September 28, 2025 • 38 mins
Dr. Galati starts the program with a quick example of chronic progressive disease. He talks about a few articles about heart disease on women and the myths associated with fruit. Dr. Galati also has thoughts about his patients wanting to work out or exercise.
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if you become a better consumer of healthcare, which means
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you understand or you're able to read all of the
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all of this information that's being thrown at you, you
are a or discerning consumer to understand to say, now,
wait a second, this actually might be interesting. I need
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The other thing is just getting back to the being
a better consumer. My role here on the radio, my
role on social media in a sense. And I look
at the radio here as a form of social media.
We are communicating with all of you, were communicating with
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the public, and certainly people that are interested in health
and wellness sort of gravitate to this program. But the
greatest thing is when I am out and about and
I meet people, and it's not exactly like people know
me by sight, but they may know the name. And
I've been places where they say, you know, I know
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that voice, and I come from very humble, humbled background,
and I am really sort of laugh to myself that,
you know, people may recognize your voice from the radio,
or they're just familiar with the program and they see,
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you know, if I'm writing something down or they ask
what my name is, They're like, oh, you the guy
on the radio, And I'm like, yes, I am. I
hope you like it. If you don't like it, I
am not that guy at somebody else. But anyway, the
joy that I get in realizing that we are able
to communicate to a much broader audience. And people ask
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me all the time, especially my medical colleagues. Other physicians
are like, you know, it takes a lot of time,
and every Sunday for twenty two years, you're doing this.
And I tell them that number one, I don't look
at this as work. Number two, I look at it
as an absolute joy. And number three I look at
it to and I tell them that when I am
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seeing a patient one on one, it's me and you,
or maybe me you and your spouse, or a kid
or a friend in the exam room and we are talking,
I can only influence one person when we're talking about
their disease. But when you expand it to the radio
and social media, you're able to touch many more people.
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Because I see the good that we do in our practice,
me and my nurse practitioners and pas and rest of
our team, the absolute good that we do. And if
you could multiply this, the radio is a force multiplier
for getting news and information and educating our patients, but
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also the consumers. Because find nothing I'll say before we
take a break, care the vast majority of the disease
is that we see on a day to day basis
in the hospital, in the clinic, and what you yourselves
are witnessing first hand that you are dealing with. Just
look at your medicine cabinet. How many pills are you taking.
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It is a result of chronic progressive disease, much of
which eighty to eighty five percent could have been either
reduced or prevented with lifestyle interventions. And so that is
very powerful and realizing that the improvement we could make
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in all of your lives is absolutely astounding. It is
absolutely great, and you have more control over your health
destiny than you really may appreciate you. So, all right,
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Welcome back, everybody. Thanks for tuning in. I'm doctor Joe Galotti.
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So in the news, I like to scour the news
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and sort of fill you in on some of the
things that are going on. Articles that you may have seen,
things that you may say, Gee, it's interesting, but this
really doesn't really apply to me, and so this is
a chance here where I'm able to go through things
and fill in some of the blanks for you. All Right,
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The first article was published in I think it was
the Washington Post, but I'm going to post these on
the Facebook page, all right, So go to the doctor
Joeglotti dot com and the Facebook page. The first one,
the title is the gender Gap and Heart Disease Research
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treatment leaves Women Behind. And we've talked about this a
lot over the years, how several things. Heart disease in
men is very different than heart disease in women. A
little fun fact, women are more likely to die after
a first heart attack or stroke than men. The other
thing that we always want to talk about and sort
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of ring home to everybody, is that women are also
more likely to have additional or different heart attack symptoms.
Instead of the crushing chest pain that radiates up to
your neck and goes down your left arm, which we've
all been taught that this is a sign of a
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heart attack, women have much more nausea, dizziness, fatigue, just
as general abdominal discomfort, which could be blown off as indigestion,
you ate too many Tamali's last night, you're constipated, you've
got asked, you've got acid reflux, and all of that
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delays getting people, the women into the healthcare system calling
nine eleven, nine to one one. Uh So you have
to keep aware of that. The other thing is, if
a woman has type two diabetes, her risk of heart
attack accelerates to be equivalent to that of men, even
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if the woman with diabetes has not yet gone through menopause. Okay,
keep in mind, heart attack, stroke, and other forms of
cardio cardiovascular disease are still the leading cause of death
for all people, both men and women. And so I
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think what you have to do is again being a
good consumer, realizing that if you are a woman, or
you're taking care of your mom or your sister and
they start having some of these unusual pains and you're like, gee,
could it be a heart attack? It sounds more like
acid reflox. You should take you know, a Tom's or
a may Lox or a zantac. It could be the heart.
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So that is the message. Women and heart disease are different,
yet the risk of something bad happening remains quite real. Now.
The other next article This comes from Yahoo. Five fruit myths.
Now what kind of myths can be surrounding the poor fruits? Okay,
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five fruit myths. Dietitians want you to stop believing, including
that it's bad for you because it contains sugar. So
again this article I'm going to post on the Facebook page.
But the first myth number one, fruit isn't healthy because
it contains sugar. Well, that is a lot of boloney. Yes,
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it has sugar, but you're eating the fruit with fiber,
you're getting other phytronutrients. The fiber in the fruit is
not going to be absorbed as quickly as a processed
food such as a cake or a donut. And we
also know that the fiber in the fruit, So don't
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let the sugar thing get in the way. You're eating
the fruit because it has all of these added fhitro nutrients,
So do not get too hung up on the sugar
part of it. You do need sugar for energy and metabolism,
but there's so much more besides sugar that shouldn't get
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in the way. The other thing is that berries are
healthier than other fruit. Now, while berries, you know, they
really do steal the spotlight for their sort of low sugar,
high fiber, and anti oxigen contact. That doesn't mean that
they're only fruit. Fruits that really are worth your love
and attention. They quote here that saying just eating two
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gold kiwi fruit a day has been shown to help
relieve constipation, while mangos provide copper and foliate. So again,
you want this whole sort of rainbow of fruit that
you're going to eat. Number three, canned fruit is less
nutritious than fresh or frozen. Totally debunked. These are equally nutritious,
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So don't be afraid to eat canned fruit. Now you
have to be careful how they are packed. Are they
packed with a lot of sugar? You may want to
get the ones that are just packed in water. Mid
number four, fruit should not be eaten on an empty stomach. Again,
I never heard where that came from, but there is
nothing wrong with eating fruit on an empty stomach. The body.
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The body is designed to digest and absorb the new
insurance regarding what you eat it with, so don't worry
about that. And then the last one, number five, which
is probably the most the most readily discussed and is
a myth. Avoid fruit if you have diabetes. So experts
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will certainly say people with diabetes can enjoy fruit just
like everybody else. The natural sugar in the fruit doesn't
mean it will cause a rapid rise in blood sugar.
Fruit provides a natural sweet treat for those with diabetes
and should be enjoyed daily. In fact, a recent meta analysis,
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which is basically a large number of research studies that
are all sort of analyzed together, found that higher fruit
intake was linked to lower fasting blood sugar levels in
those with diabetes. So again, all these somewhat crazy ideas,
you need to get to the source, become a good student,
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become a good consumer, and realize that having fruit in
your diet is a key part of wellness. All right,
we're going to take a break. News, weather, and traffic
are coming up. Now, stay tuned. I'm doctor Joe Glotti.
We'll right back. Welcome back, everybody, Doctor Joe Glotti, thanks
for spending a little bit of your weekend with us.
We're here every Sunday between seven and eight pm bringing
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you the best in health and wellness. We try to
filter it. We have a team of people that review articles,
send information to me, and we try to give you
the information that is really very relevant to all of you.
We don't try to get too esoteric and off the
grid on things that you may never hear of or
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things that are so ridiculous, but it really is things
that we could use immediately. And I like to say
that listening to this program is going to give you
actionable information that you could hear it right now and
make a decision, make an intervention, and do something positive
for yourself. Now. The you know, the last article we
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were talking about with regard to fruit and these various
myths that were associated with it, there is a sense
that we are criminalizing certain foods that we eat, especially fruit,
and people worry about I'm going to get overweight and
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I'm going to get fat. Don't eat fruit. I have diabetes,
don't eat fruit. Well, what is the alternative? Many of you,
in maybe fear or out of not knowing, or just
out of really sheer ignorance not knowing, you're eating some
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other sugar free, diabetic controlled food, which is number one,
stripped of fiber, stripped of real God given nutrients, all
kinds of artificial stuff in it that our body was
not meant to handle or process. All right, So think
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about it on one end, you say no, no, no,
I'm not going to eat those berries because I have diabetes,
I'm overweight, my bleecher is going to go crazy. But
at the same time, you have absolutely no qualms buying
into this consumerism of buying processed, man made food. I
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call it Frankenstein food. This is stuff that's made in
a laboratory. It's made in a laboratory. It there's nothing
natural about this. So just really do try to keep
all of this in context and look at your habits.
And it's okay to say to yourself, you know what,
I got this one wrong. I should increase the amount
of fruit that I need. All Right, more articles to
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talk about, and as I had mentioned before, we're going
to post these on the Facebook page again, website doctor
Joeglotti dot com. All right, so this one has to
do with standing and a lot of effort really has
been placed on these standing desks. Okay, some people in
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my own office have a standing workstation, and there is
this general concept that man standing is fantastic for my health,
and so I need to get on that standing bandwagon.
All right. So this is a an article that was
just published the International Journal of epidemiology, And the bottom
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line is they suggest that prolonged standing may not offer
as much in the way of health benefits and raise
the risk of what they call orthostatic circulatory disease. And
so here once again we have to proceed with some
caution and understanding what the benefit is and what the
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downfall is. So standing, although it is not associated with
a higher risk of having heart disease or heart attack,
it was not associated with lowering the risk, okay. And
so what they say in the article is that more
time spent standing, and I'll say standing still was associated
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with a higher risk of circulatory conditions, okay. And I'll
tell you what they are in a second. So orthostatic
circulatory disease. You may not have heard this. It's really
not the most common thing you'll talk about. It includes
orthostatic hypotension where when people stand up, their blood pressure
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drops and they get a little light headed and they
just don't feel that well, as well as Verico's veins. Now,
Verico's veins over time can be quite problematic for people. Now,
what they found with regard to the risk of sitting, okay,
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sitting for more than ten hours per day increase both
cardiovascular and orthostatic risk. For every hour of sitting above
ten hours, cardiovascular disease risk increased by fifteen percent and
orthostatic disease risk increased by twenty six percent. So really
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what they're getting at is this sedentary behavior, which includes
both standing and sitting without movement. That is the key.
If you're just standing still and not moving, you're not
really doing much for yourself, and so that is the key.
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So after two hours of standing every day, after two
hours of standing every day, every additional thirty minutes was
associated with an eleven percent increased risk of orthostatic disease.
So it's not sitting or standing, it is the lack
of movement or continuous uninterrupted sedentary behavior. So standing certainly
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is better than sitting down. But I and I would
say most would agree that there's an increased risk of
cardiovascular disease risk if you're just sitting versus standing. But
it is the movement that is the key thing. So
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I would say standing is better than sitting. But now,
how do you offset this sedentary behavior? This is the
root of so much evil that we see from a
healthcare standpoint. Now, keep in mind some statistics here. According
to the CDC, about one in four amat can sit
for more than eight hours a day, and the average
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US citizen sits between six point five to eight hours
a day. That is a hell of a lot of
time on your butt and it's not good. So ways
to get around this sedentary behavior while working? Okay? Number one,
use a treadmill desk desk, So a treadmill desk, you're standing,
but you're also moving. Number two, change your position at
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regular intervals using a convertible sit to stand desk. Okay,
number three, set an alarm reminding you to get up
and move around every hour. Be active at work i e.
Getting phone calls while walking or walking around to meetings. Okay,
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other things getting up and walking for coffee, walking for lunch,
or incorporate chores like laundry or things outside through the
day to prevent you from being sedentary. So I think
the bottom line here is, do not think you have
a stand up desk that it is some panacea for
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taking good care of yourself. Yes, it is better than sitting,
but you're not really getting that big bang for your
buck by just standing at your desk. You have to
move period. End of story. All right. The next study
has to do with our friend o zempic and the
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GLP one drugs that are out there. You know that
they're all being used for weight loss, they are for
diabetes and blood sugar control. Well, this is a very
very fascinating story, and I think it is really worth
all of you knowing about this because I would think
in the months and years to come, you're going to
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hear a lot more about this. And so when you
look at these drugs, these GLP one agonist drugs, yes,
they were originally marketed for diabetes control, and now with
the weight loss benefit that you're all so familiar with,
they are finding that it cuts down on the risk
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of heart disease and heart failure that these you know,
it really is pretty amazing and you almost have to
wonder where is the health benefit of these drugs going
to end. It seems like it's helping so much.
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So.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Now, this is a new article that was published this
past week in the journal Addiction, and what they did
was they analyzed five hundred thousand people with a history
of opioid use disorder, of which about eight thousand of
these people were taking a weight loss drug such as
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ozempic or one of the ozempic lookalike drugs, And what
they found is that when you're taking ozempic, it can
cut drug and alcohol abuse by up to fifty percent,
which which just further is mind blowing, adding to the
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mounting evidence that this drugs yield health benefits way before,
way beyond diabetes and weight loss. And so in the
study of these half a million people, five hundred thousand people,
eight thousand of the opioid users, okay, we're taking one
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of the GLP one drugs such as Manjaro or ozempic,
and the study found that when they were on this drug,
they had a forty percent lower rate of opioid overdose
compared to those that did not take it. Okay, pretty
pretty amazing. In a similar analysis of fifty six hundred
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people out of the half a million with a history
of alcohol use disorder and who took the drug right,
they had a fifty percent lower rate of intoxication compared
to those that did not take it. So now we're
opening up a whole new chapter in the use of
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these GLP one drugs to say, if you have alcohol
use disorder, should you be on a GOLP one agonist.
Will this reduce your risk of intoxication? And how it
works with your brain and the addiction center in your
body is probably not fully ironed out. Same thing for
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those with opioid dependence type problems. They're also looking at
the use of semiglutide for the treatment of Alzheimer's. Again,
how does this all neurologically work in your brain? I
think there is a lot more to look at, and
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for all of you as consumers, it's something that you
probably should be aware of. All right, final segment coming
up Doctor Joe Galotti and our website is doctor Joglotti
dot com. Stay tuned more health and wellness news in
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That is our mantra. All right, for the final six
or seven minutes tonight, and again, as we're sitting here
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Sunday evening and it's almost eight o'clock Central time, winding down,
maybe you're watching a little baseball tonight, do think what
am I going to do this week for myself? Do
I have an exercise schedule? Am I going to walk
for an hour Monday after work? Or is Monday the
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day I go to the gym and do a little
strength training? Am I going to ride my bike? Am
I going to go on the treadmill? What about the
food you're going to eat? Do you need to sit
now and make a little bit of a shopping list
for yourself to make sure that you have the fresh
fish that you need, a few different vegetables, the condiments,
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the fruits and vegetables, like we talked about early in
the program. So do make it a conscious effort to
think about that. So in the final segment here, you
know a lot of people that I see, especially my patients,
they want to try and work out, They try to exercise.
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But I would say that after a certain point in
your life, it is going to be far more efficient
and far more helpful if you get connected with a
personal trainer to help help you in that training process. Now,
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unless you are an absolute student of physiology of the
human body, how the joints and the muscles and the
tendons all work together, it's going to be a bit
more difficult for you. And so I would think that
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while it may be a little bit of an investment
to pay for a personal trainer, many times and I
know from personal experience, you can get a personal trainer
and get a bit of a discount. When you go
with one or two other people and you have a
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one hour session that is divided up by three people,
you'll get a little bit of attention. They'll tell you
to do an exercise, then they'll work with somebody else,
and then they'll come back to you. Because the main
thing as we all get older, it is we are
losing muscle, We are losing strength, we are losing flexibility,
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and we are losing balance. And I think when you
add all of those things up, if you are not
paying attention to the muscle mass that you may be
losing and the strength that you're losing, which will result
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in you know, lower bone density, and if you do fall,
god forbid, you're going to break your hip or your shoulder,
your arm, or your wrist. And the improved stability and balance, Okay,
you need that joint mobility and strength, and so it
is important to think about, you know, getting connected with
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a personal trainer. Now, I'll a lot of the commercial
gems that we all go to. We're talking about YMCA,
Lifetime Fitness, Crunch Planet Fitness, Okay, amongst many others, they
have opportunities for a personal trainer, or in many cases
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you could maybe get into a group training class that
we'll talk about flexibility and strength and maybe they'll focus
on your back muscles, your legs, your thighs, your arms,
your chest. So it's really really very important, you know, really,
I look at it from a scientific standpoint when you
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look at overall survival, there is no doubt that when
you have maintained strength, flexibility and balance, your life expectancy
is better. But also something that we talked about, and
we've talked about this before, life span, so that you
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may be living to sixty five, seventy five, eighty five,
ninety five, but the life span is the quality of
life that you are up and around, You are taking
care of yourself, You are able to drive around, you
go shopping for yourself, you go on vacation without much assistance.
So we're looking not only for life expectancy, we're looking
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for life span and that's going to come with having
that strength and flexibility and balance. So it is important.
But I would say getting a trainer for at least
twice a week is something that you probably need to
invest in, and I would highly highly recommend it. And
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wherever you go, work out, find out and ask and say, look,
it doesn't matter if you're seventy years old, you have
every right in the world, if not more, to get
a personal trainer. All right. That is going to wrap
it up for me and all of you and our
your health first team here this evening. Don't forget doctor
Joeglotti dot com is our website. We do want to
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guy's a broken record. But the key fact here is
if you become a better consumer of healthcare, which means
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you understand or you're able to read all of the
information that is published in newspapers, heard on the radio podcast,
all of this information that's being thrown at you, you
are a or discerning consumer to understand to say, now,
wait a second, this actually might be interesting. I need
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get sucked into a health movement that really is not
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thing is being a good consumer is you know, consumers
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better consumer may also mean better understanding how your body works.
What does your heart do, what does your lung do,
what does your liver do, your kidneys? What are the
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your balance, your breathing, your heart, your circulation, and also
knowing your risk factors. What you know sitting there right now,
wherever you are, you're in your car, you're in your kitchen,
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to have a pretty good idea what are your risk
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good consumers of healthcare, they know right off the bat
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because their mother had colon cancer and their uncle had
colon cancer, and let's say their older sister had multiple
colon polyps. Well, you know what, you are at risk
for colorectal cancer and you need to change up your
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The other thing is just getting back to the being
a better consumer. My role here on the radio, my
role on social media in a sense. And I look
at the radio here as a form of social media.
We are communicating with all of you, were communicating with
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the public, and certainly people that are interested in health
and wellness sort of gravitate to this program. But the
greatest thing is when I am out and about and
I meet people, and it's not exactly like people know
me by sight, but they may know the name. And
I've been places where they say, you know, I know
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that voice, and I come from very humble, humbled background,
and I am really sort of laugh to myself that,
you know, people may recognize your voice from the radio,
or they're just familiar with the program and they see,
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you know, if I'm writing something down or they ask
what my name is, They're like, oh, you the guy
on the radio, And I'm like, yes, I am. I
hope you like it. If you don't like it, I
am not that guy at somebody else. But anyway, the
joy that I get in realizing that we are able
to communicate to a much broader audience. And people ask
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me all the time, especially my medical colleagues. Other physicians
are like, you know, it takes a lot of time,
and every Sunday for twenty two years, you're doing this.
And I tell them that number one, I don't look
at this as work. Number two, I look at it
as an absolute joy. And number three I look at
it to and I tell them that when I am
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seeing a patient one on one, it's me and you,
or maybe me you and your spouse, or a kid
or a friend in the exam room and we are talking,
I can only influence one person when we're talking about
their disease. But when you expand it to the radio
and social media, you're able to touch many more people.
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Because I see the good that we do in our practice,
me and my nurse practitioners and pas and rest of
our team, the absolute good that we do. And if
you could multiply this, the radio is a force multiplier
for getting news and information and educating our patients, but
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also the consumers. Because find nothing I'll say before we
take a break, care the vast majority of the disease
is that we see on a day to day basis
in the hospital, in the clinic, and what you yourselves
are witnessing first hand that you are dealing with. Just
look at your medicine cabinet. How many pills are you taking.
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It is a result of chronic progressive disease, much of
which eighty to eighty five percent could have been either
reduced or prevented with lifestyle interventions. And so that is
very powerful and realizing that the improvement we could make
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in all of your lives is absolutely astounding. It is
absolutely great, and you have more control over your health
destiny than you really may appreciate you. So, all right,
we're gonna take a quick break. I'm doctor Joe Galotti.
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Welcome back, everybody. Thanks for tuning in. I'm doctor Joe Galotti.
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So in the news, I like to scour the news
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and sort of fill you in on some of the
things that are going on. Articles that you may have seen,
things that you may say, Gee, it's interesting, but this
really doesn't really apply to me, and so this is
a chance here where I'm able to go through things
and fill in some of the blanks for you. All Right,
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The first article was published in I think it was
the Washington Post, but I'm going to post these on
the Facebook page, all right, So go to the doctor
Joeglotti dot com and the Facebook page. The first one,
the title is the gender Gap and Heart Disease Research
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treatment leaves Women Behind. And we've talked about this a
lot over the years, how several things. Heart disease in
men is very different than heart disease in women. A
little fun fact, women are more likely to die after
a first heart attack or stroke than men. The other
thing that we always want to talk about and sort
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of ring home to everybody, is that women are also
more likely to have additional or different heart attack symptoms.
Instead of the crushing chest pain that radiates up to
your neck and goes down your left arm, which we've
all been taught that this is a sign of a
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heart attack, women have much more nausea, dizziness, fatigue, just
as general abdominal discomfort, which could be blown off as indigestion,
you ate too many Tamali's last night, you're constipated, you've
got asked, you've got acid reflux, and all of that
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delays getting people, the women into the healthcare system calling
nine eleven, nine to one one. Uh So you have
to keep aware of that. The other thing is, if
a woman has type two diabetes, her risk of heart
attack accelerates to be equivalent to that of men, even
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if the woman with diabetes has not yet gone through menopause. Okay,
keep in mind, heart attack, stroke, and other forms of
cardio cardiovascular disease are still the leading cause of death
for all people, both men and women. And so I
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think what you have to do is again being a
good consumer, realizing that if you are a woman, or
you're taking care of your mom or your sister and
they start having some of these unusual pains and you're like, gee,
could it be a heart attack? It sounds more like
acid reflox. You should take you know, a Tom's or
a may Lox or a zantac. It could be the heart.
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So that is the message. Women and heart disease are different,
yet the risk of something bad happening remains quite real. Now.
The other next article This comes from Yahoo. Five fruit myths.
Now what kind of myths can be surrounding the poor fruits? Okay,
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five fruit myths. Dietitians want you to stop believing, including
that it's bad for you because it contains sugar. So
again this article I'm going to post on the Facebook page.
But the first myth number one, fruit isn't healthy because
it contains sugar. Well, that is a lot of boloney. Yes,
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it has sugar, but you're eating the fruit with fiber,
you're getting other phytronutrients. The fiber in the fruit is
not going to be absorbed as quickly as a processed
food such as a cake or a donut. And we
also know that the fiber in the fruit, So don't
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let the sugar thing get in the way. You're eating
the fruit because it has all of these added fhitro nutrients,
So do not get too hung up on the sugar
part of it. You do need sugar for energy and metabolism,
but there's so much more besides sugar that shouldn't get
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in the way. The other thing is that berries are
healthier than other fruit. Now, while berries, you know, they
really do steal the spotlight for their sort of low sugar,
high fiber, and anti oxigen contact. That doesn't mean that
they're only fruit. Fruits that really are worth your love
and attention. They quote here that saying just eating two
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gold kiwi fruit a day has been shown to help
relieve constipation, while mangos provide copper and foliate. So again,
you want this whole sort of rainbow of fruit that
you're going to eat. Number three, canned fruit is less
nutritious than fresh or frozen. Totally debunked. These are equally nutritious,
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So don't be afraid to eat canned fruit. Now you
have to be careful how they are packed. Are they
packed with a lot of sugar? You may want to
get the ones that are just packed in water. Mid
number four, fruit should not be eaten on an empty stomach. Again,
I never heard where that came from, but there is
nothing wrong with eating fruit on an empty stomach. The body.
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The body is designed to digest and absorb the new
insurance regarding what you eat it with, so don't worry
about that. And then the last one, number five, which
is probably the most the most readily discussed and is
a myth. Avoid fruit if you have diabetes. So experts
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will certainly say people with diabetes can enjoy fruit just
like everybody else. The natural sugar in the fruit doesn't
mean it will cause a rapid rise in blood sugar.
Fruit provides a natural sweet treat for those with diabetes
and should be enjoyed daily. In fact, a recent meta analysis,
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which is basically a large number of research studies that
are all sort of analyzed together, found that higher fruit
intake was linked to lower fasting blood sugar levels in
those with diabetes. So again, all these somewhat crazy ideas,
you need to get to the source, become a good student,
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become a good consumer, and realize that having fruit in
your diet is a key part of wellness. All right,
we're going to take a break. News, weather, and traffic
are coming up. Now, stay tuned. I'm doctor Joe Glotti.
We'll right back. Welcome back, everybody, Doctor Joe Glotti, thanks
for spending a little bit of your weekend with us.
We're here every Sunday between seven and eight pm bringing
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you the best in health and wellness. We try to
filter it. We have a team of people that review articles,
send information to me, and we try to give you
the information that is really very relevant to all of you.
We don't try to get too esoteric and off the
grid on things that you may never hear of or
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things that are so ridiculous, but it really is things
that we could use immediately. And I like to say
that listening to this program is going to give you
actionable information that you could hear it right now and
make a decision, make an intervention, and do something positive
for yourself. Now. The you know, the last article we
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were talking about with regard to fruit and these various
myths that were associated with it, there is a sense
that we are criminalizing certain foods that we eat, especially fruit,
and people worry about I'm going to get overweight and
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I'm going to get fat. Don't eat fruit. I have diabetes,
don't eat fruit. Well, what is the alternative? Many of you,
in maybe fear or out of not knowing, or just
out of really sheer ignorance not knowing, you're eating some
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other sugar free, diabetic controlled food, which is number one,
stripped of fiber, stripped of real God given nutrients, all
kinds of artificial stuff in it that our body was
not meant to handle or process. All right, So think
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about it on one end, you say no, no, no,
I'm not going to eat those berries because I have diabetes,
I'm overweight, my bleecher is going to go crazy. But
at the same time, you have absolutely no qualms buying
into this consumerism of buying processed, man made food. I
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call it Frankenstein food. This is stuff that's made in
a laboratory. It's made in a laboratory. It there's nothing
natural about this. So just really do try to keep
all of this in context and look at your habits.
And it's okay to say to yourself, you know what,
I got this one wrong. I should increase the amount
of fruit that I need. All Right, more articles to
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talk about, and as I had mentioned before, we're going
to post these on the Facebook page again, website doctor
Joeglotti dot com. All right, so this one has to
do with standing and a lot of effort really has
been placed on these standing desks. Okay, some people in
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my own office have a standing workstation, and there is
this general concept that man standing is fantastic for my health,
and so I need to get on that standing bandwagon.
All right. So this is a an article that was
just published the International Journal of epidemiology, And the bottom
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line is they suggest that prolonged standing may not offer
as much in the way of health benefits and raise
the risk of what they call orthostatic circulatory disease. And
so here once again we have to proceed with some
caution and understanding what the benefit is and what the
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downfall is. So standing, although it is not associated with
a higher risk of having heart disease or heart attack,
it was not associated with lowering the risk, okay. And
so what they say in the article is that more
time spent standing, and I'll say standing still was associated
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with a higher risk of circulatory conditions, okay. And I'll
tell you what they are in a second. So orthostatic
circulatory disease. You may not have heard this. It's really
not the most common thing you'll talk about. It includes
orthostatic hypotension where when people stand up, their blood pressure
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drops and they get a little light headed and they
just don't feel that well, as well as Verico's veins. Now,
Verico's veins over time can be quite problematic for people. Now,
what they found with regard to the risk of sitting, okay,
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sitting for more than ten hours per day increase both
cardiovascular and orthostatic risk. For every hour of sitting above
ten hours, cardiovascular disease risk increased by fifteen percent and
orthostatic disease risk increased by twenty six percent. So really
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what they're getting at is this sedentary behavior, which includes
both standing and sitting without movement. That is the key.
If you're just standing still and not moving, you're not
really doing much for yourself, and so that is the key.
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So after two hours of standing every day, after two
hours of standing every day, every additional thirty minutes was
associated with an eleven percent increased risk of orthostatic disease.
So it's not sitting or standing, it is the lack
of movement or continuous uninterrupted sedentary behavior. So standing certainly
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is better than sitting down. But I and I would
say most would agree that there's an increased risk of
cardiovascular disease risk if you're just sitting versus standing. But
it is the movement that is the key thing. So
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I would say standing is better than sitting. But now,
how do you offset this sedentary behavior? This is the
root of so much evil that we see from a
healthcare standpoint. Now, keep in mind some statistics here. According
to the CDC, about one in four amat can sit
for more than eight hours a day, and the average
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US citizen sits between six point five to eight hours
a day. That is a hell of a lot of
time on your butt and it's not good. So ways
to get around this sedentary behavior while working? Okay? Number one,
use a treadmill desk desk, So a treadmill desk, you're standing,
but you're also moving. Number two, change your position at
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regular intervals using a convertible sit to stand desk. Okay,
number three, set an alarm reminding you to get up
and move around every hour. Be active at work i e.
Getting phone calls while walking or walking around to meetings. Okay,
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other things getting up and walking for coffee, walking for lunch,
or incorporate chores like laundry or things outside through the
day to prevent you from being sedentary. So I think
the bottom line here is, do not think you have
a stand up desk that it is some panacea for
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taking good care of yourself. Yes, it is better than sitting,
but you're not really getting that big bang for your
buck by just standing at your desk. You have to
move period. End of story. All right. The next study
has to do with our friend o zempic and the
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GLP one drugs that are out there. You know that
they're all being used for weight loss, they are for
diabetes and blood sugar control. Well, this is a very
very fascinating story, and I think it is really worth
all of you knowing about this because I would think
in the months and years to come, you're going to
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hear a lot more about this. And so when you
look at these drugs, these GLP one agonist drugs, yes,
they were originally marketed for diabetes control, and now with
the weight loss benefit that you're all so familiar with,
they are finding that it cuts down on the risk
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of heart disease and heart failure that these you know,
it really is pretty amazing and you almost have to
wonder where is the health benefit of these drugs going
to end. It seems like it's helping so much.
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So.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Now, this is a new article that was published this
past week in the journal Addiction, and what they did
was they analyzed five hundred thousand people with a history
of opioid use disorder, of which about eight thousand of
these people were taking a weight loss drug such as
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ozempic or one of the ozempic lookalike drugs, And what
they found is that when you're taking ozempic, it can
cut drug and alcohol abuse by up to fifty percent,
which which just further is mind blowing, adding to the
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mounting evidence that this drugs yield health benefits way before,
way beyond diabetes and weight loss. And so in the
study of these half a million people, five hundred thousand people,
eight thousand of the opioid users, okay, we're taking one
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of the GLP one drugs such as Manjaro or ozempic,
and the study found that when they were on this drug,
they had a forty percent lower rate of opioid overdose
compared to those that did not take it. Okay, pretty
pretty amazing. In a similar analysis of fifty six hundred
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people out of the half a million with a history
of alcohol use disorder and who took the drug right,
they had a fifty percent lower rate of intoxication compared
to those that did not take it. So now we're
opening up a whole new chapter in the use of
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these GLP one drugs to say, if you have alcohol
use disorder, should you be on a GOLP one agonist.
Will this reduce your risk of intoxication? And how it
works with your brain and the addiction center in your
body is probably not fully ironed out. Same thing for
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those with opioid dependence type problems. They're also looking at
the use of semiglutide for the treatment of Alzheimer's. Again,
how does this all neurologically work in your brain? I
think there is a lot more to look at, and
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for all of you as consumers, it's something that you
probably should be aware of. All right, final segment coming
up Doctor Joe Galotti and our website is doctor Joglotti
dot com. Stay tuned more health and wellness news in
just a minute. Final segment of this week's Your Health First.
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That is our mantra. All right, for the final six
or seven minutes tonight, and again, as we're sitting here
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Sunday evening and it's almost eight o'clock Central time, winding down,
maybe you're watching a little baseball tonight, do think what
am I going to do this week for myself? Do
I have an exercise schedule? Am I going to walk
for an hour Monday after work? Or is Monday the
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day I go to the gym and do a little
strength training? Am I going to ride my bike? Am
I going to go on the treadmill? What about the
food you're going to eat? Do you need to sit
now and make a little bit of a shopping list
for yourself to make sure that you have the fresh
fish that you need, a few different vegetables, the condiments,
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the fruits and vegetables, like we talked about early in
the program. So do make it a conscious effort to
think about that. So in the final segment here, you
know a lot of people that I see, especially my patients,
they want to try and work out, They try to exercise.
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But I would say that after a certain point in
your life, it is going to be far more efficient
and far more helpful if you get connected with a
personal trainer to help help you in that training process. Now,
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unless you are an absolute student of physiology of the
human body, how the joints and the muscles and the
tendons all work together, it's going to be a bit
more difficult for you. And so I would think that
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while it may be a little bit of an investment
to pay for a personal trainer, many times and I
know from personal experience, you can get a personal trainer
and get a bit of a discount. When you go
with one or two other people and you have a
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one hour session that is divided up by three people,
you'll get a little bit of attention. They'll tell you
to do an exercise, then they'll work with somebody else,
and then they'll come back to you. Because the main
thing as we all get older, it is we are
losing muscle, We are losing strength, we are losing flexibility,
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and we are losing balance. And I think when you
add all of those things up, if you are not
paying attention to the muscle mass that you may be
losing and the strength that you're losing, which will result
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in you know, lower bone density, and if you do fall,
god forbid, you're going to break your hip or your shoulder,
your arm, or your wrist. And the improved stability and balance, Okay,
you need that joint mobility and strength, and so it
is important to think about, you know, getting connected with
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a personal trainer. Now, I'll a lot of the commercial
gems that we all go to. We're talking about YMCA,
Lifetime Fitness, Crunch Planet Fitness, Okay, amongst many others, they
have opportunities for a personal trainer, or in many cases
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you could maybe get into a group training class that
we'll talk about flexibility and strength and maybe they'll focus
on your back muscles, your legs, your thighs, your arms,
your chest. So it's really really very important, you know, really,
I look at it from a scientific standpoint when you
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look at overall survival, there is no doubt that when
you have maintained strength, flexibility and balance, your life expectancy
is better. But also something that we talked about, and
we've talked about this before, life span, so that you
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may be living to sixty five, seventy five, eighty five,
ninety five, but the life span is the quality of
life that you are up and around, You are taking
care of yourself, You are able to drive around, you
go shopping for yourself, you go on vacation without much assistance.
So we're looking not only for life expectancy, we're looking
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for life span and that's going to come with having
that strength and flexibility and balance. So it is important.
But I would say getting a trainer for at least
twice a week is something that you probably need to
invest in, and I would highly highly recommend it. And
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wherever you go, work out, find out and ask and say, look,
it doesn't matter if you're seventy years old, you have
every right in the world, if not more, to get
a personal trainer. All right. That is going to wrap
it up for me and all of you and our
your health first team here this evening. Don't forget doctor
Joeglotti dot com is our website. We do want to
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hear from you. Send me an email. Anything that's on
your mind is of value to me and we try
to share it back with all of you. So until
next Sunday evening, have a great rest of the rest
of the night and have a really, really helpful and
happy week ahead.
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