The WOR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Mendte - - 9 - 6 - 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from WOR Now, the WOR Saturday
Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry Minty. Hello and welcome this Saturday morning. On
this week's show, the National Guard is in the news
and making Washington, DC safe again. We'll talk about where
they might be going next with wr National correspondent Rory O'Neill.
The New York Jets and Giants get underway. Tomorrow, we'll
talk with legendary sports columnist and author of the new

(00:29):
book Brady and Belichick The Dynasty Debate about what he
expects from the season. Ahead tomorrow is the new balanced
fifth Avenue Mile and we'll get all the details on
how you can participate or come and watch from Ted mittellis,
the chief production officer of the New York road Runners,
and doctor Gregory Poland from the Mayo Clinic says using

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nasal spray may reduce your risk of getting COVID. We'll
talk with the good doctor, but let's start with WA
National correspondent Rory O'Neill on Trump's plans for American cities. Rory,
explain what is going on in Washington, d C. I'm
really kind of stunned by this because Mayor Muriel Bowser

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seemed like she was praising what was happening in her city,
and now they're suing the federal government.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Right the Attorney general is taking a lawsuit against the
Trump administration for deploying the Guard from other states across DC.
So they've got about what twenty five hundred ish twenty
three hundred ish deployed there. About a thousand of them
are from the DC National Guard and they just got
their orders extended through the end of November. Those other

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Guards members from places like Louisiana and Tennessee and South Carolina,
they're tentatively set to be there through the end of December,
but of course that can change depending on what the
President says or how this lawsuit falls out. Look, I
think the DC mayor is trying to play this as
smart as she can. She doesn't want to upset Donald Trump,
who was threatened numerous times to completely take over the district.

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She's also happy to say, you want to spend two
billion dollars beautifying DC and federal money, I'll take it.
You know, you want to send troops to all gave
my police officers who are overstretched you as relief, I'll
take it. So she's going to take the extra investment
because it's not coming out of local taxilear.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
The results, at least in the statistics have been phenomenal.
And one buried underneath all those stats is they found
five missing kids too, and so there's nothing but good
that has happened out of this. That's why the lawsuit
is so peculiar to me. But let's move on to
other cities. Because he had the right to move into Washington,

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d C. Because it is shared by the federal and
city governments, He's going to have a more difficult time,
isn't he doing this in any other city?

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Well?

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Right, we had the judge just a few days ago
say that the deployment of the Guard troops in Los
Angeles was illegal, and it really is, this idea of
deploying the troops against a governor's wishes, but to conduct
law enforcement operations, that's not what they're for. And to
deploy them domestically for law enforcement, it's pretty expressly prohibited.

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And now the president wants to do this in Chicago,
which is likely the next city, perhaps being activated this weekend.
And remember that in addition to the Guard troops, they're
also deploying lots of ICE officers, Immigration and Customs enforcement
to conduct these sweeps to find people who are in
the country illegally and to start the process of getting
them out.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Now, I understood that if he could declare an emergency,
like in Los Angeles there was an emergency because ICE
was under attack, he can send the National Guard, but
they can only defend federal property. And I thought that's
exactly what they were doing in LA. I'm not sure
how that was illegal.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yeah, well, I think they tried to put it under
the idea of that this was a law enforcement operation,
and whether or not it was crossing that line, I
think they were because I think when they first got there,
in the first hours even they were acting more in
a law enforcement capacity, but then it was more specifically
assigned to just the federal properties. So I think there
was some bit of a window of confusion there in

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the early hours of that operation. Plus it also went
against what the President was saying essentially that you know,
he said, I'm the one that shut down the riots
and stopped the riots.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
You know, we all saw the video.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
It was just it was a line of twenty guys
standing in front of the federal building.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
It wasn't you know?

Speaker 3 (04:29):
It was a very It was absolutely a show of force,
but they weren't doing anything law enforce.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, I think Trump wins that on appeal. That's going
to be interesting. Also interesting. Among the cities that you've
talked about and or that's been in been in the news,
New Orleans is the most interesting one because they do
have a serious crime problem and it's a Republican governor.
How does that make a difference.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Well, the Republican governor's like, come on in, will take
the help from Shreveport to New Orleans was the quote
from the governor. But the mayor of New Orleans was
a bit more milk toast, sort of being neutral, saying
we always work well with our federal partners something like that,
like what does that mean? And the president of the
New Orleans City Council, though, he was a bit more direct,

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saying that this is just a carnival ethic was the
term he used, and he did not want the federal
off the National Guard troops coming into the city.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Tell yeah, tell me how this works out. If the
governor wants them and the city doesn't want it, who wins.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Let's see you in court, Sonny.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Rory O'Neill, w R National correspondent. He's going to be
back on Monday morning at seven fifty. Have a great weekend, Rory.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Thanks Larry, you too.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Coming up next a preview of the new Balanced Fifth
Avenue Mile that takes place tomorrow. We'll get that preview
from race director Ted Mittellis.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
Back now to the WR Saturday Morning Show with Larry Minti.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Welcome back. WOR Radio is proud to bring you the
first ever radio broadcast of the new Baalance fifth Avenue
Mile that's tomorrow from noon to one. Right here on
seven to ten WOR we will be there for the
big race with the world's top runners, and we'll have
a recap of the day's other races that start shortly

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after seven in the morning. For more on the day's events,
we're going to talk right now with Ted Mittelis, director
of the New Balance fifth Avenue Mile and chief event
production officer at New York road Runners. Thanks for being here.
Tell us a little bit about the roadrunners before we
get to the race.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Well, good morning the day, Larry and everyone. Great to
chat with you really quickly so New York oire Runers. Goodness,
We've been around since nineteen fifty eight. We are known
as the nonprofit that runs New York, producing over sixty
events throughout the calendar year throughout the New York Trust
area and Jersey City as well, everything from road races
to park runs, to free youth programs and senior programs

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about movement, running and activity. When it comes down to
New Yorkrow Runners.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
By the way, we should point out that we are
going to be live on iHeartRadio seven to ten WR
this Sunday from noon to one. That's when the big
race happens, and it'll be on WABCTV, It'll be on ESPN,
plus you can go to the New York Roadrunners app
for the live finish line feed and the runners on
the track. So you'll be able to see this many

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many ways. And so let's talk about the race now,
Ded thank you. What makes the Fifth Avenue Mile so iconic?
Because I know it's the marathon, is the premiere, but
the Fifth Avenue Race is right up there in its own.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Right, absolutely forty fourth running of the New Balance Fifth
Avenue Mile that'll be going on this Sunday, September sixth,
and it is one of our quicktessential events at the
New Orklow Runners because it encompasses everything that we do
in the community that we serve. Will have youth that
will be out there participating in the back to school

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now f young at two year olds to eighteen year
olds doing dashes in a mile distance as well. Know
the two year olds are not running a mile. Will
have seniors that will be out there participating with seniors
in their eighties and nineties that will be doing the
mile distance as well. And then mix between that condnitsy.

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It's going to be professional athletes, Olympic athletes that we've
seen represent our nation and other nations that will be
running in our iconic race. They'll be starting at our
final heats that you'll be broadcasting at noon, and a
bunch of amazing specialty runs as well.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Who are the runners we should be watching?

Speaker 4 (08:37):
For goodness? You know, the thing that I love about
this race is it is a mixed bag of runners
that have competed in this event multiple times and debut
athletes as well. So coming back to defend her championship
from the professional side is Christa Schwitzer, who tied the
women's event Darker and her debut. We'll also have eleven

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Olympians that will be out there as well. We'll be
having some debut athletes like Agie Wilson, Ravine Rogers, Heaven
McLean all coming out to run with us see and
representing the nation, which is amazing to see. And on
the men's side, Goodness doing his debut. Leading the men's
field will be that Goose who's on our twenty twenty

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four bronze medalists in the fifteen hundred. He'll be out
there alongside Josh Hoey, Kessler, Evan Yager. These athletes compete
throughout the United States and overseas, and on Sunday they'll
be representing here on Fifth Avenue, New York City.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
And every time I hear these runners talk about this race,
they talk about how special it is to them and
how different it is. That it's not like a track
race that you would see on television, and because of that,
it brings its own difficulties. I'm sure you've heard that
from the runners before as well.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Absolutely, absolutely, unlike a traditional track race where you're going
around the track and you have full understanding of what
the track is going to be. A track is a
track is a track? Not on the fifth Avenue year,
and when you're running down this roadway, you have to
be very calculated about when you want to have that
kick and when you make sure that you get come
in for a very strong finish. So it makes for
a unique experience, particularly for our dB athletes, but those

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that have come out and run before know exactly when
that's putted on. So the trick is to stay close
to those athletes as you make your way through.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
You know, the thing that's really special about this is,
you know, the big race, the one you've been talking about,
the one we've been talking about. You know, that's the headliner,
that's the big finale. But there's so much going on
during the day that's special, and including the NYPD going
up against the Fire Department and Broadway Cares running this

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this year with the Broadway stars helping to fight AIDS.
Can you talk about some of the races during the
day that are special.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yes, yes, so you mentioned briefly here our first ever
Broadway Mile. Again continue with this theme of debuts and
tom opportunities for folks. Will have Broadway actors and actresses
that will be there representing amazing shows like The Little Mermaid,
Dear Evan Hansen, Heidie's around Hamilton. You've seen these actors

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on stage performing and now you'll see you know, Sarah Brogis,
Jordan's Fisher, Jordan Ltz, Patina Miller, who's many of our races,
all out there running a mile as well. So you
get to cheer them on stage and on Sunday you'll
get to see them onto that.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
And some of them have to run to a matinee
right after that. They're going to run to the finish
line and then run the matinee. You know, I know
you're a runner. What does this race mean to you?

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Well, what's what it means to me ultimately is what
you'll see on race day, really seeing everyone from our youth,
to our seniors, to our physicists, to our fastest and
folks that are getting out there just to test their ability.
And it's really a great end for those athletes that
get to run every single year. They test their barometer
of fitness with the fifth Avenue mile. What's also amazing

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too is you know, unlike the Great Tcsucity Marathon, this
is a chance for family front wants to see you
hammer a mile from start to finis and sure you
on and celebrates you there as well. So I'm particularly
happy for the debut athletes. I'm really excited about people
that are coming out there and saying, hey, I have
this as a bucket list item. Let me get out
there and do this. Because I've been doing the open runs,

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I've been participating in different races. How about coming out
here and doing this fifth avenue for the first time.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
You know, the runners are one thing. They go out there,
they're worried about how they're going to perform, They're worried
about the weather. They're just worried about their run. What
is your biggest worry on these days.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Well, for all of our outdoor events, Larry, is the weather,
and we have spectacular weather on deck. That's usually the
biggest portion of my stress is the weather, and it's
the knowns versus the unknowns. You plan for the known,
to prepare for the unknown, and we are prepared to
have a great day weather rise on Sunday and ensuring
that people show up for their times. Definitely go online

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to our NYRT website to see what their times are.
Make sure they're there on time, ready to go, shoes tied,
double knotted.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Thanks so much, for spending time with us today.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
Thank you very very much. Looking forward to having you
all broadcast Off Balance Fifth Aguma.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Ted mittellis director of the new Balanced fifth Avenue Mile.
Coming up next on Saturday morning, The Giants and the
Jets are both playing their first games of the season tomorrow.
So how good are the teams expected to be this year?
We'll ask legendary NFL columnist Gary Meyers. That question still

(13:46):
to come. Doctor Gregory Poland from the Mayo Clinic tells
us about a nail polish that was banned in Europe,
and he says you should watch out for it here
in the States too. That's still to come. On Saturday morning,
here's Larry Minty with more of the wr Saturday Morning Show.
Pro football is back and both New York teams are

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set to blade tomorrow at one o'clock. So what does
the season hold for the Jets and the Giants? Let's
ask Gary Myers, former NFL columnist for The Daily News
and author of the new book Brady Versus Belichick, The
Dynasty Debate. Gary, thanks so much for spending time with
us this morning. My pleasure.

Speaker 5 (14:28):
Larry, how you doing today?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
I'm doing well. How do you think the Jets and
the Giants are doing.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
Well?

Speaker 5 (14:34):
I know, I think the Giants are going to be
better this year. They'll get better play a quarterback from
Russell Wilson, although he's just a placeholder until the rookie
Jackson Dart is ready to play. But they have improved
the team around the quarterback. Now they just need the
quarterback to step up and give them comping and play,

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which they haven't gotten the last few years. But I
can see the Giants, you know, perhaps in December, still
being a contender for a wild card spot. I wouldn't
necessarily pick him to make the playoffs this year, but
I think it's going to be a season that, at
least around Thanksgiving, there'll still be some interest.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
People are really excited about Jackson Dart and he has
a swagger about him, and he looked really good in
the preseason. Does that carry over to a regular season
and if so, when will we see him starting?

Speaker 5 (15:27):
Well, I'll answer the second part. First, we'll see him
if either Russell Wilson gets hurt or if the Giants
are struggling and they want to make a change. Now
they've listed Darts as a second string quarterback on the
depth chart, which I won't say that I know anything different,
but I am a little skeptical that maybe because it's

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just surprising to me if Wilson was to get hurt
on Sunday, that they wouldn't go to Jameis Winston, you know,
a veteran, rather than going a rookie right away. But
I mean, I think they should go to Dart. I
like what I saw him in the preseason, but nobody
gain plans defensively in the In the preseason, he's going

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against mainly second stringers because nowadays, nobody plays in the
preseason and the speed of the game changes completely when
the regular season starts. So to say what he did
in August is going to carry over to September, October
or whenever this year, I think, you know, you kind
of you know, connecting trying to connect in docs and

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they might not might not work. But I do think
he's gonna be a good player.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
There's something I thought I was just going to ask
you exactly what you said at the end, But there's
some things you can see right when you look at
a preseason game. It doesn't matter who he's playing against.
The decisions he make can he takes it. Can he
take a hit? Can he avoid a hit? Does he
make those passes in this tough situations? I think that
he got a's across the board in all of those things. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (16:56):
I don't think the Giants could have asked anything more
to see inseason games and they got from him. And
the thing I like about him, he seems to be
a leader that even the veterans gravitate towards him, that
he like you said that, he does have a swagger
about him. He broke all Eli Manning's records at ole Miss.
Giants have had good success with Ole Miss quarterbacks, going

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back to Charlie Connolly. He had good coaching in college
with Lane Kiffin, who's been an NFL coach. He's been
a big time college coach for a number of years.
He's an offensive coach, so he comes here with the
right pedigree. They made a great move moving back into
the end of their first round to take him, and
now you just got to wait.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
They look brilliant by the way.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
Yeah, I mean, he's got to get on the field
at some point this season because they do want him
to start next year.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
Now, Patrick Mahomes. Mahomes is kind of the outlier where
as a rookie he only played in the last game
of the regular season. Then he took over the next year,
his second year, and he's been great ever since. I
think you want to get on the rookies on the
field a little earlier than the last game of the
year because you want to you know, he's gonna have
rough patches and if the Giants season, if the Giants

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are not contenders by say mid November at the latest,
then you want him to get the bumps in the
road out of the way so he can hit the
ground running next year.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Absolutely. Let me tell you Jets fans, I'll get to
the Jets in one second. I want to talk about
one other player with Gary, and that is Abdul Carter.
I've been watching him play since high school really and
then at Penn State. He is special. I have never
seen anybody with that quick of a first step.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
Yeah, I mean, he looks like he's going to be
a special player. And everybody wants to say, oh, he's
the next LT. We've been waiting for the next LT
for thirty years. Nobody's ever going to be Lawrence Tellor.
But he has some of the same traits and if
they can get he can be seventy five percent of
Lawrence Teler, and the Giants had a home run by
drafting him.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Let's talk about the Jets, because you're right, things are
looking better for them, But they've been looking better for
a long time. Every year was going to be there
year and then there's been some disappointment, not of their
own making, because of injuries. So do you think this
is it? You just said a moment ago you think
they're gonna make the playoffs. No, I didn't say that
about the Jets.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
Oh okay, I said that the Giants could possibly contend
for a wildcard spot. No, I don't think the Jets.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Make you see, I don't think the Giants are going
to compete for a wildcard spot. So when you said
wildcard spot, I assumed it was the Jets.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
Oh, that's a bad assumption on your part. I'm not
sold on Justin Fields as a quarterback at all. I mean,
he was born too for Pittsburgh last year and he
got benj Win Russell Wilson, of all people, was healthy.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
He had thrown for over two hundred.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
Yards just in two of his six starts. The biggest
problem with Justin Fields as a quarterback is his ability
to throw an accurate pass, which is a big problem
for a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
You want your quarterback to be accurate.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
He runs the ball as well as anybody in the
league except maybe Lamar Jackson. But you can't win just
relying on your quarterback to run the ball. It's another
transition year for the Jets that don't want to fans
don't want to hear that. And but with a new coach,
new general manager, I see the Jets winning five or

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six games. All right, we're gonna have to agree to disagree.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'll tell you what we can make a gentleman's bet
because I think the Jets might make the playoffs and
the Giants will not make the playoffs and they're gonna
step forward. So that'll be a the gentleman's bet between
the two of us. Because everybody has an opinion. Not
as accomplished as yours, but everybody has an opinion. Let's
talk about the new book. This is a fascinating topic,

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the dynasty debate, Brady or Belichick. Let's skip right to
the ending. Who wins?

Speaker 5 (20:46):
You know, It's like it's like my book reports in
uh In junior High school where I would write it out,
and I, of course I didn't read the book. And
at the end of the book, end of the book report,
I said, I'm not gonna go. I don't want to
give away the ending, you know, which is my telling
the teacher I didn't read it, but I'm trying to
hide that from you. But I will say you, I

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don't think there's any doubt that it was Brady. The
issue really is what percentage do you want? It was
signed to each of them because they couldn't have done
it without each other. But ultimately, when you evaluate a
twenty year period, Brady was more important. But you do
have to read the book and get to the ending
to find out the percentages I signed to each.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Gary Meyer is his new book, Brady Versus Belichick The
Dynasty Debate, is available for pre order right now on
Amazon dot Com. Still to come, Colorectal cancer is rising
in young adults. We'll talk with doctor Gregory Poland from
the Mayo Clinic about that.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
Next here again is Larry Minty with the wr Saturday
Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Welcome Back. Can using nasal spray really reduce your chance
of getting COVID? That's what a new study says. Let's
askig Repoland from the Mayo Clinic what he thinks, Doctor
paulin this is this is pretty exciting news, especially in
the wake of a pushback on the COVID vaccine. There
is apparently a popular antihistamine that can decrease the risk

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of COVID? Is that right?

Speaker 1 (22:16):
This is really interesting, Larry. It's an antihistamine that's used
in a lot of nasal sprays and somebody had the
idea to do a study with it, and lo and behold,
what did they show? They showed a decrease by seventy
percent in PCR confirmed covid infection, a decrease in the

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number of symptomatic days, and a different virus called rhinovirus.
People who got the nasal spray had about a one
point eight percent incidents of getting infected. If they didn't
use it about a six point three percent increase. Now,
the kicker on this is, we don't really know the mechanism,
and in this study people had to use the nasal

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spray three times a day for almost sixty days.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
So most people don't use a nasal spray three times
a day for sixty days. I guess that is your point.
And also finding the active ingredients I think is it
will really be the pot of gold, right.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
That's right, and they'll be able to exploit that. You know,
it's an early study. It's a really interesting study, and
stay tuned. More needs to be learned.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
So you said a popular antiastamine nasal spray. What is
the nasal spray? Is it many of them or just
or just a com there's.

Speaker 1 (23:38):
A lot of them that use this particular ingredient called
as a lastein, and it's an antihistamine, as I say,
So you know that's interesting. Is it shutting down something
that the body makes that actually encourages COVID infection through
the nose? We don't know.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Is there any drawback to taking a nasal spray three times?

Speaker 1 (24:01):
This is a good question, Larry, and the answer is yes.
People get dryness, they can get cracking of the mucosin
around the nose, they can get burning, stinging headaches. So
it's not like well, I mean, it's like anything. There's
always side effects to something that we use. It's the
balance of benefit and risk that we look for.

Speaker 2 (24:24):
So I would imagine your recommendation is to people that
are hearing this and may go out and start using
nasal sprays three times a day. To wait for further.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Studies exactly, it would be premature to start using this clinically,
but you know, I wanted to make people aware of
it that there are what we call repurposed drugs. So
this is a drug that's out there for allergic rhinitis
that may have a repurposing that's valuable. We'll see.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Well, this is a little bit concerning. There is a
surprise increase in colorectal cancer among the young.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, this is we've been watching this year by year, Larry.
The risk has increased by two percent every year. So
in the last twenty five years, the risk of coorectal
cancer and people under the age of fifty five has
gone has doubled. Now you look at it at a
lifetime level, one in twenty four men and one in

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every twenty six women will develop colorectal cancer. That's why
we have screening guidelines. What's new is that the guideline
has said if you're of average risk, that is, you
don't have a family member who had coorectal cancer or
inflammatory biwel disease, you start screening at age fifty. That

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has now been moved down to age forty five for
everybody because of this dramatically increased risk. When I was training,
I saw one case of coorectal cancer in a woman
in her thirties. This diagnosis is now being made much

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more commonly for people in their twenties and thirties. In fact,
colorectal cancer is now the second leading cause of cancer
death in people under the age of fifty. This is
really surprising.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
It is surprising, and immediately you go to what could
be the cause of that, and I guess, we don't
know at this point.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Well, there's speculation and there's some biologic plausibility behind it.
But the high fat, ultra processed food diets that people eat,
we know that, obesity, smoking, alcohol use all are implicated
because they cause changes in what's called the bowel or

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gut microbiome, that is the pattern of microbes that are
in the bowel and that keep it healthy. So I
think what it has to do with is our own
lifestyle choices and the way our culture is sort of
shaping lifestyle behaviors and sedentary behaviors.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
So now you're saying a colonoscopy is needed starting at
the age of forty five rather than fifty.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
What about these non invasive colon cancer tests that I.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
See and then the non invasive test that you're talking about,
colon guard that looks for DNA evidence of not only
BOW but along the whole GI track cancer. The problem
with that test is that it doesn't It's not very
sensitive for catching very early cancers or the precursor to

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colorectal cancer, which is colon polyps. So the advised thing
is that you have a colonoscopy first, determine if you're
at risk because of polyps, and then with your doctor
work out the schedule and type of screening.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Natalie is really into this one story I'm about to
bring up, so I'm gonna let her take the lead
after I just mentioned that in Europe they have banned
nail polish use the gel, the gel nail cell nail.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yes, that's an interesting one, starting September first, and it
was a it was a hard stop. You couldn't use
existing stock or anything. No use of gel nail polish
that contains something an ingredient called ppo. The reason they
use it is that it drives very quickly under the
UV light and it gives that strong ultra glossy machine.

(28:38):
But the problem is, and if you've ever accompanied your
daughter or your wife into one of these nail salons,
you smell it immediately. It is been associated with fertility issues,
adverse reproductive health, damage to the nail plate, infections of

(28:58):
the nails with a nail turn thick and yellow or green.
So it's Natalie and I were talking a little bit
earlier about it. It's actually a pretty strange custom that
women paint their nails that they put on the acrylic males, etc.
I suspect I don't know this, but I suspect that
something you see in wealthier societies rather than poorer societies.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Doctor Gregory poland health and medical expert who is a
leader in vaccines and infectious diseases at the Mayo Clinic.
He's also president of the Atria Research Institute in New York.
That wraps up Saturday morning for this week. Thanks so
much for listening, and thanks to executive producer Natalie Vaka

(29:44):
and Peter Airelano for putting the show together every week.
I'll be back Monday morning from six to ten for
Menty in the morning. Hope you can join us.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
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