April 7, 2026 • 45 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):
All right, welcome Southeast Sex's inter radio listeners. Welcome to
another edition of the Doctor Levine Medical Hour. I am
your host, Doctor Levine, coming to you live from the
studios of KLVI here in Beaumont, Texas, cross Street from
Park to I'm all taking your phone calls answering questions
about healthcare and medicine and how to stay alive as
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long as possible and as healthy as possible without having
to go see a doctor every two to three weeks
and have a sack of medications and be in the
hospital every other month.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Who wants that? What a drag?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
God, just so exhausting. Phone lines are open eight nine
six klv I one hundred and three to three zero
klv I. You do have to put or invest more
time into it as you get older. Absolutely, somebody lied
to us when they said the golden years you can
enjoy your life, which you can.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
But you have to put more time into it. No question.
That does come a little bit more cumbersome.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
To feel good again, you have to prioritize it and
do your part. And it's not simply by going to
the store and getting some prepackaged capsule or tablet or
magic liquid that's packaged with a story behind it that
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was seen on TV or your phone that promises X,
Y and Z. It's more than that. I just don't
want you to be fooled. It's a fantasy to think
that you can not do your part and you can
just pop something in your mouth and voila. It just
erases all the things that you're not doing. But the
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thing about it is, it doesn't It's not that hard
in my opinion, if you just kind of do some basic,
simple things. So that's what I try to promote to
my patience in the office and on air. It's not
that hard to you just have to prioritize it and
make it happen anyway. Phone lines are open eight nine
six kov I one one hundred and three three zero
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kov I.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
We'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
In the meantime, we have a guest this morning that
decided to get out of bed this morning. You've been
busy at the office and busy at the house, but
she just decided to. It's got so much energy packed
into her she wanted to share some of that energy
with you this morning. So she came in this morning
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to talk with you. Good morning, missus Levine, how are
you good morning?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I'm good. It's a holiday weekend. So I hated Easter.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, yes, holiday, Yeah, Happy Easter to all of the
listeners out there.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Are Easter?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Are we prepared for Easter?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
What do we need to do?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I think when I was growing up, we would just
get like one hundred eggs and that's a lot. Yeah,
we would what do you call that? Color them, dye
them a piece.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
We get to go hunt fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Right, the die what was the name of the the
dye company was such a.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Popular die a s. Maybe I can't remember. If anyone remembers,
let us know.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I can't remember, but I do remember the vinegar smell
and dropping those little capsules and the bowl vinegar and
let them fizz and you develop colored water.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And then you would drop the.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Boiled eggs, so you would have to boil them first.
So that was an all day thing, just getting a
bunch of eggs boiled.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Get the kids that had the little stickers on them.
You can make it really cute.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yes, and the little copper wire holder.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And then the little cardboards.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yes, things you could stick them into make them like
really special.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's correct.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
What about the plan like it was a surprise.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, the big chocolate Bunny. Yeah, we did that one too,
The big chocolate bunny with the big candy eyes.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And the big baskets. The baskets were all those were
those were good.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I had all those goodies and treats in them. That's
when you could eat it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Right. Now you get old, you can't eat hardly nothing
but lettuce and vegetables. Drink water because.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
To drink carrot on behalf of the bunny.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah. Otherwise you feel bad, you're sleepy, you got back pain, headaches,
fall asleep, especially after lunch.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You eat the big lunch and then man one or
two o'clock, you're ready to take a good nap.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That's about thom it's for, you know. The Easter egg hunt.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, those were fun though, the Easter egg hunts and
just all the excitement of trying to find the egg
and then it was a contest, right who you got
the most eggs and that was a win win. And
then everyone was sort of dressed up in their best,
as I say, their Sunday best. Most ladies would have
big hats on and just a lot of flamboyant clothing
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and you would maybe wear a suit to church, whereas
other days you may be in nice shirts and slacks.
And every Sunday, though, I remember that you'd get wear
your dress shoes and you just sort of get dressed
up to go to church. And then but Easter Sunday
was the big Sunday for church other than Christmas. But
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Christmas wasn't really that much involved with dressing up, but
certainly Easter is. I guess Easter is the point of
new beginnings or beginning of spring, new rebirth. That that's
all those concepts kind of come and play with spring.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Do you remember what.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Which which one church? Yeah, Mother Mercy, yes, ma'am. Yeah,
I had I had good time there, Mother Mercy, And yeah,
I used to read the scriptures and yeah, it was
fun and I learned a lot there going to that church.
And yeah, I do remember dressing up and all the
Easter egg hunts. Did you ever win any contest when
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you were growing up?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I doubt it because I've always been the kind of
person that I wanted everybody else to find the most eggs,
and I would help them find the most eggs.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You're helping everybody find the eggs.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I was helping everybody find the eggs, so wasn't very
competitive like that, always tried to help other people.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, normally those those Easter egg bags are not that
healthy for you. You'd have to sparingly eat the contents
of an Easter egg bag.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But eggs are pretty good for you.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Know, eggs have well, not back in our day, I remember,
I know.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's what I was going to say, is it They
have sort of come around full circle eggs. I mean, yeah,
I guess eggs have one point. They were bad for
you and you couldn't eat them. They had a lot
of cholesterol in them, and that's when the whole movement
towards just eating egg whites came out. Right, don't eat
the yolk. It has a lot of bad cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
But we've come full circle again. Now they're okay for you. Yes,
that's what the experts say. Now we just want to
limit the amount of that to about three a day.
I think that's what they say. And certainly it depends
on how you prepare the eggs. Certainly don't want to
put a lot of things in the eggs that are
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not so good for you.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Just the egg itself. Scrambled eggs.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Are eggs over easy, just with a little salt and pepper,
that would be the best way to do it. I
have promoted omelets. That's a good breakfast for even diabetic patients,
patients with chronic medical illnesses.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
What would you vegetable omelet?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Well, just you know, eggs and then various vegetables. I
think most people familiar with mushrooms.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And green onion, bell pepper, green onion. But honestly, you
could put anything in there, right, Tomato.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
An easter bunny, chocolate bunny.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Not anything mix that in there.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I have some chocolate for breakfast, but no, a vegetable
almad is a great way to start off your day.
It's got protein, it's got a lot of vitamins, especially
with the vegetables you put. Yes, it's very filling a
lot of times when you're eating a lot of starchy
breakfast items, which breakfast is primarily a high starch meal,
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you know, as it pertains to cereals and the pancakes
of waffles, the muffins toast are getting Yes, let's see
the jams, the syrups, that's all sort of breakfast juices, right,
that's all part of breakfast items. You go to a
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hotel or you go to a conference and they have
the quote Continental breakfast, and it's primarily what it is, right, croissants.
It's just full of cereal, yeah, box the cereals that's warm,
the little Yeah, that stuff normally will kind of put
you to sleep, put you back to sleep.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You just woke up, and that'll put you back older exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, when you're young, twenties thirties, man, you can just
blow and go, right. I mean you can eat all
that and maybe not even get any sleep the previous morning. Right,
you could stay up all night and not get any sleep.
You could go and have a full day and not
feel bad. That is something that is very hard to
do now. I can feel that as a as an
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older person. I mean, sleep is so key, so important.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well, you do pull all nighters, but they're normally you're
at a hospital, so.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, they're technically not all nighters just because I do
get a few hours of sleep.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
When I was in medical sk go, yeah, I would
do all nighters all the time, especially preparing for tests.
We would I would have to do that and that
was again a lot of stress, but man, you did it.
Just because you felt like there was It was almost
fear like I better than I go to sleep with
so much material I have to cover, and you were
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just so nerved up just about not remembering something and
not being able to pass the test that it kept
you up.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
To be honest with.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
You, did you always pass?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'm here, right, that.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah I did. I did all right. I mean I
got through it.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I wasn't at that top of my class, but well, yeah,
I think I was in the middle. I think in
terms of performance, I was kind of in the middle
of the class. Really, I was in the middle of Yeah, yeah,
I was. I was in the middle, and I was
fine with that. Again, you have to understand some fields
of medicine are more competitive, you know, like a dermatology
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or normally these surgical residencies are very competitive, and if
you want to get into those sorts of types of doctrine,
you have to be a high performer throughout your medical
training just because that's just what it requires. That's highly
that's a popular field of medicine to get into, so
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they have to better figure out who to choose, who
not to choose, and honestly, you know, most surgeons, derm doctors,
E and T all those subspecialises. I mean, these are
pretty sharp doctors and they've gone through a lot to
get to the point that there that there are.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I think they have to have high stamina, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Oh, no question.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yes, And a lot has changed though there's certain as
we know, there has a.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Lot that's changed in medical training.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I mean there's a lot of emphasis on time management,
not being overworked, not being burned out. That's just a
new way of doing things as it pertains to training
medical professionals work life balance. Absolutely. When when we were
coming through, you and I were coming through, that concept
was just kind of starting.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It was new.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
There was a lot of conversation about it. We knew
we should we know we should do it because it
seems to help. But it was still sort of that
old mentality that man, you just went to work and
you just grinded it out until it was finished, no
matter how late you had to go, how late you
had to stay there, how long you had to stay up,
you just had to do the job. So that that
mindset has sort of faded years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I think in medicine it's never done. You just have
to figure out a safe place to step back and
know that it'll be right there tomorrow when you wake back. Correct, absolutely,
that's never ending, ongoing.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Correct, this is a medical show, though, you need to
be talking about medicine.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Well, maybe the easter bunny sick this morning.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Everyone's getting ready for that. It's so exciting.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh, it's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Phone lines that open eight nine to six kfy I
won one hundred and three to three zero kof I
was sitting here talking with Miss Levine. Anything new going
on the office.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
A few things are new. You know.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
We talked about this a few weeks ago, a few
shows ago about brain scans. So it's a really cool
brain scan.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, so you know as.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, as we age memory, I'm doc my memory is gone.
I'm worried.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Should I take any supplements over the counter? Send some
commercials on TV? Are those supplements good for me? Should
I start taking those? I'm starting to forget things. I
have to write things down.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Scan, I mean, you know, do you.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well? The supplement market is doing very well right now
in this country for a lot of different reasons, and
I've mentioned a few of them, but somebody must believe
in them out there, because they're selling a lot of
supplement to every question.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah, what if you do have a deficiency though in
some of those categories.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
By all means, if you have a proven known deficiency
of vitamins or certain minerals, by all means, yeah, replace it.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Then would you go more prescription or no? No, it
doesn't matter as long as you replace it exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Okay, yeah, I think that, and there are some deficiencies
out there that we prioritize with patients. Vitamin D was
real hot several years ago in terms of checking it
replacing it in your BS. B vitamins are something to
be thought about, especially if you've had gastric surgery or
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any gastro intestinal problem. The B vitamins are a vitamin
to prioritize and check again elderly patients. Vitamin D low
Vitamin D used to be very popular when we used
to check it and replace it, and it's sort of
lost traction there, got sort of lost in all of
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the other issues that we deal with as it pertains
to elder patients. But certainly, anytime someone wants to check
their vitamins, Vitamin D, vitamin B B twelve B one
or even the what they call fat soluble vitamins, vitamin A,
k C. We can check those, but normally, if your
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cash intestlo system is working and you're pretty much eating
what you would call typical American food hamburgers, a lot
of the stuff is fortified now, like the bread and
the meats and sort of the more processed foods we
talk a lot about that they've sort of added in there,
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and so it's in there, it's not the natural stuff,
which if your patient of mine, or if you listen
to my show, we would rather you eat your vitamins
and minerals rather than go to a store and purchase
man made vitamins and pills and capsules. We would rather
you go to a GB or market basket and go
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to the produce section.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's where it's all at.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Go to the nuts section and eat some nuts, or
go to the whole grain section where the rice is
sold and get you some quene wa or some buckwheat
or millet.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
That's where all that stuff is.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You can also think about the other food items that
are good for you, and all of that have beans.
I forgot about good old fashioned beans, red beans, black beans, lentils, lagoons.
All that's garlic That's what I was trying to get on.
My garlic is packed full of vitamins. Your garlic, it's
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a little bit it's a little bit hard to con
every day. I mean it has a very strong texture,
very strong taste to it when you swallow it. So
I'm not opposed to I just hadn't been to the store.
Hey Bob from Mauriceville. How can we help you?
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Yes, sir, you as a doctor, how do you communicate
to a patient that they need to lose weight? And
how would you what would you suggest to a spouse
that needs to communicate the same thing.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well, yeah, communication is very important, Bob.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And for me personally, I try not to make patients
feel like they're a bad person or that they're a
poor decision maker. I try to keep it on a
friendly level and more of a as an advisor. Like
you know, they're here for a visit and we're just
sort of chatting about what are some things that we
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recommend for you to do as you leave the door,
some things that you think about for the next in
between the time that we're we're seeing you every three
months every six months, so I make it brief too.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I don't try to be too.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Long, because a lot of times if you talk too
much to patients they kind of churn you off.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
After a while.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
They're just really ready to get out of there. They're tired,
they got a lot of things on their agenda for
the days.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
It also gets to be too much to remember, it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Does, so I just try to make it very short,
very sweet. But I try to make try not to
make them feel bad, because they get enough of that
throughout the day. So I try to present in a
very friendly, just mindful manner that hey, we really want
or recommend you do this or that, and he's these
are some suggestions I have for you.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Good luck to you, because it's.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
It's hard out there to eat right and do the
right things, as it pertains to a spouse. I mean,
it's really the same thing, right, just because spouses have
their own problems, their own agendas throughout the day. They're
trying to get through the day, just like you are
as a spouse. And I think, yeah, it's sort of
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part of your position as a spouse to offer some
helpful hints or advice. But you know, at the end
of the day's America, we like to make our own decisions.
We want to be our own person, and if we
want to eat that cheesecake, and we know we have diabetes,
if we want to eat it, then that's our personal right, right.
That's so common in this country. That's a mindset that
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is very prevalent in America. And so if you have
a spouse that's kind of peppering you with all this
advice about what to eat and what not to do.
After a while, it gets irritating to the other spouse,
and I don't think it's productive. I think it's counterproductive
because then there's some resentment that sort of sets in place,
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and some division that starts to be set in place.
So I say keep it, like, keep it to a minimum,
and then let your spouse kind of decide how they
want to do that and help them if they ask you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But after a while it.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Just turns into sort of hammering them and making them
feel bad and running them down. That's not good for
the relationship either.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's a struggle out there. You have to understand that.
How's that sound about.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
I agree with what you say, but my situation is
my wife has Parkinson's and its affect supermobility issues and
frequently she's fallen and it is a struggle for me
to get her up. There's no communications between her brain
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and her limbs, and it's lifting dead weight and I
don't know how to approach it other than directly, and
that's got me nowhere.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, I mean, I think, Bob, after a while, like
I say that, the other person sort of turns you
off and it becomes counterproductive, so that there is only
so much you can do, no question, even as a
healthcare professional, there's only so much we can do as well.
It does come down to a person deciding that this
is the party and that they have to do what's right.
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You know. I talked to patients all day long and
ask them, most of them what are you eating?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
What are you drinking?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I think most Americans understand what they have to
eat to be healthy, but for whatever reason, there's so
many obstacles to get to that, and they tend to
choose things that are wrong for them. That that is
an interesting issue in this country right now.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But I think right now, Bob, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You just have to be as helpful as possible with
your wife. It certainly if you're the one cooking, like
you said, she has some mobility issue, So a lot
of times the food preparation and even going to the
store falls on you. So that's pretty much where you
can make your impact is prioritizing cooking healthy things and
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eliminating bad food items. Don't bring them into the house
so that they cannot be eaten. So I think that's
probably where you can be most impactful with your wife
and her health is don't buy the sodas, don't buy
the juices, don't buy the snacks or pastries, even though
she likes them, not a good idea, right, So don't
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put them in the house. I mean most nutritionists and
healthcare professionals agree with that concept. Is try to create
some distance between the patient and food items that are
not good for them. But most patients with movement disorders,
which is what she has, that's what Parkinson's is grouped
in a movement disorder. Most of them, yes, they have
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weight gain issues just because they cannot move and they
become sedentaries. So all the research that we know says
and when you become sedentary, your weight will be an
issue and you have to really really be strict about
what you eat, I mean, eat minimal in that situation.
Probably just one time a day. It's really all you need.
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If you're sitting most of the day, that is plenty.
If you're eating more than one time a day a
lot of times and you're setentary, you're going to gain
some weight. And then the weight gain get this makes
it worse, right because you're having to carry all that
weight and that can exacerbate the movement disorder.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
So I see it a lot. It's a tough situation.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
So my advice, buddy is just be there for your wife,
you know, trying to hammer her. And like I said,
if you're the one cooking and getting the groceries, just
make your impact.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
At that point. All right, thank you, all right, Bob,
We appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And that's a very tough situation to be and be honest.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
With you, you.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Know, they hey, let's face I mean eating cake and
pies and ice cream, that's fun, right, It tastes so good.
And if you have no job and you know you're
sick and you're just sitting at home, you're bored. There's
nothing fun to do. You can't travel, you can't do anything.
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I mean, sometimes food and the food eating experience is
the most pleasurable aspect of your.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Day, your life.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Eat the cake, Eat the cake. And to take that
away from someone who's in this it's just tough.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I mean, what are you going to replace that with?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
And I think that's the issue a lot of times,
especially a spouse who's there, like, how can I help you?
I want you to enjoy life, I want you to
be happy. Well, go get me some cheesecake, Go get
me some vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
That's what's going to make me happy. I mean, how
can you say no to that?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And so a lot of times that's what happens that
spouse who is doing the cooking, who is going to
the grocery. And again this is just based on my
conversations with all my patients in these situations. This is
a lot of times what ends up happening is they
start buying the food and they give it to them
because that's what makes them happy. They just want their
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love one happy. They get it, but it can sort
of make things worse for you. So certainly understanding, God
bless you, and work hard to try and work against that.
Throwing a few vegetables in there, and I guess make
it simple too, you know, just stay away from simple things,
and the vitamin supplement is not going to correct all that, right,
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So don't run to the store and get your vitamins
and a while it's going to help all of that.
Phone lines are open eight done six kovy I one
one hundred and three to three zero, killofy. I'll be
back in two minutes. All right, welcome back to the
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talk about the medical Phone lines are open eight nine
to six kov one hundred three three zero kyo via.
I sitting here chatting with Missus Levine, my other half,
about brain scans as well as man, what do you
do when you know you're sedentary and you have to eat?
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Michael from Pasadena? How can we help you?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Oh? Good morning, a happy Easter.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Happy.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
I wanted to I heard you talk about the medical Minute.
When when is that.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
On medical Minute? I don't remember that? Do you do
you remember that?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Charlotte Michael, I don't remember mentioning that. When is that
on medical minute?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Yeah? You said it errors on you tape the Medical Minute?
Maybe is it? What was from an.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Older an older show older?
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Yeah? That was one question, But the main question I
had was when your parents passed away, they you know,
say in their eighties. How much of a determination is
that on on your age? My age, for instance, is
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that I'm caught picking, Uh can you outlive then? Or
how much? How how does that determine your lifespan? My lifespan?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
In other words, Well, yeah, Michael, in terms of the
medical minute, maybe he's just talking about ASCID doc segment
that we need.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, maybe that's what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, we we actually record that at the office. We
they normally come to the office every four or five
weeks and we kind of bang out four or five
episodes and then it's a recorded episode and then they
put that on the television. At When I first did
it years ago, when I first started it was live.
(27:53):
I used to go up there to the station channel
six and get on stage and and you know, I
would ask I'm sorry, answer questions. Some things changed in
the industry and so now it's recorded. So I do
that every four or five weeks there at the office.
So I'm happy to do that. Seems like patients still
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like it.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, I been what change was COVID.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, that was one big thing.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I didn't stopped going to the studios at the time,
and it was just all recorded at the time, I
used to do it on my computer, excellent and send
it in right. That's the way we used to do
it for about six or seven months. AnyWho, Michael, Yes,
family history is extremely important. We ask about that in
every patient that we interview because the diseases that run
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in your family sort of predict the diseases that you
will inherit. But certainly, yes, you can outlive your parents,
and you can also live less long.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Is that a word? Is that a phrase?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Word?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Then it's my word, thank you? Then your parents.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So just because yes, they they died in their eighties,
does not mean that it's destined that you're going to
die in your eighties. You might dine in your nineties,
you might die in your seventies. So there are a
lot of factors that go into when someone passes away.
So it's hard to say that, yes, doomsday in your eighties,
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it's going to be it. I mean, we have a
lot of patients who have stories like that where their
mother their father were still alive in their nineties, but
for whatever reason, they got stricken with the disease and
they didn't quite make it to the nineties.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So at the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
It doesn't really mean a whole lot, honestly, because you
are you, and there's a lot of factors that impact
your health that your family wasn't exposed to.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
They had their own journey. You have your own journey.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
So it's not that relevant in my opinion, at least
based on what I've seen, it's not that relevant.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
I know you have a lot of older patients, and
I just wonder how it compared to Yes, and now
that's on TV that you're talking about, and that would
be locally there.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah, it's a channel six.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
KFDM is the news station and I've been doing that
for eighteen eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
A long time. But do you have internet access?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yes, you can go to our website and you can
stream any of his past shows or even any of
his podcasts here that he does every Saturday morning, and
you can view them and watch them that way.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Okay, Well that's that would be your doctor Levine's website.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yes, it's If you have a pen and piece of paper,
I'll give you the website.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
And it's very easy to move around in. We made
it very simple.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It's w W W dot M S O n T
H I L E V I N E M D
dot com MD dot com and you go there and
(31:26):
you can, I think, choose podcast and it'll bring up
like his Acid doc and his radio show and all
the past commercials that he's done. It's it's enjoyable because
you have everyone that he's ever done archived there. Yeah,
(31:46):
it's it's all there, thank you very much. Yeah, and
it's it's extremely helpful, and it's you know, easy to
listen to, and it's it's fun. So I think you'll
enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I'm gonna check that out today, all right, Michael, We
appreciate your phone call.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Brother.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, go enjoy that. Get the family sit down popcorn.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
You think it needs to be a whole family affairs.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Absolutely, it's a lot of good information on this.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I'm sure the kids will be thrilled to do that.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I know, write down all that good information. Now, I'm
gonna check it out today.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I hadn't had I like a lot of heart, we'd
have done a lot of commercials over the years.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Both of us were huge family I mean not family, sorry,
community educators, and we really like to you know, impact
and try to help our community become a healthier them.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And you know, every now and then a patient coming in,
let's hey, doctor, vin, I'm here, so you can make
me a healthier me. They sort of remember the jingle
or the saying there yeah, which is yeah, part of
our slogan, Let's make a healthier you. That's what we
say on the end of our commercials, and that really
is is what we're trying to do. And I think
the keyword is you, just because everyone is so different
(33:03):
and as it pertains to how they react to just
about everything that we do, prescribing medicines, making diagnosses, food items,
all those supplements, and everyone is so different, and I
think that's what we're trying to emphasize a lot of
times when we talk with patients about but what we recommend,
(33:23):
we're like, we try to keep it in general terms,
and a lot of times, as you get older, it
is more important for you to sort of self discover
what works for you. I know, a lot of times
spaces come like doctor tell me what to do, Like, okay,
to some degree, I can, but at the end of
the day, I don't exactly know what's going to work
for you in terms of your food items. I know
(33:44):
some general things, and that's what I try to keep
it at. Hey, Terry from Orange, how can we help you?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Well, I appreciate you taking a call. Yes, sir, we
have a caregiver company and what be able. We run
into a gentleman that has a disease similar to Parkinson's
and he's having some issues to where for eating, and
(34:15):
we need a I need to figure out and it
may not be the right show. Where can someone like
that who need some help get some state assistance? Is
that a question? I can you know? Even asking your show.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I would probably just me running the office and doing
that part of it. Maybe research if Parkinson's has a
website to where they offer that type of thing to
patients who have Parkinson's. A lot of times the disease
itself will have all kinds of avenues of support, and.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I agree with that.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Yeah, resources and all kinds of information for the caregiver
or for the family, or for everybody else except you know,
the patient, in order to help the patient. So I
would you know a lot of times you can start off.
It's normally those websites end in dot org because it's
an organization that helps you know the family or the
(35:20):
caregivers of that patient. So just research Parkinson's dot org
and see if anything you know happens to pop up.
Would I would be really surprised if it didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Right, Certainly, start with your primary care physician. You can
also reach out to your neurologist and your insurance company,
and I'm sure there will be some starting points and
getting you connected to these organizations. I do know they
exist because we have Parkinson's patient and.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
They are services out there that just help.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
The family, help the patient get nutrition, get supplies. Just
again good resource of help to help you manage the
disease process.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
So it's a very tough disease. Because of Michael J.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Fox, he put Parkinson's on the national stage, and anytime
something like that happens, more interest, more money, more research
get pumped into that disease process. You have more resources,
more organizations like you say that are involved with helping
patients who have parkinson So I'm pretty sure, I would
(36:28):
say ninety nine percent positive that there are these organizations
out there that you can.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I would be very surprised if there was.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
No correct, correct to get you some help.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Whatever that is, I'm not quite sure, but certainly something
more than nothing.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Absolutely, And April is National Parkinson's Month, okay, and April
the eleventh is National Parkinson's Day to recognize Parkinson's. And
also if you follow our website, we do a weekly
education on a disease that one of our team member
chooses what team leader of the week, and last week
(37:03):
was Parkinson's. And so if you have Internet, you should
go back and read, you know, all the things that
we posted about Parkinson's and some of that may help you.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
All right, Terry, you very very much. I appreciate it.
We just need to reach out and help out and
just lead some information something I'm not familiar with.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
That's right, all right, buddy, take care and we'll go
on our break. Phone lines opening nine six kalvy. I
want one hundred three three zero kalf I'll be back
in two minutes. All right, welcome back to talk with
(37:54):
the Matac. Our phone lines are opening nine six kalv.
I won one hundred three three zero kV I.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Alady at the end of the show, we just got here.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Huh, your mic is busted. You have so much energy
that you just break your mic.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
I'm going to see how fast you can say that
later later.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, all right, at the end of the show.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Anyway, we're appreciating your will be an egg, right, A
colored egg, a dyed egg is what we would appreciate.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
But if there's a.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Topic that you'd like us to talk about, you can
call the radio station, you can call my office three
four seven, three six two one, and we can talk
about that. But we wanted to just kind of close
the show talk about this, these brain scans that we're
doing in the office now, is that correct? And yes,
so it's not just for dementia, right, No, it's not
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the kind of brief overview of that.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
And what are we trying to do.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
So there's a lot of things I know on.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
The doctor, but you kind of help set it up right.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Well, you your job is to create the treatment plan.
Our jobs are to screen the patient. So everybody's doing
the right thing.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
The brain's at the technical name of it, brain scan,
I think.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
So, okay, so we do these tests, these screenings. It's
about a ten minute screening that you answer all these
questions and there's it's multiple choice and it's a little challenging.
I did it myself, so and it picks up on
deficits in different areas of the brain. And after that
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if you qualify, because you may not qualify, and if
you don't, then that's the end of it. And you
can obviously retest throughout, you know, throughout your lifetime because
things do change. But if you do qualify, it'll give
us an indicator that you qualify, and we do a
swab that we send off to a lab it in
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your mouth, sorry, the mouth, and it's a DNA swab,
and it tells us the information of what markers you
have for certain things, meaning certain dementias, and it's specific
because there's a lot of them depression, ADHD, learning disabilities
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and disorders.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
So it gives us a lot of.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Specific indicators as to what could be wrong instead of
us guessing, which I think.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Is really really cool to be honest.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
With you, and especially when it starts to be specific
on the type of dementia you have.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
All right, So we're just screening patients, which means they
don't really come in with any problems. Well, you have
to stay ahead of the game, yea. So we give
them a questionnaire that they answer.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Well, we don't give it to all patients because all
patients don't qualify, but we give it to patients that
have a little bit of like neurological deficit. You know,
we know that maybe their memory is declining, or we
know that they're not as sharp as they used to be,
or we know that, you know, maybe they forget their
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meds when we go over their meds and so, and
there's other patients that know exactly I mean everything. So
it just depends on if the patient qualifies, because we
certainly wouldn't want to do anything to a patient that
wasn't medically necessary.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Okay, So can a patient come in and just ask
for it, like, hey, I want.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
A brain stand they can Insurance probably wouldn't pay for
it because we can't create, you know, a symptom or anything,
just just for.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
That, all right, So there needs to be some sort
of complaint, a neurological complaint.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Our physical symptom that we see.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Okay, we have to see it in our interview in
terms of the doctor.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
Oh the page it could tell us, I mean, you know,
the patient could say, well, i'm at home, this happens,
or that happens, or while I'm driving.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
I mean, because you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Things like dizziness or weakness falls. Memory is a big one.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Memory is a big one.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Does it depend on the.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Disease processes that they already are diagnosed with, Like if
they have heart failure, kidney failure, thyroid disorders, maybe they've
had a previous stroke. If they have all those, does
that qualify them to have this brain scan?
Speaker 4 (42:31):
It would, because this is doing a test on your DNA.
It tells us specifically what your markers are. So I
don't think it would matter what you've been diagnosed with
throughout your journey, because this is more of a target
of your DNA to let us know what specifically do
you have or what specifically could you have?
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Okay, what you're at risk for? Is that correct? Yes,
So it doesn't necessarily say.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Or what you're prone to have. Yes, your later, if I.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Get swabbed and it says X, it doesn't mean I'm
going to get X. It just means my chances are higher.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Yes, chances are higher.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Okay because of that, because the lifestyle a lot of
times dictates the occurrence of certain disease processes. Just like
our patient, I'm sorry, our listener called about his parents
they passed with in the eighties. Doesn't mean that you're
going to pass away in your eighties just because that's
is in your family. Certainly your lifestyle dictates a lot
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of that same thing with these swab tests, just information
for the practitioner and the patient to have a discussion
about we need to be on the lookout for X,
Y and Z, just like with all most tests that
we do in primary care labs, ekg's, chest X rays,
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all these things that we recommend to patients, calcium cornary
scoring tests. Now a lot of the cardiologists into that
it's a cat skin looks at the level.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
But they've been doing that for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
I mean I had it done, Yeah, maybe ten years
or so, but it's becoming more and more commonly used
by them. Again, just trying to gather information to sort
of give a picture of risk of development of certain diseases,
whether it be dementia or like you say, depression, such
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that if a patient presents with certain symptoms like, oh my,
you're at risk for this. You have these symptoms, it's
a match, so let's go ahead and consider this a
strong possibility. So it's just more information that doctors and
patients can use to make the best decision possible for
the patient. Information matters.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
I think the more you know about yourself, the smarter
decisions you can make as you get older, and you
can eliminate the things that exacerbate it, meaning the things
in your diet that might trigger it.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
You know, you can get rid of those things that
are in your diet, like.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
My chocolate bunny.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
Well that's history. You can't get rid of the chocolate bunny.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
All right, Any last closing words.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
No, I just hope everybody has a wonderful Easter, and
you know, never forget the reason why we have Easter.
I know, doctor Levina and I have spoken about hunting
eggs and the bunnies and the baskets, but truly, you know,
celebrate Jesus' resurrection and coming back to save our sins
and all the good stuff about what the holiday is
really about.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
And that's a wrap. Have a good weekend.
All right, welcome Southeast Sex's inter radio listeners. Welcome to
another edition of the Doctor Levine Medical Hour. I am
your host, Doctor Levine, coming to you live from the
studios of KLVI here in Beaumont, Texas, cross Street from
Park to I'm all taking your phone calls answering questions
about healthcare and medicine and how to stay alive as
(00:20):
long as possible and as healthy as possible without having
to go see a doctor every two to three weeks
and have a sack of medications and be in the
hospital every other month.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Who wants that? What a drag?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
God, just so exhausting. Phone lines are open eight nine
six klv I one hundred and three to three zero
klv I. You do have to put or invest more
time into it as you get older. Absolutely, somebody lied
to us when they said the golden years you can
enjoy your life, which you can.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
But you have to put more time into it. No question.
That does come a little bit more cumbersome.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
To feel good again, you have to prioritize it and
do your part. And it's not simply by going to
the store and getting some prepackaged capsule or tablet or
magic liquid that's packaged with a story behind it that
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was seen on TV or your phone that promises X,
Y and Z. It's more than that. I just don't
want you to be fooled. It's a fantasy to think
that you can not do your part and you can
just pop something in your mouth and voila. It just
erases all the things that you're not doing. But the
(01:46):
thing about it is, it doesn't It's not that hard
in my opinion, if you just kind of do some basic,
simple things. So that's what I try to promote to
my patience in the office and on air. It's not
that hard to you just have to prioritize it and
make it happen anyway. Phone lines are open eight nine
six kov I one one hundred and three three zero
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kov I.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
We'd love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
In the meantime, we have a guest this morning that
decided to get out of bed this morning. You've been
busy at the office and busy at the house, but
she just decided to. It's got so much energy packed
into her she wanted to share some of that energy
with you this morning. So she came in this morning
(02:32):
to talk with you. Good morning, missus Levine, how are
you good morning?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I'm good. It's a holiday weekend. So I hated Easter.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah, yes, holiday, Yeah, Happy Easter to all of the
listeners out there.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Are Easter?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Are we prepared for Easter?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
What do we need to do?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I think when I was growing up, we would just
get like one hundred eggs and that's a lot. Yeah,
we would what do you call that? Color them, dye
them a piece.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
We get to go hunt fifty.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Right, the die what was the name of the the
dye company was such a.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Popular die a s. Maybe I can't remember. If anyone remembers,
let us know.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I can't remember, but I do remember the vinegar smell
and dropping those little capsules and the bowl vinegar and
let them fizz and you develop colored water.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
And then you would drop the.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Boiled eggs, so you would have to boil them first.
So that was an all day thing, just getting a
bunch of eggs boiled.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Get the kids that had the little stickers on them.
You can make it really cute.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yes, and the little copper wire holder.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And then the little cardboards.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yes, things you could stick them into make them like
really special.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
That's correct.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
What about the plan like it was a surprise.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, the big chocolate Bunny. Yeah, we did that one too,
The big chocolate bunny with the big candy eyes.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And the big baskets. The baskets were all those were
those were good.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I had all those goodies and treats in them. That's
when you could eat it.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Right. Now you get old, you can't eat hardly nothing
but lettuce and vegetables. Drink water because.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
To drink carrot on behalf of the bunny.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah. Otherwise you feel bad, you're sleepy, you got back pain, headaches,
fall asleep, especially after lunch.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
You eat the big lunch and then man one or
two o'clock, you're ready to take a good nap.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
That's about thom it's for, you know. The Easter egg hunt.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, those were fun though, the Easter egg hunts and
just all the excitement of trying to find the egg
and then it was a contest, right who you got
the most eggs and that was a win win. And
then everyone was sort of dressed up in their best,
as I say, their Sunday best. Most ladies would have
big hats on and just a lot of flamboyant clothing
(05:08):
and you would maybe wear a suit to church, whereas
other days you may be in nice shirts and slacks.
And every Sunday, though, I remember that you'd get wear
your dress shoes and you just sort of get dressed
up to go to church. And then but Easter Sunday
was the big Sunday for church other than Christmas. But
(05:31):
Christmas wasn't really that much involved with dressing up, but
certainly Easter is. I guess Easter is the point of
new beginnings or beginning of spring, new rebirth. That that's
all those concepts kind of come and play with spring.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Do you remember what.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Which which one church? Yeah, Mother Mercy, yes, ma'am. Yeah,
I had I had good time there, Mother Mercy, And yeah,
I used to read the scriptures and yeah, it was
fun and I learned a lot there going to that church.
And yeah, I do remember dressing up and all the
Easter egg hunts. Did you ever win any contest when
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you were growing up?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
I doubt it because I've always been the kind of
person that I wanted everybody else to find the most eggs,
and I would help them find the most eggs.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
You're helping everybody find the eggs.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I was helping everybody find the eggs, so wasn't very
competitive like that, always tried to help other people.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Well, normally those those Easter egg bags are not that
healthy for you. You'd have to sparingly eat the contents
of an Easter egg bag.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
But eggs are pretty good for you.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Know, eggs have well, not back in our day, I remember,
I know.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
That's what I was going to say, is it They
have sort of come around full circle eggs. I mean, yeah,
I guess eggs have one point. They were bad for
you and you couldn't eat them. They had a lot
of cholesterol in them, and that's when the whole movement
towards just eating egg whites came out. Right, don't eat
the yolk. It has a lot of bad cholesterol.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Don't do that.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
But we've come full circle again. Now they're okay for you. Yes,
that's what the experts say. Now we just want to
limit the amount of that to about three a day.
I think that's what they say. And certainly it depends
on how you prepare the eggs. Certainly don't want to
put a lot of things in the eggs that are
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not so good for you.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Just the egg itself. Scrambled eggs.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Are eggs over easy, just with a little salt and pepper,
that would be the best way to do it. I
have promoted omelets. That's a good breakfast for even diabetic patients,
patients with chronic medical illnesses.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
What would you vegetable omelet?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Well, just you know, eggs and then various vegetables. I
think most people familiar with mushrooms.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And green onion, bell pepper, green onion. But honestly, you
could put anything in there, right, Tomato.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
An easter bunny, chocolate bunny.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Not anything mix that in there.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I have some chocolate for breakfast, but no, a vegetable
almad is a great way to start off your day.
It's got protein, it's got a lot of vitamins, especially
with the vegetables you put. Yes, it's very filling a
lot of times when you're eating a lot of starchy
breakfast items, which breakfast is primarily a high starch meal,
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you know, as it pertains to cereals and the pancakes
of waffles, the muffins toast are getting Yes, let's see
the jams, the syrups, that's all sort of breakfast juices, right,
that's all part of breakfast items. You go to a
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hotel or you go to a conference and they have
the quote Continental breakfast, and it's primarily what it is, right, croissants.
It's just full of cereal, yeah, box the cereals that's warm,
the little Yeah, that stuff normally will kind of put
you to sleep, put you back to sleep.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You just woke up, and that'll put you back older exactly.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yeah, when you're young, twenties thirties, man, you can just
blow and go, right. I mean you can eat all
that and maybe not even get any sleep the previous morning. Right,
you could stay up all night and not get any sleep.
You could go and have a full day and not
feel bad. That is something that is very hard to
do now. I can feel that as a as an
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older person. I mean, sleep is so key, so important.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well, you do pull all nighters, but they're normally you're
at a hospital, so.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, they're technically not all nighters just because I do
get a few hours of sleep.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
When I was in medical sk go, yeah, I would
do all nighters all the time, especially preparing for tests.
We would I would have to do that and that
was again a lot of stress, but man, you did it.
Just because you felt like there was It was almost
fear like I better than I go to sleep with
so much material I have to cover, and you were
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just so nerved up just about not remembering something and
not being able to pass the test that it kept
you up.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
To be honest with.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
You, did you always pass?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I'm here, right, that.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yeah I did. I did all right. I mean I
got through it.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I wasn't at that top of my class, but well, yeah,
I think I was in the middle. I think in
terms of performance, I was kind of in the middle
of the class. Really, I was in the middle of Yeah, yeah,
I was. I was in the middle, and I was
fine with that. Again, you have to understand some fields
of medicine are more competitive, you know, like a dermatology
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or normally these surgical residencies are very competitive, and if
you want to get into those sorts of types of doctrine,
you have to be a high performer throughout your medical
training just because that's just what it requires. That's highly
that's a popular field of medicine to get into, so
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they have to better figure out who to choose, who
not to choose, and honestly, you know, most surgeons, derm doctors,
E and T all those subspecialises. I mean, these are
pretty sharp doctors and they've gone through a lot to
get to the point that there that there are.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I think they have to have high stamina, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Oh, no question.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yes, And a lot has changed though there's certain as
we know, there has a.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Lot that's changed in medical training.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I mean there's a lot of emphasis on time management,
not being overworked, not being burned out. That's just a
new way of doing things as it pertains to training
medical professionals work life balance. Absolutely. When when we were
coming through, you and I were coming through, that concept
was just kind of starting.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
It was new.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
There was a lot of conversation about it. We knew
we should we know we should do it because it
seems to help. But it was still sort of that
old mentality that man, you just went to work and
you just grinded it out until it was finished, no
matter how late you had to go, how late you
had to stay there, how long you had to stay up,
you just had to do the job. So that that
mindset has sort of faded years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
I think in medicine it's never done. You just have
to figure out a safe place to step back and
know that it'll be right there tomorrow when you wake back. Correct, absolutely,
that's never ending, ongoing.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Correct, this is a medical show, though, you need to
be talking about medicine.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Well, maybe the easter bunny sick this morning.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Everyone's getting ready for that. It's so exciting.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Oh, it's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Phone lines that open eight nine to six kfy I
won one hundred and three to three zero kof I
was sitting here talking with Miss Levine. Anything new going
on the office.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
A few things are new. You know.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
We talked about this a few weeks ago, a few
shows ago about brain scans. So it's a really cool
brain scan.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yeah, so you know as.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, as we age memory, I'm doc my memory is gone.
I'm worried.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Should I take any supplements over the counter? Send some
commercials on TV? Are those supplements good for me? Should
I start taking those? I'm starting to forget things. I
have to write things down.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Scan, I mean, you know, do you.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well? The supplement market is doing very well right now
in this country for a lot of different reasons, and
I've mentioned a few of them, but somebody must believe
in them out there, because they're selling a lot of
supplement to every question.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah, what if you do have a deficiency though in
some of those categories.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
By all means, if you have a proven known deficiency
of vitamins or certain minerals, by all means, yeah, replace it.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Then would you go more prescription or no? No, it
doesn't matter as long as you replace it exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Okay, yeah, I think that, and there are some deficiencies
out there that we prioritize with patients. Vitamin D was
real hot several years ago in terms of checking it
replacing it in your BS. B vitamins are something to
be thought about, especially if you've had gastric surgery or
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any gastro intestinal problem. The B vitamins are a vitamin
to prioritize and check again elderly patients. Vitamin D low
Vitamin D used to be very popular when we used
to check it and replace it, and it's sort of
lost traction there, got sort of lost in all of
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the other issues that we deal with as it pertains
to elder patients. But certainly, anytime someone wants to check
their vitamins, Vitamin D, vitamin B B twelve B one
or even the what they call fat soluble vitamins, vitamin A,
k C. We can check those, but normally, if your
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cash intestlo system is working and you're pretty much eating
what you would call typical American food hamburgers, a lot
of the stuff is fortified now, like the bread and
the meats and sort of the more processed foods we
talk a lot about that they've sort of added in there,
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and so it's in there, it's not the natural stuff,
which if your patient of mine, or if you listen
to my show, we would rather you eat your vitamins
and minerals rather than go to a store and purchase
man made vitamins and pills and capsules. We would rather
you go to a GB or market basket and go
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to the produce section.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
That's where it's all at.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Go to the nuts section and eat some nuts, or
go to the whole grain section where the rice is
sold and get you some quene wa or some buckwheat
or millet.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
That's where all that stuff is.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
You can also think about the other food items that
are good for you, and all of that have beans.
I forgot about good old fashioned beans, red beans, black beans, lentils, lagoons.
All that's garlic That's what I was trying to get on.
My garlic is packed full of vitamins. Your garlic, it's
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a little bit it's a little bit hard to con
every day. I mean it has a very strong texture,
very strong taste to it when you swallow it. So
I'm not opposed to I just hadn't been to the store.
Hey Bob from Mauriceville. How can we help you?
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Yes, sir, you as a doctor, how do you communicate
to a patient that they need to lose weight? And
how would you what would you suggest to a spouse
that needs to communicate the same thing.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Well, yeah, communication is very important, Bob.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
And for me personally, I try not to make patients
feel like they're a bad person or that they're a
poor decision maker. I try to keep it on a
friendly level and more of a as an advisor. Like
you know, they're here for a visit and we're just
sort of chatting about what are some things that we
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recommend for you to do as you leave the door,
some things that you think about for the next in
between the time that we're we're seeing you every three
months every six months, so I make it brief too.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I don't try to be too.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Long, because a lot of times if you talk too
much to patients they kind of churn you off.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
After a while.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
They're just really ready to get out of there. They're tired,
they got a lot of things on their agenda for
the days.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
It also gets to be too much to remember, it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Does, so I just try to make it very short,
very sweet. But I try to make try not to
make them feel bad, because they get enough of that
throughout the day. So I try to present in a
very friendly, just mindful manner that hey, we really want
or recommend you do this or that, and he's these
are some suggestions I have for you.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Good luck to you, because it's.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
It's hard out there to eat right and do the
right things, as it pertains to a spouse. I mean,
it's really the same thing, right, just because spouses have
their own problems, their own agendas throughout the day. They're
trying to get through the day, just like you are
as a spouse. And I think, yeah, it's sort of
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part of your position as a spouse to offer some
helpful hints or advice. But you know, at the end
of the day's America, we like to make our own decisions.
We want to be our own person, and if we
want to eat that cheesecake, and we know we have diabetes,
if we want to eat it, then that's our personal right, right.
That's so common in this country. That's a mindset that
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is very prevalent in America. And so if you have
a spouse that's kind of peppering you with all this
advice about what to eat and what not to do.
After a while, it gets irritating to the other spouse,
and I don't think it's productive. I think it's counterproductive
because then there's some resentment that sort of sets in place,
(19:56):
and some division that starts to be set in place.
So I say keep it, like, keep it to a minimum,
and then let your spouse kind of decide how they
want to do that and help them if they ask you.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
But after a while it.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Just turns into sort of hammering them and making them
feel bad and running them down. That's not good for
the relationship either.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's a struggle out there. You have to understand that.
How's that sound about.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
I agree with what you say, but my situation is
my wife has Parkinson's and its affect supermobility issues and
frequently she's fallen and it is a struggle for me
to get her up. There's no communications between her brain
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and her limbs, and it's lifting dead weight and I
don't know how to approach it other than directly, and
that's got me nowhere.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Yeah, I mean, I think, Bob, after a while, like
I say that, the other person sort of turns you
off and it becomes counterproductive, so that there is only
so much you can do, no question, even as a
healthcare professional, there's only so much we can do as well.
It does come down to a person deciding that this
is the party and that they have to do what's right.
(21:25):
You know. I talked to patients all day long and
ask them, most of them what are you eating?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
What are you drinking?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I think most Americans understand what they have to
eat to be healthy, but for whatever reason, there's so
many obstacles to get to that, and they tend to
choose things that are wrong for them. That that is
an interesting issue in this country right now.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But I think right now, Bob, yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
You just have to be as helpful as possible with
your wife. It certainly if you're the one cooking, like
you said, she has some mobility issue, So a lot
of times the food preparation and even going to the
store falls on you. So that's pretty much where you
can make your impact is prioritizing cooking healthy things and
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eliminating bad food items. Don't bring them into the house
so that they cannot be eaten. So I think that's
probably where you can be most impactful with your wife
and her health is don't buy the sodas, don't buy
the juices, don't buy the snacks or pastries, even though
she likes them, not a good idea, right, So don't
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put them in the house. I mean most nutritionists and
healthcare professionals agree with that concept. Is try to create
some distance between the patient and food items that are
not good for them. But most patients with movement disorders,
which is what she has, that's what Parkinson's is grouped
in a movement disorder. Most of them, yes, they have
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weight gain issues just because they cannot move and they
become sedentaries. So all the research that we know says
and when you become sedentary, your weight will be an
issue and you have to really really be strict about
what you eat, I mean, eat minimal in that situation.
Probably just one time a day. It's really all you need.
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If you're sitting most of the day, that is plenty.
If you're eating more than one time a day a
lot of times and you're setentary, you're going to gain
some weight. And then the weight gain get this makes
it worse, right because you're having to carry all that
weight and that can exacerbate the movement disorder.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
So I see it a lot. It's a tough situation.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
So my advice, buddy is just be there for your wife,
you know, trying to hammer her. And like I said,
if you're the one cooking and getting the groceries, just
make your impact.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
At that point. All right, thank you, all right, Bob,
We appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And that's a very tough situation to be and be honest.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
With you, you.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Know, they hey, let's face I mean eating cake and
pies and ice cream, that's fun, right, It tastes so good.
And if you have no job and you know you're
sick and you're just sitting at home, you're bored. There's
nothing fun to do. You can't travel, you can't do anything.
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I mean, sometimes food and the food eating experience is
the most pleasurable aspect of your.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Day, your life.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Eat the cake, Eat the cake. And to take that
away from someone who's in this it's just tough.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
I mean, what are you going to replace that with?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
And I think that's the issue a lot of times,
especially a spouse who's there, like, how can I help you?
I want you to enjoy life, I want you to
be happy. Well, go get me some cheesecake, Go get
me some vanilla ice cream.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
That's what's going to make me happy. I mean, how
can you say no to that?
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And so a lot of times that's what happens that
spouse who is doing the cooking, who is going to
the grocery. And again this is just based on my
conversations with all my patients in these situations. This is
a lot of times what ends up happening is they
start buying the food and they give it to them
because that's what makes them happy. They just want their
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love one happy. They get it, but it can sort
of make things worse for you. So certainly understanding, God
bless you, and work hard to try and work against that.
Throwing a few vegetables in there, and I guess make
it simple too, you know, just stay away from simple things,
and the vitamin supplement is not going to correct all that, right,
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So don't run to the store and get your vitamins
and a while it's going to help all of that.
Phone lines are open eight done six kovy I one
one hundred and three to three zero, killofy. I'll be
back in two minutes. All right, welcome back to the
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talk about the medical Phone lines are open eight nine
to six kov one hundred three three zero kyo via.
I sitting here chatting with Missus Levine, my other half,
about brain scans as well as man, what do you
do when you know you're sedentary and you have to eat?
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Michael from Pasadena? How can we help you?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Oh? Good morning, a happy Easter.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Happy.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
I wanted to I heard you talk about the medical Minute.
When when is that.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
On medical Minute? I don't remember that? Do you do
you remember that?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Charlotte Michael, I don't remember mentioning that. When is that
on medical minute?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
What do you mean?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Yeah? You said it errors on you tape the Medical Minute?
Maybe is it? What was from an.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Older an older show older?
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Yeah? That was one question, But the main question I
had was when your parents passed away, they you know,
say in their eighties. How much of a determination is
that on on your age? My age, for instance, is
(27:11):
that I'm caught picking, Uh can you outlive then? Or
how much? How how does that determine your lifespan? My lifespan?
Speaker 1 (27:24):
In other words, Well, yeah, Michael, in terms of the
medical minute, maybe he's just talking about ASCID doc segment
that we need.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Yeah, maybe that's what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, we we actually record that at the office. We
they normally come to the office every four or five
weeks and we kind of bang out four or five
episodes and then it's a recorded episode and then they
put that on the television. At When I first did
it years ago, when I first started it was live.
(27:53):
I used to go up there to the station channel
six and get on stage and and you know, I
would ask I'm sorry, answer questions. Some things changed in
the industry and so now it's recorded. So I do
that every four or five weeks there at the office.
So I'm happy to do that. Seems like patients still
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like it.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Yeah, I been what change was COVID.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah, that was one big thing.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
I didn't stopped going to the studios at the time,
and it was just all recorded at the time, I
used to do it on my computer, excellent and send
it in right. That's the way we used to do
it for about six or seven months. AnyWho, Michael, Yes,
family history is extremely important. We ask about that in
every patient that we interview because the diseases that run
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in your family sort of predict the diseases that you
will inherit. But certainly, yes, you can outlive your parents,
and you can also live less long.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Is that a word? Is that a phrase?
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Word?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Then it's my word, thank you? Then your parents.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
So just because yes, they they died in their eighties,
does not mean that it's destined that you're going to
die in your eighties. You might dine in your nineties,
you might die in your seventies. So there are a
lot of factors that go into when someone passes away.
So it's hard to say that, yes, doomsday in your eighties,
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it's going to be it. I mean, we have a
lot of patients who have stories like that where their
mother their father were still alive in their nineties, but
for whatever reason, they got stricken with the disease and
they didn't quite make it to the nineties.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So at the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
It doesn't really mean a whole lot, honestly, because you
are you, and there's a lot of factors that impact
your health that your family wasn't exposed to.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
They had their own journey. You have your own journey.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
So it's not that relevant in my opinion, at least
based on what I've seen, it's not that relevant.
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
I know you have a lot of older patients, and
I just wonder how it compared to Yes, and now
that's on TV that you're talking about, and that would
be locally there.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah, it's a channel six.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
KFDM is the news station and I've been doing that
for eighteen eighteen years.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
A long time. But do you have internet access?
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Yes, you can go to our website and you can
stream any of his past shows or even any of
his podcasts here that he does every Saturday morning, and
you can view them and watch them that way.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
Okay, Well that's that would be your doctor Levine's website.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yes, it's If you have a pen and piece of paper,
I'll give you the website.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
And it's very easy to move around in. We made
it very simple.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (31:05):
It's w W W dot M S O n T
H I L E V I N E M D
dot com MD dot com and you go there and
(31:26):
you can, I think, choose podcast and it'll bring up
like his Acid doc and his radio show and all
the past commercials that he's done. It's it's enjoyable because
you have everyone that he's ever done archived there. Yeah,
(31:46):
it's it's all there, thank you very much. Yeah, and
it's it's extremely helpful, and it's you know, easy to
listen to, and it's it's fun. So I think you'll
enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I'm gonna check that out today, all right, Michael, We
appreciate your phone call.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Brother.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, go enjoy that. Get the family sit down popcorn.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
You think it needs to be a whole family affairs.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Absolutely, it's a lot of good information on this.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
I'm sure the kids will be thrilled to do that.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
I know, write down all that good information. Now, I'm
gonna check it out today.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I hadn't had I like a lot of heart, we'd
have done a lot of commercials over the years.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
Both of us were huge family I mean not family, sorry,
community educators, and we really like to you know, impact
and try to help our community become a healthier them.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
And you know, every now and then a patient coming in,
let's hey, doctor, vin, I'm here, so you can make
me a healthier me. They sort of remember the jingle
or the saying there yeah, which is yeah, part of
our slogan, Let's make a healthier you. That's what we
say on the end of our commercials, and that really
is is what we're trying to do. And I think
the keyword is you, just because everyone is so different
(33:03):
and as it pertains to how they react to just
about everything that we do, prescribing medicines, making diagnosses, food items,
all those supplements, and everyone is so different, and I
think that's what we're trying to emphasize a lot of
times when we talk with patients about but what we recommend,
(33:23):
we're like, we try to keep it in general terms,
and a lot of times, as you get older, it
is more important for you to sort of self discover
what works for you. I know, a lot of times
spaces come like doctor tell me what to do, Like, okay,
to some degree, I can, but at the end of
the day, I don't exactly know what's going to work
for you in terms of your food items. I know
(33:44):
some general things, and that's what I try to keep
it at. Hey, Terry from Orange, how can we help you?
Speaker 5 (33:49):
Well, I appreciate you taking a call. Yes, sir, we
have a caregiver company and what be able. We run
into a gentleman that has a disease similar to Parkinson's
and he's having some issues to where for eating, and
(34:15):
we need a I need to figure out and it
may not be the right show. Where can someone like
that who need some help get some state assistance? Is
that a question? I can you know? Even asking your show.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
I would probably just me running the office and doing
that part of it. Maybe research if Parkinson's has a
website to where they offer that type of thing to
patients who have Parkinson's. A lot of times the disease
itself will have all kinds of avenues of support, and.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I agree with that.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Yeah, resources and all kinds of information for the caregiver
or for the family, or for everybody else except you know,
the patient, in order to help the patient. So I
would you know a lot of times you can start off.
It's normally those websites end in dot org because it's
an organization that helps you know the family or the
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caregivers of that patient. So just research Parkinson's dot org
and see if anything you know happens to pop up.
Would I would be really surprised if it didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Right, Certainly, start with your primary care physician. You can
also reach out to your neurologist and your insurance company,
and I'm sure there will be some starting points and
getting you connected to these organizations. I do know they
exist because we have Parkinson's patient and.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
They are services out there that just help.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
The family, help the patient get nutrition, get supplies. Just
again good resource of help to help you manage the
disease process.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
So it's a very tough disease. Because of Michael J.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Fox, he put Parkinson's on the national stage, and anytime
something like that happens, more interest, more money, more research
get pumped into that disease process. You have more resources,
more organizations like you say that are involved with helping
patients who have parkinson So I'm pretty sure, I would
(36:28):
say ninety nine percent positive that there are these organizations
out there that you can.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
I would be very surprised if there was.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
No correct, correct to get you some help.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Whatever that is, I'm not quite sure, but certainly something
more than nothing.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Absolutely, And April is National Parkinson's Month, okay, and April
the eleventh is National Parkinson's Day to recognize Parkinson's. And
also if you follow our website, we do a weekly
education on a disease that one of our team member
chooses what team leader of the week, and last week
(37:03):
was Parkinson's. And so if you have Internet, you should
go back and read, you know, all the things that
we posted about Parkinson's and some of that may help you.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
All right, Terry, you very very much. I appreciate it.
We just need to reach out and help out and
just lead some information something I'm not familiar with.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
That's right, all right, buddy, take care and we'll go
on our break. Phone lines opening nine six kalvy. I
want one hundred three three zero kalf I'll be back
in two minutes. All right, welcome back to talk with
(37:54):
the Matac. Our phone lines are opening nine six kalv.
I won one hundred three three zero kV I.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Alady at the end of the show, we just got here.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Huh, your mic is busted. You have so much energy
that you just break your mic.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
I didn't do that.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
I'm going to see how fast you can say that
later later.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
Yeah, all right, at the end of the show.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Anyway, we're appreciating your will be an egg, right, A
colored egg, a dyed egg is what we would appreciate.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
But if there's a.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Topic that you'd like us to talk about, you can
call the radio station, you can call my office three
four seven, three six two one, and we can talk
about that. But we wanted to just kind of close
the show talk about this, these brain scans that we're
doing in the office now, is that correct? And yes,
so it's not just for dementia, right, No, it's not
(38:50):
the kind of brief overview of that.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
And what are we trying to do.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
So there's a lot of things I know on.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
The doctor, but you kind of help set it up right.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
Well, you your job is to create the treatment plan.
Our jobs are to screen the patient. So everybody's doing
the right thing.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
The brain's at the technical name of it, brain scan,
I think.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
So, okay, so we do these tests, these screenings. It's
about a ten minute screening that you answer all these
questions and there's it's multiple choice and it's a little challenging.
I did it myself, so and it picks up on
deficits in different areas of the brain. And after that
(39:36):
if you qualify, because you may not qualify, and if
you don't, then that's the end of it. And you
can obviously retest throughout, you know, throughout your lifetime because
things do change. But if you do qualify, it'll give
us an indicator that you qualify, and we do a
swab that we send off to a lab it in
(39:58):
your mouth, sorry, the mouth, and it's a DNA swab,
and it tells us the information of what markers you
have for certain things, meaning certain dementias, and it's specific
because there's a lot of them depression, ADHD, learning disabilities
(40:20):
and disorders.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
So it gives us a lot of.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
Specific indicators as to what could be wrong instead of
us guessing, which I think.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
Is really really cool to be honest.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
With you, and especially when it starts to be specific
on the type of dementia you have.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
All right, So we're just screening patients, which means they
don't really come in with any problems. Well, you have
to stay ahead of the game, yea. So we give
them a questionnaire that they answer.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Well, we don't give it to all patients because all
patients don't qualify, but we give it to patients that
have a little bit of like neurological deficit. You know,
we know that maybe their memory is declining, or we
know that they're not as sharp as they used to be,
or we know that, you know, maybe they forget their
(41:16):
meds when we go over their meds and so, and
there's other patients that know exactly I mean everything. So
it just depends on if the patient qualifies, because we
certainly wouldn't want to do anything to a patient that
wasn't medically necessary.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Okay, So can a patient come in and just ask
for it, like, hey, I want.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
A brain stand they can Insurance probably wouldn't pay for
it because we can't create, you know, a symptom or anything,
just just for.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
That, all right, So there needs to be some sort
of complaint, a neurological complaint.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Our physical symptom that we see.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Okay, we have to see it in our interview in
terms of the doctor.
Speaker 4 (41:57):
Oh the page it could tell us, I mean, you know,
the patient could say, well, i'm at home, this happens,
or that happens, or while I'm driving.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
I mean, because you know, it's.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Things like dizziness or weakness falls. Memory is a big one.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
Memory is a big one.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Does it depend on the.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Disease processes that they already are diagnosed with, Like if
they have heart failure, kidney failure, thyroid disorders, maybe they've
had a previous stroke. If they have all those, does
that qualify them to have this brain scan?
Speaker 4 (42:31):
It would, because this is doing a test on your DNA.
It tells us specifically what your markers are. So I
don't think it would matter what you've been diagnosed with
throughout your journey, because this is more of a target
of your DNA to let us know what specifically do
you have or what specifically could you have?
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Okay, what you're at risk for? Is that correct? Yes,
So it doesn't necessarily say.
Speaker 3 (42:57):
Or what you're prone to have. Yes, your later, if I.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Get swabbed and it says X, it doesn't mean I'm
going to get X. It just means my chances are higher.
Speaker 3 (43:08):
Yes, chances are higher.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Okay because of that, because the lifestyle a lot of
times dictates the occurrence of certain disease processes. Just like
our patient, I'm sorry, our listener called about his parents
they passed with in the eighties. Doesn't mean that you're
going to pass away in your eighties just because that's
is in your family. Certainly your lifestyle dictates a lot
(43:30):
of that same thing with these swab tests, just information
for the practitioner and the patient to have a discussion
about we need to be on the lookout for X,
Y and Z, just like with all most tests that
we do in primary care labs, ekg's, chest X rays,
(43:50):
all these things that we recommend to patients, calcium cornary
scoring tests. Now a lot of the cardiologists into that
it's a cat skin looks at the level.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
But they've been doing that for quite some time.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
I mean I had it done, Yeah, maybe ten years
or so, but it's becoming more and more commonly used
by them. Again, just trying to gather information to sort
of give a picture of risk of development of certain diseases,
whether it be dementia or like you say, depression, such
(44:24):
that if a patient presents with certain symptoms like, oh my,
you're at risk for this. You have these symptoms, it's
a match, so let's go ahead and consider this a
strong possibility. So it's just more information that doctors and
patients can use to make the best decision possible for
the patient. Information matters.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
I think the more you know about yourself, the smarter
decisions you can make as you get older, and you
can eliminate the things that exacerbate it, meaning the things
in your diet that might trigger it.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
You know, you can get rid of those things that
are in your diet, like.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
My chocolate bunny.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
Well that's history. You can't get rid of the chocolate bunny.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
All right, Any last closing words.
Speaker 4 (45:10):
No, I just hope everybody has a wonderful Easter, and
you know, never forget the reason why we have Easter.
I know, doctor Levina and I have spoken about hunting
eggs and the bunnies and the baskets, but truly, you know,
celebrate Jesus' resurrection and coming back to save our sins
and all the good stuff about what the holiday is
really about.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
And that's a wrap. Have a good weekend.
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