January 20, 2026 • 50 mins
- Listen Saturday mornings at 8 as Dr. Msonthi Levine discusses medical issues and takes your calls on News Talk 560 KLVI. Dr Levine is board certified in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. His office is located at 3080 Milam in Beaumont, Texas. He can be reached at 409-347-3621.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome South East Texas Internet radio listeners. Welcome to another
edition of the Doctor Lavine Medical Hour. I'm your weekly host,
Doctor Levigne, taking your phone calls live from the studios
of k LVI here in both my Texas crossed you
can park the mall taking your phone calls, hopefully helping
you figure out how to stay alive longer and healthier
(00:22):
and stay out of doctors' offices and don't have to
take any prescription medications and just enjoy your life being healthy.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
How do you do it?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
What's right? What's wrong? Here's so much information out there. God,
it's confusing, and yes, you need a medical degree to
figure it out. And sometimes even we get confused as
docs and as healthcare providers from as practitioners and physicians assistants,
and it does take some time to figure it out.
(00:53):
But that's the genesis of the show and that's our
goal here this morning. So I give us a call
onlines are open eight nine to six KALVA one one hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
And three to three zero kVA.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I would love to hear from you, chat with you,
talk with you, and see if we can help you
figure out how you can stay alive as well. As
you and your family, especially all my retirees, we talk
a lot about that in my office when I speak
to them, What are you going to do when you retire?
(01:26):
That's always something that I ask about. Your getting towards
sixty five or maybe a little older, and yeah, it's
it's time to hang it out. You've done your part,
you've paid your dues, you've worked twenty five thirty years
at some industry or in some industry, and yeah, it's
time to go do something else. Commit to yourself, commit
(01:49):
to your family, and what are you going to do
with your life? So it does sound fun that I
don't have to punch a clock and I don't have
to answer to anyone. I can just kind of wake
up and do whatever I want to do. And it
sounds fun, and it is fun for the first I
would say, three to six months, And this is based
(02:11):
on what my patients who are retired tell me, and
when we talk about that, it's fun. But after a
while it gets kind of boring just sitting around the house,
not doing anything, not being productive.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You're so conditioned to.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Have something to do, and honestly, the human body is
engineered that way. It needs a purpose. Each and every day,
on most days, a purpose to complete some tasks or
tasks whatever that might be. And certainly one thing that
I bring up to them is what about your health.
(02:50):
I mean, for twenty five thirty years, while you were
prioritizing the family and prioritizing the job and other things
and putting your health to the side, what about your health.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Let's prioritize your health. What can we.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Help you do now that you have all this free
time on your hands and it's up to you whatever
you do. So it is, in my opinion, a good
time to start prioritizing your health because who wants to
be retired and unhealthy. It's really not fun, it's not rewarding.
(03:25):
It's not the way you imagine your life would be
like once you retire. Is spending all your time at
the hospital emergency department or being hospitalized, or having a
fight with the pharmacy to get your prescription medicines, having
(03:45):
to call the doctor's office to get your prescription medicines. Yeah,
I get maybe going to the doctor maybe once or
twice a year just to kind of get a check up.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And when you know, we.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Do recommend that there's still a lot of patients out
there that really don't have a doctor.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
They don't really go to the doctor. They don't really believe.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
In that whole prevention and go and get labs and
all that. I still meet these folks, especially in the hospital,
that really just don't go to the doctor for a
routine visit, meaning if they don't have anything wrong with him,
they don't feel like they need to go see a
healthcare professional, right, so they never go in the never
(04:28):
get mammograms, they never get routine blood work. They really
just don't buy into that whole system, which I understand.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's same concern or same position as vaccines. Just some
folks who don't buy into taking vaccines for various reasons.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That's why we love this country.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
We sort of get to decide for ourselves what we
want to do, what's good for our bodies, and if
we don't want to do it, then we shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Be forced to do it, right, That's why of.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The country independent thinking and certainly going to the doctor
for routine visits. Yeah, some people just don't buy into it,
but I would say once a year would.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Be a good idea.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Just again, letting a healthcare professional listen to you, just
touch you, listen to your heart, listen to your lungs,
and just get some basic things just because a lot
of diseases, when they start again, they can cause changes
physically and changes in your blood work that can be
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discovered that can really allow you to get ahead of
this disease or illness and have a good outcome, a
good prognosis versus not really doing your part and the
disease is discovered really in a later stage. And I'm
not saying that going to the doctor would necessarily guarant
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and tea that nothing will happen to you, which is
not true either.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It is a balance.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
But just like with wearing seat belts and driving the
speed limit and using your blinker to make a switch
in lanes, all those things decreases your chance of being
in a major car accident. But we all know that
you can follow the rules and you're just driving home from.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
The grocery store going to speed limit, you can still
get in an accident.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
That's sort of the same way I see some health
crisises that happens to an individual.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
They may have just been to the.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Doctor, had a quote good check up, everything was fine,
and then four weeks later they are in the hospital sick,
you know, fighting for their lives. So we do see
those scenarios, and again we're not magicians and we can't
see into the future. But healthcare professionals do their best
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to put you in a position where you're less likely
to have an event or less likely to need being hospitalized.
And yes, if you have insurance, you know that the
insurance companies are becoming more engaged and becoming more involved
with again trying to educate you and put you in
(07:26):
a position.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Where you're less likely to have.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
A disease that's in its more later stages when it's diagnosed,
as well as like i say, preventing or reduced in
chance of having a cardiovascular event, which is still the
big problem in our country is cardiovascular disease. So we're
constantly working on that. So as you know, if again,
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if you have insurance, they have healthcare professions coming out
to your home and sort of chatting and talking about
out what is going on with your health and just
reviewing everything in a very comfortable, relaxed environment your home.
You're not tense because you're waiting for the doctor for
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an hour. And as you know, most healthcare professionals, they
have sort of a clock in their mind when they
visit with patients and certainly don't have as much time
as maybe you would like them to have. And so
insurance companies know that. Everyone knows that, but we try
to do our best and try.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
To get to all.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
The concerns of the patient as well as the concerns
of the healthcare world and insurance company. Again, as I mentioned,
they're sending healthcare professionals to doctors off I'm sorry to
patients homes to have a chat and review everything, make
sure the patient understands what's going on and what they need.
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It's all documented. They get to keep sort of an
information sheets. I've seen folders sometimes that have like some
really good basic information just about certain disease processes or
things that are recommended for you, like routine X ray
screening exams like a mammogram or a PSA, or getting
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your colonoscopy, and if you're smoking, getting a lung CT scan.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Again, we do that for smokers.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Now heavy smokers, for the most part, you have to
sort of breach a certain amount or a certain level
or intensity of smoking in order to qualify for these
lung cancer screening examinations, which again for heavy heavy smokers
normally starts about the age of fifty five is when
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we start screening. But thankfully, thankfully, the insurance compan have
been really helpful and more liberal with approving a lot
of these CT scans that are being done to screen
for lung cancer.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So we really applaud them for.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Opening up the pocketbook and allowing us to do that
because sometimes a lot of our patients don't necessarily meet
the strict criteria to get that, but certainly putting them
in a mindset that they know they're engaging in a
bad habit smoking and that that significantly increases the chances
of developing cancer all cancers, by the way, but in
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particular lung cancer, and certainly getting the patient engaged sooner
rather than later to get that mindset, Hey, I need
to start screening for lung cancer. I'm fifty five and
fifty six. I've been smoking since I was in my
twenties maybe my teens. I smoke every day. And that's
truly the more high risk patient is maybe someone they've
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picked up the cigarette or the habit in their teenage
years and they've just sort of been going at it
since then, year after year until their fifties, they've been
doing a pack or a pack of day, two packs
a day. I still meet those patients, not that many,
but I still meet them most of the time.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Most patients are sort of less than a pack.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Of day, maybe half a pack, maybe four or five
a day, so not as high risk. But again, it's
sort of the constant exposure to tobacco and the toxicity
of tobacco according to a lot of patients. It's certainly
something that I see very clearly, and patients who do
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smoke and those who don't smoke, it accelerates the aging
process significantly. So it's one of those things that I
certainly scream about as high as I can to my
patients who come in. They're trying to figure out, Hey,
I want to be healthy. I got grandkids, got a
new wife, and they got a new job, and you know,
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I'm getting older, and I just I want to live forever.
But they're smoking. They could also be obese. They could
have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high sugar, all that
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
That we talk about all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
They could have all of that, but the one, the
one habit, in my opinion, that really trumps everything is
the smoking habit. And so it's one thing that I
try and prioritize all the time with my patients if
they do smoke, is what can we do to help
you to get off these cigarettes? And yet it might
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take you several attempts to stop smoking. I think a
lot of times patients do try to stop and it's
just too hard. It's too difficult. The physical sensation, the
mental sensation that they acquire when they are not able
to smoke, it's so strong, it's so negative, so uncomfortable,
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that they just have to keep going. And in my experience,
I would say if the person is young, I would
say it's still in their twenties, maybe thirties, it's a
lot easier to stop smoking. But someone deep into their
late forties, early fifties, it's a lot harder. And I
guess again there's a physical and psychological connection with tobacco
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that it's difficult to break that chain when you're in
your fifties, maybe you had your first stroke, you had
your first heart attack. I mean, it is a absolute must.
It is critical that you stop this habit, just because
continuing to smoke like that is only going to make
things worse. It's going to advance the disease, cardiovascal disease
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or even cancer. Unfortunately, we do see patients that they
get dognessed with cancer, just devastating and they commit to
not smoking, but man, it's hard, and they come back
for the visit neess they're still hitting it and they're embarrassed,
they're shame. They know they should be better, and they
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want to be a better person.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We all want to be good people.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
We all want people to other people to think good
of us. But man, that can just be a huge
crutch on You just can't seem to find a solution
to get off the cigarettes, even though you know you
need to. You've had that stroke, you've had that heart attack.
All your family is staring at you and they're just
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getting all upset and sort of encouraging you. You got to
do this, You got to do this for the family,
got to do it for you, and you try your
best and you still can't do it.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
So a lot of times you do need medication, and there.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Are a couple and there haven't really been a whole
lot of changes in the past several years with these
two medications that can help you sort of fight that
urge that you need to smoke. Just like with drinking,
you don't really talk a lot about that alcohol exposure
and those who are sort of struggling with their drinking.
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There is medication out there in the market for that
as well, just like there is smoking, because a lot
of times there's just a strong physical connection to that,
there's a strong mental connection to it, And I mean,
you just need something to help you break that because
a lot of times if you don't have that, you're
not consuming that. It's just difficult, Like how am I
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going to fill that gap with that? It's crazy, this void,
this psychological physical void that is hard to replace.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
When you're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You're still going to work, you still got your responsibilities,
you still got your routine. And that was the way
you escaped back in the day before it became a problem.
Now it's a problem, like, oh man, it's tough. Hey
Bob from Bama, how can we help you?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Hey? Good morning? Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
You know, as Leonard says, one of the rules of the.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Laws about giving plasma.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
As opposed to giving is that.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
More dangerous to giving blood?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
You know, stuff like that, like if you're taking so
and so mad.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Do not do it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
If you're a diabetic, do not do it. What's the danger?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Because I wasn't helping somebody, you know, get the money.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
It would be nice right right now?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
What the what's the rules about giving plasma plasma?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
What is what? What is the statement about plasma? I'm
educate me on that. What are they saying? Start on,
I'm asking you about plasma and giving given plasma. It's
like giving blood. It is simple, easy, dangerous what oh yeah,
like a blood transision.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, it just to donate, to donate blood, I mean
I think, yeah, that's a sort of an honorable act.
I mean we need blood every day, no question in
the hospital. I mean, man, it's critical that we keep.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
M well.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Plasma plasma donation is that a big deal?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
A big difference?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Do they They extract that out of the blood.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, when anytime you donate blood, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I guess, I guess it's like oil or crude oil.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You know, they can break it down into several different
products that are used, and the same thing with donating
blood or donating plasma. The blood can be broken up
into different components that they use, like platelets are just
what we call packed RBC's p RBC's are there's coagulation
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factors in the blood as well, so they call that
f FP. So yeah, just giving blood, you can sort
of break that down into three or four different components
when you just donate blood or donate plasmas.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So I think it's.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Great, it's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Well but but struthtly giving a plasma donation, it's the
same procedure, correct, Yeah, okay, yeah, you just go there
and sit in a chair and they put ivy in
you and then yeah, you drain your blood basically.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah that's so.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
There's no Okay, that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well that's my question. Thanks for your great show, all right, brother,
we appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
And yeah, we don't talk a lot about blood donation
here on this show. It's we we should because whoever
is donating blood out there, thank you, thank you, thank you,
And we don't talk enough about donating blood. It's one
of those hospitable cts that you can do for your neighbor,
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for your friend, for society. If you want to get back.
We talk a lot about getting your vaccine so that
you can do your part to protect your neighbor, your friend,
your community blood donation.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
God, that is huge, It's critical.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I can't tell you how much blood we are giving
people in the hospital every single day. And I'm just
at one hospital. I mean, all this blood being transfused
every single day is enormous every single day. And the
reason for that and this, you have to understand the
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number one medical problem in our country are what Americans
are from. Y'all know this, right, cardiovascular disease. And how
do we treat cardiovascular disease blood dinners with medications that
don't allow your blood system to be as tightly controlled
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in terms of preventing bleeding. We want the blood to
be a little bit slipp and so when it's a
little bit slippery, you tend to bleed more freely in
various organ sites, in particularly the gastro intestinal system, the bladder,
the skin. You know, when you get on those bloodthenders,
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you start bruising everywhere in your arms. It looks terrible.
People hate it. Or you can have bleeding in your nose.
I mean, Americans are bleeding every day because of the
need to take blood thinners, you know them Aspirin, Plavix, Warfrin, kumidin, Brilent,
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to all these eloquis serelto. I mean, these are the
big heavy hitters that we see every single day. They
make you bleed, and a lot of people bleed and
we got to give blood. It's happened every day. So
thank you for donating. And if it's something you've never done,
you want to give back to your community, to your family,
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that is one thing that you can do donating some plasma.
So Bob appreciate you bringing that up. And yeah, it's
a great act and it's doesn't hurt, doesn't cost anything,
but you're doing your part giving back. Phone lines are
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Six KO one one hundred three three zero kov What
do you do when you're attire?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I say, prioritize your health absolutely, just so that you
don't have to be preoccupied with going to all these
visits and you should be enjoying yourself and sitting down
with your family, maybe taking some trips, maybe getting a
new career, are some hobbies, building things. I mean, it
can be a really fun time of your life, a
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lot of reflection.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You've paid your dues.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And now you're trying to benefit from everything that you
have done all these years paid into the system. Right,
So yes, you should prioritize your health as much as possible.
And again, it's not that hard in my opinion, if
you want to be healthy, it's not that difficult, but
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it does seem to be difficult for a lot of patients.
And again, if you listen to show, you know that
one thing that we recommend to you, you got to
eat right. I mean, it's really that simple. You've got
to eat right. And again, I think the idea of
eating three meals a day, in my opinion, is a
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little excessive and that you need to cut down the
frequency of eating meals per day. That's a very simple start,
is to eat less per day, not.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Three meals a day. Maybe twice a day would be
a good start.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Maybe even getting down there once a day would be
something that you can do. And that's really all you
would have to do just as a start, and then
to engage in some sort of physical activity, whatever that is.
If you want to join a gym, then that's fine.
You don't have to. There's a lot of personal home
equipment that you can purchase that works very well. Like
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a bicycle. Get a Huffy bicycle. I don't even know
if they make those anymore. Those are the brand when
I was coming up, a Huffey bicycle. But yeah, you
can go down the Walmart or Target or your local
business and yeah you can get your little bike. It
doesn't really cost that much and go pedal, not an
(25:14):
e bike. Some of my patients have et bikes. Right,
These electric bikes that you see out there now that
are almost like mopeds, are almost like motorcycles in terms
of how fast they are.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And but you got a pedal, Yeah gotta pedal.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But no, get on a bicycle and pedal for your neighborhood.
I mean, it's it can be fun. Put on some
music and listen to your favorite station or your favorite
album and just start pedaling. Even if you don't want
to do that, maybe it's a bad neighborhood, or it's
traffic is bad, or the roads are bad.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, get something to put in your house. A lot again,
A lot of Exeris equipment has.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Become more affordable now and you can get a little
bit in your house. And just again, twenty minutes is
really all we're asking for. Nothing strenuous. You don't have
to sweat or scream, or you don't have to hurt,
but certainly those activities increases your heart rate, and that's
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what we're looking for. Alvin from Wider how can we
help you?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yes, sir, I was wondering if you could speak on
fummy citrus Bergermont. It's a natural blood dinner. I just
wanted to see what your thoughts is on it. Me
and my wife take it and we were started on it.
Just wanted your opinion on it.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
What's the name again?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Its Burgermont.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Okay? Why did they put you on that blood center.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
It's just a natural blood dinner. It's a plant.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Okay. How long have you been taking it.
Speaker 10 (26:55):
To?
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Me and my wife been taking it for a couple
of years. Were price laying Chelsea. The doctor had started
his on it. It's just a natural blood.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Dinner, okay. And you get it from the store, Yes.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Sir, It's called citrus bergamont. It's a plant, yes, a
natural blood dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yes, and you were placed on it.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
You take a foul We were asked if we wanted
to try. We take a thousand milligrams a day. We
found out we couldn't take fifteen hundred. It will sit
there and move in your body all the time. You'll
hear it gurgling. My wife takes it just fine. I've
seen to mix half a bit and it's a capsule,
and I mix half a bit the capsule in my
coffee and half and I take because I just can't
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take it all night long. But I mean far as
sitting there churning, that's what it boils, and you're literally
in your body, but it feels like you feel it
circulating your blood anyway. I just wanted to ask your
opinion on it, that's all.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yeah, Alvin, I haven't heard about that particular food supplement,
our dietary supplement. There are a lot of supplements out
there that are considered blood thinners. Are medicines that patients
take to improve the circulation.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
There's several of them.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'm unfamiliar with all of them, but it sounds like
that's one of them. That you're taking and what your
provider recommended.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Is that correct? Yes, sir, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
And not all providers believe in all the different dietary
supplements out there, but some providers believe in some And
if it's something that your provider recommended to you, and
you have a good relationship with your provider, then yeah,
ball means you can try the product and if you
like it, then balm means you can keep taking it
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as long as it's not causing any harm, which it
sounds like it's not.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
You've been taking it for two years or so.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Do you have any health problems that are increasing your
risk of cardiovascal disease?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Why do you feel like you need a blood center?
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Well, I'm sixty six, she's seventy four now and just
want to keep our blood circulating and don't have to
be on so much. Uh you know that's like semistatin
or it made me its semistatin I take. Uh they've
only got me on keen milligrams of uh give me
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uh my wife on cemu statin, but I'm on a
there it is uh live a staaten. I love it,
but I mean it's just it's not that high of
a dozo. It's just it's your blood circulating, that's all.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Okay, And you don't take anything like aspirin or plavix
or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Have you had any sort of cardiovascular.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Events in your lifetime?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Okay, what's it I'm aware of?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Okay, Well, awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, it sounds like everything is working out. And certainly
taking a blood in and reduces your risk of a
cardiovascular vent. But certainly we still need to prioritize that
blood pressure, that cholesterol, and that blood sugar. So we
still want you to be cognitiant of that and aware
of that. And again it all starts with that diet
(30:18):
and a little exercise.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Do you feel like you're eating.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
A good diet and staying physically active.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
We only eat two meals a day, is like you said,
We've done that for years.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
It's just it's just.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
That's the only way I can carry I have a
bad back, so that's the only way I can carry
the weight. There's to only two meals a day, you know,
I'll stay right at two hundred or actually one ninety
five is what I've seen to carry at my age. Yeah,
my wife's down to one hundred and fifty something pounds.
I just got her cut down and she just she's
(30:52):
what six foot seven eight, yeah, which is and like
I said, she's seventy seventy four years old. So and
I get her to exercise a little. She don't do
what I do.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
But yeah, I keep moving.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
I'll get up at four in the morning, go to
bed at eight. Mat I move all day, you know,
as much as I can.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well, awesome, congratulations. Yeah, yes, sir, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
That's all. I just wanted your opinion.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Thank you, Thank you. We appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And yeah, this particular blood enter that this caller was discussing,
I'm unfamiliar with. There are a lot of those supplements
out there, and from most American physicians and American healthcare professionals,
it's not items that they prioritize us learn. And again,
(31:43):
when all healthcare professions go through training, we learn sort
of a basic amount of medical information. We get introduced
to that, and they want us to know certain amounts
of medical information to get our paperwork and sign off
on us that we're not enough to take care of
patients and when we get our license, and most of
(32:04):
those sort of items that this patient was talking about
is never really introduced to us. But certainly when healthcare
professionals get out in the real world, they get out
in the open market, they might get exposed to certain
have certain experiences, or get exposed to certain bodies of
information that impresses them, and they want to include that
(32:28):
into their practice of medicine, and they then introduced that
to their patients. Which is why one doctor does this,
another doctor might do another thing. It all depends on
that exposure and the experience and the mindset of your
healthcare professional. Which again that's what we love about this country.
(32:49):
Every individual is different, and that's why you can maybe
get a second third opinion if you have certain medical problems,
just because again best to leave. Doctors are all different,
we all think different. And this particular call of their
healthcare professional beliefs in this blood center sort of a
(33:09):
dietary supplement quote natural end quote to help keep the
blood then almost like their own version of a daily
aspirin or a blood tinner to reduce the chance of
having a cardiovascical event. And it's nothing I can argue
about because I don't know about it that much.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
And you have your relationship with the healthcare provider.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
That's the primary relationship, so you need to talk with
them and make a decision. I'm just sort of a
radio personality. I'm here on Saturdays just trying to help
you out. But certainly any decision you make, it should
be between you and your healthcare provider. And most of
these dietary supplements are fairly benign. They normally do not
(33:51):
cause harm, or I should say the risk is low.
But anything you put in your mouth, you know that
can cause harm. So if everything is working, why not.
But again, the thing I want to impress upon all
the listeners is this fantasy, and that's what I'm calling it.
This fantasy where you think that if I can just
(34:11):
take this one tablet or one pill or one liquid
or one whatever, and that is going to provide this
health shield, if you will, from causing any problems and
keep me alive as long as possible, and it's going
to be better than the guy across the street who
doesn't do what I do. If you believe in that
(34:35):
that one little food item is going to do that,
that's the fantasy. Because it is a fantasy, in my opinion,
you have to do some basic things, which is what
I was talking with the caller about are you eating right?
Are you exercising? Is your blood pressure cholester on sugar control?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
No, because if you're not doing those things, it's not
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Speaker 4 (40:19):
Good Marner, Doctor Levine. That was called extra question. I've
been experiencing somewhat like s if nuculs in the throat,
and I was wanting to ask you, is there anything
I can get over the counter to help loosen the
mucus of what can I do about that matter?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, Most of the time for that particular problem, I
just start off with over the counter anti histamines like
Clarton's Zyrtec Allegra. They are pretty good at sort of
drying up the secretions that you might have in your
long our throat. They are what we call it hista
means you non sedating. Ben and Real is the old standby.
(41:01):
It does the same thing, but it's a little sedating
and may not be tolerated during the day. But certainly
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Maybe a children's does. But I normally just start off with.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Clarkson a Zyrtec daily and that normally.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Reduces the secretions enough so that it's not bothering you
that much.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
So that's what I recommend, okay, because I.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Take ten mini grams of the twenty four hour zerotech
every day for the sinus, and so I was just
wondering if there's something else that could be going on
with the sts mucus in the throat there without overstarting
you know, coughing to to resert the third area, so
(41:46):
I can just continue on the zero.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Take well.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
One thing that I sometimes recommend if you are taking
and a hiss me like zyrtech daily and you're not
achieving your goals, sometimes I'll increase it to twice a day.
I'll recommend that to my patients is take it twice.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
A day, okay instead of one. Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
People just need more of it, so that, yes, sir,
that is an option as well. Plus to have other
sort of allergy medications out there. One is called Monte
lucast or singular. The other one is called Zapfra lucast.
So these are prescription medications, so you may have to
go into.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Your healthcare provider to get that prescription.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
But yeah, you may just want to try taking two
of the zertech and see if that will help.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Yes, because I've been taking the z for years and
it has. I found it it has benefit me for
the sinus look problem that I have and it's tunable
for me. So I would appreciate the information of increasing
it twice a day. And thank you so much for
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All right, welcome back to Doctor Medical Aurlanta opening nine
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zero klv I. Toward the end of the show, when
I think all the callers and listeners who participated in
the show today, remember if there's a topic that you
would like me to talk about, you can call the
radio station or you can call my office and drop
(46:00):
off that information and we'll be happy to discuss the
topic of interest. Remember, the show is to help you
figure out what's best for you and your family. It's
very complicated out there. I did spend some time today
talking about, Hey, if you're retired or thinking about retirement
and just dreaming about the days of sleeping late and
(46:23):
doing whatever you want and just vegging out as we
used to say, eating and that includes eating and drinking
what you want. Right, you know you've been committed to
this job. Or you've made a lot of sacrifices and
now it's time to cash in all of your hard work.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Man, what do you do?
Speaker 1 (46:42):
And certainly i'm a doctor, I say, prioritize your health again,
because that is the one commodity that you need when
you're retired.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
To enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
If you have poor health and your older man, it's fun,
I'm telling you, I'll see there every day.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
It is miserable. It's a miserable.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
You can't travel, you're in pain all the time, you
can't hardly sleep, you can't interact with your grandkids. You
got to say no to bunch of things. And it's expensive,
and you're dealing with side effects to meds.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
And me it's not fun.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
So be thinking about that. If you're getting up in
your sixties and you're about to retire, your need to
prioritize that health and yes, start participating in sort of
some annual physicals. Go get you some basic blood work
and do some basic X rays. Basic stuff, right, And
it doesn't guarantee, but certainly it reduces your risk of
(47:43):
having some sort of surprise attack if you will, on
the human body, which again we see it every day.
But again you're less likely to have that, and again,
just play the odds.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
What's the most likely issue.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
It's cardiovascu disease, it's the cancers. So what can I
do to reduce my chance? And I did speak about
smokers and how if you've been smoking since you were
late teens, early twenties, and you've been doing your.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Fifty five fifty six and you're hitting it every day,
go get.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Your cat scan, which is how we do it now.
We don't do chest extrases anymore. Cat scans are better,
it's none, doesn't hurt. You, just lay on a table,
get a scam boom you out of there. To again,
pick up on lung cancers because lung cancer normally for
most patients, if it's diagnosi, it's normally more of.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
The later stages.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
And again that's the whole concept with cancer treatment right
now is we want to screen aggressively so that we
can catch it in the early stage because normally when
it's in the early stage we can do more about it.
Facings have better outcomes, and so we're trying to put
patients in that position.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
So that's the lung cancer screening as well as your.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Breasts your prostate, your colon cancer screening, and I know
that they're trying to make it more convenient. Again, just
remind you about these stool kits. A lot of people
are really buying into the stool kits.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
It comes to your house. It's called Colon Guard and
these are.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
For low risk patients that have no hissuy of colon cancer.
They have no physical symptoms to suggest colon cancer or
any other dash intestinal disease.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
But you need your screening, so this kit comes to
your house.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
You do it at you're convenience, doesn't hurt, you don't
have to take off from work, you don't have to
drink nothing. Super super convenience that a lot of people
are using it, and I believe in it. I've diagnosed
a couple of colon cancers using it and again just
to get the real colonoscle. We can sometimes be obstacle written,
just so many things in your way. You can't get
(49:46):
it done, and then years go buying, you don't get
it done, and then you end up with stage or
colon cancer. Thank you for joining for the show. Remember
don't drink and drive, eat some vegetables, drink some water
and we'll see guys next week.
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Take care of
Welcome South East Texas Internet radio listeners. Welcome to another
edition of the Doctor Lavine Medical Hour. I'm your weekly host,
Doctor Levigne, taking your phone calls live from the studios
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you figure out how to stay alive longer and healthier
(00:22):
and stay out of doctors' offices and don't have to
take any prescription medications and just enjoy your life being healthy.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
How do you do it?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
What's right? What's wrong? Here's so much information out there. God,
it's confusing, and yes, you need a medical degree to
figure it out. And sometimes even we get confused as
docs and as healthcare providers from as practitioners and physicians assistants,
and it does take some time to figure it out.
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And three to three zero kVA.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I would love to hear from you, chat with you,
talk with you, and see if we can help you
figure out how you can stay alive as well. As
you and your family, especially all my retirees, we talk
a lot about that in my office when I speak
to them, What are you going to do when you retire?
(01:26):
That's always something that I ask about. Your getting towards
sixty five or maybe a little older, and yeah, it's
it's time to hang it out. You've done your part,
you've paid your dues, you've worked twenty five thirty years
at some industry or in some industry, and yeah, it's
time to go do something else. Commit to yourself, commit
(01:49):
to your family, and what are you going to do
with your life? So it does sound fun that I
don't have to punch a clock and I don't have
to answer to anyone. I can just kind of wake
up and do whatever I want to do. And it
sounds fun, and it is fun for the first I
would say, three to six months, And this is based
(02:11):
on what my patients who are retired tell me, and
when we talk about that, it's fun. But after a
while it gets kind of boring just sitting around the house,
not doing anything, not being productive.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You're so conditioned to.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Have something to do, and honestly, the human body is
engineered that way. It needs a purpose. Each and every day,
on most days, a purpose to complete some tasks or
tasks whatever that might be. And certainly one thing that
I bring up to them is what about your health.
(02:50):
I mean, for twenty five thirty years, while you were
prioritizing the family and prioritizing the job and other things
and putting your health to the side, what about your health.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Let's prioritize your health. What can we.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Help you do now that you have all this free
time on your hands and it's up to you whatever
you do. So it is, in my opinion, a good
time to start prioritizing your health because who wants to
be retired and unhealthy. It's really not fun, it's not rewarding.
(03:25):
It's not the way you imagine your life would be
like once you retire. Is spending all your time at
the hospital emergency department or being hospitalized, or having a
fight with the pharmacy to get your prescription medicines, having
(03:45):
to call the doctor's office to get your prescription medicines. Yeah,
I get maybe going to the doctor maybe once or
twice a year just to kind of get a check up.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
And when you know, we.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Do recommend that there's still a lot of patients out
there that really don't have a doctor.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
They don't really go to the doctor. They don't really believe.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
In that whole prevention and go and get labs and
all that. I still meet these folks, especially in the hospital,
that really just don't go to the doctor for a
routine visit, meaning if they don't have anything wrong with him,
they don't feel like they need to go see a
healthcare professional, right, so they never go in the never
(04:28):
get mammograms, they never get routine blood work. They really
just don't buy into that whole system, which I understand.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It's same concern or same position as vaccines. Just some
folks who don't buy into taking vaccines for various reasons.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
That's why we love this country.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
We sort of get to decide for ourselves what we
want to do, what's good for our bodies, and if
we don't want to do it, then we shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Be forced to do it, right, That's why of.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
The country independent thinking and certainly going to the doctor
for routine visits. Yeah, some people just don't buy into it,
but I would say once a year would.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Be a good idea.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Just again, letting a healthcare professional listen to you, just
touch you, listen to your heart, listen to your lungs,
and just get some basic things just because a lot
of diseases, when they start again, they can cause changes
physically and changes in your blood work that can be
(05:37):
discovered that can really allow you to get ahead of
this disease or illness and have a good outcome, a
good prognosis versus not really doing your part and the
disease is discovered really in a later stage. And I'm
not saying that going to the doctor would necessarily guarant
(06:00):
and tea that nothing will happen to you, which is
not true either.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
It is a balance.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
But just like with wearing seat belts and driving the
speed limit and using your blinker to make a switch
in lanes, all those things decreases your chance of being
in a major car accident. But we all know that
you can follow the rules and you're just driving home from.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
The grocery store going to speed limit, you can still
get in an accident.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
That's sort of the same way I see some health
crisises that happens to an individual.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
They may have just been to the.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Doctor, had a quote good check up, everything was fine,
and then four weeks later they are in the hospital sick,
you know, fighting for their lives. So we do see
those scenarios, and again we're not magicians and we can't
see into the future. But healthcare professionals do their best
(07:03):
to put you in a position where you're less likely
to have an event or less likely to need being hospitalized.
And yes, if you have insurance, you know that the
insurance companies are becoming more engaged and becoming more involved
with again trying to educate you and put you in
(07:26):
a position.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Where you're less likely to have.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
A disease that's in its more later stages when it's diagnosed,
as well as like i say, preventing or reduced in
chance of having a cardiovascular event, which is still the
big problem in our country is cardiovascular disease. So we're
constantly working on that. So as you know, if again,
(07:52):
if you have insurance, they have healthcare professions coming out
to your home and sort of chatting and talking about
out what is going on with your health and just
reviewing everything in a very comfortable, relaxed environment your home.
You're not tense because you're waiting for the doctor for
(08:14):
an hour. And as you know, most healthcare professionals, they
have sort of a clock in their mind when they
visit with patients and certainly don't have as much time
as maybe you would like them to have. And so
insurance companies know that. Everyone knows that, but we try
to do our best and try.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
To get to all.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
The concerns of the patient as well as the concerns
of the healthcare world and insurance company. Again, as I mentioned,
they're sending healthcare professionals to doctors off I'm sorry to
patients homes to have a chat and review everything, make
sure the patient understands what's going on and what they need.
(08:59):
It's all documented. They get to keep sort of an
information sheets. I've seen folders sometimes that have like some
really good basic information just about certain disease processes or
things that are recommended for you, like routine X ray
screening exams like a mammogram or a PSA, or getting
(09:22):
your colonoscopy, and if you're smoking, getting a lung CT scan.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Again, we do that for smokers.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Now heavy smokers, for the most part, you have to
sort of breach a certain amount or a certain level
or intensity of smoking in order to qualify for these
lung cancer screening examinations, which again for heavy heavy smokers
normally starts about the age of fifty five is when
(09:53):
we start screening. But thankfully, thankfully, the insurance compan have
been really helpful and more liberal with approving a lot
of these CT scans that are being done to screen
for lung cancer.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So we really applaud them for.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Opening up the pocketbook and allowing us to do that
because sometimes a lot of our patients don't necessarily meet
the strict criteria to get that, but certainly putting them
in a mindset that they know they're engaging in a
bad habit smoking and that that significantly increases the chances
of developing cancer all cancers, by the way, but in
(10:38):
particular lung cancer, and certainly getting the patient engaged sooner
rather than later to get that mindset, Hey, I need
to start screening for lung cancer. I'm fifty five and
fifty six. I've been smoking since I was in my
twenties maybe my teens. I smoke every day. And that's
truly the more high risk patient is maybe someone they've
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picked up the cigarette or the habit in their teenage
years and they've just sort of been going at it
since then, year after year until their fifties, they've been
doing a pack or a pack of day, two packs
a day. I still meet those patients, not that many,
but I still meet them most of the time.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Most patients are sort of less than a pack.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Of day, maybe half a pack, maybe four or five
a day, so not as high risk. But again, it's
sort of the constant exposure to tobacco and the toxicity
of tobacco according to a lot of patients. It's certainly
something that I see very clearly, and patients who do
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smoke and those who don't smoke, it accelerates the aging
process significantly. So it's one of those things that I
certainly scream about as high as I can to my
patients who come in. They're trying to figure out, Hey,
I want to be healthy. I got grandkids, got a
new wife, and they got a new job, and you know,
(12:06):
I'm getting older, and I just I want to live forever.
But they're smoking. They could also be obese. They could
have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high sugar, all that
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
That we talk about all the time.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
They could have all of that, but the one, the
one habit, in my opinion, that really trumps everything is
the smoking habit. And so it's one thing that I
try and prioritize all the time with my patients if
they do smoke, is what can we do to help
you to get off these cigarettes? And yet it might
(12:41):
take you several attempts to stop smoking. I think a
lot of times patients do try to stop and it's
just too hard. It's too difficult. The physical sensation, the
mental sensation that they acquire when they are not able
to smoke, it's so strong, it's so negative, so uncomfortable,
(13:08):
that they just have to keep going. And in my experience,
I would say if the person is young, I would
say it's still in their twenties, maybe thirties, it's a
lot easier to stop smoking. But someone deep into their
late forties, early fifties, it's a lot harder. And I
guess again there's a physical and psychological connection with tobacco
(13:34):
that it's difficult to break that chain when you're in
your fifties, maybe you had your first stroke, you had
your first heart attack. I mean, it is a absolute must.
It is critical that you stop this habit, just because
continuing to smoke like that is only going to make
things worse. It's going to advance the disease, cardiovascal disease
(13:54):
or even cancer. Unfortunately, we do see patients that they
get dognessed with cancer, just devastating and they commit to
not smoking, but man, it's hard, and they come back
for the visit neess they're still hitting it and they're embarrassed,
they're shame. They know they should be better, and they
(14:16):
want to be a better person.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
We all want to be good people.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
We all want people to other people to think good
of us. But man, that can just be a huge
crutch on You just can't seem to find a solution
to get off the cigarettes, even though you know you
need to. You've had that stroke, you've had that heart attack.
All your family is staring at you and they're just
(14:39):
getting all upset and sort of encouraging you. You got to
do this, You got to do this for the family,
got to do it for you, and you try your
best and you still can't do it.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
So a lot of times you do need medication, and there.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Are a couple and there haven't really been a whole
lot of changes in the past several years with these
two medications that can help you sort of fight that
urge that you need to smoke. Just like with drinking,
you don't really talk a lot about that alcohol exposure
and those who are sort of struggling with their drinking.
(15:15):
There is medication out there in the market for that
as well, just like there is smoking, because a lot
of times there's just a strong physical connection to that,
there's a strong mental connection to it, And I mean,
you just need something to help you break that because
a lot of times if you don't have that, you're
not consuming that. It's just difficult, Like how am I
(15:38):
going to fill that gap with that? It's crazy, this void,
this psychological physical void that is hard to replace.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
When you're not doing that.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You're still going to work, you still got your responsibilities,
you still got your routine. And that was the way
you escaped back in the day before it became a problem.
Now it's a problem, like, oh man, it's tough. Hey
Bob from Bama, how can we help you?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Hey? Good morning? Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
You know, as Leonard says, one of the rules of the.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Laws about giving plasma.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
As opposed to giving is that.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
More dangerous to giving blood?
Speaker 5 (16:13):
You know, stuff like that, like if you're taking so
and so mad.
Speaker 6 (16:17):
Do not do it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
If you're a diabetic, do not do it. What's the danger?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Because I wasn't helping somebody, you know, get the money.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
It would be nice right right now?
Speaker 3 (16:28):
What the what's the rules about giving plasma plasma?
Speaker 2 (16:33):
What is what? What is the statement about plasma? I'm
educate me on that. What are they saying? Start on,
I'm asking you about plasma and giving given plasma. It's
like giving blood. It is simple, easy, dangerous what oh yeah,
like a blood transision.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Well, it just to donate, to donate blood, I mean
I think, yeah, that's a sort of an honorable act.
I mean we need blood every day, no question in
the hospital. I mean, man, it's critical that we keep.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
M well.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Plasma plasma donation is that a big deal?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
A big difference?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Do they They extract that out of the blood.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
Yeah, when anytime you donate blood, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I guess, I guess it's like oil or crude oil.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You know, they can break it down into several different
products that are used, and the same thing with donating
blood or donating plasma. The blood can be broken up
into different components that they use, like platelets are just
what we call packed RBC's p RBC's are there's coagulation
(17:45):
factors in the blood as well, so they call that
f FP. So yeah, just giving blood, you can sort
of break that down into three or four different components
when you just donate blood or donate plasmas.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
So I think it's.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Great, it's a great idea.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
Well but but struthtly giving a plasma donation, it's the
same procedure, correct, Yeah, okay, yeah, you just go there
and sit in a chair and they put ivy in
you and then yeah, you drain your blood basically.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah that's so.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
There's no Okay, that's it.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Well that's my question. Thanks for your great show, all right, brother,
we appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
And yeah, we don't talk a lot about blood donation
here on this show. It's we we should because whoever
is donating blood out there, thank you, thank you, thank you,
And we don't talk enough about donating blood. It's one
of those hospitable cts that you can do for your neighbor,
(18:55):
for your friend, for society. If you want to get back.
We talk a lot about getting your vaccine so that
you can do your part to protect your neighbor, your friend,
your community blood donation.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
God, that is huge, It's critical.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I can't tell you how much blood we are giving
people in the hospital every single day. And I'm just
at one hospital. I mean, all this blood being transfused
every single day is enormous every single day. And the
reason for that and this, you have to understand the
(19:34):
number one medical problem in our country are what Americans
are from. Y'all know this, right, cardiovascular disease. And how
do we treat cardiovascular disease blood dinners with medications that
don't allow your blood system to be as tightly controlled
(19:56):
in terms of preventing bleeding. We want the blood to
be a little bit slipp and so when it's a
little bit slippery, you tend to bleed more freely in
various organ sites, in particularly the gastro intestinal system, the bladder,
the skin. You know, when you get on those bloodthenders,
(20:17):
you start bruising everywhere in your arms. It looks terrible.
People hate it. Or you can have bleeding in your nose.
I mean, Americans are bleeding every day because of the
need to take blood thinners, you know them Aspirin, Plavix, Warfrin, kumidin, Brilent,
(20:40):
to all these eloquis serelto. I mean, these are the
big heavy hitters that we see every single day. They
make you bleed, and a lot of people bleed and
we got to give blood. It's happened every day. So
thank you for donating. And if it's something you've never done,
you want to give back to your community, to your family,
(21:02):
that is one thing that you can do donating some plasma.
So Bob appreciate you bringing that up. And yeah, it's
a great act and it's doesn't hurt, doesn't cost anything,
but you're doing your part giving back. Phone lines are
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Six KO one one hundred three three zero kov What
do you do when you're attire?
Speaker 1 (23:02):
I say, prioritize your health absolutely, just so that you
don't have to be preoccupied with going to all these
visits and you should be enjoying yourself and sitting down
with your family, maybe taking some trips, maybe getting a
new career, are some hobbies, building things. I mean, it
can be a really fun time of your life, a
(23:25):
lot of reflection.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
You've paid your dues.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And now you're trying to benefit from everything that you
have done all these years paid into the system. Right,
So yes, you should prioritize your health as much as possible.
And again, it's not that hard in my opinion, if
you want to be healthy, it's not that difficult, but
(23:49):
it does seem to be difficult for a lot of patients.
And again, if you listen to show, you know that
one thing that we recommend to you, you got to
eat right. I mean, it's really that simple. You've got
to eat right. And again, I think the idea of
eating three meals a day, in my opinion, is a
(24:13):
little excessive and that you need to cut down the
frequency of eating meals per day. That's a very simple start,
is to eat less per day, not.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Three meals a day. Maybe twice a day would be
a good start.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Maybe even getting down there once a day would be
something that you can do. And that's really all you
would have to do just as a start, and then
to engage in some sort of physical activity, whatever that is.
If you want to join a gym, then that's fine.
You don't have to. There's a lot of personal home
equipment that you can purchase that works very well. Like
(24:52):
a bicycle. Get a Huffy bicycle. I don't even know
if they make those anymore. Those are the brand when
I was coming up, a Huffey bicycle. But yeah, you
can go down the Walmart or Target or your local
business and yeah you can get your little bike. It
doesn't really cost that much and go pedal, not an
(25:14):
e bike. Some of my patients have et bikes. Right,
These electric bikes that you see out there now that
are almost like mopeds, are almost like motorcycles in terms
of how fast they are.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
And but you got a pedal, Yeah gotta pedal.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
But no, get on a bicycle and pedal for your neighborhood.
I mean, it's it can be fun. Put on some
music and listen to your favorite station or your favorite
album and just start pedaling. Even if you don't want
to do that, maybe it's a bad neighborhood, or it's
traffic is bad, or the roads are bad.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, get something to put in your house. A lot again,
A lot of Exeris equipment has.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Become more affordable now and you can get a little
bit in your house. And just again, twenty minutes is
really all we're asking for. Nothing strenuous. You don't have
to sweat or scream, or you don't have to hurt,
but certainly those activities increases your heart rate, and that's
(26:17):
what we're looking for. Alvin from Wider how can we
help you?
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yes, sir, I was wondering if you could speak on
fummy citrus Bergermont. It's a natural blood dinner. I just
wanted to see what your thoughts is on it. Me
and my wife take it and we were started on it.
Just wanted your opinion on it.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
What's the name again?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
Its Burgermont.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Okay? Why did they put you on that blood center.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
It's just a natural blood dinner. It's a plant.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Okay. How long have you been taking it.
Speaker 10 (26:55):
To?
Speaker 5 (26:55):
Me and my wife been taking it for a couple
of years. Were price laying Chelsea. The doctor had started
his on it. It's just a natural blood.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Dinner, okay. And you get it from the store, Yes.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Sir, It's called citrus bergamont. It's a plant, yes, a
natural blood dinner.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Yes, and you were placed on it.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
You take a foul We were asked if we wanted
to try. We take a thousand milligrams a day. We
found out we couldn't take fifteen hundred. It will sit
there and move in your body all the time. You'll
hear it gurgling. My wife takes it just fine. I've
seen to mix half a bit and it's a capsule,
and I mix half a bit the capsule in my
coffee and half and I take because I just can't
(27:41):
take it all night long. But I mean far as
sitting there churning, that's what it boils, and you're literally
in your body, but it feels like you feel it
circulating your blood anyway. I just wanted to ask your
opinion on it, that's all.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Yeah, Alvin, I haven't heard about that particular food supplement,
our dietary supplement. There are a lot of supplements out
there that are considered blood thinners. Are medicines that patients
take to improve the circulation.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
There's several of them.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
I'm unfamiliar with all of them, but it sounds like
that's one of them. That you're taking and what your
provider recommended.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Is that correct? Yes, sir, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
And not all providers believe in all the different dietary
supplements out there, but some providers believe in some And
if it's something that your provider recommended to you, and
you have a good relationship with your provider, then yeah,
ball means you can try the product and if you
like it, then balm means you can keep taking it
(28:47):
as long as it's not causing any harm, which it
sounds like it's not.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
You've been taking it for two years or so.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Do you have any health problems that are increasing your
risk of cardiovascal disease?
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Why do you feel like you need a blood center?
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Well, I'm sixty six, she's seventy four now and just
want to keep our blood circulating and don't have to
be on so much. Uh you know that's like semistatin
or it made me its semistatin I take. Uh they've
only got me on keen milligrams of uh give me
(29:23):
uh my wife on cemu statin, but I'm on a
there it is uh live a staaten. I love it,
but I mean it's just it's not that high of
a dozo. It's just it's your blood circulating, that's all.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Okay, And you don't take anything like aspirin or plavix
or anything like that.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Have you had any sort of cardiovascular.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Events in your lifetime?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Okay, what's it I'm aware of?
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Okay, Well, awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, it sounds like everything is working out. And certainly
taking a blood in and reduces your risk of a
cardiovascular vent. But certainly we still need to prioritize that
blood pressure, that cholesterol, and that blood sugar. So we
still want you to be cognitiant of that and aware
of that. And again it all starts with that diet
(30:18):
and a little exercise.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Do you feel like you're eating.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
A good diet and staying physically active.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
We only eat two meals a day, is like you said,
We've done that for years.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
It's just it's just.
Speaker 5 (30:30):
That's the only way I can carry I have a
bad back, so that's the only way I can carry
the weight. There's to only two meals a day, you know,
I'll stay right at two hundred or actually one ninety
five is what I've seen to carry at my age. Yeah,
my wife's down to one hundred and fifty something pounds.
I just got her cut down and she just she's
(30:52):
what six foot seven eight, yeah, which is and like
I said, she's seventy seventy four years old. So and
I get her to exercise a little. She don't do
what I do.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
But yeah, I keep moving.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
I'll get up at four in the morning, go to
bed at eight. Mat I move all day, you know,
as much as I can.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Well, awesome, congratulations. Yeah, yes, sir, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
That's all. I just wanted your opinion.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Thank you, Thank you. We appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And yeah, this particular blood enter that this caller was discussing,
I'm unfamiliar with. There are a lot of those supplements
out there, and from most American physicians and American healthcare professionals,
it's not items that they prioritize us learn. And again,
(31:43):
when all healthcare professions go through training, we learn sort
of a basic amount of medical information. We get introduced
to that, and they want us to know certain amounts
of medical information to get our paperwork and sign off
on us that we're not enough to take care of
patients and when we get our license, and most of
(32:04):
those sort of items that this patient was talking about
is never really introduced to us. But certainly when healthcare
professionals get out in the real world, they get out
in the open market, they might get exposed to certain
have certain experiences, or get exposed to certain bodies of
information that impresses them, and they want to include that
(32:28):
into their practice of medicine, and they then introduced that
to their patients. Which is why one doctor does this,
another doctor might do another thing. It all depends on
that exposure and the experience and the mindset of your
healthcare professional. Which again that's what we love about this country.
(32:49):
Every individual is different, and that's why you can maybe
get a second third opinion if you have certain medical problems,
just because again best to leave. Doctors are all different,
we all think different. And this particular call of their
healthcare professional beliefs in this blood center sort of a
(33:09):
dietary supplement quote natural end quote to help keep the
blood then almost like their own version of a daily
aspirin or a blood tinner to reduce the chance of
having a cardiovascical event. And it's nothing I can argue
about because I don't know about it that much.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
And you have your relationship with the healthcare provider.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
That's the primary relationship, so you need to talk with
them and make a decision. I'm just sort of a
radio personality. I'm here on Saturdays just trying to help
you out. But certainly any decision you make, it should
be between you and your healthcare provider. And most of
these dietary supplements are fairly benign. They normally do not
(33:51):
cause harm, or I should say the risk is low.
But anything you put in your mouth, you know that
can cause harm. So if everything is working, why not.
But again, the thing I want to impress upon all
the listeners is this fantasy, and that's what I'm calling it.
This fantasy where you think that if I can just
(34:11):
take this one tablet or one pill or one liquid
or one whatever, and that is going to provide this
health shield, if you will, from causing any problems and
keep me alive as long as possible, and it's going
to be better than the guy across the street who
doesn't do what I do. If you believe in that
(34:35):
that one little food item is going to do that,
that's the fantasy. Because it is a fantasy, in my opinion,
you have to do some basic things, which is what
I was talking with the caller about are you eating right?
Are you exercising? Is your blood pressure cholester on sugar control?
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
No, because if you're not doing those things, it's not
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This is Loan Ryan coming to you from Americanstandard Air
dot com studios with news Talk five sixty KLVI.
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You're listening to Doctor Levine's Medical Hour on news Talk
five sixty KLVII. To join the conversation, call eight nine
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All right, welcome back to the Doctors and Medical Our
phone line to open.
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We have Pam from Beaumont.
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How can we help you?
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Good Marner, Doctor Levine. That was called extra question. I've
been experiencing somewhat like s if nuculs in the throat,
and I was wanting to ask you, is there anything
I can get over the counter to help loosen the
mucus of what can I do about that matter?
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Yeah, Most of the time for that particular problem, I
just start off with over the counter anti histamines like
Clarton's Zyrtec Allegra. They are pretty good at sort of
drying up the secretions that you might have in your
long our throat. They are what we call it hista
means you non sedating. Ben and Real is the old standby.
(41:01):
It does the same thing, but it's a little sedating
and may not be tolerated during the day. But certainly
that's another option that's just playing on Benaitl twenty five milligrams.
Maybe a children's does. But I normally just start off with.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
Clarkson a Zyrtec daily and that normally.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Reduces the secretions enough so that it's not bothering you
that much.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
So that's what I recommend, okay, because I.
Speaker 4 (41:26):
Take ten mini grams of the twenty four hour zerotech
every day for the sinus, and so I was just
wondering if there's something else that could be going on
with the sts mucus in the throat there without overstarting
you know, coughing to to resert the third area, so
(41:46):
I can just continue on the zero.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Take well.
Speaker 1 (41:49):
One thing that I sometimes recommend if you are taking
and a hiss me like zyrtech daily and you're not
achieving your goals, sometimes I'll increase it to twice a day.
I'll recommend that to my patients is take it twice.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
A day, okay instead of one. Okay.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
People just need more of it, so that, yes, sir,
that is an option as well. Plus to have other
sort of allergy medications out there. One is called Monte
lucast or singular. The other one is called Zapfra lucast.
So these are prescription medications, so you may have to
go into.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Your healthcare provider to get that prescription.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
But yeah, you may just want to try taking two
of the zertech and see if that will help.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
Yes, because I've been taking the z for years and
it has. I found it it has benefit me for
the sinus look problem that I have and it's tunable
for me. So I would appreciate the information of increasing
it twice a day. And thank you so much for
your help. Doctor Levina Tail.
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This is Levin.
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I say hello, huh, we'll do it.
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Happy New Year to you, and on our last break
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I'll be back in two minutes.
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Talk five sixty KLBI. To join the conversation, call eight
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All right, welcome back to Doctor Medical Aurlanta opening nine
to six kV I one hundred and three to three
zero klv I. Toward the end of the show, when
I think all the callers and listeners who participated in
the show today, remember if there's a topic that you
would like me to talk about, you can call the
radio station or you can call my office and drop
(46:00):
off that information and we'll be happy to discuss the
topic of interest. Remember, the show is to help you
figure out what's best for you and your family. It's
very complicated out there. I did spend some time today
talking about, Hey, if you're retired or thinking about retirement
and just dreaming about the days of sleeping late and
(46:23):
doing whatever you want and just vegging out as we
used to say, eating and that includes eating and drinking
what you want. Right, you know you've been committed to
this job. Or you've made a lot of sacrifices and
now it's time to cash in all of your hard work.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Man, what do you do?
Speaker 1 (46:42):
And certainly i'm a doctor, I say, prioritize your health again,
because that is the one commodity that you need when
you're retired.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
To enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (46:56):
If you have poor health and your older man, it's fun,
I'm telling you, I'll see there every day.
Speaker 2 (47:00):
It is miserable. It's a miserable.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
You can't travel, you're in pain all the time, you
can't hardly sleep, you can't interact with your grandkids. You
got to say no to bunch of things. And it's expensive,
and you're dealing with side effects to meds.
Speaker 2 (47:16):
And me it's not fun.
Speaker 1 (47:20):
So be thinking about that. If you're getting up in
your sixties and you're about to retire, your need to
prioritize that health and yes, start participating in sort of
some annual physicals. Go get you some basic blood work
and do some basic X rays. Basic stuff, right, And
it doesn't guarantee, but certainly it reduces your risk of
(47:43):
having some sort of surprise attack if you will, on
the human body, which again we see it every day.
But again you're less likely to have that, and again,
just play the odds.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
What's the most likely issue.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
It's cardiovascu disease, it's the cancers. So what can I
do to reduce my chance? And I did speak about
smokers and how if you've been smoking since you were
late teens, early twenties, and you've been doing your.
Speaker 2 (48:09):
Fifty five fifty six and you're hitting it every day,
go get.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
Your cat scan, which is how we do it now.
We don't do chest extrases anymore. Cat scans are better,
it's none, doesn't hurt. You, just lay on a table,
get a scam boom you out of there. To again,
pick up on lung cancers because lung cancer normally for
most patients, if it's diagnosi, it's normally more of.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
The later stages.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
And again that's the whole concept with cancer treatment right
now is we want to screen aggressively so that we
can catch it in the early stage because normally when
it's in the early stage we can do more about it.
Facings have better outcomes, and so we're trying to put
patients in that position.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
So that's the lung cancer screening as well as your.
Speaker 1 (48:54):
Breasts your prostate, your colon cancer screening, and I know
that they're trying to make it more convenient. Again, just
remind you about these stool kits. A lot of people
are really buying into the stool kits.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
It comes to your house. It's called Colon Guard and
these are.
Speaker 1 (49:10):
For low risk patients that have no hissuy of colon cancer.
They have no physical symptoms to suggest colon cancer or
any other dash intestinal disease.
Speaker 2 (49:20):
But you need your screening, so this kit comes to
your house.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
You do it at you're convenience, doesn't hurt, you don't
have to take off from work, you don't have to
drink nothing. Super super convenience that a lot of people
are using it, and I believe in it. I've diagnosed
a couple of colon cancers using it and again just
to get the real colonoscle. We can sometimes be obstacle written,
just so many things in your way. You can't get
(49:46):
it done, and then years go buying, you don't get
it done, and then you end up with stage or
colon cancer. Thank you for joining for the show. Remember
don't drink and drive, eat some vegetables, drink some water
and we'll see guys next week.
Speaker 2 (49:59):
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