was causing their allergic reaction.
Sometimes it's very obvious. Somebody would come in and they
just took some you know, penicilla and all of a
sudden they developed, you know, in a large correction, or
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they you know, they ate some peanuts that they got
exposed to something that they knew they had an allergy to.
But oftentimes, you know, you can't you can't figure it out,
at least not on the initial evaluation of the r
and so you have to be kind of a kind
of aware that anything can do it. But most people
usually start to become aware of what they're sensitive to
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and what they're not before you know, or at least
the stage in our lives.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But that's that's an interesting point though, because one thing
that came up this trip for the first time, and
one of the reasons why I wanted to bring you
on to talk about it, was after thirty years of life,
our producer, Heather had eaten avocados forever and then all
of a sudden, she develops an allergy to them. And
you know, it comes in on the list of allergies
(03:50):
that we have to be careful of. But the note was,
you know, I ate it for thirty years and all
of a sudden, I'm allergic.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Is that common? I've never heard of that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, Actually it's it's more common you think it would be,
because you know, I get I see once again. I'd
see that a lot in the emergency department.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
They said I.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Didn't eat anything or wasn't exposed anything, because I'd go
through this list of questions with them to try to determine,
you know, what the precipitating you know, allergen was, and
so people would say, you know, I've I've eaten strawberries
all my life, or I've eaten shrimp all my life,
and all of a sudden you develop an allergic reaction
to it, so you know why you develop it later
(04:27):
in life. Is is kind of one of the great
mysteries of immunology. You know, you know, we feel like
it or we believe it's, you know, due to sensitization,
so that you get exposed to whether whatever the allergen is,
you know, and that can be food, that can be
external pollens, anything, and so you get exposed to it
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and your your immune system recognizes that as a as
a foreign bier, something that you know, they don't like
to see, and then you subsequently develop uh and you
know some of the you know, there's certain certain types
of cells and stuff and allergic type of cells that
will then be sensitized so that when you keep getting
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exposed to it, then at some point it just it
pops out. So you know what you're doing is we're
just getting You've been exposed to it over the years,
and then at some point your body just says I've
had enough, and you have this allergic reaction to it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's so interesting because I feel like too, in like
my kind of generation, I'm hearing more and more about
pena allergies or people having you know, being lactose intolerant.
I mean, when I was a child, drink a lot
of milk. I remember my parents drink a lot of milk.
They no longer drink like milk today because it messes
(05:48):
with their bodies. I don't drink milk straight anymore because
it messes with my body. So is it kind of
the common thing that you're talking about there? As it
feels like these things are more prevalent now than I
ever remember them.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, I you know, it's it's it's it's interesting. And
one of the things that you know, when I'd be
listening to lectures, you know, on allergic crash and stuff,
is that is that some of these specialists would just say,
you know, we just don't eat enough dirt anymore. And
you know, as you know, when I was growing up
in you know, the sixties and seventies and stuff yours outside,
(06:23):
nobody even thought about allergies. Nobody thought about allergic reactions.
Nobody carried an EpiPen. I mean, that was unheard of,
and I think it was just so we think that
you know this, you know, it's just develops because if
you are exposed to it all the time, then you
you know, your body is used to it. If it's not,
then you're more likely to have analergy. When you talk
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about like food allergies, when you talk about like milk,
that's a you know most of the time. I mean,
you can have an allergy to milk, but normally it's
an intolerance. For example, with milk, it contains lactose, which
is the milk sugar, and in your intestines you actually
have an enzyme called black taste. It breaks it down,
and as you get older, you don't you don't make
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as much of the black taste. And so when you know,
so you have some ice cream or some milk or
whatever it might be, the dairy product, then you have
an intolerance. And usually the result in that case is
you know, gi symtematology, you know, with loose stools, bloating, cramping,
those things.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So one of the biggest sadnesses of getting older is
my lack of ability to eat ice cream anymore.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yes, it makes me very sad. It's not fun.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It's you know, it's interesting, you know, because my father
had lactose intolerance and he loved ice cream, absolutely love it.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I just I can't eat it.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I mean, he'd have one, you know, one mouthful and
you he'd be paying for it the rest of the night.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
So yeah, and everybody else too.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The big thing hitting kind of the airways right now
is we have some celebrities coming out that they have
been diagnosed with prostate cancer. We're switching gears here from
allergens to some other health topics, both that affect you know,
men and women and also men and women specifically, prostate
cancer is obviously one that affects men. Celebrities are coming
(08:14):
out kind of talking about their journey with prostate cancer.
Is it as prevalent as it seems right now? Has
it become more prevalent? Also, if you don't mind, in
the course of kind of answering this question, how would
I check myself for prostate cancer as a thirty six
year old male.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, so with pro sa cancer, you know, the adage
is if you live long enough as a male, you're
going to develop prostate cancer at some point.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
One of the reasons that we're seeing, you know, increased
number of people being diagnosed with it probably stems from
the fact that we're living longer, you know. So prostate
cancer is it's a it's a disease of older men.
Typically fifty and over sixty. You know, that's when you
start to see the increased rise. And what's happening is
(09:08):
is we're living longer. So for example, you know, in
nineteen sixty, I think the life expectancy for mail was
about sixty seven. Now it's seventy nine, almost eighty. So
we're just seeing more people that go into that time
frame when you start to develop prostate cancer. And then
(09:30):
the other is is that we're more aware of it
and we have screening tests for it. And you would
ask like, how do you know, you know check yourself. Well,
I'd say the first thing is is that you know,
you know, you see you go see your position. You know,
the recommendations I believe for PSA prostate specific energen, which
is a screening test for prostate cancer, doesn't mean that
(09:53):
if it's elevated that you have prostate cancer, but you
have to have it followed up. Typically, urologists will monitor
that sometimes to say, you know, you know, we need
to do a biapse to your prostate, you know, based
on the numbers or based on your symptomatology. And then
you also need to have besides having like a p
S A and that's recommended typically over the age of fifty.
(10:15):
If you're you have a family history, or if you're
African American you have a higher risk, so maybe forty
five you need to start getting checked for it.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
And then.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The other is you even if you get a PSA
done every year, you need a digital rectal examination. Ten
percent of the prostate cancers will not have elevated PSA levels.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And so you go into your physician.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Yeah, you get it, you know, you know, you get
a prostate exam.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
You know, you know, people you know think it kind
of nervous about it and stuff, and it's it's really
not as bad as you know, it's as bad as
you want to let it.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, I've had I've had a few in my life.
I had a weird thing in Heist Goal where I
was developing too much calcium and so they were giving
me they had to check me out. I would say
that they're not as bad as what you imagined.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
The beat.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's not something that I would recommend or fighting to
get done again. And if you get enough of them,
you can kind of tell everybody's technique the uh there
and there are different ones. Yeah, it's you want.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
What's come out is a lot bigger than what goes in.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, you need uh, you need the smallest man. It's
interesting to me kind of right now. Also is my
wife is an esthetician guy. Uh, And we're out here
in Lake Tahoe. I live in Denver, Colorado. Sunscreen is
(11:47):
such a wild topic, and I hear my wife talking
about a lot with her clients. She is a huge
proponent obviously is an esthetician on sunscreen, but cific sunscreens.
She has a list that she kind of shares with
her clients on sunscreens that she finds helpful. In fact,
(12:07):
her her grandfather, who she loved dearly, passed away from
you know, skin cancer a few years ago, and one
of the causes of it was he was always putting
the wrong sunscreen on. And so that's kind of why
she got into the field that she did. But now,
as I'm preparing for this show and kind of looking
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up all the common health concerns of the public right now,
you see a lot of people, especially celebrities, saying they
don't use some block at all.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Uh. Is this recommended?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
My wife would tell you tell anybody, no, you got
to use sunscreen.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Here's some good kinds. As as a doctor, do you
recommend sunscreen?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, I mean, you know, be wary of of you know,
celebrities going on and you know, professing medical knowledge.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
I'd say she can't have it.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And they haven't done your homework because a lot of I
hope that they have, you know, but the current recommendation,
and I agree with your wife, you know, wholeheartedly.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
I mean you when you go outside, you need.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
To be wearing you know, sunscreen really almost at all
all times, because it's a cumulative effect. It's ten minutes here,
it's thirty minutes here, it's a walk to the store,
it's you know, a short walk on you know, outside
hiking for thirty minutes, you know, or you're outside, you know, sunbathing,
and it's you know, the sunscreen is not just to
keep you from getting a sunburn.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
You know it.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You know, you know, you wear it for different reasons. One,
you know you're gonna get less wrinkles, less you know,
skin aging associated with that skinIn and damage. And then
obviously you know skin cancer and there's different types of
skin cancer. And so yeah, you need to be using
you know, sunscreen now, whether you're using you know, a
chemical you know it's called I'm sorry, a chemical sunscreen
(13:53):
or a mineral sunscreen. Gosh, your wife probably, you know,
probably has researched it much more than I have. I mean,
you know, the the the minerals are, you know, there's
they are more of a protective barrier.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
They're like zinc.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oxide and then chemical ones. They they absorbed the UV
rays and then emit heat and so they both work
by decreasing you know, the UV exposure to your skin.
But they do it in different ways. And I think
which one you use depends on U or which broad
category depends on your skin type and how you tolerate it,
(14:30):
you know, because some of them, you know, like the
zinc oxide. You know we see as kids, you know,
people may be wearing this white stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
What is that? You know now now you recognize what
this is.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know, people getting you know, massive sunburns to their
nose and they were just using a protective barrier like
zinc oxide, which that white cream that you see.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, it's it's it is interesting. I mean obviously I
was not thinking too much about this until I did
get married, and as I have gotten married, and as
my wife has become more and more focused on skincare.
I can not tell you even what kind of sunscreen
I use, but I know it's sitting on my counter
at my house every day for me to put on
before I go outside. It is one of the things
(15:10):
she is such a proponent of. It's it's also like
you kind of mentioned it that you'd be careful from
like too much of like kind of the celebrity influence.
What resources are out there to ask these questions? Obviously
people won't be able to just jump on the zoom
with you anytime they want, and my wife would charge
(15:32):
them for this kind of advice. What resources are out
there to kind of figure out what's good and what's not.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, you know, I mean we're all familiar with the
internet now right even here I am, and I'm on
the on ramp of the Information super Highway. But there's
so much information out there. There's so much, and you know,
it's trying to decipher what's legitimate what isn't.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Oftentimes what you need to do is, you know you're
if you're looking, just don't read something and take it,
you know, you know, for you know gospel right because.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
You got it depends on who wrote it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You know, because being Reddit, people will you know, write
things in and you know it's not based on anything
but their own experiences. And really what you want to
do is you want to see what you know, what
the what the study show, what the research shows. So
you know, oftentimes when I'm looking into it, I'll look
for resources from legitimate bodies of knowledge, such as you know,
(16:29):
the American College of Dermatology. You know, so if you know,
when you know, when they put out a statement on sunscreens,
you know, they've had hundreds of people reviewing that statement,
and they're looking at hundreds and hundreds of pieces of
research data to be able to formulate that. So you
want to look at you know, you want to use
(16:51):
a resource that you know has gone through and has
gone above and beyond just like oh I think this
is it, or they I read it on the internet.
They're actually deciphering those you know, hundreds of articles that
in studies that have been done. So just look for,
you know, things like that. But you can go on
the internet then you can get a pretty good idea,
but just know where you're getting it from.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Sure, well, I mean, and I think this is a
compliment to you, but also a fairly obvious observation.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
You have stayed looking really young.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And when we talked to you last time, I remember
you talked about your workout routine, which is lower weights,
higher volume. You've stayed looking young, You've stayed feeling young.
Is there any tips that you could give us for
how you've done that? I mean, for the public that's
out there like me, it's like, goodness, guy is just
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he looks younger than I am, and I'm I'm half
his age. Like, what are the tips that you've done
in your life to keep you being who you are?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I mean I do get asked that question, you know,
because I do look a little younger than in my
chronological age. I always like to say I'm physiologically younger.
But you know, I you know, when I people ask
that question, I say a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I said.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I don't smoke, don't do drugs, Never smoked, never drugs,
Alcohol very minimal. I'm not opposed to people and drinking.
But like everything you have to do with in moderation,
I exercise a lot or I have htorically you know
anywhere from I did, you know, depend on the phase
(18:30):
of my life I was doing marathons in my twenties
and thirties, and then triathlons and iron men and then
you know, couldn't do those anymore, and then started rode
biking for over twenty years and it's probably been my
biggest passion now over the last as you talked about,
like the last five years. And there's more and more
research and to show and to support doing weight training.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Now, just to be clear, this is men and women
both doing weight training, right.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yes, and women.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And you know for women, I say, is is they
always worry like I don't want to lift weights. I
don't want to get big muscle and bulky. Well, I
can assure you unless you go into bodybuilding, you're not.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
That's not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
You have to you have to lift a lot of weights,
and you got to be eating a certain diet, supplements
and things where you you know those women that do
the body building, you know, so weight training is huge.
You know, increases bone density, you know, just you're less
likely to get injured. You got to keep your strength up.
(19:32):
I was, actually I'm down in San Diego and I
was I was at the beach today, so uh, and
I noticed a woman trying to get up, just to
stand up, and she had such weakness in her lower
legs and her pelvis, it was she basically couldn't do it.
You know, we had to help her kind of lift
her up, you know, from the sitting position. And so
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you want to, you know, do the weights and stuff
like that. And there's and I talked about it earlier.
What what do I do? And and I this is
just my own you know, my own routine is I've
always done or it's not always passed. I used to
do lower weights and or higher weight amounts and lower breaths.
Now I do as I told you earlier, I do
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low weight and high reps. So I'll do up to
like instead of ten to twelve, I'll do twenty five reps.
And I do and I tend to do. I don't
have chess days or leg days. I do all the
body parts. I do altoid stri sets, biceps, forearms, you know, pecs, abs, back, quads, hamstrings.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I do them all on one day. I just do
you know that.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Different routine and and I'll do different sets of them
stuff like that. So So anyway, exercise and then diet
obviously is very important.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
And you know I'm you know, listen, I can.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I can, like I enjoy junk food as much as
the next person, you know, but you know I've gotten
better about you know, really you want to. And more
and more studies are coming out on this, and you
know why we're seeing the obesity you know, trends in
the United States, you know, the way they've escalated. It's
almost like a pandemic. And a lot of this has
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to do with the foods that we eat, you know,
I mean, because we're eating such processed foods, and so
you know, you know, my recommendation and I don't always
do what I will, you know, be the first to
admit that is to you eat eat you know, real food,
eat real food. So you know you don't want to
eat you know, the processed foods because there's so many
chemicals and you know, antibiotics and everything in in that
(21:36):
decreasing for me, decreasing red meat. You know, I almost
eliminated that in my diet. Doesn't mean I don't occasionally
have a little little small flag, you know, you know,
every few months, but I don't have a t bone
every night, you know, So you want you know, lean
lean meats, you know, whether that's you know, chicken fishes,
you know, is to go to protein source for me
for for foods.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
And then uh, you know, and and then you know
we I think.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You talk about like how much how much do you
need of each of these different components? How much you
would you know, whether you know, talk about protein? How
much protein should you be taking and stuff? And how
do you get it? I would say that with like
protein quality is more important than quantity. But there are
guidelines on how much protein. And I've always been, for god,
(22:26):
over twenty years, twenty five years, I've always been an
advocate of high protein, low carbohydrate diets. And that's just
something I just kind of fell upon I just as
I've gotten older. I believe that one of the problems
people get as they get older is that they don't
take in enough protein, or what they do is they
take it in a poor form. So you might have
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protein and hamburger, but you're eating fifteen hundred calories with
all this bad fat and processed chemicals and everything to
get the fifty grams of protein. So you want it
to be good, healthy you know sources, And I think
that's a that's a huge thing. How much you get
how much protein you get. I've been asked this question.
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How much am I supposed to eat all the time?
You know, how many grams of protein? And you know,
the general thumb is, you know, for the average person
is a gram per kilogram. And everybody asks another weighting
kilograms to figure that out, or maybe about half a
gram per pound if you want.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Them to look it up right now.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Yeah, well, it's two point two pounds per kilograms.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
So for example, I'm about an eighty eighty kilogram man,
you know, seventy kilogram man's one hundred and fifty four pounds.
So you can take your weight and pounds divided by
two point two that would give your weight in kilograms.
If you're really exercising a lot or you know, for
you know, younger people they're athletic, more muscle mass, you're
gonna need a lot more protein, you know, than one
(23:50):
gram per kilogram. You're going to you know, probably gonna
need two or one gram per pound. So if you
weigh one hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty pounds
and you're doing lots of endurance train and you're probably
going to need one hundred and fifty grams of protein.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, you know, I'm from the Midwest. I'm from Indiana,
a place I love dearly. We're not known for our
healthiest lifestyles. They're hard workers who are outside all day
(24:25):
and you know, exhausted at night. There's a common thing.
And this is really my last health question for you,
but it's becoming more prevalent to me, especially from where
I'm from, where you have men or women who seem
to be in decent shape. They're active, but their bellies
get really hard and really big. It's like they're carrying
(24:46):
a lot of weight just in their belly region and
nowhere else. Is that something to be concerned of? Is
that kind of going off of what you're talking about
here where it's diet and exercise, because I feel like
a lot of these people are active, but they're carrying
that A lot of people are carrying that weight right there.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah, especially you know like men.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I mean, yes, these men, they their legs don't have
any fat on them. They tend as you get older,
you tend to lose and lose the muscle mass in
your buttocks and stuff, and their arms get thinner. But
then they got this, Yeah, truban abdomen. You know, and
and a lot of that is you know, you see,
you see the deposition in males in you know, the
(25:25):
mid of dominal area, and a lot of that is
visceral fat. So it means it's there's fat underneath the muscle, right.
You see, you have all this fat surrounding your your bows,
your your small intestine, you're large intestine, and a lot
of times, you know, you as you get older, you
have the deposition in that visceral fat. And so you know,
there's there's certain ways and certain foods that you can
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eat to try to decrease the amount of visceral fat
that you have. You know, I can't give them off
the top of my head, but you know, you can
definitely modify your diet to decrease that. And a lot
of that just has to do with you know, I'll
just say, and you just got to go back to
what we talked about before. Don't smoke, don't you know,
avoid you know, uh, excessive alcohol. Try to exercise and exercise.
(26:11):
You don't have to be an exercise nut. You need
to just you know, start out with things in moderation.
If you just go out and walk, I mean, yeah,
I mean, if you walk five miles or you run
five miles, your clerk expenditure is the same. Now there's
you know, more cardiovascular benefits from from the running, but
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from a strictly from a you know, a work standpoint
and a cloric expenditure standpoint, there's those are going to
be the same. Whether but you know, if you run it,
you can do it in forty minutes, and if you
walk it it takes an hour and a half, so
you still get to you know, you can get similar benefits.
And then with women, you know, they they tend to
get it in other areas. They tend to get it
in their hips and you know, thighs and you know,
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and same thing just got to you know, eat healthy foods,
eat moderation, avoid I I truly believe that the processed
foods are really really killing us.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
You know today that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, thank you for all your advice on health. We
are going to completely switch gears here for just a
final few questions on Paradise right now.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Are you watching?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I have watched. I have watched most of the episodes.
I don't get through all of them, but I have
watched them. You know, I wanted to see how some
of my good friends that have been on it. Ye
how it's faring for them and it's been an interesting observation.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yeah, what do you think so far?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
You know, I can tell you it wouldn't have been
for me.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Okay, So you don't have fomo, you're not missing out,
you don't feel missed like No, to be.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Honest with me, I'm sitting there going on that one.
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You know, I'm glad I met my my person because
it's just it's just you know, it's not me. But
you know, you know, I talked to a couple of
the guys and I know they've had great experiences with it.
They enjoyed it, and I have to say, it's it's
pretty fun to watch. I mean, it's it can be entertaining,
you know. And you know, if if really, if the
(28:16):
goal for them is to find someone, you know, why
not try any avenue that you can, you know, any
type of you know, of of of way of meeting somebody,
you know, whether that's on The Golden Bachelor, the Golden Bachelor,
or The Bachelor, Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise. I mean, you
you know, I would suspect some of the is gonna,
you know, find a significant other.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Through the show. I don't know. I think oldens will,
but I think some of the young ones will.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah, I think. I I'm with you. Just give it
a shot.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
You obviously have come out publicly with your girlfriend, and
one of the reasons why you're not in paradise is
because of Joanna's her name, right, Johannah Johanna. We met
her a second ago. She's gorgeous. Very personal question for you,
but that's what we do here because we talked about love.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Are you looking to get married again? Ever?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah, you know that question has been asked me before.
I have to say that, you know, over the last
you know, since you know my separation and the worst
you know, I've gone out on a lot of one
and done dates, you know, and I finally got even
after the show. The show was fantastic for me. It
(29:27):
allowed me to move forward in my life in ways
that I did not anticipate. So I I I, you know,
I thank you know bestornation for that because it really
did help me move forward.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
I did.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I thought that, you know, by the end of the year,
after the show was over and some of the stuff
had died down, I just thought, you know, this is
never going to happen.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
I don't think I'm ever going to meet anybody. Either
I'm just not ready for it or I you know.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I I'm looking for something that doesn't exist, but people
just got hey just you know, hang in there and
interesting enough. I you know, I met Johannah on January
first and January thirty first, I was watching the ball
drop in New York City, thinking I'm just gonna be
sitting here in.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
My living room alone, you know, for a long time.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
And you know, boom, you know, she showed up and
and it's it's it's it's been wonderful. I mean, she's
a she's a wonderful woman, kind of meets all the criteria.
And we've we've basically been almost inseparable since we met
in January. So am I looking to get married again
the right person?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Yeah, that's that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I mean, so your summer is better than you could
have ever imagined to be on December, you know, thirty first,
you never knew that your summer could be looking like
it is.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
No, I you know, and it's it's not even it's
been you know, January February March April, May, June, July,
and we already have all sorts of you know, great
stuff planned for the fall.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
So not good for you, that's awesome. Well, we love
to see it. We hope some goldens fall in love
in paradise.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I don't know if it's going to happen. I don't
know who it would happen with. Thank you for coming
on and answering some of our biggest questions, ranging from
allergies to weight loss, to cancers to you know, sunscreens.
We appreciate it, Doctor Guy, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome back to the Almost Famous podcast. It's been coming
to you from beautiful Lake Tahoe. It's always good to
check in and get some doctorly advice. That's we're here today.
Summer is in full swing, and while we're here in
Lake Tahoe, I've got some questions that I think only
a doctor could answer. The doctor is in and we're
here with golden bachelorettes. Guy answer guy. This is a
(00:28):
like a health focused episode. There's a lot of questions,
especially as we're kind of in the hardest summer with
people having family gatherings and cookouts, and sometimes I don't
know if you feel this way, guy, or if you
notice this when you practice medicine, but in the summer,
I kind of forget about my health. Like I mean,
I get outside a lot, but I'm just like kind
(00:49):
of always so busy that I don't really take time
to be like, hey, am I feeling okay? Like why
am I a little more sluggish and normal? So we're
here just to throw some questions your away.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
If that's okay, absolutely, I will put out a disclaimer
that some of the questions may be out of my
scope of practice per se, but I do have an
interest in a broad array of topics in medicine itself,
not just emergency medicine, which was my specialty or is
my speciality.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Sure, Well, if there's anything here that comes up there
you're like, hey, I don't feel comfortable by asking this.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You should ask. You should google it, like every.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Good, good person does.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Doctor Google, Doctor Google. We're gonna start with allergies here.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
We have a big group.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
We're at an almost famous pickleball tournament in Lake Tahoe.
We have a big group of people here. I am
preparing right now for evening spread. But one thing that's
come up over the years of doing these events is
there's always allergies that I have to be careful from.
(01:52):
Is there any types of food just off the bat
that stand out to you that I should stay away
from tonight as we plan this dinner.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, I guess you know. There it's you or just
the general population. There's certain foods that are commonly no
or more commonly known to cause allergies. Certain fruits like strawberries.
People have a lot of insensitive cities too. Nuts are
a big one where that's peanuts, different types of nuts,
(02:20):
and then really you know, in you can have an
allergic reaction to anything under the sun. As I used
to tell patients, is anything can actually cause an allergic
reaction anywhere from food to environmental you know, stimulants to
you know, temperatures outside a lot of almost anything can
(02:41):
cause it. Most of the time when we see somebody
with allergic reaction, because I'd see them often in the
emergency room, I'd say that ninety percent of the time
we never figured out what was causing their allergic reaction.
Sometimes it's very obvious. Somebody would come in and they
just took some you know, penicilla and all of a
sudden they developed, you know, in a large correction, or
(03:02):
they you know, they ate some peanuts that they got
exposed to something that they knew they had an allergy to.
But oftentimes, you know, you can't you can't figure it out,
at least not on the initial evaluation of the r
and so you have to be kind of a kind
of aware that anything can do it. But most people
usually start to become aware of what they're sensitive to
(03:24):
and what they're not before you know, or at least
the stage in our lives.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
But that's that's an interesting point though, because one thing
that came up this trip for the first time, and
one of the reasons why I wanted to bring you
on to talk about it, was after thirty years of life,
our producer, Heather had eaten avocados forever and then all
of a sudden, she develops an allergy to them. And
you know, it comes in on the list of allergies
(03:50):
that we have to be careful of. But the note was,
you know, I ate it for thirty years and all
of a sudden, I'm allergic.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Is that common? I've never heard of that.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, Actually it's it's more common you think it would be,
because you know, I get I see once again. I'd
see that a lot in the emergency department.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
They said I.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Didn't eat anything or wasn't exposed anything, because I'd go
through this list of questions with them to try to determine,
you know, what the precipitating you know, allergen was, and
so people would say, you know, I've I've eaten strawberries
all my life, or I've eaten shrimp all my life,
and all of a sudden you develop an allergic reaction
to it, so you know why you develop it later
(04:27):
in life. Is is kind of one of the great
mysteries of immunology. You know, you know, we feel like
it or we believe it's, you know, due to sensitization,
so that you get exposed to whether whatever the allergen is,
you know, and that can be food, that can be
external pollens, anything, and so you get exposed to it
(04:48):
and your your immune system recognizes that as a as
a foreign bier, something that you know, they don't like
to see, and then you subsequently develop uh and you
know some of the you know, there's certain certain types
of cells and stuff and allergic type of cells that
will then be sensitized so that when you keep getting
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exposed to it, then at some point it just it
pops out. So you know what you're doing is we're
just getting You've been exposed to it over the years,
and then at some point your body just says I've
had enough, and you have this allergic reaction to it.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It's so interesting because I feel like too, in like
my kind of generation, I'm hearing more and more about
pena allergies or people having you know, being lactose intolerant.
I mean, when I was a child, drink a lot
of milk. I remember my parents drink a lot of milk.
They no longer drink like milk today because it messes
(05:48):
with their bodies. I don't drink milk straight anymore because
it messes with my body. So is it kind of
the common thing that you're talking about there? As it
feels like these things are more prevalent now than I
ever remember them.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, I you know, it's it's it's it's interesting. And
one of the things that you know, when I'd be
listening to lectures, you know, on allergic crash and stuff,
is that is that some of these specialists would just say,
you know, we just don't eat enough dirt anymore. And
you know, as you know, when I was growing up
in you know, the sixties and seventies and stuff yours outside,
(06:23):
nobody even thought about allergies. Nobody thought about allergic reactions.
Nobody carried an EpiPen. I mean, that was unheard of,
and I think it was just so we think that
you know this, you know, it's just develops because if
you are exposed to it all the time, then you
you know, your body is used to it. If it's not,
then you're more likely to have analergy. When you talk
(06:45):
about like food allergies, when you talk about like milk,
that's a you know most of the time. I mean,
you can have an allergy to milk, but normally it's
an intolerance. For example, with milk, it contains lactose, which
is the milk sugar, and in your intestines you actually
have an enzyme called black taste. It breaks it down,
and as you get older, you don't you don't make
(07:07):
as much of the black taste. And so when you know,
so you have some ice cream or some milk or
whatever it might be, the dairy product, then you have
an intolerance. And usually the result in that case is
you know, gi symtematology, you know, with loose stools, bloating, cramping,
those things.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
So one of the biggest sadnesses of getting older is
my lack of ability to eat ice cream anymore.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Yes, it makes me very sad. It's not fun.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
It's you know, it's interesting, you know, because my father
had lactose intolerance and he loved ice cream, absolutely love it.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
I just I can't eat it.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I mean, he'd have one, you know, one mouthful and
you he'd be paying for it the rest of the night.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
So yeah, and everybody else too.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
The big thing hitting kind of the airways right now
is we have some celebrities coming out that they have
been diagnosed with prostate cancer. We're switching gears here from
allergens to some other health topics, both that affect you know,
men and women and also men and women specifically, prostate
cancer is obviously one that affects men. Celebrities are coming
(08:14):
out kind of talking about their journey with prostate cancer.
Is it as prevalent as it seems right now? Has
it become more prevalent? Also, if you don't mind, in
the course of kind of answering this question, how would
I check myself for prostate cancer as a thirty six
year old male.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, so with pro sa cancer, you know, the adage
is if you live long enough as a male, you're
going to develop prostate cancer at some point.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
One of the reasons that we're seeing, you know, increased
number of people being diagnosed with it probably stems from
the fact that we're living longer, you know. So prostate
cancer is it's a it's a disease of older men.
Typically fifty and over sixty. You know, that's when you
start to see the increased rise. And what's happening is
(09:08):
is we're living longer. So for example, you know, in
nineteen sixty, I think the life expectancy for mail was
about sixty seven. Now it's seventy nine, almost eighty. So
we're just seeing more people that go into that time
frame when you start to develop prostate cancer. And then
(09:30):
the other is is that we're more aware of it
and we have screening tests for it. And you would
ask like, how do you know, you know check yourself. Well,
I'd say the first thing is is that you know,
you know, you see you go see your position. You know,
the recommendations I believe for PSA prostate specific energen, which
is a screening test for prostate cancer, doesn't mean that
(09:53):
if it's elevated that you have prostate cancer, but you
have to have it followed up. Typically, urologists will monitor
that sometimes to say, you know, you know, we need
to do a biapse to your prostate, you know, based
on the numbers or based on your symptomatology. And then
you also need to have besides having like a p
S A and that's recommended typically over the age of fifty.
(10:15):
If you're you have a family history, or if you're
African American you have a higher risk, so maybe forty
five you need to start getting checked for it.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
And then.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
The other is you even if you get a PSA
done every year, you need a digital rectal examination. Ten
percent of the prostate cancers will not have elevated PSA levels.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
And so you go into your physician.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Yeah, you get it, you know, you know, you get
a prostate exam.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
You know, you know, people you know think it kind
of nervous about it and stuff, and it's it's really
not as bad as you know, it's as bad as
you want to let it.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Yeah, I've had I've had a few in my life.
I had a weird thing in Heist Goal where I
was developing too much calcium and so they were giving
me they had to check me out. I would say
that they're not as bad as what you imagined.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
The beat.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
It's not something that I would recommend or fighting to
get done again. And if you get enough of them,
you can kind of tell everybody's technique the uh there
and there are different ones. Yeah, it's you want.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
What's come out is a lot bigger than what goes in.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, you need uh, you need the smallest man. It's
interesting to me kind of right now. Also is my
wife is an esthetician guy. Uh, And we're out here
in Lake Tahoe. I live in Denver, Colorado. Sunscreen is
(11:47):
such a wild topic, and I hear my wife talking
about a lot with her clients. She is a huge
proponent obviously is an esthetician on sunscreen, but cific sunscreens.
She has a list that she kind of shares with
her clients on sunscreens that she finds helpful. In fact,
(12:07):
her her grandfather, who she loved dearly, passed away from
you know, skin cancer a few years ago, and one
of the causes of it was he was always putting
the wrong sunscreen on. And so that's kind of why
she got into the field that she did. But now,
as I'm preparing for this show and kind of looking
(12:27):
up all the common health concerns of the public right now,
you see a lot of people, especially celebrities, saying they
don't use some block at all.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Uh. Is this recommended?
Speaker 2 (12:38):
My wife would tell you tell anybody, no, you got
to use sunscreen.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Here's some good kinds. As as a doctor, do you
recommend sunscreen?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, I mean, you know, be wary of of you know,
celebrities going on and you know, professing medical knowledge.
Speaker 5 (12:58):
I'd say she can't have it.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
And they haven't done your homework because a lot of I
hope that they have, you know, but the current recommendation,
and I agree with your wife, you know, wholeheartedly.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
I mean you when you go outside, you need.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
To be wearing you know, sunscreen really almost at all
all times, because it's a cumulative effect. It's ten minutes here,
it's thirty minutes here, it's a walk to the store,
it's you know, a short walk on you know, outside
hiking for thirty minutes, you know, or you're outside, you know, sunbathing,
and it's you know, the sunscreen is not just to
keep you from getting a sunburn.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
You know it.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You know, you know, you wear it for different reasons. One,
you know you're gonna get less wrinkles, less you know,
skin aging associated with that skinIn and damage. And then
obviously you know skin cancer and there's different types of
skin cancer. And so yeah, you need to be using
you know, sunscreen now, whether you're using you know, a
chemical you know it's called I'm sorry, a chemical sunscreen
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or a mineral sunscreen. Gosh, your wife probably, you know,
probably has researched it much more than I have. I mean,
you know, the the the minerals are, you know, there's
they are more of a protective barrier.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
They're like zinc.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Oxide and then chemical ones. They they absorbed the UV
rays and then emit heat and so they both work
by decreasing you know, the UV exposure to your skin.
But they do it in different ways. And I think
which one you use depends on U or which broad
category depends on your skin type and how you tolerate it,
(14:30):
you know, because some of them, you know, like the
zinc oxide. You know we see as kids, you know,
people may be wearing this white stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
What is that? You know now now you recognize what
this is.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
You know, people getting you know, massive sunburns to their
nose and they were just using a protective barrier like
zinc oxide, which that white cream that you see.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, it's it's it is interesting. I mean obviously I
was not thinking too much about this until I did
get married, and as I have gotten married, and as
my wife has become more and more focused on skincare.
I can not tell you even what kind of sunscreen
I use, but I know it's sitting on my counter
at my house every day for me to put on
before I go outside. It is one of the things
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she is such a proponent of. It's it's also like
you kind of mentioned it that you'd be careful from
like too much of like kind of the celebrity influence.
What resources are out there to ask these questions? Obviously
people won't be able to just jump on the zoom
with you anytime they want, and my wife would charge
(15:32):
them for this kind of advice. What resources are out
there to kind of figure out what's good and what's not.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Well, you know, I mean we're all familiar with the
internet now right even here I am, and I'm on
the on ramp of the Information super Highway. But there's
so much information out there. There's so much, and you know,
it's trying to decipher what's legitimate what isn't.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Oftentimes what you need to do is, you know you're
if you're looking, just don't read something and take it,
you know, you know, for you know gospel right because.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
You got it depends on who wrote it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
You know, because being Reddit, people will you know, write
things in and you know it's not based on anything
but their own experiences. And really what you want to
do is you want to see what you know, what
the what the study show, what the research shows. So
you know, oftentimes when I'm looking into it, I'll look
for resources from legitimate bodies of knowledge, such as you know,
(16:29):
the American College of Dermatology. You know, so if you know,
when you know, when they put out a statement on sunscreens,
you know, they've had hundreds of people reviewing that statement,
and they're looking at hundreds and hundreds of pieces of
research data to be able to formulate that. So you
want to look at you know, you want to use
(16:51):
a resource that you know has gone through and has
gone above and beyond just like oh I think this
is it, or they I read it on the internet.
They're actually deciphering those you know, hundreds of articles that
in studies that have been done. So just look for,
you know, things like that. But you can go on
the internet then you can get a pretty good idea,
but just know where you're getting it from.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Sure, well, I mean, and I think this is a
compliment to you, but also a fairly obvious observation.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
You have stayed looking really young.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And when we talked to you last time, I remember
you talked about your workout routine, which is lower weights,
higher volume. You've stayed looking young, You've stayed feeling young.
Is there any tips that you could give us for
how you've done that? I mean, for the public that's
out there like me, it's like, goodness, guy is just
(17:46):
he looks younger than I am, and I'm I'm half
his age. Like, what are the tips that you've done
in your life to keep you being who you are?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I mean I do get asked that question, you know,
because I do look a little younger than in my
chronological age. I always like to say I'm physiologically younger.
But you know, I you know, when I people ask
that question, I say a couple of things.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
I said.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I don't smoke, don't do drugs, Never smoked, never drugs,
Alcohol very minimal. I'm not opposed to people and drinking.
But like everything you have to do with in moderation,
I exercise a lot or I have htorically you know
anywhere from I did, you know, depend on the phase
(18:30):
of my life I was doing marathons in my twenties
and thirties, and then triathlons and iron men and then
you know, couldn't do those anymore, and then started rode
biking for over twenty years and it's probably been my
biggest passion now over the last as you talked about,
like the last five years. And there's more and more
research and to show and to support doing weight training.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
Now, just to be clear, this is men and women
both doing weight training, right.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Yes, and women.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And you know for women, I say, is is they
always worry like I don't want to lift weights. I
don't want to get big muscle and bulky. Well, I
can assure you unless you go into bodybuilding, you're not.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
That's not going to happen.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
You have to you have to lift a lot of weights,
and you got to be eating a certain diet, supplements
and things where you you know those women that do
the body building, you know, so weight training is huge.
You know, increases bone density, you know, just you're less
likely to get injured. You got to keep your strength up.
(19:32):
I was, actually I'm down in San Diego and I
was I was at the beach today, so uh, and
I noticed a woman trying to get up, just to
stand up, and she had such weakness in her lower
legs and her pelvis, it was she basically couldn't do it.
You know, we had to help her kind of lift
her up, you know, from the sitting position. And so
(19:53):
you want to, you know, do the weights and stuff
like that. And there's and I talked about it earlier.
What what do I do? And and I this is
just my own you know, my own routine is I've
always done or it's not always passed. I used to
do lower weights and or higher weight amounts and lower breaths.
Now I do as I told you earlier, I do
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low weight and high reps. So I'll do up to
like instead of ten to twelve, I'll do twenty five reps.
And I do and I tend to do. I don't
have chess days or leg days. I do all the
body parts. I do altoid stri sets, biceps, forearms, you know, pecs, abs, back, quads, hamstrings.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
I do them all on one day. I just do
you know that.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Different routine and and I'll do different sets of them
stuff like that. So So anyway, exercise and then diet
obviously is very important.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
And you know I'm you know, listen, I can.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
I can, like I enjoy junk food as much as
the next person, you know, but you know I've gotten
better about you know, really you want to. And more
and more studies are coming out on this, and you
know why we're seeing the obesity you know, trends in
the United States, you know, the way they've escalated. It's
almost like a pandemic. And a lot of this has
(21:13):
to do with the foods that we eat, you know,
I mean, because we're eating such processed foods, and so
you know, you know, my recommendation and I don't always
do what I will, you know, be the first to
admit that is to you eat eat you know, real food,
eat real food. So you know you don't want to
eat you know, the processed foods because there's so many
chemicals and you know, antibiotics and everything in in that
(21:36):
decreasing for me, decreasing red meat. You know, I almost
eliminated that in my diet. Doesn't mean I don't occasionally
have a little little small flag, you know, you know,
every few months, but I don't have a t bone
every night, you know, So you want you know, lean
lean meats, you know, whether that's you know, chicken fishes,
you know, is to go to protein source for me
for for foods.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
And then uh, you know, and and then you know
we I think.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
You talk about like how much how much do you
need of each of these different components? How much you
would you know, whether you know, talk about protein? How
much protein should you be taking and stuff? And how
do you get it? I would say that with like
protein quality is more important than quantity. But there are
guidelines on how much protein. And I've always been, for god,
(22:26):
over twenty years, twenty five years, I've always been an
advocate of high protein, low carbohydrate diets. And that's just
something I just kind of fell upon I just as
I've gotten older. I believe that one of the problems
people get as they get older is that they don't
take in enough protein, or what they do is they
take it in a poor form. So you might have
(22:48):
protein and hamburger, but you're eating fifteen hundred calories with
all this bad fat and processed chemicals and everything to
get the fifty grams of protein. So you want it
to be good, healthy you know sources, And I think
that's a that's a huge thing. How much you get
how much protein you get. I've been asked this question.
(23:09):
How much am I supposed to eat all the time?
You know, how many grams of protein? And you know,
the general thumb is, you know, for the average person
is a gram per kilogram. And everybody asks another weighting
kilograms to figure that out, or maybe about half a
gram per pound if you want.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Them to look it up right now.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
Yeah, well, it's two point two pounds per kilograms.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
So for example, I'm about an eighty eighty kilogram man,
you know, seventy kilogram man's one hundred and fifty four pounds.
So you can take your weight and pounds divided by
two point two that would give your weight in kilograms.
If you're really exercising a lot or you know, for
you know, younger people they're athletic, more muscle mass, you're
gonna need a lot more protein, you know, than one
(23:50):
gram per kilogram. You're going to you know, probably gonna
need two or one gram per pound. So if you
weigh one hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty pounds
and you're doing lots of endurance train and you're probably
going to need one hundred and fifty grams of protein.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, you know, I'm from the Midwest. I'm from Indiana,
a place I love dearly. We're not known for our
healthiest lifestyles. They're hard workers who are outside all day
(24:25):
and you know, exhausted at night. There's a common thing.
And this is really my last health question for you,
but it's becoming more prevalent to me, especially from where
I'm from, where you have men or women who seem
to be in decent shape. They're active, but their bellies
get really hard and really big. It's like they're carrying
(24:46):
a lot of weight just in their belly region and
nowhere else. Is that something to be concerned of? Is
that kind of going off of what you're talking about
here where it's diet and exercise, because I feel like
a lot of these people are active, but they're carrying
that A lot of people are carrying that weight right there.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Yeah, especially you know like men.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
I mean, yes, these men, they their legs don't have
any fat on them. They tend as you get older,
you tend to lose and lose the muscle mass in
your buttocks and stuff, and their arms get thinner. But
then they got this, Yeah, truban abdomen. You know, and
and a lot of that is you know, you see,
you see the deposition in males in you know, the
(25:25):
mid of dominal area, and a lot of that is
visceral fat. So it means it's there's fat underneath the muscle, right.
You see, you have all this fat surrounding your your bows,
your your small intestine, you're large intestine, and a lot
of times, you know, you as you get older, you
have the deposition in that visceral fat. And so you know,
there's there's certain ways and certain foods that you can
(25:47):
eat to try to decrease the amount of visceral fat
that you have. You know, I can't give them off
the top of my head, but you know, you can
definitely modify your diet to decrease that. And a lot
of that just has to do with you know, I'll
just say, and you just got to go back to
what we talked about before. Don't smoke, don't you know,
avoid you know, uh, excessive alcohol. Try to exercise and exercise.
(26:11):
You don't have to be an exercise nut. You need
to just you know, start out with things in moderation.
If you just go out and walk, I mean, yeah,
I mean, if you walk five miles or you run
five miles, your clerk expenditure is the same. Now there's
you know, more cardiovascular benefits from from the running, but
(26:32):
from a strictly from a you know, a work standpoint
and a cloric expenditure standpoint, there's those are going to
be the same. Whether but you know, if you run it,
you can do it in forty minutes, and if you
walk it it takes an hour and a half, so
you still get to you know, you can get similar benefits.
And then with women, you know, they they tend to
get it in other areas. They tend to get it
in their hips and you know, thighs and you know,
(26:53):
and same thing just got to you know, eat healthy foods,
eat moderation, avoid I I truly believe that the processed
foods are really really killing us.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
You know today that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah, thank you for all your advice on health. We
are going to completely switch gears here for just a
final few questions on Paradise right now.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Are you watching?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
I have watched. I have watched most of the episodes.
I don't get through all of them, but I have
watched them. You know, I wanted to see how some
of my good friends that have been on it. Ye
how it's faring for them and it's been an interesting observation.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yeah, what do you think so far?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
You know, I can tell you it wouldn't have been
for me.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Okay, So you don't have fomo, you're not missing out,
you don't feel missed like No, to be.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Honest with me, I'm sitting there going on that one.
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
You know, I'm glad I met my my person because
it's just it's just you know, it's not me. But
you know, you know, I talked to a couple of
the guys and I know they've had great experiences with it.
They enjoyed it, and I have to say, it's it's
pretty fun to watch. I mean, it's it can be entertaining,
you know. And you know, if if really, if the
(28:16):
goal for them is to find someone, you know, why
not try any avenue that you can, you know, any
type of you know, of of of way of meeting somebody,
you know, whether that's on The Golden Bachelor, the Golden Bachelor,
or The Bachelor, Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise. I mean, you
you know, I would suspect some of the is gonna,
you know, find a significant other.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
Through the show. I don't know. I think oldens will,
but I think some of the young ones will.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah, I think. I I'm with you. Just give it
a shot.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Now.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
You obviously have come out publicly with your girlfriend, and
one of the reasons why you're not in paradise is
because of Joanna's her name, right, Johannah Johanna. We met
her a second ago. She's gorgeous. Very personal question for you,
but that's what we do here because we talked about love.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Are you looking to get married again? Ever?
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah, you know that question has been asked me before.
I have to say that, you know, over the last
you know, since you know my separation and the worst
you know, I've gone out on a lot of one
and done dates, you know, and I finally got even
after the show. The show was fantastic for me. It
(29:27):
allowed me to move forward in my life in ways
that I did not anticipate. So I I I, you know,
I thank you know bestornation for that because it really
did help me move forward.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
I did.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I thought that, you know, by the end of the year,
after the show was over and some of the stuff
had died down, I just thought, you know, this is
never going to happen.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
I don't think I'm ever going to meet anybody. Either
I'm just not ready for it or I you know.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I I'm looking for something that doesn't exist, but people
just got hey just you know, hang in there and
interesting enough. I you know, I met Johannah on January
first and January thirty first, I was watching the ball
drop in New York City, thinking I'm just gonna be
sitting here in.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
My living room alone, you know, for a long time.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
And you know, boom, you know, she showed up and
and it's it's it's it's been wonderful. I mean, she's
a she's a wonderful woman, kind of meets all the criteria.
And we've we've basically been almost inseparable since we met
in January. So am I looking to get married again
the right person?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Yeah, that's that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I mean, so your summer is better than you could
have ever imagined to be on December, you know, thirty first,
you never knew that your summer could be looking like
it is.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
No, I you know, and it's it's not even it's
been you know, January February March April, May, June, July,
and we already have all sorts of you know, great
stuff planned for the fall.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
So not good for you, that's awesome. Well, we love
to see it. We hope some goldens fall in love
in paradise.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I don't know if it's going to happen. I don't
know who it would happen with. Thank you for coming
on and answering some of our biggest questions, ranging from
allergies to weight loss, to cancers to you know, sunscreens.
We appreciate it, Doctor Guy, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 5 (31:25):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
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