Answering Questions about Alate Health

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Andrew Doe about Alate Health.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike, Helpful information on
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(00:42):
now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here we go,
rise and shot.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Well it's noon time. Never mind, although you never know
a lot of this, a lot of this audience of
mine will is just on its own time. And maybe
maybe noon's a good time to get up.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Maybe today it's overcast. Yeah, it'd be boy, It would
have been easy, wouldn't it. Just just roll back over
and pull those covers up a little bit. The slight
pitter patter of rain on the roof, gentle, Yeah, pitter
Patter's a good way to describe it wouldn't have been
bad at all. Forecasters say, well, we're looking for about

(01:21):
three days of this dreary northwest like weather, across southeast Texas.
We're sitting beneath a blanket woven from light rain, heavy rain,
more rain, potentially severe thunderstorms and rain. And if you
don't have to go out today, I think, bottom line,

(01:42):
would maybe not be a bad day to stay in.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Now, bear in mind, right before, well earlier today, when
I was working on my preparation, I happened to look
outside and saw enough sunlight peeking through the clouds to
cast shadows on the ground where there were things that
would cast shadows. So a not a total wash out,
at least not yet. And I looked at the forecast,

(02:09):
the radar forecast for the next six or eight hours,
and it depending on where you are south of I ten,
let's call it, yeah, south of I ten, it still
doesn't look terribly bad. Now, I'll go back in during
the first break of the program here and get an
update on that, just to be certain. But I think

(02:30):
at least for today, there's a chance, if you got
stuff to do, you could probably make it at least
not get caught in some horrific thunder lightning hailstorm somewhere. Again,
the south south of IT ten looks better than north
of I ten. And then tomorrow and Thursday. It's just
too early to guess it is gonna be wet. There's

(02:52):
no question about that. So who knows. Basically, do you
do you really get bothered by forecast?

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Will not? Really? Yeah, unless it's something big.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
You're in a rent house too, So if the you know,
if the hail beats up the roof and there's a
big leak, you just make a phone call. Yeah, hey,
come patch this leak before it before it gets on
my socks. Right, I don't want to be walking around
on a wet floor wet in my socks. All right,
let's move on from the contemporary grooming desk. And this

(03:23):
is something that's going on more with men in your
age group than my age group. Will some mente says
here are either trimming or completely shaving off their eyelashes
an attempt to make them look what will go ahead? Fuller, fuller? Yeah,

(03:43):
full of.

Speaker 4 (03:44):
What because when they grow back, they'll.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Be oh no, no, no, this is permanent effort. No,
this is they're not trying to because they shave the
lawn to make it. They like having the eyelashes fall
into their eyes. You know what they say? It does
what makes them look more masculine. I'm not so sure
about that. You think you're nodding your head. Really, you

(04:08):
think shave shaving your eyelashes?

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (04:13):
What are they using to shave their eyelashes?

Speaker 3 (04:16):
You know, it's it's interesting you ask because one there
there's some who are are using scissors. They're letting their
stylists get in there right in front of their eyeballs
with scissors, which I don't know about that. Some are
using clippers and just just mow that striple on right,
just one sweep. And I guess if they're dead serious

(04:38):
about it, they could just pluck them out. But that
would be that would.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
Have to hurt, That would be pain stuff.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
From one side to the other. No, and and this, no, no,
don't do that. It just I don't Honestly, I think
my generation kind of knows better. We're smarter than that.
But just in case, your eyelashes are there for a reason,
I looked it up. They keep stuff out of your eyes.

(05:05):
We all know that. They also they also help you
if there's something coming toward your eye that and it
touches that eyelash, you get that responsive blink that tells
the lid shut. The garage door right now, shut the door.
Don't let anything hit this eyeball. So there's a lot
of there's a lot of work that gets done by

(05:27):
your eyelashes, and taking them out is not going to
do you any good. It's just not going to do
you any good. By the way, I saw something about
JD Vance a while back being accused for some speech
he made somewhere of wearing eyeliner, and one of his friends,
also a politician, I can't recall who it was, responded

(05:48):
to that internet garbage by letting them know that indeed,
those are his eyelashes, and they are that way naturally.
I can see if you look at pictures of you
eight events, it does look like his eyelashes are accentuated.
Do you agree, Yeah, he looks like he's wearing an eyeliner,
but he's not. That's just that's how God made him.

(06:09):
Will That's it?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Man?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Sorry, So and all this I find it somewhat ironic.
All of this is going on while women have been
gluing on bigger and bigger eyelash enhancements that some of
them look so heavy. I don't know how these women
can blink. It's just like it's like doing. It's like
doing chest or like bench presses for your eyelashes or

(06:36):
for your eyelids. There's some heavy stuff out there, and
you know, to each their own though. If it makes
you feel manly, shave, if it makes you feel beautiful,
put on those big old fuzzy caterpillar eyelashes. I'm not
a fan of those, honestly, and I oh, well, I
don't want to get into all that. I don't want

(06:56):
to get any women mad at me today. I'll just
leave it at that. We will take this little break
here a minute or so early, and that gives me
a chance to really let you know more about Berry Hill.
Bahag Grill, which is out in Sugarland, is out in
sugar Land. Hang on, I gotta put a little word
here there. We go out in sugar Land, been there

(07:18):
for the better part of thirty years, as long as
I've been in sugar Land anyway, and is run by
a family the Wendy said, Wendy, your sons anyway, The
mom and two sons are running this restaurant that was
started long, long ago, and there were actually five or
six locations around town, and now they are the one

(07:41):
because the founder was Wendy's husband, Wendy Brooks's husband, he
passed a while back, but she she just brought her
sons together with her and said, look, we gotta do this.
We gotta keep this restaurant out here. It's been doing
well for thirty something years. It's gonna keep doing well
for that many more. Probably. My wife and I found
it the minute we well, not the minute we moved

(08:01):
into sugar Land, but shortly thereafter, and have been going
there ever since. It's an average about once every couple
of weeks, sometimes more if we're in the mood, and
they've just been putting out a delicious, consistent variety of
Mexican food favorites for that whole time. The two men
who do most of the work in the kitchen have

(08:22):
been there more than a decade apiece, if I remember correctly.
The fish tacos to die for, some of the best
in town, if not the best in town, depending on
who you ask. And they're trace Ledge's and their Tomali's,
and they're just everything on that menu. I've tried a
lot of it. I keep leaning back to the seafood enchialadas.

(08:42):
They're my favorite, but I have tried many other things
on there, and they're all outstanding, as are the people
who are either working there or dining there. It's very casual,
very relaxed atmosphere. You don't have to get all dressed up.
Just bring the family in, the whole whatever you got on,
as long as it's decent, wear it on in there.
If you're alone in sugar Land, you just moved here

(09:04):
for whatever reason, go in there and just kind of
make a mention of that, and somebody probably invites you
over to their table. I've seen that happen in there.
I really have. Barryhillgrill dot Com is the website. They're
on fifty nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard on the inbound side.
Very easy to find, very delicious to visit Berryhillgrill dot com.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
What's life without a nap? If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug
pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
Hi, welcome back, Thanks for listening fifty plus on AM
nine to fifty KPRC. I'm Doug Pikey's Will Melbourne. I
was scrolling through some reels on Facebook during the break
and came across one I've seen before, but it's always
a good one. This guy's trying to unhook a bass
from a pretty good sized lure, and as he's trying to,

(09:59):
first of all, he bothers me that he didn't mash
down the barbs on his hooks, because he's got one
of the hooks right kind of in the jaw of
that fish, right at the point where the lower jaw
meets the upper jaw. And he's working really hard and
digging around, and it's not helping that fish at all,
because I'm not gonna eat any bass. All my bass

(10:19):
lures have the hooks mashed the barbs mashed down on
the hooks. But I digress. So this guy's working this
fish and trying to get the lure out of his mouth,
and all of a sudden, from inside the fish coming
out is a snake head. And then it gets a
little longer and a little longer, and what ends up
coming out is a snake that's about probably fourteen sixteen

(10:42):
inches long. And that guy, of course, he immediately dropped
the fish as soon as he saw about half that
snake get out of there, and it was very interesting.
He drops a fish on the ground the snake just
kind of comes out, looks around, and then just slithers
off back into the bushes. Happy day to be a
snake for him, for sure. He didn't have a chance otherwise.

(11:04):
From the h Where am I going here? From the
smashing grab desk, will we'll go to smashing grab comes word.
That's Houston. It has had and still has, as do
most major cities. Actually a big problem with shoplifting. Monday

(11:24):
morning in city Center, thieves busted out. This was from
a clique to Houston story. I believe thieves bust out
a storefront at the Lululemon store that's become a hotspot
for thieves by the way. They rushed in and very
quickly managed to get out of there with fifty five
thousand dollars worth of fifty five thousand dollars worth of clothes.

(11:50):
My personal experiences with shoplifters, I've witnessed now just blatant
theft five or maybe six times in the past eighteen
months or so, and it leaves me really frustrated that
retailers won't do more to stop the people who are
raising prices to offset the losses from what they've stolen.
Way too many stores are just they're scared to confront

(12:11):
the thieves, they're scared to press charges, they're scared of
their own shadows, and it's so much easier for them
to just look the other way and just tack on
another dollar, tack on a couple of dollars to that item,
tack on a couplers to that one, and we'll offset
those losses to theft by punishing the people who are

(12:35):
honest enough to come in and pay for what they're buying.
I have a problem with that, and there's still a
few stores who are like that that are like that.
I had a conversation with the manager of an HGB
recently and she said, yes, if you let us know,
if we could catch them, we'll prosecute them. And if

(12:56):
we can't quite catch them, but we can still get identification,
and whether it be a license plate or a photograph
of their face or whatever, we'll kind of put them
on a no shoplift or no shop list, and if
they come back in our store, we'll politely ask them
to leave that we don't want their business. This is
a really terrible part of inflation that should be and

(13:20):
could be stoppable. Targets laid a store to make it
to stop making it easy on thieves. It's ditching the
self checkout. In the In the world in which most
of this audience grew up, self checkout probably would have
worked pretty well. We I believe, were a more honest
generation overall. And expecting one employee to watch over eight

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or ten people moving items from the basket to the
bag makes it really easy for the dishonest people to
just scan one load to scan, one load to and
they walk out of there paying for about half of
what they actually have in the basket as they go
out the store. Ah, have you ever seen that happen? Will?
Have you ever seen anybody actually stealing something? No? I have, man,

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And it really it's disturbing because I'm standing there in
a checkout line once in a major sporting goods store,
and I watched two people come running right up the
center aisle carrying armloads of clothes and they just run
right out the door. And we're at the checkout stand,
not fifteen twenty feet from that door. They walk right

(14:31):
out the door, they jump into a car. It takes
them a while to pile all the stuff into the trunk.
It's not like the employees couldn't have done anything. Now,
I actually walked out there and took a picture and
got the tag number on there and gave it to them.
I don't know what they did with it, but I
asked one of the employees what they're supposed to do
if there's somebody stealing like that, we're supposed to get

(14:53):
out of the way, just let them go. So I
would conservatively guess that least two, maybe three or four
thousand dollars worth of clothes they were carrying. Now, the armloads.
Literally they couldn't have carried anything else less they maybe
put a hat on their heads and out they went,
dump it in the trunk and take off, And the

(15:14):
employees were instructed not to interfere. So that means what
I was buying had to be marked up, what everybody
else buys coming through the line has to be marked up.
And that just it's still that bothers me a lot.
That's a like I said, it's like the fifth or
sixth time I've seen that, not to that extent sometimes,

(15:35):
but certainly just blatant disregard for the law. How many
times do you walked through the grocery store and seeing
somebody nibbling on something, eating grapes, eating chocolate covered peanuts,
wherever have you ever?

Speaker 4 (15:47):
Sometimes i'lsee people, you know, at the tasting.

Speaker 3 (15:50):
No, that's that's okay, that's legit. I'm talking about walking around.
I'm talking about children in the cart eating grapes or
eating fruit roll ups or whatever out of the box.
And then five minutes later I go down another aisle
and there's an empty box of fruit roll up sitting there.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
I've never seen that.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
I have, I've seen it. I'm in the grocery store
way more often than you will. I have a seventeen
year old son and he does go sometimes, but most
of the time it is I who gets the list
on the way home. It's delivered by text from my
wife to hey, could you stop and pick up a
couple of things? She sets me up. Could you stop
and pick up a couple of things on the way home. Sure,

(16:31):
I can do that. And I get this ple just
list and it's in and God bless her. I do
it willingly, I really do. I'm not knocking her, and
I don't mind doing it. But there's a there's this
thing where she it unknowingly, She'll she'll send me to
the far left side of the store to get one thing,

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and then the next thing on the list is where
right back the right back of the store, next thing
right up front, next thing back left. And I'm just
I'm walking. I get like a mile of steps to
go get five items. It's fantastic. Will keeps me in shape.
Let's bring you into the mix here. Will let me

(17:15):
see if I can find the page I'm looking for
here it is right here, fresh fun. Oh, by the way,
National Teacher's Day, have you recognized your girlfriend yet?

Speaker 4 (17:25):
I haven't seen her this morning.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Oh she left before you, of course. Uh, I'll tell
you what I'll do this and then then we'll get
out of here speaking. A National Teacher's Day preschool teacher
in Arizona credited with spotting symptoms of a very rare
condition in one of her students.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
She noticed that he was having trouble getting off the floor.
He was he didn't run quite the same way that
the other kids did, and she told the parents. The
parents got him checked out and very early, thankfully, he
was diagnosed with Duschen muscular dystrophee. And it's a it's
a horrible disease. It whittles away muscle every single day.

(18:04):
The good news is they caught it very early, and
he's in elementary school, and the doctors now have been
able to begin treatment with elevitis, which is the only
FDA approved gene therapy for treatment of deshen So hopefully
a brighter future than it certainly would have been for

(18:24):
that young little boy. That little boy. And I'll tell
you what. We'll take a break. Let's do that happy
news there. I like giving that happy news stuff. I
really do. So UT Health Institute on Aging more happy
news for those of us who are seniors. Because everybody
who is a member of UT Health Institute on Aging,
and these are medical providers from every medical field you

(18:45):
can name or imagine, they have gone back and, in
addition to all the training they already have had, the
many many years of school it took them to become
what they are, they go back and get a little
deeper into it, get a little more knowledge so that
they can apply what they know to us to seniors exclusively,
well not exclusively, but in our instances, in our cases,

(19:09):
they're a step ahead of a lot of providers who
might have had to go back and work on this themselves.
Now they've learned from someone who's come before them exactly
how to deal with this. As cardiology goes, as pullmanology goes,
as gastro enterology goes, as audiology goes all of this,
their skills are a little bit sharper when it comes

(19:30):
to taking care of us. They're all over town, mostly
in the medical center. They tend to be, but at
least I would say half or more also spend time
in outlying areas, which I think is very important for
any and all of us who don't necessarily want to
go to the medicenter, especially on a day like today.
Go to the website first and see what's going on.

(19:50):
There's so much there, all these free resources, and then
all this information about where you can go to find
somebody who can help you one of these healthcare providing
members ut dot edu slash aging, ut dot edu slash aging. Yeah,
they sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
That's why every few months we wash him, check us forwards,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
To fifty plus and thanks for listening as always well,
Welcome into the studio again, Doctor Andrew Doe from Late Hell,
Thanks for popping in dot.

Speaker 5 (20:29):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
It is it a busy time of year or all
times a year busy for you?

Speaker 5 (20:35):
Now it's getting busier usually you see a ramp up
about this time?

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Is that what tax rebates? H people? Yeah, people meeting
their deductibles?

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Really?

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Oh yeah that fast? Huh oh my gosh. Uh yeah,
mine's so high. I don't know if well, well, we
reach it every year somehow, and I just keep throwing
money after that. So earlier today, here's what I did.
Earlier today, I went to your website to find something
new that we could talk about, and when I clicked
on services, I saw this long list of stuff that

(21:07):
I some of it, all of it your team does,
and I only know about maybe half of them. But
so what I want you to do is kind of
roll through some of these things, just one at a time,
and I'll name a service and then you kind of
tell us what it is and who's a candidate?

Speaker 4 (21:24):
Fair enough, fair enough?

Speaker 3 (21:25):
All right, right off the top, Fibroid center, what's going
on there?

Speaker 5 (21:29):
So, just like we treat the Prostates, we can do
the same with women. They at these benign tumors and
their uterus, and we take advantage of the blood supply,
go in there, shut off the blood supply to these
tumors called fibroids, and the patients fibroids die, shrink down,
and their cycles get much better.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Okay, and you've you've never told me what you used
to plug up these arteries. I want to know.

Speaker 5 (21:54):
So they're very set sized polyvinyl alcohol basically in plastic
if you will.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Okay, interesting, Yeah, because I said silly putty one day
and somebody called me on that told me it was wrong.
Next up, why ninety radio embolization. That's a big long name.

Speaker 4 (22:13):
What is that?

Speaker 5 (22:14):
So this is for patients who have late stage cancer
that's gone to the liver or a tumor in their liver,
and put in Instead of putting in those PVA particles,
we put in yttrium, which is radioactive and it's on
the top of little glass beads, so it goes in
there and takes out the tumor.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
I thought it might be something like WD forty, So
that was wrong on that one too. You also do it,
says your port and pick placement at a late health
and I would guess that more than a handful of
people in this audience, they probably had to deal with
something like that. Are those placements something you do a lot?
And why do they come to you for that rather
than I guess wherever they would otherwise go.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
Well, so those are things that will maintain access to
your vascular system, such as you know, a patient who
needs to get antibiotics for six or eight weeks and
this little pick, which is really just a glorified IV
will kind of hang out of the arm a little
bit and they'll be able to hook up to that
and give themselves these IV antibiotics. The ports these are

(23:21):
special devices. They go under the skin, completely sealed off
from the outside, but they're real easy to feel, and
they have a special needle they use, and that's what
the patients get their chemotherapy through.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Oh wow, okay. I had a friend years ago who
contracted vibriovnificus weight fishing in his heel, and he spent
a couple of weeks, maybe a month in the hospital
getting IVS and when they finally send him home, he
was having to do like four bags a day at home.
So he would have had something like that, right, Yes,

(23:53):
A pick Is that right?

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Probably a pick yep?

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Okay, Doctor Andrew do here on fifty plus. I'm learning
as we go, and I hope you are too. How
about this one, venus oblations? Is that getting rid of
spider veins or in my way off base partly?

Speaker 5 (24:07):
And it's getting rid of the underlying cause for the
spider veins. You still do the little injections, the sclerotherapy
for the spider veins themselves. But if you think about
you know, you got a bad tree in the backyard
and you want to get rid of it, you wouldn't
go and pull the leaves off. Those would be the
little spider veins.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Oh okay, you'd go and take out the take out
the whole tree.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Yeah, and those ablations take out the trunk.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
I have a question, when you shut off little tiny
veins all over the place, how does that not affect
blood flow to those areas? Why do they all still
stay healthy even though they're not getting blood anymore.

Speaker 5 (24:45):
So you have thousands upon thousands of veins, huge network
of vicants, and what we're doing is we're taking out
the bad veins, which is usually very few veins. And
once you see them on the surface, those ugly spider
veins or varicose veins. They're not working properly, so they're
not doing you any good.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
Okay, Yeah, so if they were part of the foundation
of your house, you'd have to take them out and
redo the foundation. Absolutely. Yes, I've learned so much when
I talk to you. It's so much fun, it really is. Okay,
what about this one? What is dialysis fistula maintenance? And
who needs that?

Speaker 5 (25:20):
So patients who are on dialysis, this this fistula or
what's called an abnormal connection. It's a connection of an
artery in a vein, so they can stick it with
needles and do their dialysis, and it's just another part
of the vascular system. They get narrow wings and blockages
and stuff, so we go in there and open those up.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Okay, and how long you know, I've talked about this
before with you, but on average, how much time do
patients spend at your place?

Speaker 5 (25:51):
Usually, you know, bigger procedures might be there half a day,
most of our smaller procedures two hours, you know.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
And recovery time is pretty good because.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
You get to go home, right, Absolutely, very minimal. Yeah,
maybe ten to fifteen minutes after the procedure. You're awake and.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
You're ready to go and drive home or someone gonna
take me, somebody using probably So yes, my good idea
be a little bit loopy. I've seen We've all seen
the videos of young people who come out from getting
their wisdom teeth taken out, and they say and do
some really dumb things. They really do. Okay, so we
save the best for last. I guess prostrate artery ambaalization.

(26:27):
It's what you do most often, explain who's gonna probably
need that, when they're gonna need it, and then what
you do to fix it.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
Yes, so the majority of men, especially over the age
of seventy five, but even those over the age of fifty,
will have enlargement of their prostate, and patients with a
big prostinate but nothing else going on like cancer, they're
very good candidates for this. And what we do instead
of cutting out the prostate, we plug up the blood supply,

(26:58):
and that causes the state, which is actually analogous to
the uterus and a female. We go in there and
cut off the blood supply and that causes the prostate
to shrink and that gets rid of your symptoms.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Sidebar, Did you see the story this week I think
it was, or maybe last week about a woman who
actually and I told Courtney about this, a woman who
actually gave birth after getting a womb transplant from her sister. No. Yeah,
you guys do some really crazy stuff. I'm so fascinated
by this. I really am. Okay, let's get to also,

(27:34):
let's get to regenerative medicine. How good is that stuff
at helping with chronic pain?

Speaker 5 (27:40):
So it's great, And you know, we cheer a lot
of athletes. I'm very active. I do a lot of
Brazilian jiu jitsu, grace of Baha and a little shout out.
But in order to maintain you know, that level of activity,
you're always gonna have little injuries and things like that.
And some of our real world class, you know, highly
competitive athletes, we've treated with this regenerative medicine and they've

(28:04):
done exceptionally well.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Is that procedure is it more pain relief or is
it more regeneration of healthier tissue? It's regeneration of healthier tissue.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
It's almost you know, we've seen getting MRIs before and
after these simple little injections of the substance and the
defects and your cartilage, your tendons, your ligaments that they'll repair,
and we really don't have anything else that does that.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
And man, so where is this fluid this stuff coming from?

Speaker 5 (28:37):
So we use everything we use comes from newborn babies. Okay, yeah,
they're the best. They're expressing growth factors and things we
just don't have after maybe two years of age.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
You're not getting any from me, then they're not a
drop left in me, I can assure you. Now I
wish too, Man, I did something to my elbow this morning.
I just reached a round. I don't know. I was like,
maybe my my shirt tail got caught and I was
whatever it was when I reached around, and my elbow
just said, eh, you did something bad. So I'm not

(29:10):
a candidate for any of that yet, thank god, But
if I ever do become one, I'm gonna be over
there for you, I can assure you. So, what would
you tell this audience about being concerned for coming in?
Is this is this major procedure? Is it pretty basic
stuff for you, and so they shouldn't be scared of

(29:32):
you at all?

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Huh?

Speaker 5 (29:33):
Yeah, you know, pretty much everything we do at the office,
We've done hundreds of not thousands of time. The staff
is pretty regular, so you get to see the same people.
You know, it's a very small, self contained office, so
you're going to see the same people each time and
have a very comfortable feel to it.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
So they're never gonna hear I hope this works. No,
no now.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
And as far regenerative stuff goes, as I said, I
like to try to be an athlete, and I've used
just about every option out there on every joint.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
Yeah, oh I understand. Yeah, you're trust testing it out yourself.
So that's pretty good testimony right there too. How good
it's going to be all right. We gotta go. Thank you,
doctor Andrew Do. I really appreciate your time again, no problem,
thanks for having me, and thanks to Andrew Dough again,
Doctor Andrew Doe. That was a recorded interview. We had
to do it last week. He's a very busy man,
and when I can pin him down and get him

(30:28):
over here, I like to sit down and just kind
of go over things, and I thought that was a
good way to do that. A latehealth dot Com is
a website seven one, three, five eight eight thirty eight
eighty eight. They also do regenerative medicine over there too.
I believe we talked about that a little bit as well.
I've been working with him and his staff for a
very long time now, and I enjoy talking to him.

(30:51):
I know he knows his stuff. And if you've got
something that maybe he can help you with, if you
heard something in that interview that would work for you,
then by all means give him all. If you didn't
go to the website and see what it is that
maybe they can help you with a latehealth dot com
ala te and that number one more time seven, one, three, five,
eight eight thirty eight eighty eight. We'll take a little

(31:12):
break here. We'll be right back with more fifty plus
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

(31:36):
All right, welcome back, thanks for listening to fifty plus.
As we do, always live Tuesday through Friday. Monday's my
only day off. It typically is a is a typically
is a golf day when the weather permits, and it
was yesterday. And let's just say that in my game yesterday,
the highlight reel was much shorter than the low light reel.

(31:58):
Is that fair enough? Will you understand what I'm saying?
You feel me that I didn't play.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
Well, Oh, I guess I do now, Yeah, after.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Some really good shots, I really did, and some really
bad ones. But it doesn't matter. I want to get
to the awarding of the Pulitzer Prizes because locally will
double checked and we we had some some winners around here,
and then I'll get to one that that I greatly
appreciated as a former photographer, So will take it away.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yes, And the editorial writing category for the Pulitzer Prize
for Journalism, the Houston Chronicle one with uh and it
was awarded to raj Moncod, Sharon Steinmann, Lisa Falkenberg, and
Leah Binkovitz. And it was a series on dangerous train crossings.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
I like it. I like that type of writing, the columns,
the opinion pieces where the writers can express themselves and
let people know how they feel about something. Too. I
haven't I'll confess I haven't read that work that they did,
but if it won that award, I'm sure it was worthy.
From the photography desk at the Pulitzer comes word that

(33:15):
a man named Doug Mills, a New York Times photographer
who's covered the White House now and its occupants for decades.
Mills was awarded a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for a
photo he got on July thirteenth in Butler, Pennsylvania. He
was in the well, the photographer's well, in front of
the podium where President Trump was speaking on that very

(33:39):
fateful day. The area it's the area below the podium
there and shooting with a wide angle lens at the time,
just a very extremely high shutter speed. I might add,
when shots rang out, and he just kept taking pictures,
he kept his finger on the button, which is his job.
And I would imagine that a lot of people duck

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for cover and ran and did this, that and the other.
But because he is so experienced and he is so
dedicated to what he's doing, he just he held his
grounding and kept kept his finger on the button. And afterward,
when when the shots stopped, he ran around to get
pictures also of President Trump being just surrounded and blanketed

(34:26):
by Secret Service agents. And he continued to do his job.
And then when it every when everything kind of quieted down,
he sent back the images that he had gotten from
right before and while the actual shooting was happening, and
he sent him back to the editors in New York

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this is all digital stuff. Now, my gosh, when I was,
when I was shooting photographs for the paper up until
the final couple of years when we had gone to
digital stuff, I would have had to race back to
a processing house somewhere and get the film processed and
then do a sheet of proofs. There would have just

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been a It would have taken hours to figure out
what I had. But what he had. He got a
call back from the editors in New York and the
woman who called him said, you know what, we got
one here. And sure enough, in this particular image that
won the award, President Trump is looking off to his
right and he's got I think it's his right hand

(35:32):
up or maybe his left hand up, just talking with
his hands, as a lot of us always do, and
just behind his head is a very clear image of
Now bear in mind, this was at the bullet was
traveling at a very high rate of speed, and the
shutter didn't stop the bullet. But what it did was

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it shows that definitive streak of that bullet going it
just after it had passed his head. And that that
earned him that that prize, and with good reason too.
And if anybody thinks that was just a lucky photograph.
There's luck involved, but not nearly as much as you

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might think for someone who shoots photographs at that level.
He he didn't blink when all the when it all
hit the fan. All he did was keep doing his job,
which would which would be really hard if you thought
someone was shooting in your direction. He kept that up.
He made made sure that everything was dialed in, focused in,

(36:36):
everything was right on that one. I would give it
maybe at most ten percent luck, maybe five percent luck,
and ninety five percent skill and experience and dedication to
his his job. And so hats off to Doug Mills.
Congratulations on your pulleitzer Man. What a heck of a shot.

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I've shown that to a couple of people. And when
you think about how hard that was to hold his
ground while that was going on around him, and to
be just holding the camera steady enough even to get
that done, that was not easy, I can assure you.
From the Indestructible Desk over in Devon, somewhere in Great Britain,

(37:21):
I'm not sure whether there's England or I believe it's
in England. Comes Ward of this guy Skydiver will check
this out. He jumps out of the airplane and at
fourteen thousand feet his phone slips out of a pocket.
Maybe he forgot to zip it, I don't know, but
he watches his phone just fall and just fall out

(37:41):
of sight, and so he did have a tracking device
on the thing. And once he touched down safely, he
jumped in a car and went looking for it. And
three miles away from where he landed, in a field
of grass somewhere, he found his phone and it was
still on, and it was still work and not a
scratch on it, which kind of begs the question what

(38:05):
kind of phone and what kind of case? And no
matter how many times that question rings up, I don't
have the answers. But that's pretty cool, I think.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
Well, sounds like a Nokia brick.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Sounds like something, sounds like something that was wrapped in
bubble wrap, only it wasn't. It was coat. He had
video from somebody else's phone with them actually finding it
in the grass. It was pretty good, all right, Well,
very quickly here, oh very quickly, let's just do this
one and then we'll we'll make it a pop quiz tomorrow.
I have we have to or we'll go extinct. You

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know what that means. What that means humans need at
least two point seven children per woman to avoid long
term extinction. We'll just leave it at that. Thanks for listening,
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