November 23, 2025 • 39 mins
With all the eating and drinking that comes with Thanksgiving and the Holidays, Dr. Galati explains how toxic acetaminophen can be. He also talks about his upcoming knee replacement. Dr. Galati was happy about the astounding response to his idea of giving a blood pressure cuff as a holiday gift. He also takes some time to chat about flu season and vaccines.
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a good Sunday evening, Thanks for spending part of your
weekend with us. Thanksgiving is on Thursday and the beginning
of the holiday season. So this is where we start
talking about health. Well, we talk about health every day,
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but with the holidays here where we want to reinforce healthy,
good habits and what happens during the holidays is number One,
people overeat, which is okay, but if you're diabetic, or
you're overweight, you have high blood pressure, it's not a
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good thing. There's a ton of cake, cookies, sweets again
part of the holidays. But if you have to excuse
yourself or push yourself away from the table, or not
take that extra chocolate chip cookie because you have an
underlying condition, it's something you have to do. You could
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potentially work hard and lower your risk lose weight, exercise,
get your diabetes under control, and then maybe you could
potentially indulge. The other issue is alcohol. So around this
time of the year we see an increased amount of
alcohol related injuries, something called acute alcoholic hepatitis. And the
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one thing that I will always talk about this time
of the year is it's sort of a phenomena that
not too many people talk about, is people will People
don't like hangovers? Am I right about that? Who likes
to go to a party? And even if you don't
get hammered, you have a few drinks you're really not
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used to drinking, maybe and you feel sick at night,
and maybe you wake up with a hangover. So what's
the remedy for a hangover? Motrin, thaile and all oral hydration, peptobismol.
But what people do is they will pre medicate themselves
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with a petomenaphin. Cedomenaphin is Thailer's brand named Thilanol. Now,
a cidomenaphin is in hundreds upon hundreds of over the
counter products. Coffin, cold medicines, sinus medicines, headache medicines, joint
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relief will have a pseudomenaphin. Now, the thing for you
to know here, and we always talk about on the
program here that we're going to give you actionable information.
We're going to give you information that you could use
right now. It is not high falutin or esoteric A.
Pseudomenaphin is generally safe when you take it at the
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suggest a dose, but if you overdose take too much
of sutomenafin, it is toxic to your liver. You could
go into liver failure and die. The other issue is,
even if you take normal amounts of acetomenaphin, alcohol makes
it all the more toxic. So that is the toxic
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connection there, alcohol and acetomenaphin, or alcohol and thilenol. But
you all know that thilanol is a pseudomenaphin. And so
what happens is people will go out and they'll finish
up work. Around four o'clock, they have, let's say a
work related party. A colleague is having a party at
another restaurant or a bar, or at their house, and
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then they're going to a friend's house have a few
more drinks. So they say, look, I've got a big
presentation tomorrow morning. I'm going to premedicate myself with acetomenafin.
Try to sort of cheat myself out of getting a hangover.
But what they don't realize is the aceno meenaphine that
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they're taking may be toxic in the context of taking alcohol.
And so they take a little asino menifin or a
decent dose of asino menafin, maybe about a gram two
five hundred milligram tablets, which is two extra strength, and
then they take that at say four o'clock prophylactically. But
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then they get to a party and they say, oh,
you know, I had two or three drinks. I'm going
to take two more before I go home. But then
they get home at eleven or twelve and they say,
you know what, I may need a little bit more,
so they'll take some more acetomenaphin. And this may go
on for a couple of days. Pre medicate drink, pre
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medicate drink, and ultimately this may lead to liver failure. Now,
a lot of people out there don't realize they have
some other underlying livid disease that they're unaware of, only
to compound the problem. So what is the takehold message
before we take a quick break here. The issue is
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realize that a sinomenifin is toxic. Okay, that is the
most important thing. Okay, the other thing, we've got music
coming on here. Unrelated anyway, you have to watch how
much you take. Check that other coffin cold products do
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not have a cinamenfin in it, and do not pre
medicate before you go out to drink. Just drink responsibly
for men to drinks tonight for women want all right,
Stay tuned. Doctor Joeglotti dot COM's our website. We'll be
right back. Welcome back everybody, Doctor Joe Galotti. Every Sunday
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on doctor Joegalotti dot com. Range As I tell everybody,
I thoroughly enjoyed being on the radio and getting to
play music for Everybody's sort of an added bonus. It's
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it's fun. I would think being a DJ would be
a heck of a lot of fun. But we're taking
care of people and trying to make you healthy and
stay out of the hospital. So here we are, all right. Well,
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I've been talking over the past couple of weeks about
my orthopedic issues, and in a couple of weeks I'm
going to be going for a knee replacement, a total
knee replacement. And this really has been something that's been
brewing for a few years now. In all the years
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that I played sports, worked out, hiked, backpacked, never did
I have any sort of an orthopedic injury. Never had
a bad shoulder, bed wrist, elbow, knee, hip, muscle injury. Nothing.
But when I look back, probably twenty twenty years ago,
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I would run in the morning with a colleague of
mine around rece University. We're here in the Texas Medical
Center in Race. University is right across from my office,
and we would run probably about five miles early in
the morning. I would catch a shower at work change
be ready to go by eight o'clock in the morning.
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And after I had run probably three four days a week,
I noticed that my left knee was hurting me, and
so the running around Reich University turned into a run walk.
And I would say from that point on, I never
formally ran again. I never went out and said I'm
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going on a run. But alternatively, my other forms of
exercise was hiking, walking, and cycling and working on an elliptical.
Occasionally I'd go on a stationary bike, shooting baskets, playing basketball.
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I could run up and down a basketball court, but
going for a three four, five six mile run was
I just didn't like it. And so when I would
go hiking, and we always as a family, did a
lot of hiking. If at the end of a long
hike I had a little bit of a sore knee,
I would take two motrin and that would be it.
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That would be it, maybe even tile and all. But
as time went on, the knee became a little bit
more problematic. But still I was at that two motrin
relief situation and never really was that bad. And then
about two years ago, two two and a half years ago,
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I was just walking on the sand at a beach
out on Long Island, and I did not miss step.
I did not twist my knee, I did not fall,
I didn't stub my toe nothing. One step. I could
tell you exactly where I was on the beach, my knee,
my left me just started to hurt and it never
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felt better since that time. So that is when I
just needed to be more careful. I had to pamper
it a little bit more, needed a little bit more
motrin and other non steroid alanti inflammatories. And it got
to the point maybe about a year and a half ago,
two years ago, where I finally saw an orthopedist and
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he did X rays, looked at my knee and he said, look,
you do have degenerative arthritis in your left knee. The
right knee looks okay, I don't think you need a
knee replacement. Now, you may never need a knee replacement.
Go for physical therapy. So I started going religiously for
physical therapy and I would do all the exercises at home,
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and I took up swimming, which was terrific, and the
knee sort of got better, but it never really got
back to normal, and it was a bit of a bother,
and when i'd be tired or walking a lot, i'd
have a little bit of a limp that my git
would be off. But then about it's been almost a year,
my right knee went out and the left knee was
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less of a problem, and the right knee became very,
very problematic, and so fast forward it. We had gone
on some longer hiking trips which I could not fully
participate in other vacations where there was a lot of
walking involved, going uphills downhills. It was just really, really
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difficult for me to participate. And we always talk about
with people that have orthopedic issues or joint issues, quality
of life. It's not so much how good or bad
your X ray looks or your MRI. It is your
quality of life. Can you do the things you want
to do happily? And it got to the point where
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I was just unable to fully enjoy the things that
I normally would like to do. Go for long walks, hiking,
I just could not do it. I was still swimming,
and swimming is a great exercise. So it got to
the point where I just had to talk with my
surgeon and it's the right knee that I'm going to
be getting a complete total knee replacement on the right. Now.
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What I would say is I have been so we
talk about rehab. I think you understand the sense of rehabilitation.
You're trying to strengthen your muscles of your leg or
whatever part of your body. It is well. At the
point where I realized rehab and the traditional sense was
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not going to be much of a remedy for me,
I shifted my mind set into prehab prehabs, so that
is preparing for the surgery that is upcoming. And how
do you do that well, it's the same set of exercises,
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the same focus on strengthening your quad muscles, your gluteous,
your butt. It seems like when you've got knee problems
or even hip problems, your butt has to be strong, stretching,
working your ankles and your calves. It's really they talk
about the chain from your hip down to your feet.
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All of this has to be in line. And so
I have been continuing to swim, do some strength training,
doing my leg and thigh exercises so that when I
get to surgery, knock on wood, no complications there. I
am able to get up out of bed and start
walking right away and rehabbing. So what is the lesson here?
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Even though you eat well, take care of yourself, don't smoke,
don't drink, don't do drugs. Bad crappy things happen to you.
But I am lucky that I do not have any
of these underlying chronic diseases, no underlying heart disease, lung disease,
canney disease, bone disease, diabetes, etc. So I think I'm
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in optimal health. I've worked towards this because, as I've
said before, you never know when a problem is going
to crop up out of nowhere, and you have to
be prepared for the fight that you may have to
put up. The other part is I've been very conscious
and conscientious about the exercise, making sure my leg is strength.
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It takes effort. I come home at work after a
long day, say a lord of the family, maybe get
a light bite to eat. I had to pool at
seven thirty at night. It's something I just have to do.
On weekend. You have to get up early, go out
and work out. So I will keep you all posted
as we navigate through this if you have any questions
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or you yourself have gone through joint replacement. And actually
my surgeon, I'm happy to say who it is, doctor
Tim Brown at Houston Methodist Hospital, phenomenal, phenomenal surgeon. He
is going to be behind the wheel that day. It's
going to be partially robotic as well, but we will
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have doctor brown On. He is eager to dip his
toe into radio and social media as an orthopedist, which
orthopedis should do to alert the public and keep you
healthy from an orthopedic standpoint, because I would say, if
your bones and joints don't work, it's really a problem
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for you. And and I'm witnessing this firsthand. I'm witness
thing firsthand. All right, Doctor Joe Galotti dot com is
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we're not on the we have our practice liver specialists
of Texas. We take care of patients with all facets
of liver disease, and certainly, you know, when you look
at all the different liver disorders, fatty liver, and we
talk about this a lot. We talk about this a
lot because it's a major, major public health issue with
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about one hundred million people, that's about a third of
the population. So if you're sitting in a car right
now at four people, one of them has a fatty liver.
If you've got a family of four, one of the
people has a fatty liver. And so risk factors for
fatty liver include obesity, for being overweight, pre diabetes, are
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having type two diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and
high pertension. High blood pressure. So next time you go
to the family doctor and you're sitting in the waiting
room and you look around and you say, gee, I
wonder what that guy's got. They're going to be overweight,
high blood pressure, some diabetes, and cholesterol issues. They probably
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have fatty liver. Now, the reason we get concerned about
this is that number one, no symptoms. You will not
wake up one day and say, you know what, I
think my liver is acting up. We say the liver
suffers in silence. That's number one. Number two, the elevated liver. Chemistries.
The blood tests that you get many many times are
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ignored by your primary care physician and they say, Bob,
don't worry that, just a little elevated, nothing much to
worry about. Well, the truth is, it's it's it's a
lot to worry about. So just keep that in mind
if you if you ever have any questions about fatty liver,
you could always send me a message. We're doing, and
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we've talked about this before, we're doing a number of
clinical trials on new therapies for obesity, cardiometabolic issues, which
is in that high blood pressure color lester, all overweight,
and of course lots of studies on fatty livers. So happy,
happy to help everybody out, all right. Well, a few
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weeks ago we were talking about holiday gifts and of
course we're going to have a tilt on something health
and wellness related. And I spent actually a fair amount
of time I think it was about three weeks ago
talking about getting a blood pressure cuff and the amount
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of people that reached out to say, I am ordering
a blood pressure cuff now on Amazon or wherever you
go shopping, you can get these anywhere. Was astounding. I
don't think in the years before, because I always would
bring that up, But for some reason this year resonated
with a lot of a lot of people. Even Dave,
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our board operator for the program, he texted me and said,
you know what, thinking it over, I'm getting a blood
pressure cuff from my family. So what I did was
I continue to search around, say what is the hot
health and wellness gift for this holiday season? And the
number one thing that kept coming up, And actually I
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asked my wife earlier this afternoon. I said, Hey, what's
your take on this? And she said, A thorough gun,
a Theorra Gun Mini. Now there are the one we
have at home is called a thunderbolt, not thunderbolt. Yeah,
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I think it's something like that. It's not a thorough gun,
but thorough Gun has done a very good job and
they have the Theorra Gun Mini. Now this can pack
away in your carry on if you take it traveling.
But it is a small massage gun and it has
two or three different attachments. It can be like a
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round ball, is something that looks like a thumb and
something that's a little bit more broad, but it will
be basically a massage within this machine and you can
loosen up stiff areas, muscles that are tight. And I
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think the take home of this and this would be
a great gun now, a great gift. Now. It is
about one hundred and seventy dollars, so it's not cheap
but well worth it. And I think if you buy
it for yourself or you buy it for a family,
that would be good. But what this really underscores from
a health and wellness standpoint number one. It's a cool
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little thing. It makes you feel good, but you actually
realize how stiff we all are, and stiffness and immobility,
the inability to stretch, and I know this for on
my knee. I was talking about this earlier. It impedes
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the way you're able to move or it will cause
a lot of pain in your neck, your shoulders, your arms,
your back, your legs, your knees. And if you talk
to somebody in physical therapy, a physical therapist, and you
go to them and say I have knee pain, I
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have hip pain, there may not be anything wrong with
your bones or your joint, but it may be that
you're incredibly stiff, and by stretching and working these stiff
muscles out, increasing flexibility. Guess what, your knee and your
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hip and your back and your foot feels better. Now.
The bigger issue here is that when you have pain,
stiff hip, a knee that hurt, you're not going to exercise.
And if you're not going to exercise, then that is
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going to put you at risk for high blood pressure,
weight gain, diabetes, high cholesterol, further immobility, and the whole
cycle just keeps getting worse. So to break that circle,
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you have to really start concentrating on flexibility, your mobility,
and I think thera gun is a great introductory approach
to this. Now, if you if you are having significant hip, back, knee,
foot ankle pain, yes you have to see a physician
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or maybe an orthopedist or somebody that specializes in these joints.
And yes you may need to go for physical therapy.
And I could say I've been going to physical therapy
for almost two years now. It is magnificent. And you
get the right physical therapist and they could really really
observe you and find out where the pain is and
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can really document how poorly we move. So I would
say try to look up a thera gun and now
theragun comes in all different sizes, but this is the
Thera gun mini. Good investment for everybody. There's a few
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other things that I could just sort of rifle off here,
and I'm going to post this on the Facebook page.
It is at doctor Joe Golotti. Let's see this is
let me see how we could organize this. I'm not
one for just reading lists off, but it's not bad.
Let's see if you are. Let's see hang on. Yeah, okay,
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fitness lovers, Okay. A weighted vest for walking this. We've
talked about this before, but this is a very popular
type of item. It's anywhere from six to twenty pounds.
It's a vest that you wear and it looks like
a little jacket. It looks like a reflector jacket that
you see the guys on the street with. But it
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adds a little bit of weight and it will increase
your core strength. It'll increase strength of your legs, your back,
and it gives you a much more efficient workout. You're
you're going to be working harder. I would be careful
with this and not get anything too heavy, but I
think a weighted vest for walking is a very good idea.
Of course, there are gym and fitness club memberships. A
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smart watch or activity tracker, because when you're even a
Apple watch, if you're watching the number of steps, the
number of hours of sleep, your how much time you're
sitting down, you're getting all of these metrics on how
you're functioning. It may change behavior. A yoga mat, so
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yoga mat is something good you could do yoga on,
but also it's a good mat to do your floor
exercises on. A gym bag, a foam roller, a sturdy
water bottle, take it to the gym. Running shoes, new
running shoes, get fitted for a good pair of running shoes.
And then for those that are into food, namely me,
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there are these are cool. Now. I've never done it,
only because I've got my own herb garden in the backyard,
but they have these window herb garden kits. And if
you could have some fresh rosemary, fresh parsley, fresh basil,
you know, it makes cooking a little bit more fun.
A blender. I certainly you don't have to break the
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bank and buy a vitam mix, but there are many
many less expensive blenders to you not only make sauces
when you are cooking, but smoothies for yourself. That's not
a bad idea. And the air fryer, certainly, you could
not fry your food and you could just do it
with an air fryer. That'll be healthier for you. Coffee
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maker cooking classes are certainly around. And then the other thing
is a cast iron skillet. You could go to Target
and buy a twelve inch lodge cast iron skillet for
under twenty five dollars. Will worth it. You'll have it
the rest of your life. And so if you have
any ideas on these other type items, I'd be all
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ears to here. All right, Doctor Joglotti. Final segment coming
up may have a surprise for you. Don't forget Doctor
Jogolotti dot com is our website. Sign up sending me
a message, let me know what you're thinking about getting
for the holiday season. Run it by me. We'll share
it on the air. All right, stay tuned. Final segment
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coming up? All right, Final segment of this week's your
health First Hope. I having a great Sunday evening, and
what I like to always think is that you should
be preparing for the coming week. What are we going
to eat, What is our schedule, Where is exercise going
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to be fitting in. Are there nights that you may
not be getting enough sleep? Do you have to adjust
for that? And you know, we can't just take the
week and the days and the months as as they come.
There has to be some thought into that because if not,
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it's completely haphazard. Your health becomes haphazard, and at the
end of the day, you're really not going to have
the best outcome with your health and wellness. It requires planning,
just like anything else in life. You do financial planning,
planning for your business, planning for how you're going to
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take care of your children. You can't just do it
ad hoc. And so with our health and wellness, there's
so many facets to it, so many facets to putting
your health first. That's the name of the program, right,
putting your health first. That you just have to really
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be cognizant. So I've always used Sunday night as the
time to prep and get set all. Right. Well, I
was trying to get my sister celested on the radio tonight,
but some of the wires got crossed. She's a hospice
nurse and not necessarily that the perception is that hospice
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is not a happy time. Somebody is dying, You're losing
somebody you care about to an illness. They may be suffering.
But during this holiday season, I want to get her
perspective on hospice and how to look at all this.
So Celeste will be on next Sunday, she promises me.
She promises me that she'll be She'll be on with us,
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all right. The other point I wanted to touch on
tonight before we fold out for the night is flu season.
And one of the negative impacts of the COVID pandemic
was this utter mistrust of vaccines. And I certainly get it.
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I do believe that there were many, many people that
had negative experiences with the COVID vaccine. There are reported deaths,
There are reported severe, severe, longstanding issues related to the
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COVID vaccine program, and it raised a legitimate concern for
how this was all rolled out, how it was in
a sense pushed on people take it or you lose
your job. I mean, that's pretty pretty significant. And so
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I believe that the scars and the wounds are still
very open, and there's a certain concern about vaccine. So
the flu vaccine, not to be confused with any other vaccine.
This is a dead virus. You're getting parts of the
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virus to stimulate your immune system to try to protect
yourself if you are indeed exposed to the flu. Now
similar and I do believe that the one lesson we
learned from the COVID nineteen pandemic is that if you
are chronically ill, and it's the usual suspects, and you
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should all know the usual suspects. It is obesity, it
is diabetes, it is hypertension, it is underlying heart disease,
underlying kidney disease, underlying lung disease, underlying liver disease. That's
what I do. If you have a weakened immune system,
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either due to some condition of the immune system underlying malignancy,
or you're on medicines that weaken immune system, like immune
suppressant steroids things like that that you need to take
for your loopis you're at higher risk of having a
bad problem with influenza. Now about oh, it's probably been
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about twenty years ago. There was research that was done
in the Texas Medical Center where I'm at looking at
people that get the flu and heart attack. And yes,
when you have influenza, you have the infection or a
bad infection, you have this tremendous response from your immune
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system and that's really what gets you sick. And with
all this inflammation, if you have underlying heart disease, it
puts an added stress on your heart and you could
end up having a heart attack. And so another reason
to get vaccinated. Another reason not to get the flu
is to prevent some sort of cardiovascular complication. But anyway,
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it's not too late to get the flu vaccine. I
would certainly recommend that talk with your physician, talk with
your nurse practitioner PA in your in your doctor's office,
because the sense from the CDC is that this may
be a bad flu season. The numbers are slowly rising. Now.
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The dominant flu virus this year is the H three
N two, is known to cause more severe symptoms than
the H one N one virus that was the most
common last year. Now, over the summer follow me on this,
the H three N two variety acquired at least seven mutations,
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so it's a slightly mutated virus. And the thought is
that the current vaccine that was already manufactured may be
a little less effective So what they're saying here is
the flu vaccine will help prevent hospitalizations. So it may
not prevent you from getting the flu. Don't get all
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mad if you said, oh, I got the flu vaccine
and I still got the flu. It's to try to
prevent the more serious complications landing you in the hospital.
It's it's supposed to have an effective effectiveness of seventy
to eighty percent in children and about thirty to forty
percent in adults. So it's not perfect, but it's going
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to give you a bit of an edge. Now, don't forget.
COVID is still out there, but again the hospitalizations and
the deaths are still on the low side. So the
message would be number one, talk with you doctor, get
the flu vaccine. Number two. If you are older, if
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you have any of these underlying chronic diseases, you need
to SERI consider getting the vaccine and taking care of yourself.
Eat well, get your rest, exercise, avoid alcohol. If you
are in that higher risk category, I would avoid crowds.
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There's nothing wrong with if you're going to a holiday
party or even Thanksgiving or Christmas or any of the
other holidays that are being celebrated. Now find out, say hey,
or any of the kids sick. If somebody is sick there,
then you may have to be a little bit more
concerned to say, you know what, I'm I'm going to
take a I'm going to take a break. I may
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not come. And of course hand washing is all important
as well. So that is it. It's a big message.
We're dealing with a population that is a little timid
on what needs to take place because of what's happened
with COVID. And I am not saying that. I'm not
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defending what happened with COVID. That was an utter, utter disaster.
But here we are all right. So it's that time
to close up shop. Go to our website, doctor Joglotti
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say that all the time. Send me a message if
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in any way, Doctor Joeglotti dot com. Have a great week,
have a great Thanksgiving. We'll catch you next Sunday. On
the other end of Thanksgiving, we'll get my sister Celeste
on the radio talk about hospice. But until then, have
a blessed week, take care of yourselves. Happy Thanksgiving. We
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should be thankful for all of our great blessings, and
we'll see you next Sunday night.
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a good Sunday evening, Thanks for spending part of your
weekend with us. Thanksgiving is on Thursday and the beginning
of the holiday season. So this is where we start
talking about health. Well, we talk about health every day,
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but with the holidays here where we want to reinforce healthy,
good habits and what happens during the holidays is number One,
people overeat, which is okay, but if you're diabetic, or
you're overweight, you have high blood pressure, it's not a
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good thing. There's a ton of cake, cookies, sweets again
part of the holidays. But if you have to excuse
yourself or push yourself away from the table, or not
take that extra chocolate chip cookie because you have an
underlying condition, it's something you have to do. You could
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potentially work hard and lower your risk lose weight, exercise,
get your diabetes under control, and then maybe you could
potentially indulge. The other issue is alcohol. So around this
time of the year we see an increased amount of
alcohol related injuries, something called acute alcoholic hepatitis. And the
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one thing that I will always talk about this time
of the year is it's sort of a phenomena that
not too many people talk about, is people will People
don't like hangovers? Am I right about that? Who likes
to go to a party? And even if you don't
get hammered, you have a few drinks you're really not
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used to drinking, maybe and you feel sick at night,
and maybe you wake up with a hangover. So what's
the remedy for a hangover? Motrin, thaile and all oral hydration, peptobismol.
But what people do is they will pre medicate themselves
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with a petomenaphin. Cedomenaphin is Thailer's brand named Thilanol. Now,
a cidomenaphin is in hundreds upon hundreds of over the
counter products. Coffin, cold medicines, sinus medicines, headache medicines, joint
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relief will have a pseudomenaphin. Now, the thing for you
to know here, and we always talk about on the
program here that we're going to give you actionable information.
We're going to give you information that you could use
right now. It is not high falutin or esoteric A.
Pseudomenaphin is generally safe when you take it at the
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suggest a dose, but if you overdose take too much
of sutomenafin, it is toxic to your liver. You could
go into liver failure and die. The other issue is,
even if you take normal amounts of acetomenaphin, alcohol makes
it all the more toxic. So that is the toxic
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connection there, alcohol and acetomenaphin, or alcohol and thilenol. But
you all know that thilanol is a pseudomenaphin. And so
what happens is people will go out and they'll finish
up work. Around four o'clock, they have, let's say a
work related party. A colleague is having a party at
another restaurant or a bar, or at their house, and
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then they're going to a friend's house have a few
more drinks. So they say, look, I've got a big
presentation tomorrow morning. I'm going to premedicate myself with acetomenafin.
Try to sort of cheat myself out of getting a hangover.
But what they don't realize is the aceno meenaphine that
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they're taking may be toxic in the context of taking alcohol.
And so they take a little asino menifin or a
decent dose of asino menafin, maybe about a gram two
five hundred milligram tablets, which is two extra strength, and
then they take that at say four o'clock prophylactically. But
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then they get to a party and they say, oh,
you know, I had two or three drinks. I'm going
to take two more before I go home. But then
they get home at eleven or twelve and they say,
you know what, I may need a little bit more,
so they'll take some more acetomenaphin. And this may go
on for a couple of days. Pre medicate drink, pre
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medicate drink, and ultimately this may lead to liver failure. Now,
a lot of people out there don't realize they have
some other underlying livid disease that they're unaware of, only
to compound the problem. So what is the takehold message
before we take a quick break here. The issue is
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realize that a sinomenifin is toxic. Okay, that is the
most important thing. Okay, the other thing, we've got music
coming on here. Unrelated anyway, you have to watch how
much you take. Check that other coffin cold products do
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not have a cinamenfin in it, and do not pre
medicate before you go out to drink. Just drink responsibly
for men to drinks tonight for women want all right,
Stay tuned. Doctor Joeglotti dot COM's our website. We'll be
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on doctor Joegalotti dot com. Range As I tell everybody,
I thoroughly enjoyed being on the radio and getting to
play music for Everybody's sort of an added bonus. It's
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it's fun. I would think being a DJ would be
a heck of a lot of fun. But we're taking
care of people and trying to make you healthy and
stay out of the hospital. So here we are, all right. Well,
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I've been talking over the past couple of weeks about
my orthopedic issues, and in a couple of weeks I'm
going to be going for a knee replacement, a total
knee replacement. And this really has been something that's been
brewing for a few years now. In all the years
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that I played sports, worked out, hiked, backpacked, never did
I have any sort of an orthopedic injury. Never had
a bad shoulder, bed wrist, elbow, knee, hip, muscle injury. Nothing.
But when I look back, probably twenty twenty years ago,
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I would run in the morning with a colleague of
mine around rece University. We're here in the Texas Medical
Center in Race. University is right across from my office,
and we would run probably about five miles early in
the morning. I would catch a shower at work change
be ready to go by eight o'clock in the morning.
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And after I had run probably three four days a week,
I noticed that my left knee was hurting me, and
so the running around Reich University turned into a run walk.
And I would say from that point on, I never
formally ran again. I never went out and said I'm
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going on a run. But alternatively, my other forms of
exercise was hiking, walking, and cycling and working on an elliptical.
Occasionally I'd go on a stationary bike, shooting baskets, playing basketball.
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I could run up and down a basketball court, but
going for a three four, five six mile run was
I just didn't like it. And so when I would
go hiking, and we always as a family, did a
lot of hiking. If at the end of a long
hike I had a little bit of a sore knee,
I would take two motrin and that would be it.
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That would be it, maybe even tile and all. But
as time went on, the knee became a little bit
more problematic. But still I was at that two motrin
relief situation and never really was that bad. And then
about two years ago, two two and a half years ago,
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I was just walking on the sand at a beach
out on Long Island, and I did not miss step.
I did not twist my knee, I did not fall,
I didn't stub my toe nothing. One step. I could
tell you exactly where I was on the beach, my knee,
my left me just started to hurt and it never
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felt better since that time. So that is when I
just needed to be more careful. I had to pamper
it a little bit more, needed a little bit more
motrin and other non steroid alanti inflammatories. And it got
to the point maybe about a year and a half ago,
two years ago, where I finally saw an orthopedist and
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he did X rays, looked at my knee and he said, look,
you do have degenerative arthritis in your left knee. The
right knee looks okay, I don't think you need a
knee replacement. Now, you may never need a knee replacement.
Go for physical therapy. So I started going religiously for
physical therapy and I would do all the exercises at home,
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and I took up swimming, which was terrific, and the
knee sort of got better, but it never really got
back to normal, and it was a bit of a bother,
and when i'd be tired or walking a lot, i'd
have a little bit of a limp that my git
would be off. But then about it's been almost a year,
my right knee went out and the left knee was
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less of a problem, and the right knee became very,
very problematic, and so fast forward it. We had gone
on some longer hiking trips which I could not fully
participate in other vacations where there was a lot of
walking involved, going uphills downhills. It was just really, really
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difficult for me to participate. And we always talk about
with people that have orthopedic issues or joint issues, quality
of life. It's not so much how good or bad
your X ray looks or your MRI. It is your
quality of life. Can you do the things you want
to do happily? And it got to the point where
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I was just unable to fully enjoy the things that
I normally would like to do. Go for long walks, hiking,
I just could not do it. I was still swimming,
and swimming is a great exercise. So it got to
the point where I just had to talk with my
surgeon and it's the right knee that I'm going to
be getting a complete total knee replacement on the right. Now.
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What I would say is I have been so we
talk about rehab. I think you understand the sense of rehabilitation.
You're trying to strengthen your muscles of your leg or
whatever part of your body. It is well. At the
point where I realized rehab and the traditional sense was
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not going to be much of a remedy for me,
I shifted my mind set into prehab prehabs, so that
is preparing for the surgery that is upcoming. And how
do you do that well, it's the same set of exercises,
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the same focus on strengthening your quad muscles, your gluteous,
your butt. It seems like when you've got knee problems
or even hip problems, your butt has to be strong, stretching,
working your ankles and your calves. It's really they talk
about the chain from your hip down to your feet.
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All of this has to be in line. And so
I have been continuing to swim, do some strength training,
doing my leg and thigh exercises so that when I
get to surgery, knock on wood, no complications there. I
am able to get up out of bed and start
walking right away and rehabbing. So what is the lesson here?
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Even though you eat well, take care of yourself, don't smoke,
don't drink, don't do drugs. Bad crappy things happen to you.
But I am lucky that I do not have any
of these underlying chronic diseases, no underlying heart disease, lung disease,
canney disease, bone disease, diabetes, etc. So I think I'm
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in optimal health. I've worked towards this because, as I've
said before, you never know when a problem is going
to crop up out of nowhere, and you have to
be prepared for the fight that you may have to
put up. The other part is I've been very conscious
and conscientious about the exercise, making sure my leg is strength.
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It takes effort. I come home at work after a
long day, say a lord of the family, maybe get
a light bite to eat. I had to pool at
seven thirty at night. It's something I just have to do.
On weekend. You have to get up early, go out
and work out. So I will keep you all posted
as we navigate through this if you have any questions
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or you yourself have gone through joint replacement. And actually
my surgeon, I'm happy to say who it is, doctor
Tim Brown at Houston Methodist Hospital, phenomenal, phenomenal surgeon. He
is going to be behind the wheel that day. It's
going to be partially robotic as well, but we will
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have doctor brown On. He is eager to dip his
toe into radio and social media as an orthopedist, which
orthopedis should do to alert the public and keep you
healthy from an orthopedic standpoint, because I would say, if
your bones and joints don't work, it's really a problem
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for you. And and I'm witnessing this firsthand. I'm witness
thing firsthand. All right, Doctor Joe Galotti dot com is
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should be a good source for you to learn about
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we're not on the we have our practice liver specialists
of Texas. We take care of patients with all facets
of liver disease, and certainly, you know, when you look
at all the different liver disorders, fatty liver, and we
talk about this a lot. We talk about this a
lot because it's a major, major public health issue with
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about one hundred million people, that's about a third of
the population. So if you're sitting in a car right
now at four people, one of them has a fatty liver.
If you've got a family of four, one of the
people has a fatty liver. And so risk factors for
fatty liver include obesity, for being overweight, pre diabetes, are
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having type two diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and
high pertension. High blood pressure. So next time you go
to the family doctor and you're sitting in the waiting
room and you look around and you say, gee, I
wonder what that guy's got. They're going to be overweight,
high blood pressure, some diabetes, and cholesterol issues. They probably
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have fatty liver. Now, the reason we get concerned about
this is that number one, no symptoms. You will not
wake up one day and say, you know what, I
think my liver is acting up. We say the liver
suffers in silence. That's number one. Number two, the elevated liver. Chemistries.
The blood tests that you get many many times are
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ignored by your primary care physician and they say, Bob,
don't worry that, just a little elevated, nothing much to
worry about. Well, the truth is, it's it's it's a
lot to worry about. So just keep that in mind
if you if you ever have any questions about fatty liver,
you could always send me a message. We're doing, and
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we've talked about this before, we're doing a number of
clinical trials on new therapies for obesity, cardiometabolic issues, which
is in that high blood pressure color lester, all overweight,
and of course lots of studies on fatty livers. So happy,
happy to help everybody out, all right. Well, a few
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weeks ago we were talking about holiday gifts and of
course we're going to have a tilt on something health
and wellness related. And I spent actually a fair amount
of time I think it was about three weeks ago
talking about getting a blood pressure cuff and the amount
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of people that reached out to say, I am ordering
a blood pressure cuff now on Amazon or wherever you
go shopping, you can get these anywhere. Was astounding. I
don't think in the years before, because I always would
bring that up, But for some reason this year resonated
with a lot of a lot of people. Even Dave,
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our board operator for the program, he texted me and said,
you know what, thinking it over, I'm getting a blood
pressure cuff from my family. So what I did was
I continue to search around, say what is the hot
health and wellness gift for this holiday season? And the
number one thing that kept coming up, And actually I
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asked my wife earlier this afternoon. I said, Hey, what's
your take on this? And she said, A thorough gun,
a Theorra Gun Mini. Now there are the one we
have at home is called a thunderbolt, not thunderbolt. Yeah,
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I think it's something like that. It's not a thorough gun,
but thorough Gun has done a very good job and
they have the Theorra Gun Mini. Now this can pack
away in your carry on if you take it traveling.
But it is a small massage gun and it has
two or three different attachments. It can be like a
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round ball, is something that looks like a thumb and
something that's a little bit more broad, but it will
be basically a massage within this machine and you can
loosen up stiff areas, muscles that are tight. And I
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think the take home of this and this would be
a great gun now, a great gift. Now. It is
about one hundred and seventy dollars, so it's not cheap
but well worth it. And I think if you buy
it for yourself or you buy it for a family,
that would be good. But what this really underscores from
a health and wellness standpoint number one. It's a cool
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little thing. It makes you feel good, but you actually
realize how stiff we all are, and stiffness and immobility,
the inability to stretch, and I know this for on
my knee. I was talking about this earlier. It impedes
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the way you're able to move or it will cause
a lot of pain in your neck, your shoulders, your arms,
your back, your legs, your knees. And if you talk
to somebody in physical therapy, a physical therapist, and you
go to them and say I have knee pain, I
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have hip pain, there may not be anything wrong with
your bones or your joint, but it may be that
you're incredibly stiff, and by stretching and working these stiff
muscles out, increasing flexibility. Guess what, your knee and your
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hip and your back and your foot feels better. Now.
The bigger issue here is that when you have pain,
stiff hip, a knee that hurt, you're not going to exercise.
And if you're not going to exercise, then that is
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going to put you at risk for high blood pressure,
weight gain, diabetes, high cholesterol, further immobility, and the whole
cycle just keeps getting worse. So to break that circle,
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you have to really start concentrating on flexibility, your mobility,
and I think thera gun is a great introductory approach
to this. Now, if you if you are having significant hip, back, knee,
foot ankle pain, yes you have to see a physician
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or maybe an orthopedist or somebody that specializes in these joints.
And yes you may need to go for physical therapy.
And I could say I've been going to physical therapy
for almost two years now. It is magnificent. And you
get the right physical therapist and they could really really
observe you and find out where the pain is and
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can really document how poorly we move. So I would
say try to look up a thera gun and now
theragun comes in all different sizes, but this is the
Thera gun mini. Good investment for everybody. There's a few
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other things that I could just sort of rifle off here,
and I'm going to post this on the Facebook page.
It is at doctor Joe Golotti. Let's see this is
let me see how we could organize this. I'm not
one for just reading lists off, but it's not bad.
Let's see if you are. Let's see hang on. Yeah, okay,
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fitness lovers, Okay. A weighted vest for walking this. We've
talked about this before, but this is a very popular
type of item. It's anywhere from six to twenty pounds.
It's a vest that you wear and it looks like
a little jacket. It looks like a reflector jacket that
you see the guys on the street with. But it
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adds a little bit of weight and it will increase
your core strength. It'll increase strength of your legs, your back,
and it gives you a much more efficient workout. You're
you're going to be working harder. I would be careful
with this and not get anything too heavy, but I
think a weighted vest for walking is a very good idea.
Of course, there are gym and fitness club memberships. A
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smart watch or activity tracker, because when you're even a
Apple watch, if you're watching the number of steps, the
number of hours of sleep, your how much time you're
sitting down, you're getting all of these metrics on how
you're functioning. It may change behavior. A yoga mat, so
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yoga mat is something good you could do yoga on,
but also it's a good mat to do your floor
exercises on. A gym bag, a foam roller, a sturdy
water bottle, take it to the gym. Running shoes, new
running shoes, get fitted for a good pair of running shoes.
And then for those that are into food, namely me,
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there are these are cool. Now. I've never done it,
only because I've got my own herb garden in the backyard,
but they have these window herb garden kits. And if
you could have some fresh rosemary, fresh parsley, fresh basil,
you know, it makes cooking a little bit more fun.
A blender. I certainly you don't have to break the
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bank and buy a vitam mix, but there are many
many less expensive blenders to you not only make sauces
when you are cooking, but smoothies for yourself. That's not
a bad idea. And the air fryer, certainly, you could
not fry your food and you could just do it
with an air fryer. That'll be healthier for you. Coffee
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maker cooking classes are certainly around. And then the other thing
is a cast iron skillet. You could go to Target
and buy a twelve inch lodge cast iron skillet for
under twenty five dollars. Will worth it. You'll have it
the rest of your life. And so if you have
any ideas on these other type items, I'd be all
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ears to here. All right, Doctor Joglotti. Final segment coming
up may have a surprise for you. Don't forget Doctor
Jogolotti dot com is our website. Sign up sending me
a message, let me know what you're thinking about getting
for the holiday season. Run it by me. We'll share
it on the air. All right, stay tuned. Final segment
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coming up? All right, Final segment of this week's your
health First Hope. I having a great Sunday evening, and
what I like to always think is that you should
be preparing for the coming week. What are we going
to eat, What is our schedule, Where is exercise going
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to be fitting in. Are there nights that you may
not be getting enough sleep? Do you have to adjust
for that? And you know, we can't just take the
week and the days and the months as as they come.
There has to be some thought into that because if not,
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it's completely haphazard. Your health becomes haphazard, and at the
end of the day, you're really not going to have
the best outcome with your health and wellness. It requires planning,
just like anything else in life. You do financial planning,
planning for your business, planning for how you're going to
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take care of your children. You can't just do it
ad hoc. And so with our health and wellness, there's
so many facets to it, so many facets to putting
your health first. That's the name of the program, right,
putting your health first. That you just have to really
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be cognizant. So I've always used Sunday night as the
time to prep and get set all. Right. Well, I
was trying to get my sister celested on the radio tonight,
but some of the wires got crossed. She's a hospice
nurse and not necessarily that the perception is that hospice
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is not a happy time. Somebody is dying, You're losing
somebody you care about to an illness. They may be suffering.
But during this holiday season, I want to get her
perspective on hospice and how to look at all this.
So Celeste will be on next Sunday, she promises me.
She promises me that she'll be She'll be on with us,
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all right. The other point I wanted to touch on
tonight before we fold out for the night is flu season.
And one of the negative impacts of the COVID pandemic
was this utter mistrust of vaccines. And I certainly get it.
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I do believe that there were many, many people that
had negative experiences with the COVID vaccine. There are reported deaths,
There are reported severe, severe, longstanding issues related to the
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COVID vaccine program, and it raised a legitimate concern for
how this was all rolled out, how it was in
a sense pushed on people take it or you lose
your job. I mean, that's pretty pretty significant. And so
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I believe that the scars and the wounds are still
very open, and there's a certain concern about vaccine. So
the flu vaccine, not to be confused with any other vaccine.
This is a dead virus. You're getting parts of the
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virus to stimulate your immune system to try to protect
yourself if you are indeed exposed to the flu. Now
similar and I do believe that the one lesson we
learned from the COVID nineteen pandemic is that if you
are chronically ill, and it's the usual suspects, and you
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should all know the usual suspects. It is obesity, it
is diabetes, it is hypertension, it is underlying heart disease,
underlying kidney disease, underlying lung disease, underlying liver disease. That's
what I do. If you have a weakened immune system,
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either due to some condition of the immune system underlying malignancy,
or you're on medicines that weaken immune system, like immune
suppressant steroids things like that that you need to take
for your loopis you're at higher risk of having a
bad problem with influenza. Now about oh, it's probably been
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about twenty years ago. There was research that was done
in the Texas Medical Center where I'm at looking at
people that get the flu and heart attack. And yes,
when you have influenza, you have the infection or a
bad infection, you have this tremendous response from your immune
(35:36):
system and that's really what gets you sick. And with
all this inflammation, if you have underlying heart disease, it
puts an added stress on your heart and you could
end up having a heart attack. And so another reason
to get vaccinated. Another reason not to get the flu
is to prevent some sort of cardiovascular complication. But anyway,
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it's not too late to get the flu vaccine. I
would certainly recommend that talk with your physician, talk with
your nurse practitioner PA in your in your doctor's office,
because the sense from the CDC is that this may
be a bad flu season. The numbers are slowly rising. Now.
(36:24):
The dominant flu virus this year is the H three
N two, is known to cause more severe symptoms than
the H one N one virus that was the most
common last year. Now, over the summer follow me on this,
the H three N two variety acquired at least seven mutations,
(36:47):
so it's a slightly mutated virus. And the thought is
that the current vaccine that was already manufactured may be
a little less effective So what they're saying here is
the flu vaccine will help prevent hospitalizations. So it may
not prevent you from getting the flu. Don't get all
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mad if you said, oh, I got the flu vaccine
and I still got the flu. It's to try to
prevent the more serious complications landing you in the hospital.
It's it's supposed to have an effective effectiveness of seventy
to eighty percent in children and about thirty to forty
percent in adults. So it's not perfect, but it's going
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to give you a bit of an edge. Now, don't forget.
COVID is still out there, but again the hospitalizations and
the deaths are still on the low side. So the
message would be number one, talk with you doctor, get
the flu vaccine. Number two. If you are older, if
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you have any of these underlying chronic diseases, you need
to SERI consider getting the vaccine and taking care of yourself.
Eat well, get your rest, exercise, avoid alcohol. If you
are in that higher risk category, I would avoid crowds.
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There's nothing wrong with if you're going to a holiday
party or even Thanksgiving or Christmas or any of the
other holidays that are being celebrated. Now find out, say hey,
or any of the kids sick. If somebody is sick there,
then you may have to be a little bit more
concerned to say, you know what, I'm I'm going to
take a I'm going to take a break. I may
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not come. And of course hand washing is all important
as well. So that is it. It's a big message.
We're dealing with a population that is a little timid
on what needs to take place because of what's happened
with COVID. And I am not saying that. I'm not
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defending what happened with COVID. That was an utter, utter disaster.
But here we are all right. So it's that time
to close up shop. Go to our website, doctor Joglotti
dot com, sign up for our newsletter. I love to
say that all the time. Send me a message if
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you have any questions, if we could help you out
in any way, Doctor Joeglotti dot com. Have a great week,
have a great Thanksgiving. We'll catch you next Sunday. On
the other end of Thanksgiving, we'll get my sister Celeste
on the radio talk about hospice. But until then, have
a blessed week, take care of yourselves. Happy Thanksgiving. We
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should be thankful for all of our great blessings, and
we'll see you next Sunday night.
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