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Gib. Hello and welcome to another episode of the
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podcast. I'm Gib Gerard. Todaywe have for you yet another
special intelligence for yourhealth with Connie Celica.
Edition of the podcast. Ourguest on today's episode is
Oncologist Dr Sanjay June. He isthe ONk doc on Tiktok. Say that
five times fast anyway, here wego without further ado.
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Intelligence for your healthwith Connie Celica,
there's good news about sleepingin on your days off. New data in
the Journal of AffectiveDisorders found that people who
slept later than normal onSaturdays and Sundays were
significantly less likely tohave symptoms of depression, and
that was especially true if theyhad to skimp on sleep during the
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week. So how much sleep made adifference? The study authors
say getting an extra one to twohours on days off did the trick.
What is the minimum amount ofexercise we need for better
brain health? It's 25 minutes aweek. That's it. That's less
than four minutes a day, and itcould help bulk up your brain
and improve your ability tothink as you grow older. That's
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according to a new study byWashington University School of
Medicine in St Louis, theyscanned the brains of more than
10,000 healthy men and womenfrom ages 18 to 97 and they
found that those who walked,swam, cycled, or did any kind of
moderate workout for 25 minutesa week had bigger brains than
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those who didn't, No mattertheir ages, and bigger brains
typically means healthierbrains. The differences were
most pronounced in parts of thebrain involved with thinking and
memory, which shrink as we ageand contribute to cognitive
decline and dementia. The goalof the research was to see how
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little exercise we really neededfor better brain health, because
very few people get therecommended amount, which is 150
minutes a week, but the effectsof 25 minutes a week of exercise
on people's brains were real andcan help to maintain our ability
to think well, as we grow older,coming up, we'll talk to blood
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and cancer specialist, Dr SanjayJune. He'll share a list of
cancer screenings he recommendswe all get even if you don't
have a family history of thedisease. But first, if you're a
dog owner and want to reduceyour pet's stress level, you
might want to start by reducingyour own that's the
recommendation of University ofBristol veterinary school in
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England, they found that dogscan smell when humans are
feeling stressed, and itactually makes them sad. And
they found that the smell ofstress in humans caused stress
in the dogs too. And that wastrue even if the stress odors
were from strangers. It showsthat dogs are able to sense
people's emotions, and thoseemotions are contagious. When
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are you most likely to get intoa car accident? In general,
deadly car accidents mostlyoccur in the evening, and it's
usually between five and 7pmthat was found to be the most
dangerous time, according to theNational Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, that's whenpeople are heading home, and
there's heavy traffic coupledwith tired and distracted
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drivers. That aligns with otherresearch showing morning and
evening rush hours are the mostdangerous times to drive. For
example, in North Carolina, oneout of every four car crashes
occurs during evening rush hour.
And in a review of road crashstudies, researchers found that
morning and evening rush hourswere associated with a 28%
increase in Crash fatalities.
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One major reason why those aretimes when drivers are more
aggressive and reckless andthere are more trucks on the
road. Okay, listen to this. Thesecret to finding love is smell.
According to the journalChemical Senses, women consider
a man less attractive if theysmell something bad while
looking at him, even if he's notthe one producing the bad smell.
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And the opposite is true. Toopleasant odors make women find
pictures of men much morehandsome. Researchers say, since
bad odors are typicallyassociated with disease and
danger, it makes sense that agood smelling guy would seem
more attractive. Today, ourguest is Dr Sanjay June. He's a
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board certified hematologist andmedical oncologist who's better
known to millions of fans onsocial media, as the ONC doc.
And surprisingly, even thoughmodern cancer screenings are
less invasive and more accuratethan ever before, Dr June just
says a lot of people stillrefuse to get tested until it's
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too late. So I asked him. Wherethis resistance to cancer
screenings comes from, and whyit's important to still get
them. There'ssomething scary about getting a
test. But remember, a lot oftimes, the screenings are
designed to catch somethingbefore it becomes cancer. Again,
you usually have a lead time onsome of these cancers that
evolve, you know, over a periodof time, number one and number
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two, you know, if, God forbid,it is cancerous, you can often
cure solid tumor cancers likecolon cancer and breast cancer,
if it's early, if it's early andsmall and hasn't gone anywhere,
you know, it's pretty low lippedin the sense of, you know, most
stage ones don't need chemo andall of those things, but only if
they're caught early, and that'swhat screening does. It
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basically says, Do you haveanything that could have become
cancer later? Do we need to takeit out? We need to look at it,
or do you have something that wecould just take out and be done
with it? And that's extremelyimportant. The second part of
that is also why people think,you know they don't need
screening, is because they thinkit's an inherited disease more
than it is a cancer that's inyour lifetime. And only 10% of
cancers in adulthood haveanything to do with your
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inheritance or family history.
Believe it or not. I know somepeople need a moment, but it's
it's true. I mean, 90% arebecause of behavioral stuff,
what you're eating, what you'reinhaling, what you're drinking,
and just getting old enough,quite frankly. And so it doesn't
spare you know anybody, and Ithink that's really
important. Today we're talkingto Oncologist Dr Sanjay June,
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and he was just saying that alot of people resist getting
cancer screenings because theythink the tests only apply if
you have a family history ofcancer, even though a whopping
90% of new cancers are beingblamed on people's lifestyle
habits, not their genetics. Sobecause the guidelines seem to
be changing all the time, Iasked Dr Juneja to share a list
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of the most current cancer testshe thinks we should all get at
some point.
Yeah, so screening guidelinesare updated when it's
appropriate to sometimes get theage lower. But the things that
always people think about aredefinitely colon cancer
screening and pap smears inwomen and mammograms, those are
all important, because a lot ofthese cancers give you kind of a
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pre cancer lead time. So whenyou're screening, you want to
get all of those done, becausethere's usually an interval of
time before it becomes cancer.
So mammograms, again,colonoscopies, pap smears. And
if you smoke, and you've smokedover 25 pack years, meaning one
a year or two over 12 years, for25 years or over, and you're 50
and over, it's very important toget a CT lung cancer screen.
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That's an annual low dose CT towhere you can catch an early
lung cancer, because usuallylung cancer is caught pretty
late. Those are the ones thatpeople think of as well as if
you have a lot of sun exposure,you know, talk to your doctor
about any skin lesions, andthose are kind of primarily what
people consider the, at the veryleast, the screening modalities
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that one should get. There's alittle bit of debate on prostate
cancer. So I talked to yourphysician about where prostate
cancer screening guidelinesstand, I guess, in their
wheelhouse.
Why are you tired? Blame yoursmartphone, not because the blue
light keeps you awake because itmakes you breathe less deeply.
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Scientists found that people whouse their phones for more than
four hours a day had lungfunction that was over 30% lower
than those who use their phonesless and just so you know, the
average person is on their phonefour and a half hours a day. So
why would phone use lead to poorlung function? Because we hunch
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our shoulders and bend our headswhen using our phones so our
airway is restricted and we'renot fully expanding our lungs.
As a result, we breathe moreshallowly. Today's medical term
acute catarrhal conjunctivitis,that's another way of describing
pink eye, which is one of themost common eye infections. It's
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normally caused by bacteria orviruses, but it can also be
triggered by allergies. However,it's important to know the
difference, because bacterialand viral pink eye are both
highly contagious whileallergic, pink eye is not the
treatment for allergic pink eyeis also different than treatment
for infectious pink eye. So howcan you tell the difference? If
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your eyes are intensely itchy.
That's probably allergic pinkeye infectious. Pink eye comes
with all the standard symptomsof goopy, discharge, swelling,
redness and pain, but you don'thave intense itching. However,
the discharge that comes withpink eye is what makes catarol
conjunctivitis highlycontagious. In fact, once we get
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it in one eye, it almost alwaysspreads to the other eye, and
once the germs Get on yourhands, they can easily spread to
other people. The good news mostpeople with pink eye recover
within a week of gettingtreatment, which usually
involves using antibiotic eyedrops, and that. Today's medical
term acute catarrhalconjunctivitis coming up. We'll
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hear more from our guest,oncologist, Dr Sanjay June, also
known as the ONC doc, as inoncology, he'll tell us how
shockingly common cancer is. Andhere's a hint, you likely have a
form of the disease right now asyou listen to this show that may
never get diagnosed, it isperfectly harmless, but first
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when you work out, get goingquickly. Don't wait to push
yourself. A study from theCollege of New Jersey found that
working out harder during thefirst half of your workout and
taking it easier during thesecond burns up to 23% more fat
than doing the opposite. Toddlertantrums are a part of life, but
here's something that'scontributing to the problem
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handing toddlers a tablet tokeep them occupied. Here's what
a new study in the Journal ofthe American Medical Association
pediatrics discovered. It foundthat tablet use between ages
three and five years old wasassociated with more outbursts
of anger and frustration, and itbecame a vicious cycle. Kids who
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were more prone to anger andfrustration were also more
likely to have higher tablet usea year later, the experts
concluded that early childhoodtablet use contributes to a
cycle of problems with emotionalregulation. So why is that? A
big reason is that when kids arehanded a tablet, they don't
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learn to deal with negativeemotions themselves. Instead,
the tablet, computer orsmartphone soothes them, and
that can result in angermanagement problems later in
childhood and into adulthood.
Now that doesn't mean that kidscan't use a tablet or smartphone
ever. What it does mean is thatthey shouldn't be given one when
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they're crying or upset as apacifier to calm them down.
That's when they need a parent'shelp to learn to self soothe.
Okay, listen to this. Trust yourgut research from Drexel
University found that our gutfeelings are usually spot on,
because the way our subconsciousworks, it takes into account a
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lot of information in a flash,but when we stop to analyze the
situation, we tend to push asideour initial instinct in an
effort to evaluate things morefairly. But your brain has
already subconsciously done allthe work for you, so trust your
gut feelings. It's your brain'sway of steering you in the right
direction, back with more healthintelligence from Oncologist Dr
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Sanjay June, host of the targetcancer podcast, and something he
gets asked about all the time iswhen test results come back
showing you have pre cancer,because a lot of people think
that's the same as a cancerdiagnosis. So I asked Dr Juneja
to clarify what pre cancerreally means and why, it's
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usually not something to freakout about.
When we say pre cancer, it'slike, you know, 510, 15% over
510, years, it may have becomecancer. Like, that's what we
mean. It's not like, Oh man, youwere two, you know, weeks away.
And that's why, when you havethat lead time of usually, like,
you know, like 123, year chanceof developing something. And
it's usually around 10% why notget that thing out, you know,
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beforehand? And that's how youshould think of screening. Is
like, you know, one probablygonna have nothing that's just
statistically the most likely.
Secondly, most are gonna, ifthey need investigation, gonna
be something that that turns outnot to be cancer. And then, even
if it is something that's notnot cancer, is something that's
pre cancerous, that has a lowerchance by, you know, a lot of
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people's definition of everbeing cancer, but it's gone. You
just take it out when you havethe screen and take care of it.
So, you know, there it's just,it's a nice way of just saying,
hey, the stuff that could havebeen a problem that I would have
known about, that's the stuffyou want to think that you're
looking for sure you detect fullinvasive cancers as well. But if
you're doing them at theintervals that are recommended,
that is statistically unlikely.
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That's where we get theintervals. Believe it or not,
that's why colonoscopies maybethree years of repeat a five or
a 10, depending on like, hey, wewant to be ahead of this thing
on the screen. There's some precancer stuff, and that's why
we're saying three years theseintervals are based on
statistical likelihood. Now, ifyou don't do them for years,
then those intervals get, youknow, obviously they don't apply
as well. So you want them toapply to you like, whoa, if I
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get one, it's unlikely, becausethe mammograms a year from now
that there should be one thatdevelops in that
time. Back with more healthintelligence from Oncologist Dr
Sanjay June, also known as theUNK doc on Tiktok, and according
to the latest health data, wehave about a one in 100 chance
of being diagnosed with someform of cancer by age 60. And
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thankfully, most forms are 100%treatable if caught early
enough. But since the wordcancer technically refers to
abnormal sex. Cell growth, andthe human body has more than 37
trillion cells. I asked Drjaneja If all of us will likely
have cancer at some point.
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I'll tell you. I'll Gib you onebetter you have had cancer or
what really could have becomeinvasive cancer multiple times,
and I have as well. And anyoneprobably old enough to
understand what we're saying, orlisten has. And the beauty of
that is, and we're a bunch of ingreat side joke, but it's kind
of true, because we have about10,000 mutational errors. You
know, every couple of days thatour immune system is constantly
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being like, whoa, this doesn'tlook right, and it kills it. And
that system is what protects us.
That's why we learned so much.
Believe it or not,unfortunately, with HIV and
AIDS, when AIDS, where yourlymphocytes, you know you're
really immune compromised, welearned and saw cancers we've
never seen before because yourimmune system just went out. And
that's what happens with ratmodels. Sometimes things look
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too good to be true is becausetheir immune system is impaired.
And of course, cancers willgrow. So we're beating it all
the time.
The next time you go on yourdaily walk, take your phone with
you and snap pictures along theway. The Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology found thattaking pictures makes our
activities more enjoyable andincreases positive feelings. For
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the study, researchers hadpeople engage in an activity and
told half of them to take photosduring it, the result, the
people who took pictures weremore engaged with what they were
doing and had a better time thanthose who did not take pictures.
That's because when we know wewant to take a picture of what
we're doing, it primes us to bea more active part of the
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experience, which increases ourenjoyment of it. More
intelligence for your healthfrom Oncologist Dr Sanjay June,
if you'd like to know more abouthim or his target cancer
podcast, he's easy to find onsocial media, just search for
the ONk doc, as in O N C, shortfor oncologist. And on this
show, we've had multiple gueststell us that stress is like jet
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fuel for helping cancer tumorsgrow. So I asked Dr Juneja what
he recommends to lower ourstress and reduce our odds of
ever getting cancer.
There's no question that youdon't have to go with weights or
CrossFit, but getting your heartrate up to like 121 3140, you
know, safely, that is a verykind of almost like an expunging
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car wash. When it comes tostress, it mobilizes a lot of
things that can kind of, what welike to say is palliate or calm
down some of the driven up,revved up stuff from just
chronic adrenaline, fear, rush,cortisol, stuff working out
helps that process. There's noquestion. And number two is
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anything that taps into thesystem that fights stress. So
stress is what's calledsympathetic, that's your system.
That's flight or fight. Theopposite is parasympathetic, and
the way you do that is what wascalled the vagal nerve, and just
calming stimulation, believe itor not, cold showers, like where
you're pretty cold, immediatelytaps into your parasympathetic
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system. So I'm not a fan of coldshowers, but I've learned to do
it every morning, because ittaps into that vagal nerve and
parasympathetic system the otherthings that you can do, that's
why I want to meditate. I'mprobably somebody that needs to
more than anyone else, but italso helps drive down the
sympathetic system and increasethe parasympathetic and these
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are things that are very easy,that even if you do it 10
minutes, the walking, thestairs, doing the push ups, but
every couple of hours go areally long way when you're
thinking over your entire life,rather than, Oh, I need an hour
to do that three times a Week,just do it. You know, scattered
throughoutyou just heard Dr junay Just say
that exercise is a great way tomanage anxiety or prevent it in
the first place. To add to that,Dr David rosmarin is a professor
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at Harvard Medical School andfounded their center for
anxiety, and he says exercisereleases endorphins, which
counteract anxiety. Second,exercise leads to better sleep,
and studies show better sleepleads to less anxiety. On top of
that, Dr rosmer says working outmakes us more resilient. He says
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the best way to manage anxietyis by confronting it and
learning to tolerate the way itmakes us feel and because
exercise can make us feeluncomfortable, it increases our
tolerance of discomfort, so itteaches our bodies to be more
resilient and less reactive whenwe feel anxious. And the Journal
of Affective Disorders foundthat exercising three times a
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week erases anxiety by 40%here's an email I received at
Connie at intelligence for yourhealth.com. It comes from Hannah
Pitts, who writes, I saw a videoonline that said, drinking
alcohol can protect against foodpoisoning. Is that true? Hannah?
There is a tiny shred of truthto it, one small study from the
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journal at. Epidemiology cited asalmonella outbreak at a large
banquet, about a third of thepeople there became ill after
consuming contaminated tunasalad, but those who said they
had three or more drinks at thebanquet were nearly half as
likely to become ill as thosewho didn't drink at all. Donald
Schaffner is a professor of FoodScience at Rutgers University,
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and he says alcohol can killbacteria, that's why it's used
in hand sanitizer anddisinfectants. But no study has
proven that alcohol preventsfood poisoning. There are just
loose correlations, and in anoutbreak of people sicken from
shellfish on a cruise, onlythose who did drink alcohol were
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infected. Plus, studies fromHarvard show that if you drink
too much alcohol, it can makeyour intestine more susceptible
to infections. The only way toavoid food borne illness is to
only eat food that is thoroughlycooked. But it's hard to know
when something is contaminatedand drinking alcohol is not a
solid solution. Thank you foryour email. Hannah, I hope this
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helps. Okay, listen to this.
Here's a little trick to improveyour concentration. Turn on a
fan. According to the Journal ofcognitive neuroscience, the soft
hum of a fan helps you commitnew information to memory.
That's because it's a form ofwhite noise that triggers a
surge of dopamine, which helpsyou learn faster Be careful
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walking your dog. Johns Hopkins,university researchers have
found that over the past 20years, dog walking related
injuries have been on the rise.
The most common injuries arefractures, sprains and head
trauma, and one of the biggestreasons more dog walking
injuries are happening is cellphones, but women in particular,
need to watch out. 75% of dogwalking injury patients were
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women, and most of them werebetween the ages of 40 and 64
and those are just emergencyroom visits. There are probably
a lot more that have not beenreported. One of the most common
occurrences is running with aleashed dog, no matter how well
trained you think your dog is.
And another hazard is walkingyour dog on a street with no
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sidewalks that can easily leadto one or both of you getting
hit by a car. And retractableleashes are a bad idea because
you have less control of thedog. The best thing is to use a
no pull harness, where the leashclips in front, rather than on
their back, that gives theperson walking their dog more
control and puts less strain onthe dog, more intelligence for
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your health. From Oncologist DrSanjay June, and one of his
passions in life is to encourageall of us to register as a bone
marrow donor, since bone marrowtransplants are currently the
most effective way to treatleukemia and some lymphomas, so
I asked Dr Juneja to tell usmore about where to register and
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why bone marrow registries areimportant
when You have leukemia and someof the scary blood disorders, we
can do a good job of putting itinto a temporary remission, but
the problem is that thing willfester and take over again,
unless you take the bone marrowof a donor, and now they don't
do it through your, you know,back or spine or anything. They
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just do it through your arm,like an IV. It's, you know, it
takes out your stem cells andgives them to someone, and
oftentimes a child, to savetheir life. And the problem is,
it's not something that's inyour necessarily your
grandparent or your uncle. Youcould have a match down in
southern Louisiana, where I'mfrom, with, you know, someone
from Germany, like I've had aGerman one. I've had one from
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Switzerland, and anotherpatient, and it's all because
somebody just took the time toswap. It's a pretty low risk, I
mean, very low risk procedurefor the donor, but it actually
is the only buyout to stay alivein this world before that cancer
comes back, and they don't havea long period of time to keep it
under control. Anyone listeningto this, for the most part,
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that's kind of an age cut offbut, but anyone listening if
they just type bone marrowregistry by doing that swab and
sending it off, you're notyou're not committed, but
somebody may get thatnotification that there's
somebody that will keep themalive in this world.
Once again, if you'd like toregister as a bone marrow donor,
either Google the term bonemarrow registry or check out
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sites like be the match.org inmany cases, you'll be sent a
free kit in the mail, and theprocess is as simple as swabbing
the inside of your cheek.
That's it for our show today,our special intelligence for
your health with Connie Selig.
Edition of the podcast, I'm GibGerard. Don't forget to rate,
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for listening. You.
Gib. Hello and welcome to another episode of the
(00:10):
podcast. I'm Gib Gerard. Todaywe have for you yet another
special intelligence for yourhealth with Connie Celica.
Edition of the podcast. Ourguest on today's episode is
Oncologist Dr Sanjay June. He isthe ONk doc on Tiktok. Say that
five times fast anyway, here wego without further ado.
(00:31):
Intelligence for your healthwith Connie Celica,
there's good news about sleepingin on your days off. New data in
the Journal of AffectiveDisorders found that people who
slept later than normal onSaturdays and Sundays were
significantly less likely tohave symptoms of depression, and
that was especially true if theyhad to skimp on sleep during the
(00:53):
week. So how much sleep made adifference? The study authors
say getting an extra one to twohours on days off did the trick.
What is the minimum amount ofexercise we need for better
brain health? It's 25 minutes aweek. That's it. That's less
than four minutes a day, and itcould help bulk up your brain
and improve your ability tothink as you grow older. That's
(01:16):
according to a new study byWashington University School of
Medicine in St Louis, theyscanned the brains of more than
10,000 healthy men and womenfrom ages 18 to 97 and they
found that those who walked,swam, cycled, or did any kind of
moderate workout for 25 minutesa week had bigger brains than
(01:37):
those who didn't, No mattertheir ages, and bigger brains
typically means healthierbrains. The differences were
most pronounced in parts of thebrain involved with thinking and
memory, which shrink as we ageand contribute to cognitive
decline and dementia. The goalof the research was to see how
(01:58):
little exercise we really neededfor better brain health, because
very few people get therecommended amount, which is 150
minutes a week, but the effectsof 25 minutes a week of exercise
on people's brains were real andcan help to maintain our ability
to think well, as we grow older,coming up, we'll talk to blood
(02:20):
and cancer specialist, Dr SanjayJune. He'll share a list of
cancer screenings he recommendswe all get even if you don't
have a family history of thedisease. But first, if you're a
dog owner and want to reduceyour pet's stress level, you
might want to start by reducingyour own that's the
recommendation of University ofBristol veterinary school in
(02:43):
England, they found that dogscan smell when humans are
feeling stressed, and itactually makes them sad. And
they found that the smell ofstress in humans caused stress
in the dogs too. And that wastrue even if the stress odors
were from strangers. It showsthat dogs are able to sense
people's emotions, and thoseemotions are contagious. When
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are you most likely to get intoa car accident? In general,
deadly car accidents mostlyoccur in the evening, and it's
usually between five and 7pmthat was found to be the most
dangerous time, according to theNational Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, that's whenpeople are heading home, and
there's heavy traffic coupledwith tired and distracted
(03:28):
drivers. That aligns with otherresearch showing morning and
evening rush hours are the mostdangerous times to drive. For
example, in North Carolina, oneout of every four car crashes
occurs during evening rush hour.
And in a review of road crashstudies, researchers found that
morning and evening rush hourswere associated with a 28%
increase in Crash fatalities.
(03:51):
One major reason why those aretimes when drivers are more
aggressive and reckless andthere are more trucks on the
road. Okay, listen to this. Thesecret to finding love is smell.
According to the journalChemical Senses, women consider
a man less attractive if theysmell something bad while
looking at him, even if he's notthe one producing the bad smell.
(04:16):
And the opposite is true. Toopleasant odors make women find
pictures of men much morehandsome. Researchers say, since
bad odors are typicallyassociated with disease and
danger, it makes sense that agood smelling guy would seem
more attractive. Today, ourguest is Dr Sanjay June. He's a
(04:36):
board certified hematologist andmedical oncologist who's better
known to millions of fans onsocial media, as the ONC doc.
And surprisingly, even thoughmodern cancer screenings are
less invasive and more accuratethan ever before, Dr June just
says a lot of people stillrefuse to get tested until it's
(04:58):
too late. So I asked him. Wherethis resistance to cancer
screenings comes from, and whyit's important to still get
them. There'ssomething scary about getting a
test. But remember, a lot oftimes, the screenings are
designed to catch somethingbefore it becomes cancer. Again,
you usually have a lead time onsome of these cancers that
evolve, you know, over a periodof time, number one and number
(05:20):
two, you know, if, God forbid,it is cancerous, you can often
cure solid tumor cancers likecolon cancer and breast cancer,
if it's early, if it's early andsmall and hasn't gone anywhere,
you know, it's pretty low lippedin the sense of, you know, most
stage ones don't need chemo andall of those things, but only if
they're caught early, and that'swhat screening does. It
(05:42):
basically says, Do you haveanything that could have become
cancer later? Do we need to takeit out? We need to look at it,
or do you have something that wecould just take out and be done
with it? And that's extremelyimportant. The second part of
that is also why people think,you know they don't need
screening, is because they thinkit's an inherited disease more
than it is a cancer that's inyour lifetime. And only 10% of
cancers in adulthood haveanything to do with your
(06:07):
inheritance or family history.
Believe it or not. I know somepeople need a moment, but it's
it's true. I mean, 90% arebecause of behavioral stuff,
what you're eating, what you'reinhaling, what you're drinking,
and just getting old enough,quite frankly. And so it doesn't
spare you know anybody, and Ithink that's really
important. Today we're talkingto Oncologist Dr Sanjay June,
(06:28):
and he was just saying that alot of people resist getting
cancer screenings because theythink the tests only apply if
you have a family history ofcancer, even though a whopping
90% of new cancers are beingblamed on people's lifestyle
habits, not their genetics. Sobecause the guidelines seem to
be changing all the time, Iasked Dr Juneja to share a list
(06:50):
of the most current cancer testshe thinks we should all get at
some point.
Yeah, so screening guidelinesare updated when it's
appropriate to sometimes get theage lower. But the things that
always people think about aredefinitely colon cancer
screening and pap smears inwomen and mammograms, those are
all important, because a lot ofthese cancers give you kind of a
(07:12):
pre cancer lead time. So whenyou're screening, you want to
get all of those done, becausethere's usually an interval of
time before it becomes cancer.
So mammograms, again,colonoscopies, pap smears. And
if you smoke, and you've smokedover 25 pack years, meaning one
a year or two over 12 years, for25 years or over, and you're 50
and over, it's very important toget a CT lung cancer screen.
(07:32):
That's an annual low dose CT towhere you can catch an early
lung cancer, because usuallylung cancer is caught pretty
late. Those are the ones thatpeople think of as well as if
you have a lot of sun exposure,you know, talk to your doctor
about any skin lesions, andthose are kind of primarily what
people consider the, at the veryleast, the screening modalities
(07:53):
that one should get. There's alittle bit of debate on prostate
cancer. So I talked to yourphysician about where prostate
cancer screening guidelinesstand, I guess, in their
wheelhouse.
Why are you tired? Blame yoursmartphone, not because the blue
light keeps you awake because itmakes you breathe less deeply.
(08:14):
Scientists found that people whouse their phones for more than
four hours a day had lungfunction that was over 30% lower
than those who use their phonesless and just so you know, the
average person is on their phonefour and a half hours a day. So
why would phone use lead to poorlung function? Because we hunch
(08:35):
our shoulders and bend our headswhen using our phones so our
airway is restricted and we'renot fully expanding our lungs.
As a result, we breathe moreshallowly. Today's medical term
acute catarrhal conjunctivitis,that's another way of describing
pink eye, which is one of themost common eye infections. It's
(08:57):
normally caused by bacteria orviruses, but it can also be
triggered by allergies. However,it's important to know the
difference, because bacterialand viral pink eye are both
highly contagious whileallergic, pink eye is not the
treatment for allergic pink eyeis also different than treatment
for infectious pink eye. So howcan you tell the difference? If
(09:19):
your eyes are intensely itchy.
That's probably allergic pinkeye infectious. Pink eye comes
with all the standard symptomsof goopy, discharge, swelling,
redness and pain, but you don'thave intense itching. However,
the discharge that comes withpink eye is what makes catarol
conjunctivitis highlycontagious. In fact, once we get
(09:40):
it in one eye, it almost alwaysspreads to the other eye, and
once the germs Get on yourhands, they can easily spread to
other people. The good news mostpeople with pink eye recover
within a week of gettingtreatment, which usually
involves using antibiotic eyedrops, and that. Today's medical
term acute catarrhalconjunctivitis coming up. We'll
(10:03):
hear more from our guest,oncologist, Dr Sanjay June, also
known as the ONC doc, as inoncology, he'll tell us how
shockingly common cancer is. Andhere's a hint, you likely have a
form of the disease right now asyou listen to this show that may
never get diagnosed, it isperfectly harmless, but first
(10:24):
when you work out, get goingquickly. Don't wait to push
yourself. A study from theCollege of New Jersey found that
working out harder during thefirst half of your workout and
taking it easier during thesecond burns up to 23% more fat
than doing the opposite. Toddlertantrums are a part of life, but
here's something that'scontributing to the problem
(10:48):
handing toddlers a tablet tokeep them occupied. Here's what
a new study in the Journal ofthe American Medical Association
pediatrics discovered. It foundthat tablet use between ages
three and five years old wasassociated with more outbursts
of anger and frustration, and itbecame a vicious cycle. Kids who
(11:08):
were more prone to anger andfrustration were also more
likely to have higher tablet usea year later, the experts
concluded that early childhoodtablet use contributes to a
cycle of problems with emotionalregulation. So why is that? A
big reason is that when kids arehanded a tablet, they don't
(11:31):
learn to deal with negativeemotions themselves. Instead,
the tablet, computer orsmartphone soothes them, and
that can result in angermanagement problems later in
childhood and into adulthood.
Now that doesn't mean that kidscan't use a tablet or smartphone
ever. What it does mean is thatthey shouldn't be given one when
(11:55):
they're crying or upset as apacifier to calm them down.
That's when they need a parent'shelp to learn to self soothe.
Okay, listen to this. Trust yourgut research from Drexel
University found that our gutfeelings are usually spot on,
because the way our subconsciousworks, it takes into account a
(12:17):
lot of information in a flash,but when we stop to analyze the
situation, we tend to push asideour initial instinct in an
effort to evaluate things morefairly. But your brain has
already subconsciously done allthe work for you, so trust your
gut feelings. It's your brain'sway of steering you in the right
direction, back with more healthintelligence from Oncologist Dr
(12:40):
Sanjay June, host of the targetcancer podcast, and something he
gets asked about all the time iswhen test results come back
showing you have pre cancer,because a lot of people think
that's the same as a cancerdiagnosis. So I asked Dr Juneja
to clarify what pre cancerreally means and why, it's
(13:00):
usually not something to freakout about.
When we say pre cancer, it'slike, you know, 510, 15% over
510, years, it may have becomecancer. Like, that's what we
mean. It's not like, Oh man, youwere two, you know, weeks away.
And that's why, when you havethat lead time of usually, like,
you know, like 123, year chanceof developing something. And
it's usually around 10% why notget that thing out, you know,
(13:22):
beforehand? And that's how youshould think of screening. Is
like, you know, one probablygonna have nothing that's just
statistically the most likely.
Secondly, most are gonna, ifthey need investigation, gonna
be something that that turns outnot to be cancer. And then, even
if it is something that's notnot cancer, is something that's
pre cancerous, that has a lowerchance by, you know, a lot of
(13:43):
people's definition of everbeing cancer, but it's gone. You
just take it out when you havethe screen and take care of it.
So, you know, there it's just,it's a nice way of just saying,
hey, the stuff that could havebeen a problem that I would have
known about, that's the stuffyou want to think that you're
looking for sure you detect fullinvasive cancers as well. But if
you're doing them at theintervals that are recommended,
that is statistically unlikely.
(14:05):
That's where we get theintervals. Believe it or not,
that's why colonoscopies maybethree years of repeat a five or
a 10, depending on like, hey, wewant to be ahead of this thing
on the screen. There's some precancer stuff, and that's why
we're saying three years theseintervals are based on
statistical likelihood. Now, ifyou don't do them for years,
then those intervals get, youknow, obviously they don't apply
as well. So you want them toapply to you like, whoa, if I
(14:28):
get one, it's unlikely, becausethe mammograms a year from now
that there should be one thatdevelops in that
time. Back with more healthintelligence from Oncologist Dr
Sanjay June, also known as theUNK doc on Tiktok, and according
to the latest health data, wehave about a one in 100 chance
of being diagnosed with someform of cancer by age 60. And
(14:50):
thankfully, most forms are 100%treatable if caught early
enough. But since the wordcancer technically refers to
abnormal sex. Cell growth, andthe human body has more than 37
trillion cells. I asked Drjaneja If all of us will likely
have cancer at some point.
(15:10):
I'll tell you. I'll Gib you onebetter you have had cancer or
what really could have becomeinvasive cancer multiple times,
and I have as well. And anyoneprobably old enough to
understand what we're saying, orlisten has. And the beauty of
that is, and we're a bunch of ingreat side joke, but it's kind
of true, because we have about10,000 mutational errors. You
know, every couple of days thatour immune system is constantly
(15:34):
being like, whoa, this doesn'tlook right, and it kills it. And
that system is what protects us.
That's why we learned so much.
Believe it or not,unfortunately, with HIV and
AIDS, when AIDS, where yourlymphocytes, you know you're
really immune compromised, welearned and saw cancers we've
never seen before because yourimmune system just went out. And
that's what happens with ratmodels. Sometimes things look
(15:55):
too good to be true is becausetheir immune system is impaired.
And of course, cancers willgrow. So we're beating it all
the time.
The next time you go on yourdaily walk, take your phone with
you and snap pictures along theway. The Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology found thattaking pictures makes our
activities more enjoyable andincreases positive feelings. For
(16:15):
the study, researchers hadpeople engage in an activity and
told half of them to take photosduring it, the result, the
people who took pictures weremore engaged with what they were
doing and had a better time thanthose who did not take pictures.
That's because when we know wewant to take a picture of what
we're doing, it primes us to bea more active part of the
(16:36):
experience, which increases ourenjoyment of it. More
intelligence for your healthfrom Oncologist Dr Sanjay June,
if you'd like to know more abouthim or his target cancer
podcast, he's easy to find onsocial media, just search for
the ONk doc, as in O N C, shortfor oncologist. And on this
show, we've had multiple gueststell us that stress is like jet
(17:00):
fuel for helping cancer tumorsgrow. So I asked Dr Juneja what
he recommends to lower ourstress and reduce our odds of
ever getting cancer.
There's no question that youdon't have to go with weights or
CrossFit, but getting your heartrate up to like 121 3140, you
know, safely, that is a verykind of almost like an expunging
(17:23):
car wash. When it comes tostress, it mobilizes a lot of
things that can kind of, what welike to say is palliate or calm
down some of the driven up,revved up stuff from just
chronic adrenaline, fear, rush,cortisol, stuff working out
helps that process. There's noquestion. And number two is
(17:45):
anything that taps into thesystem that fights stress. So
stress is what's calledsympathetic, that's your system.
That's flight or fight. Theopposite is parasympathetic, and
the way you do that is what wascalled the vagal nerve, and just
calming stimulation, believe itor not, cold showers, like where
you're pretty cold, immediatelytaps into your parasympathetic
(18:06):
system. So I'm not a fan of coldshowers, but I've learned to do
it every morning, because ittaps into that vagal nerve and
parasympathetic system the otherthings that you can do, that's
why I want to meditate. I'mprobably somebody that needs to
more than anyone else, but italso helps drive down the
sympathetic system and increasethe parasympathetic and these
(18:26):
are things that are very easy,that even if you do it 10
minutes, the walking, thestairs, doing the push ups, but
every couple of hours go areally long way when you're
thinking over your entire life,rather than, Oh, I need an hour
to do that three times a Week,just do it. You know, scattered
throughoutyou just heard Dr junay Just say
that exercise is a great way tomanage anxiety or prevent it in
the first place. To add to that,Dr David rosmarin is a professor
(18:50):
at Harvard Medical School andfounded their center for
anxiety, and he says exercisereleases endorphins, which
counteract anxiety. Second,exercise leads to better sleep,
and studies show better sleepleads to less anxiety. On top of
that, Dr rosmer says working outmakes us more resilient. He says
(19:11):
the best way to manage anxietyis by confronting it and
learning to tolerate the way itmakes us feel and because
exercise can make us feeluncomfortable, it increases our
tolerance of discomfort, so itteaches our bodies to be more
resilient and less reactive whenwe feel anxious. And the Journal
of Affective Disorders foundthat exercising three times a
(19:33):
week erases anxiety by 40%here's an email I received at
Connie at intelligence for yourhealth.com. It comes from Hannah
Pitts, who writes, I saw a videoonline that said, drinking
alcohol can protect against foodpoisoning. Is that true? Hannah?
There is a tiny shred of truthto it, one small study from the
(19:57):
journal at. Epidemiology cited asalmonella outbreak at a large
banquet, about a third of thepeople there became ill after
consuming contaminated tunasalad, but those who said they
had three or more drinks at thebanquet were nearly half as
likely to become ill as thosewho didn't drink at all. Donald
Schaffner is a professor of FoodScience at Rutgers University,
(20:21):
and he says alcohol can killbacteria, that's why it's used
in hand sanitizer anddisinfectants. But no study has
proven that alcohol preventsfood poisoning. There are just
loose correlations, and in anoutbreak of people sicken from
shellfish on a cruise, onlythose who did drink alcohol were
(20:41):
infected. Plus, studies fromHarvard show that if you drink
too much alcohol, it can makeyour intestine more susceptible
to infections. The only way toavoid food borne illness is to
only eat food that is thoroughlycooked. But it's hard to know
when something is contaminatedand drinking alcohol is not a
solid solution. Thank you foryour email. Hannah, I hope this
(21:05):
helps. Okay, listen to this.
Here's a little trick to improveyour concentration. Turn on a
fan. According to the Journal ofcognitive neuroscience, the soft
hum of a fan helps you commitnew information to memory.
That's because it's a form ofwhite noise that triggers a
surge of dopamine, which helpsyou learn faster Be careful
(21:27):
walking your dog. Johns Hopkins,university researchers have
found that over the past 20years, dog walking related
injuries have been on the rise.
The most common injuries arefractures, sprains and head
trauma, and one of the biggestreasons more dog walking
injuries are happening is cellphones, but women in particular,
need to watch out. 75% of dogwalking injury patients were
(21:51):
women, and most of them werebetween the ages of 40 and 64
and those are just emergencyroom visits. There are probably
a lot more that have not beenreported. One of the most common
occurrences is running with aleashed dog, no matter how well
trained you think your dog is.
And another hazard is walkingyour dog on a street with no
(22:13):
sidewalks that can easily leadto one or both of you getting
hit by a car. And retractableleashes are a bad idea because
you have less control of thedog. The best thing is to use a
no pull harness, where the leashclips in front, rather than on
their back, that gives theperson walking their dog more
control and puts less strain onthe dog, more intelligence for
(22:37):
your health. From Oncologist DrSanjay June, and one of his
passions in life is to encourageall of us to register as a bone
marrow donor, since bone marrowtransplants are currently the
most effective way to treatleukemia and some lymphomas, so
I asked Dr Juneja to tell usmore about where to register and
(22:57):
why bone marrow registries areimportant
when You have leukemia and someof the scary blood disorders, we
can do a good job of putting itinto a temporary remission, but
the problem is that thing willfester and take over again,
unless you take the bone marrowof a donor, and now they don't
do it through your, you know,back or spine or anything. They
(23:18):
just do it through your arm,like an IV. It's, you know, it
takes out your stem cells andgives them to someone, and
oftentimes a child, to savetheir life. And the problem is,
it's not something that's inyour necessarily your
grandparent or your uncle. Youcould have a match down in
southern Louisiana, where I'mfrom, with, you know, someone
from Germany, like I've had aGerman one. I've had one from
(23:39):
Switzerland, and anotherpatient, and it's all because
somebody just took the time toswap. It's a pretty low risk, I
mean, very low risk procedurefor the donor, but it actually
is the only buyout to stay alivein this world before that cancer
comes back, and they don't havea long period of time to keep it
under control. Anyone listeningto this, for the most part,
(24:00):
that's kind of an age cut offbut, but anyone listening if
they just type bone marrowregistry by doing that swab and
sending it off, you're notyou're not committed, but
somebody may get thatnotification that there's
somebody that will keep themalive in this world.
Once again, if you'd like toregister as a bone marrow donor,
either Google the term bonemarrow registry or check out
(24:22):
sites like be the match.org inmany cases, you'll be sent a
free kit in the mail, and theprocess is as simple as swabbing
the inside of your cheek.
That's it for our show today,our special intelligence for
your health with Connie Selig.
Edition of the podcast, I'm GibGerard. Don't forget to rate,
comment and subscribe on Applepodcast. Spotify, wherever you
get your podcast, it helps usout a lot, and also you can
(24:43):
reach out to us on social media.
All of our links are listed downin the show notes. We try to
respond to every DM, everymention of the show, because
ultimately, we do the show foryou guys. So thank you so much
for listening. You.
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