October 14, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Janette Gray about menopause.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Fifty plus brought to you by the UT Health Houston
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and now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
All Right, welcome to Tuesday, latest in a string of
really nice days across Southeast Texas. Honestly, I had the
good fortune to play a little golf yesterday. I may
or may not bore you with some of that in
a little while, but it was a fantastic new layout.
Jay Bloss did this redo, complete redo of Lakeside Country
Club's golf course, and from the moment I walked out
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of the clubhouse and looked across the property and you
can see all the way through the property now, whereas
it wasn't that way a little while back. It was impressive,
and like I said, if we have a little bit
more time today, I might get to it. If not,
I will certainly talk about it more on Saturday, because
that's kind of the trend lately has been to really change,
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not entirely, but just dress up some courses that could
use a makeover. And it was Harvey actually that forced
the makeover of Lakeside several years ago. When the whole
the entire property was underwater. They lost their whole clubhouse
and they erected this monument to golf, an amazing facility.
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Now that the whole clubhouse and the golf part, everything
thing is all connected now and again I'll tell you
maybe a little bit more about that later. And I
promised today at least not to bore you with how
I played, because I know that would just that would
put some of you to sleep. You got a nice
lunch in you in about thirty forty five minutes, and
then I start talking about and on number of six
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I hit a five iron.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
No, I won't do that, I promise.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
By the way, I wonder if any of you can
help me figure out what's going on with my vehicle
and its tire pressure sensors. I don't have low tires anywhere.
All four tires just fine, All the way around, and
my tire sensor light will come on and stay on
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while I'm driving during that trip. And this has happened
three or four times in the last in the last week,
let's call it. I took it to I took it
to discount tire out in sugar Land about I don't know,
four days ago, maybe somewhere in there, and the guy
comes out with his little tester says, gosh, I don't know.
They're all they all seem to be working just fine.
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Well they're not. And by the time I had gotten there,
actually I had made one stop and the light just
kind of went away by itself. And then on the
way home I think it. Actually I got home next morning,
I came in to work down down here on the weekend,
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and darned if it didn't come on again. But I
parked in the garage. I come back out, tire pressure
sensor light gone bye bye. So my guess is it's
going to come on again on the way home today.
I don't know why, and it can't be the temperatures
that the temperatures haven't changed that much, the pressures in
the tires haven't changed that much, So I don't know
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what's causing that thing to trigger. What I may do
is try to take maybe two pounds out of each
of the tires, because they're all at the exact same
rate or the same pressure, and I might try to
just drop them by a couple of pounds each and
see if that doesn't agent. Somehow, I doubt that it will.
Now I'll probably get all four of the lights coming on.
Tell me I've got low tires because the sensor. The
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sensor is a battery issue. The tire pressure another issue altogether.
In any event, the markets slow, well, they kind of
flagged this one. They were, man, there was some algorithmic
profit taking after yesterday's big jump. This morning when I
looked at I didn't pay attention to the Fox report.
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I was doing something else this morning. All four indicators down,
but probably not for long. I got a hunch they're
gonna swing back around and come on back up. Gold
Holy cow, Gold firmly above four thousand, one hundred dollars
an ounce, and oil on the other extreme down to
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about fifty eight hundred change barrel. That's great news at
the pumps, especially for US where we already have pretty
inexpensive gasoline. But the oil companies would much prefer and
operate more smoothly and profitably if their product moved a
little north of sixty dollars a barrel, maybe even sixty
three sixty four somewhere in there. Second to all out
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of the ground is not an inexpensive undertaking. It costs
millions of dollars to just kind of get the research done,
get a test well dug and then if it works
now you go in and develop the entire field and
hopefully make a bunch of money off of it, so
we can keep looking for more. Right now, though that's
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pretty far down, and I think a lot of it is.
It's gonna benefit us, I think in the long run,
and hopefully everybody will take advantage. On these next few
weekends when the weather's really nice, just drive around, drive
out a whole tank of gas. I'm gonna be buying
gas this afternoon. I won't have a choice. Really, Like
I said, the weather's fantastic. Overnight lows in the high sixties,
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daytime highs below ninety all the way through the weekend,
and then we do have a shot, a good shot
at rain coming up. I want to say all I
want to say. It was Friday, it's like forty percent
now and make it to be even a little bit
better chance according to the prognosticators, of getting some legitimate rain.
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Since I'm only down to about two minutes, I want
to just share with you something that I read this
morning about CBS taking a pole and people among people
who have already bought Halloween candy. According to the pole,
they're going to work their way, aka eat their way
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through the entire stash whatever they bought already for the kids,
you know, the ones who are going to be coming
to the door so cleverly decorated in costume. Well, no,
they're just doing it for themselves. They're justifying it by
saying it's for the kids. But they're going to eat
the way, their way entirely through the stash, not once
but twice before the thirty first of this month, which
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is you're gonna eat it all in a week. Then
you're gonna say you're not gonna buy as much because
you'd probably eat it all. And then as soon as
you go through that, you're gonna go back and get
more because you realized that you didn't have enough to
leave any for the kids. In related news, actually there's
I saw a story this morning about the because of tariffs,
the costs of a lot of Halloween costumes, which, interestingly enough,
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where those costumes are made, they don't celebrate Halloween. But nonetheless,
all of the big Halloween stores around here and their
costumes apparently are going to be higher priced. So you
can either do it yourself and get a broomstick and
a handkerchief and stuff some rags in it and be
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a hobo. That was the word that we called homeless
people many many years ago. It's not a very nice term,
but nonetheless that's what it was, and that was a
cost a very popular costume because it didn't cost much
to make that, or a ghost where you just cut
a couple of holes in a sheet. Country boys are
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mid October, and knock on wood, we've been spared horrible weather.
That doesn't mean it can't happen. Named storms have hit
this state or hit this country of ours in every
single month of the year, so you never can really
completely relax. And man, when that Gulf of Mexico cools
off a little bit more off, feel a lot better
that doesn't mean you don't have any problem with your
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roof though, maybe something from one of these little pop
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Speaker 1 (10:12):
They sure don't make them like they used to. 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.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Pike sharing your lunch hour. Man, I can't imagine. I
almost almost tripped over myself and went talking golf on you,
but I didn't. Just that little bit.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I'll talk about that more on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think it's been interesting lately to watch television news
coverage of President Trump's historic peace treaty in the Middle East,
something nobody, nobody thought could be done. If you'd ass
six months ago, I don't think anybody would believe that
it could be done by October of this year. And Biden,
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either either Biden or somebody on his team said, I
believe yesterday that it was Biden who laid the groundwork
for that peace deal, and Trump just kind of came
in and gathered up everybody to sign it. But that
is that's just not anywhere near true. It's amazing how
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determined some members of that party are to rewrite history
even as we're watching it unfold. Vice President jd Vance
took shots at NBC News Sunday morning for turning a
blind eye to the celebration of President Trump's role in
the peace deal. Israeli's cheering in the streets shouting his name,
Yay go President Trump. You're the man, You're the peacemaker,
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and brought the Middle East together for the first time
on a very long time, first time in many, many years.
But they just they can't stand that. They just won't
give him credit and Now that being said, several members
of the of the left, who disagree probably with him
on almost everything else that goes on it, especially in
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our politics, did come out and acknowledge the work that
he did and the result that he got. And I
was very pleased to see them at least give credit
where it was due, because it certainly was due.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
There.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Nothing had gotten done in the past four years with
all of that, and it just in fact, it got
worse instead of better. And hopefully a few more people
will will kind of come around and at least acknowledge
at least somebody over there. At that meeting, by the way,
in the Middle East was in I can't remember exactly
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where they met. Perhaps it was Jerusalem, I don't know.
In any event, one of the people who spoke there
turned to President Trump and said that it was he
who deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, and not I believe
it's a woman who won it. And I'm not taking
anything away from her accomplishments. But to pull off what
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he did and gather all those leaders of all those
countries in one place to do something this big, that
was no easy feat. It's just so sad that mainstream
media continues to hate President Trump so much that they
won't acknowledge the good he's done since he only took
office three quarters ago, three quarters of a year, and
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the return of all of Amasa's living hostages over the
weekend incredible. If you turned on the TV at all,
you did see some of those reunions. And even, like
I said, some of the high ranking Democrats just said, Okay,
we didn't think he could do it, but bye, guys,
he did. And that's that's about as close as they'll
come to saying he did something great. And like him
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or not, he's a deal maker and he made one
hell of a deal. He made one hell of a
deal over there in the Middle East, something that nobody
thought could be done.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
That's off to him.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Way up in Portland, I saw this and kind of cringed,
and I didn't really know how to address it, or
even if to address it at first.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
But I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
A bunch of people looking for an excuse now that
the story I read said hundreds, but the photograph I
saw says it might have been a few dozen. Anyway,
these people were looking and I think it was somewhere
between there. It might have been one hundred of them,
but it wasn't hundreds.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
They're looking for an excuse to take their clothes off
in public. So they staged a naked bike ride outside
an ice facility. Actually it was just a bike hang around.
They rode there from somewhere, and I guess rode off
into the sunset later. But anyway, it was outside of
an ice facility up in Portland, and I'm pretty sure
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their presence, clothed or not made any didn't make much
of any difference, including the stark reality of just how
unattractive a naked bike ride can be. There were pictures
of some of the people, and they were appropriately pixelated
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or otherwise blocked from the naked truth. But yeah, that's
as protests go. I gotta believe that naked bike rides
probably are among the least effective. I would rather look
at horrific signs and listen to people yell at me
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through bullhorns than have that bunch ride by me with
no clothes on, pedaling their bicycles. Speaking of ice, by
the way, Houston Chronicle around a story Sunday Night or
Sunday in which it basically ignored the truth that people
who enter this country illegally have committed a crime. Time
after time. The people on the left kind of talk
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and write about how people being arrested by ICE aren't criminals,
to which ICE from the top down reminds liberals constantly
that not entering our country the right way is a
crime in and of itself. Tom Holmans had to repeat
the statute a thousand times. That repeat the law a
thousand times, and he's gonna keep doing it. They're pretty
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much the left's pretty much doubling down on its efforts
to keep these people here. And I can't help but
think it's just because they may be the only hope
for the left to regain any power. They can just
keep a few million of these people in this country
and keep giving them everything they need and want, and
somehow get voting rights pass their way in national elections,
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which is gonna be it'd be a tough sell now,
but if if they can throw out enough WHOI between
now in a couple of years, they just might have
a shot. And I don't want that to happen. Honestly.
I think there's middle ground that both sides need to
reach at some point. But we're not any We're close
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to it right now, and I just I just hear it.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I see it.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's like, vote for us, and we'll keep giving you
free stuff. That's the whole pitch, that's all it is.
Only the free stuff's gonna run out with the last
tax dollar gets squeezed out of the last person who's
worked all his or her life to save enough money
to retire someday. Fortunately, though, I do really believe that
we're seeing kind of a reawaking, awakening, re wakening, he said, correctly,
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of America and of Americans, many of whom, lots of
whom bought into the crazy policies put in place not
that many years ago. It was just this past week
that the Washington Posts actually, after denying it for years,
Washington Post finally wrote a piece that confirmed that Obamacare,
the Affordable Care Act, wasn't affordable at all. You didn't
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get to keep your doctors. That was another promise. You
didn't get anything. The abominable we'll call it Abominable Care Act.
I think that's a little more accurate than the Obama
program whatever he called it. I am gonna take an
early break, a little bit early, h will, just to
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make sure we stay on time because I've got a
good interview coming up. As promised on Facebook, We're gonna
talk to doctor Jeanette Gray from out in San Diego
about menopause. It is not today, but Saturday is National
Menopause Day. And here's a little hint to the guys
in the audience. Don't just roll your eyes and change
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Speaker 1 (20:03):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Man.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
String of kind of San Diego like days in Southeast Texas,
blue sky and no rain, all of that, and speaking
of in this segment, we're going to talk about menopause,
which I promised on Facebook with one of the leading
doctors in that realm, an expert in hormone replacement therapy
and author of the Truth about sex hormones and founder
of Perfect Balance Health. Welcome to fifty plus, Doctor Gray.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Well, thank you so much. Yes it's San Diego. But
you know what, the weather's not a sight so sunny today?
Oh no my rain?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, well no, we trade you about now. We're kind
of in a drought. So I kind of like to
get all ten of your key signs of oncoming menopause in,
but that might be squeezed a little bit, so let's
kind of walk through them and I'll have a couple
of follow ups. So number one you have here is
these irregular periods for about ninety days. Talk about that
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for a second.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Well, irregular periods basically a woman I'll be having a
regular period every twenty eight days and then suddenly she
misses one or that gets you know, it's sooner than
she expected or later than she expected. And that can
actually happen for years, not necessarily just three months. But
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it's a very common first sign that you're entering at
least perimenopause.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And number two, this is going to be nice if
we can just lay these out. It really is number two.
Here it says night sweats and hot flashes. I'm I'm
familiar with the hot flash thing around the house, and
that's what makes the headlines. But what I read what
Marissa said said eighty five percent of menopausal women experience
night sweats pretty bad.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Yeah, basic, night sweat is a hot plast that happens
at night. Okay, And so you just start overheating from
the inside out and you start sweating and there's no
reason for it other than internally your thermostat is off.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
That's not good.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I'm sure it's very uncomfortable. You know.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
The more I read through these symptoms, I was laughing
with one of my friends here. Guys, couldn't we couldn't
handle any of this, I can assure you. Yeah, I'm
sure you've heard it. Yeah, I'm sure you've.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Heard it before.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Number three, this one, I wasn't aware of menopause. Brain.
Talk about that for a minute.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yes, Well, you know, estrichen in particular is the main
hormone that goes down or is deficient in perimenopause and menopause,
and it has receptor sites or places where it finds
all over the body. And one of those places is
the brain. And that's why women will often talk about
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their brain fog or issues memory or concentration and either
and even irritability or moodiness aren't uncommon in menopause.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Does menopause brain kind of come and go as the
process of full menopause exerts itself on a woman or
is it something that just it's not there one day
and it's there the next and is always there.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, no, that's a great question. It really it depends.
That's probably the best answer. And the reason is is
because perimenopause, which is a period of time that can
occur for years before a woman actually hits menopause, and
that period of time, the hormone is very erratic, and
so it can be on and off, on and off,
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and it's there's no pattern, and you really think you're
going crazy. Once you're in menopause where estrogen levels have
declined and they stay down. Sometimes it's persistent, but then
there's times when symptoms is kind of vanish and you
don't understand why. So it can be very unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, lucky, lucky you. I'm so sorry. I'm joking, you
know what I'm talking about. Yeah, just you can't predict
any of this, can you?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
No? Oh, that makes it so frustrating.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
For a lot of people, and I'm looking at the
next one. Number four is sleep disruption. There are a
lot of things that women might blame interrupted sleep on
that don't have anything to do with menopause. How often
is it probably that?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Oh yeah, I mean sleep quality, sleep duration is very multifactorial.
There's so many things that affect it. And that's why
when you're taking a history, you know, I'll be talking
to a woman. Oh yeah, I'm having trouble sleeping. I
do have to make sure that, you know, does she
follow good sleep hygiene? You know, does she get to
bed at a reasonable time, as the room dark and
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quiet and cool. You know, so all of those things
have to be mentioned and discussed. But then the sleep
that come, the sleep disruption that comes with perimenopause and
menopause is just so classic and so common that you know,
if a woman is in the right age and you've
eliminated some of the other variables, that's pretty much probably.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
That Wow, joint pain. Who knew that that was associated
with menopause? Not me, I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yeah, you know, that's kind of a newer one. They
call it muscular skeletal syndrome of menopause, and you know,
women in the menopausal ages are having frozen shoulder and
just you know, general joint pain and nothing seems to
be a cause for like they you know, do X rays,
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MRIs and they don't see anything wrong. But there's inflammation
in the joints and it's not an uncommon symptom, unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Doctor Jeanette Gray here on fifty plus. I'm going to
jump over kind of quickly a few more of these
because I want to get to hormone replacement therapy therapy.
But the mood changes we talked about in increased urgency,
in urination and maybe little leagues thinning hair, dry skin,
adult acne. I had no idea, weight shifting to the middle.
I had no idea. And the starting age which is
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typically fifty one but can be the mid forties. So
hormone replacement therapy talk about that.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, a hormone replacement therap before many years, probably twenty
three years since the landmark study came out called the
Women's Health Initiatives got a bad rap, And for the
last two decades, women have not been getting hormones. The
very low percentage of women get hormones. For all these symptoms.
So there's a lot of women suffering needlessly. And unfortunately,
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there still is a belief that hormones can cause breast cancer, stroke,
and heart disease, and the fact is that that's been debunked.
The study was shown as many flaws, and in fact,
many studies have shown that hormones in particular est can
be protective against breast cancer and protective not all for
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heart disease, but dementias like Alzheimer's cancer, diabetes. So it's
really not only about feeling better, because these symptoms we
talked about are all about quality of life, but it's
also about preventing chronic diseases that are preventable.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Good heavens, no cancer for me, georgy. So it's fine
to take the hormones long.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Term, right, Absolutely, There's really no reason to go off
of them unless you want to start aging faster and
not feel your best. You know. Really, that's almost what
it comes down to. There's exceptions, of course.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I think you gave a lot of women some peace
of mind just right then and there.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Tell me Perfect Perfect Balance Health Dot or Perfect Balance
dot health is your website.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Right, Yes, Perfect Balance dot Health.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yes, fantastic I'm going to have. I would I would
recommend that anybody in this audience who is interested in
what we just talked about, or a lot of other
things that I took a peek at at the website,
go to that site and take a look Perfect Balance
dot health. Doctor Jeanette Gray, thank you so very much.
This has been very informative to me. And we'll all
celebrate World Menopause Day on Saturday, right, yeah, we can't wait.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Well, thank you, dog, I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
All right, by bye.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I learned a lot I did.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I would love to have gotten a little bit deeper
into a few more of those one through tens and
if anybody's interested in what all of them were, feel
free to shoot me an email and I'll send you
a copy of what I had the notes that I
got to work on this. It's fascinating subject and it's
one that we haven't really covered in depth on fifty
plus and I'm glad we got a chance to do
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Speaker 1 (30:20):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
I asked, Will, if you had to guess, and I'm
not gonna tell you the number he told me. Actually
he didn't tell me a number.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
He was still thinking about it, and he's other than Yeah,
there's no reason he needs to get involved in this,
because I am confident he would have guessed low. Will,
when I say the number, give me a it was
higher than you thought, or it was lower than you thought.
The number of packages lost from porch is in twenty
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twenty four in value fifteen point seven billion dollars. To
give you an idea, how many the actual number of
stolen packages? Two hundred and forty one million? Would you
have guessed that, Hi?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Will?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Okay, you would have got it right on the nose,
would you.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You just keep nodding, all right, all right? Two hundred
and forty one million. That's a good guess will spot
on my friend.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Going back to some of the other things I found today,
I told you about I told you about CBS.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Here here's one of the most boring conversation starters or
continuers you can possibly come up with at a Halloween
party or just a gathering to watch a game whatever.
There actually is a letter that was the last letter
added to the alphabet. It had never dawned on me
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in all my years on Earth that the alpha bet
wasn't complete. I just presumed that after people started spelling words,
they had all the letters that they needed to spell
all the words they were trying to spell, and so
they just wrote them all down in an or in
no particular order at first, but that the order became
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the order. But there was a last letter added, and
it's kind of in the middle, and that letter is J.
And I think the first letter might have been I,
because the conversation would have gone something, you know, I
think we should name all these letters.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
And there's there's where it started.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Well let's start with what you think? Yeah, I think, well,
there you go, and then the T and the H
and the NK and then it went on from there
and j I don't know why it took so long,
so I guess nobody jumped, nobody understood jargon, nobody over
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Jelope until Jay came along. Former President Kamala Harris's book
tour isn't going exactly as she'd hope, by the way,
and it's just sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This
past weekend, at a Chicago stop, which I'm sure she
thought was kind of friendly territory, several people in attendance
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actually protested loudly enough to get themselves booted out of
the venue. I don't recall exactly what they were hollering
and screaming, but I don't think it included any expletives,
if I recall. And then, when Bill Maher brought up
her book on TV a little while back, the book
is titled one hundred and seven Days, in reference to
how long she had to prepare to run for president,
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he suggested that the title should have been everyone sucks
but Me, And that's kind of how from what I've
read about the book. I have not read the book,
but the little pieces I've read about it say that
she pretty much blames everybody but herself for not becoming
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a viable candidate and not becoming elected. She actually thought
she had a chance. I didn't want to believe she
had a chance, and lo and behold she didn't. But
you never know, just never know how our elections are
going to go these days. This one here, I wonder
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if it's really true, or I wonder if they this
family has just been watching too many repeats of Cherry
Chase in Vacation National Lampoo Vacation. Because they were one
hundred This family was one hundred miles away from home
into a road trip when they discovered that their cat
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named ray Ray for some reason, my best friend in
high school's youngest brother of five boys and two girls
in a family, we called him ray Ray. He was
the little one, not that he was the youngest. He
wasn't necessarily the littlest, but he was the youngest. Anyway,
Their cat, Ray Ray, was clinging to the roof of
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the van for one hundred miles, And of course, what
do you do with your cat when you're one hundred
miles from home. You bring him on the vacation, of course,
which I'm sure changed their plans, but not a whole lot.
And I would be willing to bet that if they
have more than one child, those children that are kind
of glad to have Ray Ray along as well. By
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the way, something that we've been dealing with here at
I Heart for a long long time is in the
office work or remote work, and some companies like it,
some companies don't. But in a recent poll three in
ten companies it about that about a third of the
companies in this country plan to eliminate remote work entirely
(35:58):
before twenty twenty six, which didn't now far away. Now
maybe it's some time in twenty twenty six. It's kind
of hard to say exactly by exactly how it's written here,
but even right here where I am, we're slowly transitioning
back into the office from COVID's insistence that almost everybody
non essential stay home and work from there.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
This one here. I'm not sure which way it goes
and which way it doesn't go. There's a woman who
online has been accused of fat shaming after she said
that she was fed up with having to split restaurant
bills with her larger friends. Is what she called them
who order more food than her every time they go out.
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You know, if they're if they're friends, and if you're
if you still want to be friends with them and
go to lunch with them, I don't think i'd have
a terrible problem splitting the bill unless it's just egregious.
If it's if they're ordering four entrees and you're just
getting a salad, that would be a deal breaker perhaps,
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But otherwise I think there are far worse things that
could be going on in a friendship than that. Just
let it go, enjoy your meal, enjoy the company. Good
company is worth extra money, right all right, that's it
for today. We'll see you tomorrow. Good company. Audios.
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Because you were the TV remote.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Remember when music sounded like this, Remember when social media
was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you, only the good.
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and now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
All Right, welcome to Tuesday, latest in a string of
really nice days across Southeast Texas. Honestly, I had the
good fortune to play a little golf yesterday. I may
or may not bore you with some of that in
a little while, but it was a fantastic new layout.
Jay Bloss did this redo, complete redo of Lakeside Country
Club's golf course, and from the moment I walked out
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of the clubhouse and looked across the property and you
can see all the way through the property now, whereas
it wasn't that way a little while back. It was impressive,
and like I said, if we have a little bit
more time today, I might get to it. If not,
I will certainly talk about it more on Saturday, because
that's kind of the trend lately has been to really change,
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not entirely, but just dress up some courses that could
use a makeover. And it was Harvey actually that forced
the makeover of Lakeside several years ago. When the whole
the entire property was underwater. They lost their whole clubhouse
and they erected this monument to golf, an amazing facility.
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Now that the whole clubhouse and the golf part, everything
thing is all connected now and again I'll tell you
maybe a little bit more about that later. And I
promised today at least not to bore you with how
I played, because I know that would just that would
put some of you to sleep. You got a nice
lunch in you in about thirty forty five minutes, and
then I start talking about and on number of six
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I hit a five iron.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
No, I won't do that, I promise.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
By the way, I wonder if any of you can
help me figure out what's going on with my vehicle
and its tire pressure sensors. I don't have low tires anywhere.
All four tires just fine, All the way around, and
my tire sensor light will come on and stay on
(02:41):
while I'm driving during that trip. And this has happened
three or four times in the last in the last week,
let's call it. I took it to I took it
to discount tire out in sugar Land about I don't know,
four days ago, maybe somewhere in there, and the guy
comes out with his little tester says, gosh, I don't know.
They're all they all seem to be working just fine.
(03:03):
Well they're not. And by the time I had gotten there,
actually I had made one stop and the light just
kind of went away by itself. And then on the
way home I think it. Actually I got home next morning,
I came in to work down down here on the weekend,
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and darned if it didn't come on again. But I
parked in the garage. I come back out, tire pressure
sensor light gone bye bye. So my guess is it's
going to come on again on the way home today.
I don't know why, and it can't be the temperatures
that the temperatures haven't changed that much, the pressures in
the tires haven't changed that much, So I don't know
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what's causing that thing to trigger. What I may do
is try to take maybe two pounds out of each
of the tires, because they're all at the exact same
rate or the same pressure, and I might try to
just drop them by a couple of pounds each and
see if that doesn't agent. Somehow, I doubt that it will.
Now I'll probably get all four of the lights coming on.
Tell me I've got low tires because the sensor. The
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sensor is a battery issue. The tire pressure another issue altogether.
In any event, the markets slow, well, they kind of
flagged this one. They were, man, there was some algorithmic
profit taking after yesterday's big jump. This morning when I
looked at I didn't pay attention to the Fox report.
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I was doing something else this morning. All four indicators down,
but probably not for long. I got a hunch they're
gonna swing back around and come on back up. Gold
Holy cow, Gold firmly above four thousand, one hundred dollars
an ounce, and oil on the other extreme down to
(04:48):
about fifty eight hundred change barrel. That's great news at
the pumps, especially for US where we already have pretty
inexpensive gasoline. But the oil companies would much prefer and
operate more smoothly and profitably if their product moved a
little north of sixty dollars a barrel, maybe even sixty
three sixty four somewhere in there. Second to all out
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of the ground is not an inexpensive undertaking. It costs
millions of dollars to just kind of get the research done,
get a test well dug and then if it works
now you go in and develop the entire field and
hopefully make a bunch of money off of it, so
we can keep looking for more. Right now, though that's
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pretty far down, and I think a lot of it is.
It's gonna benefit us, I think in the long run,
and hopefully everybody will take advantage. On these next few
weekends when the weather's really nice, just drive around, drive
out a whole tank of gas. I'm gonna be buying
gas this afternoon. I won't have a choice. Really, Like
I said, the weather's fantastic. Overnight lows in the high sixties,
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daytime highs below ninety all the way through the weekend,
and then we do have a shot, a good shot
at rain coming up. I want to say all I
want to say. It was Friday, it's like forty percent
now and make it to be even a little bit
better chance according to the prognosticators, of getting some legitimate rain.
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Since I'm only down to about two minutes, I want
to just share with you something that I read this
morning about CBS taking a pole and people among people
who have already bought Halloween candy. According to the pole,
they're going to work their way, aka eat their way
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through the entire stash whatever they bought already for the kids,
you know, the ones who are going to be coming
to the door so cleverly decorated in costume. Well, no,
they're just doing it for themselves. They're justifying it by
saying it's for the kids. But they're going to eat
the way, their way entirely through the stash, not once
but twice before the thirty first of this month, which
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is you're gonna eat it all in a week. Then
you're gonna say you're not gonna buy as much because
you'd probably eat it all. And then as soon as
you go through that, you're gonna go back and get
more because you realized that you didn't have enough to
leave any for the kids. In related news, actually there's
I saw a story this morning about the because of tariffs,
the costs of a lot of Halloween costumes, which, interestingly enough,
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where those costumes are made, they don't celebrate Halloween. But nonetheless,
all of the big Halloween stores around here and their
costumes apparently are going to be higher priced. So you
can either do it yourself and get a broomstick and
a handkerchief and stuff some rags in it and be
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a hobo. That was the word that we called homeless
people many many years ago. It's not a very nice term,
but nonetheless that's what it was, and that was a
cost a very popular costume because it didn't cost much
to make that, or a ghost where you just cut
a couple of holes in a sheet. Country boys are
roofing here. We are in late midwell middle October, anyway,
(08:09):
mid October, and knock on wood, we've been spared horrible weather.
That doesn't mean it can't happen. Named storms have hit
this state or hit this country of ours in every
single month of the year, so you never can really
completely relax. And man, when that Gulf of Mexico cools
off a little bit more off, feel a lot better
that doesn't mean you don't have any problem with your
(08:30):
roof though, maybe something from one of these little pop
up thunderstorms that came up. It made a little bitty
problem up on that roof. You haven't seen it, you
don't know it's there. But now if you get a
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Speaker 3 (09:33):
Let's call it that what it is.
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Speaker 1 (10:12):
They sure don't make them like they used to. 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.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Pike sharing your lunch hour. Man, I can't imagine. I
almost almost tripped over myself and went talking golf on you,
but I didn't. Just that little bit.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I'll talk about that more on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
I think it's been interesting lately to watch television news
coverage of President Trump's historic peace treaty in the Middle East,
something nobody, nobody thought could be done. If you'd ass
six months ago, I don't think anybody would believe that
it could be done by October of this year. And Biden,
(10:56):
either either Biden or somebody on his team said, I
believe yesterday that it was Biden who laid the groundwork
for that peace deal, and Trump just kind of came
in and gathered up everybody to sign it. But that
is that's just not anywhere near true. It's amazing how
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determined some members of that party are to rewrite history
even as we're watching it unfold. Vice President jd Vance
took shots at NBC News Sunday morning for turning a
blind eye to the celebration of President Trump's role in
the peace deal. Israeli's cheering in the streets shouting his name,
Yay go President Trump. You're the man, You're the peacemaker,
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and brought the Middle East together for the first time
on a very long time, first time in many, many years.
But they just they can't stand that. They just won't
give him credit and Now that being said, several members
of the of the left, who disagree probably with him
on almost everything else that goes on it, especially in
(12:01):
our politics, did come out and acknowledge the work that
he did and the result that he got. And I
was very pleased to see them at least give credit
where it was due, because it certainly was due.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
There.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Nothing had gotten done in the past four years with
all of that, and it just in fact, it got
worse instead of better. And hopefully a few more people
will will kind of come around and at least acknowledge
at least somebody over there. At that meeting, by the way,
in the Middle East was in I can't remember exactly
(12:38):
where they met. Perhaps it was Jerusalem, I don't know.
In any event, one of the people who spoke there
turned to President Trump and said that it was he
who deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, and not I believe
it's a woman who won it. And I'm not taking
anything away from her accomplishments. But to pull off what
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he did and gather all those leaders of all those
countries in one place to do something this big, that
was no easy feat. It's just so sad that mainstream
media continues to hate President Trump so much that they
won't acknowledge the good he's done since he only took
office three quarters ago, three quarters of a year, and
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the return of all of Amasa's living hostages over the
weekend incredible. If you turned on the TV at all,
you did see some of those reunions. And even, like
I said, some of the high ranking Democrats just said, Okay,
we didn't think he could do it, but bye, guys,
he did. And that's that's about as close as they'll
come to saying he did something great. And like him
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or not, he's a deal maker and he made one
hell of a deal. He made one hell of a
deal over there in the Middle East, something that nobody
thought could be done.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
That's off to him.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Way up in Portland, I saw this and kind of cringed,
and I didn't really know how to address it, or
even if to address it at first.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
But I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
A bunch of people looking for an excuse now that
the story I read said hundreds, but the photograph I
saw says it might have been a few dozen. Anyway,
these people were looking and I think it was somewhere
between there. It might have been one hundred of them,
but it wasn't hundreds.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
I don't think.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
They're looking for an excuse to take their clothes off
in public. So they staged a naked bike ride outside
an ice facility. Actually it was just a bike hang around.
They rode there from somewhere, and I guess rode off
into the sunset later. But anyway, it was outside of
an ice facility up in Portland, and I'm pretty sure
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their presence, clothed or not made any didn't make much
of any difference, including the stark reality of just how
unattractive a naked bike ride can be. There were pictures
of some of the people, and they were appropriately pixelated
(15:09):
or otherwise blocked from the naked truth. But yeah, that's
as protests go. I gotta believe that naked bike rides
probably are among the least effective. I would rather look
at horrific signs and listen to people yell at me
(15:30):
through bullhorns than have that bunch ride by me with
no clothes on, pedaling their bicycles. Speaking of ice, by
the way, Houston Chronicle around a story Sunday Night or
Sunday in which it basically ignored the truth that people
who enter this country illegally have committed a crime. Time
after time. The people on the left kind of talk
(15:54):
and write about how people being arrested by ICE aren't criminals,
to which ICE from the top down reminds liberals constantly
that not entering our country the right way is a
crime in and of itself. Tom Holmans had to repeat
the statute a thousand times. That repeat the law a
thousand times, and he's gonna keep doing it. They're pretty
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much the left's pretty much doubling down on its efforts
to keep these people here. And I can't help but
think it's just because they may be the only hope
for the left to regain any power. They can just
keep a few million of these people in this country
and keep giving them everything they need and want, and
somehow get voting rights pass their way in national elections,
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which is gonna be it'd be a tough sell now,
but if if they can throw out enough WHOI between
now in a couple of years, they just might have
a shot. And I don't want that to happen. Honestly.
I think there's middle ground that both sides need to
reach at some point. But we're not any We're close
(17:00):
to it right now, and I just I just hear it.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I see it.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
It's like, vote for us, and we'll keep giving you
free stuff. That's the whole pitch, that's all it is.
Only the free stuff's gonna run out with the last
tax dollar gets squeezed out of the last person who's
worked all his or her life to save enough money
to retire someday. Fortunately, though, I do really believe that
we're seeing kind of a reawaking, awakening, re wakening, he said, correctly,
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of America and of Americans, many of whom, lots of
whom bought into the crazy policies put in place not
that many years ago. It was just this past week
that the Washington Posts actually, after denying it for years,
Washington Post finally wrote a piece that confirmed that Obamacare,
the Affordable Care Act, wasn't affordable at all. You didn't
(17:51):
get to keep your doctors. That was another promise. You
didn't get anything. The abominable we'll call it Abominable Care Act.
I think that's a little more accurate than the Obama
program whatever he called it. I am gonna take an
early break, a little bit early, h will, just to
(18:11):
make sure we stay on time because I've got a
good interview coming up. As promised on Facebook, We're gonna
talk to doctor Jeanette Gray from out in San Diego
about menopause. It is not today, but Saturday is National
Menopause Day. And here's a little hint to the guys
in the audience. Don't just roll your eyes and change
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the station. Okay, if you have a woman in your life,
you need to hear what we're about to talk about.
Something else you need to hear is about berry Hill
Baja Grill out there, family run restaurant out there on
fifty nine in sugar Land Sugar Creek Boulevard exit either way,
been around for about thirty something years, has some of
(18:53):
the best fish tacos in the land. My wife and
I found Berry Hill at least twenty years ago. Been
out there for thirty two and as soon as we
found it, we kept going back. That was when we
had four grocery stores within about ten minutes of the house.
Now I'm down to one, well one within ten one
doesn't matter. Now it's your turn, though, to try this
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very casual, very family friendly restaurant. Had the same two
primarycooks in the kitchen for decades each putting out a
delicious Mexican food. MANU well text mex food. Really, if
you're new to Sugarland, go out there and just say so,
and somebody in the bar is going to ask you
to join them. I bet. And if you're not new
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to Houston, Waite or sugar Land, especially sugar Land, you
probably already know about berry Hill. They'll cater all over
town if you've got a big event coming up and
you want something special. We do this here at iHeart
a Lot. We used berry Hill to cater for us
and it turns out well every single time we do.
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aged to perfection.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Man.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
String of kind of San Diego like days in Southeast Texas,
blue sky and no rain, all of that, and speaking
of in this segment, we're going to talk about menopause,
which I promised on Facebook with one of the leading
doctors in that realm, an expert in hormone replacement therapy
and author of the Truth about sex hormones and founder
of Perfect Balance Health. Welcome to fifty plus, Doctor Gray.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Well, thank you so much. Yes it's San Diego. But
you know what, the weather's not a sight so sunny today?
Oh no my rain?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, well no, we trade you about now. We're kind
of in a drought. So I kind of like to
get all ten of your key signs of oncoming menopause in,
but that might be squeezed a little bit, so let's
kind of walk through them and I'll have a couple
of follow ups. So number one you have here is
these irregular periods for about ninety days. Talk about that
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for a second.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Well, irregular periods basically a woman I'll be having a
regular period every twenty eight days and then suddenly she
misses one or that gets you know, it's sooner than
she expected or later than she expected. And that can
actually happen for years, not necessarily just three months. But
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it's a very common first sign that you're entering at
least perimenopause.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
And number two, this is going to be nice if
we can just lay these out. It really is number two.
Here it says night sweats and hot flashes. I'm I'm
familiar with the hot flash thing around the house, and
that's what makes the headlines. But what I read what
Marissa said said eighty five percent of menopausal women experience
night sweats pretty bad.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Yeah, basic, night sweat is a hot plast that happens
at night. Okay, And so you just start overheating from
the inside out and you start sweating and there's no
reason for it other than internally your thermostat is off.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
That's not good.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
I'm sure it's very uncomfortable. You know.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
The more I read through these symptoms, I was laughing
with one of my friends here. Guys, couldn't we couldn't
handle any of this, I can assure you. Yeah, I'm
sure you've heard it. Yeah, I'm sure you've.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Heard it before.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Number three, this one, I wasn't aware of menopause. Brain.
Talk about that for a minute.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Yes, Well, you know, estrichen in particular is the main
hormone that goes down or is deficient in perimenopause and menopause,
and it has receptor sites or places where it finds
all over the body. And one of those places is
the brain. And that's why women will often talk about
(22:56):
their brain fog or issues memory or concentration and either
and even irritability or moodiness aren't uncommon in menopause.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Does menopause brain kind of come and go as the
process of full menopause exerts itself on a woman or
is it something that just it's not there one day
and it's there the next and is always there.
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Yeah, no, that's a great question. It really it depends.
That's probably the best answer. And the reason is is
because perimenopause, which is a period of time that can
occur for years before a woman actually hits menopause, and
that period of time, the hormone is very erratic, and
so it can be on and off, on and off,
(23:44):
and it's there's no pattern, and you really think you're
going crazy. Once you're in menopause where estrogen levels have
declined and they stay down. Sometimes it's persistent, but then
there's times when symptoms is kind of vanish and you
don't understand why. So it can be very unpredictable.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, lucky, lucky you. I'm so sorry. I'm joking, you
know what I'm talking about. Yeah, just you can't predict
any of this, can you?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
No? Oh, that makes it so frustrating.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
For a lot of people, and I'm looking at the
next one. Number four is sleep disruption. There are a
lot of things that women might blame interrupted sleep on
that don't have anything to do with menopause. How often
is it probably that?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Oh yeah, I mean sleep quality, sleep duration is very multifactorial.
There's so many things that affect it. And that's why
when you're taking a history, you know, I'll be talking
to a woman. Oh yeah, I'm having trouble sleeping. I
do have to make sure that, you know, does she
follow good sleep hygiene? You know, does she get to
bed at a reasonable time, as the room dark and
(24:53):
quiet and cool. You know, so all of those things
have to be mentioned and discussed. But then the sleep
that come, the sleep disruption that comes with perimenopause and
menopause is just so classic and so common that you know,
if a woman is in the right age and you've
eliminated some of the other variables, that's pretty much probably.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
That Wow, joint pain. Who knew that that was associated
with menopause? Not me, I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
Yeah, you know, that's kind of a newer one. They
call it muscular skeletal syndrome of menopause, and you know,
women in the menopausal ages are having frozen shoulder and
just you know, general joint pain and nothing seems to
be a cause for like they you know, do X rays,
(25:40):
MRIs and they don't see anything wrong. But there's inflammation
in the joints and it's not an uncommon symptom, unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Doctor Jeanette Gray here on fifty plus. I'm going to
jump over kind of quickly a few more of these
because I want to get to hormone replacement therapy therapy.
But the mood changes we talked about in increased urgency,
in urination and maybe little leagues thinning hair, dry skin,
adult acne. I had no idea, weight shifting to the middle.
I had no idea. And the starting age which is
(26:12):
typically fifty one but can be the mid forties. So
hormone replacement therapy talk about that.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yeah, a hormone replacement therap before many years, probably twenty
three years since the landmark study came out called the
Women's Health Initiatives got a bad rap, And for the
last two decades, women have not been getting hormones. The
very low percentage of women get hormones. For all these symptoms.
So there's a lot of women suffering needlessly. And unfortunately,
(26:43):
there still is a belief that hormones can cause breast cancer, stroke,
and heart disease, and the fact is that that's been debunked.
The study was shown as many flaws, and in fact,
many studies have shown that hormones in particular est can
be protective against breast cancer and protective not all for
(27:06):
heart disease, but dementias like Alzheimer's cancer, diabetes. So it's
really not only about feeling better, because these symptoms we
talked about are all about quality of life, but it's
also about preventing chronic diseases that are preventable.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Good heavens, no cancer for me, georgy. So it's fine
to take the hormones long.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Term, right, Absolutely, There's really no reason to go off
of them unless you want to start aging faster and
not feel your best. You know. Really, that's almost what
it comes down to. There's exceptions, of course.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I think you gave a lot of women some peace
of mind just right then and there.
Speaker 3 (27:45):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Tell me Perfect Perfect Balance Health Dot or Perfect Balance
dot health is your website.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Right, Yes, Perfect Balance dot Health.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yes, fantastic I'm going to have. I would I would
recommend that anybody in this audience who is interested in
what we just talked about, or a lot of other
things that I took a peek at at the website,
go to that site and take a look Perfect Balance
dot health. Doctor Jeanette Gray, thank you so very much.
This has been very informative to me. And we'll all
celebrate World Menopause Day on Saturday, right, yeah, we can't wait.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Well, thank you, dog, I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
All right, by bye.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
I learned a lot I did.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I would love to have gotten a little bit deeper
into a few more of those one through tens and
if anybody's interested in what all of them were, feel
free to shoot me an email and I'll send you
a copy of what I had the notes that I
got to work on this. It's fascinating subject and it's
one that we haven't really covered in depth on fifty
plus and I'm glad we got a chance to do
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Speaker 1 (30:20):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
I asked, Will, if you had to guess, and I'm
not gonna tell you the number he told me. Actually
he didn't tell me a number.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
He was still thinking about it, and he's other than Yeah,
there's no reason he needs to get involved in this,
because I am confident he would have guessed low. Will,
when I say the number, give me a it was
higher than you thought, or it was lower than you thought.
The number of packages lost from porch is in twenty
(31:00):
twenty four in value fifteen point seven billion dollars. To
give you an idea, how many the actual number of
stolen packages? Two hundred and forty one million? Would you
have guessed that, Hi?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Will?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Okay, you would have got it right on the nose,
would you.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You just keep nodding, all right, all right? Two hundred
and forty one million. That's a good guess will spot
on my friend.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Going back to some of the other things I found today,
I told you about I told you about CBS.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Here here's one of the most boring conversation starters or
continuers you can possibly come up with at a Halloween
party or just a gathering to watch a game whatever.
There actually is a letter that was the last letter
added to the alphabet. It had never dawned on me
(31:57):
in all my years on Earth that the alpha bet
wasn't complete. I just presumed that after people started spelling words,
they had all the letters that they needed to spell
all the words they were trying to spell, and so
they just wrote them all down in an or in
no particular order at first, but that the order became
(32:18):
the order. But there was a last letter added, and
it's kind of in the middle, and that letter is J.
And I think the first letter might have been I,
because the conversation would have gone something, you know, I
think we should name all these letters.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
And there's there's where it started.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Well let's start with what you think? Yeah, I think, well,
there you go, and then the T and the H
and the NK and then it went on from there
and j I don't know why it took so long,
so I guess nobody jumped, nobody understood jargon, nobody over
(33:00):
Jelope until Jay came along. Former President Kamala Harris's book
tour isn't going exactly as she'd hope, by the way,
and it's just sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. This
past weekend, at a Chicago stop, which I'm sure she
thought was kind of friendly territory, several people in attendance
(33:23):
actually protested loudly enough to get themselves booted out of
the venue. I don't recall exactly what they were hollering
and screaming, but I don't think it included any expletives,
if I recall. And then, when Bill Maher brought up
her book on TV a little while back, the book
is titled one hundred and seven Days, in reference to
how long she had to prepare to run for president,
(33:47):
he suggested that the title should have been everyone sucks
but Me, And that's kind of how from what I've
read about the book. I have not read the book,
but the little pieces I've read about it say that
she pretty much blames everybody but herself for not becoming
(34:07):
a viable candidate and not becoming elected. She actually thought
she had a chance. I didn't want to believe she
had a chance, and lo and behold she didn't. But
you never know, just never know how our elections are
going to go these days. This one here, I wonder
(34:28):
if it's really true, or I wonder if they this
family has just been watching too many repeats of Cherry
Chase in Vacation National Lampoo Vacation. Because they were one
hundred This family was one hundred miles away from home
into a road trip when they discovered that their cat
(34:52):
named ray Ray for some reason, my best friend in
high school's youngest brother of five boys and two girls
in a family, we called him ray Ray. He was
the little one, not that he was the youngest. He
wasn't necessarily the littlest, but he was the youngest. Anyway,
Their cat, Ray Ray, was clinging to the roof of
(35:12):
the van for one hundred miles, And of course, what
do you do with your cat when you're one hundred
miles from home. You bring him on the vacation, of course,
which I'm sure changed their plans, but not a whole lot.
And I would be willing to bet that if they
have more than one child, those children that are kind
of glad to have Ray Ray along as well. By
(35:35):
the way, something that we've been dealing with here at
I Heart for a long long time is in the
office work or remote work, and some companies like it,
some companies don't. But in a recent poll three in
ten companies it about that about a third of the
companies in this country plan to eliminate remote work entirely
(35:58):
before twenty twenty six, which didn't now far away. Now
maybe it's some time in twenty twenty six. It's kind
of hard to say exactly by exactly how it's written here,
but even right here where I am, we're slowly transitioning
back into the office from COVID's insistence that almost everybody
non essential stay home and work from there.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
This one here. I'm not sure which way it goes
and which way it doesn't go. There's a woman who
online has been accused of fat shaming after she said
that she was fed up with having to split restaurant
bills with her larger friends. Is what she called them
who order more food than her every time they go out.
(36:46):
You know, if they're if they're friends, and if you're
if you still want to be friends with them and
go to lunch with them, I don't think i'd have
a terrible problem splitting the bill unless it's just egregious.
If it's if they're ordering four entrees and you're just
getting a salad, that would be a deal breaker perhaps,
(37:08):
But otherwise I think there are far worse things that
could be going on in a friendship than that. Just
let it go, enjoy your meal, enjoy the company. Good
company is worth extra money, right all right, that's it
for today. We'll see you tomorrow. Good company. Audios.
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