June 21, 2026 • 40 mins
Dr. Galati starts the program wishing all the dads and Happy Father’s Day and explains the generational heath across families. He talks about an article on the secret to men's longevity and shares seven tips to reduce the chance of cancer. Dr. Galati also has lifelong friend John Geerlings join the show to talk about Father’s Day. He ends the show about another article on Glutathione.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Look, this is your Health First, the most beneficial health
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Now here's your host, doctor Joe Galotti.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Well, a good Sunday evening to everybody, Doctor Joe Galotti.
It's Sunday night, but also it is Father's Day night.
And a big shout out to all of the dads
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that are tuning in tonight, the grandfathers as well, the
great grandfathers. We got a lot of them listening in.
And I do hope that you had a wonderful Father's
Day with your family. Now a lot of the times
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kids are not in town and it's a long distance
Father's Day. Hopefully you got a phone call, a card.
Do they still send cards? Do they still send out
Father's Day cards in the mail? Or is it a
electronic text message with some sort of meme on it.
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I remember my parents were great card senders and birthdays, anniversaries,
Father's Day, Mother's Day, whatever the case was. My parents
would send a thoughtful, handwritten from the heart note and
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sadly that is a dying skill. So maybe tomorrow you
go to the wholemark store and buy a discounted Father's
Day card because it's the day after Father's Day. Save
a buck or two and write your dad or your grandfather.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
A card.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Maybe we could try that. Nothing wrong with that, all right? Well,
I'm doctor Joe Galotti. Every Sunday between seven and eight
pm Central Time, we're here on the radio. Name of
the program is your Health First, and that's exactly what
we want to do, is put your health first. Our
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Speaker 2 (03:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Coming up in a little while, a dear friend of mine,
John Geerlings, he's been on before. It's been maybe a
couple of years since he's been on. But John and
I went to high school together in New York, Holy
Trunanley High School in Hicksville, New York and johnstill on
the island, and great father, great grandfather, not a great grandfather,
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but a superb grandfather, good husband, and I'm going to
challenge him with some questions on the role that dad's
play in the health and wellness of their family.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
On Father's Day, I tend to have a friend or
a colleague come on and weigh in. And it's always
been pretty interesting. In the years that my dad was alive,
I would always have my dad on, and he was
the old sage of wisdom on being a father and
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raising children and being an example, being present for your
children and for your spouse, your significant other, modeling a
healthy lifestyle, emotional safety, and really what you want to
think about, and it's never too late. A legacy of
health across generations, a legacy of health across generations. Where healthy,
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So I would say this, this is the way to
look at it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So, my.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Grandmother was a superb cook. Now, yes, she was an
immigrant from Italy, and it was ninety percent of what
she made was Italian cooking, but it was healthy. It
was from scratch. This was old world cooking. She taught
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my mother. Now my mother's Italian. But as my mother
would say, she was one of eight and her mother,
my grandmother, really was she almost didn't have time to cook,
and the kids, as my mother would say, had to
fetch for themselves. And so my mother, by the time
she was married in her twenties, was not a great
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cook because she did not really learn from her mom,
who was running after eight kids in a tenement in Estoria,
New York. My grandfather drove a garbage truck for the
New York City Sanitation Department, so it was rough going. Now,
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my father's mother took in my mom and taught my
mother how to eat and how to cook a healthful,
nutritious meal, which then my mom shared to me and
my two sisters. Me and my two sisters have then
spread it to our children, our children, my nieces and
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nephews are now passing it on to their children. So
that is just one way of generational health across families.
It could be for exercise or a certain sport that
you play. Your grandfather played tennis, Your mother and father
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played tennis. They taught you to play tennis. You taught
your kids, your kids are teaching your kids. So again,
these are the these are things that we cannot take
for granted. But we'll be hearing from John in a
little while, all right. Speaking of health, there was an
article in the Wall Street Journal, let's see, about two
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weeks ago on how the secret to men's longevity talking
about Father's Day is a great butt, buttocks, and the
article explores a growing trend among men from Hollywood actors
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to high earning executives, who are shifting their fitness focus
from upper body esthetics strong pecks, arms, biceps, triceps, to
glutes and lower body strength. Now there is some science
to this, all right, So years pasted, a lot of
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it was in the eighties and into the nineties. It
was the washboard abdomen, the six pack, and huge biceps.
Really in the twenty tens, it was the biceps that
really sort of dominated, dominated workouts and the look. But
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now it is a thick thigh and a sculptured rear
referred to as the hockey butt. I'm not quite sure
where they got hockey butt from. And so besides looking
a certain way, strong thighs and butt, when you train
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these large muscles, and these are the largest muscles in
your body, it improves how you handle glucose. It makes
you more insulin sensitive. Now, the opposite of that, which
we've talked about a lot, is insulin resistance, meaning you
cannot use insulin and you become diabetic type two diabetes.
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But by really really focusing and working and stressing these
large muscles, it's going to be your quads, your hamstrings
which go up into your butt. You're going to allow
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the body to metabolize glucose and use insulin a lot better.
It's going to utilize more energy. You're going to burn
more calories by working these big muscles, and you'll be
maintaining the muscle strength over time. There's also evidence that
with resistance training on these large muscles, you can get
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a temporary increase in testosterone and growth hormone. These are
good things, and so when you look at functional age,
experts suggest that strong glutes are the foundation of physical strength,
and by building these muscles up, it prevents this dad bod.
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I hate the dad bod, which is basically you lose
your butt muscles and you gain weight in your gut.
So the dadbod flat butt, big gut, which when you've
got strong lower body, it reduces knee pain, hip pain,
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and better posture, which is all good. Better posture, it's
going to cut down on lower back pain, You're going
to sleep better. And so I think it's interesting to
think and how much much of this can you do
right now? Can you go to the gym tomorrow and
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look online and get some exercises that are going to
promote your lower leg and your butt strength, but something too,
you know, definitely think about here, all right, Doctor Joe
Glotti on this Father's Day weekend, Father's Day night, don't
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forget doctor Joegalotti dot com is our website. All the
information to reach out to me is there. Take advantage
of it. It's all free, all right. We'll be right back.
Stay tuned, Welcome back everybody, Doctor Joe Galotti. Thanks for
tuning in on Sunday evening. It's always a pleasure to
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be here. Rain shines, snow, sleet, locusts, whatever it is
that your Health First Team will be on the air
every Sunday between seven and apm Central time. Sometimes I
get mixed up and tell all the people, yeah, seven
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and eight pm, but they're in the West Coast, they're
in the East Coast, and they called and they say,
we missed it. We tuned in. There was some other
show on seven to eight pm Central, and we're heard
across the iHeartRadio network, on the iHeart app streaming worldwide.
We're broadcasting from our home station, the great KTRH here
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in Houston, Texas. All right, Happy Father's date, everybody. John Geerlings,
my buddy from high school, is going to be coming
on giving his two cents on fatherhood and how dads
the role dads can play in wellness. All right, so
before we get to news, traffic and weather at the
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half point break, here you know, for the dads or
for the women in the dad's lives who are who
play a big role in the health and wellness the dads,
let's talk about seven strategies, seven tips, seven hacks to
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reduce the chance of cancer. What dad, what guy wants
to get cancer? Out there? Zero? That's probably the one
of the worst things you could hear. You've got cancer.
So here are these seven items. I am sure all
of you have heard these before, but it's good to
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refresh everybody, all right. Number one, don't use tobacco, no doubt.
Smoking is linked to many types of cancer, lung, throat, mouth,
Ugh voice box pancreas, bladder, cervix. If you're a woman
and kidney. Even secondhand smoke raises the risk of lung cancer.
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So there's no doubt that cutting down and eliminating tobacco
is number one. Number two eating healthy foods time and
time again. Wrote a whole book about this. Eating Yourself
Sick is the name of the book, still available on
an Amazon Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. I
like to say, a whole food, plant based diet. Drink
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alcohol only in moderation, if at all. Number three, stay
at a healthy weight. Obesity is killing us all, so
stay at a healthy weight and be physically active. Doing
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any amount of physical activity is good, but the most
benefit is when you get at least one hundred and
fifty minutes a week of moderate aerobic exercise or seventy
five minutes a week of hard aerobic exercise. The more
you do, the better, There's no doubt about that. As
far as weight goes, everybody should know their body mass index.
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All you have to do is go on Google and
type in BMI calculator and you could see if your
normal weight, overweight, obese, or morbidly obese. All right, protect
yourself from the sun. Number four. Depending on where you live,
the color of your skin, how fair you are, how
dark you are. You have to be very careful. Limit
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the time spent in the sun. This is especially true
between the hours ten am and four pm. That's when
the sun is going to be strongest. Stay in a shade,
wear hat, sunglasses, Cover your skin where possible. We're clothing.
A lot of these new clothing companies have built in
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SPF protection. Use sunscreen. Don't use tanning beds or sunlamps.
These are bad news, all right. Number five how to
prevent cancer. Get vaccinated hepatitis B human papilloma virus. That's important.
Stay away from risky behavior. Number six, practice safe sex,
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don't get HIV HPV. Don't share needles if you are
using them. And number seven, which is probably the most
important thing to prevent cancer. Get regular medical checkups. You
don't want to be that guy that never goes to
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the doctor until the check engine light's going off and
you're having chest pain, or you're having abdominal pain, shortness
of breath, et cetera. Go to the doctor. Any risk
of cancer. You could talk about cancer risk factors you
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can modify your risk factors. If you have a cough,
you have a pain, whatever, make sure you're up to
date with colonoscopy, etc. Et cetera, et cetera. You have
to get into the doctor. Find the doctor you like
or love, have a good communication relationship with that person.
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But it's important that you know you really do, you
really do, get into the doctor.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Seven tips to reduce the chance of cancer. Let me
run them. Buy you real fast again. All right, you
got a pencil. Don't use tobacco, eat healthy foods, stay
at a healthy weight, and be physically active. Protect yourself
from the sun. Number five, get vaccinated. Number six stay
away from risky behavior. And Numero seven get regular medical care.
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All right, let's take a break. John Gielings, my good
friend from New York is coming up. Don't forget Doctor
Joegalotti dot com is the place to get all the
information and communicate with me. Stay tuned. We'll bright back
every Sunday between the hour of seven and eight pm.
We are here raising your health IQ. I'm doctor Joe
Glotti and this is your health first.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
On this.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Father's Day evening, I hope you all had a great
day with your family. Hopefully if your family is in
town and maybe you got a new tie or a shirt.
If we're still giving out ties and shirts to dad,
I'm sure it's a lot a lot different. I won't
tell you what I got earlier today. And on the phone,
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as I was saying, is a dear friend of mine
from my high school day's John Geerling, who in his
own right, besides being a wonderful human, is a great dad, grandfather,
and husband. John, And welcome to the program. It's always
great to have you share your great wisdom with everybody.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Thank you, doctor Glottie. It's always always a treat here
in your voice. And I think back, you know, all
those decades. I don't want to give away your age
because you know, but I think back, we had like
the same starting point. And now that it's Father's Day,
I became a dad almost forty five years ago, so
I had a bit of a head start over yourself
and most of my classmates, right, And I shared these
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numbers because there's dads out there that don't, like myself,
don't follow the societal norm. You have to do this
and do that, And this happens at this age. It
happens when it's supposed to happen, and you're a dad,
I think it happens at the right time. You don't
have a roadmap, you're in uncharted waters. You're usually a
lot younger than you know most people want you to be.
But by the time I was twenty four, I had
three children, so I really had a head start. And
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then a couple of years later, my fourth trial was born.
Everything took place in the eighties. We were married and
had all four of our kids in the eighties, so
I got to be a dad early. I got to
be a not just with one child, but two childs
and three children. And the joke I tell and form
a basketball player like yourself. When we had our third child,
it was very difficult because we had a ship from
a man, the man defense to his own.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I've never heard that before.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But we learned and we adapt and we try to
be the best parents we could be at that moment.
And when we look back, and you would ask me
a long time ago, how old are your kids? And
I said, doctor Claudie, I don't have kids. I've got
adults now, right, and my adults have become parents themselves,
and just like yourself, who was recently blessed with the
greatest promotion in the world, becoming a grandfather. I know,
I know, I'm a grandfather and I will be thirteen
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years my oldest becomes a teenager in a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, yeah, I see, I know. I see the pictures
you post online with the kids, and it's nothing but
joy in your comments or in the pictures. So it's great. So,
of course, where this is your health first. And I
always try to weasel the health and wellness angle on
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any topic that we bring up, including Father's Day. So
I grew up in a family and I talk about
this a lot with both my mom and dad. But
my dad was a figure that really made sure and
my mom as well, that we were healthy. Now they
were both in healthcare, medical knowledge, and so that seeped
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into conversation around the table and discussions, and myself and
my sister went into health care. But I look back
and I say that with the trouble or potential trouble
we see with unhealthy families, unhealthy children, or children that
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are I don't want to say going astray, that you
need that father figure for many reasons good, you know, moral,
common and faith and following the rules of the road.
But John, what's your take on the responsibility you think
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for keeping your family healthy and for everybody listening tonight
something to think about.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Now, that's a great question and to when we were
growing up, it truly was a different world. We just
took the grand kids to see the Michael Jackson story, right,
We wanted to warn the grand kids in the beginning
part there's a very unsettling scene where Joe Jackson, Michael
Jackson's father was a bit of a tyrant. You know,
there's a bit of an iron fist, and I think
we saw that when we were kids, where a lot
of the parents were an iron fist. But now you know,
we're now a company hand where we have to be
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that when we have to lead by example. So if
the dad and mom aren't eating healthy or doing things
that are not you know, not very wise health wise,
of course the children would see that. So you have
to always lead by example. Sounds cliche, but you know
that's exactly where it starts. Not only mom and dad
preparing the food for the children, right, but actually living
by that and eating nutritious food. And you, hey, you're
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the best person to talk about that you know, I
took sodium out of my diet about three months ago
because of something that you posted, because of high pertension.
So we always have to be on top of it
and be on top of it for the children as well.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
But it is leading by example.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It is and you know, the one thing that has
many applications, this little saying it's nothing too too amazing,
no health, no wealth. Now I look back to say,
we know for sure that households children that do not
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have a dad present have more trouble, you know, be
it academic, legal, health, you name it. The the family
needs a dad. Now if you have a and the
many reasons why the dad may not be there, be
it divorce or they leave the family, whatever the case
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may be. But with health, if you have an unhealthy father,
and I've seen many patients where they had or they
spent the majority of their life with a dad that
was not healthy, he was unable to work, he was
on let's just say disability, and that was a fraction
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of the income to support the family. The whole dynamics
are off. And so for dads to stay healthy, it
is not only for your own good that you're healthy
and you're not suffering from diabetes, but also the impact
of your health or lack of it on the family.
What's your take on that, John.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
No, it's you hit the nail on the head again.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It's it's kind of scary like.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
And we've seen abuse, you know, in your line of work,
you've seen it more than anybody with alcoholism.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You know.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Growing up too, it was it was very, very common
when you walk in somebody's house, your parents will be, hey,
what do you want to drink? Oh, I'm okay, what
some'm wrong with? So it was such a common thing.
And I just read statistics somewhere that alcohol consumptions dropped
tremendously over the last five to ten years. The other
stat that stays with me too, and touches upon what
you just said, eighty percent of people in federal penitentiaries
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come from fauntless homes.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
So there's something to what you're saying. We have to
be the dad.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
We don't have to be the friend, but we do
have to be the guard rails, Okay, And that's what
I think dads are more than anything else there providers
and protectors. But we literally have to take the knowledge
that we've learned. Typically the hard way and be able
to impart that on our children. And it isn't always verbal.
It is, like we said before, it's by you know,
just by living a life that you want them to
live too.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah, now, how how would you personally or really how
have you done it through the years with your kids?
In that I'll just categorize it as an unhealthy behavior.
It could be staying out too late, It could be
eating the wrong food. It could be smoking, it could
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be alcohol. It could be something emotionally that they may
be doing or they're involved in that has a net
negative effect. And you're there, we've lived life. You have
a reference point of how things can go. How do
you intervene or did you intervene with your kids rather
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than putting them in time out and and just you know,
you know, just really handing it to them versus that
gentle guidance, because that's what I think is missing a
lot of the times parents see fathers see that a
child or grandchild is sort of deviating off trail into
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the you know, the danger zone, but they don't know
what to do. What do you think or advice you
could give to DAANDCE tonight, And of course moms it's
it's moms and d yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, And there's a lot of moms that that celebrate.
Father said too, for the wonderful work to do with
single moms, without a doubt. But I'm gonna go back
to by the example points too. So I was I mean,
all the bad things that people could do.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I did.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I smoked, I drank, you know, I did all those
things that you shouldn't do. But I was able to
be fortunate enough to give all of that up. So
my reference point to my children was I wasn't a
hypocritical by saying, hey, what did you go you know
and drank and at that party or smoke that cigarette? Right,
because I would hear, well you do, dad, why should not? Exactly,
they didn't have that crutch the fallout. I was from
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a better standpoint for what my life choices were.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
But no, you're right.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
And sometimes I think parents want to be more of
a friend than than a guiding hand, right, And and
that's a mistake that I see made too.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
It's you have to play that role. You have to
be firm it.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
It is tough love sometimes, yes, but it's it's for
the betterment of the child. And then we're we're fortunate
because we've gotten to see our children become parents themselves.
Twenty thik. We could both step back and say, as
father on father, say, I guess we did something right.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
No, that's true. It's it's a great time to reflect
now with with your kids or even with your beloved grandchildren. Now,
do you think of an activity that is now again?
You know, I'm the nerdy doctor that you know it's
I have to I have to sometimes separate this. But
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the idea that you're going to do something with the grandkids,
either one on one or a group of them, and
you say, you know, we could do this and you know,
look have fun. That is exactly what you want kids
to do their childhood. But can you say, let's do
something that might be a little bit more health encouraging.
Do you do you ever think in those terms? And
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if you don't, it's okay. But I'm just thinking even
even if you take them to the movies, do you
say you get you know, the giant you know box
of chocolate or do you just go with a little popcorn?
What do you what do you do?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
It's it's and you'll find that as your grandson gets
a little bit older. You know, that's that's one of
the greatest gifts that we have is to spoil them
ridiculously when their parents aren't looking.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
But at the same yes, yes, well we did.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
We kind of cut back on the butter at the
popcorn the other day, and I think I was doing stuff.
But you know, my children are raising their their their children.
My grandchildren are very healthy home so nutritious food. Uh,
you know, they're doing all the things that are right,
so I don't have to worry about that part. They're
all involved in sports, multiple sports. They're probably you know,
every day of the week, they're playing in sports, so
that part of it. They're not leading these send in
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their lives that are leading to obesity. These kids are
just on their go and a lot of children are.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Which is good.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
So we kind of step back a little bit and
let it go. But no, we always try to do
something fun. So we're gonna rent the beach ass with them,
and all four of the grandkids will put down to
the beach ass with us and and well we'll probably
have too much pizza and ice cream, but you know what,
those are the memories that that they'll always treasure as
to go for it, so you have to walk that line.
You certainly want them to have fun, but we're lucky
where their parents are doing a really spectacular job and
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making sure that they're healthy a number one priority.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, And I would think that you get a lot
of mileage on the advice you give these small little crumbs.
You don't have to sit, you know, this seven year
old down and start talking about diabetes. But just just
that that is going too far, even in my book.
But I would say even even if you could say
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the benefit of exercise, you know, the benefit of playing
a sport and working hard at that the windfall and
that may just be thirty second conversation, but it's something
that you know, their grandfather told them, and it may
it may stick with them.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I'll share this with you, and it's funny because they
all picked up on a little four and again they
are eight, seven up to twelve on this thirteen. Right
when when I detected and it was your advice, I
got myself a little blood pressure cuff, yes, and I
was able to check my blood pressure was it was
ridiculously high. And I started to see exactly how much
sodium I was ingesting on a daily basis. And that
I only need fifteen hundred milligrams to release survive. And
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I was no joke, no joke at all, ten thousand.
So the soult checker went away, and all of them
noticed that, Pap, you're not using the soult checker anymore.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Pop.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
You know, they were asking me questions because I was
notoriously sprinkling salt on stuff before tasting it, and they
would say, you know, and they picked up on that,
so I said, no, you know what, I was having
some issues. They don't know blood well, of course they do,
no blood pressure, but you know, I just I wanted
to make sure I wasn't doing something that was hurting
me that I really should eat. So they look at
you know, they give you looking like, okay, you know,
they understood that, and I'm sure, you know what, that
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will stay with them. They'll be a little bit more
conscientious of salt uses than their classmates because of what
I said to them. By exactly those little things, You're right,
they can last a lifetime.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, no, no, no, And I think I think life is
a culmination of these little little one liners that you
could share with with your children and your spouse and
all of that. So John in the last thirty seconds
here message to dad's on Father's Day evening and the
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role that they play, the role that they may not
realize that they play in the health of their family
and their children.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, it's an important job, and it's a phenomenal job
and a great responsibility. And my two cents, which may
be different than most other dads that you speak to, sure,
is that again I started very very young before the
people normally.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Do become dads.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
And again, having three children by the age I'm twenty
four also meant that I had three kids in college
at the same time they're only two and a half
years apart. But it always works out the way it's
supposed to have faith. You don't have to be religious,
you know, not to be spiritual, but have faith that
everything is going to be working out exactly the way
it's supposed To do your best every day, try to
make somebody's life a little better. And then when you
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look back at like two old guys like you and
I know, I know fall this day night.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You know that's the That's what I want to impart.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
No matter when you start as a dad, you're always
a dad.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Be the best dad you can do absolutely.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
All right, John, it's always great chatting with you. I
will be up on in Long Island in the next
couple of months, I hope, and I will give you
a call and we'll grab a coffee or a drink,
or we'll go for a walk together on the beach.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
We'll continue this conversation with nobody else listening.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
All right, John, thank you, Happy father today. You bet absolutely, Jeff,
take buddy. All right, John Gierlings, my dear friend from
high school. Final segment of Your Health First coming up.
Stay tuned, we'll right back. Final segment of this week's
Your Health First. I want to thank John Geiling's for
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coming on. You know I've said this before that in
high school I had an absolutely amazing group of friends
in my class and many of us are still in
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touch and counsel with each other and come on the
radio with me. It's great. But again, Happy Father's Day
to everybody. And the message that I think John and
I wanted to try to get across in his unique
perspective as a dad and grandfather and now I'm a grandfather,
which is so wonderful, is that we do play a
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role in the health and wellness to be life examples.
So if you are smoking, your kids are likely to
smoke or are they getting secondhand smoke or third hand smoke,
which is no good. If you're drinking to excess, your
kids are going to see this and they are likely
going to start drinking earlier. That is a risk, and
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we know that that is bad for young people young brains.
To be exposed to alcohol early raises the risk of
addiction manyfold. The bottom line really is you want to
delay exposure to alcohol as long as you can. And again,
healthy lifestyles. Are you exercising, are you going to sleep
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on time or getting enough sleep? Participating in healthful activities,
your present modeling a healthy lifestyle. These are all the
things that I can only wish for all of the
dads out there, and we pray for you each each day.
(35:30):
It is a very very tough job and seems like
it's tougher as time goes on. All right, So in
the last few minutes here before we close out, there
was an article on glutathione. Have you seen that glutathione
is now becoming the super supplement, the super vitamin that
(35:53):
you need to take, And like many of these supplements,
there are a wide range of health claims. It's going
to make your skin look better, You're going to be
more sexy, it's going to prevent disease, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. The tough part about this is that these
claims are not grounded in any sort of real clinical research.
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The one study that was done with glutathione had sixteen patients,
which is a very very very small sample, and it
was sponsored by the supplement company, So you have to
have a little bit of question as to what was
going on there. And so they are they're selling glutathione
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like off the shelves online and there are these online
influencers that are saying glued tothione. It prevents this. It
prevents that when really in only a few specific conditions
is gluteothione of benefit. One of them is tailenol overdose,
a pseudomenefin overdose, we would use an acetyl cysteine, which
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is a derivative of glue tothion. And also in situations
people with HIV disease, the medicines that they take may
cause a deficiency of glue tothion. But outside of that,
John Q Public just taking glut tothion because somebody on
TikTok said they should is not worth it. And that
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gets down to all of the other supplements and herbs
that are out there. They just are not regulated. And
the proof, the proof that's what we're looking at that
they work is minimal, too weak. And what I tell
my patients, My patients will come in with an assortment
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of supplements, and all of them, well a lot of
them will say, hey, it's natural. I don't want to
take this drug which is unnatural, but I will take
this natural supplement. See it here on the bottle, doctor Glene.
It says natural, all natural. The name of the country,
the name of the company is Natural Supplements. But and
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you've heard me say this before, just because it's natural
doesn't mean it's good. Poison ivy is natural. Are you
going to clip it and throw it into your bed
tonight and roll around with poison ivy?
Speaker 4 (38:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Or a rattlesnake, copperhead tarantula. They're they're about as natural
as you and me. So you have to get off
this idea that natural means it's safe. And what I
tell my patients is that if I knew there was
research there was evidence that glued tothion prevented cirrhosis, or
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reduce the risk of liver cancer, or reduce the risk
of dementia, I would be on board. I would be
on board, as would all of us. So doctors themselves
are not inherently anti supplement. They are just anti things
that don't work. And I would pretty much leave it
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at that, all right. So I hope everybody had a
wonderful Father's Day. Every day should be Father's Day. You've
heard that before.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
And.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I think we do need to think as dads, as grandfathers,
the role that we play in health. It is so
many things are asked of us, but thinking about your
family's health is equally important. So have a great rest
of the evening. We'll see you next Sunday night. I'm
doctor Joe Glotti. Don't forget doctor Joeglotti dot com is
(39:58):
our website. We'll see you soon.
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Approach Phase every day.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Look, this is your Health First, the most beneficial health
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Now here's your host, doctor Joe Galotti.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Well, a good Sunday evening to everybody, Doctor Joe Galotti.
It's Sunday night, but also it is Father's Day night.
And a big shout out to all of the dads
(01:03):
that are tuning in tonight, the grandfathers as well, the
great grandfathers. We got a lot of them listening in.
And I do hope that you had a wonderful Father's
Day with your family. Now a lot of the times
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kids are not in town and it's a long distance
Father's Day. Hopefully you got a phone call, a card.
Do they still send cards? Do they still send out
Father's Day cards in the mail? Or is it a
electronic text message with some sort of meme on it.
(01:48):
I remember my parents were great card senders and birthdays, anniversaries,
Father's Day, Mother's Day, whatever the case was. My parents
would send a thoughtful, handwritten from the heart note and
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sadly that is a dying skill. So maybe tomorrow you
go to the wholemark store and buy a discounted Father's
Day card because it's the day after Father's Day. Save
a buck or two and write your dad or your grandfather.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
A card.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Maybe we could try that. Nothing wrong with that, all right? Well,
I'm doctor Joe Galotti. Every Sunday between seven and eight
pm Central Time, we're here on the radio. Name of
the program is your Health First, and that's exactly what
we want to do, is put your health first. Our
website is doctor Joegalotti dot com, d R J O
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Speaker 2 (03:20):
Now.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Coming up in a little while, a dear friend of mine,
John Geerlings, he's been on before. It's been maybe a
couple of years since he's been on. But John and
I went to high school together in New York, Holy
Trunanley High School in Hicksville, New York and johnstill on
the island, and great father, great grandfather, not a great grandfather,
(03:48):
but a superb grandfather, good husband, and I'm going to
challenge him with some questions on the role that dad's
play in the health and wellness of their family.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
On Father's Day, I tend to have a friend or
a colleague come on and weigh in. And it's always
been pretty interesting. In the years that my dad was alive,
I would always have my dad on, and he was
the old sage of wisdom on being a father and
(04:26):
raising children and being an example, being present for your
children and for your spouse, your significant other, modeling a
healthy lifestyle, emotional safety, and really what you want to
think about, and it's never too late. A legacy of
health across generations, a legacy of health across generations. Where healthy,
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So I would say this, this is the way to
look at it.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So, my.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Grandmother was a superb cook. Now, yes, she was an
immigrant from Italy, and it was ninety percent of what
she made was Italian cooking, but it was healthy. It
was from scratch. This was old world cooking. She taught
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my mother. Now my mother's Italian. But as my mother
would say, she was one of eight and her mother,
my grandmother, really was she almost didn't have time to cook,
and the kids, as my mother would say, had to
fetch for themselves. And so my mother, by the time
she was married in her twenties, was not a great
(05:48):
cook because she did not really learn from her mom,
who was running after eight kids in a tenement in Estoria,
New York. My grandfather drove a garbage truck for the
New York City Sanitation Department, so it was rough going. Now,
(06:09):
my father's mother took in my mom and taught my
mother how to eat and how to cook a healthful,
nutritious meal, which then my mom shared to me and
my two sisters. Me and my two sisters have then
spread it to our children, our children, my nieces and
(06:34):
nephews are now passing it on to their children. So
that is just one way of generational health across families.
It could be for exercise or a certain sport that
you play. Your grandfather played tennis, Your mother and father
(06:54):
played tennis. They taught you to play tennis. You taught
your kids, your kids are teaching your kids. So again,
these are the these are things that we cannot take
for granted. But we'll be hearing from John in a
little while, all right. Speaking of health, there was an
article in the Wall Street Journal, let's see, about two
(07:16):
weeks ago on how the secret to men's longevity talking
about Father's Day is a great butt, buttocks, and the
article explores a growing trend among men from Hollywood actors
(07:36):
to high earning executives, who are shifting their fitness focus
from upper body esthetics strong pecks, arms, biceps, triceps, to
glutes and lower body strength. Now there is some science
to this, all right, So years pasted, a lot of
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it was in the eighties and into the nineties. It
was the washboard abdomen, the six pack, and huge biceps.
Really in the twenty tens, it was the biceps that
really sort of dominated, dominated workouts and the look. But
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now it is a thick thigh and a sculptured rear
referred to as the hockey butt. I'm not quite sure
where they got hockey butt from. And so besides looking
a certain way, strong thighs and butt, when you train
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these large muscles, and these are the largest muscles in
your body, it improves how you handle glucose. It makes
you more insulin sensitive. Now, the opposite of that, which
we've talked about a lot, is insulin resistance, meaning you
cannot use insulin and you become diabetic type two diabetes.
(09:08):
But by really really focusing and working and stressing these
large muscles, it's going to be your quads, your hamstrings
which go up into your butt. You're going to allow
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the body to metabolize glucose and use insulin a lot better.
It's going to utilize more energy. You're going to burn
more calories by working these big muscles, and you'll be
maintaining the muscle strength over time. There's also evidence that
with resistance training on these large muscles, you can get
(09:53):
a temporary increase in testosterone and growth hormone. These are
good things, and so when you look at functional age,
experts suggest that strong glutes are the foundation of physical strength,
and by building these muscles up, it prevents this dad bod.
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I hate the dad bod, which is basically you lose
your butt muscles and you gain weight in your gut.
So the dadbod flat butt, big gut, which when you've
got strong lower body, it reduces knee pain, hip pain,
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and better posture, which is all good. Better posture, it's
going to cut down on lower back pain, You're going
to sleep better. And so I think it's interesting to
think and how much much of this can you do
right now? Can you go to the gym tomorrow and
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look online and get some exercises that are going to
promote your lower leg and your butt strength, but something too,
you know, definitely think about here, all right, Doctor Joe
Glotti on this Father's Day weekend, Father's Day night, don't
(11:27):
forget doctor Joegalotti dot com is our website. All the
information to reach out to me is there. Take advantage
of it. It's all free, all right. We'll be right back.
Stay tuned, Welcome back everybody, Doctor Joe Galotti. Thanks for
tuning in on Sunday evening. It's always a pleasure to
(11:49):
be here. Rain shines, snow, sleet, locusts, whatever it is
that your Health First Team will be on the air
every Sunday between seven and apm Central time. Sometimes I
get mixed up and tell all the people, yeah, seven
(12:13):
and eight pm, but they're in the West Coast, they're
in the East Coast, and they called and they say,
we missed it. We tuned in. There was some other
show on seven to eight pm Central, and we're heard
across the iHeartRadio network, on the iHeart app streaming worldwide.
We're broadcasting from our home station, the great KTRH here
(12:36):
in Houston, Texas. All right, Happy Father's date, everybody. John Geerlings,
my buddy from high school, is going to be coming
on giving his two cents on fatherhood and how dads
the role dads can play in wellness. All right, so
before we get to news, traffic and weather at the
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half point break, here you know, for the dads or
for the women in the dad's lives who are who
play a big role in the health and wellness the dads,
let's talk about seven strategies, seven tips, seven hacks to
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reduce the chance of cancer. What dad, what guy wants
to get cancer? Out there? Zero? That's probably the one
of the worst things you could hear. You've got cancer.
So here are these seven items. I am sure all
of you have heard these before, but it's good to
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refresh everybody, all right. Number one, don't use tobacco, no doubt.
Smoking is linked to many types of cancer, lung, throat, mouth,
Ugh voice box pancreas, bladder, cervix. If you're a woman
and kidney. Even secondhand smoke raises the risk of lung cancer.
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So there's no doubt that cutting down and eliminating tobacco
is number one. Number two eating healthy foods time and
time again. Wrote a whole book about this. Eating Yourself
Sick is the name of the book, still available on
an Amazon Eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. I
like to say, a whole food, plant based diet. Drink
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alcohol only in moderation, if at all. Number three, stay
at a healthy weight. Obesity is killing us all, so
stay at a healthy weight and be physically active. Doing
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any amount of physical activity is good, but the most
benefit is when you get at least one hundred and
fifty minutes a week of moderate aerobic exercise or seventy
five minutes a week of hard aerobic exercise. The more
you do, the better, There's no doubt about that. As
far as weight goes, everybody should know their body mass index.
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All you have to do is go on Google and
type in BMI calculator and you could see if your
normal weight, overweight, obese, or morbidly obese. All right, protect
yourself from the sun. Number four. Depending on where you live,
the color of your skin, how fair you are, how
dark you are. You have to be very careful. Limit
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the time spent in the sun. This is especially true
between the hours ten am and four pm. That's when
the sun is going to be strongest. Stay in a shade,
wear hat, sunglasses, Cover your skin where possible. We're clothing.
A lot of these new clothing companies have built in
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SPF protection. Use sunscreen. Don't use tanning beds or sunlamps.
These are bad news, all right. Number five how to
prevent cancer. Get vaccinated hepatitis B human papilloma virus. That's important.
Stay away from risky behavior. Number six, practice safe sex,
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don't get HIV HPV. Don't share needles if you are
using them. And number seven, which is probably the most
important thing to prevent cancer. Get regular medical checkups. You
don't want to be that guy that never goes to
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the doctor until the check engine light's going off and
you're having chest pain, or you're having abdominal pain, shortness
of breath, et cetera. Go to the doctor. Any risk
of cancer. You could talk about cancer risk factors you
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can modify your risk factors. If you have a cough,
you have a pain, whatever, make sure you're up to
date with colonoscopy, etc. Et cetera, et cetera. You have
to get into the doctor. Find the doctor you like
or love, have a good communication relationship with that person.
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But it's important that you know you really do, you
really do, get into the doctor.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
Seven tips to reduce the chance of cancer. Let me
run them. Buy you real fast again. All right, you
got a pencil. Don't use tobacco, eat healthy foods, stay
at a healthy weight, and be physically active. Protect yourself
from the sun. Number five, get vaccinated. Number six stay
away from risky behavior. And Numero seven get regular medical care.
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All right, let's take a break. John Gielings, my good
friend from New York is coming up. Don't forget Doctor
Joegalotti dot com is the place to get all the
information and communicate with me. Stay tuned. We'll bright back
every Sunday between the hour of seven and eight pm.
We are here raising your health IQ. I'm doctor Joe
Glotti and this is your health first.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
On this.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Father's Day evening, I hope you all had a great
day with your family. Hopefully if your family is in
town and maybe you got a new tie or a shirt.
If we're still giving out ties and shirts to dad,
I'm sure it's a lot a lot different. I won't
tell you what I got earlier today. And on the phone,
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as I was saying, is a dear friend of mine
from my high school day's John Geerling, who in his
own right, besides being a wonderful human, is a great dad, grandfather,
and husband. John, And welcome to the program. It's always
great to have you share your great wisdom with everybody.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Thank you, doctor Glottie. It's always always a treat here
in your voice. And I think back, you know, all
those decades. I don't want to give away your age
because you know, but I think back, we had like
the same starting point. And now that it's Father's Day,
I became a dad almost forty five years ago, so
I had a bit of a head start over yourself
and most of my classmates, right, And I shared these
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numbers because there's dads out there that don't, like myself,
don't follow the societal norm. You have to do this
and do that, And this happens at this age. It
happens when it's supposed to happen, and you're a dad,
I think it happens at the right time. You don't
have a roadmap, you're in uncharted waters. You're usually a
lot younger than you know most people want you to be.
But by the time I was twenty four, I had
three children, so I really had a head start. And
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then a couple of years later, my fourth trial was born.
Everything took place in the eighties. We were married and
had all four of our kids in the eighties, so
I got to be a dad early. I got to
be a not just with one child, but two childs
and three children. And the joke I tell and form
a basketball player like yourself. When we had our third child,
it was very difficult because we had a ship from
a man, the man defense to his own.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I've never heard that before.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
But we learned and we adapt and we try to
be the best parents we could be at that moment.
And when we look back, and you would ask me
a long time ago, how old are your kids? And
I said, doctor Claudie, I don't have kids. I've got
adults now, right, and my adults have become parents themselves,
and just like yourself, who was recently blessed with the
greatest promotion in the world, becoming a grandfather. I know,
I know, I'm a grandfather and I will be thirteen
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years my oldest becomes a teenager in a few weeks.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Well, yeah, I see, I know. I see the pictures
you post online with the kids, and it's nothing but
joy in your comments or in the pictures. So it's great. So,
of course, where this is your health first. And I
always try to weasel the health and wellness angle on
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any topic that we bring up, including Father's Day. So
I grew up in a family and I talk about
this a lot with both my mom and dad. But
my dad was a figure that really made sure and
my mom as well, that we were healthy. Now they
were both in healthcare, medical knowledge, and so that seeped
(21:27):
into conversation around the table and discussions, and myself and
my sister went into health care. But I look back
and I say that with the trouble or potential trouble
we see with unhealthy families, unhealthy children, or children that
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are I don't want to say going astray, that you
need that father figure for many reasons good, you know, moral,
common and faith and following the rules of the road.
But John, what's your take on the responsibility you think
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for keeping your family healthy and for everybody listening tonight
something to think about.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Now, that's a great question and to when we were
growing up, it truly was a different world. We just
took the grand kids to see the Michael Jackson story, right,
We wanted to warn the grand kids in the beginning
part there's a very unsettling scene where Joe Jackson, Michael
Jackson's father was a bit of a tyrant. You know,
there's a bit of an iron fist, and I think
we saw that when we were kids, where a lot
of the parents were an iron fist. But now you know,
we're now a company hand where we have to be
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that when we have to lead by example. So if
the dad and mom aren't eating healthy or doing things
that are not you know, not very wise health wise,
of course the children would see that. So you have
to always lead by example. Sounds cliche, but you know
that's exactly where it starts. Not only mom and dad
preparing the food for the children, right, but actually living
by that and eating nutritious food. And you, hey, you're
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the best person to talk about that you know, I
took sodium out of my diet about three months ago
because of something that you posted, because of high pertension.
So we always have to be on top of it
and be on top of it for the children as well.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
But it is leading by example.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
It is and you know, the one thing that has
many applications, this little saying it's nothing too too amazing,
no health, no wealth. Now I look back to say,
we know for sure that households children that do not
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have a dad present have more trouble, you know, be
it academic, legal, health, you name it. The the family
needs a dad. Now if you have a and the
many reasons why the dad may not be there, be
it divorce or they leave the family, whatever the case
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may be. But with health, if you have an unhealthy father,
and I've seen many patients where they had or they
spent the majority of their life with a dad that
was not healthy, he was unable to work, he was
on let's just say disability, and that was a fraction
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of the income to support the family. The whole dynamics
are off. And so for dads to stay healthy, it
is not only for your own good that you're healthy
and you're not suffering from diabetes, but also the impact
of your health or lack of it on the family.
What's your take on that, John.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
No, it's you hit the nail on the head again.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It's it's kind of scary like.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
And we've seen abuse, you know, in your line of work,
you've seen it more than anybody with alcoholism.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
You know.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Growing up too, it was it was very, very common
when you walk in somebody's house, your parents will be, hey,
what do you want to drink? Oh, I'm okay, what
some'm wrong with? So it was such a common thing.
And I just read statistics somewhere that alcohol consumptions dropped
tremendously over the last five to ten years. The other
stat that stays with me too, and touches upon what
you just said, eighty percent of people in federal penitentiaries
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come from fauntless homes.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
So there's something to what you're saying. We have to
be the dad.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
We don't have to be the friend, but we do
have to be the guard rails, Okay, And that's what
I think dads are more than anything else there providers
and protectors. But we literally have to take the knowledge
that we've learned. Typically the hard way and be able
to impart that on our children. And it isn't always verbal.
It is, like we said before, it's by you know,
just by living a life that you want them to
live too.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Yeah, now, how how would you personally or really how
have you done it through the years with your kids?
In that I'll just categorize it as an unhealthy behavior.
It could be staying out too late, It could be
eating the wrong food. It could be smoking, it could
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be alcohol. It could be something emotionally that they may
be doing or they're involved in that has a net
negative effect. And you're there, we've lived life. You have
a reference point of how things can go. How do
you intervene or did you intervene with your kids rather
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than putting them in time out and and just you know,
you know, just really handing it to them versus that
gentle guidance, because that's what I think is missing a
lot of the times parents see fathers see that a
child or grandchild is sort of deviating off trail into
(26:49):
the you know, the danger zone, but they don't know
what to do. What do you think or advice you
could give to DAANDCE tonight, And of course moms it's
it's moms and d yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, And there's a lot of moms that that celebrate.
Father said too, for the wonderful work to do with
single moms, without a doubt. But I'm gonna go back
to by the example points too. So I was I mean,
all the bad things that people could do.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I did.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
I smoked, I drank, you know, I did all those
things that you shouldn't do. But I was able to
be fortunate enough to give all of that up. So
my reference point to my children was I wasn't a
hypocritical by saying, hey, what did you go you know
and drank and at that party or smoke that cigarette? Right,
because I would hear, well you do, dad, why should not? Exactly,
they didn't have that crutch the fallout. I was from
(27:37):
a better standpoint for what my life choices were.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
But no, you're right.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
And sometimes I think parents want to be more of
a friend than than a guiding hand, right, And and
that's a mistake that I see made too.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
It's you have to play that role. You have to
be firm it.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
It is tough love sometimes, yes, but it's it's for
the betterment of the child. And then we're we're fortunate
because we've gotten to see our children become parents themselves.
Twenty thik. We could both step back and say, as
father on father, say, I guess we did something right.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
No, that's true. It's it's a great time to reflect
now with with your kids or even with your beloved grandchildren. Now,
do you think of an activity that is now again?
You know, I'm the nerdy doctor that you know it's
I have to I have to sometimes separate this. But
(28:28):
the idea that you're going to do something with the grandkids,
either one on one or a group of them, and
you say, you know, we could do this and you know,
look have fun. That is exactly what you want kids
to do their childhood. But can you say, let's do
something that might be a little bit more health encouraging.
Do you do you ever think in those terms? And
(28:48):
if you don't, it's okay. But I'm just thinking even
even if you take them to the movies, do you
say you get you know, the giant you know box
of chocolate or do you just go with a little popcorn?
What do you what do you do?
Speaker 4 (29:00):
It's it's and you'll find that as your grandson gets
a little bit older. You know, that's that's one of
the greatest gifts that we have is to spoil them
ridiculously when their parents aren't looking.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
But at the same yes, yes, well we did.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
We kind of cut back on the butter at the
popcorn the other day, and I think I was doing stuff.
But you know, my children are raising their their their children.
My grandchildren are very healthy home so nutritious food. Uh,
you know, they're doing all the things that are right,
so I don't have to worry about that part. They're
all involved in sports, multiple sports. They're probably you know,
every day of the week, they're playing in sports, so
that part of it. They're not leading these send in
(29:32):
their lives that are leading to obesity. These kids are
just on their go and a lot of children are.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
Which is good.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
So we kind of step back a little bit and
let it go. But no, we always try to do
something fun. So we're gonna rent the beach ass with them,
and all four of the grandkids will put down to
the beach ass with us and and well we'll probably
have too much pizza and ice cream, but you know what,
those are the memories that that they'll always treasure as
to go for it, so you have to walk that line.
You certainly want them to have fun, but we're lucky
where their parents are doing a really spectacular job and
(29:58):
making sure that they're healthy a number one priority.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yeah, And I would think that you get a lot
of mileage on the advice you give these small little crumbs.
You don't have to sit, you know, this seven year
old down and start talking about diabetes. But just just
that that is going too far, even in my book.
But I would say even even if you could say
(30:22):
the benefit of exercise, you know, the benefit of playing
a sport and working hard at that the windfall and
that may just be thirty second conversation, but it's something
that you know, their grandfather told them, and it may
it may stick with them.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I'll share this with you, and it's funny because they
all picked up on a little four and again they
are eight, seven up to twelve on this thirteen. Right
when when I detected and it was your advice, I
got myself a little blood pressure cuff, yes, and I
was able to check my blood pressure was it was
ridiculously high. And I started to see exactly how much
sodium I was ingesting on a daily basis. And that
I only need fifteen hundred milligrams to release survive. And
(30:59):
I was no joke, no joke at all, ten thousand.
So the soult checker went away, and all of them
noticed that, Pap, you're not using the soult checker anymore.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Pop.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
You know, they were asking me questions because I was
notoriously sprinkling salt on stuff before tasting it, and they
would say, you know, and they picked up on that,
so I said, no, you know what, I was having
some issues. They don't know blood well, of course they do,
no blood pressure, but you know, I just I wanted
to make sure I wasn't doing something that was hurting
me that I really should eat. So they look at
you know, they give you looking like, okay, you know,
they understood that, and I'm sure, you know what, that
(31:28):
will stay with them. They'll be a little bit more
conscientious of salt uses than their classmates because of what
I said to them. By exactly those little things, You're right,
they can last a lifetime.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Yeah, no, no, no, And I think I think life is
a culmination of these little little one liners that you
could share with with your children and your spouse and
all of that. So John in the last thirty seconds
here message to dad's on Father's Day evening and the
(31:58):
role that they play, the role that they may not
realize that they play in the health of their family
and their children.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, it's an important job, and it's a phenomenal job
and a great responsibility. And my two cents, which may
be different than most other dads that you speak to, sure,
is that again I started very very young before the
people normally.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Do become dads.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
And again, having three children by the age I'm twenty
four also meant that I had three kids in college
at the same time they're only two and a half
years apart. But it always works out the way it's
supposed to have faith. You don't have to be religious,
you know, not to be spiritual, but have faith that
everything is going to be working out exactly the way
it's supposed To do your best every day, try to
make somebody's life a little better. And then when you
(32:44):
look back at like two old guys like you and
I know, I know fall this day night.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
You know that's the That's what I want to impart.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
No matter when you start as a dad, you're always
a dad.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Be the best dad you can do absolutely.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
All right, John, it's always great chatting with you. I
will be up on in Long Island in the next
couple of months, I hope, and I will give you
a call and we'll grab a coffee or a drink,
or we'll go for a walk together on the beach.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
We'll continue this conversation with nobody else listening.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
All right, John, thank you, Happy father today. You bet absolutely, Jeff,
take buddy. All right, John Gierlings, my dear friend from
high school. Final segment of Your Health First coming up.
Stay tuned, we'll right back. Final segment of this week's
Your Health First. I want to thank John Geiling's for
(33:36):
coming on. You know I've said this before that in
high school I had an absolutely amazing group of friends
in my class and many of us are still in
(33:57):
touch and counsel with each other and come on the
radio with me. It's great. But again, Happy Father's Day
to everybody. And the message that I think John and
I wanted to try to get across in his unique
perspective as a dad and grandfather and now I'm a grandfather,
which is so wonderful, is that we do play a
(34:21):
role in the health and wellness to be life examples.
So if you are smoking, your kids are likely to
smoke or are they getting secondhand smoke or third hand smoke,
which is no good. If you're drinking to excess, your
kids are going to see this and they are likely
going to start drinking earlier. That is a risk, and
(34:45):
we know that that is bad for young people young brains.
To be exposed to alcohol early raises the risk of
addiction manyfold. The bottom line really is you want to
delay exposure to alcohol as long as you can. And again,
healthy lifestyles. Are you exercising, are you going to sleep
(35:09):
on time or getting enough sleep? Participating in healthful activities,
your present modeling a healthy lifestyle. These are all the
things that I can only wish for all of the
dads out there, and we pray for you each each day.
(35:30):
It is a very very tough job and seems like
it's tougher as time goes on. All right, So in
the last few minutes here before we close out, there
was an article on glutathione. Have you seen that glutathione
is now becoming the super supplement, the super vitamin that
(35:53):
you need to take, And like many of these supplements,
there are a wide range of health claims. It's going
to make your skin look better, You're going to be
more sexy, it's going to prevent disease, et cetera, et cetera,
et cetera. The tough part about this is that these
claims are not grounded in any sort of real clinical research.
(36:19):
The one study that was done with glutathione had sixteen patients,
which is a very very very small sample, and it
was sponsored by the supplement company, So you have to
have a little bit of question as to what was
going on there. And so they are they're selling glutathione
(36:42):
like off the shelves online and there are these online
influencers that are saying glued tothione. It prevents this. It
prevents that when really in only a few specific conditions
is gluteothione of benefit. One of them is tailenol overdose,
a pseudomenefin overdose, we would use an acetyl cysteine, which
(37:04):
is a derivative of glue tothion. And also in situations
people with HIV disease, the medicines that they take may
cause a deficiency of glue tothion. But outside of that,
John Q Public just taking glut tothion because somebody on
TikTok said they should is not worth it. And that
(37:27):
gets down to all of the other supplements and herbs
that are out there. They just are not regulated. And
the proof, the proof that's what we're looking at that
they work is minimal, too weak. And what I tell
my patients, My patients will come in with an assortment
(37:49):
of supplements, and all of them, well a lot of
them will say, hey, it's natural. I don't want to
take this drug which is unnatural, but I will take
this natural supplement. See it here on the bottle, doctor Glene.
It says natural, all natural. The name of the country,
the name of the company is Natural Supplements. But and
(38:12):
you've heard me say this before, just because it's natural
doesn't mean it's good. Poison ivy is natural. Are you
going to clip it and throw it into your bed
tonight and roll around with poison ivy?
Speaker 4 (38:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Or a rattlesnake, copperhead tarantula. They're they're about as natural
as you and me. So you have to get off
this idea that natural means it's safe. And what I
tell my patients is that if I knew there was
research there was evidence that glued tothion prevented cirrhosis, or
(38:57):
reduce the risk of liver cancer, or reduce the risk
of dementia, I would be on board. I would be
on board, as would all of us. So doctors themselves
are not inherently anti supplement. They are just anti things
that don't work. And I would pretty much leave it
(39:21):
at that, all right. So I hope everybody had a
wonderful Father's Day. Every day should be Father's Day. You've
heard that before.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
And.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
I think we do need to think as dads, as grandfathers,
the role that we play in health. It is so
many things are asked of us, but thinking about your
family's health is equally important. So have a great rest
of the evening. We'll see you next Sunday night. I'm
doctor Joe Glotti. Don't forget doctor Joeglotti dot com is
(39:58):
our website. We'll see you soon.
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