Doctor Gregory A. Poland is an American physician and vaccinologist. He is the Mary Lowell Leary professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, as well as the director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group. He is also the editor-in-chief of the medical journal Vaccine. Poland received his BA in biology from Illinois Wesleyan University In 1977 where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He received his MD from the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in 1981. Poland also received an MA in theology from Westminster Theological Seminary. Doctor Poland is known for researching the immunogenetics of responses to certain vaccines, including smallpox vaccines. He has also written about the negative impacts of the false claim that the MMR vaccine might cause autism, and is an outspoken advocate of mandatory influenza vaccination. After developing tinnitus after his COVID vaccination he has called for better safety studies.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from WOR. Here again is Larry
Minty with the WOR Saturday Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey, if you want to keep your brain healthy, just
watch what you eat. That's according to world renowned medical
expert doctor Gregory Poland from the Mayo Clinic. Doctor Poland
is always thanks for being here.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Good to be with you, Larry.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I know the FDA has just approved an at home
cervical cancer screening test. How important of news is this.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
This is really good news for the women in the
population because they can self collect at home a specimen
which actually is designed to detect HPV human papaloma virus.
It is that virus that causes cervical cancers, vulvar cancers,
(00:53):
vaginal cancers. So they're actually collecting a specimen that can
they then mail can be tested for HPV and determine
whether they have it or not. Now, this is important
when you consider that eighty percent eight zero eighty percent
of people become HPV infected during their life. Fortunately, most
(01:17):
people resolve it, but there's a portion that don't. And
you consider that, you know, you have about two hundred
and fifty three hundred thousand people with cervical cancer in
the US and that about twenty five percent or so
of women are not up to date with screening. What
a wonderful thing to be able to do it in
the comfort of your home, not have to have a
(01:39):
doctor appointment or drive anywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, that's the great part about it, not having no offense,
but not having to go to the doctor and then
not have that uncomfortable experience as well.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Just do it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
How often do you think that people should be doing this?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well, the recommendations are for women twenty one to twenty
nine they get it ever three years, and thirty to
sixty five they get a PAP smear every three years
and an HPV test every five years. And if you're
low risk, then after the age of sixty five, if
you have been screened a number of times when you're younger,
(02:15):
you probably no longer need to test. Now. The one
downside of the home test is that it doesn't allow
you to determine if anything else is going on. So
typically when we do a pelvic exam and we do
a pap smear and we take a specimen for HPV,
we're also feeling the ovaries and being sure there's no
(02:39):
abnormal masses there. So It's not like this is something
where you'll never have to have a pelvic exam and
see a doctor. This is an adjunct and I think
particularly for younger women, this is going to be a
lot more comfortable and likely they'll be a lot more
compliant than if they had to go into a physician.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh that's great information. It's interesting. You send us things
you'd like to talk about, and you have here prevention
of Parkinson's disease and Memorial Day. That's pretty fascinating.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
What is the head it's a little bit of a teaser. Well,
what's becoming really clear. And actually at HRI, I work
with a colleague does a lot of work in this area. Toxins,
environmental toxins, and ultra processed foods are the things that
really seem to be associated with elevated risks of Parkinson's disease.
(03:36):
And we're sort of choosing Memorial Day to make the
point that brain health begins at the table. So think
of the typical Memorial Day picnic foods, sodas, potato chips,
hot dogs. You have eleven or so servings of that,
and you've increased your risk of Parkinson's disease by double
(03:57):
I think people don't realize just how how bad these
ultra processed foods are for us. And you know, I
might say that we've got in the US alone about
a million people living with Parkinson's disease, about ninety thousand
new cases every year, So you're talking about one out
(04:17):
of every three hundred and twenty eight people or so
in the US as Parkinson's. And these sorts of studies,
you know, you often hear of studies, Well, they say
that this week and next week it'll be something different.
This is a decades long study of the Nurses Health
Study and the Health Professionals follow up Study. The've had
(04:39):
forty three thousand people, wow, followed for decades.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Doctor Gregory Pouland. That's great information. Thank you so much.
World renowned medical expert and leader in vaccines and infectious
diseases at the Mayo Clinic and president of the Atria
Research Institute in New York. Thanks again, doctor, You've got
This has been a podcast from w U O R.
This is a podcast from WOR. Here again is Larry
Minty with the WOR Saturday Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hey, if you want to keep your brain healthy, just
watch what you eat. That's according to world renowned medical
expert doctor Gregory Poland from the Mayo Clinic. Doctor Poland
is always thanks for being here.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Good to be with you, Larry.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I know the FDA has just approved an at home
cervical cancer screening test. How important of news is this.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
This is really good news for the women in the
population because they can self collect at home a specimen
which actually is designed to detect HPV human papaloma virus.
It is that virus that causes cervical cancers, vulvar cancers,
(00:53):
vaginal cancers. So they're actually collecting a specimen that can
they then mail can be tested for HPV and determine
whether they have it or not. Now, this is important
when you consider that eighty percent eight zero eighty percent
of people become HPV infected during their life. Fortunately, most
(01:17):
people resolve it, but there's a portion that don't. And
you consider that, you know, you have about two hundred
and fifty three hundred thousand people with cervical cancer in
the US and that about twenty five percent or so
of women are not up to date with screening. What
a wonderful thing to be able to do it in
the comfort of your home, not have to have a
(01:39):
doctor appointment or drive anywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, that's the great part about it, not having no offense,
but not having to go to the doctor and then
not have that uncomfortable experience as well.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Just do it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
How often do you think that people should be doing this?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well, the recommendations are for women twenty one to twenty
nine they get it ever three years, and thirty to
sixty five they get a PAP smear every three years
and an HPV test every five years. And if you're
low risk, then after the age of sixty five, if
you have been screened a number of times when you're younger,
(02:15):
you probably no longer need to test. Now. The one
downside of the home test is that it doesn't allow
you to determine if anything else is going on. So
typically when we do a pelvic exam and we do
a pap smear and we take a specimen for HPV,
we're also feeling the ovaries and being sure there's no
(02:39):
abnormal masses there. So It's not like this is something
where you'll never have to have a pelvic exam and
see a doctor. This is an adjunct and I think
particularly for younger women, this is going to be a
lot more comfortable and likely they'll be a lot more
compliant than if they had to go into a physician.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh that's great information. It's interesting. You send us things
you'd like to talk about, and you have here prevention
of Parkinson's disease and Memorial Day. That's pretty fascinating.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
What is the head it's a little bit of a teaser. Well,
what's becoming really clear. And actually at HRI, I work
with a colleague does a lot of work in this area. Toxins,
environmental toxins, and ultra processed foods are the things that
really seem to be associated with elevated risks of Parkinson's disease.
(03:36):
And we're sort of choosing Memorial Day to make the
point that brain health begins at the table. So think
of the typical Memorial Day picnic foods, sodas, potato chips,
hot dogs. You have eleven or so servings of that,
and you've increased your risk of Parkinson's disease by double
(03:57):
I think people don't realize just how how bad these
ultra processed foods are for us. And you know, I
might say that we've got in the US alone about
a million people living with Parkinson's disease, about ninety thousand
new cases every year, So you're talking about one out
(04:17):
of every three hundred and twenty eight people or so
in the US as Parkinson's. And these sorts of studies,
you know, you often hear of studies, Well, they say
that this week and next week it'll be something different.
This is a decades long study of the Nurses Health
Study and the Health Professionals follow up Study. The've had
(04:39):
forty three thousand people, wow, followed for decades.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Doctor Gregory Pouland. That's great information. Thank you so much.
World renowned medical expert and leader in vaccines and infectious
diseases at the Mayo Clinic and president of the Atria
Research Institute in New York. Thanks again, doctor, You've got
This has been a podcast from w U O R.
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