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Dive into a fascinating exploration of how everyday beverages might be secretly sabotaging your hair health. A comprehensive scientific review analyzing over 61,000 people reveals the shocking connection between sugary drinks, alcohol consumption, and increased risk of hair loss and premature graying. The biochemical mechanisms are surprising – from excess sebum production clogging follicles to systemic dehydration and oxidative stress disrupting melanin production.

Beyond hair health, we share the remarkable story of John Sampson, whose "dad instincts" led him to perform a daring rescue at Hershey Park, climbing onto monorail tracks to save a wandering child. The incident raises troubling questions about theme park safety protocols and staffing adequacy. Meanwhile, Olympic diving legend Greg Louganis makes headlines with his decision to auction his gold medals and relocate to Panama at age 65, reflecting a profound journey of self-discovery and reinvention beyond athletic fame.

Local perspectives on the announcement that Space Command will relocate to Huntsville, Alabama reveal the complex emotions surrounding community growth. While economic benefits are welcome, concerns about infrastructure strain and cultural preservation highlight the delicate balance of progress. As seasons change, we're left wondering: what weather patterns will the coming months bring? After years of milder temperatures, are we due for a challenging winter? Share your predictions and what you're most looking forward to this fall!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, good morning, happy Wednesday.
Okay, let's start with overhere the first story I have up
on X from the New York Post.
These two drinks can make yougo gray and bald, plus the
nutrient that five studies saycan help.
I'm going to tell you right nowif you have alopecia like I do,
no amount of medicine oranything else is going to help.

(00:22):
Okay, maybe they're talkingabout something else here, I
don't know.
A sweeping new scientificreview suggests that two of
america's favorite beverages maybe quietly sabotaging
sabotaging your scalp fuelinghair loss and premature graying
from the inside out.
All the women in my family havegone gray.

(00:44):
Even when I had hair, I had nogray.
Even up into my 50s, no graywhatsoever.
So I wonder if my hair grewback which it won't, because I
have alopecia, I wonder if itwould be gray.
I don't think it would be.
I had dark hair my whole life.
So, all right, more than 80% ofmen and nearly half of women in

(01:05):
the US will experiencesignificant hair loss during
their lifetime, according to theNYU Langone Health.
Langone Health, okay, whatever.
So a lot of women have hair lossissues.
A lot of women do.
Trust me, they do, and I'm inthese wig group, facebook groups
on Facebook, and you would beamazed at how many women have

(01:29):
lost hair or suffering with hairloss.
And I wish, oh my gosh, some ofthese women like there's a post
on there the other day saidwhat wig do you work out in?
Honey?
I'm not working out in a wig.
No, no, ma'am.
I wish these women wouldembrace their baldness, because
it's not bad, I promise you.

(01:49):
The first time I went and shavedmy head at a barber and walked
out, nobody stared at me like Ihad three heads on my body or
anything.
Nobody gave me a second glanceand the people that did say
something.
It was all positive.
Of course, they think I havecancer when they see me out and
about, which is fine.
I understand that.

(02:09):
That is the symbol, I guess,because you know, if women are
bald, it's usually mean theyhave cancer and they've had
chemo and stuff.
So people will come up to memainly women will come up to me
and start telling me their storyand I let them talk, which is

(02:29):
fine.
They need to talk and get itout, but they just try to
encourage me and then I have totell them I don't have cancer,
thankfully, it's just alopecia,but you know, moving on with
this story about the drinks I'msorry I got sidetracked hair
loss can be triggered by manyfactors, including genetics,

(02:50):
hormones and certain medicaltreatments.
Severe nutrient, don't forgetalopecia.
Autoimmune, severe nutrientdeficiency also are common
culprit.
But the impact of more subtledietary factors on their hair
health is still being exploredTo get a clearer picture.
Researchers analyzed 17nutrition studies involving more

(03:11):
than 61,000 people aged 7 to 77, most of them women.
What they found might make youthink twice before reaching for
that next refill.
Before reaching for that nextrefill, excessive consumption of
sugary drinks, like soda,defined as more than 3,500
millimeters per week, or about10, 12-ounce cans, was linked to

(03:35):
a higher risk of hair loss,especially in men.
I never drank a lot of sodagrowing up.
That I'm aware of.
Not 10, 12-ounce cans a week.
No, here's why Sugar-loadeddrinks and snacks boost the

(03:57):
production of sebum, a naturaloily substance on your scalp.
Normally it protects andmoisturizes, but too much can
clog the pores and create abreeding ground for bacteria
that sets off inflammation andirritation, damaging hair
follicles and triggering hairloss.
Well, there you go.
Alcohol didn't fare much better.

(04:18):
Now that is a different story.
Now I haven't had a drink likeI used to drink, I mean since
before my kids were born, okay,and they're like my daughter, I
think, is 30.
My son's 28, 29, something likethat.
So it's been a long time sinceI had any kind of alcoholic

(04:39):
beverages consumed.
So there you go.
Alcohol and sugary drinks.
Let's see Two studies in thereview linked a high intake to
both sugar drinks hair loss andpremature graying.
While the exact cause isn'tclear, research shows heavy
drinking can dehydrate the bodyduh.

(04:59):
Cause isn't clear.
Research shows heavy drinkingcan dehydrate the body, duh,
sabotage, sabotage nutrientabsorption and throw hormones
out of whack.
All bad news for your hair.
Alcohol also ramps up oxidativestress in the body.
This can damage hair folliclesand mess with melanin production
, leaving your once vibrantlocks dull and gray and lifeless

(05:21):
.
You can go finish reading thatstory.
There's more to it, but thereyou go.
Okay, you guys remember thatstory about the guy at the
Hershey Park in Pennsylvaniathat saved that little boy that
was walking on the monorail,where we have an update.
And when I first heard thisstory my question was where was
security?
Where were the employees?
Where was medical?

(05:42):
I mean, why did a civilian atthe park, also attending, have
feel the need to go up and savethem.
Where were the other peopleworking there?
Okay, a man who is being hailedas a hero after he rescued a
missing child dangerouslywalking on the monorail tracks
at Hershey Park said his dadinstincts kicked in and

(06:03):
compelled him to jump intoaction.
John Sampson of Bucks County,pennsylvania, fearlessly climbed
onto the roof of a snack standand pulled himself up onto the
tracks.
After he saw the child walkingalone almost 100 feet above the
ground on Saturday evening whilespectators held their breath,
dad instincts kicked in and Iwas just trying to figure out

(06:27):
and how to get up there as fastas possible.
But where were the employees?
Where was everybody else?
That's my question.
Where was security?
He picked up the boy and safelybrought him down.
I felt relief, absolutelyrelief, and I even could feel it
in him, the relief as soon as Igot into my arms.
As soon as he got into my arms,thank goodness, he came

(06:48):
straight into my arms and itwent nice and simple in that
sense.
The boy was reported missing byhis parents around 5 pm after
he entered the secure area forthe monorail ride Hershey Park
officials, normally they havepeople you know everywhere.
I guess this is part of thepeople.
I guess this is part of whythis is a result, maybe, of

(07:10):
people not wanting to go to work.
Maybe, you know, we have thatproblem in America now.
No, I'm just going to stay homeand you know, collect, yeah,
government money.
Well, maybe that's why HersheyPark didn't have enough
employees.
That needs to be looked into,quite frankly.

(07:30):
All right, we need to move onto the next story.
Oh my gosh.
Us Olympic legend Greg Louganissells his medals and his home to
start a new life abroad.
Now, this story doesn't sayanything about being a Trump
hater.
It just is a more personalstory for him.
But wow, he does not lookanything like he used to look.

(07:52):
I don't think I would recognizehim on the street.
He's 65 years old and, who iswidely acclaimed as possibly the
greatest diver in history,revealed that he needed the
money from his house and medalsto be able to start afresh
overseas.
Now, again, it doesn't sayanything in this article about

(08:13):
hating Trump and that's why he'smoving.
It's nothing like that.
I don't know Louganis.
He this is the way it reads.
It's just weird.
Let me read it and then I'llstop as I go along.
Louganis, who won five Olympicmedals between 1976 and 1988,
revealed that he had bid adieuto the US and relocated to

(08:36):
Panama.
So as life moves forward, whatare you prepared to leave behind
?
He wrote on Facebook over theweekend.
He says I am 65 years old and Iam asking just that I am no
longer who I used to think.
I was not even close to whatother people or who other people
think I am.
Hmm, interesting.

(08:56):
Now he came out gay.
Back in the day, the retiredathlete revealed that he sold
two gold Olympic medals andsilver medal, and it combined
$437,000.
Let's see.
He auctioned off his medals.
Blah, blah, blah.
He said.
I told the truth.
I needed the money.
While many people may havebuilt businesses and sold them

(09:18):
for a profit, I had my medals,which I am grateful for.
The other consideration is thesale of my house.
I am very happy with whom Isold it to.
So he sold a lot of hisbelongings and possessions to
people who lost everything inthe wildfire palisades in
California.
So he also goes on to say Iknow I am choosing to do this,

(09:43):
but there is Okay, that's notwhat I wanted to read.
I realize I often close myselfoff, shut myself down and play
small for the comfort of others.
I don't think I have realizedor given myself credit for what
I might be able to accomplish.
Like I said in an earlier post,I was an instrument in my

(10:05):
coach's, ron O'Brien's, creation.
I was honored, proud andblessed to have been that.
For him, it was all achievedwith love at the core, he added.
Now I think him.
So I mean, what does that mean?

(10:26):
What does that mean?
Is he blaming his coach?
For I mean, he was an Olympicdiver, so that takes a lot of
focus, a lot of work, a lot oftraining and you have coaches.
So does he feel like he wasdoing all this for somebody else
?
And if you remember now, maryLou Renton is also having some

(10:50):
personal problems nowadays andshe was big back in the day.
So you wonder who was behindthese people pushing them to do
this?
Do they want to do it?
And now some of them are justnot coping well years later in
their 60s.
And let's see, this articlegoes on to say so he's 65.

(11:11):
Now I get to discover who GregLouganis is.
He's 65.
How do you not know who you are?
You can go finish reading that.
We're done here with that.
So big news for HuntsvilleAlabama, my hometown.
I think it's good, but it'salso going to come with
frustrations.
We're done here with that.
So big news for HuntsvilleAlabama, my hometown.
I think it's big.

(11:32):
It's good, but it's also goingto come with frustrations.
Trump relocates Space Command toAlabama, reviving a first term
plan.
So I'm not going to read thearticle.
I have it out there on my Xfeed if you want to go check it
out, but you're going to hearall about it, the only thing I
don't like.
I have a lot of questions.
What does this mean for thepeople of Huntsville Alabama?
They're probably going to putit on the arsenal here, but that

(11:54):
means there's going to be a lotmore traffic on our little
horrible planned roads that wehave here.
Whoever built Huntsville Alabamadid not plan for its growth as
fast as it has grown, becauseour as far as traffic wise, I
mean, we don't have any trafficright now.

(12:14):
Trust me, I have experiencedhorrible traffic.
I used to live in Washington DC.
I know what that's about, sohere it's really not that bad.
But I think there's going to belike 1,400 people moving here.
That means they're also goingto bring their damn politics
with them and look, huntsville,alabama, we are chill.

(12:35):
We don't want your California,your Massachusetts, your Vermont
liberal-ass politics comingdown here and ruining it,
ruining us.
Don't do it, and let me tellyou, if you try, you're going to
have pushback down here.
Okay, I got to go.
Well, I guess I need to do aquestion of the day.
I had another article out therethat I wanted to share with you

(12:58):
.
Let me just see if I can readthe headline anyway about it.
Let's see.
Nope, I guess that was it,trump.
Yeah, that's it.
That was all All right.
We need to move on to thequestion of the day.
Okay, now that Labor Day hascome and gone, day Okay, now
that Labor Day has come and goneand now they're saying summer's
over with, we got fall andwinter to look forward to, I

(13:25):
guess I have two questions whatare you looking most?
What are you looking forward tothe most for fall?
Second question is do you thegent and I were thinking about
we're talking about this theother day about how the
weather's been lately Do youthink that we are going to have
a really bad winter?
Now we're in Alabama I don'tknow where you're listening from
, but where you're listeningfrom, do you think you're going
to have a bad winter?
I think we're going to have abad winter.

(13:45):
It's been a while since we'vehad a bad winter.
We've had mild summers hererecently in the South and, trust
me, I've been here for 30 yearsor more We've had some really
hot, hot, hot, humid heat downhere.
The last few years, though,doesn't seem like it's been that
bad.
So I'm wondering and we've hada lot of rain this year too.

(14:06):
So I'm wondering, and we've hadmild winters lately and I'm
wondering.
I think we're due for a reallybad winter in here in North
Alabama.
Okay, that's it.
That's it.
I got to go.
Thanks for listening.
Bye.