February 17, 2026 • 35 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Wahid Ali about Medical Aesthetics by Angelica.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
All Right, welcome, Welcome one and all to fifty plus.
If you've never heard the show before, I hope you
finish up at whatever junction you come to to push
the button or say wow, it's the end of the show.
Already just a one hour, one hour deal. And mostly
what I try to do is a combination of education,
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entertainment and thought provocative things that will will make you
want to go look up more stuff about what I'm
talking about. I'm not gonna try to lead you down
a path. I'm not scared to give my opinions, and
I will from time to time, but the bottom line
is I just want to make sure that you guys enjoy,
enjoy the show enough to come back again tomorrow at
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the bottom of the hour. By the way, we're gonna
talk to doctor Iba. I leave from Medical Aesthetics by
Angelica about all the new, the latest and greatest trends
in dropping weight really fast and looking good, feeling good,
all of that everything now comes in a shot or
a pill. It seems like I still feel like exercising
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a good diet is gonna help as much as anything,
But there are shortcuts a lot of people are taking,
and I'm gonna get him to explain what that's all about.
Weather looks good again today through Thursday. Than a fair
chance of rain on Friday and Saturday, and by fair
I mean I believe it was a thirty percent and
a twenty percent chance on those two days, which means
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most of us won't see any rain probably, and then
sunny yet again, and a little bit cooler for a
couple of days. In other words, go ahead and keep
making your outdoors plans. They should be just fine. I
don't even know that I would be concerned enough to
put an umbrella in the car if I was going
to go play golf on Friday or Saturday, which I can't,
which I won't, by the way, But if I were
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gonna make that decision, I'd just go as if nothing
was going to be wrong, and I got a seventy
percent and an eighty percent chance of being right, don't I.
Market indicators were down a pretty good chunk early, but
are kind of in recovery mode after algorithmic selling backed off.
All still down, but not nearly so far down as
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they were around I don't know, around nine o'clock so
when I first looked gold, gold had shed one hundred
and fifty eight dollars an ounce as of a little
while ago. It's a pretty big move when you consider
how where it was yesterday that the world gold market
continued to go round and round, and even though it
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was President's Day here, so anyway, the bottom line is
down one fifty eight to four thousand, eight hundred and
eighty eight dollars an ounce, still a significant price when
you get into that stratospheric range. It's pretty much doubled
from about two years ago. It's certainly worth considering doing
something with it if you consider it a good investment
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or a good way to grab yourself some fast cash,
depending on how much you got laying around oil down
a bit, holding around sixty two dollars a barrel on
the good news that Iran is calling its talks with
our government to prevent what could be a pretty big war,
that they're calling the talks productive. Now this is aron
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we're talking about. And actually I've got more on that
that I'll get to later before I get into the
latest juicy bits. By the way, I want to thank
Captain Mike's Mike Catciotti for taking me our market president
Paul Lambert and his son Jack fishing yesterday. It was
the first time I bet, I bet in thirty years
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that I'd fished way up the ship channel. We were
up there amongst the ships, well not all the way up,
but we were nonetheless never lost sight of the Fred
Hartman Bridge, if that gives you any idea about where
we were. And it actually worked out quite well. I
had hoped to catch at least one sheep's head on crickets.
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That's a kind of a new trend and a semi secret.
There's no secret anymore. A lot of people are writing
about it and posted on Facebook about it. But I've
got a magazine assignment and I've got to get a
picture of a cricket well not being eaten by, but
having been eaten by a sheep's head, just to prove
that it works. There are a lot of the more
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I think about it and the more I read about it,
there are a lot of interesting things that people use
for bait that the average fisherman doesn't think about it.
And I'm not going to get into that much here
because it's not what this show's about. But over the
weekend I'm gonna talk some more about it for sure
over on Sports Talk seven to ninety. I needed that
one sheepshead on a cricket to get the pictures I
needed to support this story, but it didn't work out
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well day, to be correct, caught to the other three.
Our guide, my boss and his son did catch several
sheep's head along with some redfish. There was at least
one drum over the day, a couple of speckled trout.
It was a pretty good day overall. They were throwing
live shrimp, so they had the advantage over me. And
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even when I tired of trying to catch a sheep's
head on a cricket, started throwing lures. And it wasn't
until pretty much last cast. We didn't stay out till dark,
and we didn't start early. It was a very casual,
all during daylight hours fishing trip. But I finally got
a little red fish to eat a soft plastic that
I was throwing, and that made me feel better. I
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didn't get skunked. It's okay. They got to take home
plenty of fish for dinner. If you want Captain Mike's info.
By the way, he is really good with kids. He
offers a discount for first time saltwater fishermen. It's an
honor system deal, and he's really good about it. And
he just goes out and catches whatever's bite and pretty
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much sends everybody home with a few fish to eat.
I don't imagine the way he fishes. I don't imagine
he's been skunked in a lot of years, and he's
got a lot of years under his belt. I don't
want to get into all this newsy stuff, you shit,
because we're getting really close to a break. There was
one little thing though I could talk about. No, yeah,
I tell you what, I'm gonna go ahead and go
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to the break a little bit early. Is that okay
with you?
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Will? Well? All right?
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with Dougpike. Welcome back, Thanks for listening to fifty plus
on this beautiful Tuesday. So into the news. Texas age
Ken Paxton is investigating three school districts. I think it
probably should be way more for quote facilitating and failing
to keep students safe and accountable during various student protests
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against lawful immigration enforcement Paxton end quote. Paxton also said this,
and I quote again, I will not allow Texas schools
to become breeding grounds for the radical left's open borders
agenda end quote. I kind of agree. Speaking of the
State Capitals school district. By the way, Governor Greg Abbott said,
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austin asde gets taxpayer dollars to teach the subjects required
by the state, not to help students skip school to
protest our schools, he said, are for educating our children,
not for indoctrination, which has been going on so long
now by the way, that we've almost become numb to it,
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and only because of what's been going on recently, are
getting a closer look at just exactly how teachers feel
about really teaching versus how teachers feel about and not
all of them, by the way. I'm not by any means,
by any stretch, condemning all the teachers. I would say
the overwhelming majority are still there to teach and probably
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stayed in their classrooms. But that little handful of misfits,
the ones who want to make sure that all the
children know that communism is wonderful, Yeah, we might need
to step back and take a look. I'll be stunned
and disappointed, probably more the latter than the former. If
encouraging kids to walk out of schools all over our
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state in protest of the lawful law enforcement action that's
been going on, I'll be very disappointed if that doesn't
result in serious consequences for the people who stood behind
it and encouraged these kids to take days off from
school to walk up and down the street screaming and
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hollering about something that they probably really don't understand, because
if they realized how many young children have been hurt,
sexually murdered by some of these people who are being
rounded up, maybe they would have a different opinion about it.
But they've been told. I believe from what I read
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that what's going on is unlawful, that what's going on
is just wrong, and that these people haven't committed crimes,
but they have and the ones who are, and anybody
who anybody who gets you know what, I don't even
want to go there. I'm just I'm just gonna set
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back down. Just the left. They maintain that hauling kids
out of school in support of these people who are
being rounded up is somehow a good thing. It's not.
Where illegal immigrants with violent records have been arrested and removed,
crime rates in those cities and communities have plumted, it plummeted.
Just last week, I mentioned it on the show Good
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Friend of Mine, well, a business acquaintance of mine. He's
a good friend, he's a business acquaintance, and he told
me that the area where he works was before ICE
came in an absolute haven for crooks. He works late
in his office. He said, there was hardly a night
went by when somebody didn't just casually walk up and
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jiggle the door on the office to see if it
might be open. And I'm presuming goes on to the
next door, and the next and the next, until sometime
in the night he finds a door that was left
inadvertently open, and they run in there and they take
what they can. Same was happening in the parking lots
around him. Every night, break ins just to see what
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they could get out of these cars, and ice comes through,
took away the people that wanted taken away. And since then,
he said, there has not been a single incident, not
one single incident. He feels safer, he said, for the
first time in a whole lot of years. Enough of
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that for today. Aoz back in the news for somehow,
feeling the need first of all to go on a trip.
There was some other politicians she went with. I can't
remember whom, but anyway, she decided she needed to go
to the Munich Security Conference, and there, standing in front
of many members of the foreign press, she answered the
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question that, honestly, what she should have done, what she
should have done is just sat quietly in a corner
and kept her mouth shut. But when she was asked
whether she thought the US should get involved in China
or in Taiwan if China invaded Taiwan, proposed president gosh,
my poor jaw won't work proposed used presidential candidate, AOC
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spent the first twelve seconds of her answer dropping in
more uhs and ers and and spent the first twelve
seconds of that doing that more than speaking actual words.
And when she finally did speak, what she said made
absolutely no sense whatsoever. Look it up. She made Kamala
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Harris sound like Maya Angelou. Clay Travis when asked her.
When he spoke about this, harkened back to the two
thousand and seven Miss America pageant for his comment on
AOC's blather and I quote who gave the better answer
to a foreign policy question, AOC or Miss South Carolina
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end quote. Go back and look at what Miss South
Carolina said, and then compare it to what AOC said
and just about the same level of credibility. Senator Ted
Cruz responded on social media to how badly she missed
on a world history question by writing this and I quote,
tell me you don't know anything about history without saying
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you know nothing about history, end quote. And she did.
She absolutely did amazing When a California woman wore her
do I have a minute. I can do this in
a minute. Okay, good. California woman wore her Maga hat
to a cardio kickboxing class at her gym. Anybody want
to guess what happened in California or it could have
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happened in Minneapolis too, I'm sure it's a pretty easy one.
Some liberal in the class pitched a hissy fit and
demanded that she remove her cap. And when she bowed
up and said, no, the CAP's not coming off, sorry, sister,
and you're on your own. Go hug yourself and acknowledge
your feelings somewhere else. But I'm wearing my hat, she said.
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The instructor said no, she didn't have to take it off,
because free speech is just that, it's free speech, no
matter how uncomfortable it might make someone else. I'm made
uncomfortable when someone on the left says what they think,
but I don't stop them from saying it, and I
don't demand that they take off their hat. That's what
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free speech is about. The ability the right in this
country still wills giving me the sign, the snakehead sign,
snake back and forth. That's kind of a rattlesnake. If
I had more time, I'd do better. Barry Hill Baha Grill,
family run restaurant on fifty nine and Sugarland Sugar Creek
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Boulevard exit on the inbound side. Been around for thirty
something years. I've been eating there for thirty something years.
Some of the best fish tacos on the planet. My
wife and I found this place more than twenty years ago,
but close to thirty. Really, we've been in that house
thirty two and I bet you we were eating there
within I don't know as soon as we found it.
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Now it's your turn go try this. It's a casual,
family friendly restaurant. Had the same two chefs primary chefs
in the kitchen for more than a decade each, and
they churn out every day a delicious variety of traditional
text mex food and with a little twist, because hey,
if you're in there making the same thing for ten years,
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you're going to add a little something to make it
your recipe. That's what they do, and it is worth
going and eating it's all. It's as good as I've
ever had. If you're in sugar Land for the first time,
folks in the bar area on the right as you
walk in, we'll probably ask you to join them. If
you ask, if you can, and if you're not unfamiliar
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with berry Hill, do that the next time you're in
there and somebody comes in and looks around it just
to say, tell me about sugar Land, tell me what's
the best thing on the menu. I might be in
there too. If you see me in there, say hello?
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Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah. They sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back
to fifty plus. Thanks for listening, many thanks for all
that you guys do. The emails I get are fantastic.
I like that helps with the subject check out. In
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this segment, we're gonna talk about some of the latest
weight loss and wellness trends with a man who deals
with these things on a daily basis. That is doctor
wahid a leave from Medical Ascetics by Angelica.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Welcome aboard, doc, Thank you, thanks for having me my pleasure.
So you can't hardly turn on TV anymore without, at
least over the past couple of years without seeing a
commercial for a weight loss drug. It used to be shots,
Now it's pills to how do those How do those
drugs work?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yes, sir, so the main idea is that there are
the main classes of gl P one agon a drug,
and they basically functioned. They were actually initially created for
diabetic treatment, and now the realm has gotten into obviously
weight loss, a very effective weight loss tool, and also
for other patients with heart disease, renal disease, or kidney disease,
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I should say, and it expanded into those RUMs as well.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I got you. And and by the way, Uh, if
you don't know doctor Ellie, and most of you probably don't,
he's a board certified internal medicine physician. Uh completed his school.
Oh my gosh, man, you've got this list of credentials
that's incredible. Holy. I'll get to them. It's sometime when
I got like five minutes to kill I'll just read
your Yeah, you're you're good under or how how safe
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are these things?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So they've been proven to be quite safe. The FDA
is a very rigorous, you know thing method. You have
to go through all these rigorous trials, and it's not
just that you know, they go through multiple phases where
you know they're required to pass obviously human study. They
first start with animal studies and that's how these medications
were tested initially. But they've gone on to the approval phase,
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so they're They've been around for a long time. Actually,
some of the GLP one drugs have been around for
more than a couple of decades. Now they're just now
realizing the potential really for multiple uses, including weight loss,
which is the biggest one right now.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
As a fisherman, I know about high tide and low tide,
but what what in the world are semi glue type
semi glue, tide retard too tide and teptide. Don't laugh
at the way I pronounce those A first time.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I said, you've got them down pretty well. They're hear
for me too. I think you know. The main thing
you've heard of all the different trade names for the
drugs leto zempic with go v and so the semi
glue type for example, that was one of the first
ones on the scene. Like I mentioned, there been around,
you know, for for decades, but semic glue tide was
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a big one that started tapping into the weight loss phenomenon.
And that's actually just a one receptor drug, the GLP ones.
Then you get into turzepetide, which has two receptors which
it works on, and then the red two product you mentioned,
that's actually the more the most recent one that's having
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the very exciting to look at the three receptors and
working on those for all the different drugs, so more
effective weight loss we're seeing with turzepetite versus semic gluetide. Obviously,
you know, it's a it's a big industry, and for
insurance purposes, you'll see them approving it for diabetes treatment,
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and then it's started to get into if you have
a comorbid condition meaning high blood pressure, high cholesterol, then
you start to see the approval for some of those
by insurance. But basically sometimes the cash cash paid type
of situation as well.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Doctor Rahite ale on fifty plus from Medical Aesthetics by Angelica.
Let's talk a little bit about hormones and what are
the symptoms of hormone imbalance in senior women?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
So, very good question. So you'll see there's it's a
variety of things, a lot of systemic complaints that What
I mean by that is you'll you'll get things like
weight loss, you can have you know, decreased libido, you
can have hair loss, decreased energy. So what we focus
on is obviously testing the levels of those hormones and
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then replacing them as those come back. And so we
have a very sophisticated testing panel nowadays, more so than
when I trained more than twenty five years ago. Is
that you have these tests that are readily that can
be done very quickly, and then results acted upon after that.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
How much how much effort does it take? No, I
don't want to go to this. What about men in
their hormone deficiencies? I guess testosterone that's the big one.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Is there anything else that you guys looking forward when
you do that blood test?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Uh, there's it's a variety of things. You can you
can tailor it to what a patient's symptoms are. So
if they describe, you know, a decrease energy, weight gain,
all those things you know we beyond just the GLP
ones for the weight gain. Hormonal imbalance is has a
big role in this and we can actually tailor it
to patient's symptoms if you so, if you present with
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a certain set of symptoms, we know what to test
in that in that regard. So another one is thyroid
for example, but if you if you have an off
balance thyroid, U certainly that warrants treatment and a very
simple thing to do just to check in to actually
know when you go through the questions on what a
patient is suffering from. Obviously that's where you tailor your
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testing and also treatments after that.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Before I get before I run out of time, I
want you to explain why it's so important to have
anything and everything like this, like what you guys do
at Angelica, have it done by a professional, So.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Very a great point. So those the things that there's
so many, like you mentioned at the beginning to segment,
there's so many different avenues to obtain you know, some
of these medications. What is worrisome obviously if you don't
get this done by someone licensed to do it, is
that you can be treated in the wrong way and
there's a lot of adverse side effects that can happen
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if you get on testosterone therapy, for example, replacement therapy
and don't have proper levels checked obviously go through a
thorough history and a comprehensive exam. Those can lead to
things a serious as stroke, hard attack, all those different
things to stem from treatment that's not directed by a
licensed professionals. So that's what I would advocate strongly, is
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that any patient that any person that you know, comes
across these medications. GLP one is another example, right if
you have to, if you don't get the proper history,
if a patient's personal history or family history of medullary
thyroid cancer for example, that can lead to obviously adverse
and unwanted content quinces beyond what you're just seeking treatment for.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Doctor Vaheed Ali on fifty plus here from Medical Aesthetics
by Angelica. I know that the two locations promote a
sixteen week wellness program. Is that a good solid length
of time where you're really going to start seeing results
And I'm not talking about something where you can just
take a shot and lose twenty pounds overnight. Sixteen weeks
is that a pretty good window to really start seeing
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some results and feeling better.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Absolutely, I think, you know, let's just start with the
GLP ones. For instance, you start to notice, you know,
weight loss pretty it's a pretty pronounced weight loss if
you stay on the treatment. Obviously we advocate you know,
diet and exercise regiment as well. That's a that's part
of the program is that it's not just a shot
like you mentioned, it's a very comprehensive program. So in
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addition to that, over that timeframe you can check home
adal levels. There's other other therapies that we offer that
can be part of the comprehensive program, and that definitely
for you. From a to that length of time, you
certainly see we will suddenly see results.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Really appreciate your time, doctor Waheed. A leave from medical
Aesthetics by Angelica. You've heard me talking about them. Get
in there, make an appointment and maybe you'll be lucky
enough to see the doc. That's you know. I know
you're a busy guy, man, I know you are. All right,
Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Today, No, thank you so much for having me. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Doug all my pleasure. By Bay. All right, we got
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I do. I do. From a Houston Chronicle online story
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a day or so ago comes word of a new
concept in living space that may bridge a long time
gap and affordability for young people. It's called co living.
For now, somebody ought to come up with a better name,
I think, really something more catchy. Anyway, So here's how
it works. You got one roof, you got three stories,
potentially four if this ever catches on, all of which
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are basically that the upper floors. However many there will
be are a bedroom and a bathroom about it. Maybe
a little sitting area if you go full on fancy
in these things, but they're very limited space, and they
share a kitchen and probably like a gathering area where
the main TV will be, so you can go down
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there and watch a movie with everybody, or watch whatever
you want with the Olympics, whatever, football games. And I'm
not ten people leasing bedrooms and bathrooms sharing these other areas.
You better before you sign that lease or before you
buy a room in one of those. If that's how
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they go, more condo than apartment, you better be darn
sure that you can get along with nine other people.
By the way, some of whom three of them may
move out the first week they're there, and now you
gotta totally get along with somebody else. That's gonna be tough.
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That's gonna be tough. You can't leave eight leave it
for eight or ten months and then come back either.
I'm sure, it's not easy for anybody. I mean, how
are you gonna find nine strangers that you can get
along with. I admire anybody who could make that work.
I really do, I really do. But it's still a
long ways away from being nearly so attractive as an
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apartment of your own where at least even though you
can hear the neighbors doing whatever they're doing at whatever
time of day or night, and you can hear it
very clearly. If they're on top of you, You hear
the footsteps, if they're left, right, front, back or under you,
hear the noises whatever they may be. So it's interesting,
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but I'm not I wouldn't invest money in it. I
may be turned into the crazy guy who didn't invest
in something before it hit a million dollars a share,
could have bought it at a dollar. Now it's at
a million. I don't think these tiny things are gonna
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just on a like kind of just pushed on something
about drones, and it's called the model I looked at
it anyways, called the JX six, a drone and in
a nutshell, it's just an old school life ring. Basically,
the prototype probably was an old school life ring to
which was a fixed for good, powerful little drone motors,
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and what they're using them for the actual commercial model
is life saving. Obviously, they can get that thing to
somebody who's in the water, even a far distance away,
much much faster than a lifeguard on a surfboard or
even I would say that that drone can get there
(30:50):
before the jet skie can get there, and that's incredibly
important when somebody's about to go underwater for the last time,
you get flotation to them. I have. It's off to
the people that make these things. It's pricey, Okay, it's
a pricey thing. I want to say it was about
six or seven thousand dollars for the commercial model that
would be bought by actual lifeguard companies and crews. Pricey,
(31:15):
but it doesn't cost as much as a funeral and
it doesn't hurt as bad either. Oh my goodness, let
me go over here. I want to talk about this woman. No,
I'll leave that alone. I'll leave that alone. From the
tiny state of Rhode Island, a tragic event came about yesterday.
(31:37):
It was the result of a domestic violence incident from
a while back. A family was at a high school
hockey game when the shooter fifty six year old man
who for years now has identified as a woman, and
ended up being divorced by his wife for that and
other reasons. That's not the only reason she divorced him,
but she just didn't agree with that and that was
(31:58):
her prerogative. He shows up at the hockey game, shoots her,
shoots a couple of his kids, and I believe one
of those children may have died, or he may have
hit someone else inadvertently, and then he turned the gun
on himself. I feel very deeply sorry for those kids.
Holy col I'm not sure anybody can get over seeing
(32:19):
what they had to see. I just I pray for them.
I really do. You should too, if you're a prayerful person.
That's got to be one of the most horrific things
I've ever heard or seen. And I don't know why
this continues to happen, but it kind of does, kind
of does. In Olympics News, got a couple of minutes
(32:39):
still perfect. In Olympic News. I watched last night as
Elana Myers Taylor she's forty one years old. She won
gold in Milan and became the oldest person to earn
gold in Winter Olympics. Her event, the Mono bob that's
a one person bob sled, is really physically and tough
(33:02):
on any athlete. Any I got an actual I got
to chant the chance to make a run down the
Bob's led course at Park City years and years ago
on a media trip up there, and it was one
of the most exhilarating things I've ever done. There's videos,
It's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Really.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Colin Jost from Saturday Night Live took a ride down
down the Olympic bob sled run with a professional, a
guy who actually does that for a living, and all
the way down if he if you did a drinking
game of taking a drink, taking a shot every time
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he says, oh my god on the way down, you
would be in an alcohol induced coma before they finished
that one minute run. I don't think you could pour
them and drink them that fast. It's hilarious. Laura Nolty,
By the way, a German earned silver, and another American,
Kaylee Armbrewster Humphries, got the bronze. Two out of three
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inn't bad. I watched Where's the other one that I
had here about the Olympics, So here it is. I've
heard some talk recently about how just how un un
amateur ish. I guess it is word the Olympic athletes
are now. The Olympic athletes now are anything but just
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anything but amateurs. And that started all the way back
in nineteen ninety two when the US sent a team
they called it the Dream Team, sent a squad of
NBA players to competing men's basketball and just absolutely mode
over the competition forever, change the games. And since then,
thirty two years later, I'm not sure that there are
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any true amateurs competing in Milan, Courtina, or how many,
if any, there will be when the Summer Games returned
to Los Angeles in twenty twenty eight. World turns on money,
and it takes a lot of money these days to
develop elite athletes. And unless they train every day, unless
they don't have to worry about renting food and the
finest gear available and coaches and trainers and all that.
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Without all that expensive stuff, they can't compete. That's not
very new either. It's really it's been going on even
farther back than the Dream Team, China's been sending over
children basically that they handpick when they're a little bitty
to do all this, and they're good at what they do.
Uh Will says, we're out of time. I guess we're
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out of time. I'll see it tomorrow. Thank you all
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All Right, welcome, Welcome one and all to fifty plus.
If you've never heard the show before, I hope you
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the bottom of the hour. By the way, we're gonna
talk to doctor Iba. I leave from Medical Aesthetics by
Angelica about all the new, the latest and greatest trends
in dropping weight really fast and looking good, feeling good,
all of that everything now comes in a shot or
a pill. It seems like I still feel like exercising
(01:52):
a good diet is gonna help as much as anything,
But there are shortcuts a lot of people are taking,
and I'm gonna get him to explain what that's all about.
Weather looks good again today through Thursday. Than a fair
chance of rain on Friday and Saturday, and by fair
I mean I believe it was a thirty percent and
a twenty percent chance on those two days, which means
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most of us won't see any rain probably, and then
sunny yet again, and a little bit cooler for a
couple of days. In other words, go ahead and keep
making your outdoors plans. They should be just fine. I
don't even know that I would be concerned enough to
put an umbrella in the car if I was going
to go play golf on Friday or Saturday, which I can't,
which I won't, by the way, But if I were
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gonna make that decision, I'd just go as if nothing
was going to be wrong, and I got a seventy
percent and an eighty percent chance of being right, don't I.
Market indicators were down a pretty good chunk early, but
are kind of in recovery mode after algorithmic selling backed off.
All still down, but not nearly so far down as
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they were around I don't know, around nine o'clock so
when I first looked gold, gold had shed one hundred
and fifty eight dollars an ounce as of a little
while ago. It's a pretty big move when you consider
how where it was yesterday that the world gold market
continued to go round and round, and even though it
(03:18):
was President's Day here, so anyway, the bottom line is
down one fifty eight to four thousand, eight hundred and
eighty eight dollars an ounce, still a significant price when
you get into that stratospheric range. It's pretty much doubled
from about two years ago. It's certainly worth considering doing
something with it if you consider it a good investment
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or a good way to grab yourself some fast cash,
depending on how much you got laying around oil down
a bit, holding around sixty two dollars a barrel on
the good news that Iran is calling its talks with
our government to prevent what could be a pretty big war,
that they're calling the talks productive. Now this is aron
(04:03):
we're talking about. And actually I've got more on that
that I'll get to later before I get into the
latest juicy bits. By the way, I want to thank
Captain Mike's Mike Catciotti for taking me our market president
Paul Lambert and his son Jack fishing yesterday. It was
the first time I bet, I bet in thirty years
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that I'd fished way up the ship channel. We were
up there amongst the ships, well not all the way up,
but we were nonetheless never lost sight of the Fred
Hartman Bridge, if that gives you any idea about where
we were. And it actually worked out quite well. I
had hoped to catch at least one sheep's head on crickets.
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That's a kind of a new trend and a semi secret.
There's no secret anymore. A lot of people are writing
about it and posted on Facebook about it. But I've
got a magazine assignment and I've got to get a
picture of a cricket well not being eaten by, but
having been eaten by a sheep's head, just to prove
that it works. There are a lot of the more
(05:07):
I think about it and the more I read about it,
there are a lot of interesting things that people use
for bait that the average fisherman doesn't think about it.
And I'm not going to get into that much here
because it's not what this show's about. But over the
weekend I'm gonna talk some more about it for sure
over on Sports Talk seven to ninety. I needed that
one sheepshead on a cricket to get the pictures I
needed to support this story, but it didn't work out
(05:32):
well day, to be correct, caught to the other three.
Our guide, my boss and his son did catch several
sheep's head along with some redfish. There was at least
one drum over the day, a couple of speckled trout.
It was a pretty good day overall. They were throwing
live shrimp, so they had the advantage over me. And
(05:55):
even when I tired of trying to catch a sheep's
head on a cricket, started throwing lures. And it wasn't
until pretty much last cast. We didn't stay out till dark,
and we didn't start early. It was a very casual,
all during daylight hours fishing trip. But I finally got
a little red fish to eat a soft plastic that
I was throwing, and that made me feel better. I
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didn't get skunked. It's okay. They got to take home
plenty of fish for dinner. If you want Captain Mike's info.
By the way, he is really good with kids. He
offers a discount for first time saltwater fishermen. It's an
honor system deal, and he's really good about it. And
he just goes out and catches whatever's bite and pretty
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much sends everybody home with a few fish to eat.
I don't imagine the way he fishes. I don't imagine
he's been skunked in a lot of years, and he's
got a lot of years under his belt. I don't
want to get into all this newsy stuff, you shit,
because we're getting really close to a break. There was
one little thing though I could talk about. No, yeah,
I tell you what, I'm gonna go ahead and go
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with Dougpike. Welcome back, Thanks for listening to fifty plus
on this beautiful Tuesday. So into the news. Texas age
Ken Paxton is investigating three school districts. I think it
probably should be way more for quote facilitating and failing
to keep students safe and accountable during various student protests
(09:15):
against lawful immigration enforcement Paxton end quote. Paxton also said this,
and I quote again, I will not allow Texas schools
to become breeding grounds for the radical left's open borders
agenda end quote. I kind of agree. Speaking of the
State Capitals school district. By the way, Governor Greg Abbott said,
(09:37):
austin asde gets taxpayer dollars to teach the subjects required
by the state, not to help students skip school to
protest our schools, he said, are for educating our children,
not for indoctrination, which has been going on so long
now by the way, that we've almost become numb to it,
(10:00):
and only because of what's been going on recently, are
getting a closer look at just exactly how teachers feel
about really teaching versus how teachers feel about and not
all of them, by the way. I'm not by any means,
by any stretch, condemning all the teachers. I would say
the overwhelming majority are still there to teach and probably
(10:23):
stayed in their classrooms. But that little handful of misfits,
the ones who want to make sure that all the
children know that communism is wonderful, Yeah, we might need
to step back and take a look. I'll be stunned
and disappointed, probably more the latter than the former. If
encouraging kids to walk out of schools all over our
(10:45):
state in protest of the lawful law enforcement action that's
been going on, I'll be very disappointed if that doesn't
result in serious consequences for the people who stood behind
it and encouraged these kids to take days off from
school to walk up and down the street screaming and
(11:06):
hollering about something that they probably really don't understand, because
if they realized how many young children have been hurt,
sexually murdered by some of these people who are being
rounded up, maybe they would have a different opinion about it.
But they've been told. I believe from what I read
(11:30):
that what's going on is unlawful, that what's going on
is just wrong, and that these people haven't committed crimes,
but they have and the ones who are, and anybody
who anybody who gets you know what, I don't even
want to go there. I'm just I'm just gonna set
(11:50):
back down. Just the left. They maintain that hauling kids
out of school in support of these people who are
being rounded up is somehow a good thing. It's not.
Where illegal immigrants with violent records have been arrested and removed,
crime rates in those cities and communities have plumted, it plummeted.
Just last week, I mentioned it on the show Good
(12:12):
Friend of Mine, well, a business acquaintance of mine. He's
a good friend, he's a business acquaintance, and he told
me that the area where he works was before ICE
came in an absolute haven for crooks. He works late
in his office. He said, there was hardly a night
went by when somebody didn't just casually walk up and
(12:33):
jiggle the door on the office to see if it
might be open. And I'm presuming goes on to the
next door, and the next and the next, until sometime
in the night he finds a door that was left
inadvertently open, and they run in there and they take
what they can. Same was happening in the parking lots
around him. Every night, break ins just to see what
(12:55):
they could get out of these cars, and ice comes through,
took away the people that wanted taken away. And since then,
he said, there has not been a single incident, not
one single incident. He feels safer, he said, for the
first time in a whole lot of years. Enough of
(13:17):
that for today. Aoz back in the news for somehow,
feeling the need first of all to go on a trip.
There was some other politicians she went with. I can't
remember whom, but anyway, she decided she needed to go
to the Munich Security Conference, and there, standing in front
of many members of the foreign press, she answered the
(13:40):
question that, honestly, what she should have done, what she
should have done is just sat quietly in a corner
and kept her mouth shut. But when she was asked
whether she thought the US should get involved in China
or in Taiwan if China invaded Taiwan, proposed president gosh,
my poor jaw won't work proposed used presidential candidate, AOC
(14:03):
spent the first twelve seconds of her answer dropping in
more uhs and ers and and spent the first twelve
seconds of that doing that more than speaking actual words.
And when she finally did speak, what she said made
absolutely no sense whatsoever. Look it up. She made Kamala
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Harris sound like Maya Angelou. Clay Travis when asked her.
When he spoke about this, harkened back to the two
thousand and seven Miss America pageant for his comment on
AOC's blather and I quote who gave the better answer
to a foreign policy question, AOC or Miss South Carolina
(14:49):
end quote. Go back and look at what Miss South
Carolina said, and then compare it to what AOC said
and just about the same level of credibility. Senator Ted
Cruz responded on social media to how badly she missed
on a world history question by writing this and I quote,
tell me you don't know anything about history without saying
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you know nothing about history, end quote. And she did.
She absolutely did amazing When a California woman wore her
do I have a minute. I can do this in
a minute. Okay, good. California woman wore her Maga hat
to a cardio kickboxing class at her gym. Anybody want
to guess what happened in California or it could have
(15:36):
happened in Minneapolis too, I'm sure it's a pretty easy one.
Some liberal in the class pitched a hissy fit and
demanded that she remove her cap. And when she bowed
up and said, no, the CAP's not coming off, sorry, sister,
and you're on your own. Go hug yourself and acknowledge
your feelings somewhere else. But I'm wearing my hat, she said.
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The instructor said no, she didn't have to take it off,
because free speech is just that, it's free speech, no
matter how uncomfortable it might make someone else. I'm made
uncomfortable when someone on the left says what they think,
but I don't stop them from saying it, and I
don't demand that they take off their hat. That's what
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free speech is about. The ability the right in this
country still wills giving me the sign, the snakehead sign,
snake back and forth. That's kind of a rattlesnake. If
I had more time, I'd do better. Barry Hill Baha Grill,
family run restaurant on fifty nine and Sugarland Sugar Creek
(16:44):
Boulevard exit on the inbound side. Been around for thirty
something years. I've been eating there for thirty something years.
Some of the best fish tacos on the planet. My
wife and I found this place more than twenty years ago,
but close to thirty. Really, we've been in that house
thirty two and I bet you we were eating there
within I don't know as soon as we found it.
(17:06):
Now it's your turn go try this. It's a casual,
family friendly restaurant. Had the same two chefs primary chefs
in the kitchen for more than a decade each, and
they churn out every day a delicious variety of traditional
text mex food and with a little twist, because hey,
if you're in there making the same thing for ten years,
(17:26):
you're going to add a little something to make it
your recipe. That's what they do, and it is worth
going and eating it's all. It's as good as I've
ever had. If you're in sugar Land for the first time,
folks in the bar area on the right as you
walk in, we'll probably ask you to join them. If
you ask, if you can, and if you're not unfamiliar
(17:47):
with berry Hill, do that the next time you're in
there and somebody comes in and looks around it just
to say, tell me about sugar Land, tell me what's
the best thing on the menu. I might be in
there too. If you see me in there, say hello?
Will you berry Hill Sugarland dot com is the website
berry Hill Sugarland dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah. They sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back
to fifty plus. Thanks for listening, many thanks for all
that you guys do. The emails I get are fantastic.
I like that helps with the subject check out. In
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this segment, we're gonna talk about some of the latest
weight loss and wellness trends with a man who deals
with these things on a daily basis. That is doctor
wahid a leave from Medical Ascetics by Angelica.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Welcome aboard, doc, Thank you, thanks for having me my pleasure.
So you can't hardly turn on TV anymore without, at
least over the past couple of years without seeing a
commercial for a weight loss drug. It used to be shots,
Now it's pills to how do those How do those
drugs work?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yes, sir, so the main idea is that there are
the main classes of gl P one agon a drug,
and they basically functioned. They were actually initially created for
diabetic treatment, and now the realm has gotten into obviously
weight loss, a very effective weight loss tool, and also
for other patients with heart disease, renal disease, or kidney disease,
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I should say, and it expanded into those RUMs as well.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I got you. And and by the way, Uh, if
you don't know doctor Ellie, and most of you probably don't,
he's a board certified internal medicine physician. Uh completed his school.
Oh my gosh, man, you've got this list of credentials
that's incredible. Holy. I'll get to them. It's sometime when
I got like five minutes to kill I'll just read
your Yeah, you're you're good under or how how safe
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are these things?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So they've been proven to be quite safe. The FDA
is a very rigorous, you know thing method. You have
to go through all these rigorous trials, and it's not
just that you know, they go through multiple phases where
you know they're required to pass obviously human study. They
first start with animal studies and that's how these medications
were tested initially. But they've gone on to the approval phase,
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so they're They've been around for a long time. Actually,
some of the GLP one drugs have been around for
more than a couple of decades. Now they're just now
realizing the potential really for multiple uses, including weight loss,
which is the biggest one right now.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
As a fisherman, I know about high tide and low tide,
but what what in the world are semi glue type
semi glue, tide retard too tide and teptide. Don't laugh
at the way I pronounce those A first time.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I said, you've got them down pretty well. They're hear
for me too. I think you know. The main thing
you've heard of all the different trade names for the
drugs leto zempic with go v and so the semi
glue type for example, that was one of the first
ones on the scene. Like I mentioned, there been around,
you know, for for decades, but semic glue tide was
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a big one that started tapping into the weight loss phenomenon.
And that's actually just a one receptor drug, the GLP ones.
Then you get into turzepetide, which has two receptors which
it works on, and then the red two product you mentioned,
that's actually the more the most recent one that's having
(21:23):
the very exciting to look at the three receptors and
working on those for all the different drugs, so more
effective weight loss we're seeing with turzepetite versus semic gluetide. Obviously,
you know, it's a it's a big industry, and for
insurance purposes, you'll see them approving it for diabetes treatment,
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and then it's started to get into if you have
a comorbid condition meaning high blood pressure, high cholesterol, then
you start to see the approval for some of those
by insurance. But basically sometimes the cash cash paid type
of situation as well.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Doctor Rahite ale on fifty plus from Medical Aesthetics by Angelica.
Let's talk a little bit about hormones and what are
the symptoms of hormone imbalance in senior women?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
So, very good question. So you'll see there's it's a
variety of things, a lot of systemic complaints that What
I mean by that is you'll you'll get things like
weight loss, you can have you know, decreased libido, you
can have hair loss, decreased energy. So what we focus
on is obviously testing the levels of those hormones and
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then replacing them as those come back. And so we
have a very sophisticated testing panel nowadays, more so than
when I trained more than twenty five years ago. Is
that you have these tests that are readily that can
be done very quickly, and then results acted upon after that.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
How much how much effort does it take? No, I
don't want to go to this. What about men in
their hormone deficiencies? I guess testosterone that's the big one.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Is there anything else that you guys looking forward when
you do that blood test?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Uh, there's it's a variety of things. You can you
can tailor it to what a patient's symptoms are. So
if they describe, you know, a decrease energy, weight gain,
all those things you know we beyond just the GLP
ones for the weight gain. Hormonal imbalance is has a
big role in this and we can actually tailor it
to patient's symptoms if you so, if you present with
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a certain set of symptoms, we know what to test
in that in that regard. So another one is thyroid
for example, but if you if you have an off
balance thyroid, U certainly that warrants treatment and a very
simple thing to do just to check in to actually
know when you go through the questions on what a
patient is suffering from. Obviously that's where you tailor your
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testing and also treatments after that.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Before I get before I run out of time, I
want you to explain why it's so important to have
anything and everything like this, like what you guys do
at Angelica, have it done by a professional, So.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Very a great point. So those the things that there's
so many, like you mentioned at the beginning to segment,
there's so many different avenues to obtain you know, some
of these medications. What is worrisome obviously if you don't
get this done by someone licensed to do it, is
that you can be treated in the wrong way and
there's a lot of adverse side effects that can happen
(24:21):
if you get on testosterone therapy, for example, replacement therapy
and don't have proper levels checked obviously go through a
thorough history and a comprehensive exam. Those can lead to
things a serious as stroke, hard attack, all those different
things to stem from treatment that's not directed by a
licensed professionals. So that's what I would advocate strongly, is
(24:42):
that any patient that any person that you know, comes
across these medications. GLP one is another example, right if
you have to, if you don't get the proper history,
if a patient's personal history or family history of medullary
thyroid cancer for example, that can lead to obviously adverse
and unwanted content quinces beyond what you're just seeking treatment for.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Doctor Vaheed Ali on fifty plus here from Medical Aesthetics
by Angelica. I know that the two locations promote a
sixteen week wellness program. Is that a good solid length
of time where you're really going to start seeing results
And I'm not talking about something where you can just
take a shot and lose twenty pounds overnight. Sixteen weeks
is that a pretty good window to really start seeing
(25:24):
some results and feeling better.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Absolutely, I think, you know, let's just start with the
GLP ones. For instance, you start to notice, you know,
weight loss pretty it's a pretty pronounced weight loss if
you stay on the treatment. Obviously we advocate you know,
diet and exercise regiment as well. That's a that's part
of the program is that it's not just a shot
like you mentioned, it's a very comprehensive program. So in
(25:48):
addition to that, over that timeframe you can check home
adal levels. There's other other therapies that we offer that
can be part of the comprehensive program, and that definitely
for you. From a to that length of time, you
certainly see we will suddenly see results.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Really appreciate your time, doctor Waheed. A leave from medical
Aesthetics by Angelica. You've heard me talking about them. Get
in there, make an appointment and maybe you'll be lucky
enough to see the doc. That's you know. I know
you're a busy guy, man, I know you are. All right,
Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Today, No, thank you so much for having me. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Doug all my pleasure. By Bay. All right, we got
to take a little break here. I am going to
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I'll just go. No music, the band quit? That's just great,
all right, that's okay. Hmm, No, I don't like that one. Yeah,
I do. I do. From a Houston Chronicle online story
(27:28):
a day or so ago comes word of a new
concept in living space that may bridge a long time
gap and affordability for young people. It's called co living.
For now, somebody ought to come up with a better name,
I think, really something more catchy. Anyway, So here's how
it works. You got one roof, you got three stories,
potentially four if this ever catches on, all of which
(27:52):
are basically that the upper floors. However many there will
be are a bedroom and a bathroom about it. Maybe
a little sitting area if you go full on fancy
in these things, but they're very limited space, and they
share a kitchen and probably like a gathering area where
the main TV will be, so you can go down
(28:15):
there and watch a movie with everybody, or watch whatever
you want with the Olympics, whatever, football games. And I'm
not ten people leasing bedrooms and bathrooms sharing these other areas.
You better before you sign that lease or before you
buy a room in one of those. If that's how
(28:37):
they go, more condo than apartment, you better be darn
sure that you can get along with nine other people.
By the way, some of whom three of them may
move out the first week they're there, and now you
gotta totally get along with somebody else. That's gonna be tough.
(28:58):
That's gonna be tough. You can't leave eight leave it
for eight or ten months and then come back either.
I'm sure, it's not easy for anybody. I mean, how
are you gonna find nine strangers that you can get
along with. I admire anybody who could make that work.
I really do, I really do. But it's still a
long ways away from being nearly so attractive as an
(29:20):
apartment of your own where at least even though you
can hear the neighbors doing whatever they're doing at whatever
time of day or night, and you can hear it
very clearly. If they're on top of you, You hear
the footsteps, if they're left, right, front, back or under you,
hear the noises whatever they may be. So it's interesting,
(29:42):
but I'm not I wouldn't invest money in it. I
may be turned into the crazy guy who didn't invest
in something before it hit a million dollars a share,
could have bought it at a dollar. Now it's at
a million. I don't think these tiny things are gonna
work from the great no. The excellent desk idea comes
practical in life saving application for drones. I saw this
(30:05):
just on a like kind of just pushed on something
about drones, and it's called the model I looked at
it anyways, called the JX six, a drone and in
a nutshell, it's just an old school life ring. Basically,
the prototype probably was an old school life ring to
which was a fixed for good, powerful little drone motors,
(30:29):
and what they're using them for the actual commercial model
is life saving. Obviously, they can get that thing to
somebody who's in the water, even a far distance away,
much much faster than a lifeguard on a surfboard or
even I would say that that drone can get there
(30:50):
before the jet skie can get there, and that's incredibly
important when somebody's about to go underwater for the last time,
you get flotation to them. I have. It's off to
the people that make these things. It's pricey, Okay, it's
a pricey thing. I want to say it was about
six or seven thousand dollars for the commercial model that
would be bought by actual lifeguard companies and crews. Pricey,
(31:15):
but it doesn't cost as much as a funeral and
it doesn't hurt as bad either. Oh my goodness, let
me go over here. I want to talk about this woman. No,
I'll leave that alone. I'll leave that alone. From the
tiny state of Rhode Island, a tragic event came about yesterday.
(31:37):
It was the result of a domestic violence incident from
a while back. A family was at a high school
hockey game when the shooter fifty six year old man
who for years now has identified as a woman, and
ended up being divorced by his wife for that and
other reasons. That's not the only reason she divorced him,
but she just didn't agree with that and that was
(31:58):
her prerogative. He shows up at the hockey game, shoots her,
shoots a couple of his kids, and I believe one
of those children may have died, or he may have
hit someone else inadvertently, and then he turned the gun
on himself. I feel very deeply sorry for those kids.
Holy col I'm not sure anybody can get over seeing
(32:19):
what they had to see. I just I pray for them.
I really do. You should too, if you're a prayerful person.
That's got to be one of the most horrific things
I've ever heard or seen. And I don't know why
this continues to happen, but it kind of does, kind
of does. In Olympics News, got a couple of minutes
(32:39):
still perfect. In Olympic News. I watched last night as
Elana Myers Taylor she's forty one years old. She won
gold in Milan and became the oldest person to earn
gold in Winter Olympics. Her event, the Mono bob that's
a one person bob sled, is really physically and tough
(33:02):
on any athlete. Any I got an actual I got
to chant the chance to make a run down the
Bob's led course at Park City years and years ago
on a media trip up there, and it was one
of the most exhilarating things I've ever done. There's videos,
It's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Really.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Colin Jost from Saturday Night Live took a ride down
down the Olympic bob sled run with a professional, a
guy who actually does that for a living, and all
the way down if he if you did a drinking
game of taking a drink, taking a shot every time
(33:41):
he says, oh my god on the way down, you
would be in an alcohol induced coma before they finished
that one minute run. I don't think you could pour
them and drink them that fast. It's hilarious. Laura Nolty,
By the way, a German earned silver, and another American,
Kaylee Armbrewster Humphries, got the bronze. Two out of three
(34:03):
inn't bad. I watched Where's the other one that I
had here about the Olympics, So here it is. I've
heard some talk recently about how just how un un
amateur ish. I guess it is word the Olympic athletes
are now. The Olympic athletes now are anything but just
(34:28):
anything but amateurs. And that started all the way back
in nineteen ninety two when the US sent a team
they called it the Dream Team, sent a squad of
NBA players to competing men's basketball and just absolutely mode
over the competition forever, change the games. And since then,
thirty two years later, I'm not sure that there are
(34:50):
any true amateurs competing in Milan, Courtina, or how many,
if any, there will be when the Summer Games returned
to Los Angeles in twenty twenty eight. World turns on money,
and it takes a lot of money these days to
develop elite athletes. And unless they train every day, unless
they don't have to worry about renting food and the
finest gear available and coaches and trainers and all that.
(35:12):
Without all that expensive stuff, they can't compete. That's not
very new either. It's really it's been going on even
farther back than the Dream Team, China's been sending over
children basically that they handpick when they're a little bitty
to do all this, and they're good at what they do.
Uh Will says, we're out of time. I guess we're
(35:33):
out of time. I'll see it tomorrow. Thank you all
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