January 1, 2026 • 35 mins
2026 Rose Parade Live Updates. Dr. Jim Keany, Chief Medical Officer at Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center in Long Beach, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany talks with Neil about what we can look forward to in medicine in 2026.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. Good Thursday Morning to you. Happy New Year,
January first, twenty twenty six. Neil Savedra and the Morning
crew with you today. Happy to be with you. Got
Heather Brooker in for Amy King, We've got Matthew in
for Ann and Trey Alexander in for Will. But Cono
(00:23):
and I are here as well, bringing in the new
year with you. Handle will be back on Monday. I'm
with you tomorrow morning with Heather as well. Thanks for
hanging out. So I want to get into the New
Year's Day and the ball times square ball drop in
a minute. But the parade has started. The Rose Parade
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has started their breaking down with their performers. So they
launch with Bishop Briggs with the opening performance. And already
there's one thing and it's on like every channel in here.
We've got seven eight televisions or whatever, and it's on
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all of them at different angles. The one thing that
I see right off the bat because of the rain
is rain drops on every lens.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I was just thinking that exact same thing. I was like,
wipe off your lenses.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, So here's the deal coming from, you know, having
family in the industry and the like. There is people go, well,
how do you shoot in the rain, and the assumption
as well, you're just going to put like a little
cloak thing over the top of the camera and that's
going to do it. No, they actually have special lenses
that have the lens has a piece of glass on
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the front of it that spins, actually spins to knock
the water droplets off, and the hope is that's how
you get you know, clear shots in the like. So
there is techniques for it, but man, is it distracting.
I mean, there's a shot right now completely blurred out
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as the marine corpse.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
CNN doesn't have it in their coverage, and I feel
like that's probably because CNN is used to covering different
types of weather conditions, so they may there may be
their cameras were more prepared, but CNN doesn't have any
drops on any of their angles of the camera.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So looking it depends on which camera the camera. The
two shots of the hosts are fine, yeah, but when
they try and get in the middle of things, it's different.
So that just noticing certain things and then watching Bishop
Briggs perform with her team and they had these beanies
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on or something uh big. They had red beanies with
their red.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
They were all dressed in red.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It was a great performance, yes, but a very hard
one to pull off in the cold, is my guess.
Plus a couple of the dancers lost their grip on
their well, not on their beanies. So I kept seeing
these beanies, these red beanies on the on the parade
route down on because they but I mean, they get it.
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They're all man, God bless her she. I couldn't hear
her belting it out, but you could see that she was.
So it's gonna be an interesting one as the different
coverage through. You know, I see, I love the bands.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
What's your favorite part of the parades?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh? I like floats, the creativity of the but I
you know, bands are always great. You've got the Marine
Corps band right now playing. I like anything orchestrated like
that in Unison is very powerful sounding. But to me,
the creativity and the animatronics and things like that that
they put on these floats, it's always is that what's
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going on right now? Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
See, I love I love the bands. That's like one
of my favorite parts of of the paride.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
God bless those that will serve in the military on
our behalf here in the United States. So God blessed
those folks were braving the rain today too. As the
road parade goes on, Charlie Worsham mid parade act of course,
Bishop Briggs started things off, John Foster mid parade, and
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then Capital Cities is the grand finale, and Magic Johnson
is heads it all as the Grand Marshal of today's parade.
But you know, hearing Gary and Shannon talk about this yesterday,
it's always been that kind of Chamber of Commerce day
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where everybody else in the country, if you know, get
to look and go, oh my gosh, it's January one
in southern California and it's gorgeous, and let's move there
and have our company there right Well, today it's raining,
and so it's a little weird. It hasn't happened for
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fifty years since last time rained during the Rose Paray.
So we're looking at the Honda float right now going by,
and some sports winners on there, you know, personified in
as that life size are bigger than life size. Its
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kind of hard to tell some of their vehicles on there.
As the parade kicks off today. Everybody's in ponchos people.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Look how many people are there. There are quite a
few people there.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I am impressed.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, the grand stands are packed. There's a ton of
people lining the streets. There's a Honda float. I saw
them building that when I was at the Float Barn,
the as Float Barn the other day.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Very impressive.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That is kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Huh, yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Do you know what it costs to be in those
stands instead of camping out?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I don't know. Let me see if I can find out.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I would imagine that it costs money to be in
those stands, But to me, that is money well spent
to get a seat like that. That's kind of prime location.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And also between seventy five and one hundred and thirty
dollars per seat, varying depending on the location.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's not horrible. I mean, if you you know, if
you're a couple of people, if you have a family
of eight, that's gonna be kind of rough.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
There's Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, the thing is like you could pay to be
in the grand stands, which is great, but also can't
you just go up the road like a mile or two,
and because it's a five mile route, you just sit
somewhere else along the.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, you can do all of that. It's just you know,
the different type of humanity you're gonna get. That's the
riff raff out there. No, I'm just saying just to
have a seat that you don't have to drag. And
I imagine they've got a play maybe that Does that
come with parking?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I doubt it. I doubt they'd be the.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Deal maker right there.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I mean that would be certainly make that more attractive.
I don't think that they include parking in that. I
can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Look at the San Francisco Travel Association. What are they
call those the painted Ladies, those houses that were.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
On a full house in San Francisco, that's what they
call them, the painted Ladies, The paint Ladies. I was
just there in April and got to see them in
person for the first time.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
They're beautiful there right across from the park there. Yes,
I saw a photo of John Stamos once that was hilarious,
his photo or video of him standing in front of
them and near them. But at the park and there
were a bunch of people out in front of it
taking pictures of the painted ladies, probably because they watched
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them on Full House and they had no idea that
John Stamos was taking a picture of them, taking a
picture like a kind of meta.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I bet somebody knew. I would know right away.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
But what wouldn't you say something? Yeah, would like, Hey,
John Stamos, I'd want to take a photo of John Stamos.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
By the way, you can get packages for VIP options
for the Rose Parade that includes indoor seating and brunch
experiences about four hundred bucks a pop.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Is there one like a brunch with John Stamos. That'd
be great, would be great. I'd pay for that.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But he was in the Beach Boys still.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Is Yeah, still plays with him. He's actually a friend
of my brother and his husband.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, they know this the most the stay, This stay
most happens to be a huge Disney fan. Owns the
d from the Disneyland sign when they tore down one
of them.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I think I've seen videos of him going quite often.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, look at that. Twenty twenty six is here and
Heather Brooker Kno, We've got Trey Alexander and Matthew here.
Happy to be with you today, bringing in the new
year with you as we watch the Rose Parade. The
rain's not too bad. It's cleared up quite a bit
right now. They were looking at rain until probably, you know,
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ten am noon something like that. It looks like it's
gonna be thinning out, but it's not going anywhere. We're
gonna have rain through Saturday and then it might we
might get some more next week. It looks like two
depending on where you are. Of course, there's nothing better
than when we say that it's gonna rain and people
are like, it's not raining where I am. Well, here's
how geography works. Sometimes rain will come in in the
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Southland in parts that you don't live in. That's just
the way it works. But it doesn't mean there won't
be rain. H Yeah. So it looks like in some
areas it goes into next week as well. Something to
keep in mind, are we gonna get any snow? Have
you heard? Heather? Is there gonna be what the snow
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level is? By any chance, we're gonna be Hell Heather,
you in there, Hi? How you doing? You're watching the parade?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I was watching the parade.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, you had on watching the parade? Face, I'm like, oh,
you're watching the parade.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Well, I listening to see what this particular flow.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Was, the one with the eyeballs with the robot, the
robot eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
With a Yeah, I thought maybe it was a wild
robot once. So I was just listening because we were
just talking about that. Yeah, So I was listening to
see if that's what it was, so I could call
it out to you.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And then I totally miss what you said.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
No, I was saying was the Have we heard anything
about the snow levels? Oh? No, I haven't. They usually
you know, that usually comes up. We got doctor Jim
Keeney going to join us at the bottom of the
hour in just a few minutes, so stick around for that.
Boredom is the latest trend online. This is interesting because
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I think everything runs its course to a certain degree
and then it has to reinvent itself. And oh my gosh,
no joke. John Stamos is on TV right now, stop it.
How did that happen? Did we manifest that we manifested?
That we manifested? Stamosi?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The snowpack is sixty nine percent of normal for this date,
and that is wow.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
They had a lot of a lot more snow than usual. Well,
I haven't seen much that one.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
The kaiser permanent that's.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Pretty Yeah, that's Spanish for permanent kaiser.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
So thank you for that translation.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, I'm here to help. Boredom is something that they're
looking at on social media, not the way you think,
but it's a lot of these young users are using
filming them actually video being themselves doing absolutely nothing, and
not just for like fifteen seconds or something like that.
They're doing fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, sometimes several hours of
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them kind of just doing nothing. And the goal here
is to rebuild attention spans that are, you know, constantly
this influx of notifications bing bing bing, and so it
looks lame. But a lot of social media stuff does
looks lame because people like, well, why are you just
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doing this thing? But they're pushing it out there still,
so it's content, but it's content of me doing nothing.
I'm not sure how that helps. But there's no phone use,
no food, no distractions, and there it's like a challenge.
The new challenge is going on and pushing everybody to
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it is like, hey, uh, it's an endurance test. You
remember what were they doing? What were they calling it
bear Uh not bear backing. That seems that's something else.
What different? No, it was, uh raw dogging. That's the
same thing.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I have to google bear backing and raw docking.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Raw dogging, raw dogging. Yeah, a docking, I know what
it is. That definitely is for sure. But like you
remember when they're like, go on an air airplane and
fly a long flight, but don't read a book, don't
look at your phone, don't watch television, and that they
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were calling that raw dogging. Right, well, this is kind
of the same thing. They're challenging each other to do nothing, like, hey,
do nothing and then record it this endurance test of
doing nothing, and creators are saying that it's about this
mental rest not just views. Oh, of course not. It's
never about views. But the videos are just you know,
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someone sitting silently on a couch, a stool or floor,
just staring at the camera or a wall. Wow, this
is where we're at. Minimal background music or maybe some
ambient noises back there. Sometimes time lapse at its can
press these long stretches of time, but participates and say, hey,
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they feel calmer and mentally refreshed at the end of
all this, and they described this post boredom energy boost.
I'm not really someone I don't get bored. I know
that sounds weird, but there's always too much to do.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Okay, really quick, please look at the shot of the
Grand Marshal at the Roseberry.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Wait which one where there is grand Oh my.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Gosh, all you can see is his hand.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Wait a second.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
They probably paid him so much money and you cannot
see him at all, the Grand Marshal. It's magic Johnson.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Look. Oh, because they got the it was supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
A convert So he's in a convertible and they've got
the top down and you cannot.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Covered it in flowers.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You cannot see him at You don't.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Think he you'd think you'd be leaning out or something.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I mean, put on a poncho. Man.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
The people came to say, that's horror. That's a bummer.
So sorry to interrupt your.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I get that you don't want to get the inside
of that car, that beautiful car. That you don't want
to get the inside of that car wet sure, but.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You could not see him at No.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You see a silhouette of his hand because of the lighting. Yeah, yeah,
oh that is horrible.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
By the way, barebacking and raw dogging are both slang
terms described to do something without protection or power.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
That's what I said. I only knew. Rod dogging is
the no phones on airplane, just staring at the back
and just minding your p's and q's to your thumbs. Oh,
look at Magic Johnson's hand. Prove it that man's hand.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Anybody in there, it can be an.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh man, what a bummer.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's a massive bummer.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Doctor Jim Keeney is with us, per huge uh and
we got some medical stuff to talk about with him.
Happy New Year, sir. How are you doing it? How
are you? Neil all Is? Well you did you know,
as I get older doing the midnight thing, I felt
the need to be with my boy and my wife
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in the twelve am hour and then wake up at four.
So I'm thrilled. Wow, you know. I was like, I
can do one of those, maybe one a year and
then but it's like, oh, I can't do that all
the time. That is not a good thing.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
But I gotta start doing New York in the years.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, exactly. At nine, That's what everybody said, just do
it at nine. But my kid's nine. He knows that's
not He wants the experience of of staying you know,
staying up late and doing things that he doesn't normally
get to do. So I don't want to deprive him
of that. Plus it's Bay Root in my neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And the fire day start.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, so nobody's going to bed.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
He wants to hear the gunshots in person.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, I'm telling you, it just is. It just gets nuts.
It gets absolutely not. So, you know, New Year. I
know that there's stuff that we can talk about, and
we're going to get into that in just a moment.
But I was wondering, is there anything that top of
mind that as far as technology and medicine, whether it's
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in pill form or new procedures or anything that you're
seeing that may come our way in twenty twenty six
or that we're making We've made a lot of progress
in and we might be seeing soon as part of
the options for medicine.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Oh, that's such a wide open question, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I just was wondering, Like it hit me, like, is
there you know, something on the crest because things change
so much that we're closer to I don't know, kidneys
for instance, with me, you know, I was on dialysis.
Small that and it seems about every five years or
so they come up with something that moves that disease along.
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And I'm wondering if you kind of do an assessment
at the end of each year as to what might
be coming for the.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Next Yeah, you know, I mean a few things that
that come to mind, are you know, monoclonal antibodies in
these in these focused you know, magic bullet cures where
they are customized to the individual, and you know, we
saw some of that with COVID being developed more heavily.
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We see it in cancer treatment. We're seeing in a
lot of autoimmune diseases. And we've known about this technology
for decades, it just never really panned out until recently.
It seems like we've suddenly hit that part of the
curve where they understand how to develop these technologies and
what works what doesn't. So again, I mean, that's a
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big area that I think is growing, and hopefully we'll
find some cures for some big cancers, you know, like
breast cancer or prostate cancer that are just low side
effect and high cure rates. That would be great.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, that's impressive, and you know, as much controversy that
has come with vaccines or things like that. My personal
opinion is much ado about nothing. Most of the time.
It's our ignorance as lay people as to you know,
what's in them and how they work and things like that.
But with COVID, as annoying as some of the political
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decisions might have been about shutting things down, we end
up learning more than just what we're tackling at hand,
Like COVID, we end up learning about kind of side
issues in science, like an off use of a medicine
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or something. Don't We often find out something new whenever
we like have to tackle something like COVID.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean, for sure, it's the first time
we really used in the mRNA approach for something like that.
So mRNA had been you know, these m RNA vaccines
had been around for a while, but this is the
first time we actually used it in a broad area
like this and really learned quite a bit about mRNA vaccines.
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You know, another area I think of is it's the
crisper technology where you can modify genes and you know,
we did a story this year about how this was
the first time someone was treated with a child was
treated with gene therapy to cure a specific genetic disorder.
So the idea now that we can just go in
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potentially we're still not quite there yet across the board,
but to be able to go in and edit people's
genes and fix genetic problems that we know exist. I mean,
we can do that now. In the case we've talked about,
we did it. They did it in a child really
at the time of birth, or you know, they were
able to correct. I'm forgetting exactly what it was that
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we treated, but the idea of coming in cutting, cutting DNA,
seeing it, and then the person walking away. You think
about diseases that are really broad spread, like sickle cell,
which is just a single genetic nucleotide, and if you
could change that, you know, in somebody's body, you could
cure the disease.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And that particular disease has genetically been passed down and
attacked primarily the African American community correct or black folks,
whether it's here in America or beyond.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah, that's typically what we see in the United States,
but anywhere. It's interesting because it gives you an advantage
when malaria is in the area. It gives you some
resistance to malaria. When you have sickle cell disease in
the regions where malaria is prevalent, that tends to be
where we see more sickle cell as a result.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Wow, that's I didn't know that. It's fascinating. So it
might have it might have been simply a evolutionary combatant towards.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Yeah, advantage in some way some area.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, that's that. I've never heard that. That actually is
insane to think about. And then also to go in
on the level of DNA and genetically. You know, personally,
my family has polycystic renal disease, and so I got
my kidney transplant about six years ago, and you know,
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out of seven kids, five of us got it. My
father had it. I have nephews and nieces that have it.
And it's most likely that my grandfather, who died in
Mexico had died of it because they didn't have dialysis
back and they didn't have kidney transplants until what the fifties,
like fifties or something. So that may be something that
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goes the way of the Dodo bird just by starting
to edit it out and splice it out of a
genetic gene pool.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, Yeah, it's a possibility. It's a real possibility at
this point.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Wow, that's insane because you know, everything the vast majority
of these things are genetic issues or genetic things that
are passed along.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Right, So yeah, I mean that again we can fix
we can fix genetic problems, but we can also now
program you know cells. That's what car te therapy is,
right that you're you're taking it currently. It's autologous, right,
We take your own immune cells, we edit those and
then put them back in your body genetically modified so
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that they can go after target tumor cells mostly or
treatments like that. So you know, again it's almost like
a three D printer for you know, Eurompean system. Now
we can just almost create whatever we need. That's where
that's where it's going. You know, it's not quite there yet. Again,
it's not. We have a lot of great cartith therapies
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right now, but the area is still evolving.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, but just the trajectory to be able to see
that as pretty exciting. So the flu activity is raising
sharply here in the United States. The new data coming
from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Who is
this hitting and is this something we should be concerned
about what would cause this to be happening now.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, so yeah, definitely, it's it's this is the time
of year, this is when we expect it to rise,
and it is rising certain areas like New York. I mean,
they've seen they haven't seen a spike this high since
two thousand and four, so they're pretty high. San Diego
Riverside County are seeing spikes, but kind of in line
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with what we expect this time of year. So there's
still time to get the flu shot. The peak is
probably going to be in January or late January early February,
so still plenty of time right now. During this time
of year, we usually have about a forty five percent
of taken the flu vaccine among the higher risk populations,
especially and that's about what we're seeing right now. So surprisingly,
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it doesn't seem like all the talk about vaccines and
everything has scared most people off from getting the flu shot,
which is good, but it's the flu this year is
a H three and two, which is the type a
flu that that affects older people more so we do
expect more er visits and more hospitalizations from an H
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three and two flu, and especially in elderly, So if
you're over sixty five, be sure to get a back.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
What is I obviously, with kidney and the suppression of
my immune system, I'm very big and getting it and
I've already done all that. But as far as the
elderly is, at what point do you have the flu
and think I need to know go to the er.
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I need to see my general practice doctor and figure
out what's going on.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah, so somebody, for example, like you, that has an
underlying medical condition that could make this worse, like you
have emphysem us at COPD, congestive heart failure, those type
of things, you probably want to see your doctor early
when you get sick, because if it is the flu,
if you get the flu test and then we can
treat it, but it has to be in the first
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forty eight hours. We can give anti viral medicine that
shortens the course of the flu and shortens the intensity
of it. If you know, if you're just a relatively
healthy person, even if you are over sixty five, I
would say use the standard rules, which is, you know,
if it feels like you know, body aches, headache, fever,
you can treat most of that at home with time
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and all, if you need to to reduce the fever
or the body aches, I yourprofen those type of things. Fluids.
Make sure you're getting enough fluids in you. But you
don't really need to go to the hospital or to
the er unless you're having difficulty breathing, you know, then
that's a serious concern or altered mental status. Really, when
people die from the flu, they die from typically pneumonia,
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or they die from more rarely encephalitis or swelling in
the brain. And then those people get very confused and disoriented.
So you start seeing those symptoms, come to the emergency room.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yikes. What causes the inflammation of the brain?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Well, viruses in general can do that. So once they
infect the body, that inflammatory response can cause inflammation all
over your body. That's what gives you a headache, that's
what gives you, you know, the body aches and everything else.
And in some people it gets so severe that you
inflame the brain so much that they become confused, disoriented,
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and again that can result in seizures, it can result
in death. So get those flu that's very rare, but
it is one of the causes of death for flu.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So confusion and how long does the flu last could
it last for decades because you just described handle.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
He's special and that's not the cause.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And he usually causes headaches. It's not that he has
me and causes them for other people. So this is
for the you know, older people over sixty five as
it hit. You know, do children get affected with the
flu and is there ever a point where you should
be concerned about a child with the flu?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Yeah, same, same concerns. I mean, children do get the flu,
they do get hospitalized, and in you know, I think
in San Diego County last year, there were about three
hundred thousand deaths. I remember seeing that somewhere. Recit's across
the country. They're about three hundred children's children deaths from
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the flu, and there are a couple thousand hospitalizations. So
it does happen, and we want to try.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And reduce that.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
So again, immunization works. But if they get if they
get sick, you treat it just like any other cold
or flu, which is if they're maintaining okay at home,
able to tolerate fluids, you know, acting normally, not having
any respiratory distress, then you can treat it at home,
especially with kids, also with adults. If you're getting dehydrated
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because you're just not able to hold down fluids or
you're not drinking enough, then you may need to come
to the hospital for hydration.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Okay, it's the new year, today's the first twenty twenty six.
I don't know about you, brother, but it was a
blink of an eye twenty twenty five. For whatever reason,
it just seemed like, all of a sudden, it was
so and then I'm like in whenever summer it's I'm like, okay,
it's going to be Christmas any minute now. What are
what are some I hate to call them resolutions, but
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the fact is we're not very smart creatures and we
always think, well, the first of the year, we got
to start something. Are there any you know, medical resolution
type things that you can do that actually do move
the needle in life?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Yeah, I mean, I'll give you my top five. You
could pick one or two. They're not hard, so, but
they're just a matter of sticking to it right. You're
not trying to do something big and hard. You're not
trying to do something consistent. So Number one is protecting
your sleep, like it's a medical prescription. So you want
to make sure that you get sleep. You set up
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your environment for sleep, and you do that regularly because
that probably has the biggest effect on your health when
you're unable to sleep well. Number two would be, you know,
weight training. If you could actually just lift some weights,
you know, not you don't have to even go to
a gym. You can get some heavy items and do
some lifting and do that once or twice a week.
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If you do two sessions thirty minutes a week, that's
been shown to improve longevity. You're more likely to be
able to walk when you get older, which is a
critical thing.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Could use that and then bands or as resistance training.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Or yeah, resistance training, any kind of resistance training, so
bands would work as well. And you want to just
make sure that you're you know that you're getting that exercise,
especially older people. We used to say, don't don't have
older people lift weights, but it's better for them to
lift weights because it gives them the ability to maintain
that strength. You start losing muscle cells as you get older.
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You see people starting to kind of wither away in
a bit, and we call it sarcopenia as the medical
word for it. But we want to reduce sarcopenia and
we want you to maintain that muscle mass.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Sounds like aeish horror movie. Yeah, I don't know. Well,
I don't know why that came to me. That's sound
a weird. Okay, the next one.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
The next one is is just walk. Just walk every day,
see if you can get you know, everybody's aiming for
ten thousand steps. You really only need seven thousand according
to the studies. But the more you can walk the better,
especially if it's after meals, because meals tend to spike
your blood sugar sure, and that's not good, and it
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requires more insulin, and then you can develop over time
insulin resistance. So if you can get up after a
meal and just say, hey, look, after dinner, we want
to go for an after dinner walk every day, you know,
just maybe you know, fifteen minute walk, twenty minute walk,
that will significantly improve your blood sugar and your overall health.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
What blood sugar spike we talk about those things. What
does that do to your body? I can guess why
it's bad, but what does it do to your body
that becomes so problematic?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I mean, well, the biggest thing is it causes a
release of insulin, and insulin isn't the best thing to
have floating around in your blood. It's it's a hormone
that you need. It helps unlock the cells so that
that sugar can enter the cell. So it's absolutely necessary.
And when it doesn't function right, you get diabetes, which
is someone who the cells are starving for glucose because
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it won't unlock the cell. But there's a ton of
glucose floating around in your blood and that sugar. Just
imagine soaking something in sugar for a long period of time.
It becomes almost like pickled or you know, like a
sugar coated candy. It just becomes hardened. That's what your
your blood vessels become like. So you know, we don't
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want big spikes and blood sugar. And if you can
control that and you can control insulin, then you're just
better off in your health.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
So like let's say I'm I crashed with a soccer
team on top of a snowy mountain and I want
and I got a sweet tooth, I go for the
one with the diabetes. Yeah, I mean rare. It's probably
not gonna happen, but if it does, I want to know.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Okay, yeah, they're dessert, They're.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Not don't have them first. Doc. Always good to talk
to you. Happy New Year, my friend. You always give
us great insights for ourselves and I love that list
of you know, resolutions medically that actually or for health
that actually moved the needle. Thanks for your time, buddy,
I go back to doing what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
All right, Take care.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
We'll talk to you again soon. Doctor Jim Keeney. All right,
that's our New Year's show for you. Thanks so much
for hanging out. I'll be with you again tomorrow and
Handle and we'll be back on Monday. Thanks to Heather
Brooker and KNO and Trey and Matthew and I think
they got everybody there, and especially thanks to you. I
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appreciate you taking the time to hang out with us
on this day. I hope you get to relax. I'll
be back tomorrow morning. This is KFI and KOSTHD to
Los Angeles, Orange County.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
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six forty. Good Thursday Morning to you. Happy New Year,
January first, twenty twenty six. Neil Savedra and the Morning
crew with you today. Happy to be with you. Got
Heather Brooker in for Amy King, We've got Matthew in
for Ann and Trey Alexander in for Will. But Cono
(00:23):
and I are here as well, bringing in the new
year with you. Handle will be back on Monday. I'm
with you tomorrow morning with Heather as well. Thanks for
hanging out. So I want to get into the New
Year's Day and the ball times square ball drop in
a minute. But the parade has started. The Rose Parade
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has started their breaking down with their performers. So they
launch with Bishop Briggs with the opening performance. And already
there's one thing and it's on like every channel in here.
We've got seven eight televisions or whatever, and it's on
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all of them at different angles. The one thing that
I see right off the bat because of the rain
is rain drops on every lens.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I was just thinking that exact same thing. I was like,
wipe off your lenses.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, So here's the deal coming from, you know, having
family in the industry and the like. There is people go, well,
how do you shoot in the rain, and the assumption
as well, you're just going to put like a little
cloak thing over the top of the camera and that's
going to do it. No, they actually have special lenses
that have the lens has a piece of glass on
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the front of it that spins, actually spins to knock
the water droplets off, and the hope is that's how
you get you know, clear shots in the like. So
there is techniques for it, but man, is it distracting.
I mean, there's a shot right now completely blurred out
(01:57):
as the marine corpse.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
CNN doesn't have it in their coverage, and I feel
like that's probably because CNN is used to covering different
types of weather conditions, so they may there may be
their cameras were more prepared, but CNN doesn't have any
drops on any of their angles of the camera.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
So looking it depends on which camera the camera. The
two shots of the hosts are fine, yeah, but when
they try and get in the middle of things, it's different.
So that just noticing certain things and then watching Bishop
Briggs perform with her team and they had these beanies
(02:34):
on or something uh big. They had red beanies with
their red.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
They were all dressed in red.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It was a great performance, yes, but a very hard
one to pull off in the cold, is my guess.
Plus a couple of the dancers lost their grip on
their well, not on their beanies. So I kept seeing
these beanies, these red beanies on the on the parade
route down on because they but I mean, they get it.
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They're all man, God bless her she. I couldn't hear
her belting it out, but you could see that she was.
So it's gonna be an interesting one as the different
coverage through. You know, I see, I love the bands.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
What's your favorite part of the parades?
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh? I like floats, the creativity of the but I
you know, bands are always great. You've got the Marine
Corps band right now playing. I like anything orchestrated like
that in Unison is very powerful sounding. But to me,
the creativity and the animatronics and things like that that
they put on these floats, it's always is that what's
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going on right now? Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
See, I love I love the bands. That's like one
of my favorite parts of of the paride.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
God bless those that will serve in the military on
our behalf here in the United States. So God blessed
those folks were braving the rain today too. As the
road parade goes on, Charlie Worsham mid parade act of course,
Bishop Briggs started things off, John Foster mid parade, and
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then Capital Cities is the grand finale, and Magic Johnson
is heads it all as the Grand Marshal of today's parade.
But you know, hearing Gary and Shannon talk about this yesterday,
it's always been that kind of Chamber of Commerce day
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where everybody else in the country, if you know, get
to look and go, oh my gosh, it's January one
in southern California and it's gorgeous, and let's move there
and have our company there right Well, today it's raining,
and so it's a little weird. It hasn't happened for
(04:57):
fifty years since last time rained during the Rose Paray.
So we're looking at the Honda float right now going by,
and some sports winners on there, you know, personified in
as that life size are bigger than life size. Its
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kind of hard to tell some of their vehicles on there.
As the parade kicks off today. Everybody's in ponchos people.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Look how many people are there. There are quite a
few people there.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I am impressed.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, the grand stands are packed. There's a ton of
people lining the streets. There's a Honda float. I saw
them building that when I was at the Float Barn,
the as Float Barn the other day.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Very impressive.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That is kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Huh, yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Do you know what it costs to be in those
stands instead of camping out?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I don't know. Let me see if I can find out.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
I would imagine that it costs money to be in
those stands, But to me, that is money well spent
to get a seat like that. That's kind of prime location.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
And also between seventy five and one hundred and thirty
dollars per seat, varying depending on the location.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
It's not horrible. I mean, if you you know, if
you're a couple of people, if you have a family
of eight, that's gonna be kind of rough.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
There's Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, the thing is like you could pay to be
in the grand stands, which is great, but also can't
you just go up the road like a mile or two,
and because it's a five mile route, you just sit
somewhere else along the.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yeah, you can do all of that. It's just you know,
the different type of humanity you're gonna get. That's the
riff raff out there. No, I'm just saying just to
have a seat that you don't have to drag. And
I imagine they've got a play maybe that Does that
come with parking?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
I doubt it. I doubt they'd be the.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Deal maker right there.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I mean that would be certainly make that more attractive.
I don't think that they include parking in that. I
can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Look at the San Francisco Travel Association. What are they
call those the painted Ladies, those houses that were.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
On a full house in San Francisco, that's what they
call them, the painted Ladies, The paint Ladies. I was
just there in April and got to see them in
person for the first time.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
They're beautiful there right across from the park there. Yes,
I saw a photo of John Stamos once that was hilarious,
his photo or video of him standing in front of
them and near them. But at the park and there
were a bunch of people out in front of it
taking pictures of the painted ladies, probably because they watched
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them on Full House and they had no idea that
John Stamos was taking a picture of them, taking a
picture like a kind of meta.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I bet somebody knew. I would know right away.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
But what wouldn't you say something? Yeah, would like, Hey,
John Stamos, I'd want to take a photo of John Stamos.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
By the way, you can get packages for VIP options
for the Rose Parade that includes indoor seating and brunch
experiences about four hundred bucks a pop.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Is there one like a brunch with John Stamos. That'd
be great, would be great. I'd pay for that.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
But he was in the Beach Boys still.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Is Yeah, still plays with him. He's actually a friend
of my brother and his husband.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, they know this the most the stay, This stay
most happens to be a huge Disney fan. Owns the
d from the Disneyland sign when they tore down one
of them.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
I think I've seen videos of him going quite often.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Yeah, look at that. Twenty twenty six is here and
Heather Brooker Kno, We've got Trey Alexander and Matthew here.
Happy to be with you today, bringing in the new
year with you as we watch the Rose Parade. The
rain's not too bad. It's cleared up quite a bit
right now. They were looking at rain until probably, you know,
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ten am noon something like that. It looks like it's
gonna be thinning out, but it's not going anywhere. We're
gonna have rain through Saturday and then it might we
might get some more next week. It looks like two
depending on where you are. Of course, there's nothing better
than when we say that it's gonna rain and people
are like, it's not raining where I am. Well, here's
how geography works. Sometimes rain will come in in the
(09:26):
Southland in parts that you don't live in. That's just
the way it works. But it doesn't mean there won't
be rain. H Yeah. So it looks like in some
areas it goes into next week as well. Something to
keep in mind, are we gonna get any snow? Have
you heard? Heather? Is there gonna be what the snow
(09:47):
level is? By any chance, we're gonna be Hell Heather,
you in there, Hi? How you doing? You're watching the parade?
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I was watching the parade.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, you had on watching the parade? Face, I'm like, oh,
you're watching the parade.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Well, I listening to see what this particular flow.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Was, the one with the eyeballs with the robot, the
robot eyes.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
With a Yeah, I thought maybe it was a wild
robot once. So I was just listening because we were
just talking about that. Yeah, So I was listening to
see if that's what it was, so I could call
it out to you.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
And then I totally miss what you said.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
No, I was saying was the Have we heard anything
about the snow levels? Oh? No, I haven't. They usually
you know, that usually comes up. We got doctor Jim
Keeney going to join us at the bottom of the
hour in just a few minutes, so stick around for that.
Boredom is the latest trend online. This is interesting because
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I think everything runs its course to a certain degree
and then it has to reinvent itself. And oh my gosh,
no joke. John Stamos is on TV right now, stop it.
How did that happen? Did we manifest that we manifested?
That we manifested? Stamosi?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
The snowpack is sixty nine percent of normal for this date,
and that is wow.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
That's okay.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
They had a lot of a lot more snow than usual. Well,
I haven't seen much that one.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
The kaiser permanent that's.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Pretty Yeah, that's Spanish for permanent kaiser.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
So thank you for that translation.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, I'm here to help. Boredom is something that they're
looking at on social media, not the way you think,
but it's a lot of these young users are using
filming them actually video being themselves doing absolutely nothing, and
not just for like fifteen seconds or something like that.
They're doing fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, sometimes several hours of
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them kind of just doing nothing. And the goal here
is to rebuild attention spans that are, you know, constantly
this influx of notifications bing bing bing, and so it
looks lame. But a lot of social media stuff does
looks lame because people like, well, why are you just
(12:10):
doing this thing? But they're pushing it out there still,
so it's content, but it's content of me doing nothing.
I'm not sure how that helps. But there's no phone use,
no food, no distractions, and there it's like a challenge.
The new challenge is going on and pushing everybody to
(12:31):
it is like, hey, uh, it's an endurance test. You
remember what were they doing? What were they calling it
bear Uh not bear backing. That seems that's something else.
What different? No, it was, uh raw dogging. That's the
same thing.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I have to google bear backing and raw docking.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Raw dogging, raw dogging. Yeah, a docking, I know what
it is. That definitely is for sure. But like you
remember when they're like, go on an air airplane and
fly a long flight, but don't read a book, don't
look at your phone, don't watch television, and that they
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were calling that raw dogging. Right, well, this is kind
of the same thing. They're challenging each other to do nothing, like, hey,
do nothing and then record it this endurance test of
doing nothing, and creators are saying that it's about this
mental rest not just views. Oh, of course not. It's
never about views. But the videos are just you know,
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someone sitting silently on a couch, a stool or floor,
just staring at the camera or a wall. Wow, this
is where we're at. Minimal background music or maybe some
ambient noises back there. Sometimes time lapse at its can
press these long stretches of time, but participates and say, hey,
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they feel calmer and mentally refreshed at the end of
all this, and they described this post boredom energy boost.
I'm not really someone I don't get bored. I know
that sounds weird, but there's always too much to do.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Okay, really quick, please look at the shot of the
Grand Marshal at the Roseberry.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Wait which one where there is grand Oh my.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Gosh, all you can see is his hand.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Wait a second.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
They probably paid him so much money and you cannot
see him at all, the Grand Marshal. It's magic Johnson.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Look. Oh, because they got the it was supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
A convert So he's in a convertible and they've got
the top down and you cannot.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Covered it in flowers.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You cannot see him at You don't.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Think he you'd think you'd be leaning out or something.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I mean, put on a poncho. Man.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
The people came to say, that's horror. That's a bummer.
So sorry to interrupt your.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
I get that you don't want to get the inside
of that car, that beautiful car. That you don't want
to get the inside of that car wet sure, but.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You could not see him at No.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
You see a silhouette of his hand because of the lighting. Yeah, yeah,
oh that is horrible.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
By the way, barebacking and raw dogging are both slang
terms described to do something without protection or power.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
That's what I said. I only knew. Rod dogging is
the no phones on airplane, just staring at the back
and just minding your p's and q's to your thumbs. Oh,
look at Magic Johnson's hand. Prove it that man's hand.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Anybody in there, it can be an.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Oh man, what a bummer.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
That's a massive bummer.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Doctor Jim Keeney is with us, per huge uh and
we got some medical stuff to talk about with him.
Happy New Year, sir. How are you doing it? How
are you? Neil all Is? Well you did you know,
as I get older doing the midnight thing, I felt
the need to be with my boy and my wife
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in the twelve am hour and then wake up at four.
So I'm thrilled. Wow, you know. I was like, I
can do one of those, maybe one a year and
then but it's like, oh, I can't do that all
the time. That is not a good thing.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
But I gotta start doing New York in the years.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Yeah, exactly. At nine, That's what everybody said, just do
it at nine. But my kid's nine. He knows that's
not He wants the experience of of staying you know,
staying up late and doing things that he doesn't normally
get to do. So I don't want to deprive him
of that. Plus it's Bay Root in my neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
And the fire day start.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, so nobody's going to bed.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
He wants to hear the gunshots in person.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, I'm telling you, it just is. It just gets nuts.
It gets absolutely not. So, you know, New Year. I
know that there's stuff that we can talk about, and
we're going to get into that in just a moment.
But I was wondering, is there anything that top of
mind that as far as technology and medicine, whether it's
(17:22):
in pill form or new procedures or anything that you're
seeing that may come our way in twenty twenty six
or that we're making We've made a lot of progress
in and we might be seeing soon as part of
the options for medicine.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Oh, that's such a wide open question, you know.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I just was wondering, Like it hit me, like, is
there you know, something on the crest because things change
so much that we're closer to I don't know, kidneys
for instance, with me, you know, I was on dialysis.
Small that and it seems about every five years or
so they come up with something that moves that disease along.
(18:07):
And I'm wondering if you kind of do an assessment
at the end of each year as to what might
be coming for the.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Next Yeah, you know, I mean a few things that
that come to mind, are you know, monoclonal antibodies in
these in these focused you know, magic bullet cures where
they are customized to the individual, and you know, we
saw some of that with COVID being developed more heavily.
(18:32):
We see it in cancer treatment. We're seeing in a
lot of autoimmune diseases. And we've known about this technology
for decades, it just never really panned out until recently.
It seems like we've suddenly hit that part of the
curve where they understand how to develop these technologies and
what works what doesn't. So again, I mean, that's a
(18:53):
big area that I think is growing, and hopefully we'll
find some cures for some big cancers, you know, like
breast cancer or prostate cancer that are just low side
effect and high cure rates. That would be great.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, that's impressive, and you know, as much controversy that
has come with vaccines or things like that. My personal
opinion is much ado about nothing. Most of the time.
It's our ignorance as lay people as to you know,
what's in them and how they work and things like that.
But with COVID, as annoying as some of the political
(19:29):
decisions might have been about shutting things down, we end
up learning more than just what we're tackling at hand,
Like COVID, we end up learning about kind of side
issues in science, like an off use of a medicine
(19:52):
or something. Don't We often find out something new whenever
we like have to tackle something like COVID.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean, for sure, it's the first time
we really used in the mRNA approach for something like that.
So mRNA had been you know, these m RNA vaccines
had been around for a while, but this is the
first time we actually used it in a broad area
like this and really learned quite a bit about mRNA vaccines.
(20:27):
You know, another area I think of is it's the
crisper technology where you can modify genes and you know,
we did a story this year about how this was
the first time someone was treated with a child was
treated with gene therapy to cure a specific genetic disorder.
So the idea now that we can just go in
(20:49):
potentially we're still not quite there yet across the board,
but to be able to go in and edit people's
genes and fix genetic problems that we know exist. I mean,
we can do that now. In the case we've talked about,
we did it. They did it in a child really
at the time of birth, or you know, they were
able to correct. I'm forgetting exactly what it was that
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we treated, but the idea of coming in cutting, cutting DNA,
seeing it, and then the person walking away. You think
about diseases that are really broad spread, like sickle cell,
which is just a single genetic nucleotide, and if you
could change that, you know, in somebody's body, you could
cure the disease.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
And that particular disease has genetically been passed down and
attacked primarily the African American community correct or black folks,
whether it's here in America or beyond.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Yeah, that's typically what we see in the United States,
but anywhere. It's interesting because it gives you an advantage
when malaria is in the area. It gives you some
resistance to malaria. When you have sickle cell disease in
the regions where malaria is prevalent, that tends to be
where we see more sickle cell as a result.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Wow, that's I didn't know that. It's fascinating. So it
might have it might have been simply a evolutionary combatant towards.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Yeah, advantage in some way some area.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Yeah, that's that. I've never heard that. That actually is
insane to think about. And then also to go in
on the level of DNA and genetically. You know, personally,
my family has polycystic renal disease, and so I got
my kidney transplant about six years ago, and you know,
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out of seven kids, five of us got it. My
father had it. I have nephews and nieces that have it.
And it's most likely that my grandfather, who died in
Mexico had died of it because they didn't have dialysis
back and they didn't have kidney transplants until what the fifties,
like fifties or something. So that may be something that
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goes the way of the Dodo bird just by starting
to edit it out and splice it out of a
genetic gene pool.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Yeah, Yeah, it's a possibility. It's a real possibility at
this point.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Wow, that's insane because you know, everything the vast majority
of these things are genetic issues or genetic things that
are passed along.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
Right, So yeah, I mean that again we can fix
we can fix genetic problems, but we can also now
program you know cells. That's what car te therapy is,
right that you're you're taking it currently. It's autologous, right,
We take your own immune cells, we edit those and
then put them back in your body genetically modified so
(23:54):
that they can go after target tumor cells mostly or
treatments like that. So you know, again it's almost like
a three D printer for you know, Eurompean system. Now
we can just almost create whatever we need. That's where
that's where it's going. You know, it's not quite there yet. Again,
it's not. We have a lot of great cartith therapies
(24:15):
right now, but the area is still evolving.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Yeah, but just the trajectory to be able to see
that as pretty exciting. So the flu activity is raising
sharply here in the United States. The new data coming
from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Who is
this hitting and is this something we should be concerned
about what would cause this to be happening now.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, so yeah, definitely, it's it's this is the time
of year, this is when we expect it to rise,
and it is rising certain areas like New York. I mean,
they've seen they haven't seen a spike this high since
two thousand and four, so they're pretty high. San Diego
Riverside County are seeing spikes, but kind of in line
(25:03):
with what we expect this time of year. So there's
still time to get the flu shot. The peak is
probably going to be in January or late January early February,
so still plenty of time right now. During this time
of year, we usually have about a forty five percent
of taken the flu vaccine among the higher risk populations,
especially and that's about what we're seeing right now. So surprisingly,
(25:28):
it doesn't seem like all the talk about vaccines and
everything has scared most people off from getting the flu shot,
which is good, but it's the flu this year is
a H three and two, which is the type a
flu that that affects older people more so we do
expect more er visits and more hospitalizations from an H
(25:52):
three and two flu, and especially in elderly, So if
you're over sixty five, be sure to get a back.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
What is I obviously, with kidney and the suppression of
my immune system, I'm very big and getting it and
I've already done all that. But as far as the
elderly is, at what point do you have the flu
and think I need to know go to the er.
(26:21):
I need to see my general practice doctor and figure
out what's going on.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah, so somebody, for example, like you, that has an
underlying medical condition that could make this worse, like you
have emphysem us at COPD, congestive heart failure, those type
of things, you probably want to see your doctor early
when you get sick, because if it is the flu,
if you get the flu test and then we can
treat it, but it has to be in the first
(26:47):
forty eight hours. We can give anti viral medicine that
shortens the course of the flu and shortens the intensity
of it. If you know, if you're just a relatively
healthy person, even if you are over sixty five, I
would say use the standard rules, which is, you know,
if it feels like you know, body aches, headache, fever,
you can treat most of that at home with time
(27:09):
and all, if you need to to reduce the fever
or the body aches, I yourprofen those type of things. Fluids.
Make sure you're getting enough fluids in you. But you
don't really need to go to the hospital or to
the er unless you're having difficulty breathing, you know, then
that's a serious concern or altered mental status. Really, when
people die from the flu, they die from typically pneumonia,
(27:31):
or they die from more rarely encephalitis or swelling in
the brain. And then those people get very confused and disoriented.
So you start seeing those symptoms, come to the emergency room.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yikes. What causes the inflammation of the brain?
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Well, viruses in general can do that. So once they
infect the body, that inflammatory response can cause inflammation all
over your body. That's what gives you a headache, that's
what gives you, you know, the body aches and everything else.
And in some people it gets so severe that you
inflame the brain so much that they become confused, disoriented,
(28:10):
and again that can result in seizures, it can result
in death. So get those flu that's very rare, but
it is one of the causes of death for flu.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So confusion and how long does the flu last could
it last for decades because you just described handle.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
He's special and that's not the cause.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
And he usually causes headaches. It's not that he has
me and causes them for other people. So this is
for the you know, older people over sixty five as
it hit. You know, do children get affected with the
flu and is there ever a point where you should
be concerned about a child with the flu?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Yeah, same, same concerns. I mean, children do get the flu,
they do get hospitalized, and in you know, I think
in San Diego County last year, there were about three
hundred thousand deaths. I remember seeing that somewhere. Recit's across
the country. They're about three hundred children's children deaths from
(29:12):
the flu, and there are a couple thousand hospitalizations. So
it does happen, and we want to try.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
And reduce that.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
So again, immunization works. But if they get if they
get sick, you treat it just like any other cold
or flu, which is if they're maintaining okay at home,
able to tolerate fluids, you know, acting normally, not having
any respiratory distress, then you can treat it at home,
especially with kids, also with adults. If you're getting dehydrated
(29:41):
because you're just not able to hold down fluids or
you're not drinking enough, then you may need to come
to the hospital for hydration.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Okay, it's the new year, today's the first twenty twenty six.
I don't know about you, brother, but it was a
blink of an eye twenty twenty five. For whatever reason,
it just seemed like, all of a sudden, it was
so and then I'm like in whenever summer it's I'm like, okay,
it's going to be Christmas any minute now. What are
what are some I hate to call them resolutions, but
(30:09):
the fact is we're not very smart creatures and we
always think, well, the first of the year, we got
to start something. Are there any you know, medical resolution
type things that you can do that actually do move
the needle in life?
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Yeah, I mean, I'll give you my top five. You
could pick one or two. They're not hard, so, but
they're just a matter of sticking to it right. You're
not trying to do something big and hard. You're not
trying to do something consistent. So Number one is protecting
your sleep, like it's a medical prescription. So you want
to make sure that you get sleep. You set up
(30:46):
your environment for sleep, and you do that regularly because
that probably has the biggest effect on your health when
you're unable to sleep well. Number two would be, you know,
weight training. If you could actually just lift some weights,
you know, not you don't have to even go to
a gym. You can get some heavy items and do
some lifting and do that once or twice a week.
(31:09):
If you do two sessions thirty minutes a week, that's
been shown to improve longevity. You're more likely to be
able to walk when you get older, which is a
critical thing.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Could use that and then bands or as resistance training.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Or yeah, resistance training, any kind of resistance training, so
bands would work as well. And you want to just
make sure that you're you know that you're getting that exercise,
especially older people. We used to say, don't don't have
older people lift weights, but it's better for them to
lift weights because it gives them the ability to maintain
that strength. You start losing muscle cells as you get older.
(31:45):
You see people starting to kind of wither away in
a bit, and we call it sarcopenia as the medical
word for it. But we want to reduce sarcopenia and
we want you to maintain that muscle mass.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Sounds like aeish horror movie. Yeah, I don't know. Well,
I don't know why that came to me. That's sound
a weird. Okay, the next one.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
The next one is is just walk. Just walk every day,
see if you can get you know, everybody's aiming for
ten thousand steps. You really only need seven thousand according
to the studies. But the more you can walk the better,
especially if it's after meals, because meals tend to spike
your blood sugar sure, and that's not good, and it
(32:25):
requires more insulin, and then you can develop over time
insulin resistance. So if you can get up after a
meal and just say, hey, look, after dinner, we want
to go for an after dinner walk every day, you know,
just maybe you know, fifteen minute walk, twenty minute walk,
that will significantly improve your blood sugar and your overall health.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
What blood sugar spike we talk about those things. What
does that do to your body? I can guess why
it's bad, but what does it do to your body
that becomes so problematic?
Speaker 4 (32:58):
I mean, well, the biggest thing is it causes a
release of insulin, and insulin isn't the best thing to
have floating around in your blood. It's it's a hormone
that you need. It helps unlock the cells so that
that sugar can enter the cell. So it's absolutely necessary.
And when it doesn't function right, you get diabetes, which
is someone who the cells are starving for glucose because
(33:20):
it won't unlock the cell. But there's a ton of
glucose floating around in your blood and that sugar. Just
imagine soaking something in sugar for a long period of time.
It becomes almost like pickled or you know, like a
sugar coated candy. It just becomes hardened. That's what your
your blood vessels become like. So you know, we don't
(33:41):
want big spikes and blood sugar. And if you can
control that and you can control insulin, then you're just
better off in your health.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
So like let's say I'm I crashed with a soccer
team on top of a snowy mountain and I want
and I got a sweet tooth, I go for the
one with the diabetes. Yeah, I mean rare. It's probably
not gonna happen, but if it does, I want to know.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Okay, yeah, they're dessert, They're.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Not don't have them first. Doc. Always good to talk
to you. Happy New Year, my friend. You always give
us great insights for ourselves and I love that list
of you know, resolutions medically that actually or for health
that actually moved the needle. Thanks for your time, buddy,
I go back to doing what you're doing.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
All right, Take care.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
We'll talk to you again soon. Doctor Jim Keeney. All right,
that's our New Year's show for you. Thanks so much
for hanging out. I'll be with you again tomorrow and
Handle and we'll be back on Monday. Thanks to Heather
Brooker and KNO and Trey and Matthew and I think
they got everybody there, and especially thanks to you. I
(34:49):
appreciate you taking the time to hang out with us
on this day. I hope you get to relax. I'll
be back tomorrow morning. This is KFI and KOSTHD to
Los Angeles, Orange County.
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