April 21, 2024 • 36 mins
Dr. Galati is back in studio tonight and is joined by Danny Shaftel of Shaftel Diamonds to talk about the illness he had. He also speaks to a barbaric exercise routine it led to. We also have Dr. Howard Huang join to focus on the symptoms of lung disease. Dr. Galati and Danny end to program by talking about how you can influence others in a positive way.
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Initial life sequence. Coming to youlive from Houston, Texas, home to
the world's largest medical center in thebunch of Bays on the day looking and
rode copy. This is Your HealthFirst, the most beneficial health program on
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radio with doctor Joe Galotti. Duringthe next hour you'll learn about health,
wellness and the prevention of disease.Now here's your host, doctor Joe Bellotti.
Well well, well, a wonderfulSunday evening to everybody. Thanks as
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always for tuning in on Sunday eveningfor the hour between seven and eight pm.
The name of the program is YourHealth First. I'm doctor Joe Galotti
and as I start off program everyweek, there is a very simple mission.
You have to have a mission.It is to raise your health IQ.
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That's it. Because so many patientsI see, people I talk with
there is a lack of insight,lack of knowledge or an appreciation about their
health and wellness, and things justunfortunately get kick down the road for too
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long before a more serious problem developsand then sort of all hell breaks loose.
But our goal here, as Isaid, very simply, just to
make you dial in and make youbetter consumers and be aware of your body,
and so that really is our guaranteeevery Sunday evening. All right,
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Now, let me just get who'son the program tonight, so a little
later, doctor Howard Wang. Howard'sbeen on the program before. He's the
medical director of the lung transplant programright here in the Texas Medical Center at
Houston Methodist Hospital. Now my nowHoward and his team. Of course,
dealing with lung transplant, you're goingto be dealing with really sick people that
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have end stage lung disease. Justlike on our liver transplant program, we
have people with end stage liver disease, but end stage lung disease. Now,
all of this for the most part, and I'll let Howard sort of
lay that out. All of thisstarted, or for those that get to
the point of having end stage lungdisease, it started off with some mild
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symptoms a cough, a wheeze,a little bit of phlegm uh. And
maybe they did not put two andtwo together connect the dots, and they
presented got to the doctor or gotto a specialist later than they should have.
Could you have intervened earlier. Idon't know what specifically, We'll wait
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and see what doctor Wang has tosay. But what I really want you
to do tonight is listen and realizethat there are a handful of lung pulmonary
symptoms that you need to be awareof and not simply blow it off.
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Oh I'm short of breath because I'mfat now, or my husband's a smoker.
I'm a former smoker. Of courseI'm short of breath. Well maybe
not, maybe it's something more serious. So Doctor Wang is going to be
coming on, so stay tuned forthat. But the contact info for us,
of course, Doctor Joeglotti dot comis our website, sounder for our
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newsletter, everything we do social mediawise, old programs, YouTube, social
media, Instagram, Doctor Joe Galottidot com and if you want to learn
more about what we do with ourliverpractice, Texasliver dot com is there.
And of course, if you wantto get a copy of my book Eating
Yourself Sick, you could get itthere on the website. All right,
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So in the studio tonight, greathonor a friend and colleague of mine,
Danny Cheftel with chef Tel Diamonds CheftelDiamonds dot com and well, first of
all, Danny, welcome to theprogram tonight. Thanks Joe, I'm excited
to be here. Thanks for havingme. Yeah, now this is you
know, all week long, Iam thinking what are we going to do
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Sunday for the program? And somesegments are weeks out scheduled. Others I
have the editorial ability to just makespurt of the moment changes. And I
guess it was on Friday you sentme a video. We have a real
live barbarian in our studio here tonight. So Danny, I'll let you exp
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what you did. But Danny participatedin a very physical activity and he did
very well, which I was happyto see him do. But the backstory
is several months ago Danny was prettyill and to see him triumph through the
illness, through recovery and then thisbarbarian or barbaric you know exercise routine is
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great. So with that said,Danny, why don't you just tell everybody
about you, what you do,your family, your business, and what
you like to do. Yeah.Absolutely, so thanks for the introduction.
That's what I do where jewelers.We have a jewelry store. I'm second
generation, so my father started thisbusiness Shaffield Diamonds forty six years ago.
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Now I'm forty one, so I'vebeen around in my whole life. And
as kids, you know, wewere in his office watching him do his
thing. Was he was pure wholesaleat the time, so it was just
him in the office with my grandmother, my maternal grandmother, and it was
just them too making it work right. My dad would travel around and sell
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gems all over. I say,he was always traveling. So I was
introduced to the business at an earlyage. Never really knew that that's what
I was going to do until youknow, I was in college. I
studied international politics, it's called internationalaffairs. That was my major, economics
politics, and my concentration was LatinAmerica, so you had to be proficient
in Spanish. In my case,that was a requirement, and I,
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like many people, did nothing withthat degree except I did meet my international
affair. I met a Costa Ricangirl, married her. We've got three
beautiful kids together, not so littlein more than twenty one thirteen nine.
So that's the personal side of things. So in my business, we also
work with families. Still very mucha family business. My dad is still
there. He is quote unquote retiring, but he comes in every day he's
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actually traveling. He's been doing alot of traveling now. But my older
sister have two sisters. My oldersister is our bookkeeper. She's there every
day with my dad, me employees. It's a blessing to be able to
not only work with your family,but to get along with your family,
because you can get along with yourfamily and not be able to work with
them, and vice versa, youcan work with them and not get along.
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But we've got a good balance ofthings. So we've we've got a
good thing going on. Very verygrateful, very blessed for that. Well,
what we're gonna do. Hold thatbreath. We're gonna take a quick
break. Seah. I told youat the time goes very fast here.
All right, We're gonna take abreak with Danny Cheftel, Doctor Joe Galotti.
This is your health First. Staytuned. We'll right back. We
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got a little Latin funk tonight,which is okay with me. I'm doctor
Joe Glotti. You're tuned into yourhealth first. Every Sunday between seven and
a pm. Don't forget go todoctor Joe Galotti dot com. Feel like
dancing right now? Danny, thisis you have my permission. Yeah,
all right. In the studio tonightis Danny Cheftel with Cheftel Diamonds coming up
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in just a few moments, HowardWong talking about lung disease and the symptoms,
the symptoms you need to know.All right, Danny, we were
sort of given an intro on you, and let's get into seven months ago
when you got acutely ill. Yeah. Yeah, so I, Joe and
I were talking before this started.I've always been a healthy person. Health
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and wellness and exercise always been abig part of my life. So I
one day woke up and I hada weird pain in my stomach. I
had no idea what it was,but I don't get sick often, so
I didn't think much of it.Went to work, took some ibuprofen,
some pepto bismo. Thought it wassome indigestion. Next day woke up it
was worse. Thought it was maybea virus at this point. And so
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now, when you say worse ona scale of one to five, one
is like not much a little gas. Five is you're on the floor writhing
in pain. I would say Dayone was probably a five. It hurt
pretty bad. Day two was probablya seven and a five. Yeah,
oh yeah, oh one. Soit's four okay, four, okay,
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three four. It just progressively gotworse. So by the by the third
day, when I didn't do anythingagain, I I just assumed that it
was something that would go away witha little pepto bismol time and you know,
hyberprofen So I'm standing there in thekitchen in my store, and I'd
tell my dad, you know,I'm going to go two doors down to
that little little minor er and Ijust need them to check my stomach out.
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Something's going on. I need someantibiotics. I don't know what's happening.
My dad says, well, wheredoes it hurt? I said,
well, you know, my lowerright part of the stomach. He says,
okay, hold on one second.Before you go, push down on
your lower right stomach and when yourelease it, if it hurts, smart
to the hospital. A smart man, What are you talking about, he
says, if it hurts when yourelease, it's your appendix. It's an
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emergence. You were going now,So sure enough, pushed, released,
hurt, got the hell out ofthere. He rushed me to the hospital,
almost killed us on the way there. He drives a Tesla going one
hundred miles an hour. Anyway,We get there, do some scans.
Sure enough, my appendix was perforated. It was not good. It was
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at that point the worst pain I'veever felt in my life. Hands down
in my stomach. I couldn't standup straight. And that was it,
you know. They I didn't eventhink to call Joe at the time.
I knew several doctors at Methodists.I didn't even cross my mind. I
just wanted to get well. Iwanted them pull that thing out of me
and go home and just get backto work. So they come back with
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the scan results. They said,yeah, it's bad. We got to
get in here. Said okay,let's do it tonight. I want to
get out of here by the newweekend. I'm busy, I got stuff
going on. I said, okay, well, we're going to schedule either
for tonight or tomorrow. It's okay. Twenty three hours later, you know,
I'm on the operating table. Theypulled my appendix out, and I
thought that would be the end ofit. Yeah. I get back to
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my room, and as bad asit hurt before I went in, it
was exponentially worse when I got out, and it didn't let up for days
weeks. It was terrible, andat that point that's yeah. I mean
I think I came in on aMonday morning and got word that you were
there and you had drains and youwere really really uncomfortable and pain And to
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fast forward, this was a veryvery long recovery. I think, longer
than I thought and way longer thanyou thought, which you know, right
at this point, lessons learned aboutrecovery and the human body. Yeah.
Absolutely again, I'm I consider myselfhealthy, fit, and I should recover
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from this. It's a kind ofside It's people get out of the hospital
on a day or two and thekids get this right. Yeah, I'm
forty at the time, forty yearsold. There's no way it was going
to be an appendix, first ofall. And then when I found out
it was okay, it's going tobe a quick recovery, it was.
And I was in the hospital fortwo weeks weeks. Got a plural effusion
towards the end of that, whichis fluid around your lung, and you
know, I rushed the doctors toget me out of there. I had
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a big event going on on aThursday. They got me out of the
hospital at three pm, went andgot my haircut, went home, got
to the event at five point fortyfive, you know, blew it out.
It was in the hospital the nextday. Yeah, just I'm an
idiot. Yeah, well, Iwas willing to go with you that night,
but to coach you through. Nowthe main thing here, Danny,
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I always talk about the cost ofwellness. Now Here you are, young
guy, otherwise healthy, you areon your back and not feeling well,
long protracted recovery. How did thatimpact family, your business, relationships,
your customers, because that is themessage that I always try to talk about,
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that take your health seriously because whenit gets rough, Yeah, everything
around you falls apart. Absolutely.And that was not that was yeah,
yeah, you know, I gotgoosebumps. It affected every single part of
my life. My I have threekids. One has moved out in college,
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but my younger two kids, that'sLeask she's twenty one, and so
my thirteen and nine year old.They still need mom, they need dad.
And my wife she's got her ownbusiness. She was busy, she's
slepting the kids around. She's youknow, kids have sports, they have
this they have that, and thenthe business, just every part of my
life, everything just had to stopfor a minute. And then people had
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to figure out how they could takeover my responsibilities, and I had to
figure out, you know, howI could help the people that were trying
to help me, because it wasjust a complete mess. It was a
nightmare. And you just don't realizehow one little thing, one health blip,
can affect every single part of yourlife. Yeah, and saying at
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the beginning, it's that prevents you. You're just listening to your body.
I simply didn't listen to my body. I knew something was way off,
and I just ignored it. Yeah, And look, this is not the
blame game to say, come on, Danny, right lower quadrant pain.
You're a forty year old guy.It's appendix until proven otherwise. It ruptured.
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You should have been in twenty fourhours earlier. That's not the point
of this. But there the lessonis how many patients are sitting home tonight
with a pain in their chest,pain in their shoulder, some sort of
digestive disorder. We're going to talkwith doctor Wang in a minute. They're
wheezing, they're coughing, they're shortof breath. Oh, this will be
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better tomorrow. Let me take twomotrin, two aspirin and we'll see what
happens. But that in itself isa problem. But it is the downstream
fallout that I witness first hand,with you saying how disruptive it was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's it's you know, and you
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want to go about your life.You don't want to have to deal with
the hell thing, you know,but it just it typically does. And
you also don't want to be awoos Right, that was my thing.
I just didn't want to go infor some little stomach pain. Wasn't so
little. But you know, youjust have to listen yourself. You just
have to. I don't that's it. You just have to listen to yourself.
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But you have to. It's reallypay attention and become a student of
your body. Right in a sense. Now, on Friday, you sent
a bunch of us these barbarian videos. You and a particular person who goes
by the name of Liver King.I thought I was Liver King all these
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years. I am the liver doctor, but he is the liver King.
So really, briefly in the lastminute, here sort of wrap up how
you connected with him and the eventthat you part Yeah, so liver King
controversial health and wellness figure. Iguess you could say, look him up
if you're curious. He's become agood friend of mine. He's he challenged
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me. You know, he knewI was in the hospital. His father
actually passed away from ruptured appendix.Huh. And seventy pound kettlebell in each
hand, seventy pounds on your back, twenty pounds on your ankles, one
hundred and fifty pounds in a sledgeyou pull it for a mile. And
that was a challenge he came upwith for me. That's his barbarian challenge.
And it lit a spark under me. It was a reason for me
to get up and just get offmy butt. And yes, I had
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this terrible thing happen, but Ineeded to prove to myself. I knew
that I needed something to get meback to where I was before and you
know, kick this health scare backin the past. Mission accomplished, Mission
accomplished. He told me a respectabletime was three hours. I finished in
two and it felt like, Imean, did you train for this?
Would just walk in on the street, Oh, I trained for a while,
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and you can't. You can train, but you can't fully prepare.
It was what do you do inparticular, real brief just practice picking up
heavy things and going for a walk, you know, throwing a heavy backpack
on. And I have a sledwith weights and I dragged it around.
People looked at me crazy in theneighborhood. It didn't matter to me.
It was me proving to myself thatI could get back on my feet.
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Yes, this terrible thing happened,but I can get back on my feet,
and I can you know, Ican get back in life. Yeah,
yeah, exactly, Very very inspirational, and that's why you're here tonight
on the radio. Thank you,Joe. So all right, well we're
going to take a break. Dannyis going to be sitting shotgun with me.
Doctor Howard Wang from Houston Methodist Hospital, he's the medical director of the
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lung transplant program, is going tobe coming up here, and the objective
of this next segment is for allof you to have a good understanding of
lung symptoms. We'll be right back. I'm doctor Joe Glotti. Every single
Sunday evening, you should all betuned in to your health first, trying
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to make yourself better consumers of healthcare, raising that health IQ that I always
talk about, don't forget go dodoctor Joeglotti dot com. And to stay
in touch with us, you goto these websites of ours, send me
a message, sign up for anewsletter, and sort of be in the
loop on wellness. That's it's assimple as that, all right. Well,
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As as I had said earlier,doctor Howard Wang is uh on the
line. Doctor Wang is the medicaldirector of the lung transplant program at used
in Methodist Hospital. We always loveto have them on, Howard. Good
evening and thanks for coming on tonight. The pleasure as always well, Howard.
You know, the one point thatI wanted to try to sort of
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get across to everybody tonight is forthe public listening audience tonight to have a
good understanding of some of the lungsymptoms lung complaints that people may have.
And as I prefaced it, atthe early part of the program, you
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deal with end stage lung disease,very very sick people. But I would
have to think at some point thecomplaints or symptoms were mild, maybe they
were ignored, maybe assigned to somethingelse. What's your take on that,
the sense that the severe symptoms thatwhen you meet them really did pre date
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six months, a year, fiveyears, and there were signs that something
was wrong. What do you think? Yeah, I think that's important thing
for people to understand is that alot of times things start very gradually and
insidiously, right, and you know, people have a tendency of you know,
kind of chalking things up to well, you know, it's just gonna
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blow over, or maybe I'm gettinga little older, just kind of losing
a step. A lot of thesesymptoms. You know, a lot of
times it's more kind of exertional limitationskind of this, you know, nagging
cough that's you know, kind ofbothers some but it's not kind of crippling
initially, or you know, alittle wheezing or you know, just kind
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of a little little things like thatthat you know, it's easy to kind
of explain away, maybe a littlebronchitis or allergies, right, things like
that, you know, and soa lot of times people just kind of
kind of brush it off. Yeah, you know, and I I like
to say that, uh, youknow, you have to listen to your
body and in that in that spirit, in a sense, you know,
people are tone deaf regarding their ownbody's performance. How often do you see
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a patient and they may have beenhanging on to symptoms for quite a while.
Yeah, that that actually happens quiteoften. And you know, like,
look, I was saying that peoplejust kind of have a tendency of
explaining things away right now. It'slike, oh, well, you know,
maybe I'm just you know, kindof oh, it's it's it's nothing.
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You know, it's just gonna it'sjust gonna kind of kind of go
back to normal, right And whenyou kind of rewind the tape, if
you will, you know that thesymptoms have been there, and you know,
it just have been kind of progressingslowly, right right, you know.
And so it's not to say thatyou should kind of react overreact to
every little thing, every little symptom, right you know, if something is
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there and it doesn't go away,then you know, it's better to be
a little more preemptive about it.You go see your doctor and get checked
out, and you know, justget some basic testing. Right now,
I would I I've got a littlepunch list here of symptoms that I came
up with so shortness of breath.To me, as the non lung guy,
I would think that that's sort ofa pretty much a catch all,
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lots of different causes and often ignored, like you said, getting old or
I live with a smoker. Sowhat what's your word to everybody tonight on
shortness of breath? At what pointdo you sort of pull the pull the
U the lever to go get checkedout? Well, I think the the
thing to consider is, you know, it's a shortness of breath that's kind
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of unusual, if you will,you know, for somebody who exercises regularly,
you know, you know they're they'rereally exercising hard and they get a
little shorter breath, that's completely normal, right. But you know, for
somebody who is relatively sedentary and notvery active, if they're shorter breath,
which is kind of basic activities likelet's say getting dressed or taking a shower,
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that's clearly abnormal. Right. Soit really depends on the context,
right, Okay, but shortness ofbreath something that is getting a little progressive,
should definitely be worked up. Okay, what about cough, chronic nagging
cough? A lot of people sayit's post nasal drip, it's their allergies,
but allergy seasons come and go andthey're still left with a cost.
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What do you think? Yeah,so that's that's also uh, you know,
an important thing to keep in mindthat you know, if it's something
that doesn't go away, it couldbe more than just you know, simple
allergies or you know, if ifobviously, if it's uh, you know,
you just got a virus, youknow, from had grandchildren over and
kind of got sick and came downwith the restory virus, having a cough
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is completely expected. But if thatcough just kind of never goes away and
it's still there, you know,six weeks later, then I might suggest
that there's something else right contribute.Yeah, so you have to kind of
take in that the context, youknow, like what what's it related to?
There's some sort of identifiable reason,and if you know, especially if
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it just you know, kind ofpersists, right, you know, and
it never goes away, it's it'sit's normal to have a little we all
have a little cough every once ina while, but it's something that you
know kind of doesn't ever go away, and it's there and it is persistent.
Yeah, it's a hint, youknow, the clue that there's something
something along right now. The otherone, which a lot of people may
think is a little vague, theymay not definitely track it back to the
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lung, is a sense of fatigueand tiredness. Now, many times that
can be related of course to hardeven liver other issues, but with lung
problems, potentially being tired and fatiguecould couldn't mean that you've got some lung
issues potentially, but you know,it's usually associated with other things like that
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you mentioned, you know, theshortness of breath with activity especially, you
know, just kind of the limitedexercise tolerance. You know, the you
know, maybe a cough or youknow, some wheezing and they do a
little chest tightness. Those could allcome along with, you know, kind
of this fatigue. And it's obviouslya very you know a broad spectrum of
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problems that can contribute to fatigue,right so, but but it's you know,
something to pay attention to if it'ssomething that's that's kind of above and
beyond what's what's normal for that particularindividual. Absolutely, and the last thing
here in the last minute or so, we're current lung infections. Now,
I you know, in my ownclinic, I see patients and you check
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in to see how they're doing,and they're saying, oh, I'm on
my third round of antibiotics for thisinfection in my lung. Why is that
a problem? I mean, Iknow it's a problem, but explain to
everybody. So, usually, youryour body is actually pretty good at maintaining
uh, you know, kind ofthe integrity of its own defenses, and
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so it's it's a it's if youdo come down with an acute infection that
your body is actually very efficient atclearing the that that infection and kind of
restoring its normal you know, kindof homeostasis or balance and uh. But
you know, if somebody is repeatedlyunable to clear an infection, that may
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be a line of the weak immunesystem, a compromised community, you know,
and uh, or it could bea very serious obsession that's not being
treated correctly and then it's not beencompletely eliminated. So it's a problem.
And one last thing is, youknow, if people are having kind of
chronic lung disease, that's actually oneof the hallmarks of chronic lung disease.
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It's just kind of inability to youknow, get rid of infection. Right
absolutely, all right, Howard,as always, thanks for coming on,
and uh keep up the good workand we'll get you on again soon.
Okay, sounds good. All right, thanks, thank you, all right,
Howard Wog he is a real pleasureto work with. He's the medical
director of the lung Transplant program atUston Methodist Hospital. All right, final
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segment coming up of this week's YourHealth First, stay tuned. We will
right back, welcome back, everybody. Wonder you know Danny was asking me,
Danny Chef tell that is as hewas, wait, Dave, keep
that music up for a second.You know, I'm in my twenty second
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year doing this and he's like,do you still have fun? I'm like,
I have a blast doing this programbecause we get to pick the music
and you know, there's such agreat Johnny Cash song, right yeah,
I love it. Johnny Cash ispretty Yeah, that's great stuff. All
right, Dave, thank you.So final segment here we have about nine
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and a half minutes where with DannyChef Tel and thanks to Howard Wang for
checking in regarding lung disease and knowingsome of your lung lung symptoms. It
really is important, and whether it'slung neurology, g yn neurology, appendix,
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you need to be in the know. You really, you really,
and you know I I I complain. I don't know if this is really
a complaint. It's just an observation. People pay more attention to how their
car works. Oh man, yougotta get tires rotated every three months and
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change the oil and a little clickinghere and there. They're in the mechanic
shop, but their body is freakingfalling apart and it just goes on for
weeks and months and months. Inever understood that, right, I mean,
it's your body. You're If you'reuncomfortable, why don't you do something
about it? Right? I mean, okay, here I am. I
almost died because I didn't pay attentionto my appendix. Okay, but you
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know it's it's I was just talkingto Joe and talking about those little habits,
right, I have these little habitsthat help me just stay healthy.
Before my appendix issue and then after, right when I was just so beaten
up and I was trying to recoverand I couldn't work out, I couldn't
do these things. I just gotup and walked right, just started from
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zero. How can I just movemy body? Walk right? And people
in my community saw me, theyknew what I had gone through, and
they're looking at me like, oh, shouldn't you be in bed? Well,
no, I got to move mybody. The only way I'm going
to recover is if I just getback to healthy right, get off the
processed foods. Just put one footin front of the other. I couldn't
even walk a quarter mile right.And I see my neighbors and they're cheering
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me. Oh, Daniel, goodto see you, Good to see you.
I'm just dying internally. But Iknew I had to keep going.
I knew that everybody was going tobe there for me, and I have
to be there for everybody else.Yeah, And I think that's the main
thing because for many people, andit depends what your family makeup, is,
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your neighborhood, your community, thekind of work that you do.
I would say most people do notfully realize how they could influence others in
a positive way. So looking atall of this, this really serious medical
surgical problem, you had seven plusmonths of recovery, You're doing the barbarian
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on Monday, this past Monday,a sense of achievement. What And again,
not to force you or put youon the spot here, Danny,
but what do you think your outlookis going to be in influencing the community
to help people out. Yeah,I went through something terrible. I'm not
the only one who goes through terriblethings, right, but I now know
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how it is. I know howto answer questions, you know. I
people ask me about it all thetime, Oh, well, why did
it happen? Well, I don'tknow. How can I avoid it?
I don't know, just just tryto stay healthy, right, And so
I have these conversations with friends withfamily that want to know about my situation,
and then I just have a conversationabout general health. Right, how
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can you not go through this?How can you avoid it? And the
crazy thing was, after I wentthrough this appendix issue, I had two
good friends who also had appendicitis,I mean within weeks, And the only
reason they know what to look outfor is because they knew that I went
through it, and they're thinking,shoot, maybe I should check my stomach.
Right, And that's just talking,you know. And back to the
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community thing is just telling people whatyou've been through. You know, if
they ask you what you went through, don't just blow it off at you.
I had something, But they wantto know. I mean, they
genuinely want to and roll what youwent through? How can I avoid it?
How did you recover? What canI do to prevent things like this?
Right? I'm no expert? Yeahno, no, I sell diamonds.
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But you know, I guess thebiggest challenge we have in the medical
field is trying to motivate the publicto take interest. I mean, here
we are all these years. Oursingle mission is to really let people in
on the the strategies to be well, that's all we do here, all
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right, that's nothing more. We'renot selling anything. We're just trying to
do that. So for the public, what's your opinion? Why why the
hesitation to hey, you know what, we better eat better as a family
or I you know, I haven'texercised in five years. I need to
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start that. What is that lightthat is not going off in people's heads?
You know, I think people justdon't want to know about their own
mortality. You know, something hurts. I'm not gonna go to the doctor
because he's gonna tell me it's Scottforbid cancer or something's falling apart, or
I'm gonna have to go on somemedical treatment, I'm gonna have to miss
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time from work. People just wouldrather push that aside not know about it.
In my opinion, right, it'sreally denial, right, I think
it's denial. And yeah, Imean back to the car analogy. You
hear clank clink clink, clink clank. Oh, I got to get it
fixes. I won't be able toget to work. Well, if your
body's going clank clink clink, clinkclank, you ain't gonna be going to
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work either, right, So it'sa it's a weird thing. Yeah,
I don't know, you know,And I think I still so much of
what I talk about is about thefamily sitting eating together. When you sit
at the table and eat together,pretty likely, unless you hate each other,
you're going to talk and say,how is your day, how was
school, how's your friends? What'sgoing on tonight? And at that point
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you may say, you know what, you know, I've had this problem
with my knee dad, you know, or you know, after I eat
my stomach gets upset, or Iwake up at the middle of the night
with a headache, there is thisconversation to say, well, thanks for
telling me, Let's okay, seehow it is tomorrow, take a little
you know, tiland all the motroomwhatever. But let's let's keep an eye
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on because we're talking to each other. But when we live in silos where
nobody's talking to each other, you'reyou're probably more likely to just be on
your own and suffer in silence.Yeah, no, you're right. Check
in. Check in on your people, right, your loved ones, your
friends, your family, yourself,check in you know, how you doing?
But how you really doing, howyou're feeling. Yeah, it's not
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superficial. You really right, askquestions. No, you're right. I
mean that's super important. I meanwe have the benefit of being around the
people we love, not everybody,but you know, when we have that
blessing to be around people love,show them that you love them, ask
them how they're doing, and takean interest in their health. Yeah right,
and then they'll do the same withyou if it's if they love you
back, I guess. But selfcare is real, and you can't just
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expect people to check in on youand them to care. Unfortunately, you
have to just take an interest inyourself yeah. So now the other I
guess the last question here is doesthe Liver King have a aarp barbarian that
you know, like barbarian light.I don't know, Joe, you're pretty
barbaric. I think you can getthe whole, the whole full Manti and
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I, you know, I thinkwe'd have to say final word tonight,
Danny, on your health, yourwellness, and maybe a message for everybody
tonight. I'm just grateful. I'msuper grateful. I wouldn't wish what I
went through on anybody, but Idon't. I don't regret it. I
think that was I truly believe thateverything in life happens by design, and
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this happened to me for a reason. I don't know what the reason is
exactly yet, but it happened fora reason. I'm grateful for life.
I'm grateful for health. I'm gratefulto be around my family, and I'm
grateful that I had that support.So yeah, being grateful. Yeah,
that's what it's about, all right, Danny, thanks so much for coming
in on short notice tonight. Greatstory and I do hope that it inspired
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our listeners tonight. All right,so you know the drill next Sunday night
at seven o'clock. For now,go to doctor Joe Galotti dot com or
Texasliver dot com send me a message. It's so great to hear from our
community of listeners. All right,So with that said, we'll see you
next Sunday night. Be blessed,exercise, eat right, and if you've
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got paint on the right lower quadrant, do the barbarian. Due to barbarian,
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Initial life sequence. Coming to youlive from Houston, Texas, home to
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wellness and the prevention of disease.Now here's your host, doctor Joe Bellotti.
Well well, well, a wonderfulSunday evening to everybody. Thanks as
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always for tuning in on Sunday eveningfor the hour between seven and eight pm.
The name of the program is YourHealth First. I'm doctor Joe Galotti
and as I start off program everyweek, there is a very simple mission.
You have to have a mission.It is to raise your health IQ.
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That's it. Because so many patientsI see, people I talk with
there is a lack of insight,lack of knowledge or an appreciation about their
health and wellness, and things justunfortunately get kick down the road for too
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long before a more serious problem developsand then sort of all hell breaks loose.
But our goal here, as Isaid, very simply, just to
make you dial in and make youbetter consumers and be aware of your body,
and so that really is our guaranteeevery Sunday evening. All right,
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Now, let me just get who'son the program tonight, so a little
later, doctor Howard Wang. Howard'sbeen on the program before. He's the
medical director of the lung transplant programright here in the Texas Medical Center at
Houston Methodist Hospital. Now my nowHoward and his team. Of course,
dealing with lung transplant, you're goingto be dealing with really sick people that
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have end stage lung disease. Justlike on our liver transplant program, we
have people with end stage liver disease, but end stage lung disease. Now,
all of this for the most part, and I'll let Howard sort of
lay that out. All of thisstarted, or for those that get to
the point of having end stage lungdisease, it started off with some mild
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symptoms a cough, a wheeze,a little bit of phlegm uh. And
maybe they did not put two andtwo together connect the dots, and they
presented got to the doctor or gotto a specialist later than they should have.
Could you have intervened earlier. Idon't know what specifically, We'll wait
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and see what doctor Wang has tosay. But what I really want you
to do tonight is listen and realizethat there are a handful of lung pulmonary
symptoms that you need to be awareof and not simply blow it off.
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Oh I'm short of breath because I'mfat now, or my husband's a smoker.
I'm a former smoker. Of courseI'm short of breath. Well maybe
not, maybe it's something more serious. So Doctor Wang is going to be
coming on, so stay tuned forthat. But the contact info for us,
of course, Doctor Joeglotti dot comis our website, sounder for our
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And of course, if you wantto get a copy of my book Eating
Yourself Sick, you could get itthere on the website. All right,
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So in the studio tonight, greathonor a friend and colleague of mine,
Danny Cheftel with chef Tel Diamonds CheftelDiamonds dot com and well, first of
all, Danny, welcome to theprogram tonight. Thanks Joe, I'm excited
to be here. Thanks for havingme. Yeah, now this is you
know, all week long, Iam thinking what are we going to do
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Sunday for the program? And somesegments are weeks out scheduled. Others I
have the editorial ability to just makespurt of the moment changes. And I
guess it was on Friday you sentme a video. We have a real
live barbarian in our studio here tonight. So Danny, I'll let you exp
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what you did. But Danny participatedin a very physical activity and he did
very well, which I was happyto see him do. But the backstory
is several months ago Danny was prettyill and to see him triumph through the
illness, through recovery and then thisbarbarian or barbaric you know exercise routine is
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great. So with that said,Danny, why don't you just tell everybody
about you, what you do,your family, your business, and what
you like to do. Yeah.Absolutely, so thanks for the introduction.
That's what I do where jewelers.We have a jewelry store. I'm second
generation, so my father started thisbusiness Shaffield Diamonds forty six years ago.
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Now I'm forty one, so I'vebeen around in my whole life. And
as kids, you know, wewere in his office watching him do his
thing. Was he was pure wholesaleat the time, so it was just
him in the office with my grandmother, my maternal grandmother, and it was
just them too making it work right. My dad would travel around and sell
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gems all over. I say,he was always traveling. So I was
introduced to the business at an earlyage. Never really knew that that's what
I was going to do until youknow, I was in college. I
studied international politics, it's called internationalaffairs. That was my major, economics
politics, and my concentration was LatinAmerica, so you had to be proficient
in Spanish. In my case,that was a requirement, and I,
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like many people, did nothing withthat degree except I did meet my international
affair. I met a Costa Ricangirl, married her. We've got three
beautiful kids together, not so littlein more than twenty one thirteen nine.
So that's the personal side of things. So in my business, we also
work with families. Still very mucha family business. My dad is still
there. He is quote unquote retiring, but he comes in every day he's
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actually traveling. He's been doing alot of traveling now. But my older
sister have two sisters. My oldersister is our bookkeeper. She's there every
day with my dad, me employees. It's a blessing to be able to
not only work with your family,but to get along with your family,
because you can get along with yourfamily and not be able to work with
them, and vice versa, youcan work with them and not get along.
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But we've got a good balance ofthings. So we've we've got a
good thing going on. Very verygrateful, very blessed for that. Well,
what we're gonna do. Hold thatbreath. We're gonna take a quick
break. Seah. I told youat the time goes very fast here.
All right, We're gonna take abreak with Danny Cheftel, Doctor Joe Galotti.
This is your health First. Staytuned. We'll right back. We
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got a little Latin funk tonight,which is okay with me. I'm doctor
Joe Glotti. You're tuned into yourhealth first. Every Sunday between seven and
a pm. Don't forget go todoctor Joe Galotti dot com. Feel like
dancing right now? Danny, thisis you have my permission. Yeah,
all right. In the studio tonightis Danny Cheftel with Cheftel Diamonds coming up
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in just a few moments, HowardWong talking about lung disease and the symptoms,
the symptoms you need to know.All right, Danny, we were
sort of given an intro on you, and let's get into seven months ago
when you got acutely ill. Yeah. Yeah, so I, Joe and
I were talking before this started.I've always been a healthy person. Health
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and wellness and exercise always been abig part of my life. So I
one day woke up and I hada weird pain in my stomach. I
had no idea what it was,but I don't get sick often, so
I didn't think much of it.Went to work, took some ibuprofen,
some pepto bismo. Thought it wassome indigestion. Next day woke up it
was worse. Thought it was maybea virus at this point. And so
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now, when you say worse ona scale of one to five, one
is like not much a little gas. Five is you're on the floor writhing
in pain. I would say Dayone was probably a five. It hurt
pretty bad. Day two was probablya seven and a five. Yeah,
oh yeah, oh one. Soit's four okay, four, okay,
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three four. It just progressively gotworse. So by the by the third
day, when I didn't do anythingagain, I I just assumed that it
was something that would go away witha little pepto bismol time and you know,
hyberprofen So I'm standing there in thekitchen in my store, and I'd
tell my dad, you know,I'm going to go two doors down to
that little little minor er and Ijust need them to check my stomach out.
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Something's going on. I need someantibiotics. I don't know what's happening.
My dad says, well, wheredoes it hurt? I said,
well, you know, my lowerright part of the stomach. He says,
okay, hold on one second.Before you go, push down on
your lower right stomach and when yourelease it, if it hurts, smart
to the hospital. A smart man, What are you talking about, he
says, if it hurts when yourelease, it's your appendix. It's an
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emergence. You were going now,So sure enough, pushed, released,
hurt, got the hell out ofthere. He rushed me to the hospital,
almost killed us on the way there. He drives a Tesla going one
hundred miles an hour. Anyway,We get there, do some scans.
Sure enough, my appendix was perforated. It was not good. It was
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at that point the worst pain I'veever felt in my life. Hands down
in my stomach. I couldn't standup straight. And that was it,
you know. They I didn't eventhink to call Joe at the time.
I knew several doctors at Methodists.I didn't even cross my mind. I
just wanted to get well. Iwanted them pull that thing out of me
and go home and just get backto work. So they come back with
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the scan results. They said,yeah, it's bad. We got to
get in here. Said okay,let's do it tonight. I want to
get out of here by the newweekend. I'm busy, I got stuff
going on. I said, okay, well, we're going to schedule either
for tonight or tomorrow. It's okay. Twenty three hours later, you know,
I'm on the operating table. Theypulled my appendix out, and I
thought that would be the end ofit. Yeah. I get back to
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my room, and as bad asit hurt before I went in, it
was exponentially worse when I got out, and it didn't let up for days
weeks. It was terrible, andat that point that's yeah. I mean
I think I came in on aMonday morning and got word that you were
there and you had drains and youwere really really uncomfortable and pain And to
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fast forward, this was a veryvery long recovery. I think, longer
than I thought and way longer thanyou thought, which you know, right
at this point, lessons learned aboutrecovery and the human body. Yeah.
Absolutely again, I'm I consider myselfhealthy, fit, and I should recover
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from this. It's a kind ofside It's people get out of the hospital
on a day or two and thekids get this right. Yeah, I'm
forty at the time, forty yearsold. There's no way it was going
to be an appendix, first ofall. And then when I found out
it was okay, it's going tobe a quick recovery, it was.
And I was in the hospital fortwo weeks weeks. Got a plural effusion
towards the end of that, whichis fluid around your lung, and you
know, I rushed the doctors toget me out of there. I had
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a big event going on on aThursday. They got me out of the
hospital at three pm, went andgot my haircut, went home, got
to the event at five point fortyfive, you know, blew it out.
It was in the hospital the nextday. Yeah, just I'm an
idiot. Yeah, well, Iwas willing to go with you that night,
but to coach you through. Nowthe main thing here, Danny,
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I always talk about the cost ofwellness. Now Here you are, young
guy, otherwise healthy, you areon your back and not feeling well,
long protracted recovery. How did thatimpact family, your business, relationships,
your customers, because that is themessage that I always try to talk about,
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that take your health seriously because whenit gets rough, Yeah, everything
around you falls apart. Absolutely.And that was not that was yeah,
yeah, you know, I gotgoosebumps. It affected every single part of
my life. My I have threekids. One has moved out in college,
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but my younger two kids, that'sLeask she's twenty one, and so
my thirteen and nine year old.They still need mom, they need dad.
And my wife she's got her ownbusiness. She was busy, she's
slepting the kids around. She's youknow, kids have sports, they have
this they have that, and thenthe business, just every part of my
life, everything just had to stopfor a minute. And then people had
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to figure out how they could takeover my responsibilities, and I had to
figure out, you know, howI could help the people that were trying
to help me, because it wasjust a complete mess. It was a
nightmare. And you just don't realizehow one little thing, one health blip,
can affect every single part of yourlife. Yeah, and saying at
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the beginning, it's that prevents you. You're just listening to your body.
I simply didn't listen to my body. I knew something was way off,
and I just ignored it. Yeah, And look, this is not the
blame game to say, come on, Danny, right lower quadrant pain.
You're a forty year old guy.It's appendix until proven otherwise. It ruptured.
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You should have been in twenty fourhours earlier. That's not the point
of this. But there the lessonis how many patients are sitting home tonight
with a pain in their chest,pain in their shoulder, some sort of
digestive disorder. We're going to talkwith doctor Wang in a minute. They're
wheezing, they're coughing, they're shortof breath. Oh, this will be
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better tomorrow. Let me take twomotrin, two aspirin and we'll see what
happens. But that in itself isa problem. But it is the downstream
fallout that I witness first hand,with you saying how disruptive it was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's it's you know, and you
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want to go about your life.You don't want to have to deal with
the hell thing, you know,but it just it typically does. And
you also don't want to be awoos Right, that was my thing.
I just didn't want to go infor some little stomach pain. Wasn't so
little. But you know, youjust have to listen yourself. You just
have to. I don't that's it. You just have to listen to yourself.
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But you have to. It's reallypay attention and become a student of
your body. Right in a sense. Now, on Friday, you sent
a bunch of us these barbarian videos. You and a particular person who goes
by the name of Liver King.I thought I was Liver King all these
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years. I am the liver doctor, but he is the liver King.
So really, briefly in the lastminute, here sort of wrap up how
you connected with him and the eventthat you part Yeah, so liver King
controversial health and wellness figure. Iguess you could say, look him up
if you're curious. He's become agood friend of mine. He's he challenged
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me. You know, he knewI was in the hospital. His father
actually passed away from ruptured appendix.Huh. And seventy pound kettlebell in each
hand, seventy pounds on your back, twenty pounds on your ankles, one
hundred and fifty pounds in a sledgeyou pull it for a mile. And
that was a challenge he came upwith for me. That's his barbarian challenge.
And it lit a spark under me. It was a reason for me
to get up and just get offmy butt. And yes, I had
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this terrible thing happen, but Ineeded to prove to myself. I knew
that I needed something to get meback to where I was before and you
know, kick this health scare backin the past. Mission accomplished, Mission
accomplished. He told me a respectabletime was three hours. I finished in
two and it felt like, Imean, did you train for this?
Would just walk in on the street, Oh, I trained for a while,
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and you can't. You can train, but you can't fully prepare.
It was what do you do inparticular, real brief just practice picking up
heavy things and going for a walk, you know, throwing a heavy backpack
on. And I have a sledwith weights and I dragged it around.
People looked at me crazy in theneighborhood. It didn't matter to me.
It was me proving to myself thatI could get back on my feet.
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Yes, this terrible thing happened,but I can get back on my feet,
and I can you know, Ican get back in life. Yeah,
yeah, exactly, Very very inspirational, and that's why you're here tonight
on the radio. Thank you,Joe. So all right, well we're
going to take a break. Dannyis going to be sitting shotgun with me.
Doctor Howard Wang from Houston Methodist Hospital, he's the medical director of the
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lung transplant program, is going tobe coming up here, and the objective
of this next segment is for allof you to have a good understanding of
lung symptoms. We'll be right back. I'm doctor Joe Glotti. Every single
Sunday evening, you should all betuned in to your health first, trying
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to make yourself better consumers of healthcare, raising that health IQ that I always
talk about, don't forget go dodoctor Joeglotti dot com. And to stay
in touch with us, you goto these websites of ours, send me
a message, sign up for anewsletter, and sort of be in the
loop on wellness. That's it's assimple as that, all right. Well,
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As as I had said earlier,doctor Howard Wang is uh on the
line. Doctor Wang is the medicaldirector of the lung transplant program at used
in Methodist Hospital. We always loveto have them on, Howard. Good
evening and thanks for coming on tonight. The pleasure as always well, Howard.
You know, the one point thatI wanted to try to sort of
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get across to everybody tonight is forthe public listening audience tonight to have a
good understanding of some of the lungsymptoms lung complaints that people may have.
And as I prefaced it, atthe early part of the program, you
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deal with end stage lung disease,very very sick people. But I would
have to think at some point thecomplaints or symptoms were mild, maybe they
were ignored, maybe assigned to somethingelse. What's your take on that,
the sense that the severe symptoms thatwhen you meet them really did pre date
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six months, a year, fiveyears, and there were signs that something
was wrong. What do you think? Yeah, I think that's important thing
for people to understand is that alot of times things start very gradually and
insidiously, right, and you know, people have a tendency of you know,
kind of chalking things up to well, you know, it's just gonna
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blow over, or maybe I'm gettinga little older, just kind of losing
a step. A lot of thesesymptoms. You know, a lot of
times it's more kind of exertional limitationskind of this, you know, nagging
cough that's you know, kind ofbothers some but it's not kind of crippling
initially, or you know, alittle wheezing or you know, just kind
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of a little little things like thatthat you know, it's easy to kind
of explain away, maybe a littlebronchitis or allergies, right, things like
that, you know, and soa lot of times people just kind of
kind of brush it off. Yeah, you know, and I I like
to say that, uh, youknow, you have to listen to your
body and in that in that spirit, in a sense, you know,
people are tone deaf regarding their ownbody's performance. How often do you see
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a patient and they may have beenhanging on to symptoms for quite a while.
Yeah, that that actually happens quiteoften. And you know, like,
look, I was saying that peoplejust kind of have a tendency of
explaining things away right now. It'slike, oh, well, you know,
maybe I'm just you know, kindof oh, it's it's it's nothing.
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You know, it's just gonna it'sjust gonna kind of kind of go
back to normal, right And whenyou kind of rewind the tape, if
you will, you know that thesymptoms have been there, and you know,
it just have been kind of progressingslowly, right right, you know.
And so it's not to say thatyou should kind of react overreact to
every little thing, every little symptom, right you know, if something is
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there and it doesn't go away,then you know, it's better to be
a little more preemptive about it.You go see your doctor and get checked
out, and you know, justget some basic testing. Right now,
I would I I've got a littlepunch list here of symptoms that I came
up with so shortness of breath.To me, as the non lung guy,
I would think that that's sort ofa pretty much a catch all,
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lots of different causes and often ignored, like you said, getting old or
I live with a smoker. Sowhat what's your word to everybody tonight on
shortness of breath? At what pointdo you sort of pull the pull the
U the lever to go get checkedout? Well, I think the the
thing to consider is, you know, it's a shortness of breath that's kind
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of unusual, if you will,you know, for somebody who exercises regularly,
you know, you know they're they'rereally exercising hard and they get a
little shorter breath, that's completely normal, right. But you know, for
somebody who is relatively sedentary and notvery active, if they're shorter breath,
which is kind of basic activities likelet's say getting dressed or taking a shower,
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that's clearly abnormal. Right. Soit really depends on the context,
right, Okay, but shortness ofbreath something that is getting a little progressive,
should definitely be worked up. Okay, what about cough, chronic nagging
cough? A lot of people sayit's post nasal drip, it's their allergies,
but allergy seasons come and go andthey're still left with a cost.
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What do you think? Yeah,so that's that's also uh, you know,
an important thing to keep in mindthat you know, if it's something
that doesn't go away, it couldbe more than just you know, simple
allergies or you know, if ifobviously, if it's uh, you know,
you just got a virus, youknow, from had grandchildren over and
kind of got sick and came downwith the restory virus, having a cough
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is completely expected. But if thatcough just kind of never goes away and
it's still there, you know,six weeks later, then I might suggest
that there's something else right contribute.Yeah, so you have to kind of
take in that the context, youknow, like what what's it related to?
There's some sort of identifiable reason,and if you know, especially if
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it just you know, kind ofpersists, right, you know, and
it never goes away, it's it'sit's normal to have a little we all
have a little cough every once ina while, but it's something that you
know kind of doesn't ever go away, and it's there and it is persistent.
Yeah, it's a hint, youknow, the clue that there's something
something along right now. The otherone, which a lot of people may
think is a little vague, theymay not definitely track it back to the
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lung, is a sense of fatigueand tiredness. Now, many times that
can be related of course to hardeven liver other issues, but with lung
problems, potentially being tired and fatiguecould couldn't mean that you've got some lung
issues potentially, but you know,it's usually associated with other things like that
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you mentioned, you know, theshortness of breath with activity especially, you
know, just kind of the limitedexercise tolerance. You know, the you
know, maybe a cough or youknow, some wheezing and they do a
little chest tightness. Those could allcome along with, you know, kind
of this fatigue. And it's obviouslya very you know a broad spectrum of
(24:53):
problems that can contribute to fatigue,right so, but but it's you know,
something to pay attention to if it'ssomething that's that's kind of above and
beyond what's what's normal for that particularindividual. Absolutely, and the last thing
here in the last minute or so, we're current lung infections. Now,
I you know, in my ownclinic, I see patients and you check
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in to see how they're doing,and they're saying, oh, I'm on
my third round of antibiotics for thisinfection in my lung. Why is that
a problem? I mean, Iknow it's a problem, but explain to
everybody. So, usually, youryour body is actually pretty good at maintaining
uh, you know, kind ofthe integrity of its own defenses, and
(25:37):
so it's it's a it's if youdo come down with an acute infection that
your body is actually very efficient atclearing the that that infection and kind of
restoring its normal you know, kindof homeostasis or balance and uh. But
you know, if somebody is repeatedlyunable to clear an infection, that may
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be a line of the weak immunesystem, a compromised community, you know,
and uh, or it could bea very serious obsession that's not being
treated correctly and then it's not beencompletely eliminated. So it's a problem.
And one last thing is, youknow, if people are having kind of
chronic lung disease, that's actually oneof the hallmarks of chronic lung disease.
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It's just kind of inability to youknow, get rid of infection. Right
absolutely, all right, Howard,as always, thanks for coming on,
and uh keep up the good workand we'll get you on again soon.
Okay, sounds good. All right, thanks, thank you, all right,
Howard Wog he is a real pleasureto work with. He's the medical
director of the lung Transplant program atUston Methodist Hospital. All right, final
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segment coming up of this week's YourHealth First, stay tuned. We will
right back, welcome back, everybody. Wonder you know Danny was asking me,
Danny Chef tell that is as hewas, wait, Dave, keep
that music up for a second.You know, I'm in my twenty second
(27:07):
year doing this and he's like,do you still have fun? I'm like,
I have a blast doing this programbecause we get to pick the music
and you know, there's such agreat Johnny Cash song, right yeah,
I love it. Johnny Cash ispretty Yeah, that's great stuff. All
right, Dave, thank you.So final segment here we have about nine
(27:30):
and a half minutes where with DannyChef Tel and thanks to Howard Wang for
checking in regarding lung disease and knowingsome of your lung lung symptoms. It
really is important, and whether it'slung neurology, g yn neurology, appendix,
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you need to be in the know. You really, you really,
and you know I I I complain. I don't know if this is really
a complaint. It's just an observation. People pay more attention to how their
car works. Oh man, yougotta get tires rotated every three months and
(28:14):
change the oil and a little clickinghere and there. They're in the mechanic
shop, but their body is freakingfalling apart and it just goes on for
weeks and months and months. Inever understood that, right, I mean,
it's your body. You're If you'reuncomfortable, why don't you do something
about it? Right? I mean, okay, here I am. I
almost died because I didn't pay attentionto my appendix. Okay, but you
(28:38):
know it's it's I was just talkingto Joe and talking about those little habits,
right, I have these little habitsthat help me just stay healthy.
Before my appendix issue and then after, right when I was just so beaten
up and I was trying to recoverand I couldn't work out, I couldn't
do these things. I just gotup and walked right, just started from
(29:00):
zero. How can I just movemy body? Walk right? And people
in my community saw me, theyknew what I had gone through, and
they're looking at me like, oh, shouldn't you be in bed? Well,
no, I got to move mybody. The only way I'm going
to recover is if I just getback to healthy right, get off the
processed foods. Just put one footin front of the other. I couldn't
even walk a quarter mile right.And I see my neighbors and they're cheering
(29:23):
me. Oh, Daniel, goodto see you, Good to see you.
I'm just dying internally. But Iknew I had to keep going.
I knew that everybody was going tobe there for me, and I have
to be there for everybody else.Yeah, And I think that's the main
thing because for many people, andit depends what your family makeup, is,
(29:44):
your neighborhood, your community, thekind of work that you do.
I would say most people do notfully realize how they could influence others in
a positive way. So looking atall of this, this really serious medical
surgical problem, you had seven plusmonths of recovery, You're doing the barbarian
(30:07):
on Monday, this past Monday,a sense of achievement. What And again,
not to force you or put youon the spot here, Danny,
but what do you think your outlookis going to be in influencing the community
to help people out. Yeah,I went through something terrible. I'm not
the only one who goes through terriblethings, right, but I now know
(30:30):
how it is. I know howto answer questions, you know. I
people ask me about it all thetime, Oh, well, why did
it happen? Well, I don'tknow. How can I avoid it?
I don't know, just just tryto stay healthy, right, And so
I have these conversations with friends withfamily that want to know about my situation,
and then I just have a conversationabout general health. Right, how
(30:53):
can you not go through this?How can you avoid it? And the
crazy thing was, after I wentthrough this appendix issue, I had two
good friends who also had appendicitis,I mean within weeks, And the only
reason they know what to look outfor is because they knew that I went
through it, and they're thinking,shoot, maybe I should check my stomach.
Right, And that's just talking,you know. And back to the
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community thing is just telling people whatyou've been through. You know, if
they ask you what you went through, don't just blow it off at you.
I had something, But they wantto know. I mean, they
genuinely want to and roll what youwent through? How can I avoid it?
How did you recover? What canI do to prevent things like this?
Right? I'm no expert? Yeahno, no, I sell diamonds.
(31:38):
But you know, I guess thebiggest challenge we have in the medical
field is trying to motivate the publicto take interest. I mean, here
we are all these years. Oursingle mission is to really let people in
on the the strategies to be well, that's all we do here, all
(32:02):
right, that's nothing more. We'renot selling anything. We're just trying to
do that. So for the public, what's your opinion? Why why the
hesitation to hey, you know what, we better eat better as a family
or I you know, I haven'texercised in five years. I need to
(32:23):
start that. What is that lightthat is not going off in people's heads?
You know, I think people justdon't want to know about their own
mortality. You know, something hurts. I'm not gonna go to the doctor
because he's gonna tell me it's Scottforbid cancer or something's falling apart, or
I'm gonna have to go on somemedical treatment, I'm gonna have to miss
(32:44):
time from work. People just wouldrather push that aside not know about it.
In my opinion, right, it'sreally denial, right, I think
it's denial. And yeah, Imean back to the car analogy. You
hear clank clink clink, clink clank. Oh, I got to get it
fixes. I won't be able toget to work. Well, if your
body's going clank clink clink, clinkclank, you ain't gonna be going to
(33:05):
work either, right, So it'sa it's a weird thing. Yeah,
I don't know, you know,And I think I still so much of
what I talk about is about thefamily sitting eating together. When you sit
at the table and eat together,pretty likely, unless you hate each other,
you're going to talk and say,how is your day, how was
school, how's your friends? What'sgoing on tonight? And at that point
(33:30):
you may say, you know what, you know, I've had this problem
with my knee dad, you know, or you know, after I eat
my stomach gets upset, or Iwake up at the middle of the night
with a headache, there is thisconversation to say, well, thanks for
telling me, Let's okay, seehow it is tomorrow, take a little
you know, tiland all the motroomwhatever. But let's let's keep an eye
(33:52):
on because we're talking to each other. But when we live in silos where
nobody's talking to each other, you'reyou're probably more likely to just be on
your own and suffer in silence.Yeah, no, you're right. Check
in. Check in on your people, right, your loved ones, your
friends, your family, yourself,check in you know, how you doing?
But how you really doing, howyou're feeling. Yeah, it's not
(34:15):
superficial. You really right, askquestions. No, you're right. I
mean that's super important. I meanwe have the benefit of being around the
people we love, not everybody,but you know, when we have that
blessing to be around people love,show them that you love them, ask
them how they're doing, and takean interest in their health. Yeah right,
and then they'll do the same withyou if it's if they love you
back, I guess. But selfcare is real, and you can't just
(34:40):
expect people to check in on youand them to care. Unfortunately, you
have to just take an interest inyourself yeah. So now the other I
guess the last question here is doesthe Liver King have a aarp barbarian that
you know, like barbarian light.I don't know, Joe, you're pretty
barbaric. I think you can getthe whole, the whole full Manti and
(35:04):
I, you know, I thinkwe'd have to say final word tonight,
Danny, on your health, yourwellness, and maybe a message for everybody
tonight. I'm just grateful. I'msuper grateful. I wouldn't wish what I
went through on anybody, but Idon't. I don't regret it. I
think that was I truly believe thateverything in life happens by design, and
(35:30):
this happened to me for a reason. I don't know what the reason is
exactly yet, but it happened fora reason. I'm grateful for life.
I'm grateful for health. I'm gratefulto be around my family, and I'm
grateful that I had that support.So yeah, being grateful. Yeah,
that's what it's about, all right, Danny, thanks so much for coming
in on short notice tonight. Greatstory and I do hope that it inspired
(35:54):
our listeners tonight. All right,so you know the drill next Sunday night
at seven o'clock. For now,go to doctor Joe Galotti dot com or
Texasliver dot com send me a message. It's so great to hear from our
community of listeners. All right,So with that said, we'll see you
next Sunday night. Be blessed,exercise, eat right, and if you've
(36:15):
got paint on the right lower quadrant, do the barbarian. Due to barbarian,
we'll see you've been listening to yourHealth First with doctor Joe Glotti.
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