April 23, 2023 • 40 mins
Dr. Galati starts the program by comparing health issues to car issues. The weekly article he discusses today is about automated external defibrillators. Dr. Galati’s sister and nurse Celeste Zerbarini also joins to talk about everything she’s doing right now. We then talk about looking at our parents as a window into your own health future.
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Initially coming to you live from Houston, Texas, home to the world's largest
medical center. Everything looking Billy,This is Your Health First, the most
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you'll learn about health, wellness andthe prevention of disease. Now here's your
host, doctor Joe Glatti. Wellthe marvelous Sunday evening to everybody. Welcome
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Your Health First. So we're hereevery Sunday between the hour of seven and
eight p m. I am doctorJoe Galatti, your host, going on
our twenty first year here and everySunday, you know the drill. We
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are here to make you better consumersof healthcare, raise your health IQ,
and truly make you begin to thinkabout your health and wellness, because so
much of what we see is aresult of kicking the can down the road.
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Everybody is a little overweight, everybodyhas a touch of diabetes, a
touch of high blood pressure, andthe list goes on and on, and
we are intervening too late. We'rewaiting until the wheels and the hub caps
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and the transmission is falling out ofyour car before you decide, you know
what, I better take my carin to get it checked out. How
ludicrous would that be if you wereLet's say you're sitting around with a bunch
of friends in your backyard and theysay, hey, what's what's new,
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Dave, And it's like, oh, you know, my my car is
in the shop and the service managercalled me up and said I am going
to oh, six thousand dollars worthof repairs on a twenty thousand dollar car.
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And the first response will probably bewhoa, Dave, what happened?
And you'll say, well, let'ssee, it is April. Since November,
the check engine light's been going on, and then like around Christmas time,
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there was this clicking and screeching soundwhen I stepped on the brake.
And then around uh, let's see, around Valentine's Day, when I would
step on the gas, it wouldnot go out of first gear. And
then by March, black smoke iscoming out of the tailpipe. And finally
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in the garage there was all thisfluid junk that was leaking onto the garage
floor. And then what did youdo? Well? I called a tow
truck to take my car away,and you know, the service manager called
me and said six thousand bucks tofix. You would be laughed out of
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the backyard barbecue. They would say, what the heck is wrong with you?
Why didn't you call sooner? Well, you know I thought it would
go away. Well, that iswhat we do with our body. The
body is sending out signals, earlywarning sign and we ignore it. And
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then when all comes crashing down,you wonder, how that hell did this
happen? How do I get intothis situation? And you may be sitting
there tonight driving home from work,driving home from Grandma's house, making a
peanut butter and jelly sandwich for yourkids tomorrow for school, and you're like,
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come on, he's really being quiteridiculous. No, that is not
being ridiculous. This is what Ilisten to every day, and I see
patients that come in very very late, years too late. So just like
your car that's blowing black smoke,leaking transmission fluid, making sounds like it
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is a possessed vehicle, the samething is happening to the body. And
the medical system really, which Iam part of, is engineered wrong.
So for me to try to geta patient some nutritional counseling, the insurance
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companies won't pay for it. That'san out of pocket expense. How about
if I try to write a prescriptionfor an exercise routine so that you could
start to lose a little weight,get in better aerobic shape, strengthen your
legs, muscles, arms, andback. Or how about even better,
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I'm going to write a prescription tohave you learn how to shop, prepare
a meal, and eat right.Blue Cross Blue Shield is not going to
pay that bill. But if youhave a massive heart attack and need quadruple
open heart surgery, a pacemaker,then a kidney transplant, a hip replacement,
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they'll pay for that. But learnhow to cook, No way,
And so that's where I really amcoming from. And I and I believe
that you the consumer have to startspeaking up. And you may say,
there's no way. I'm just oneguy, just me and my wife and
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two kids and a dog. Idon't have any power over Blue Cross,
Blue Shield, United Healthcare, ETNA, Medicare. But there has to be
a people's revolution of sort in thehealthcare space because we don't have enough hospital
beds, we don't have enough clinicspace, we don't have enough doctors,
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nurses, PA's nurse practitioners to handlethis onslaught on slot. It's my New
York and me coming out. Sorry, so anyway, that is it.
We want to try to make youthink that is that is my goal.
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and let me know what's on yourmind, share any ideas that you have
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Glati dot com. All right,so this article I've got here is from
a recent New York Times and ithas to do with well, this is
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the title. The device saves lives, but almost nobody has one at home.
Well, what are they talking about. They're talking about automated external defibrillators
a EDS. Now, let's behonest. You can't go to an airport,
a mall, a church, aball field, a supermarket, a
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hospital without seeing these aeeds every fewhundred feet at the place that you're at.
Now, the AED, automated externaldefibrillator is exactly what it is.
It is a defibrillator. And ifyou don't know what a defibrillator is,
it is a device that shocks theperson's heart into a normal electrical rhythm that
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will support blood pressure. So thelearning point for this moment is that the
normal heart, and the reason theheart beats seventy times a minute or a
little faster or a little bit slower, is because of electrical ativity in the
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heart. And it works in avery orderly fashion. Starts at the top
of the heart, moves down throughthe bottom of the heart, and everything
contracts in synchrony. It's synchronized.You can have the top and the bottom
contracting at different times. It won'twork and you get sick. But the
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defibrillator, the AED is really forthe most part, to simplify it here
is reserved for people that have suddencardiac death, where the rhythm of the
heart, the electrical activity is insuch disarray that nothing is happening. All
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of this chaotic electrical contraction does nothing. And if the heart's not beating,
you have blood pressure drops, youdon't get blood circulating to the lungs to
pick up oxygen to circulate it toyour brain and other vital tissue, and
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you die. So the risk ofdying of sudden cardiac death is relatively high
because of this chaotic rhythm of theheart. So the idea is as archaic
as it seems, is to sendanother electrical shock through the heart to get
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it back on course. It's likeresetting the fuse box in your house.
But anyway, so the article hereis basically asking the question should people have
these AEDs at home? Now?Beware, you're going to probably drop a
thousand bucks to get a home AEED. You could go online right now and
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type in home a ED personal aED and there will be a flurry of
websites that will come up telling youto buy one. Now, the central
question is do you need one athome? Well, you know, we
have nine one one, we havefire departments, police paramedics. There are
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people trained in CPR at the mall, at the hospital, at church,
hopefully at the ball field that you'reat, the high school that your kids
playing basketball at. But there's alot of assumptions that somebody is trained in
CPR they want to come forward anddo this, So it's not a guarantee
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just because the ads there that somebody'sgoing to jump in and use it right
away. Usually they will, butthat's another story. So the question is,
if you're at home, you're onvacation, you are on the road,
somewhere, you're camping, should youhave an AD at home? Now,
I've heard patients tell me that theylive in a very closely knit neighborhood.
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They have a big col de sacthere's ten or twelve homes and they
chipped in together about one hundred bucksto get in AEED, so they have
a block AED, a neighborhood AED. And really, when you think about
it, time is of the essence. Yes, you'd like to think you
call nine one, the fire departmentwill be there and under five minutes,
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but it may not be and maybeten minutes. And if you're on the
ground in with sun cardiac death,it's almost guaranteed you're going to have irreversible
brain damage and you'll be brain dead. So why not realize that in your
call to sack of houses that theJohnson family has an AED or has the
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AED of the neighborhood and you couldrun out get them and apply it and
you could save someone's life potentially.So the story in and the article talks
about a couple that was traveling inan RV and they made it a point
before they started on their road trip, pardon me to get an aeed keep
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it in their RV. Well,wouldn't you know it, at the RV
park where they were, somebody hadsudden cardiac death and to the rescue,
they pulled this thing out and savethe guy's life. And so I would
really say, in my professional experience, it would not be a bad thing
to have an AED at home orsomething that you would share within your neighbors.
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Or if your kids are playing sportsand they're not that big, they
fit in at a little case thatwouldn't be too obnoxious to walk around with.
But if you had one at thelittle league field or at the swimming
match. Whatever the case may be. You go camping, you're on vacation,
you have your own AEED. Again, I would say, as long
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as you train yourself in CPR,which is the chess compressions, the rescue
breathing, choking, and how touse an AED, contact the American Heart
Association, get get your neighborhood toparticipate, or you know your church.
You're gonna have the American Heart comeout, American Heart Association come out and
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teach you how to use an AED. But so become a student of the
machine. You don't want to orderit on Amazon and then have it sit
in the box and say, gee, Grandpa is having sudden cardiac death.
Now what the hell do I do? So I would do that as a
public service. Then there are othersin the article that are saying, you
know what, why spend a thousandbucks. It's a very rare thing that
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is going to happen. You reallyneed to have this on your on your
person. It's a good argument,But I would air on the side of
being prepared, always prepared, alwaysready. Okay, so something to think
about. I'll post the article onthe Facebook page. All right, we're
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Stay tuned, well, right back, wait for the Every Sunday between seven
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and eight pm, we are here. The name of the program is Your
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is our website and on the phoneto nice no stranger to Your Health First.
My sister Celeste Zerberini is calling infrom New York, New York,
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coming in from New York. Andif you don't remember, Celeste is a
nurse and she has performed a numberof duties as a nurse, including hospice
care and of course floor nursing inthe traditional sense. What are you doing
now, Celeste? Why don't youexplaining to everybody? Well, right now,
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I'm working for the State of Connecticut, their insurance company which is called
Husky Insurance, which services all theMedicaid population. So I'm a nurse case
manager and what I do is Igive educational counseling to all of our members.
When somebody is discharged from the hospitalor they're diagnosed with something new,
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I just help them transition through thatprocess, you know, teach them about
their new meds and you know,better health habits and diet and exercise.
So I'm a virtual health coach.Basically, it's all telephonic. I do
go out into the community and seemy families once in a while because I
like to get that face to face, you know, visit in But so
that's basically what I do, andit's it's great. It's great. We're
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helping a lot of people, alot of people now that are you know,
coming across the border that don't haveinsurance. We're in sharing them and
we're getting them proper healthcare. Rightnow. At the end of the day,
I would say, as as anurse, you are teaching an educating
about health and wellness. Absolutely,you know, there's so much more.
You think of a nurse as doingbedside which is great. I mean a
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lot of nurses are doing bedside careand in the hospital and we can't live
without them. But when you transitioninto the community setting, everybody needs education.
You know, some people are educatedpeople and they just don't know about
healthcare. They can't know how totake care of themselves. So it's so
fast. Yeah, and I wouldI would think people that are listening tonight,
they may say, well, youknow, I have a master's in
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biochemistry, I'm an engineer, I'man architect, I have a business,
so I look, I know thehealth issues. But I would say,
and I think you would agree,that doesn't guarantee that you're doing the smart
thing to stay ahead of the complicatingfactors that we all face. Oh absolutely,
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And you could be there. AndI have a lot of patients,
you know, through my years ofexperience, that are well educated people.
But when you start or diagnosis atthem, just something like diabetes, that's
that's new territory. They've never hadanybody in their family diagnosed. They don't
know the first thing about their meds, about balancing your proteins, in your
fats, in your cards, sugars, you know, it's a whole you
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know, different perspective. And itwould be ignorant to think that I would
know everything about just because I'm educated, I would know about engineering or something
that sort. So I think weall need a little bit of a health
coach, you know, along theway. So whether that be a nurse
or you what you're doing, whichis great on the radio, you know.
So I think everybody needs a littlebit of know they do. And
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you know, one of the challengeswhere we're all living longer and the risk
of us getting a chronic disease thatdoesn't kill us, but does in a
sense disables us. So when youlook back a hundred years, people that
had heart disease, kidney disease,diabetes, there was a good chance that
their life was going to be cutshort. But now we have all of
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these medicines and therapy and diagnostics thatwe're living with the chronic disease and those
that do the best are the onesthat manage that disease. But the cornerstone
is really education and knowledge. Absolutely. I just had an in service yesterday
from one of our diabetic nurse educatorstalking about diabetes obviously, and she said
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that treating diabetes specifically is nine ninein the patient's hand, right. You
have to take the medications that you'represcribed, you have to abide by the
diet that's prescribed, you have toexercise. So if you do what you're
supposed to do and what you're educatedto do by your doctors and nurses and
your whole team, and you're managingit. And that's powerful for you to
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be in charge of your own healthcare. It's and that's what I try to
empower my patients that you are incharge of your life. Nobody else is
going to do this for you.We can guide you along the way,
but you're in charge right now.The main reason for getting you on tonight,
I have number one, been thinkingabout this and I've been talking about
this with my patience. More andmore I find and it is all based
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on my personal experience and yours aswell. So as a refresher for everybody
tuning in a little over a yearago, Dad, our father, passed
away at the beautiful age of ninetyseven. Mom had died a few years
earlier at eighty eight, and soI'd like to think that we have the
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longevity gene on our side. Butthe key thing is Mom and Dad really
took care of themselves. Do youwant to just comment on that before we
get into this any further, Celest, Yeah, And I knew you've talked
about it a lot on the radio. Mom was amazing as far as she
was way ahead of her time.She always cooked real food, fresh foods,
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fresh vegetables, fresh everything. Sowe grew up that, you know,
and I've raised my kids to bethat way. So I think we
have a little bit of a headon most people because I know a lot
of my friends at the same age. They didn't grow up like the way
we did as far as food beingsuch a such a big part of our
lives and good nutrition. And theysaid, let me let me just stop
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you there. Would you say itis fair? And we're not. You
know, your friends are going tobe listening tonight, of course, But
are is it fair to say thatsome of those are plagued with chronic disease
that could have been prevented? Whatdo you think, something like if they
if they if they ate better,if they had a better foundation. Well,
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it's funny you say that, becauseI was talking to one of my
good friends who I went to collegewith. She's not a nurse, but
we had gone to college together,and she's had a weight problem pretty much
her entire life. She's she's obese, um and she's waned on and off.
She's lost some weight she's gained someweight. And today I was talking
to her. I had a longdrive to go visit one of my patients,
so I was chatting with her,and she said, I cannot do
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this. I cannot lose the weight. And unfortunately, both of her parents
died very young, and she hasthe stopping point that can't get her to
do what she's supposed to do.And she's educated, she knows she has
to eat right. She knows shehas to, you know, have a
balanced diet. And the advice Igave to her, she's a sugar fanatic.
She loves her sugar and she lovesher Coca cola. And I said,
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listen, just a moderate lifestyle change. Just cut the sugar out.
You know, it's going to behard for the first couple of days,
but your body will feel better,you won't have aches and pains, you
will lose weight, feel better,you'll sleep better. So I think it's
just a matter of you know,giving imparting our knowledge on our people,
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our friends, family, o,our listeners, and just making those simple
lifestyle changes. You don't have togo on weight watches and all these crazy
diets. Starts. Change what youcan change, and then once you start
seeing the positive effects, then itshould snowball into you saying, okay,
you know this is this is kindof working, and look what else I
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could do? Exactly well, exactlynow looking at um our parents, Mom
and dad, and you know,again, I keep my fingers crossed that
there there is not a lot ofdisease in our parents. But tell me
how you at at this stage inyour life we're both in our sixties,
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that you look at mom and dadalmost as a window into your future.
Because I I that is what I'vebeen doing lately, and I've been trying
to tell I've been trying to tellmy patients that, to say, if
you want to see how the nextfive, ten, fifteen, twenty years
is going to go, look atyour parents. So with that question,
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how do you look at yourself elf? And how do you look to say
I better do X to prevent whybig question? But what do you think?
Well? I think I think aboutthat a lot too, because it's
funny because they after Dad passed awayand then we lost both of our parents.
You know, somebody had said tome, you know we're next,
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you know, we're next in lineto go, And I kind of hit
home a little bit to say,Okay, now I am. I'm going
to be sixty two next months.I'm in fair I'm in good health.
I don't take any medication. Idon't you know. I exercise and I
eat fairly well. But it hasreally been embedded in my brain like I
have to do everything that I canin my power to live a long,
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beautiful life like Mom and Dad did. Now, they taught us how to
eat well, and I think youand I both have that thank goodness for
that. But I'm I'm hyper focusedon eating fresh food. I think I
mentioned to you earlier that I starteddoing intermittent fasting program where now I'm just
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watching what I eat. I onlyeat during a certain window of time.
I've increased my water intake, I'mexercising more. And I think it's all
because in the back of my head, I'm thinking of what Mom and Dad
have taught us and how they livedsuch a long life. But they weren't
really into exercise, right. Imean, they eat well, but they
didn't exercise. So I think that'swhere you and I maybe have a little
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bit of head over them because wedo exercise. Yeah, And I was
I was thinking I was a weekor so ago. I was at the
gym on an elliptical, and tomy left and to my right were two
really old women. And I'm sayingto myself, Mom would be caught dead
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in sneakers in sweatpants on an ellipticalat a gym. Could you figure that
she wouldn't do it. She wouldn'tput the sweatpants on. We tried once
to buy her sweatpants, but youknow, she was an old school god
lover, you know. But theydidn't exercise, and they didn't really promote
that. I know, you playedsports when you were younger. I played
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some sports, but it wasn't reallya thing. I know, when I
was in my younger thirties and fortiesand I was running a lot, Mom
would say to me, oh,you better watch yourself, you know,
don't sweat too much. You know. So that wasn't part of their lifestyle.
So I think that's something that we'redoing. We're taking on ourselves to
say, okay, yeah, eating, well it was great, but you
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have to have some form of exercise, whether it be yoga, pilates,
cycling, walking, walking is abeautiful thing, you know. I got
a new replacement a couple of yearsago because of all my years of running,
and I walk a lot, andit's just it's great for your body,
it's great for your mind. Youput some good tunes on and it's
it's your time, you know,it's time to take care of yourself.
Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, celestwe're going to take a quick break here
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and we are talking with my sister, Celeste Serberinia, nurse in New York,
and we're talking out looking at yourparents dead or alive, and trying
to figure out how you are goingto model yourself. Stay tuned. Final
segment coming up. We're right back. Final segment of Your Health First every
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Sunday between seven and eight p m. Doctor Joeklate dot com is our website.
I am on the phone tonight withmy sister Celeste Zerberini. How's the
music selection for you tonight? It'scrazy, sort of feel like we're throw
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back in back in New York home, Yes, spitting in the records.
All right. Look, you know, if you can have fun doing this,
what the hell are we doing?Right? Is that? Hey?
You have to have fun no matterwhat you do. You got to put
a smile on people's face. Iknow, I know, and it's through
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the music we play here. Sowe were we were Celeste and I were
talking about looking at your parents,our parents as a window into your own
health future. And I would saythat is probably the most valuable bit of
information all of you have. Now. You may say, my father drank,
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my father smoked, my father was, you know, two hundred pounds
overweight. I'm thin and I exercise. I think that is good. But
Celeste, what would you say tosomebody that said, oh, my mother,
my father, they were in terribleshape. I'm going to do my
own thing. I can't model myselfafter them. They're not a good barometer.
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Well, I mean, there's sometruth to that, but I think
it's it's always where you can alwaysdo better. You know, you look
at somebody, you look at therole models that you had in your life,
and some people unfortunately didn't have.We were blessed, Joe, you
know, we were blessed with unbelievablerole models as parents. And I know
that's not the norm for most people, and I see it in my population
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with my patients. But what Itry to impart on my members and my
patients that I talk with that thisis your opportunity to take your life and
do better for yourself for your children. And you know, I'm at the
point now where I want to livea long life. I have a lot
more years that I want to live. I have seven grandchildren now, and
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I want to be a good rolemodel for them, you know. So
I think it's it's all about accountability, it's all about taking control. And
you know, some people say,well, and I think it goes the
other way where some people will say, well, you know, I live
like this, and I lived onprocessed food. So that's all I know.
So that's what I'm going to do. Well, that's a terrible excuse,
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right right. And what I whatI find myself I've been doing is
and we're in the era of digitalphotographs, you know, just old old
fashioned, you know, paper printedphotographs. I will look at them and
I will realize that this was nineteeneighty eight when this picture let's just say
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me, you and dad, okay, And I'm like, okay, nineteen
eighty eight. He was born innineteen twenty four, he was, you
know, whatever, age old,And I'm like, holy crap, did
I look do or did I lookbetter at his age or we're almost at
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the same age. I think welooked at her, you know, and
I think we're healthier. Even thoughthey eat healthy. I think the component
that was missing for them was exercised, right. That's my belief, right,
And so I look at that it'sit's and I guess the bottom line
here, Sirrett's least, is thatthis wellness thing, or the prevention of
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disease or limiting the disease, isan active process. And so in my
brain, I look at a pictureof Dad or mom and I'm like,
gee, when let's say I graduatedcollege or medical school, they were fifty
five years old, and I'm like, did I look like that when I
was fifty five or when I wasthirty eight years old? That's what Dad
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looked like and we were on vacationand we were all little kids. I
don't know. I look at it. But you know, as much as
we love them, I say tomyself, yeah, I mean it is
different, But can I do betterthan them to stay out? Now?
Am I going to live instead ofninety seven? I'm going to live to
ninety eight? You know, Idon't know. I could only hope.
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So, but I think you haveto constantly work to prevent something else that
may be brewing that you can interveneabsolutely, And I think it's a big
part is to listening to your bodyand not ignoring signs. You know.
I heard recently of a person whoI'd met whose wife started getting a little
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bit of swelling in her legs,a little short of breath. Ignored it,
ignored it. She was in virtuallygood health. She dropped out of
a heart attack. Um. Sothose little signs that you know your body
gives you because your body's always talkingto you, you know. So I
think to not ignore signs, andthen on the flip side to prevention,
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you know, to just take bettercare of yourself and be conscious of what
you eat, because it is thatto me. I'm on this, you
know, eating right, Um,you know, mission right now, and
but your whole whole life, Ithink it has But you know that listen,
we're all human and you know,you know I live now with with
my daughter and her family, andthere's always some junk in the house.
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You know. Easter came around,the Easter baskets, oh my goodness,
you know, so you know,picking out the candy here and there and
picking at this and taking at that. I think we come from the pampa
of pickers, you know. Soso those are the things that I have
to bow out and sitting no,you know, maybe once in a while
as a treat, but not hereand there as I'm passing by grab a
Reese's egg. You know, thoseare the things that you have to be
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as we get older, you haveto be more aware of that. And
it's not total deprivation. Listen,I still live, and I still you
know, eat some things that maybeI shouldn't, But I think the main
focus has to be, you know, on a daily basis, eat right,
healthy organic fresh fruit, you know, foods you know, you know,
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using smart oils to cook with youknow, no deep crying and things
like that, right right, AndI think when when you look at your
friend group that and you know,some are newer friends, some are friends
you've had for forty years, whatwould you say if you could tell the
one thing sort of like what youwere mentioning about your other friend you talked
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about, But what would you say? And this is for everybody listening tonight.
The two or three things that arewithin your grasp to change now,
And it doesn't take money it doesn'ttake extra training, but it's stuff that
you could do right now. Whatwould you say, Well, I think
the biggest thing, and I thinkeverybody struggles with this, is carving out
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some time for yourself, whether itbe going and it doesn't have to be
for a five mile walk, butjust take some time before you go to
bed at night. Say okay,tomorrow, this is my schedule. I'll
be able to get a walk inor a workout in or something in for
myself at this time. You know, from five to six, before I
eat dinner, I'm going to goout for a walk, Even something as
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simple as taking a bath, givingyourself some time to yourself, get off
the merry, go round for alittle bit and just just be within yourself,
do a little bit of meditation,try to find that peace within yourself.
And that's something I've really been tryingto focus on lately, and it's
been extremely helpful because we get sohyper focused on our family and our job
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and every our neighbors, everybody aroundus. Where you need to I think
start once we get into our sixties, I think we have to really start
looking at ourselves and taking better careof ourselves. Absolutely, so just those
little lifestyle changes is key. Itis absolutely it is all right. Well
Celeste, always a pleasure having youon. You always deliver a good punch
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here and we will continue talking.And I really appreciate you coming on tonight.
Oh I love it every time,Joe, so talking to you.
All right, right, all right, takeing it, have a good night,
all right, love you too.Heye alight, all right, that's
my sister, So glad she wasable to come on. All right.
Well we're going to end here witha simple song. I can help.
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and truly make you begin to thinkabout your health and wellness, because so
much of what we see is aresult of kicking the can down the road.
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Everybody is a little overweight, everybodyhas a touch of diabetes, a
touch of high blood pressure, andthe list goes on and on, and
we are intervening too late. We'rewaiting until the wheels and the hub caps
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and the transmission is falling out ofyour car before you decide, you know
what, I better take my carin to get it checked out. How
ludicrous would that be if you wereLet's say you're sitting around with a bunch
of friends in your backyard and theysay, hey, what's what's new,
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Dave, And it's like, oh, you know, my my car is
in the shop and the service managercalled me up and said I am going
to oh, six thousand dollars worthof repairs on a twenty thousand dollar car.
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And the first response will probably bewhoa, Dave, what happened?
And you'll say, well, let'ssee, it is April. Since November,
the check engine light's been going on, and then like around Christmas time,
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there was this clicking and screeching soundwhen I stepped on the brake.
And then around uh, let's see, around Valentine's Day, when I would
step on the gas, it wouldnot go out of first gear. And
then by March, black smoke iscoming out of the tailpipe. And finally
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in the garage there was all thisfluid junk that was leaking onto the garage
floor. And then what did youdo? Well? I called a tow
truck to take my car away,and you know, the service manager called
me and said six thousand bucks tofix. You would be laughed out of
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the backyard barbecue. They would say, what the heck is wrong with you?
Why didn't you call sooner? Well, you know I thought it would
go away. Well, that iswhat we do with our body. The
body is sending out signals, earlywarning sign and we ignore it. And
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then when all comes crashing down,you wonder, how that hell did this
happen? How do I get intothis situation? And you may be sitting
there tonight driving home from work,driving home from Grandma's house, making a
peanut butter and jelly sandwich for yourkids tomorrow for school, and you're like,
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come on, he's really being quiteridiculous. No, that is not
being ridiculous. This is what Ilisten to every day, and I see
patients that come in very very late, years too late. So just like
your car that's blowing black smoke,leaking transmission fluid, making sounds like it
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is a possessed vehicle, the samething is happening to the body. And
the medical system really, which Iam part of, is engineered wrong.
So for me to try to geta patient some nutritional counseling, the insurance
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companies won't pay for it. That'san out of pocket expense. How about
if I try to write a prescriptionfor an exercise routine so that you could
start to lose a little weight,get in better aerobic shape, strengthen your
legs, muscles, arms, andback. Or how about even better,
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I'm going to write a prescription tohave you learn how to shop, prepare
a meal, and eat right.Blue Cross Blue Shield is not going to
pay that bill. But if youhave a massive heart attack and need quadruple
open heart surgery, a pacemaker,then a kidney transplant, a hip replacement,
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they'll pay for that. But learnhow to cook, No way,
And so that's where I really amcoming from. And I and I believe
that you the consumer have to startspeaking up. And you may say,
there's no way. I'm just oneguy, just me and my wife and
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two kids and a dog. Idon't have any power over Blue Cross,
Blue Shield, United Healthcare, ETNA, Medicare. But there has to be
a people's revolution of sort in thehealthcare space because we don't have enough hospital
beds, we don't have enough clinicspace, we don't have enough doctors,
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nurses, PA's nurse practitioners to handlethis onslaught on slot. It's my New
York and me coming out. Sorry, so anyway, that is it.
We want to try to make youthink that is that is my goal.
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Glati dot com. All right,so this article I've got here is from
a recent New York Times and ithas to do with well, this is
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the title. The device saves lives, but almost nobody has one at home.
Well, what are they talking about. They're talking about automated external defibrillators
a EDS. Now, let's behonest. You can't go to an airport,
a mall, a church, aball field, a supermarket, a
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hospital without seeing these aeeds every fewhundred feet at the place that you're at.
Now, the AED, automated externaldefibrillator is exactly what it is.
It is a defibrillator. And ifyou don't know what a defibrillator is,
it is a device that shocks theperson's heart into a normal electrical rhythm that
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will support blood pressure. So thelearning point for this moment is that the
normal heart, and the reason theheart beats seventy times a minute or a
little faster or a little bit slower, is because of electrical ativity in the
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heart. And it works in avery orderly fashion. Starts at the top
of the heart, moves down throughthe bottom of the heart, and everything
contracts in synchrony. It's synchronized.You can have the top and the bottom
contracting at different times. It won'twork and you get sick. But the
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defibrillator, the AED is really forthe most part, to simplify it here
is reserved for people that have suddencardiac death, where the rhythm of the
heart, the electrical activity is insuch disarray that nothing is happening. All
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of this chaotic electrical contraction does nothing. And if the heart's not beating,
you have blood pressure drops, youdon't get blood circulating to the lungs to
pick up oxygen to circulate it toyour brain and other vital tissue, and
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you die. So the risk ofdying of sudden cardiac death is relatively high
because of this chaotic rhythm of theheart. So the idea is as archaic
as it seems, is to sendanother electrical shock through the heart to get
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it back on course. It's likeresetting the fuse box in your house.
But anyway, so the article hereis basically asking the question should people have
these AEDs at home? Now?Beware, you're going to probably drop a
thousand bucks to get a home AEED. You could go online right now and
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type in home a ED personal aED and there will be a flurry of
websites that will come up telling youto buy one. Now, the central
question is do you need one athome? Well, you know, we
have nine one one, we havefire departments, police paramedics. There are
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people trained in CPR at the mall, at the hospital, at church,
hopefully at the ball field that you'reat, the high school that your kids
playing basketball at. But there's alot of assumptions that somebody is trained in
CPR they want to come forward anddo this, So it's not a guarantee
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just because the ads there that somebody'sgoing to jump in and use it right
away. Usually they will, butthat's another story. So the question is,
if you're at home, you're onvacation, you are on the road,
somewhere, you're camping, should youhave an AD at home? Now,
I've heard patients tell me that theylive in a very closely knit neighborhood.
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They have a big col de sacthere's ten or twelve homes and they
chipped in together about one hundred bucksto get in AEED, so they have
a block AED, a neighborhood AED. And really, when you think about
it, time is of the essence. Yes, you'd like to think you
call nine one, the fire departmentwill be there and under five minutes,
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but it may not be and maybeten minutes. And if you're on the
ground in with sun cardiac death,it's almost guaranteed you're going to have irreversible
brain damage and you'll be brain dead. So why not realize that in your
call to sack of houses that theJohnson family has an AED or has the
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AED of the neighborhood and you couldrun out get them and apply it and
you could save someone's life potentially.So the story in and the article talks
about a couple that was traveling inan RV and they made it a point
before they started on their road trip, pardon me to get an aeed keep
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it in their RV. Well,wouldn't you know it, at the RV
park where they were, somebody hadsudden cardiac death and to the rescue,
they pulled this thing out and savethe guy's life. And so I would
really say, in my professional experience, it would not be a bad thing
to have an AED at home orsomething that you would share within your neighbors.
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Or if your kids are playing sportsand they're not that big, they
fit in at a little case thatwouldn't be too obnoxious to walk around with.
But if you had one at thelittle league field or at the swimming
match. Whatever the case may be. You go camping, you're on vacation,
you have your own AEED. Again, I would say, as long
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as you train yourself in CPR,which is the chess compressions, the rescue
breathing, choking, and how touse an AED, contact the American Heart
Association, get get your neighborhood toparticipate, or you know your church.
You're gonna have the American Heart comeout, American Heart Association come out and
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teach you how to use an AED. But so become a student of the
machine. You don't want to orderit on Amazon and then have it sit
in the box and say, gee, Grandpa is having sudden cardiac death.
Now what the hell do I do? So I would do that as a
public service. Then there are othersin the article that are saying, you
know what, why spend a thousandbucks. It's a very rare thing that
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is going to happen. You reallyneed to have this on your on your
person. It's a good argument,But I would air on the side of
being prepared, always prepared, alwaysready. Okay, so something to think
about. I'll post the article onthe Facebook page. All right, we're
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is our website and on the phoneto nice no stranger to Your Health First.
My sister Celeste Zerberini is calling infrom New York, New York,
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coming in from New York. Andif you don't remember, Celeste is a
nurse and she has performed a numberof duties as a nurse, including hospice
care and of course floor nursing inthe traditional sense. What are you doing
now, Celeste? Why don't youexplaining to everybody? Well, right now,
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I'm working for the State of Connecticut, their insurance company which is called
Husky Insurance, which services all theMedicaid population. So I'm a nurse case
manager and what I do is Igive educational counseling to all of our members.
When somebody is discharged from the hospitalor they're diagnosed with something new,
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I just help them transition through thatprocess, you know, teach them about
their new meds and you know,better health habits and diet and exercise.
So I'm a virtual health coach.Basically, it's all telephonic. I do
go out into the community and seemy families once in a while because I
like to get that face to face, you know, visit in But so
that's basically what I do, andit's it's great. It's great. We're
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helping a lot of people, alot of people now that are you know,
coming across the border that don't haveinsurance. We're in sharing them and
we're getting them proper healthcare. Rightnow. At the end of the day,
I would say, as as anurse, you are teaching an educating
about health and wellness. Absolutely,you know, there's so much more.
You think of a nurse as doingbedside which is great. I mean a
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lot of nurses are doing bedside careand in the hospital and we can't live
without them. But when you transitioninto the community setting, everybody needs education.
You know, some people are educatedpeople and they just don't know about
healthcare. They can't know how totake care of themselves. So it's so
fast. Yeah, and I wouldI would think people that are listening tonight,
they may say, well, youknow, I have a master's in
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biochemistry, I'm an engineer, I'man architect, I have a business,
so I look, I know thehealth issues. But I would say,
and I think you would agree,that doesn't guarantee that you're doing the smart
thing to stay ahead of the complicatingfactors that we all face. Oh absolutely,
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And you could be there. AndI have a lot of patients,
you know, through my years ofexperience, that are well educated people.
But when you start or diagnosis atthem, just something like diabetes, that's
that's new territory. They've never hadanybody in their family diagnosed. They don't
know the first thing about their meds, about balancing your proteins, in your
fats, in your cards, sugars, you know, it's a whole you
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know, different perspective. And itwould be ignorant to think that I would
know everything about just because I'm educated, I would know about engineering or something
that sort. So I think weall need a little bit of a health
coach, you know, along theway. So whether that be a nurse
or you what you're doing, whichis great on the radio, you know.
So I think everybody needs a littlebit of know they do. And
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you know, one of the challengeswhere we're all living longer and the risk
of us getting a chronic disease thatdoesn't kill us, but does in a
sense disables us. So when youlook back a hundred years, people that
had heart disease, kidney disease,diabetes, there was a good chance that
their life was going to be cutshort. But now we have all of
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these medicines and therapy and diagnostics thatwe're living with the chronic disease and those
that do the best are the onesthat manage that disease. But the cornerstone
is really education and knowledge. Absolutely. I just had an in service yesterday
from one of our diabetic nurse educatorstalking about diabetes obviously, and she said
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that treating diabetes specifically is nine ninein the patient's hand, right. You
have to take the medications that you'represcribed, you have to abide by the
diet that's prescribed, you have toexercise. So if you do what you're
supposed to do and what you're educatedto do by your doctors and nurses and
your whole team, and you're managingit. And that's powerful for you to
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be in charge of your own healthcare. It's and that's what I try to
empower my patients that you are incharge of your life. Nobody else is
going to do this for you.We can guide you along the way,
but you're in charge right now.The main reason for getting you on tonight,
I have number one, been thinkingabout this and I've been talking about
this with my patience. More andmore I find and it is all based
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on my personal experience and yours aswell. So as a refresher for everybody
tuning in a little over a yearago, Dad, our father, passed
away at the beautiful age of ninetyseven. Mom had died a few years
earlier at eighty eight, and soI'd like to think that we have the
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longevity gene on our side. Butthe key thing is Mom and Dad really
took care of themselves. Do youwant to just comment on that before we
get into this any further, Celest, Yeah, And I knew you've talked
about it a lot on the radio. Mom was amazing as far as she
was way ahead of her time.She always cooked real food, fresh foods,
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fresh vegetables, fresh everything. Sowe grew up that, you know,
and I've raised my kids to bethat way. So I think we
have a little bit of a headon most people because I know a lot
of my friends at the same age. They didn't grow up like the way
we did as far as food beingsuch a such a big part of our
lives and good nutrition. And theysaid, let me let me just stop
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you there. Would you say itis fair? And we're not. You
know, your friends are going tobe listening tonight, of course, But
are is it fair to say thatsome of those are plagued with chronic disease
that could have been prevented? Whatdo you think, something like if they
if they if they ate better,if they had a better foundation. Well,
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it's funny you say that, becauseI was talking to one of my
good friends who I went to collegewith. She's not a nurse, but
we had gone to college together,and she's had a weight problem pretty much
her entire life. She's she's obese, um and she's waned on and off.
She's lost some weight she's gained someweight. And today I was talking
to her. I had a longdrive to go visit one of my patients,
so I was chatting with her,and she said, I cannot do
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this. I cannot lose the weight. And unfortunately, both of her parents
died very young, and she hasthe stopping point that can't get her to
do what she's supposed to do.And she's educated, she knows she has
to eat right. She knows shehas to, you know, have a
balanced diet. And the advice Igave to her, she's a sugar fanatic.
She loves her sugar and she lovesher Coca cola. And I said,
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listen, just a moderate lifestyle change. Just cut the sugar out.
You know, it's going to behard for the first couple of days,
but your body will feel better,you won't have aches and pains, you
will lose weight, feel better,you'll sleep better. So I think it's
just a matter of you know,giving imparting our knowledge on our people,
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our friends, family, o,our listeners, and just making those simple
lifestyle changes. You don't have togo on weight watches and all these crazy
diets. Starts. Change what youcan change, and then once you start
seeing the positive effects, then itshould snowball into you saying, okay,
you know this is this is kindof working, and look what else I
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could do? Exactly well, exactlynow looking at um our parents, Mom
and dad, and you know,again, I keep my fingers crossed that
there there is not a lot ofdisease in our parents. But tell me
how you at at this stage inyour life we're both in our sixties,
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that you look at mom and dadalmost as a window into your future.
Because I I that is what I'vebeen doing lately, and I've been trying
to tell I've been trying to tellmy patients that, to say, if
you want to see how the nextfive, ten, fifteen, twenty years
is going to go, look atyour parents. So with that question,
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how do you look at yourself elf? And how do you look to say
I better do X to prevent whybig question? But what do you think?
Well? I think I think aboutthat a lot too, because it's
funny because they after Dad passed awayand then we lost both of our parents.
You know, somebody had said tome, you know we're next,
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you know, we're next in lineto go, And I kind of hit
home a little bit to say,Okay, now I am. I'm going
to be sixty two next months.I'm in fair I'm in good health.
I don't take any medication. Idon't you know. I exercise and I
eat fairly well. But it hasreally been embedded in my brain like I
have to do everything that I canin my power to live a long,
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beautiful life like Mom and Dad did. Now, they taught us how to
eat well, and I think youand I both have that thank goodness for
that. But I'm I'm hyper focusedon eating fresh food. I think I
mentioned to you earlier that I starteddoing intermittent fasting program where now I'm just
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watching what I eat. I onlyeat during a certain window of time.
I've increased my water intake, I'mexercising more. And I think it's all
because in the back of my head, I'm thinking of what Mom and Dad
have taught us and how they livedsuch a long life. But they weren't
really into exercise, right. Imean, they eat well, but they
didn't exercise. So I think that'swhere you and I maybe have a little
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bit of head over them because wedo exercise. Yeah, And I was
I was thinking I was a weekor so ago. I was at the
gym on an elliptical, and tomy left and to my right were two
really old women. And I'm sayingto myself, Mom would be caught dead
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in sneakers in sweatpants on an ellipticalat a gym. Could you figure that
she wouldn't do it. She wouldn'tput the sweatpants on. We tried once
to buy her sweatpants, but youknow, she was an old school god
lover, you know. But theydidn't exercise, and they didn't really promote
that. I know, you playedsports when you were younger. I played
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some sports, but it wasn't reallya thing. I know, when I
was in my younger thirties and fortiesand I was running a lot, Mom
would say to me, oh,you better watch yourself, you know,
don't sweat too much. You know. So that wasn't part of their lifestyle.
So I think that's something that we'redoing. We're taking on ourselves to
say, okay, yeah, eating, well it was great, but you
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have to have some form of exercise, whether it be yoga, pilates,
cycling, walking, walking is abeautiful thing, you know. I got
a new replacement a couple of yearsago because of all my years of running,
and I walk a lot, andit's just it's great for your body,
it's great for your mind. Youput some good tunes on and it's
it's your time, you know,it's time to take care of yourself.
Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, celestwe're going to take a quick break here
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and we are talking with my sister, Celeste Serberinia, nurse in New York,
and we're talking out looking at yourparents dead or alive, and trying
to figure out how you are goingto model yourself. Stay tuned. Final
segment coming up. We're right back. Final segment of Your Health First every
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Sunday between seven and eight p m. Doctor Joeklate dot com is our website.
I am on the phone tonight withmy sister Celeste Zerberini. How's the
music selection for you tonight? It'scrazy, sort of feel like we're throw
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back in back in New York home, Yes, spitting in the records.
All right. Look, you know, if you can have fun doing this,
what the hell are we doing?Right? Is that? Hey?
You have to have fun no matterwhat you do. You got to put
a smile on people's face. Iknow, I know, and it's through
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the music we play here. Sowe were we were Celeste and I were
talking about looking at your parents,our parents as a window into your own
health future. And I would saythat is probably the most valuable bit of
information all of you have. Now. You may say, my father drank,
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my father smoked, my father was, you know, two hundred pounds
overweight. I'm thin and I exercise. I think that is good. But
Celeste, what would you say tosomebody that said, oh, my mother,
my father, they were in terribleshape. I'm going to do my
own thing. I can't model myselfafter them. They're not a good barometer.
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Well, I mean, there's sometruth to that, but I think
it's it's always where you can alwaysdo better. You know, you look
at somebody, you look at therole models that you had in your life,
and some people unfortunately didn't have.We were blessed, Joe, you
know, we were blessed with unbelievablerole models as parents. And I know
that's not the norm for most people, and I see it in my population
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with my patients. But what Itry to impart on my members and my
patients that I talk with that thisis your opportunity to take your life and
do better for yourself for your children. And you know, I'm at the
point now where I want to livea long life. I have a lot
more years that I want to live. I have seven grandchildren now, and
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I want to be a good rolemodel for them, you know. So
I think it's it's all about accountability, it's all about taking control. And
you know, some people say,well, and I think it goes the
other way where some people will say, well, you know, I live
like this, and I lived onprocessed food. So that's all I know.
So that's what I'm going to do. Well, that's a terrible excuse,
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right right. And what I whatI find myself I've been doing is
and we're in the era of digitalphotographs, you know, just old old
fashioned, you know, paper printedphotographs. I will look at them and
I will realize that this was nineteeneighty eight when this picture let's just say
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me, you and dad, okay, And I'm like, okay, nineteen
eighty eight. He was born innineteen twenty four, he was, you
know, whatever, age old,And I'm like, holy crap, did
I look do or did I lookbetter at his age or we're almost at
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the same age. I think welooked at her, you know, and
I think we're healthier. Even thoughthey eat healthy. I think the component
that was missing for them was exercised, right. That's my belief, right,
And so I look at that it'sit's and I guess the bottom line
here, Sirrett's least, is thatthis wellness thing, or the prevention of
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disease or limiting the disease, isan active process. And so in my
brain, I look at a pictureof Dad or mom and I'm like,
gee, when let's say I graduatedcollege or medical school, they were fifty
five years old, and I'm like, did I look like that when I
was fifty five or when I wasthirty eight years old? That's what Dad
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looked like and we were on vacationand we were all little kids. I
don't know. I look at it. But you know, as much as
we love them, I say tomyself, yeah, I mean it is
different, But can I do betterthan them to stay out? Now?
Am I going to live instead ofninety seven? I'm going to live to
ninety eight? You know, Idon't know. I could only hope.
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So, but I think you haveto constantly work to prevent something else that
may be brewing that you can interveneabsolutely, And I think it's a big
part is to listening to your bodyand not ignoring signs. You know.
I heard recently of a person whoI'd met whose wife started getting a little
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bit of swelling in her legs,a little short of breath. Ignored it,
ignored it. She was in virtuallygood health. She dropped out of
a heart attack. Um. Sothose little signs that you know your body
gives you because your body's always talkingto you, you know. So I
think to not ignore signs, andthen on the flip side to prevention,
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you know, to just take bettercare of yourself and be conscious of what
you eat, because it is thatto me. I'm on this, you
know, eating right, Um,you know, mission right now, and
but your whole whole life, Ithink it has But you know that listen,
we're all human and you know,you know I live now with with
my daughter and her family, andthere's always some junk in the house.
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You know. Easter came around,the Easter baskets, oh my goodness,
you know, so you know,picking out the candy here and there and
picking at this and taking at that. I think we come from the pampa
of pickers, you know. Soso those are the things that I have
to bow out and sitting no,you know, maybe once in a while
as a treat, but not hereand there as I'm passing by grab a
Reese's egg. You know, thoseare the things that you have to be
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as we get older, you haveto be more aware of that. And
it's not total deprivation. Listen,I still live, and I still you
know, eat some things that maybeI shouldn't, But I think the main
focus has to be, you know, on a daily basis, eat right,
healthy organic fresh fruit, you know, foods you know, you know,
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using smart oils to cook with youknow, no deep crying and things
like that, right right, AndI think when when you look at your
friend group that and you know,some are newer friends, some are friends
you've had for forty years, whatwould you say if you could tell the
one thing sort of like what youwere mentioning about your other friend you talked
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about, But what would you say? And this is for everybody listening tonight.
The two or three things that arewithin your grasp to change now,
And it doesn't take money it doesn'ttake extra training, but it's stuff that
you could do right now. Whatwould you say, Well, I think
the biggest thing, and I thinkeverybody struggles with this, is carving out
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some time for yourself, whether itbe going and it doesn't have to be
for a five mile walk, butjust take some time before you go to
bed at night. Say okay,tomorrow, this is my schedule. I'll
be able to get a walk inor a workout in or something in for
myself at this time. You know, from five to six, before I
eat dinner, I'm going to goout for a walk, Even something as
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simple as taking a bath, givingyourself some time to yourself, get off
the merry, go round for alittle bit and just just be within yourself,
do a little bit of meditation,try to find that peace within yourself.
And that's something I've really been tryingto focus on lately, and it's
been extremely helpful because we get sohyper focused on our family and our job
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and every our neighbors, everybody aroundus. Where you need to I think
start once we get into our sixties, I think we have to really start
looking at ourselves and taking better careof ourselves. Absolutely, so just those
little lifestyle changes is key. Itis absolutely it is all right. Well
Celeste, always a pleasure having youon. You always deliver a good punch
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here and we will continue talking.And I really appreciate you coming on tonight.
Oh I love it every time,Joe, so talking to you.
All right, right, all right, takeing it, have a good night,
all right, love you too.Heye alight, all right, that's
my sister, So glad she wasable to come on. All right.
Well we're going to end here witha simple song. I can help.
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We are here to help all ofyou. Doctor Joe Glatti every Sunday between
seven and eight pm. You knowwhere to find us. God bless and
be well. If you got aproblem, don't care what it is.
You need a him. I'm notgonna show you this sack a hill.
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