Dr. Doe of Alate Health

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Doe of Alate Health.

Episode Transcript

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fifty plus with Doug Pike, andaway we go Thursday edition of the program.
On this first day of hurricane season, no hurricane on the horizons so
far, knock wood. We'll seewhat happens. The weather's actually looking pretty
good right now through the weekend,and then just a little chance of reign

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from Monday through Wednesday. That's itfor here. Really over in the eastern
half of the Gulf of Mexico offthe Florida Panhandle, the National Hurricane Center
actually upgraded that little depression to afifty fifty shot at actually turning into something
that's something different. Maybe a whoknows a tropical storm, it's a fifty

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fifty shot it's going to kind ofmeander southward going into the weekend, and
at that point it's going to encounterAnd this is a favorable thing for everybody
who might have been affected. Hopefullythey're right this time. The Hurricane Center
says it's going to encounter and Iquote conditions unfavorable for further develop elopment end

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quote. I love hearing those wordswhen they are associated with something that's trying
to cook up and boil up andspin up in the Gulf of Mexico.
No threat to us should not becomea threat to anyone really, unless you're
scared of rainy, windy days,and we have plenty of those around here.

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They are kind of warmups, Iguess for the real deal, which
we're supposed to have an average seasonthat means about twelve to seventeen named storms
and plus our minus four really badones. So we'll just see how it
goes. There's absolutely no way anybodycan predict this. I will never believe
that it's not. It's just notpossible. Stock market, despite what the

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Dow bumped up a couple of hundredpoints. I think, while I wasn't
looking in the past hour, that'sgood news. Some of the other indices
a little bit down. Oil wasI want to say this morning it was
about ten cents higher than yesterday's clothes, still below seventy dollars the last time

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I look, which is good news. If you've got a road trip coming
up, we'll just say, there'sno way to know what that's gonna do.
The stock market really didn't react thismorning to the House passing that new
death settling legislation yesterday. It doesn'tmean much until it gets through the Senate
and then onward from there. Frighteningthough, really, to see how we're

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already in debt some thirty trillion,I don't know, more than thirty trillion
dollars, and then this bad thisbill is going to add a few more
trillions while they just these little tokentrims a handful of billions from the budget.
That and we keep sending borrowed moneyto other country, barred money,

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military supplies, humanitarian aid, allthis stuff to other countries when we ourselves
are in up to our eyeballs.Can you imagine? Can you imagine what
would happened if you or I triedto do the same thing with our own
bank. Here's how this conversation wouldprobably go. Hey, thanks for thanks
for meeting with me. Mister banker, I'd like to borrow a million dollars.

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Okay, sure, what are yougonna do with it? Well,
I'm gonna use one hundred grand formy mortgage payment, for insurance, groceries,
gas clothes, you know, theday to day stuff. Then I'm
gonna spend another four hundred thousand onfishing lures and ice cream and golf clubs
and entertainment. And then I'm gonnagive seven hundred thousand dollars to my neighbors.

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But excuse me, mister Pike.That's actually two hundred thousand dollars more
than the million you're gonna borrow fromus. So how are you going to
pay back the interest in principle youowe the bank? And where are you
going to get the other two hundredgrands for your neighbor on top of the
half million million of our banks money? Oh yeah, I'm gonna borrow more
money for that. This is totallyunsustainable. It's impossible to stay on this

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track without ultimately defaulting, and ifwe don't quit raising that death ceiling,
these the interest alone will bury us. We're playing a very dangerous game,
and if it goes on much longer, we're gonna lose everything. And that's
a frightening thought. All right,moving on, because that's what we can

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do here. I think it's agood idea. I heard Michael Berry talking
this morning on ktr Ash about theurban hike and bike trail that's become more
of a beaten rob trail, andhe made a great point about how liberals
continue to lay blame somehow on nonexistentmisunderstandings of why these young men are doing
what they are doing. Why theycarry guns and are willing to beat someone

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senseless to steal their phone or afew bucks or a cheap watch. Nobody
on a hike and bike trailers carryingten thousand dollars in cash and wearing a
Rolex not if they have any senseat all. So they're ultimately doing what
they do, threatening and in somecases even taking people's lives for relatively little.

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These people learn to rob and steal, most likely from other young people
a little bit older than them,maybe their role models in the neighborhoods who
found crime way easier than work.Actually, they don't do what they do
because they can't find a job.That's not it. They commit crime because
it's easier than working all day forhalf as much as they can pistol whip

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out of an old man on abicycle. These are their summer jobs.
There are real summer jobs, thousandsof them. The troubled employers have is
finding kids these days who are willingto shower up, to show up and
try to try to do what thejob says they have to do that,

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or they can stay out as lateas they want, sleep as long as
they want, roll out with theirthug friends and beat up a few people,
knowing full well that even if they'recaught, guess what, they're young,
so they're likely to be released beforethe sun rises on another day.
They're very frustrating, very concerning.All right, we're gonna take the first

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break of the program right here.We will regroup, rejoin and be right
back with more of fifty plus onAM nine fifty KPRC. What's life without
a neck? I suggest you goto sleep it off, just wait until
this show's over. Is sleepy?Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.

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All right, welcome back fifty plus, Thanks for listening on iHeartRadio Access
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Ah, that's done, that's done. That's done. I'll let you

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take a swing in this segment.Well, let's start here. Did any
of us really believe this casting aspell? And in this corner, in
this corner, Oh, this iskind of a this is kind of an
interesting one. And I want youto tell me if you sound intimidated when
I read this guy's stage name,if you will, There's a lawyer in

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Indiana lost one hundred and forty poundsso that he could pursue his childhood dream
of being a professional wrestler. He'scompeting now on a minor circuit. I'm
sure in somebody's backyard, I wouldguess under the wrestling name. Just hold

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on tight, because I don't wantyou to get scared. Warren C.
Freeberg, the third Esquire. That'shis wrestling name. Does that grab you
like the Hulk or Grave Digger orthe Rock. I'll be honest, none
of those names grabbed me, noneof them ever. Cut I just you

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know, I admire his aspiration,but I don't think that that's gonna get
him a leg up into the bigs. He needs to be a better character.
You know. It's like you arealready a lawyer and real yeah,
yeah, just say lawyer, thelawyer. He should call himself the law
man, the law man. Well, then then he could be mistaken for

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a law enforcement guy. No,he's a yeah, the lawyer. I
think that's far scarier than law manlaw man. The connotation there is that
somebody's who there to help you ifI'm if I'm in, if somebody's trying
to rob me on an urban hikeand bike trail, I'm gonna call a
law man to come help me.If yeah, not a lawyer. What

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about the judge and his little gimmickas this big old gavel. Yeah,
now we're talking big plastic gavel andthe one kind of like GALLAGHERY used to
use to smash a watermelon. Doyou even know who Gallaghery? Is now
okay. He's a former comedian andhis his bit, his hook. At

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the end of every performance, hewould brand all the people in the front
five or six rows would grab theplastic sheeting they brought with them because he
would put a watermelon on a footstoolor on a stool like a barstool,
a wooden barstool, and smash itwith a big, giant mallet. Yeah,

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I was impressive and very messy.I'm sure I would. I would
not have wanted to clean up afterthat guy. I really wouldn't. The
National Spelling b Finals are tonight.Uh pop quiz will I've got one,
two, three, four, fivewords here that actually kids have one on
over the years, And honestly,I don't think there's any one of these

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words that you can't spell. Picka number one to five and spell the
word. Oh man, okay,let's go with. Let's go with.
Let's start number five. You can'tpossibly lose any of these. The the
word is luge. Lose. Youknow what that is? Yes, okay,
spell it luge correct. You haveto say it afterwards. Loge lug

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elge okay. Number the hardest oneon the entire list. NAC nac K
and ac K you win. Youwin the spelling B if you're up against
the one are the fifth grader sixthgraders? I don't know. I was
kind of spelling B one time,and in the fifth grade it was I
yeah, and as a as aword smith, if you will. There's

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a game I'm playing right now calledWords something. I don't remember exactly what
it is, but I am learningthat in the English language there are words
that are so obscure that no onewould ever use them, and yet they
pop up as real words in thisgame. So I'm learning a lot.

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I'm learning that you can pretty muchthrow up a handful of letters at the
wall and whatever sticks, you're probablyable to make six or seven words out
of them. It's fascinating, butalso a little bit of the word that
I went out on. No hystericalhyst e r I c al, I
forgot the eye? Did you reallyhysterical? YEA hysterical? Yeah? Yeah,

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you don't throw in that extra syllable. You gotta be real careful of
that, all right. I sawsomething on Facebook yesterday that really really made
me pause, and we're flect.The man who delivered the message opened with
a very simple statement that the climateis getting warmer. Okay, climate's getting
warmer. Then he paused, ifI recall exactly correctly, I'm not sure

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anyway, and then he added,since when, And that is really important.
Since when? Because afterward he madesome very interesting observations dating back through
history. I don't recall the exactpoints in time, but in a nutshell,
what he what he explained is thatif you look at the Earth's current

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temperature against the numbers saved from threehundred years ago, and I'm just grabbing
these numbers to make a point,but there is there is solid evidence within
his is what he said on thepiece. I saw you go back three
hundred years, for example, andthe Earth was actually maybe a degree or

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too cooler than it is now.But then you go back six hundred years
and it's a little warm, warmer. And then you go a little farther
back and it's cooler again, andthen a little farther back than that,
it's warmer again. The point is, as most people realize and recognize that
the Earth's temperature has and always willfluctuate, the notion that we the people

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of the United States of America orany other country or or all the countries
of the world at once can stopthat change by driving electric cars or building
windmills. It's just so remarkably Ifind it arrogant and egotistical, and if
you look at the evidence, kindof wrong. The Earth gets warm and

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then it cools, and then itwarms again, and then it cools again,
sometimes the greater extreme than others.We're actually in a period where the
fluctuations are relatively minor a degree ortwo in any direction over centuries, so
I don't think it's going to getup to one hundred and five in Antarctic

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anytime soon. Ah. Do Iwant to talk about Lizzo will Or do
I want to talk about Bernie Sanders? What would you like to hear about?
Um? Neither? Okay, thenI'm gonna put you back to work.
Get off the phone. Another pointlesspole, or one thing leads to

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another, one thing leads to another. Oh, this one's kind of saucy,
little racy. You gotta be careful. City in the Netherlands had to
put up signs at a nude beach, okay, reminding people that while they
can be on the beach unclothed,how can I put this, they are

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not allowed to take that one stepfurther and respond to the feelings they get
when they see other people clothed.So yeah, just fill in the blanks
as you will, but you justcan't. You can go on the beach.
It's a nude beach, but that'sall it is. It's not any

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other kind of beach. I wantto get away from that. That's kind
of weird. City of Mulberry,Florida putting up dozens of signs warning drivers
about smartphone zombies, essentially pedestrians,they say, who are engrossed in their
phones and are not paying attention tocars around. Then this comes less than

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forty eight hours after a man inSugarland was struck and killed by a vehicle
down there, very close to myhome, within one mile of my home,
and I was actually I had togo to the grocery store and saw
the emergency vehicles over there. Thiswas even hours after the fact. But
when there's a fatality involved in onthe road ways of any kind, they

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have to stick around and take alot of measurements and do a lot of
investigation to determine exactly how whatever happenedhappened, and why if it's possible to
figure it out. But I thinkin most cases the ultimate answer is going
to be distraction somehow, some way. And yeah, I already lectured all

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you guys about that yesterday, andI'm not going to do it again today
because frankly, I think this audienceis smart enough not to be staring at
their phones. Next time you're ata red light, look over at people
on either side of you and aroundyou, and start counting how many of
them are on their phones. They'revery easy to spot once the light turns
green, because they're still sitting therefifteen seconds after it turned green, and

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don't move until somebody hanks at them. Frustrating, very frustrating, and it's
so unnecessary. Oh already, Will, all right, I'm gonna I'll give
you one more real quick. Iwant to know whether you think this is
a totally cheap skate move, willor or smart and thrifty. A woman

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saved the leftovers from her sister's wedding, froze them, and then serve them
at her own wedding eight months later. Cheap skate or brilliant? Um?
I mean, how did the foodtaste? I think? I think it's
kind of a kind of bush league. Honestly, that's eight months later.

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You're gonna let that stuff sitting therewas I don't know, but i'd be
kind of I need more information,you know, Well, I don't have
any more information there to go toour website where we find these things and
click on full story, which it'sjust not worth it. No, that's
a messed up move. I likethe woman who decided to use chilies because

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she got it so much less expensivelyas seventy five bucks ahead from the caterer
and chilies. If you're buying fora hundred people, I bet they'd serve
them all for fifteen, sixteen,eighteen bucks, way cheaper. All right,
we got to get out of here. It's our Heart Radio Access Day,
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get back. If you want tolook at all of those, go to
iHeartRadio Access Day dot com. Allright, welcome back fifty plus. Hope
your day is going as well asit probably is for patience of my next
guest, doctor Andrew Doau, froma late health welcome back, doc,
thank you, thanks for having me. So let's get right into something that's
kind of cutting edge right now,this regenerative therapy. Everybody's talking about that,

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but I'm pretty sure only a handfulof people really understand the term even
what exactly falls under that umbrella,so that the common name for it,
everyone calls it stem cells, whichactually is something especially in Texas, we
can't use those words. We haveto be in a research, big methodist
hospital, things like that, Butthat's basically what we're talking about. Something

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that comes from newborn's, these newgrowth factors and little things called exosomes.
But what they do is when weput them into a joint, they tell
our body, hey, this doesn'tlook right. Here's what you gotta do,
and it helps you heal chronic injuries, you know, life limiting things,
and get you back to being competitive. They're really kind of like the

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building blocks of rejuvenation, and they'rein us apparently from birth. In right,
Yes, so we have these cellsin ourselves and a lot of places
will say, hey, we'll useyour own cells, take them out,
put them back in your body.Unfortunately that doesn't work. If if we
do that with my cells. Assoon as they go back in my body,
they became forty eight year old cells, even though they look like these

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stem cells. So they're into skuise, are they. Yeah, what we
want to use is the newborn stuff. Wow, and that's I guess that's
tough. You get Are are youretrieving? Where does it? It's not
grown in buckets? Obviously, wheredo you what's the source of this?
Now? This is normal term andat a late we only use us born
full term babies. They want ofu c section babies, so they have

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to have normal DNA and everything likethat. And it doesn't hurt the child
then obviously. No, it comesmainly from the placenta and the Okay,
oh yeah, yeah, I haveread about that. So that's it's no
threat to anybody. It's no harmdone. It's just retrieving cells that otherwise
would have been just discarded as medicalwaste, right. Yeah. Absolutely.
And a lot of people out theremight remember when they had their kids that

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they were offered to store their cordblood case they needed it. Nowadays they'll
buy it from you. Oh mygosh. So and so if you were
to use that, let's say thatthat I saved that and then twenty years
later my son had a problem.Those cells could be used to rejuvenate him
and they wouldn't clearly they're not twentyyear old cells at that point. But

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no, no, they will actjust like newborn cells for him. Wow,
So nothing comes without side effect.Are there any patient who really shouldn't
maybe consider this type of procedure?Yeah, So the thing we want to
look for a certain patients that have, like especially with joints, mechanical problems.
There's a bone spur or there's youknow, there's something that won't be

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changed by these What this is thesweet spot for these things are like ligament
and tendon injuries. Things we neverhad a real good solution. My son
had one of those. Actually hehad to get cadaver tissue to take care
of that and it worked out verywell. But that's something that stem cells
probably could have worked on. Yes, and there's a lot of surgeons out
there doing ACL replacements on these athletes, and when they're all finished, they're

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injecting some of these regenerative medicines intothe joint and then sewing them back up.
Overall results good enough that everybody's excitedabout this and wants to keep looking
farther. Very excited everybody but thetotal joint people. Yeah, yeah,
they might feel stepped on. Justa teeny mid doctor Andrew dou from a
laid health on fifty plus. Imade it pass through your website a few

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days ago, as I always dobefore any interview, and as a guy,
my eyes are drawn again to thatprostate artery embolization deal. I talk
about it in my endorsements, explainedwhat that is and what it accomplishes.
So what we do is, insteadof cutting up the prostate and trying to
open up the channel, we gointo the arteries that feed the prostate.

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We plug those up, and someof the prostate cells die and the prostate
shrink, shrinks, and it justjust right back to normal. Maybe throw
a few stem cells in there andsee what happens. Now we're going for
death there. We don't want to. Yeah, you're trying to rejuvenate the
thing. That would be kind ofcounterproductive with it. What percentage of men
would you think probably have at leastsome symptoms, especially seeing your guys of

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an enlarged prostate, but they're justhesitant to do anything about it, and
so they put it off and putit off. I'd probably say at least
thirty of men over the age ofsixty five have some level of prostate and
those symptoms are trouble starting your urinestream a week, extreme, having this

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urgency that you got to go allthe time and only a little bit comes
out, you know, getting upall night long, things like that.
I watch a lot of late nighttelevision that targets men, and I see
a lot of ads for supplements thatare supposed to help with all that deny
of work. Not really. Theonly one that was shown to be slightly
of benefit was your HIMBE and that'sbecause it's similar to prescription medications we have,

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but it's very weak. Somebody's interestedin something they saw on your website,
say today, they went and lookedat it right now. Today they
find something that grabs their attention.What's the average wait time to get an
appointment and map out a treatment plan? Usually not one in a few days,
a maximum a week. We havemyself and my partner, doctor Newberry.
You know, one of us alwayshas open slots where you can get

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in and come see us. Moneyalways matters with anything medical, you know
that, and some of this stuffis covered sum's not. What about the
self therapy? Is it covered atall now? Fortunately, right now it's
not covered. Okay. And whendo you do you foresee that coming or
is it just going to take awhile for the research, for the for
the money to catch up with theresearch. Yeah, I think it's going

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to take a while for the research. We have some good stuff coming,
stuff comes out all the time.But like I said, you know,
there's there's big, big money Iplay here, especially with total joints.
So oh, it's gonna be abattle them all upset? Do we know?
Heaven forbid? We should do somethingreally good for patience. If it
upsets somebody else, I'll get offof that and leave you alone. What's

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the biggest mistake seniors make, youthink when it comes to addressing health concerns.
I think they wait too long,Okay. I think they minimize things,
you know, especially you know,not to be sexist, but women
they're taking well, they're so goodat taking care of everybody else. They're
good at getting their husband in wow. Yeah, but they don't take care
of themselves a lot. I don'teven think about that. Yeah, because

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my wife is kind of that way. She has some issues but she's always
keeping an eye on myself. Idon't think she cares about ever die I'm
king, of course, but sheis so concerned with my son's health that
she sometimes lets things of her owngo. I didn't think about that before
because most of the guys I knoware like me, and they just we
just hate going to the doctor.Absolutely, it's a waste of time.

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It seems like fortunately I got oneat home. So yeah, that's true.
So when when we're looking at comingto you versus waiting a little longer,
that waiting period could end up onelocking us into a hospital stay,
couldn't it. It could? Andyou know, success is always better,
always higher, the earlier you catchanything a stage one, stage two,

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Yeah, all that with cancers.Holy cow. Yeah, you don't want
to be you don't want to hearyou're at stage four. This is not
a highest score, No wins,there's no price for that, all right?
And what else? What else wouldyou think that most people don't realize
you do in an office environment thatthey might think has to get them into
the hospital. Yeah. A lotof the patients who have trouble walk,

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you know, people who can't evenget out and get a block without their
legs giving them pain. A lotof those patients think, hey, I
gotta go to hospital, I gottahave a surgery to open that stuff up.
But we can do that right inthe outpatient setting, very quick,
very easy, and get you backto normal even faster. And is it
still like I talk about it beingmaybe a couple of hours in the office

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and a very relatively short recovery period. Huh. Absolutely. The great thing
about these new treatments is that they'rewhat we call minimally invasive. So everything
will start with a very tiny littleneedle and we never worker, we never
use anything bigger than usually about thesize of the head of the pen,
and you can recover from it thatmuch faster. Stuff just across the board

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now similar, yeah, mostly yeah, yeah, so you're just making tiny
little holes instead of I had afriend when I was in college playing baseball,
and we were roommates actually for twosemesters, and this guy had a
scar on his knee from like sixinches above the need to about six below
and that this was back in thenineteen seventies, so that was the only
option. From now, you guyswere able to do, like even the

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artery embolization that you do. Itdoesn't require much of a cut at all,
does it. Now, it's probablya sixteenth of an inch. We
don't even suituate clothes, we youknow, just put a dress band aid
on it and walk off. Andmost of my patients tell me they have
to look for the scar to findit. Oh wow, what is the
most common What do you do mostoften in that office? Years? So

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our top three diseases we treat ouruterine fibroids for the women, the prostate
which is analogous to the uterus,and the vein disease. You know,
that's the three things I talk aboutmost when I'm doing your endorsements. It
really and that's just Lucky's It seemedto make very good sense. Now,
what about the backache, the headache, the joint pain, all of that.

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How how does that play into whereyou are as a provider. So
we're interventional radiologists, which means wecan put a needle anywhere in the body
and either take something out or putsomething in. So all these joint pains.
We have the regenerative stuff, butthen we also have the traditional stuff
where we're putting steroids in your backor your neck, you know, or

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other joints to kind of help youwith the pain there. So the headache
stuff, we have a little treatment. It's very easy. It doesn't really
cure migraines, but it makes themless frequent and less intense. That's a
big victory for a lot of migrainesufferers, holy cow, just to have
fewer of them. My wife suffersfrom migraines, and they can be triggered

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by two or three different things.And when she gets one, if it
could be of a shorter duration andmaybe not come back the next time,
so quickly she'd she'd ring a bellfor you, Holy cow. All right,
So all I gotta do is callyou or come by there or look
at the website a latehealth dot comright correct. That makes it very easy.

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Thank you so much, doctor Andrew. Thanks for I appreciate your time.
You bet all right? That'll upfor this segment. Yeah. They
sure don't make them like they usedto. That's why every few months we
wash him, check his fluids,and spring on a fresh coat of wax.
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to

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fifty plus. Thanks for listening.I certainly do appreciate it, will,
and I do. I'm Doug,He's will. And now what have we
got about a year and a halfunder our belts now together? Is that
about right? Only? Cal Ah? Have you? What did you do
anything exciting over the Labor Day weekend? I didn't. I don't believe I've
asked you yet this week? Yeah, I did some exciting thing, would

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you do? You know? Italk about it, well, not really
illegal, not illegal, but kindof while never mind, never mind,
all right, let's go back.I mentioned Lizzo earlier, and I'm gonna
go back to this on Twitter herrecently, Lizzo pointed out that if people
don't quit criticizing her size, shejust made leave the entertainment and music worlds

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to spend time on a farm withher manage. Just disappear from entertainment and
music. She said so in farmore colorful language, but that was the
point she made. First of all, I'm never going to judge somebody right
away on their size, but prettymuch every adult on the planet now knows
that being significantly obese is a serioushealth risk. The issue I have with

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someone who's deliberately that size, andI'm not saying she is. But I'm
talking about other people who just madebad choices without concern for the consequences.
Is that they're ultimately going to strainour healthcare system, and that's going to
cost me money and cost you money. People get big for lots of reasons,

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medical conditions, medications, mental healthyshoes, lots of things that probably
aren't their fault. And I've gotno quarrel with them. I get it.
But if somebody's that way because theyjust put they can't put down the
spoon after that first gallon of blueBlue bel homemade vanilla, I'm salibating just

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thinking about that. Actually, that'sa different issue, and that issue ultimately
impacts more people than just a personwho's overweight. I'm not sure whether whether
Lizzo's gonna make good on her planto pack up and leave this the lifestyle
that she's enjoys now, which ispretty I'm sure it's pretty fun to be
Lizzo right now. I wouldn't doubtit. She traveling and entertaining and doing

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what she loves to do. Andtalent is Talent doesn't come in just one
size. Talent comes in all sizes. That's why different actresses, different performers.
They're all different sizes, they alldo different things, and that's what
makes them uniquely entertaining to us.So for Lizzo ends her move into a

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farm would be a tremendous loss forthose who were not even sure quite who
I'm talking about right now, thenwe'll just hang with our people. I
saw an interview of Bernie Sanders.It's from a while back in which Bill
Maher who he goes either way.Sometimes he goes way out left, sometimes

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he comes back way right. It'svery He's a very interesting man in personality,
but I always enjoy listening to whathe's got to say. He asked
Bernie Sanders whether Bernie preferred equity orequality, and even the far left tilted.
Bernie Sanders said he preferred equality.And there wasn't much more to that

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conversation on the particular cut I sawor heard. But here's how it comes
down. There's a very simple distinctionbetween the two. Equality is what gives
everybody a fair chance from the beginningto improve themselves on the way to what,
for those who excel, will bea better future. Equity, on

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the other hand, is a processthat guarantees that everybody will finish at the
same level, regardless of the effortthey put forth or what they bring to
the table. The equality is whatbrings us together. It encourages every one
of it. Like that kid whoI just talk about, This kid who

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worked as a garbage collector for yearsand recently graduated from Harvard Law school.
Hard work. That kid put ina ton of work and it paid off
big time. But if you handpeople jobs just because of how they look,
or how they think, or howthey identify, regardless of their qualifications,

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what you do is drive a wedgebetween people, and you discourage effort.
And without effort from everybody, somebody'shanded a high powered job base mostly
on their race or gender or whatever. You've just ignored a large bank of
more qualified people to do that job. And for any business or government to

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succeed, they have to have theright people in the right positions. There
are people serving in really high profilepositions right now in this government who had
either little or no experience in thosefields when they were hired or appointed or
whatever, and look at the jobsthey're doing. Equity is favoritism, it's

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fascism, really, and it's highlydivisive because it hands opportunities to people who
don't qualify for that opportunity. Equalityis opportunity on steroids, straight across the
board, a means by which theperson who works the hardest to earn something
can earn it can achieve that goal. Imagine running a professional sports team,

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okay, and being told that youhad to hire specific athletes based not at
all on ability or performance, buton their racer, gender, or any
other thing besides ability. No,you want the best players on the field.
You want the best players on thecourt, on the ice, wherever,
whatever support you're playing on the pitch, the best person for that job,

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no matter who they are. That'show you you build something strong.
That's how you build a team.That's how you build a country. That's
how you build a company. Speakingof companies, the retail industry is suffering
greatly right now from something that's that'sgot a name that wasn't something before,

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and that's organized retail crime. Storythat broke only a couple of hours ago.
Hours ago I saw shine a brightlight on a growing criminal phenomenon in
this country. These are incidents thatoccur in pretty much any store now that
carries high end merchant, whether that'spurses or power tools. Home Depot investigated

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more than four hundred serious incidents ofbig organized steps, big thefts, people
coming in and stealing tens of thousandsof dollars worth of stuff, typically during
business hours. They just come in, load up carts and then make sure
their masks are on so they can'tbe identified. And who looks at somebody

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in a mask anymore? Really?Three four more people in a restore load
carts and baskets with the best stuff, then just march right out the front
door to a getaway vehicle. Anybodywho interferes with them is typically beaten or
threatened, or worse. A fewpeople have even died trying to stop these
seas. I actually witnessed a similarevent at Dick Sporting Goods a while but

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I think I may have mentioned thatlast week young man and woman, each
with an armload of expensive clothes,just jogged right out the door and into
a waiting car at Home Depot.At the hardware stores, it's Howard tools.
It's spools of wire that can beworth thousands of dollars. In the
malls, it's designer luggage and pursesand jewelry. They're all on the thieves

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radar to the tune of tens ofbillions of dollars now being recorded just routinely
every year. It keeps getting worse. And what happens to the crook,
Well, here's what happened to oneof them, when a twenty six year
old San Francisco guy was killed onthe job at a hardware store. This

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guy actually he chased the bad guysout, but they got in the car
and I guess, or close tothe car whatever, he just disengaged.
He didn't want anymore any part ofit, so he goes back in the
store. He was gonna let themgo. And then the woman who was
involved in this, it was aman and a woman doing it. She

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came back into the store and shotthat man dead. And that woman's charges
in San Francisco were reduced to Idon't remember exactly what the terminology was,
but basically for going back into thatstore and killing that man for absolutely no
reason, a premeditated act of violencethat took his life twenty six year old

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guy. Her charges were reduced towhere she'll probably get no worse than five
years and might just go scot free, I don't know. And that according
to the story, is thanks toSan Francisco District attorney woman named Pamela Price,
who ran on a ticket of beingsoft on crime. Basically, these

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are just misunderstood people. They're notbad people. Tell that to that twenty
six year old guy's mom. Isaw her interviewed. It was it was
hard to watch if you are ahiker. How much time do I have?
Well, two minutes, two minutes, two and a half, twenty
seconds, okay, I can workwith that. I want to go back

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to my list. Then I wantto see if you can help me find
something really fun and make something ofit. I had here before, another
pointless poll I have did any ofus really believe this? And I'll throw
in now you see me, nowyou see me. So this guy in

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Singapore calls one of his he ownsa convenience story okay, and could have
happened anywhere really when we get tothe end of this one, he puts
in security cameras, but he doesn'tknow how to use them, so he
gets one of the employees to comein and teach him how to use the
surveillance cameras that he spent a lotof money on it installed and then just

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a short time later, he catchesthe person who taught him to use the
cameras stealing from his business. Howdumb was the person who taught him to
read those cameras and to look atthem and see what's going on to have

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then turned right around and thieved hisor her way out of the store.
And there you are right on camera. Yeah, I see you. Not
very smart speaking of robbing people,twenty five year old guy in North Carolina.
I would have seen and noticed thisimmediately. Apparently some people didn't.

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This guy goes into a store androbs them, stole three hundred bucks,
and what he's caring? Did youever play duck Hunt Will video game?
You didn't? Have you ever heardof it? Yeah, okay, you've
heard of it. I actually formy son, I bought that game a
long time ago. And there's alittle it's about two feet long, a
little plastic toy gun. This guyspray painted this thing black and went in

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and robbed a store with it.I honestly, if I saw someone walk
in with a duck Hunt gun paintedblack, I would just reach over and
grab it and swat them in aheadwith it. So get out of my
store. That's not real. Goalaway all right, This hour has been
real. Hope you enjoyed it.We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios