October 26, 2025 • 39 mins
With October coming to an end, Dr. Galati wants to stress the importance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. He has Jackie DeAngelis from Fox Business join the program to talk about her personal story. She also explains how damaging alcohol use is leading to breast cancer rates. Dr. Galati also spends a few minutes talking about the GLP-1 agonist drugs and wegovy.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Joeglotti dot com is our website. All right. So the
month of October month is almost over, and I've been
a little quiet on and I've been traveling and it's
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been a little hectic. But October is breast cancer Awareness month,
and breast cancer is very near and dear to me.
My mother had breast cancer. She was a survivor. I
had an ant with breast cancer that unfortunately did not
survive after sort of a long, a long process. But
when you look at the numbers, and this is what
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is key, roughly one out of eight eleven to twelve
percent of women in their lifetime will have breast cancer.
In twenty twenty five, it's estimated about one hundred I'm sorry,
three hundred and seventy thousand women will be diagnosed with
breast cancer. The good news that there are four million
survivors in the United States a breast cancer, but the
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reality is there will be about forty two thousand deaths
in twenty twenty five related to burst cancer. So screening
is of utmost importance. Getting your mammogram, knowing your family history,
knowing your personal history, things that could put you at risk,
like obesity, excess alcohol, certain genetic and hormonal factors. It
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is really really key. And coming up next on the program,
Jackie DeAngelis with Fox Business Network. She herself is a
breast cancer survivor. She has been our favorite, our number
one guest to have on during breast cancer awareness mouth
sojack be coming on in just a minute. So anyway,
it's this is a short segment, short segment. We only
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have an hour, and so we're gonna cut bait right
now and get to Jackie Dangelis, who is going to
be coming on the phone in just a moment talking
about breast cancer it's very important that we all put
it as a priority. All right, Stay tuned, doctor Joe Galotti,
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We are here trying to raise your health IQ and
make you better consumers of healthcare. That is really all
we're trying to do because so much of the chronic
disease that we all face is based on personal choices
and knowledge and you having the wherewithal to make the
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right decisions. And so it's a great joy to be
here every Sunday evening on your Health First. And as
I was saying a little early in the program, the
month of a October is breast cancer Awareness month, and
for us on the program, our favorite guests to come
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on and talk about this, as Jackie Dangelis with Fox
Business Networked. Jackie, you're always so gracious to give us
a little bit of your time and talk about breast cancer,
which I know is so important to you. So welcome
again to your Health First and our audience and trying
to raise everybody's health IQ about breast cancer tonight. So
how are you and what's happening in your world?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Thank you for having me, Doctor Glatty, and I guess
this is the fourth time that I'm on with you
this month discussing it, because this is the fourth year
post my diagnosis, and I believe we've done it every
single year. So I'm glad to report that everything is
going very well.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well fantastic. And for those that are maybe not familiar
with breast cancer, and certainly Jackie will get into your
personal story, if you look at if you look at
the numbers in a generic way, about eleven percent of
women in their lifetime will be diagnosed with breast cancer,
which is about one in eight and estimates for twenty
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twenty five is that there will be somewhere around three
hundred and seventy thousand new cases of breast cancer. So
this is not a minor problem. But the good news
is that there's well over four million breast cancer survivors
in the United States, which is an excellent number. So, Jackie,
you've been on before and many people know your story,
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but if you could give a thumbnail sketch as to
how four or five years ago this all unfolded for you.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Sure, it was my first mammogram. It was a little
bit after COVID. I was turning forty they told me
I should go, you know, get screened. I probably scheduled
that test maybe six months after my birthday because of
the COVID lag that it took to get you know,
just getting the door. But lo and behold, you know,
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I go for the first exam. They were working around
the clock to get people in, so it was like
nine o'clock at night.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And after the exam was over, a radiologist came in
and told me that she saw some suspicious cells and
that I would need a biopsy.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's something you never want to hear, right, it really is.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's very jarring. It was not what I was expecting
that night. I thought I was just going in for
a mammogram, to get a baseline, to have, you know,
records for my files so that as we move forward
to check we have something to compare to. And you know,
Pandora's boxes really opened in that regard. But as you know,
I typically approached anything that happens in my life that's challenging.
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I sprung into action and put a team together, went
for the biopsy. The biopsy ended up being stage one
breast cancer, and you know, we put a plan together,
as you know, doctor Glattie has told the audience, I
had both breast removed, right because I just didn't want
to deal with this start cloud hanging over me forever, right,
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And that was a process in and of itself. But
you know, it's funny because in year four now, I've
been able to watch the journey, the healing journey, recovery
through all this, and they're ups and downs, and it's
only now that I feel like I'm fully past it.
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It has taken that long, right.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You know, It's interesting. About a week ago I interviewed
another breast cancer survivor and her story is a little
bit different. She was thirty years old when she was
diagnosed with breast cancer and in a similar fashion, had
to have a bilateral mass tectomy, you know, associated with
some chemotherapy as well. But even thirteen years later, after
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listening to her story and she was telling me the story,
it brought up a tremendous flow of emotion to her
that my sense is you never ever truly get over
such an emotional and somewhat traumatic event that you go through.
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And many times the lady public will look at this
and say, oh, well, she's a survivor. She battled breast
cancer and won, and so she had to have a
bilateral mass tectomy. She's alive. I don't think that the
lay public truly understands the depth of emotion that people
go through when they have a disease such as this.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, no, I don't think they do. And I think
you're absolutely spot on correct about that. I can kind
of guide you through it in phases at least, you know,
for me. Everyone's experience is unique. But you know, for
the first year, from diagnosis, through surgery and recovery. I mean,
I don't think doctor Gladide there was a day that
I didn't cry about it. I couldn't. It was all
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I could think about. It was extremely traumatizing. In year two,
I was very uncomfortable with my reconstruction. It was just
sort of my luck. Other people have had better luck
with it. I had other pre existing injuries in my
back and so everything was activated and I was feeling
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a lot of dull pain. And I'm sure, as you
know and others know, when you feel dull pain, but
it's sort of it's chronic and it's every day kind
of sucks the life out of you. And so that
was what year two was all about. And I didn't
really even know that that was happening, because, like I said,
it wasn't a cute pain, it was dull pain, and
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so I just felt this malaised exhaustion all the time.
Once I realized what exactly was happening, by year three,
I was able to get some help for it. I
started sort of coming out of that what I would
call for me rock bottom, right, slowly sort of digging
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my way out of that, and now I'm in a
place where it feels much better. I would just say
on the emotional front, when I say I'm through it
four years later, I mean, it's just not something I
think about every day. But for the first three years
I thought about it every day, And this lingering fear
that stays with you about so many different aspects of it.
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When you bring it up and we're having this conversation
it does conjure up all those feelings again, right, But
it's the first time I feel myself going through my
daily life and not thinking about breast cancer. As there's
a really wonderful sense of relief in regards to that.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, well again again, this is you know, never a
subject that or a discussion we take lightly. Now with
that said, and you could apply this to your journey
and breast cancer, but there are the people that are
battling iabetes and heart disease. I would, and you've talked
about it before. You know, your team, your family, your
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your close friends, your closest friends, coworkers. How much did
that help you? Or were there times where you know,
you were just a little sick and tired of the
friendly text to say, hey, I hope you're doing good
Jackie and have a nice day with a little smile
emoji when you're like, hey, it's going to take more
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than this. So how did you let certain people in?
You kept people at arm's length? How did that all work?
Because there's you know, people listening tonight that have an
array of problems and they don't know how to sort
of manage all of this you know, goodwill that people
are just dying to give you.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, I think it's difficult because everyone's experience as unique
as I said, and we all handle things and process
things differently. I'm a you know, sort of self described
but by others as well, like an extremely tough person
and kind of you know, handle anything. But this was
transformative for me. I really needed the help. I could
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not have done it without the support of not only
my medical team, but my family and my friends. Right
I needed every check in, I needed every hug, I
needed every everything that was given to me. And so
I'm so grateful that I had that support team. Some
people will keep it close to the vest, and they
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don't want to talk about it. They don't want to
let a lot of people know. Again, that's a choice
for various reasons. That was not a choice that I
made holding it inside, keeping it secret, I mean, I
would have just fallen apart. So if you were interacting
with me at the coffee machine, I wanted you to
know that this was happening. If I treated you a
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certain way, or I looked at you a certain way,
or maybe I didn't even do anything to you, but
you looked at me and I didn't seem like I
was myself. I wanted people to understand why.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That was right. Right now, you know that the you know,
sort of the challenge that you've got is five days
a week you have to put on a happy face
and be on Fox Business Network as a host co
host of a show. And you know you cannot be
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Debbie Downer in front of the camera, you know, wearing
all of these challenges, you know, on your sleeves, so
that I would think must have been an added wrinkle
in how you dealt with it every day.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, I think it was a challenge, But I also
think for me, when I face a challenge like that,
I try to look at what the positive side of
it is. And for me, work with a tremitdous baltlet
because getting dressed up and having an amazing team of
people put me together, it makes me feel good. And
getting in my work zone where I was thinking about
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the work and what I wanted to communicate to viewers,
it was a really nice escape from the emotions that
I was seeking on a day to day basis. And
that was why I jumped back into work so quickly,
because I also just wanted to feel normal. I feel
like I had to prove to myself that, you know,
nothing major happened here, and I, you know, and I
was going to still keep going, right And so I
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actually looked at work as a really positive thing for me,
just to be able to focus on something other.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Than cancer right right now. Again, with that in mind,
you you have a tremendous platform where you could speak out,
people come to you for commentary, and in the four
years here has your role in a sense as and
I would like to say, you know, are you a
breast cancer survivor or are you a breast cancer ambassador?
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Where do you see your role? And clearly I would
think the role has morphed over the last four years,
and even looking forward, where do you think you fit
in the role that you could play with women?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
The first aspect of it is easing my platform for
awareness again because I know too many people who are
my age who have put their screenings off, and had
I done that, it would have been detrimental for my diagnosis.
So that's number one. I advocate screening. I advocate early
detection because so many of these cases can have a
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happy ending if you know patients follow the protocols and
get the help they need when they need it. Highs
of the essence when it comes to cancer and doctor Gladia,
I don't want to correct you, but I just want
to add that when I was first diagnosed, I believe
it was one in eight women would be diagnosed with
some sort of breast cancer over the course of their lifetime.
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That's roughly twelve and a half percent chance. I believe
I have read in the last couple of years that
has statistics has changed. It's now I believe one in five,
which means the twenty percent chance it has gone up
for women. And that is why I feel like the
screenings are more important than you know, than ever. So
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that's number one.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And you're absolutely right on that statistic. And I haven't
written in a note here, but and we could talk
about that a little later, but it is it makes
us all the more important really that the numbers are
drifting up.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yes, yes, And when I read that that it had changed,
I said, Wow, in this short period of time, what
is happening in the world. And we can talk about,
you know, some of those aspects, but what is happening
that women are increasingly getting breast cancer? But just back
to the platform question. You know, awareness and is number one,
but number two. I also feel like, you know, interact
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with people, whether it's on social media or in my
personal life or a friend of a friends that are
find themselves in this situation I was in with a
diagnosis like this, and I always say it's very personal
decision whether you want to talk about it or not.
But if you want to talk to somebody who's had it,
I'm happy to talk to you about it. And I
feel like sometimes just offering that and saying, you know,
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every situation is different, but you know, chances are your
outcome is going to be okay, and this is going
to be a difficult journey. But I hope that I
can inspire you to tell you it takes time, but
you will be okay. I think that helps people, and
so I try to do that whenever I can.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
All right, let's take a quick break. Come doctor Joe Galotti.
You're tuned into your health first, and at the end
of the day, isn't that what it's all about? Putting
your health first? Tonight Jackie DeAngelis with Fox Business Network
is on theline telling her story about breast cancer. Don't
forget doctor Joeglotti dot com is our website. Stay tuned.
We will go right back every Sunday between seven and
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eight pm. We are here raising your Health IQ and
for me, this is the best day of the week
being able to spend some time on the radio with
all of you, making you better consumers of healthcare, talking
about the topics related to health and wellness that are
important to you, and certainly in the month of October
it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we want everybody to
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be thinking about screening, screening, screening, understanding your risk factors
for breast cancer and taking action, not being afraid to
step forward and get that mammogram or see your doctor
to make things work out better. And on the program tonight,
No Stranger to your health firstus Jackie DeAngelis. Everybody knows
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her from the Fox Business Network. She is the co
host of The Big Money Show weekdays Monday through Friday
between twelve and two pm Eastern time. Let me just
sort of jump now to the number. The numbers going up,
and you know, when you look at some of the research,
some will say it is simply greater awareness and screening.
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So if you screen more, you catch, you catch more cases.
But yet there are others that are saying the overall
health of our country and young women in particular, is
on the decline, possibly due to increased alcohol use and obesity. Now,
the Surgeon General in January this past January put out
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a report on you know, the dangers of alcohol and cancer,
and he had a separate section on breast cancer, saying
that if you just had two, one or two drinks
a day, your breast cancer rate went from you know
what we were saying the baseline of eleven twelve percent
up to almost sixteen percent. So these are real, real
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numbers that many young women don't realize that going out
and having all of these pretty cool marketed alcoholic beverages
are damaging. What do you think.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I think you're absolutely right. I didn't understand the role
that you know, for example, alcohol could play, or certain foods.
Processed meats are not great, for example, and there are
many different things. So I generally felt like I was
a fit person. I never had a weight problem. I
never had high cholesterol or hypertension. You know, every time
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I would go in for tests, my doctor would say,
everything looks great, and so I just never really thought
there was anything to worry about. And as you mentioned
that the previous person was talking, there was no history
in my family of breast cancer either. So you know,
I wasn't thinking about having a couple of cocktails with
my friends at the end of the week as an issue.
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But obviously after this happened to me, I started examining
things more closely and listen. We're have to be realistic.
We've got to live in the real world. You can't
live in a bubble and not do anything. My surgeon
was very realistic about that, and she said, you know,
there are places you can do better. Try to do better,
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she said, but sometimes it's a genetic thing too, regardless
of whether you had history or not. And she said,
all we can do is try to do our best
every day. So I read I have information, doctor Glottie.
I take that all into accounts some of the decisions
and healthcare and lifestyle choices that I make, and I
just try to do the best I can as a realist.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, no, no, no, I mean, you can't live in a
cocoon and say I'm never going to have a pepperoni pizza.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
You're going to You don't have to do it every day.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
No, no, you can't have it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner,
which I do know some people that do that, which
is sort of sick. But anyway, you know, you know,
the other thing that I come across with my patients
is they put their overall health or a strategy for
wellness really at the bottom of the pile and when
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you talk to them, they are stressed out. They have
so many problems that they're dealing with that they say, look,
I feel fine and in the you know, the case
of breast cancer, I don't feel any lumps. I have
no family history. I've got other stuff to worry about.
Then then go take calf a day off and get
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a mammogram. Do you see that in either your circle?
People that you know call you? Because I do think
it's a real problem that we're not prioritizing our our
health and screening one thousand.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
So I would just say that for people to know, again,
I was blindsided by my diagnosis. I didn't have a lump,
I didn't have pain. I had suspicious cells that, if
left over time, would probably have turned into something of
that form, which would have made it more alarming and
more serious. So just because you don't have a long
or pain doesn't mean that something isn't brewing. It's sort
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of the moral of my story, I think. But more
than that, I think people are just used to going
in this peddled to the metal go mode in race
sort of the society that we live in where they're
not taking proper care of themselves with regard to eating habits,
sleeping habits, exercise habits. They're not making time for that
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because work comes first, or family comes first, and we
are all just burdened by all the responsibilities that we have.
In the beginning post diagnosis, I didn't make all those
changes right away. I mean it was so overwhelming. There
was only so much I could handle at one time.
The four years out from this, I will tell you
I prioritize my health, my diet, my sleep, my exercise,
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those come first. There are times now doctor Glaudy, and
you know me go go go at work. But there
are times when I say, I'm sorry, I can't do
that extra work. I must go to my physical therapy. Right,
I must go for my wellness check. This year, I'm
doing my first because I turned forty five, I'm doing
my first colonoscopy. Wow, you know I'm prioritizing all those things.
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And I turn around and I you know, work knows
that I love work, but they know that, but they
also know that, you know, this has been very scary
for me, right, and so you know I have to
take action to try to do better for myself.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, what I what I say is and this this
applies to so many things in life. You really have
to learn how to say no, because you know, we
all want that added accolade or you did something extra,
but at the end of the day, if it's impacting
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your health, you just have to say no. And I
would I would think that someone like you because you
know the hosts from what I see between Fox Business
and Fox News, they all sort of co mingle at times,
and you know, it's nice to see you pop up
Sunday morning doing Maria Bartaroma's show, and I'm like, oh, well,
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now she's putting in a six day of work, and
so it does add up.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
It does add up. I love doing some of those things,
and so I make sure that I'm balanced and I'm
able to do them within limits. Because the thing doctor
glauding me discussed this in the past is that people
take their health for granted. You should be putting your
health first. What I realized when I was, you know,
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recovering from my surgery and lying in bed for two weeks,
was that if my health doesn't come first, I can't
do anything else right. And so when we neglect our
health for that reason, it frustrates me because until we're
in that situation that I was in, and I hope
nobody else has to be in it. That's when you realize,
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if my body physically can't go, I can't do any
of the things that I promised people I would do.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah. No, And it was brilliant. I think we're in
twenty second year doing this radio program and the news
producer at iHeart when we were sitting around trying to
come up with a name of a show, he looked
at me and he said, your health first. And really,
as sort of tried it of a little name of it
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that it is, it really represents what we need to do.
You need to put your health first instead of like
number fourteen on the list of other silly things we've
got to do.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I love this analogy, which is if you didn't take
your car in for routine maintenance and you just drove
it into the ground, eventually one day, you're going to
end up broken down on the side of the road, right,
So you have to change the oil. You've got to
make sure you know that the inner functions of car
working properly. You've got to make sure you're using the
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best feeding it with the best gas, making sure it
has oil changes. Our bodies function the same way.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Well, you know, I have a slide and I'll send
you a copy of it. I have a dashboard of
the human body, like it's coming off your car dashboard.
And what I tell everybody, Imagine you one day you
call up a friend or someone in your family. You say, hey,
you know, the check engine light has been on for
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six weeks and oh, by the way, the car is
blowing black smoke and whatever. And you take it into
the dealer and they say, Jackie, you need a new transmission.
You need this. It's a ten thousand dollars fix. And
they said, why didn't you bring it in when the
light went on? We could have fixed it. I think
that is the same mentality.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yeah, absolutely, you can't. You know, when the check engine
light goes on, you need to pay attention and listen
if it's falty, you know, sometimes it's these electronics systems. Yeah,
the ch an engine light will go on for no
particular reason and it just needs to be reset. And
it's the same thing with a health appointment. There's nothing
lost if you want to go check something out and
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you find out that it was nothing exactly. However, if
you were able to prevent something worse from happening, then
that is a major wins.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
It's exactly right. It is so all right. In those
couple of minutes, we're going to go not off topic,
but you know, I look at you as a not
so much a health enthusiast, but a health motivator. And
we've chatted about this before, Make America Healthy Again, RFK Junior.
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He's a bit of a lightning rod. And from your
perspective in you know, being in the news and broadcast
and what people are saying, I think the big message
of making America healthy again the country is obese, cancer
rates are up, diabetes, chronic disease, kids are out of shape.
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What is your take on not only you know, drawing
from your own experience and health journey, but just as
a nation where we are with making America healthy again,
where do you think this all fits in with the
narrative of chronic disease.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Well, it's all about choice for me when it comes
to the narrative that is out there. And yet in
the four years that you and I have spoken, the
dialogue has changed. So I'm actually grateful to this administration
and our junior for bringing some of these things to
the forefront. Let's have conversations about them, because having conversations
doesn't necessarily mean you're right, but it's raising awareness and
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trying to get to a better, healthier place for everybody.
It isn't about mandates, it's about choices. Every person chooses
for themselves. Every person's responsible for their own body. So
the more awareness and conversation we have, the more people
learn about huh, maybe that isn't so good for me,
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or maybe I shouldn't be doing that, And the more
they can incorporate subtle changes into their behavior and their life,
I think the healthier they will be. So I think
the more we can talk constructively about health, the better
off we are. I also think a lot of it
comes from you know, how you grew up. I grew
up in a household that was pretty healthy, but there
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were stose things we could have done better. And those
are the things that you sort of pick up his
habits and you take along with you into adulthood, and
then you start teaching your kids because that's what you learned.
So if we can all sort of sit back and
examine where we came from, where we are, where we
want to go and what we need to do to
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achieve that I think is much better. I always go
to the Bloomberg example in New York City when he
wanted to stand the large side. I know, I know,
not about spanning the large soda. It's about people making
a decision that they either don't want to drink or
want to limit their sugar consumption. I used to drew
sugary drinks all the time until I remember I just
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sort of went off like a light switch and I
just I stopped. But that was awareness, that was understanding
that that wasn't good for me. I think it's better
for people to look at it that way and make
the choice themselves than to try to be mandated.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, I remember I sort of in the midst of
all that, I had the opportunity to sit with Michael
Bloomberg for a few minutes and a few of us
asked him, are you kidding us that you're going to
outlaw a sixteen ouce cup? And he looked and he says, no,
that will never happen. It is the conversation and making
people think about what they're doing if you could do that,
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and he created such a ruckus, but people started.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Thinking about it, and they started talking about it, and
he was varying right in that aspect of what the
takeaway was a right Jackie DeAngelis.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
And for those that watch Fox Business Work Network, or
they should the Big Money Show Wednesdays twelve to two.
Now it's a two hour show, Jackie's it's really expanding there.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
It's two hours, twelve to two. It's weekdays every day.
We're five days a week, so you can catch us
for ten hours. You can catch us in multiple ways
as well. If you can't watch, I highly recommend you DDR.
But also we're on serious radio. You can get us
online digitally on Talk Business dot com if you need
to watch that way. So many different ways to consume
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Doctor Black.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I know, I know, and they could catch you. And
it's always great Jackie to have you.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Well right here, all right. Final segment of this week's
Your Health First, coming up in just a minute. Don't
forget Doctor Joe Galotti dot com is our website. More
information on breast cancer will be posted on our social
media sites. We'll be right back. Don't change this channel.
Final segment of this week's Your Health First, Doctor Joe Galotti.
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I V e r dot com. All Right, well, we
have been chatting about breast cancer. It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
(34:53):
Want to thank Jackie Dangelis again for coming on. She's
always gracious with her time. But we're gonna we're gonna
shift gears here for a second in the last few
minutes of the of the program. So that was a
study that came out in the journal Lancet. It's a
British journal, and there's so much talk about the GLP
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one agonist drugs and this particular study is talking about wegov.
Now wegov is a GOLP agonist drug like ozepic that
will make you lose weight. Now, there's been tremendous research
(35:38):
and interest and studying of these drugs with regard to
other diseases. So losing weight is one thing. Step on
the scale. You're down ten fifteen forty pounds. Bus we
are now finding that these agents lower your blood pressure, certainly,
your diabetes risk goes down. Fatty liver things that I
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take care of. We are seeing fatty liver improve with
drugs like Wagovi. But the cardiovascular profile, the risk factor reduction,
less of a chance that you're going to have a
serious cardiovascular complication. This is where it really gets very,
(36:25):
very interesting. And so in this particular study that was
published in Lancet, it showed that the weight loss that
the person experienced only would result in about a third
of the benefit of the Wagovi. So even if you
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really didn't lose that much weight, your reduction in cardiovascular
complications heart attack, stroke, heart failure went down. And so
you have to scratch your head and say, there's something
else about wagov or these other GLP one agonists that
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are resulting in the benefits that we're seeing. And while
many people are still scratching their head about this, they're
not quite clear the exact mechanism, the exact process on
why if you go on WAGOV you have less risk
of a stroke. It's not necessarily tied to weight. The
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feeling is and this is something we talk about a lot.
It has to do with inflammation. Somehow. These GLP one
agents are reducing inflammation throughout your body. Decreased inflammation in
your heart, in your carnary arteries, in your kidney and
your liver, etc. And so I would say that the
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jury is still out on how well we understand what's
going on, but the pathway may come down to, yes,
weight loss is going to help you, but there is
a bigger bang for the buck in the background that
we're still trying to figure out related to inflammation. And
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there are many including me, that feels that inflammation in
the body is the root of chronic disease, and in
many different ways that we develop chronic inflammation. There's chronic
inflammation related to alcohol used, this chronic inflammation related to stress,
this chronic inflammation related to processed foods and chemicals that
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we're taking in, increased inflammation with too much fat in
your diet and obesity. So this is a great milestone
in a sense, stuff that we've known. But again, the
information being shared is quite exciting, and I think We're
going to learn more and the whole goal here is
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to be able to help out patients. So with that said,
let's wrap it up. Doctor Joe Galotti, this is your
health First. Doctor Joglotti dot com is our website. We
will see you next Sunday evening. Stay well, take care
of yourself. Breast Cancer Awareness Month for those women that
are listening. For the husbands, the boyfriends, the sons, the daughters,
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make sure you get screened for breast cancer. Take care.
We'll see you next Sunday evening
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next hour you'll learn about health, wellness and the provention
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
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And the mantra of the show is we are going
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simple as that. We want to make you think about
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But if you need to reach out to me, doctor
Joeglotti dot com is our website. All right. So the
month of October month is almost over, and I've been
a little quiet on and I've been traveling and it's
(02:36):
been a little hectic. But October is breast cancer Awareness month,
and breast cancer is very near and dear to me.
My mother had breast cancer. She was a survivor. I
had an ant with breast cancer that unfortunately did not
survive after sort of a long, a long process. But
when you look at the numbers, and this is what
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is key, roughly one out of eight eleven to twelve
percent of women in their lifetime will have breast cancer.
In twenty twenty five, it's estimated about one hundred I'm sorry,
three hundred and seventy thousand women will be diagnosed with
breast cancer. The good news that there are four million
survivors in the United States a breast cancer, but the
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reality is there will be about forty two thousand deaths
in twenty twenty five related to burst cancer. So screening
is of utmost importance. Getting your mammogram, knowing your family history,
knowing your personal history, things that could put you at risk,
like obesity, excess alcohol, certain genetic and hormonal factors. It
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is really really key. And coming up next on the program,
Jackie DeAngelis with Fox Business Network. She herself is a
breast cancer survivor. She has been our favorite, our number
one guest to have on during breast cancer awareness mouth
sojack be coming on in just a minute. So anyway,
it's this is a short segment, short segment. We only
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have an hour, and so we're gonna cut bait right
now and get to Jackie Dangelis, who is going to
be coming on the phone in just a moment talking
about breast cancer it's very important that we all put
it as a priority. All right, Stay tuned, doctor Joe Galotti,
we'll write back every Sunday evening between seven and eight pm.
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We are here trying to raise your health IQ and
make you better consumers of healthcare. That is really all
we're trying to do because so much of the chronic
disease that we all face is based on personal choices
and knowledge and you having the wherewithal to make the
(04:49):
right decisions. And so it's a great joy to be
here every Sunday evening on your Health First. And as
I was saying a little early in the program, the
month of a October is breast cancer Awareness month, and
for us on the program, our favorite guests to come
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on and talk about this, as Jackie Dangelis with Fox
Business Networked. Jackie, you're always so gracious to give us
a little bit of your time and talk about breast cancer,
which I know is so important to you. So welcome
again to your Health First and our audience and trying
to raise everybody's health IQ about breast cancer tonight. So
how are you and what's happening in your world?
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Thank you for having me, Doctor Glatty, and I guess
this is the fourth time that I'm on with you
this month discussing it, because this is the fourth year
post my diagnosis, and I believe we've done it every
single year. So I'm glad to report that everything is
going very well.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Well fantastic. And for those that are maybe not familiar
with breast cancer, and certainly Jackie will get into your
personal story, if you look at if you look at
the numbers in a generic way, about eleven percent of
women in their lifetime will be diagnosed with breast cancer,
which is about one in eight and estimates for twenty
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twenty five is that there will be somewhere around three
hundred and seventy thousand new cases of breast cancer. So
this is not a minor problem. But the good news
is that there's well over four million breast cancer survivors
in the United States, which is an excellent number. So, Jackie,
you've been on before and many people know your story,
(06:31):
but if you could give a thumbnail sketch as to
how four or five years ago this all unfolded for you.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Sure, it was my first mammogram. It was a little
bit after COVID. I was turning forty they told me
I should go, you know, get screened. I probably scheduled
that test maybe six months after my birthday because of
the COVID lag that it took to get you know,
just getting the door. But lo and behold, you know,
(07:03):
I go for the first exam. They were working around
the clock to get people in, so it was like
nine o'clock at night.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
And after the exam was over, a radiologist came in
and told me that she saw some suspicious cells and
that I would need a biopsy.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
That's something you never want to hear, right, it really is.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's very jarring. It was not what I was expecting
that night. I thought I was just going in for
a mammogram, to get a baseline, to have, you know,
records for my files so that as we move forward
to check we have something to compare to. And you know,
Pandora's boxes really opened in that regard. But as you know,
I typically approached anything that happens in my life that's challenging.
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I sprung into action and put a team together, went
for the biopsy. The biopsy ended up being stage one
breast cancer, and you know, we put a plan together,
as you know, doctor Glattie has told the audience, I
had both breast removed, right because I just didn't want
to deal with this start cloud hanging over me forever, right,
(08:14):
And that was a process in and of itself. But
you know, it's funny because in year four now, I've
been able to watch the journey, the healing journey, recovery
through all this, and they're ups and downs, and it's
only now that I feel like I'm fully past it.
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It has taken that long, right.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
You know, It's interesting. About a week ago I interviewed
another breast cancer survivor and her story is a little
bit different. She was thirty years old when she was
diagnosed with breast cancer and in a similar fashion, had
to have a bilateral mass tectomy, you know, associated with
some chemotherapy as well. But even thirteen years later, after
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listening to her story and she was telling me the story,
it brought up a tremendous flow of emotion to her
that my sense is you never ever truly get over
such an emotional and somewhat traumatic event that you go through.
(09:19):
And many times the lady public will look at this
and say, oh, well, she's a survivor. She battled breast
cancer and won, and so she had to have a
bilateral mass tectomy. She's alive. I don't think that the
lay public truly understands the depth of emotion that people
go through when they have a disease such as this.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Yeah, no, I don't think they do. And I think
you're absolutely spot on correct about that. I can kind
of guide you through it in phases at least, you know,
for me. Everyone's experience is unique. But you know, for
the first year, from diagnosis, through surgery and recovery. I mean,
I don't think doctor Gladide there was a day that
I didn't cry about it. I couldn't. It was all
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I could think about. It was extremely traumatizing. In year two,
I was very uncomfortable with my reconstruction. It was just
sort of my luck. Other people have had better luck
with it. I had other pre existing injuries in my
back and so everything was activated and I was feeling
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a lot of dull pain. And I'm sure, as you
know and others know, when you feel dull pain, but
it's sort of it's chronic and it's every day kind
of sucks the life out of you. And so that
was what year two was all about. And I didn't
really even know that that was happening, because, like I said,
it wasn't a cute pain, it was dull pain, and
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so I just felt this malaised exhaustion all the time.
Once I realized what exactly was happening, by year three,
I was able to get some help for it. I
started sort of coming out of that what I would
call for me rock bottom, right, slowly sort of digging
(11:06):
my way out of that, and now I'm in a
place where it feels much better. I would just say
on the emotional front, when I say I'm through it
four years later, I mean, it's just not something I
think about every day. But for the first three years
I thought about it every day, And this lingering fear
that stays with you about so many different aspects of it.
(11:28):
When you bring it up and we're having this conversation
it does conjure up all those feelings again, right, But
it's the first time I feel myself going through my
daily life and not thinking about breast cancer. As there's
a really wonderful sense of relief in regards to that.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, well again again, this is you know, never a
subject that or a discussion we take lightly. Now with
that said, and you could apply this to your journey
and breast cancer, but there are the people that are
battling iabetes and heart disease. I would, and you've talked
about it before. You know, your team, your family, your
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your close friends, your closest friends, coworkers. How much did
that help you? Or were there times where you know,
you were just a little sick and tired of the
friendly text to say, hey, I hope you're doing good
Jackie and have a nice day with a little smile
emoji when you're like, hey, it's going to take more
(12:31):
than this. So how did you let certain people in?
You kept people at arm's length? How did that all work?
Because there's you know, people listening tonight that have an
array of problems and they don't know how to sort
of manage all of this you know, goodwill that people
are just dying to give you.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Yeah, I think it's difficult because everyone's experience as unique
as I said, and we all handle things and process
things differently. I'm a you know, sort of self described
but by others as well, like an extremely tough person
and kind of you know, handle anything. But this was
transformative for me. I really needed the help. I could
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not have done it without the support of not only
my medical team, but my family and my friends. Right
I needed every check in, I needed every hug, I
needed every everything that was given to me. And so
I'm so grateful that I had that support team. Some
people will keep it close to the vest, and they
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don't want to talk about it. They don't want to
let a lot of people know. Again, that's a choice
for various reasons. That was not a choice that I
made holding it inside, keeping it secret, I mean, I
would have just fallen apart. So if you were interacting
with me at the coffee machine, I wanted you to
know that this was happening. If I treated you a
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certain way, or I looked at you a certain way,
or maybe I didn't even do anything to you, but
you looked at me and I didn't seem like I
was myself. I wanted people to understand why.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
That was right. Right now, you know that the you know,
sort of the challenge that you've got is five days
a week you have to put on a happy face
and be on Fox Business Network as a host co
host of a show. And you know you cannot be
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Debbie Downer in front of the camera, you know, wearing
all of these challenges, you know, on your sleeves, so
that I would think must have been an added wrinkle
in how you dealt with it every day.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yeah, I think it was a challenge, But I also
think for me, when I face a challenge like that,
I try to look at what the positive side of
it is. And for me, work with a tremitdous baltlet
because getting dressed up and having an amazing team of
people put me together, it makes me feel good. And
getting in my work zone where I was thinking about
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the work and what I wanted to communicate to viewers,
it was a really nice escape from the emotions that
I was seeking on a day to day basis. And
that was why I jumped back into work so quickly,
because I also just wanted to feel normal. I feel
like I had to prove to myself that, you know,
nothing major happened here, and I, you know, and I
was going to still keep going, right And so I
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actually looked at work as a really positive thing for me,
just to be able to focus on something other.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Than cancer right right now. Again, with that in mind,
you you have a tremendous platform where you could speak out,
people come to you for commentary, and in the four
years here has your role in a sense as and
I would like to say, you know, are you a
breast cancer survivor or are you a breast cancer ambassador?
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Where do you see your role? And clearly I would
think the role has morphed over the last four years,
and even looking forward, where do you think you fit
in the role that you could play with women?
Speaker 3 (16:15):
The first aspect of it is easing my platform for
awareness again because I know too many people who are
my age who have put their screenings off, and had
I done that, it would have been detrimental for my diagnosis.
So that's number one. I advocate screening. I advocate early
detection because so many of these cases can have a
(16:37):
happy ending if you know patients follow the protocols and
get the help they need when they need it. Highs
of the essence when it comes to cancer and doctor Gladia,
I don't want to correct you, but I just want
to add that when I was first diagnosed, I believe
it was one in eight women would be diagnosed with
some sort of breast cancer over the course of their lifetime.
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That's roughly twelve and a half percent chance. I believe
I have read in the last couple of years that
has statistics has changed. It's now I believe one in five,
which means the twenty percent chance it has gone up
for women. And that is why I feel like the
screenings are more important than you know, than ever. So
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that's number one.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And you're absolutely right on that statistic. And I haven't
written in a note here, but and we could talk
about that a little later, but it is it makes
us all the more important really that the numbers are
drifting up.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yes, yes, And when I read that that it had changed,
I said, Wow, in this short period of time, what
is happening in the world. And we can talk about,
you know, some of those aspects, but what is happening
that women are increasingly getting breast cancer? But just back
to the platform question. You know, awareness and is number one,
but number two. I also feel like, you know, interact
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with people, whether it's on social media or in my
personal life or a friend of a friends that are
find themselves in this situation I was in with a
diagnosis like this, and I always say it's very personal
decision whether you want to talk about it or not.
But if you want to talk to somebody who's had it,
I'm happy to talk to you about it. And I
feel like sometimes just offering that and saying, you know,
(18:22):
every situation is different, but you know, chances are your
outcome is going to be okay, and this is going
to be a difficult journey. But I hope that I
can inspire you to tell you it takes time, but
you will be okay. I think that helps people, and
so I try to do that whenever I can.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
All right, let's take a quick break. Come doctor Joe Galotti.
You're tuned into your health first, and at the end
of the day, isn't that what it's all about? Putting
your health first? Tonight Jackie DeAngelis with Fox Business Network
is on theline telling her story about breast cancer. Don't
forget doctor Joeglotti dot com is our website. Stay tuned.
We will go right back every Sunday between seven and
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eight pm. We are here raising your Health IQ and
for me, this is the best day of the week
being able to spend some time on the radio with
all of you, making you better consumers of healthcare, talking
about the topics related to health and wellness that are
important to you, and certainly in the month of October
it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we want everybody to
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be thinking about screening, screening, screening, understanding your risk factors
for breast cancer and taking action, not being afraid to
step forward and get that mammogram or see your doctor
to make things work out better. And on the program tonight,
No Stranger to your health firstus Jackie DeAngelis. Everybody knows
(19:44):
her from the Fox Business Network. She is the co
host of The Big Money Show weekdays Monday through Friday
between twelve and two pm Eastern time. Let me just
sort of jump now to the number. The numbers going up,
and you know, when you look at some of the research,
some will say it is simply greater awareness and screening.
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So if you screen more, you catch, you catch more cases.
But yet there are others that are saying the overall
health of our country and young women in particular, is
on the decline, possibly due to increased alcohol use and obesity. Now,
the Surgeon General in January this past January put out
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a report on you know, the dangers of alcohol and cancer,
and he had a separate section on breast cancer, saying
that if you just had two, one or two drinks
a day, your breast cancer rate went from you know
what we were saying the baseline of eleven twelve percent
up to almost sixteen percent. So these are real, real
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numbers that many young women don't realize that going out
and having all of these pretty cool marketed alcoholic beverages
are damaging. What do you think.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
I think you're absolutely right. I didn't understand the role
that you know, for example, alcohol could play, or certain foods.
Processed meats are not great, for example, and there are
many different things. So I generally felt like I was
a fit person. I never had a weight problem. I
never had high cholesterol or hypertension. You know, every time
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I would go in for tests, my doctor would say,
everything looks great, and so I just never really thought
there was anything to worry about. And as you mentioned
that the previous person was talking, there was no history
in my family of breast cancer either. So you know,
I wasn't thinking about having a couple of cocktails with
my friends at the end of the week as an issue.
(21:52):
But obviously after this happened to me, I started examining
things more closely and listen. We're have to be realistic.
We've got to live in the real world. You can't
live in a bubble and not do anything. My surgeon
was very realistic about that, and she said, you know,
there are places you can do better. Try to do better,
(22:13):
she said, but sometimes it's a genetic thing too, regardless
of whether you had history or not. And she said,
all we can do is try to do our best
every day. So I read I have information, doctor Glottie.
I take that all into accounts some of the decisions
and healthcare and lifestyle choices that I make, and I
just try to do the best I can as a realist.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, no, no, no, I mean, you can't live in a
cocoon and say I'm never going to have a pepperoni pizza.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
You're going to You don't have to do it every day.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
No, no, you can't have it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner,
which I do know some people that do that, which
is sort of sick. But anyway, you know, you know,
the other thing that I come across with my patients
is they put their overall health or a strategy for
wellness really at the bottom of the pile and when
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you talk to them, they are stressed out. They have
so many problems that they're dealing with that they say, look,
I feel fine and in the you know, the case
of breast cancer, I don't feel any lumps. I have
no family history. I've got other stuff to worry about.
Then then go take calf a day off and get
(23:27):
a mammogram. Do you see that in either your circle?
People that you know call you? Because I do think
it's a real problem that we're not prioritizing our our
health and screening one thousand.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
So I would just say that for people to know, again,
I was blindsided by my diagnosis. I didn't have a lump,
I didn't have pain. I had suspicious cells that, if
left over time, would probably have turned into something of
that form, which would have made it more alarming and
more serious. So just because you don't have a long
or pain doesn't mean that something isn't brewing. It's sort
(24:07):
of the moral of my story, I think. But more
than that, I think people are just used to going
in this peddled to the metal go mode in race
sort of the society that we live in where they're
not taking proper care of themselves with regard to eating habits,
sleeping habits, exercise habits. They're not making time for that
(24:29):
because work comes first, or family comes first, and we
are all just burdened by all the responsibilities that we have.
In the beginning post diagnosis, I didn't make all those
changes right away. I mean it was so overwhelming. There
was only so much I could handle at one time.
The four years out from this, I will tell you
I prioritize my health, my diet, my sleep, my exercise,
(24:55):
those come first. There are times now doctor Glaudy, and
you know me go go go at work. But there
are times when I say, I'm sorry, I can't do
that extra work. I must go to my physical therapy. Right,
I must go for my wellness check. This year, I'm
doing my first because I turned forty five, I'm doing
my first colonoscopy. Wow, you know I'm prioritizing all those things.
(25:17):
And I turn around and I you know, work knows
that I love work, but they know that, but they
also know that, you know, this has been very scary
for me, right, and so you know I have to
take action to try to do better for myself.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well, what I what I say is and this this
applies to so many things in life. You really have
to learn how to say no, because you know, we
all want that added accolade or you did something extra,
but at the end of the day, if it's impacting
(25:55):
your health, you just have to say no. And I
would I would think that someone like you because you
know the hosts from what I see between Fox Business
and Fox News, they all sort of co mingle at times,
and you know, it's nice to see you pop up
Sunday morning doing Maria Bartaroma's show, and I'm like, oh, well,
(26:17):
now she's putting in a six day of work, and
so it does add up.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
It does add up. I love doing some of those things,
and so I make sure that I'm balanced and I'm
able to do them within limits. Because the thing doctor
glauding me discussed this in the past is that people
take their health for granted. You should be putting your
health first. What I realized when I was, you know,
(26:45):
recovering from my surgery and lying in bed for two weeks,
was that if my health doesn't come first, I can't
do anything else right. And so when we neglect our
health for that reason, it frustrates me because until we're
in that situation that I was in, and I hope
nobody else has to be in it. That's when you realize,
(27:05):
if my body physically can't go, I can't do any
of the things that I promised people I would do.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah. No, And it was brilliant. I think we're in
twenty second year doing this radio program and the news
producer at iHeart when we were sitting around trying to
come up with a name of a show, he looked
at me and he said, your health first. And really,
as sort of tried it of a little name of it
(27:32):
that it is, it really represents what we need to do.
You need to put your health first instead of like
number fourteen on the list of other silly things we've
got to do.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I love this analogy, which is if you didn't take
your car in for routine maintenance and you just drove
it into the ground, eventually one day, you're going to
end up broken down on the side of the road, right,
So you have to change the oil. You've got to
make sure you know that the inner functions of car
working properly. You've got to make sure you're using the
(28:04):
best feeding it with the best gas, making sure it
has oil changes. Our bodies function the same way.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Well, you know, I have a slide and I'll send
you a copy of it. I have a dashboard of
the human body, like it's coming off your car dashboard.
And what I tell everybody, Imagine you one day you
call up a friend or someone in your family. You say, hey,
you know, the check engine light has been on for
(28:35):
six weeks and oh, by the way, the car is
blowing black smoke and whatever. And you take it into
the dealer and they say, Jackie, you need a new transmission.
You need this. It's a ten thousand dollars fix. And
they said, why didn't you bring it in when the
light went on? We could have fixed it. I think
that is the same mentality.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yeah, absolutely, you can't. You know, when the check engine
light goes on, you need to pay attention and listen
if it's falty, you know, sometimes it's these electronics systems. Yeah,
the ch an engine light will go on for no
particular reason and it just needs to be reset. And
it's the same thing with a health appointment. There's nothing
lost if you want to go check something out and
(29:16):
you find out that it was nothing exactly. However, if
you were able to prevent something worse from happening, then
that is a major wins.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
It's exactly right. It is so all right. In those
couple of minutes, we're going to go not off topic,
but you know, I look at you as a not
so much a health enthusiast, but a health motivator. And
we've chatted about this before, Make America Healthy Again, RFK Junior.
(29:45):
He's a bit of a lightning rod. And from your
perspective in you know, being in the news and broadcast
and what people are saying, I think the big message
of making America healthy again the country is obese, cancer
rates are up, diabetes, chronic disease, kids are out of shape.
(30:06):
What is your take on not only you know, drawing
from your own experience and health journey, but just as
a nation where we are with making America healthy again,
where do you think this all fits in with the
narrative of chronic disease.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Well, it's all about choice for me when it comes
to the narrative that is out there. And yet in
the four years that you and I have spoken, the
dialogue has changed. So I'm actually grateful to this administration
and our junior for bringing some of these things to
the forefront. Let's have conversations about them, because having conversations
doesn't necessarily mean you're right, but it's raising awareness and
(30:46):
trying to get to a better, healthier place for everybody.
It isn't about mandates, it's about choices. Every person chooses
for themselves. Every person's responsible for their own body. So
the more awareness and conversation we have, the more people
learn about huh, maybe that isn't so good for me,
(31:06):
or maybe I shouldn't be doing that, And the more
they can incorporate subtle changes into their behavior and their life,
I think the healthier they will be. So I think
the more we can talk constructively about health, the better
off we are. I also think a lot of it
comes from you know, how you grew up. I grew
up in a household that was pretty healthy, but there
(31:29):
were stose things we could have done better. And those
are the things that you sort of pick up his
habits and you take along with you into adulthood, and
then you start teaching your kids because that's what you learned.
So if we can all sort of sit back and
examine where we came from, where we are, where we
want to go and what we need to do to
(31:50):
achieve that I think is much better. I always go
to the Bloomberg example in New York City when he
wanted to stand the large side. I know, I know,
not about spanning the large soda. It's about people making
a decision that they either don't want to drink or
want to limit their sugar consumption. I used to drew
sugary drinks all the time until I remember I just
(32:10):
sort of went off like a light switch and I
just I stopped. But that was awareness, that was understanding
that that wasn't good for me. I think it's better
for people to look at it that way and make
the choice themselves than to try to be mandated.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, I remember I sort of in the midst of
all that, I had the opportunity to sit with Michael
Bloomberg for a few minutes and a few of us
asked him, are you kidding us that you're going to
outlaw a sixteen ouce cup? And he looked and he says, no,
that will never happen. It is the conversation and making
people think about what they're doing if you could do that,
(32:48):
and he created such a ruckus, but people started.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Thinking about it, and they started talking about it, and
he was varying right in that aspect of what the
takeaway was a right Jackie DeAngelis.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
And for those that watch Fox Business Work Network, or
they should the Big Money Show Wednesdays twelve to two.
Now it's a two hour show, Jackie's it's really expanding there.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
It's two hours, twelve to two. It's weekdays every day.
We're five days a week, so you can catch us
for ten hours. You can catch us in multiple ways
as well. If you can't watch, I highly recommend you DDR.
But also we're on serious radio. You can get us
online digitally on Talk Business dot com if you need
to watch that way. So many different ways to consume
(33:35):
Doctor Black.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I know, I know, and they could catch you. And
it's always great Jackie to have you.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
Thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Well right here, all right. Final segment of this week's
Your Health First, coming up in just a minute. Don't
forget Doctor Joe Galotti dot com is our website. More
information on breast cancer will be posted on our social
media sites. We'll be right back. Don't change this channel.
Final segment of this week's Your Health First, Doctor Joe Galotti.
(34:03):
Always a joy to be here sharing part of your weekend.
Our website doctor Joeglotti dot com, check out our newsletter,
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(34:26):
or fatty liver research, you can go to our practice
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I V e r dot com. All Right, well, we
have been chatting about breast cancer. It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
(34:53):
Want to thank Jackie Dangelis again for coming on. She's
always gracious with her time. But we're gonna we're gonna
shift gears here for a second in the last few
minutes of the of the program. So that was a
study that came out in the journal Lancet. It's a
British journal, and there's so much talk about the GLP
(35:16):
one agonist drugs and this particular study is talking about wegov.
Now wegov is a GOLP agonist drug like ozepic that
will make you lose weight. Now, there's been tremendous research
(35:38):
and interest and studying of these drugs with regard to
other diseases. So losing weight is one thing. Step on
the scale. You're down ten fifteen forty pounds. Bus we
are now finding that these agents lower your blood pressure, certainly,
your diabetes risk goes down. Fatty liver things that I
(36:02):
take care of. We are seeing fatty liver improve with
drugs like Wagovi. But the cardiovascular profile, the risk factor reduction,
less of a chance that you're going to have a
serious cardiovascular complication. This is where it really gets very,
(36:25):
very interesting. And so in this particular study that was
published in Lancet, it showed that the weight loss that
the person experienced only would result in about a third
of the benefit of the Wagovi. So even if you
(36:46):
really didn't lose that much weight, your reduction in cardiovascular
complications heart attack, stroke, heart failure went down. And so
you have to scratch your head and say, there's something
else about wagov or these other GLP one agonists that
(37:10):
are resulting in the benefits that we're seeing. And while
many people are still scratching their head about this, they're
not quite clear the exact mechanism, the exact process on
why if you go on WAGOV you have less risk
of a stroke. It's not necessarily tied to weight. The
(37:34):
feeling is and this is something we talk about a lot.
It has to do with inflammation. Somehow. These GLP one
agents are reducing inflammation throughout your body. Decreased inflammation in
your heart, in your carnary arteries, in your kidney and
your liver, etc. And so I would say that the
(37:58):
jury is still out on how well we understand what's
going on, but the pathway may come down to, yes,
weight loss is going to help you, but there is
a bigger bang for the buck in the background that
we're still trying to figure out related to inflammation. And
(38:19):
there are many including me, that feels that inflammation in
the body is the root of chronic disease, and in
many different ways that we develop chronic inflammation. There's chronic
inflammation related to alcohol used, this chronic inflammation related to stress,
this chronic inflammation related to processed foods and chemicals that
(38:44):
we're taking in, increased inflammation with too much fat in
your diet and obesity. So this is a great milestone
in a sense, stuff that we've known. But again, the
information being shared is quite exciting, and I think We're
going to learn more and the whole goal here is
(39:07):
to be able to help out patients. So with that said,
let's wrap it up. Doctor Joe Galotti, this is your
health First. Doctor Joglotti dot com is our website. We
will see you next Sunday evening. Stay well, take care
of yourself. Breast Cancer Awareness Month for those women that
are listening. For the husbands, the boyfriends, the sons, the daughters,
(39:30):
make sure you get screened for breast cancer. Take care.
We'll see you next Sunday evening
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